[PDF] The Desert Isle And Other Poems eBook

Author : A.P. Wavell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 1992-10-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0712653422

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First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers. It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of the day, poetry can fulfil its ancient function, finding its way to the hearts of the many, not only to the minds of the few.

Author : Frank Navratil
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788088022190

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Happiness is often seen as elusive or unattainable. Much of our suffering comes from distancing ourselves from the world around us, from living only in the past or future and from failing to see and accept reality as it plays out in the present moment. Frank Navratil through his collection of poems explores the themes of separation, delusion and uncertainty that plague us all in this hectic modern world, while offering hope, compassion, peace and enlightenment to those of us who find ourselves at times lost or stranded.

Author : P J Keegan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141941871

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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

Author : Rhian Edwards
Publisher : Seren
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1854115952

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Clueless Dogs is the first collection of poetry by Rhian Edwards. Already a noted performer of both her songs and poetry, this book confirms her startling talent and is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Poems like 'The Welshman Who Couldn't Sing' chronicle a fraught childhood in Bridgend, south Wales, where the sensitive child escapes through imaginative games of 'Playing Dead' and 'Broken Lifeboat'. Full of verve and humour, with a spiky syntax featuring hard-edged consonants, her language has a winning honesty and intensity. Later poems chronicle teenage lusts, student rivalries, damaged peers and tense situations. Although the author doesn't flinch from ruthless depictions in which we are often implicated by her use of the third person 'You', there is an underlying sweetness, an elegiac thread most evident in the poems of maturity, like 'Back to Bed' ,'Safe' ,'The Wrong Season' full of both the sensual rapture of love and a clear-eyed realization of its inevitable disappointments. Witness the poet in performance and it is impossible not to hear her distinctive tones when reading her work. Clueless Dogs is a brave and beautiful first book.

Author : Ofelia Zepeda
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1995-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780816515417

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The annual seasons and rhythms of the desert are a dance of clouds, wind, rain, and flood—water in it roles from bringer of food to destroyer of life. The critical importance of weather and climate to native desert peoples is reflected with grace and power in this personal collection of poems, the first written creative work by an individual in O'odham and a landmark in Native American literature. Poet Ofelia Zepeda centers these poems on her own experiences growing up in a Tohono O'odham family, where desert climate profoundly influenced daily life, and on her perceptions as a contemporary Tohono O'odham woman. One section of poems deals with contemporary life, personal history, and the meeting of old and new ways. Another section deals with winter and human responses to light and air. The final group of poems focuses on the nature of women, the ocean, and the way the past relationship of the O'odham with the ocean may still inform present day experience. These fine poems will give the outside reader a rich insight into the daily life of the Tohono O'odham people.

Author : Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher :
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0195124545

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The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.

Author : Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781356853922

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