Japanese Death Poems

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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146291649X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.

The Prophet

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Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9390287820
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis The Prophet by : Kahlil Gibran

Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Deaths of the Poets

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448155630
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Deaths of the Poets by : Michael Symmons Roberts

Download or read book Deaths of the Poets written by Michael Symmons Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. The post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive. Is this just an illusion , or is there some essential truth behind it? What is the price of poetry? In this book, two contemporary poets embark on a series of journeys to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth.

The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451182
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon written by Jane Kenyon and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry.” —Wendell Berry Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America’s most cherished poets—celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon’s poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. As a crucial aspect of these beloved poems of companionship, she confronts her struggle with severe depression on its own stark terms. Selected by Kenyon’s husband, Donald Hall, just before his death in 2018, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon collects work from across a life and career that will be, as she writes in one poem, “simply lasting.”

Death to the Death of Poetry

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Death to the Death of Poetry by : Donald Hall

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Death Song

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Death Song by : Thomas McGrath

Download or read book Death Song written by Thomas McGrath and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last years of his life, McGrath found it extremely difficult--often impossible--to write. Still he continued to write new poems, enlarging his work-in-progress, Death song, knowing the book would be finished only upon his own death. He died September 20, 1990 following a long illness, leaving the manuscript in the hands of his editor, Sam Hamill. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Death of the Poet

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Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1847659470
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis The Death of the Poet by : N Quentin Woolf

Download or read book The Death of the Poet written by N Quentin Woolf and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Knox falls passionately and irrevocably in love with Rachel McAllistair the first time they meet. He interviews her for his radio show, and afterwards, when he tells her how impressive she was, she hits him, square on the jaw. Undeterred, he pursues her, promising to love her and never to leave her. This promise becomes his burden, as her behaviour whirls out of control. She is abusive and cruel. And yet he stays. Even when she does something so awful that his life is changed forever. And that point, on which his life turns, leads him to an unexpected connection with a man who suffered a terrible injury in the first world war. The Death of the Poet is a daringly honest, transfixing story about being in thrall to someone, being a victim and a protector, and how early promise can turn into an utterly unrecognisable life. An exploration of violence and what it means to be a man in the modern world, it's controversial, devastating, and, in a complicated way, romantic too.

Poetry of Mourning

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226703401
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry of Mourning by : Jahan Ramazani

Download or read book Poetry of Mourning written by Jahan Ramazani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-05-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning.

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526649896
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Music for the Dead and Resurrected by : Valzhyna Mort

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Death of a Naturalist

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466864079
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Death of a Naturalist by : Seamus Heaney

Download or read book Death of a Naturalist written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death of a Naturalist (1966) marked the auspicious debut of Seamus Heaney, a universally acclaimed master of modern literature. As a first book of poems, it is remarkable for its accurate perceptions and rich linguistic gifts.

Death Poetry

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Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766058808
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Death Poetry by : Stephanie Buckwalter

Download or read book Death Poetry written by Stephanie Buckwalter and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is death the end, or a new beginning? Should it be feared, or embraced? Or is it simply a ceasing to exist? What better way to examine this great unknown than through poetry. Author Stephanie Buckwalter explores eight poems and poets, with chapters on John Donne, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Buckwalter unravels each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.

The Poet's Death, and Other Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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The Poet's Death, and Other Poems. Second Edition

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Book Synopsis The Poet's Death, and Other Poems. Second Edition by : William WEBBE (Poetical Writer.)

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The Life of Emily Dickinson

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ISBN 13 : 9780374186968
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (869 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of Emily Dickinson by : Richard Benson Sewall

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The Spires of Oxford

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Publisher : New York, E. P. Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Book Synopsis The Spires of Oxford by : Winifred M. Letts

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The Poems of Dylan Thomas

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227952
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Dylan Thomas written by Dylan Thomas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birth The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language, Thomas’s singular poetic voice has been admired and imitated, but never matched. This exciting, newly edited annotated edition offers a more complete and representative collection of Dylan Thomas’s poetic works than any previous edition. Edited by leading Dylan Thomas scholar John Goodby from the University of Swansea, The Poems of Dylan Thomas contains all the poems that appeared in Collected Poems 1934-1952, edited by Dylan Thomas himself, as well as poems from the 1930-1934 notebooks and poems from letters, amatory verses, occasional poems, the verse film script for “Our Country,” and poems that appear in his “radio play for voices,” Under Milk Wood. Showing the broad range of Dylan Thomas’s oeuvre as never before, this new edition places Thomas in the twenty-first century, with an up-to-date introduction by Goodby whose notes and annotations take a pluralistic approach.

From Room to Room

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Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584619
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book From Room to Room written by Jane Kenyon and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Jane Kenyon’s first book are full of respect for a life deeply felt. Her vision apprehends the mystery beneath everyday circumstances and objects, from the thimble to the edges of the map. The final section is translations of six poems by Anna Akhmatova.