Récit de voyage écrit sous forme de journal par Dorothy Wordsworth, les Souvenirs d'un voyage en Écosse, en l'an 1803 offrent une image vivante de ce pays au moment où il commençait à s'ouvrir aux « étrangers », aux touristes anglais notamment.
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today.
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today.
Gerhard Ringshausen legt mit diesem Buch die erste umfassende Darstellung der regimekritischen Werke christlicher Dichter vor und dokumentiert darin ihre breite und vielfältige Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS-Regime, seiner Weltanschauung und Machtausübung.
"e;Growing up in the internationally loved city of New Orleans, with all its delicious food, unique music, and its eccentric and sometimes backward culture, I realized early on that I wanted to get out and see the rest of the world.
Larsen Bowker's three Chapbooks and seven books of poetry, take images and metaphors come from a childhood in a small Prairie town in Nebraska with more trees, hills and rivers than massive fields of grain, and found his narrative style growing up in resilient synchronicity of his parents' polar opposite personalities-physical vigor of his Father's inventive silence and his Mother's lubricious loquacity, making it easy for him to believe all lives grow out of myths and physical images shaping who we are and seek to become.
Floriography Child is a book about salvation: what gives people strength in the face of adversity, not just to endure, but to move through and beyond our myriad human sufferings.
In this remarkable collection, Katherine DiBella Seluja explores issues surrounding human migration, juxtaposing poems about the current struggles along the US-Mexican border with her ancestors' experiences of migrating from Italy.
"La mia esperienza" è un poema epico che descrive la mia esperienza con alcune persone che hanno in un modo o nell'altro contribuito ai miei insegnamenti di vita.
This harvest of poems is inspired by the plant medicine latent in Gossypium Herbeceum, or Cotton Root Bark, which was used by enslaved Black women to induce labor, cure reproductive ailments and end unwanted pregnancies.
I sew myself together / again and again in urgent vulnerability, H Warrens debut collection, Binded, discloses their reality of living nonbinary in the rural context of Alaska.
In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what it means to be sentient and mortal on a fragile planet.
Ofrecemos esta antología de uno de los poetas brasileños del siglo XX más conocidos en su país y más ignorados en España, Mario Quintana, nacido en el municipio de Alegrete, en 1906, y fallecido en el de Porto Alegre, en 1994.
Bisdak Ventures is a coffee table book which is a collection of inspiring thoughts & insights that reflects the author's experience of living in a foreign country.
i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin'd self / what was stitched into heaven's dropThe poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy.
Through image-rich poems regarding migration, transcultural identity, loss, connection, dream, and agingsome translingual, some ekphrastic responses to ephemeral and surreal works of artBrenda Crdenas Trace explores conditions of displacement, liminality, and mutability.
Un acte de révolte, Puissances sans frontières s’évertue à exprimer l’essentiel de l’exil, du chagrin et de l’amour d’un exilé pour sa dame à la silhouette aqueuse.
La démarche essaie de s’orienter dans les labyrinthes intriqués du langage, du monde et du réel en cherchant à reconnaître et à expliciter les aspects ou motifs les plus insistants du réel.
… Chemin « blanchi d’écume allant vers les îles tout droit, tout droit vers des palais de nuages, des bois peuplés d’oiseaux couleur des eaux de l’océan, un au-delà brillant, une existence étrange où chaque jour la table est mise par un ange, vers des plages de sable où s’enlise le temps, où le cours des instants devient presque éternel, vers des lieux fabuleux solubles dans le ciel »…
L'association "Brouillon d'Ecriture" recueille des textes de jeunes francophones, afin qu'ils puissent partager leurs expériences et leurs émotions, notamment par le moyen du site "brouillondecriture.