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Author : YUGEN. WANG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621965466
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Writing Poetry, Surviving War written by YUGEN. WANG and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Center on Violence and Community
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557181544
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Surviving War written by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Center on Violence and Community and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short collection of poems and writings, most written by soliders.
Author : Eze, Chielozona
Publisher : Cissus World Press
ISBN 13 : 0997868945
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Prayers to Survive Wars that Last written by Eze, Chielozona and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this meditative and quietly lyrical approach, Chielozona Eze marks himself in this new African poetics not as a voice of easy protest, not as the voice of a bombast and rhetorical turn, but as the voice of an African poet in the twenty-first century trying to make sense of all the hunger, anger, war, loss, and desecration that has haunted his life and the lives of many Africans but remains always poised on that tender grace, that ease of dance, that transubstantiation that works an alchemy that is not about the outcome but always about the struggle, the engagement, and the terms thereof.” Chris Abani, Board of Trustee Professor of English, Northwestern University “This collection is a fitting memorial to a war still unatoned for and its accompanying sense of bereavement and lack of closure. In tune with a pervasive sense of loss and quiet recollection, the poems are meditative, packing a punch in their ambling profundity; Chielozona Eze does not blame; he speaks of introspection and love.” Amatoritsero Ede, Publisher & Managing Editor, Maple Tree Literary Supplement
Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642053
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Poetry of the First World War written by Tim Kendall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Author : Gregory Orr
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340111
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Poetry as Survival written by Gregory Orr and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences. As a poet who has experienced considerable trauma--especially as a child--Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.
Author : Sumita Oyama
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462922325
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda written by Sumita Oyama and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works. Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals--compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson. Santoka was a literary prodigy, but a notoriously disorganized human being. By his own admission, he was incapable of doing anything other than wandering the countryside and writing verses. Although Santoka married and had a son, he devoted his life to poetry, studying Zen, drinking sake and wandering the length and breadth of the Japanese islands on foot, as a mendicant monk. The poet's life alternated between long periods of solitary retreat and restless travel, influenced by his tragic childhood. When not on the road, he lived in simple grass huts supported by friends and family. Santoka was a lively conversationalist who was often found so drunk he could only make it home with the help of a friendly neighbor or passerby. But above all, throughout his life, he wrote constantly; poetry and essays flowed from him effortlessly. Santoka's eccentric style of haiku is highly regarded in Japan today for being truly modern and free from formal constraints. His journals and essays are equally thought-provoking--the musings of an unkempt but supremely self-conscious mind on everything from writing to cooking rice and his failure to live a more orderly life. This translation and its introduction are by best-selling author William Scott Wilson, whose other works include The Book of Five Rings and The Lone Samurai. Wilson provides sensitive renditions of the haiku illustrating Santoka's life as well as an extensive introduction to the influences on Santoka's work, from contemporary haiku poets and his Buddhist teachers. Alongside the book, readers have access to a two-hour online audio recording of 331 of Santoka Taneda's haiku, read in Japanese by a native speaker, and in English.
Author : Charles B. Strozier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847682270
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Genocide, War, and Human Survival written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this provocative collection of original essays examines the enduring impact of cataclysmic events on the modern human psyche. Inspired by the career of Robert Jay Lifton, the distinguished contributors use a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to probe society, culture, and politics in the nuclear age and they explore the therapeutic value of artistic expression to witnesses and survivors of mass violence. The essays convey a message of hope by displaying the remarkable diversity of human responses to extreme adversity and by concluding that intellectuals and professionals have an abiding obligation to act responsibly in a world of violence and to provide healing images of transformation. Contributors: Paul Boyer, John M. Broughton, Harvey Cox, Wendy Doniger, Bonnie Dugger, Kai Erikson, Richard Falk, Michael Flynn, Eva Fogelman, John Fousek, Elinor Fuchs, Lane Gerber, Charles Green, Hillel Levine, John E. Mack, Karen Malpede, Eric Markusen, Saul Mendlovitz, Greg Mitchell, George L. Mosse, Ashis Nandy, Martin J. Sherwin, Victor W. Sidel, Bennett Simon, Charles B. Strozier, Steven M. Weine, Roger Williamson, Howard Zin
Author : John Timberman Newcomb
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036794
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book How Did Poetry Survive? written by John Timberman Newcomb and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Did Poetry Survive? traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. American poetry had stalled: a small group of recently deceased New England poets still held sway, and few outlets existed for living poets. However, the United States' quickly accelerating urbanization in the early twentieth century opened new opportunities, as it allowed the rise of publications focused on promoting the work of living writers of all kinds. The urban scene also influenced the work of poets, shifting away from traditional subjects and forms to reflect the rise of buildings and the increasingly busy bustle of the city. Change was everywhere: new forms of architecture and transportation, new immigrants, new professions, new tastes, new worries. This urbanized world called for a new poetry, and a group of new magazines entirely or chiefly devoted to exploring modern themes and forms led the way. Avant-garde "little magazines" succeeded not by ignoring or rejecting the busy commercial world that surrounded them, but by adapting its technologies of production and strategies of marketing for their own purposes.
Author : Yugen Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170605
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Ten Thousand Scrolls written by Yugen Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern Song (960–1126) was one of the most transformative periods in Chinese literary history, characterized by the emergence of printing and an ensuing proliferation of books. The poet Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), writing at the height of this period, both defined and was defined by these changes. The first focused study on the cultural consequences of printing in Northern Song China, this book examines how the nascent print culture shaped the poetic theory and practice of Huang Tingjian and the Jiangxi School of Poetry he founded. Author Yugen Wang argues that at the core of Huang and the Jiangxi School’s search for poetic methods was their desire to find a new way of reading and writing that could effectively address the changed literary landscape of the eleventh century. Wang chronicles the historical and cultural negotiation Huang and his colleagues were conducting as they responded to the new book culture, and opens new ground for investigating the literary interpretive and hermeneutical effects of printing. This book should be of interest not only to scholars and readers of classical Chinese poetry but to anyone concerned with how the material interacts with the intellectual and how technology has influenced our conception and practice of reading and writing throughout history.
Author : Ruby C. Bowen
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467061522
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The War Within written by Ruby C. Bowen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I couldnt put it down!! Never before has any book ignited so wide array of feelings and emotions within (no pun intended). I laughed, cried and read it again, and again, and again. The War Within provides a glimpse into the mind of a soldier. I could feel the pain, joy and anger of the young woman and fellow veteran, who stood tall when the nation called. I understand her quest to regain the person she left behind, on the field of battle. Her writing is a stroke of literary genius." ~ Kate W. Drexler, CPO (Ret.), US Navy Rubys poetry is written in a very compelling, gripping fashion. Real life is stripped of all distractions. It is artistic and intuitive. ~ Lorraine Austin very powerful and moving poems about the military experience. ~ Sheila Fullwood, SFC (Ret.), US Army
Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584147
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Here, Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.
Author : Mai Der Vang
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979645
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Afterland written by Mai Der Vang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what the current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us. If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roads and waiting pastures of America. We will not ride the water today on the shoulders of buffalo as we used to many years ago, nor will we forage for the sweetest mangoes. I am refugee. You are too. Cry, but do not weep. —from “Transmigration” Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Mai Der Vang is telling the story of her own family, and by doing so, she also provides an essential history of the Hmong culture’s ongoing resilience in exile. Many of these poems are written in the voices of those fleeing unbearable violence after U.S. forces recruited Hmong fighters in Laos in the Secret War against communism, only to abandon them after that war went awry. That history is little known or understood, but the three hundred thousand Hmong now living in the United States are living proof of its aftermath. With poems of extraordinary force and grace, Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.
Author : Noah Kekaula Fulkerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Surviving the Canon written by Noah Kekaula Fulkerson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the affects of media on the formation of personal histories and the writing of Vietnam veteran poetry. It considers attitudes from the socio-political contexts of war-era cultures in the cinematic reception of veterans and the attitudes that World War II and Vietnam War movies project as histories to which Vietnam veteran literature responds. Examination of a handful of testimonial war poems shows common concerns of the soldier poets' community and aspects of the literature that reflect exposure to the heroism of early-American war movies. In its final stages, this study considers the ways that finding cinematic aspects might undermine the reliability of primarily testimonial verse and finds that readers can accept the narrative structure of this poetry while regarding some of its displays as untenable.
Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504033434
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Gone to Soldiers written by Marge Piercy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping New York Times bestseller is “the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II” (Los Angeles Times). Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people and places marked by the Second World War. Each of her ten narrators has a unique and compelling story that powerfully depicts his or her personality, desires, and fears. Special attention is given to the women of the war effort, like Bernice, who rebels against her domineering father to become a fighter pilot, and Naomi, a Parisian Jew sent to live with relatives in Detroit, whose twin sister, Jacqueline—still in France—joins the resistance against Nazi rule. The horrors of the concentration camps; the heroism of soldiers on the beaches of Okinawa, the skies above London, and the seas of the Mediterranean; the brilliance of code breakers; and the resilience of families waiting for the return of sons, brothers, and fathers are all conveyed through powerful, poignant prose that resonates beyond the page. Gone to Soldiers is a testament to the ordinary people, with their flaws and inner strife, who rose to defend liberty during the most extraordinary times.
Author : Missy Martin
Publisher : Omni Arts, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bombshells written by Missy Martin and published by Omni Arts, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Poetry. Essays. Women Studies. No one voice can entirely convey the emotional toll a soldier's military service has on loved ones. Here are 38 voices. Step into the experiences of homefront women spanning from World War II to the Iraq War-mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, fiances and friends-who, in their own words, tap into the reservoirs of unconditional love required of everyone who has ever loved a soldier. Share their wide range of feelings from the stress of giving up a loved one to military service, to the anguish when warriors are killed in action; from the anxiety of long separations, to the upheaval that can accompany living with wounded veterans. Glimpse other nuances of the military lifestyle like searching for personal identity and viable concepts of home in the face of deployments and frequent relocations. Each piece tells a unique story, and collectively they illuminate the pathos of this unsung microcosm of American society, and manage to uplift us in a way only raw honesty can.
Author : Jane Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889628762
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Soldier Poetry of the Second World War written by Jane Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, this volume is an important addition to the literature on war and conflict and to the poetry of the 20th century. From Wilfred Owen, to Siegfried Sassoon, from Rupert Brooke to John McCrae, poetry has been recognised as an authentic voice of war. This volume adds another dimension to that voice! "It's a safe bet that most Second War servicemen and women didn't know an iambic from a pentameter but that didn't stop a surprising number of them from writing poetry... Maybe there is a bit of poet in most human beings, just waiting a chance for expression." The Maple Leaf was a Canadian Army newspaper published during the war and it published a regular feature entitled 'Rhyme and Reason', a weekly collection of soldier poems. The poems in this volume come from that publication. The poets were not professionals, far from it. But each poet/soldier crafted words into poetry in order to convey their thoughts, feelings, experiences. Each poem reflects immediacy and authenticity. Every reader cannot but be deeply touched and affected by the poems contained in this book. The volume features poems on various themes: Heroism, Fear/Death, Daily Thoughts/Living, Dreams, Hope, Love, Peace/Freedom. The volume concludes with a poem by Kjaer Jensen, written on 27 October 1945: So, though I know in years to come / Peace on earth will reign: / The memory of his worn-torn soul, / Forever will remain.
Author : Abdi-Noor Mohamed
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781649578037
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Remembering War in a Time of Peace written by Abdi-Noor Mohamed and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering War in a Time of Peace By: Abdi-Noor Mohamed Remembering War in a Time of Peace is a collection of poems written by Abdi-Noor Mohamed, a poet and human rights activist who lived through war for nearly two decades. The poems capture the horrors of war as a result of state collapse in Somalia which has led to strife, disintegration, and dislocation over a period of thirty years. The poems do not only cover the journalistic aspect of the war but also explore further into the other dimensions of war not fully reported by the papers and other media outlets. Each poem has a human message of peace and hope despite written in a thread of horror. With a section entirely devoted to women and war, the intention is to expose how the female gender is double victimized by men who, on one hand, make wars, and, on the other, by reporters who write only about men's story of war. In addition, the poems reflect the resilience and the unbreakable spirits of Somalis and how they have built coping strategies, as well as local and traditional defence mechanisms, in the middle of war and terrorism. They are lessons of life learned from experience. The poems can serve as a tool of survival for people who happen to be living in nation shattered by war by shedding light on how war has affected human integrity, relationships, love, identity, and heritage.
