Book Description
A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.
Author : Michael A. Sells
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1989-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819511584
A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.
Author : David Hinton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1611805937
The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics. Traveling today I found a river somewhere inside me, wondered how far it wanders there and how much sky it mirrors. All day long, wind and desert light, I followed that river’s distances . . . Weaving mind and landscape together in meditations on sky and wind, ridgeline and horizon, existence and self, Desert marks David Hinton’s first collection of original poetry in over a decade. Hinton’s poetic art has long shined brilliantly through his widely acclaimed Chinese translations—and here speaks for itself in his contemporary voice as he turns his attention to the transcendent landscape of the American West. Updating the philosophical insights of ancient China that Hinton has explored so deeply, these poems bring the wonder and ancient mystery of the desert landscape to light. Hinton demonstrated in The Wilds of Poetry how those ancient Chinese insights shaped the innovative American poetry of our time, and here he extends that tradition in poems that are spare and spacious, as vast and open as the desert itself.
Author : Henry Sewell Stokes
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Deserts in literature
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Author : Hisham Ali Hafiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
It has no recognised metre and yet contains the spirit and rhythm of what Westerners understand as poetry. The subject matter is that of everyday life - supplications, family bonds, human behaviour and relations, reflections and meditations on people, places and the environment - that are universal to human kind.
Author : Henry Sewell Stokes
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : Ed Rosenthal
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0981969372
The "poet-broker" Ed Rosenthal was inspired by surviving alone in the Mojave Desert for six and a half days. The lyrical result of his ordeal, "The Desert Hat," consist of 36 poems illustrated with 12 photographs of his hat and Salvation Canyon where he spent most of his time. Rosenthal's poetry does not recount his experience in detail; it is not replete with maps, photographs, and a day-by-day account of his adventures. Instead, we gain an insight into what it means to be truly lost and found, to survive the strangest of desert nights and return to the heart of the city... with a newly found wisdom and zest for life. With an introduction by Ruth Nolan and photos by Maja Trochimczyk, and Ken and Wendy Sims.
Author : Benjamin Landry
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 080717520X
Reflecting on the Salem witch trials, Puritan minister Cotton Mather cautioned his flock against the moral temptations of the unknown wild, located in what he termed an “American desert.” Today, more than three hundred years later, we understand that our troubles have their origins not in some ambiguous beyond; rather, they are of our own making. Benjamin Landry’s Mercies in the American Desert attempts a clear-eyed reckoning with the people and the nation we have become: a land assailed by gun violence, police brutality, and state-sanctioned racism. This vivid collection considers a range of bodies encompassing the geographic, the personal, and the political. It locates solace in movement, sound, and observation, as when Pina Bausch heron-dances down a traffic median or when the expansive form of a surfacing manta ray teaches us how to breathe again. Incorporating short bursts of prose poem alongside longer meditations, and working in both alliterative and narrative modes, Mercies in the American Desert conjures a redemptive wilderness for our time.
Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1590209141
This collection of Arabic literature is “a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page” (Financial Times). Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic literature. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of poetry and prose in translation, from the most important and typical texts to the very obscure. Alongside the extracts, Irwin’s copious commentary and notes provide an explanatory history of the subject. What were the various genres and to what extent were they constrained by rules? What were the canons of traditional Arabic literary criticism? How were Arabic prose and poetry recited and written down? Irwin explores the literary environments of the desert, salon, mosque, and bookshop and provides brief biographies of the caliphs, princesses, warriors, scribes, dandies, and mystics who created such a rich and diverse literary culture. Night & Horses & The Desert gives western readers a unique taste of the sheer vitality and depth of the medieval Arab past. “Superb . . . . a revelation.” —The Washington Post “[A] treasure-house of a book. . . . Unequaled for scholarship and entertainment.” —The Independent
Author : Madge Morris Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Poetry of places
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Friedrich
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2009-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781508549031
Written in the desert of southeastern Arizona, this work for tuba and piano is now on the Prescribed Music List of the Texas UIL as a Grade 1 solo.Hear it here: https://soundcloud.com/knuxie35/ode-to-the-living-desert