Poetry and Islands

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Author: Rajeev S. Patke

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1783484128

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In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands. An island is either a destination, or a home, or a place of exile and imprisonment, or simply a place to sojourn. It is an ideal vehicle for journeys treated as allegories, or for acts of finding that turn into acts of losing, or the reverse transformation. An island is not a continent; yet it can be an archipelago. An island is both a place in itself and a pretext for imaginings that need a local habitation and a name. It can give relief, and pleasure; or it can frustrate, isolate, and negate. Above all, it both invites and resists - or contains or constrains - the imagination. Poetry and Islands explores how islands become repositories of human longings and desires, a locus for some of our deepest fears and fantasies. It balances historical and geographical reference with a selective approach to poems and poets in English, and in translations into English. The study of particular poems in which islands figure in exemplary ways is balanced by a more detailed discussion of the poets who have played a major role in shaping human responses to islands on a global scale.

Holiday in the Islands of Grief

Holiday in the Islands of Grief PDF

Author: Jeffrey McDaniel

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0822987473

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In his new collection, Jeffrey McDaniel confronts the insular and expansive qualities of loss. With electric language and surrealistic imagery, McDaniel’s poems deliver the quotidian elements of middle-age life while weaving us in & out of childhood and adulthood alongside body and mind. The tragic and life affirming share the same page and the same world, reminding us how close corruption can be to innocence; domesticity to fantasy; aging to youth. Jonathan We are underwater off the coast of Belize. The water is lit up even though its dark as if there are illuminated seashells scattered on the ocean floor. We’re not wearing oxygen tanks, yet staying underwater for long stretches. We are looking for the body of the boy we lost. Each year he grows a little older. Last December I opened his knapsack and stuck in a plastic box of carrots. Even though we’re underwater, we hear a song playing over a policeman’s radio. He comes to the shoreline to park and eat midnight sandwiches, his headlights fanning out across the harbor. And I hold you close, apple of my closed eye, red dance of my opened fist.

Islands of Thought

Islands of Thought PDF

Author: Sherman L. Fowler

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1525561731

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An age-old riddle poses the question; which came first, the chicken or the egg? Step into Pookie's poetic world and mysteries will unfold, ignorance explode, and truth will be told. You will realize that the egg is in the chicken and the chicken is in the egg, and that you cannot have one without the other. It will become self-evident that it doesn't matter which came first. Step into Pookie's poetic world where mysteries unfold, ignorance explodes, truth is told, and you will expand the horizon of your thought. - Babatunde Adewale Faola

Toward the Distant Islands

Toward the Distant Islands PDF

Author: Hayden Carruth

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1556592361

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Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.

From the Country of Eight Islands

From the Country of Eight Islands PDF

Author: Hiroaki Sato

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9780231063951

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A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present.

Museum of Islands

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Author: Gary Margolis

Publisher: Bauhan Pub

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780872333130

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"This is Gary Margolis's eighth book of poetry"--

The Islands

The Islands PDF

Author: William Wall

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2017-11-04

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0822983133

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William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the sisters' lives, each taking place on an island—in southwest Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character, and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry PDF

Author: J. D. McClatchy

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1996-06-25

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 0679741151

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This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

Island of the Innocent

Island of the Innocent PDF

Author: Diane Glancy

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781885983800

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Award-winning poet Diane Glancy's radical approach to the perennial mystery of suffering takes the trials of Job--the just man unjustly punished--into the New World.

Broken by Water

Broken by Water PDF

Author: Gary Thompson

Publisher: Turning Point

Published: 2021-08-06

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781625493842

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In Broken by Water: Salish Sea Years, the contemporary world is suffused with the past, a world where even the briefest moments are layered with meaning: widgeons spooked into flight echo the horror of orcas being captured in a quaint harbor; clouds storming north are like a massive spring migration and make human life seem insignificant; a raven's croak underscores the outrage of old-growth devastation; one vandalized grave portends the end of our world. These poems are alive in the moment precisely because they bring the dark, often forgotten, past into the light.

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