Author : May Sarton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393315530
Whiffenpoof, an arthritic donkey, becomes an inspiring distraction for a poet who has lost his muse.
Author : Robert Bly
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393080226
The poet conducts a self-examination of his life in poems that often address aging, memory, marriage, and living and dying well.
Author : Tony Hoagland
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Hoagland's generous effervescence and a jujitsu cleverness sparkle line after line, confronting negotiation and compromise, gender and culture, sex and rock music, sons and lovers, truth and beauty, and so forth.
Author : Richard Jarrette
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1628951524
Beso the Donkey is a poetry cycle about a wounded, neglected, and abandoned jackass. In sparklingly clear and luminous poems, Richard Jarrette tells the story of Beso and of his caregiver's attempts to understand and heal him—an endeavor that teaches the man much about the meaning of life, death, peace, and acceptance. With undertones of Buddhist, Christian, Taoist, and Islamic faiths, Beso the Donkey incorporates elements of philosophy, ethics, religion, and morality. As the book progresses, we sense the poet’s growing acceptance of life’s passing. Along with the author, we feel a deeper peace blossoming as Beso’s life is ending (which is itself a beginning). This is a lyrical story of loss and acceptance.
Author : Omid Arabian
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1644210916
A Rumi story turned into a fun, illustrated allegory for kids. The 13th century Sufi mystic, Islamic scholar, Persian poet and storyteller Rumi remains a towering cultural force, and possibly the most widely read poet in the world--especially on the subject of love. Here a simple tale about a donkey keeper staying at an inn becomes a parable for life lessons of joy and sorrow that will be universally understood by children in this adaptation by the Rumi scholar Omid Arabian, illustrated with great humor and authenticity by the Iranian-born artist Shilla Shakoori. The Donkey's Gone is based on a story from The Masnavi, which is an epic compilation of Rumi's wisdom in the form of poems and short stories. Adapted for children, it retains Rumi's wit and insight while also relating a cautionary tale about what we stand to lose when we imitate others and conform.
Author : Juan Ramón Jiménez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0292788592
“An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable.” —The New Yorker This lyric portrait of a boy’s companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.
Author : May Sarton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393304145
Story of a painter on vacation and a mistreated donkey.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.
Author : Sean Taylor
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536205079
Timeless wisdom is found in absurdity in these tales of an iconic Muslim character known as the sagest man in the village — and also its biggest fool. Would you like to know how a thief can turn into a donkey? Whether a cow can climb a pole? Or why you should spoon yogurt into a lake? Mulla Nasruddin knows all the answers, and he might also tell you why he rides his donkey backwards. Whether in the guise of an imam in a mosque or a beggar in the street, this trickster is never at a loss for a rejoinder, though it may leave you scratching your head, rolling your eyes, or laughing out loud. Enjoy twenty-one classic tales about a much-loved character from Muslim cultures in a book packed with jokes, riddles, and wisdom and paired with vibrant, theatrical illustrations.
Author : José Manuel Marrero Henríquez
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780999499542
In Landscapes with Donkey / Paisajes con burro, Spanish poet José Manuel Marrero Henríquez follows a gentle, gray donkey on his travels through the hillsides of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located off the western coast of Africa. Wise and thoughtful, the ruminant quadruped, a "doctor of the earth," studies the limits of ground and sky with the unique perspicuity of a donkey's gaze. On a journey far beyond the pasture's horizon, the donkey, humblest of poets, takes flight to the Americas, Asia and Africa and unravels the mysteries of this transcendentally beautiful and profoundly life-giving planet we call home.
