Author: Linda Louise MartinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Poetry of Pain
Author: Linda Louise MartinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil GibranPublisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9390287820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
Shaping the Fractured Self
Author: Heather Taylor JohnsonPublisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742589312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain-not even a fraction-leads to the partial consolations of art. But if lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, can poetry offer that same cleansing of emotional wounds? Shaping the Fractured Self showcases twenty-eight of Australia's finest poets who happen to live with chronic illness and pain. The autobiographical short essays, in conjunction with the three poems from each of the poets, capture the body in trauma in its many and varied moods. Because those who live with chronic illness and pain experience shifts in their relationship to it on a yearly, monthly, or daily basis, so do the words they use to describe it. This book gives voice to sufferers, carers, medical practitioners, and researchers, building understanding in a community of caring. [Subject: Chronic Illness, Poetry, Health Studies]
The Nectar of Pain
Author: Najwa ZebianPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449499880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a painful heartbreak. She writes that the process of cleansing oneself of that pain—day by day, hour by hour, and second by second—is the real work of healing. With uncommon warmth and wisdom, Zebian empowers all who have lost to let go of anger and transform their suffering into the softness, sweetness, and beauty of nectar. She holds her readers by the hand as they heal.
My Alexandria
Author: Mark DotyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063176
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A book about mortality, the mortal weight of AIDS in particular.
The Pain Tree
Author: Esther WatsonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618047581
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
An illustrated collection of original poetry written by and for teenagers.
Love Alone
Author: Paul MonettePublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480473782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Paul Monette’s fierce and arresting collection of poems on the death of his partner from AIDS Following his partner Roger Horwitz’s death from AIDS in 1986, Paul Monette threw himself into these elegies. Writing them, he says, “quite literally kept me alive.” Both beautifully written and deeply affecting, every poem is full of anger, sorrow, tenderness, and a palpable sense of grief. With graceful language and emotional acuity, Paul Monette captures the enormity of a loss that ravaged a generation. But even more than they are about tragedy, these poems are about love. Each moving line is full of love for one who is no longer there, but whose presence is still achingly felt at every turn. Love Alone is remarkable for its honesty, its passion, and its depth. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
Lyric Poetry
Author: Mutlu BlasingPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.
Pain Studies
Author: Lisa OlsteinPublisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
“A fascinating, totally seductive read!” —Eula Biss, author of Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays and On Immunity: An Inoculation “A book built of brain and nerve and blood and heart. . . . Irreverent and astute. . . . Pain Studies will change how you think about living with a body.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Thunderstruck and Bowlaway “A thrilling investigation into pain, language, and Olstein’s own exile from what Woolf called ‘the army of the upright.’ On a search path through art, science, poetry, and prime-time television, Olstein aims her knife-bright compassion at the very thing we’re all running from. Pain Studies is a masterpiece.” —Leni Zumas, author of The Listeners and Red Clocks In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraine to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain—how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc to the essays of Virginia Woolf and Elaine Scarry to Hugh Laurie’s portrayal of Gregory House on House M.D. As she engages with science, philosophy, visual art, rock lyrics, and field notes from her own medical adventures (both mainstream and alternative), she finds a way to express the often-indescribable experience of living with pain. Eschewing simple epiphanies, Olstein instead gives us a new language to contemplate and empathize with a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Lisa Olstein teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of four poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press. Pain Studies is her first book of creative nonfiction.
Pain by the Authors of Pain
Author: Akam and RezarPublisher:
ISBN: 9781549612602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The first collection of poetry from NXT tag team champions The Authors of Pain, PAIN gives you a front row seat into the lyrical genius of Akam and Rezar."Six Stars." - Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer Newsletter"Their finishing move might be called 'The Last Chapter' but I hope this is the first chapter in what I only assume will be a long and fruitful literary career." - JH Prynne, world renowned poet "Not since 'The Genius' Lanny Poffo retired decades ago has any person or people tried to pick up the mantle of wrestler/poet and after reading PAIN I can safely say, it was worth the wait."- Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods"By naming them 'The Authors of Pain' The WWE basically forced them to write a book called Pain." - National Book ReviewUnauthorized parody "written" by Akam and Rezar with help from Joey Clift, Michael Rose, Matthew Brian Cohen, Colin Hunter (KayfabeNews.com), Taylor Orci, Dino Winwood, Stephen Loh, James Hornsby, Jesse Arlen Klein, Tyler Davidson, RD Reynolds (WrestleCrap.com), Jason Wayne Christian, Matt McCarthy, Alex Newman, Mike Roe, Gene Augusto, Alex Hoffman, Brian James O'Connell, Erik W. Barnes, Joseph Porter, Nicky Urban and Daniel Weiss.