In So Fragile Are the Beautiful Things, Luke Levi's focus is on beauty in nature. Using vivid imagery, his nature poems are lyrical, soulful and inspiring meditations on the natural world.
Returning to the range, structure, and lyric quality of the national bestseller Ants on the Melon, Virginia Hamilton Adair's new collection of poetry, Living on Fire, establishes more firmly than ever this writer's literary eminence. In clear, memorable poems--about love in its many variations, about music, about the American desert, about mortality, and about her own blindness--the poet speaks to her readers with a directness distinctly American, and with feeling enhanced and deepened by technical rigor. Of young love she writes, "Their arms bound them together like timbers/for a raft and they rocked a little, as if on water." Of her blindness: "Blind to abundance when I was not blind,/I breathe one rose and hold it in my mind." Of the Mojave she recalls "long purple robes trailing down the arroyos./As the sky dims into dusk."
Experience the profound and evocative poetry of Mercedes de Acosta in her timeless collection, Archways of Life. First published in 1921, this volume captures the essence of human emotion and introspection through a series of compelling poems that explore themes of love, loss, and self-discovery.
Mercedes de Acosta, known for her deep and introspective literary style, brings readers into a world of vivid imagery and poignant reflections. Her poems, including "Faded Petals," "Soiled Hands," "Unpossessed," and many more, offer a glimpse into the complexities of the human spirit and the beauty of life's fleeting moments.
With a foreword acknowledging "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" for reprinting some of her work, de Acosta's Archways of Life stands as a testament to her literary prowess and her ability to touch the hearts of readers across generations.
Leopold Classic Library is proud to bring this classic work back into publication, ensuring that it meets the highest quality standards for modern readers. Each page has been carefully reviewed to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the original 1921 edition, making this a valuable addition to any literary collection.
Rediscover the poetry of Mercedes de Acosta and immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of Archways of Life
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Undone is a dynamic collection of poetry by Aaryn K. Coley that explores an eclectic mix of styles and topics - from the importance of individuality and positive contribution to society, to the beauty of love, the pain of heartache, and an introspective view of abuse, to the perils and possibilities for the future of the world.
It is a diary - this poet's personal account of some of the most vulnerable and impactful moments in the lifelong process of growing into oneself.
In this book, readers are granted passage on a journey through the mind, heart, and soul of a poet as she chronicles her own humanity, with the hope of leaving those who encounter these words inspired and better off having read them
Poems too of a classicist, on familiar terms with Sappho, Archilochus, Horace, Socrates regulars in the audience along with Miles, Billy, Bessie, Woody hard listeners for poems that are bluesy, bopsy, beat. Whitmanesque, funny, generous, passionately committed, intellectually rigorous, sometimes savage poems from Brooklyn, America, Greece, London? in-your-face poems. And always poems composed not in the head, but ?on the breath.? Poems that can only?the author insists? be read aloud
Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas. For this reason, most of them have been treated as examples of a category or subgenre of waka called Shakkyoka, “Buddhist poems.”
As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics.
Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening...
