Odes
Author : Horace
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN :
Author : Horace
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN :
Author : Sharon Olds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1473546303
‘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.
Author : Anahid Nersessian
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1804290351
"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over-like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them-"Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn"-are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. Her Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern life-of capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planet-as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem. The book emerges from Nersessian's lifelong attachment to Keats's poetry; but more, it "is a love story: between me and Keats, and not just Keats." Drawing on experiences from her own life, Nersessian celebrates Keats even as she grieves him and counts her own losses-and Nersessian, like Keats, has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering, but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world, at least, could still be saved. Intimate and speculative, this brilliant mix of the poetic and the personal will find its home among the numerous fans of Keats's enduring work.
Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674630765
Argues that Keat's six odes form a sequence, identifies their major themes, and provides detailed interpretations of the poems' philosophy, mythological references, and lyric structures.
Author : Shira Erlichman
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579596
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.
Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Bulfinch
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780821220801
A bilingual collection of 25 newly translated odes by the century's greatest Spanish-language poet, each accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil drawings. From bread and soap to a bed and a box of tea, the "odes to common things" collected here conjure up the essence of their subjects clearly and wondrously. 50 b&w illustrations.
Author : Keith Leonard
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0544649680
A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope. From an award-winning young poet in the tradition of Marie Howe, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, and contemporary American bard Maurice Manning, Ramshackle Ode presents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance.
Author : Sharon Olds
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307959902
A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.
Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152568795
An exuberant celebration of everyday life from an award-winning team.
Author : Paula Green
Publisher : RHNZ Children's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143772194
"Poems by all the big names in both children's and adult writing, from Margaret Mahy and Hone Tuwhare to Denis Glover as well as some fresh new poets"--Publisher's information.