Lark in the Morning - The Verses of the Troubadours by Ezra Pound (Translator); Robert Kehew (Editor, Translator); W. D. Snodgrass (Translator)
$61.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and song writers ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from Ve ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living ...Show more
The Song of Myself - A New Verse Translation of the Bhagavad Gita by David Lindley
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Category: Bhagavad Gita
The Song of Myself, whose title takes its cue from Walt Whitman's celebration of the self, Song of Myself, is a modern, free-flowing verse rendition of the classic Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita. It provides a fresh reading of a much translated work that has become overlaid with both Eastern and Weste ...Show more
The Way It Is - The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu by Lao Tzu; David Lindley (translated by)
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Category: Tao Te Ching
The Way It Is provides a modern, readable and relevant English language version of the Chinese classic text on the nature of the unnameable Tao, how the individual can live in harmony with it and the state govern in accord with it. From the introduction: "Unlike the idea of God, who oversees the world ...Show more
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' (Edward Said), Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, and a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had domi ...Show more
The Prophet Annotated Edition by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry
Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Writing with insight, hope, and a remarkable compassion for the human condition, Kahlil Gibran explores ideas of joy and sorrow, friendship, good and evil, pleasure, re ...Show more
Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald; Robert D. Richardson (introduction)
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Category: Sufism
A work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Bly, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown in the West until it was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859. In FitzGerald's hands, th ...Show more
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry by Sarah Shin (Editor); Rebecca Tamás (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Spells brings together thirty-six contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them, so that it might be remade anew. Kaveh Akbar, Rachael Allen, Nuar Alsadir, Khairani Barokka, Em ...Show more
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through - A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by Joy Harjo (Editor) with LeAnne Howe and Jennifer Elise Foerster
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Category: Poetry
This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who repre ...Show more
Rengetsu - Life and Poetry of Lotus Moon by John Stevens (Translator); Otagaki Rengetsu; Adrienne Nunez (Designed by, Cover Design by); Christine Schultz (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
As a poet, potter, painter, martial artist, and Buddhist nun, Otagaki Rengetsu transformed a life of tragedy into one of artistic and spiritual transcendence, ultimately becoming one of Japan's greatest female poets. This collection features a survey of her finest poetry accompanied by a sampling of he ...Show more
The Book of Taliesin - Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in more than 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets. A Penguin Classic. Tennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to a lost ...Show more
Rengetsu: Life and Poetry of Lotus Moon by RENGETSU, O
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Category: Zen Buddhism
As a poet, potter, painter, martial artist, and Buddhist nun, Otagaki Rengetsu transformed a life of tragedy into one of artistic and spiritual transcendence, ultimately becoming one of Japan's greatest female poets. This collection features a survey of her finest poetry accompanied by a sampling of her ...Show more