Hafiz, Gibran, Neruda, Rumi ... their yoga mats were blank pieces of paper; they did asana with pencils between their fingers; their pranayama was inverted metaphor; and their Samadhi was uninhibited, naked poetry. Yoga is a journey, an intricate dance of mind, body, breath, and…
"Hafiz, Gibran, Neruda, Rumi. their yoga mats were blank pieces of paper; they did asana with pencils between their fingers; their pranayama was inverted metaphor; and their Samadhi was uninhibited, naked poetry. Yoga is a journey, an intricate dance of mind, body, breath, and s…
"For James Richardson, poetry is speculative and serious play. By the Numbers captivates with its range of line and movement, its microlyrics, crypto-quatrains, and "ten-second essays," its aphorisms that twist and snap. Drawing from myriad lore--Ovidian and Shakespearean, georg…
by Song Lin, Cole, Peter, Mizuta, Noriko, Kim, Hyesoon, ko ko thett, Espitallier, Jean-Michel, Lalonde, Etienne, Madzirov, Nikola, Amaral, Fernando Pinto do, Waldman, Anne, Wang, Xiaoni, Bennis, Mohammed, Darwīš, Naǧwān, Gorga i López, Gemma, Mishol, Agi, Murray, Leslie Allan, Ŝupâkov, Gleb, Zaqṭān, Ġassān, Tawada, Yoko, Chen, Li, poète), Yin, Jiang
by Song Lin, Cole, Peter, Li Chen, Mizuta, Noriko, ko ko thett, Bannīs, Muḥammad, Darwīsh, Najwān, Espitallier, Jean-Michel, López, Gemma, Kim, Hye-sun, Lalonde, Etienne, Lau, Yee-ching, Madzirov, Nikola, Mishʻol, Agi, Murray, Les A., Amaral, Fernando Pinto do, Shulʹpi︠a︡kov, Gleb, Tawada, Yōko, Waldman, Anne, Wang, Xiaoni, Zaqṭān, Ghassān
"Edited by Gilbert C. F. Fong, Shelby K. Y. Chan, Lucas Klein, Bei Dao, Christopher Mattison, and Chris Song, the Poetry and Conflict twenty-two volume box set is an extended edition of the single-volume anthology. Included are twenty-two pocket-sized paperbacks and a compliment…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
An ancient gensture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / by Mary Oliver -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / by Sappho -- The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / by Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / by Federico Garcia Lorca --…
Back when all was continuous / by Colette Inez -- A beautiful girl combs her hair / by Li Ho -- City of dreams / by Diane Ackerman -- Counting the mad / by Donald Justice -- Earth tremors felt in Missouri / by Mona Van Duyn -- The erlking / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Guide…
Alzheimer's / Kelly Cherry -- Blonde white women / Patricia Smith -- The broken tower / Hart Crane -- The concrete river / Luis J. Rodraiguez -- Eagle poem / Joy Harjo -- For a daughter who leaves / Janice Mirikitani -- Indigo / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Inner tube / Michael…
Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas -- Annunciation overheard from the kitchen / by Mary Szybist -- Carmel point / by Robinson Jeffers -- Coal / by Audre Lorde -- The emperor of ice-cream / by Wallace Stevens -- Fable / by Octavio Paz -- A felicitous life / by Czeslaw Milosz -- A golde…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Classic ballroom dances / by Charles Simic -- Elena / by Pat Mora -- Fully empowered / by Pablo Neruda -- The hollow men / by T.S. Eliot -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth -- Jazz fantasia / by Carl Sandburg -- The lotus flowers / by Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Mu…
Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Autobiographia literaria / by Frank O'Hara -- The bridegroom / by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Conscientious objector / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The fly / by William Blake -- Grandmother / by Valzhyna Mort -- Midsummer, Tobago / by Derek Walcott -- My mother combs my ha…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Acquainted with the night / by Robert Frost -- Blackberry eating / by Galway Kinnell -- Childe Harold's pilgrimage / by Lord Byron -- The dead / by Susan Mitchell -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson -- In music / by Czeslaw Milosz -- Miniver Cheevy / by Edwin Arling…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.