Originally published as two separate volumes in 1969, Jim Morrison's first published volume of poetry gives a revealing glimpse of an era and the man whose songs and savage performances have left an indelible impression on our culture.
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the presentAfter centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades.
Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry.
All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the persistent condition of racism in the USA-a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity.
Teeth of the Earth is a treasure troveascintillating mix of fl avours withshattering experiences from a variety oflocations that explore universal aspects such aslove, life, birth, death, religion, disillusionment,politics, praise invocation and criticism ofsociety and persons, as well as some more specifi cissues like prejudice and inequity penetratingcomments on social and philosophical eventsranging from the traditional rural tranquilityto urbanized life that is modernity in Africa.
I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawkInspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision presents a portrait of nature where the benign and the bedevilled coexist, collude, or collide.
In his fifth poetry volume, American poet Andrew Zawacki expands his inquiry into the possibilities and dangers of a 'global pastoral,' exploring geographies alternately enhanced and flattened out by digital networks, international transit, the uneven and invisible movements of capital, and the unrelenting feedback loops of data surveillance, weather disaster, war.
Bilingual Spanish-English editionFederico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
In 2002 Vernon Scannell wrote the following: 'It has been my firm belief since I first began to attempt the art of poetry that the making of a poem should be, as Yeats asserted, a difficult business.
A sense of exile and belonging dominates the poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication.
REVELATIONS FROM THE ZS ABOUT WHAT LIES AHEAD Humanity is facing an unprecedented phase of evolution, planetary revolution, and the acceleration of time.
Statius' narrative of the fraternal strife of the Theban brothers Eteocles and Polynices has had a profound influence on Western literature and fascinated generations of scholars and readers.
In her latest collection Molly Peacock, one of Canadas most beloved poets, tells the story of her longtime psychoanalyst who returned to painting after surviving a stroke.
The perfect gift for fans of Florence + the Machine, with additional lyrics, poems and a new chapter of sermonsSongs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later.
The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.
Losing your mother is a transformational event at any age, and yet the number of books on the subject of adult children grieving a mother’s death is meager.
Concluding a textually long but spiritually endless journey toward insan al-kamil--the perfect human--this fourth volume approaches Sufism through the middle way, an approach that revives the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI'A generous, moving book' GUARDIANBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada.
Dans ce recueil de poèmes, l'auteur fait sonner les cloches de minuit pour célébrer un appel à un commun vouloir de vie commune entre les peuples, qui parfois sont amenés à se conjuguer dans un rejet mutuel au nom de la différence raciale, ethnique et/ou religieuse.
In her first collection since the Costa-winning Tilt, Jean Sprackland looks back at endings and beginnings: the end of a life, or of a marriage; old homes lived in and left, new homes discovered.
