Author: Launcelot Cranmer-ByngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Cranmer-Byng's translation of the classic anthology of Confucius.
Book of Odes (Shi-King)
Author: Launcelot Cranmer-ByngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Cranmer-Byng's translation of the classic anthology of Confucius.
Odes to Lithium
Author: Shira ErlichmanPublisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579596
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Captivating poems and visual art seek to bring comfort and solidarity to anyone living with Bipolar Disorder. In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar Disorder. With inventiveness, compassion, and humor, she thrusts us into a world of unconventional praise. From an unexpected encounter with her grandmother’s ghost, to a bubble bath with Bjӧrk, to her plumber’s confession that he, too, has Bipolar, Erlichman buoyantly topples stigma against the mentally ill. These are necessary odes to self-acceptance, resilience, and the jagged path toward healing. With startling language, and accompanied by her bold drawings and collages, she gives us a sparkling, original view into what makes us human.
The Book of Songs
Author: Joseph Roe AllenPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".
Odes
Author: Sharon OldsPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546303
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
‘Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.’ Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the Year Opening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story which will be familiar from earlier works, each episode and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such poems as ‘Ode to My Sister’, ‘Ode of Broken Loyalty’, ‘Ode to My Whiteness’, ‘Blow Job Ode’, ‘Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York City Visible from This Window’, Olds treats us to an intimate self-examination that, like all her work, is universal and by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily joys and sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to her – the ‘Sheffield Mountain Ode’ for Galway Kinnell is one of the most stunning pieces here – Olds shapes her world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.
Odes
Author: HoraceMa Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes
Author: Julia K. MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521417877
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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The Chinese Classics
Author: James LeggeNeighborhood Odes
Author: Gary SotoPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152568795
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
An exuberant celebration of everyday life from an award-winning team.
Horace: Odes Book II
Author: HoracePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107012910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace's Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.
Voices from Early China
Author: Geoffrey SampsonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527555224
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The Chinese “Book of Odes” (Shijing) is a collection of 305 poems dating from between 1000 and 600 B.C., and, thus, is one of the earliest literary works in any living language. It offers vignettes of life in an almost unimaginably remote society; many of the poems have great charm, for instance, some are authored by women about their love problems. (For such early literature it is remarkable how many poems are by women.) Over the centuries the content of the Odes has become obscured by developments in the Chinese language, by prudishness and pomposity on the part of commentators, and because earlier translators were often more interested in philological technicalities than in the poems’ human significance. This book cuts through these obscurities to present a new translation into straightforward, down-to-earth English. The Odes are the earliest rhyming poetry in any language, and they make use of alliteration and assonance to achieve their poetic effects, but changes in the sounds of modern Chinese have destroyed all this speech-music. This book restores it: alongside the author’s translations, it spells the Chinese wording out in the sounds used by the original poets—something which has only recently become possible through advances in the reconstruction of Old Chinese speech.