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Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные стихиStill Pilgrim
Still Pilgrim is a collection of poems that chronicles the universal journey of life as seen through the eyes of a keenly-observant friend and fellow traveler. The reader accompanies the Still Pilgrim as she navigates the experiences that constitute her private history yet also serve to remind us of our own moments of enlightenment, epiphany, and encounter with mystery. Each of the 58 poems of the collection marks a way station along the pilgrimage, a kind of holy well where the Pilgrim and reader might stop and draw knowledge, solace, joy, and the strength to continue along the path.
Charles of the Desert
I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. – Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916)
Charles de Foucauld, desert hermit and writer of «The Prayer of Abandonment,» was torn between his ambition to do great things and his desire for the hidden life. His story, told here in verse, accompanies him through North Africa and the Middle East as he becomes a cavalry officer, geographer, pilgrim, Trappist monk, priest, abolitionist, translator, fort-builder, and martyr.
"Woolfitt's Charles of the Desert is the 'ragged song' of Charles de Foucault, attuned to the 'sweat beneath scratchy coverlets,' 'the hoe and the rake,' and to how a life can be 'all green wood' that, in the work of years, leaps with the strange wildness of faith. – K. A. Hays, author of Dear Apocalypse and Early Creatures, Native Gods
"Woolfitt's 'pilgrim's progress' [offers] an achingly lovely canticle to God's presence as it is both revealed and concealed in the harsh natural world of the North African desert. Richly detailed, lovingly imagined, and exactingly thought through, [it] is a compelling work of art." – Andrew Hudgins, author of A Clown at Midnight and Ecstatic in the Poison
"These poems – lush, accomplished lyrics gathered by a delicate narrative thread – present a profound and savory confusion. Spoken in the voice of the book's titular persona, Charles de Foucauld, the poems present genuine exultation, vertiginous truth." – Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems
"Pastoral and meditative, Charles of the Desert depicts the eremetical life of a nomad whose awareness of Christ's eternal love and a body's chronic hunger infuses every turn of his spiritual and geographical wanderings: 'My faith rose like a tongue of flame, / but I had nothing to feed it. My life was all green wood.' In a voice laden with introspective yet cosmopolitan imagery, Woolfitt vividly re-imagines this well-traveled hermit's encounters with the divine as he acculturates to Tuareg society in the Sahara. – Karen An-hwei Lee, author of Phyla of Joy and Ardor
Slow Pilgrim
Scott Cairns has gathered every poem he's ever published in book form, and has also added previously uncollected work spanning three decades. A careful introduction by Gregory Wolfe and a tribute preface by Richard Howard make this the ultimate collection of Cairns's work.
"Among American poets of religious belief at the present time, none is more skillful, authentic, or convincing than Scott Cairns." —B. H. Fairchild, poet, National Book Critics Circle Award winner
"With Dostoyevsky and the psalmists as his traveling companions, Cairns pursues his peregrinations through frustration and pleasure, desolation and eros, step by step realizing 'how / fraught, how laden the visible is.'" —Kimberly Johnson, poet, author of A Metaphorical God
Slow Pilgrim was named Englewood's Best Poetry Book of the year in 2015 for the life and flourishing of the Church.
The Sea Sleeps
This collection draws heavily from the core devotional strain in Miller’s poetry, offering what novelist Fenton Johnson described in his review of Iron Wheel as “the vision and experience of that place where dark merges seamlessly into light; the house and home of grace—unasked for and perhaps undeserved, but transformative all the same.” Framed by meditations on the beginnings and possible post-human ends of culture, the new poems reflect on the callings and limits of art in responding to desire, history, mortality, and injustice. Set in the American South, Wales, France, the Czech Republic, and Sudan, the poems address and invoke the divine.
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This is me.
This is what I have learned.
This is the story behind that journey.
This is also poetry.
Don’t overthink it.
Cheers!
The Edge of the Continent: The City
This book is about California. Specifically, this second volume is about Southern California, the heavily populated part of the state, the sprawling metropolis, and the thirsty land that supports so many people. Jacqueline Suskin moved to Los Angeles in 2013 and still calls the city home. This book explores her transition into city life after leaving the majesty of Northern California forests and the fulfillment of communal off-the-grid living. In this collection, we move through the struggle of finding beauty, purpose, and joy in urbanity, and in doing so discover the infinite inspiration that exists in a place as unique as Los Angeles.
Girl with Death Mask
Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in Girl with Death Mask .In four rich and imaginative movements of poems, Jennifer Givhan profiles the suffering and the love of a Latina girl and then mother coming to terms with sexual trauma. Her daughter is a touchstone of healing as she seeks to unravel her own emotions as well as protect the next generation of budding women with a fierceness she must find within. Givhan exploits changing poetic forms to expose what it means to mature in a female body swirling with tenderness, violence, and potential in an uncertain world. Girl with Death Mask is a cathartic and gripping confession of the trials of adolescence and womanhood.
Selected Poems
As a member of the Fireside Poets, a group of five nineteenth century American poets whose work elevated American poetry to a status equal to if not surpassing that of the English poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote some of the most famous poems in American literature. Included in this collection are many of his most well-loved poems, such as the iconic “Paul Revere’s Ride”, which relates the famous night time ride of Paul Revere to warn his compatriots of a British attack. “The Song of Hiawatha” is an epic and tragic tale of the Ojibwe warrior and his love for Minnehaha, a woman from the Dakota tribe. “Evangeline”, arguably his most famous work, is the heartbreaking story of an Acadian girl who searches for her lost love Gabriel during the time of the Great Upheaval, which was the forced expulsion of native Acadian peoples by the British from areas of present-day Nova Scotia. Longfellow's poetry is notable for its lyricism and deals extensively with stories of mythology and legend. As arguably the most famous American poet of his time, Longfellow’s writings afforded him great success and established a legacy that endures to this day. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. This edition includes a biographical afterword.
The Next Loves
*Author is a key figure in French contemporary poetry as a writer, publisher and literary critic.*Author is also a successful screenwriter of several French films, and contributes literary and film criticism to du Monde, Libération, and Cahiers du Cinema.*Author wrote screenplays for beloved queer movies Presque rien (Come Undone) and Wild Side.*Author is former film critic and editor at Cahiers du Cinéma, author of screenplays and several books about film (including on Pasolini, Gus Van Sant, Eisenstein).*Author is former dancer and dramatist for Mathilde Monnier Dance Company. *Author is winner of 2007 Mission Stendhal Award (project to write Les Amours suivants) 2003 Prix de Rome (for the books so far written at that time), 2017 French Voices Grant (for translation of SB’s next book, Vie Commune), Woodberry Poetry Room WPR Creative Grant, 2016-17*This book will appeal to American audiences already interested in French / Francophone poetry in translation (i.e., books published by La Press, Litmus, poets like Emmanuel Hocquard etc.) or interested in translated literature generally. It will also be of interest to American audiences familiar with the New York school directly or at a remove. Finally, it will be of interest to LGBTQIA readers and to a certain group of left-leaning readers interested in the political / utopian possibilities of literature.
SLINGSHOT
SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation. SLINGSHOT begins with the author ensconced in the menacing isolation of the pastoral, but once the work migrates to the City, monstrum grows form and fangs. In these messy, horny, desperate poems spun from dream logic, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson considers the consequences of black sexual and gender deviance, as well as the emotional burden of being forced to the rim of society, then punished for what keeps you alive.