Author: John Stethem MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Oracle of Delphos, and Other Poems
Author: John Stethem MooreThe Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems, 1975-1978
Author: Kathleen RainePublisher: Colin Smythe
ISBN: 9780851053479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
"A book of great beauty and charm...[Raine] has a profound, sometimes agonized understanding of what it means to be alive, to be old, to be aware always of that deeper, truer life that lies somewhere out there behind and beyond our daily existence" --Basi
The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard: Poems
Author: Dana GoodyearPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Poems about sex, marriage, and the desire for a child from a “scary-cool and edgy-smart” poet (J. D. McClatchy). The frank, raw lyrics of Dana Goodyear’s second collection draw on the scenery of Los Angeles—the teenagers, vagrants, pornographers—and the beautiful decay that serves as an insistent reminder to them all. The poems are unsparing but tender, candid but sly, and open to the force of nature on an individual human life. from “Wildfire” We want this. The end to sleeping, the bittersweet arousal, the peeling back, the soft bath in resin, the release. It can’t come quick enough, the hot touch that breaks the crust and lets us go. Hear it now: a crackling, as the woods begin to sing alongside the birds.
Oracle and Other Poems
Author: Andrés MoralesThe Oracle on Smoke
Author: Berton BraleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Smoking in art
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Chinese Poetry and Prophecy
Author: Michel StrickmannPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, the book provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality.
Northern Oracle
Author: Kirsten DierkingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poetry. On Kirsten Dierking's collection of poems NORTHERN ORACLE: "Kirsten Dierking's poems often focus on the small things, the unnoticed natural world around her, 'the unknowable swimmers' in the water beneath the canoe, or the realization of the 'glorious spirit' inside a wild flower. It is this seeing that gives her poems their joy. But it is the unflinching realization that 'you love things that can't help leaving' and that, 'you can't stop/ yourself becoming/ all the white, / expressionless snow' that gives the poems their strength"--Louis Jenkins
Visiting the Oracle
Author: Deborah KenistonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781607813880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"Art and poetry from the discovered journals of Deborah Keniston After Deborah Keniston was hospitalized with an Alzheimer's-like disease, her husband, Edward Lueders, an author and English professor, discovered her poetry-filled journals while going through her papers. He knew she had been writing occasional poems, but had not realized the quantity or quality of her work. Thus began his own work transcribing and compiling this selection, which contains Deborah's words and her artwork. Keniston passed away on January 3, 2013. During her 73 years of life, she was an artist, teacher, naturalist, explorer, and traveler. Her poems reflect her deep love of nature, her keen observer's eye, and her ability to evoke imagery and emotion through language. Because she wrote mainly for herself, her words are truthful and genuine, chosen without the need to impress. In the words of Terry Tempest Williams, "Keniston's poetry is an open hand... 'a clearing away' of what no longer matters and a settling of what does, a gathering of hope lived through language." There are praise poems to be discovered here, as well as deep expressions of longing, loneliness, and the; wish to be known and understood"--
Curiosities
Author: William MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
These essays reveal the poet's fascination with the relationship between language and emotional life
Author: James Henry Cousins