Poetry from Beyond the Grave
Poetry from Beyond the Grave

Author: Francisco Cândido "Chico" Xavier

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2013-05-10

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9081709194

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Poetry from Beyond the Grave is the first English publication of a large selection of poems by the Brazilian medium and Spiritist leader Francisco Cândido “Chico” Xavier. These poems, originally collected in the volume Parnaso de Além-Túmulo, were dictated to Xavier by a variety of spirits of Brazilian poets from the afterlife, as journeying souls or as witnesses of the spiritual city Nosso Lar, “our house.” Poetry from Beyond the Grave is a veritable collection of haunted writing, in which poets present their posthumous work as if they were alive. The brilliant translation by Vitor Pequeno is supplemented by an extensive afterword by Jeremy Fernando, who traces what it means to speak through the other.

Beyond Earth's Edge
Beyond Earth's Edge

Author: Julie Swarstad Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780816539192

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Beyond Earth's Edge vividly captures through poetry the violence of blastoff, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond. The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and private perspectives as poets grapple with the promise and peril of U.S. space exploration across decades and into the present.

Beyond the Frontier
Beyond the Frontier

Author: E. Ethelbert Miller

Publisher: Black Classic Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9781574780178

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This anthology begins with the memory of landscapes and landmarks, presenting poems in the For My People tradition of Margaret Walker. It includes a section titled "Blood and Disappointment in the Land," which documents ongoing social struggles. Other poems focus on the love that is essential for survival, rebirth, and dreams. More than 100 prominent African American poets contribute, including the distinguished and award-winning poets Toi Derricotte, Sam Cornish, Jabari Asim, and Pinkie Gordon Lane.

Lyric Poetry
Lyric Poetry

Author: Chaviva Hošek

Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Poetry as Performance
Poetry as Performance

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-01-26

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521558488

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To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very beginnings of literacy to the critical era of textual canonisations in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Professor Nagy applies the comparative evidence of oral poetic traditions, including those that survived in literate societies, such as the Provençal troubadour tradition. It appears that a song cannot be fixed as a final written text so long as the oral poetic tradition in which it was created stays alive. So also with Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the time of Aristarchus, the gradual movement from relatively fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualisation.

Beyond Forgetting
Beyond Forgetting

Author: Holly J. Hughes

Publisher: Literature & Medicine

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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This is a literary collection that illuminates the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. It is a unique collection of poetry and short prose about the disease written by 100 contemporary writers - doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, daughters, sons, wives, and husbands - whose lives have been touched by the disease.

Language for a New Century
Language for a New Century

Author: Tina Chang

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-03-25

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13:

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An extensive collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry includes the work of four hundred contributors from a variety of backgrounds, in a thematically organized anthology that is complemented by personal essays.

Poetry And Beyond
Poetry And Beyond

Author: Crystal Liandra

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781008918481

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The purpose of this book is to share some of my spiritual journey in the form of poetry, hoping that it inspires you to live and brings you closer to God who is love. Every word in this book is inspired by the love of God. I pray that it finds you well. May God bless and keep you, in the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Amen

Wide Awake
Wide Awake

Author: Suzanne Lummis

Publisher: Pacific Coast Poetry

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781892184030

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Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers-one hundred twelve poets of Los Angeles and its surrounding territories-whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may be the most romanticized and scorned, disparaged and exalted, of the world's great cities. With respect to style, the selections range from the narrative to the more open-ended or non-sequential, classic formal verse to robust vernacular, and in this way speak to the lively state of North American poetry in our age. Poets include David St. John, Wanda Coleman, Cecilia Woloch, Lynne Thompson, Timothy Steele, Kate Gale, Gail Wronsky, Terry Wolverton, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tony Barnstone, Robin Coste Lewis, William Archila and Melissa Roxas.

Beyond the Bronze Pillars
Beyond the Bronze Pillars

Author: Liam C. Kelley

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2005-01-31

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0824874005

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Beyond the Bronze Pillars is an innovative and iconoclastic look at the politico-cultural relationship between Vietnam and China in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Overturning the established view that historically the Vietnamese sought to maintain a separate cultural identity and engaged in tributary relations with the Middle Kingdom solely to avoid invasion, Liam Kelley shows how Vietnamese literati sought to unify their cultural practices with those in China while fully recognizing their country’s political subservience. He does so by examining a body of writings known as Vietnamese "envoy poetry." Far from advocating their own cultural distinctiveness, Vietnamese envoy poets expressed a profound identification with what we would now call the Sinitic world and their political status as vassals in it. In mining a body of rich primary sources that no Western historian has previously employed, Kelley provides startling insights into the pre-modern Vietnamese view of their world and its politico-cultural relationship with China.