Author: Doyle F. Pugh Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 149696814X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 189
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Doyles positive views from lifes experiences are strongly reflected in his writing. Due to a deteriorating eyesight condition leaving him legally blind and forced into retirement surprisingly opened the door to Doyles enjoyment of writing poetry.
Author: Dudley (Chris) Christian Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1988861012 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 76
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This is the fifth book in the series of poetry collections by this author, who was born in Trinidad, raised in Cayman Islands and became Canadian by choice a few years after his service at sea around the world. A sea mariner by nature, he worked the coastal waters of British Columbia, strolled the beaches for his peace of mind, drove through the feverish highways of Vancouver while raising his family on the outskirts of that city during his employment with BC Ferries. Now enjoying a well-earned retirement after more than 50 years of working, he wishes to share with you, his bits and pieces of thoughts that he accumulated over the course of his life. It is with pleasure that he presents to you this book of A Poet's Ebb and Flow with which he hopes that you will harvest a mental serenity and repose from the chaos of today's world.
Author: Jerome P. Seaton Publisher: White Pine Press ISBN: 9781877727375 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 206
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Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.
Author: Michael Fuller Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1684170702 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 540
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What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese shipoetry from the late Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) to the end of the Southern Song (1127–1279), a period of profound social and cultural transformation. Shi poetry written in response to events was the dominant literary genre in Song dynasty China, serving as a central form through which literati explored meaning in their encounters with the world. By the late Northern Song, however, old models for meaning were proving inadequate, and Daoxue (Neo-Confucianism) provided an increasingly attractive new ground for understanding the self and the world. Drifting among Rivers and Lakes traces the intertwining of the practice of poetry, writings on poetics, and the debates about Daoxue that led to the cultural synthesis of the final years of the Southern Song and set the pattern for Chinese society for the next six centuries. Examining the writings of major poets and Confucian thinkers of the period, Fuller discovers the slow evolution of a complementarity between poetry and Daoxue in which neither discourse was self-sufficient.
Author: A. L. Reynolds Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291070753 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 130
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Poems that pooled in the author's mind and came together in a collection called Drift. Motherhood, moods, hero worship, science, and love all play a part in a collection of poetry inspired by the author's children, current events, the questioning of religion, geology, Darwinism and 1960s television.
Author: O. Bradley Bassler Publisher: re.press ISBN: 0987268236 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 227
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Wittgenstein said that philosophers should greet each other, not by saying, “Hello,” but rather, “Take your time.” But what is time? Time is money, but this points to an even better answer to this basic question for our modern epoch: time is acceleration. In a cultural system which stresses economic efficiency, the quicker route is always the more prized, if not always the better one. Wittgenstein’s dictum thus constitutes an act of rebellion against the dominant vector of our culture, but as such it threatens to become (quickly) anti-modern. We need an approach to “reading” our information-rich culture which is ...
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