Book of Longing
Book of Longing

Author: Leonard Cohen

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-08-02

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0141903171

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Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen's work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

Popular Longing
Popular Longing

Author: Natalie Shapero

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 1619322358

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The poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers—be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. “Why even / look up, when all we’ll see is people / looking down?” In a world where everyone has to answer to someone, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction. By scrutinizing the mundane and all that is taken for granted, these poems arrive at much wider vistas, commenting on human sadness, memory, and mortality. Punchy, fearlessly ironic, and wickedly funny, Popular Longing articulates what it means to share a planet, for better or more often for worse, with other people.

Love and Other Poems
Love and Other Poems

Author: Alex Dimitrov

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 161932234X

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Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

A Longing for the Light
A Longing for the Light

Author: Vincente Aleixandre

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2007-05-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 155659254X

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A comprehensive collection spans the entirety of Nobel Laureate Aleixandre's career, from his early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating "dialogues," as well as prose interludes.

The Chaos of Longing
The Chaos of Longing

Author: K.Y. Robinson

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1449491448

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Organized in four sections – Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany – K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores what it is to want in spite of trauma, shame, injustice, and mental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter "to those who lie awake burning."

Partly Cloudy
Partly Cloudy

Author: Gary Soto

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0547577370

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Poet Gary Soto captures the voices of young people as they venture toward their first kiss, brood over bruised hearts, and feel the thrill of first love.

The Longing in Between
The Longing in Between

Author: Ivan Granger

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9780985467937

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A delightful collection of soul-inspiring poems from the world's great religious and spiritual traditions, accompanied by Ivan M. Granger's meditative thoughts and commentary. Rumi, Whitman, Issa, Teresa of Avila, Dickinson, Blake, Lalla, and many others. These are poems of seeking and awakening... and the longing in between. ------------ Praise for The Longing in Between "The Longing in Between is a work of sheer beauty. Many of the selected poems are not widely known, and Ivan M. Granger has done a great service, not only by bringing them to public attention, but by opening their deeper meaning with his own rare poetic and mystic sensibility." ROGER HOUSDEN author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life series "Ivan M. Granger's new anthology, The Longing in Between, gives us a unique collection of profoundly moving poetry. It presents some of the choicest fruit from the flowering of mystics across time, across traditions and from around the world. After each of the poems in this anthology Ivan M. Granger shares his reflections and contemplations, inviting the reader to new and deeper views of the Divine Presence. This is a grace-filled collection which the reader will gladly return to over and over again." LAWRENCE EDWARDS, Ph.D. author of Awakening Kundalini: The Path to Radical Freedom and Kali's Bazaar

Rumi: The Book of Love
Rumi: The Book of Love

Author: Coleman Barks

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0061753408

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Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks. Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise renderings that will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.

Only Companion
Only Companion

Author:

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2006-11-14

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0834824973

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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka—one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature—from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the early twentieth century.

The God of Longing
The God of Longing

Author: Brent Calderwood

Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937420819

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In The God of Longing, Brent Calderwood weaves classical allusion and pop culture together as the speaker moves across the continent from New York to San Francisco, and through states of desire, loss, and nostalgia?longing in all its forms?to come to a sort of wry wisdom about relationships. By turns witty and earnest, erotic and heartbreaking, The God of Longing uses a clear narrative tone that is both plainspoken and sonically rich to ponder love affairs and childhood homophobia, and uses tight traditional forms to take on nontraditional topics--a sonnet about Kate Chopin's The Awakening, for example, or villanelles about online dating and Margaret Cho. Taken together, they announce the arrival of a gifted new voice in American poetry.