Men in the Off Hours

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307557871
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Men in the Off Hours by : Anne Carson

Download or read book Men in the Off Hours written by Anne Carson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that "the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection," Men in the Off Hours shows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best.

Rilke's Book of Hours

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440628327
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Rilke's Book of Hours by : Anita Barrows

Download or read book Rilke's Book of Hours written by Anita Barrows and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text. While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine—a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now Rilke's Book of Hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.

Human Hours

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978665
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Hours by : Catherine Barnett

Download or read book Human Hours written by Catherine Barnett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Believer Book Award The triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award Catherine Barnett’s tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are “accursed,” that are limited—and unanswered—by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow—or at least measure—time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover’s breaths; by remembering a father’s space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.

The Prophet

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Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9390287820
Total Pages : 92 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 92 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.

Hours with Men and Books

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368657577
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Book Synopsis Hours with Men and Books by : William Mathews

Download or read book Hours with Men and Books written by William Mathews and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1895.

The Transparent Man

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Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Transparent Man by : Anthony Hecht

Download or read book The Transparent Man written by Anthony Hecht and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominee for National Book Critics Circle Award, this volume contains many delights and some long poems. There is a European feel about Hecht's verse that is striking, partly due to the richness of the classical allusions, and partly due to the way Hecht handles autobiography. Poetry in the 20th century is very much shaped by the individualism of our times, but poetry that is in essence confessional, eccentric, and overly particularized quickly becomes tiresome. Hecht often avoids this pitfall by realizing his own insight through cultural rather than personal metaphor, and this allows his words and imagery to remain fresh and resonant. ISBN 0-394-58506-2: $18.95.

Hours with Men and Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Hours with Men and Books written by William Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems by Walt Whitman

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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473362229
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Poems by Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry. Here are collected his finest poems, a perfect companion for any fan of Whitman's work.

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476712778
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by : Anthony Holden

Download or read book Poems That Make Grown Men Cry written by Anthony Holden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.

Short Talks

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ISBN 13 : 9781771313421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (134 download)

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Book Synopsis Short Talks by : Anne Carson

Download or read book Short Talks written by Anne Carson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. New material includes a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and cover art and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, SHORT TALKS is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. SHORT TALKS can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works. The renowned ancient Greek scholar's first book beautifully reprinted on amazing paper, with an extra "short talk" on afterwords functioning as the afterword. Sometimes humorous, other times eerie, these prose-poems range in topic from waterproofing to Gertrude Stein at 9:30 at night--the most fascinating micro-lectures you'll ever attend. Nobody has not bought this book after opening it. --Open Books Indie Recommend

Poems from the Book of Hours

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811205955
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems from the Book of Hours by : Rainer Maria Rilke

Download or read book Poems from the Book of Hours written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rilke’s Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903). Although these poems were the work of Rilke’s youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, they celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe, but seems to be rather humanity itself, and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist. This exquisite gift edition contains Babette Deutsch’s classic translations, which capture the rich harmony and suggestive imagery of the originals, allowing interpretations both religious and philosophical, and transporting the reader to new heights of inspiration and musicality.

A Thousand Mornings

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101595973
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis A Thousand Mornings by : Mary Oliver

Download or read book A Thousand Mornings written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

Men of the Time

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men of the Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Men of the Time

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
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Book Synopsis Men of the Time by : Alaric Alexander Watts

Download or read book Men of the Time written by Alaric Alexander Watts and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Book Synopsis Poems by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Men of the Time

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Publisher : London : Routledge, Warne & Routledge, [18---18--]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
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Book Synopsis Men of the Time by : Edward Walford

Download or read book Men of the Time written by Edward Walford and published by London : Routledge, Warne & Routledge, [18---18--]. This book was released on 1862 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philip Larkin Poems

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271766
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Philip Larkin Poems written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom?... Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin Amis