Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present.
The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language.
This work is a brief but comprehensive study on mind management, beauty of nature, inner urges, coexistence, definition of life, patience, unjustified hunger, emotions, equality of human beings, sense of pride, sorrow, pleasure, human behaviour, respect, sacrifice, unexpected happenings, hunger for money and ignorance.
Grounded in the urgency of the moment – motherhood, housing precarity, politics – Past Lives also surges along on the nervous and joyful electricity of Leah Dodd' s voice, taking us from buses to poetry readings, rental bathrooms to Runescape, sometimes through the power of astral projection.
In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume.
Dieser Band bettet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks biblisches Heldengedicht Der Messias (1748–1773) in den Kontext der zeitgenössischen Diskussion um die sich erneuernde deutsche Literatur ein, in der das Epos als höchste literarische Gattung galt.
WILD MEDICINE FOR APOCALYPTIC TIMES This Witchs devotional is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan poetry that can be enjoyed slowly or all at once.
The poems, stories and essays of Mphutlane wa Bofelo operate within a framework of thinking that is an amalgam of philosophies: that of black consciousness, humanistic Islam and socialism.
A treasure trove of inspiration and an invitation for personal renewal from the acclaimed author of bone and The TerribleWe still dream though, don't we?
Experimental poet and translator Mnica de la Torres new collection is a document of both the events of 2020 and the process of a poet rethinking artistic practice as she tracks subtle shifts in her experience during multiple global crises.
… 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 »…
Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy.
Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements.
A sharp, visceral new collection of poetry that touches on art, history, sex, bodies, language, and the color pinkThe sack of Rome,The siege of Florence.
Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage's intellectual, sexual, and domestic lives.
An Ode To The PeopleA crushing defeat to humanityA hidden victory to insanityWhere patriots are sure to dieWhere tyrants believe they can flyThe full truth remains unseenBy those whose thoughts are uncleanThe lead us as lambs to the slaughterHaving forgot the word of our fatherAll life they willingly barterThey maul falling dollarDeceive yourself no more with their liesFor we all must stand now with one cryOr our land will surely dieThe time for justice is at handNo longer can we withstandThe shackles placed on us by manWhile they rob you and meWhat we have by our own decreeOur liberty and right to be free I tell you now of this theftBefore it leads us all to our deathsSo please do not be mistakenThe time is now to awakenThe future is ours for the takingUnited together we are unequaled Let us decided as a peopleFor we all are unique yet equalI Speak In A TongueI speak in a tongueUnfamiliar to someMy words have no meaningAmongst those who are dreamingMy words hold no angerOnly to a strangerMy words hold nourishmentAll those in punishmentMy words come cleanThose of you who have seenThey are right before your eyeDo not sit and let them go byeLiberty IsFreedom of libertyA curse for purityUnbridled free willSurely will killWhere is the fenceThat rein's arroganceOver ran by zealousnessEvil and greedHere is a lassoLet justice flyHere is a fenceIts righteousness, I cryThe Roaring Of A LuneAgain tonight he is on the prowlThis rather peculiar yet handsome night owlOnce something has become afoulOn his face appears his scowlIlluminating the night of our skyEvery night it seems he drives byA new day for him is to implyHis way of saying goodbye Those Who Seek to KnowFor those who seek to knowAs one goes about ones dayThru poems he seeks to showOur thoughts manifest the wayConsidering starting at high noonThe words one chooses to relayAppearing to thee ever so soonThe words one has chosen to preyAs we all move thru each hourThe spirit will choose to employAs we all move thru each powerThe spirit will choose to deployNow And ForeverNow you began to understandOne of the masters plansWilling stand forthAt once today henceforthNever blindingly yet everlastinglyDoing so eternally From now until evermoreOh, Lord Creator alwaysRemember praiseEternity your will partakeVainly work to remake Evermore will be your fateReaping what have you been of late?
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style-its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
