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Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780374514235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written during the same period as The Glass Bead Game, these poems reflect the book's mysticism and help to illuminate Hesse's physical and metaphysical search for a "sublime alchemy" that would go beyond all images
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1979-03
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780686859741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0375711880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing “her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom,/ crocused into air.” Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking “What good/are wishes if they aren’t / used up?” while understanding “How to listen / to what’s gone.” Young’s frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life’s mysteries.
Author: Anita Barrows
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1440628327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Carolyn Forche
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 0062004239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour,' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted. "The voice we hear in Blue Hour is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to be equal to what she has seen. The hunger to know is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time, though unillusioned, wise beyond any possible taint of a false or assumed innocence." -- Robert Boyers
Author: Prentiss Moore
Publisher:
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780783789392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Devorah Rubin
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781595408877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Time in the Garden is a collection of new and selected poems that best describe my life as I see it. Many of the poems you find here previously appeared in chapbooks, privately printed in limited additions, and various workshop journals, since my retirem
Author: Beeching H C 1859-1919
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781313463645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
