World Poetry

An illustrated study guide to poetry written by men and women in all parts of the British Isles during the First World War, 1914–18. This rich and valuable ebook has numerous fascinating hyperlinks to online resources. It discusses significant individual poems by the writers named, exploring them within their social, political and aesthetic frames and summarising important earlier critical readings and responses. It is copiously illustrated and covers Thomas Hardy, Popular Poetry, Anthologies, War Poetry by Women, the work of Graves, Blunden and Gurney, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, ...

Contemporary poems and photographs celebrating nature, love, and spiritual insight. British Columbia poet Nowick Gray counters the dehumanizing new world order with the ancient ritual practice of haiku: condensing truth and beauty, celebrating wisdom close at hand.

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.

First, thank you God for blessing me with my gift so I can uplift! To my Mother Ada Timmons a secretary and Father Arrie Davis a carpenter, auto mechanic, gun smith and jack of all trades! I appreciate all my readers that read my book, so thanks for taking your time. The University of West Alabama and University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. Thank you! I want to thank all of my friends and family members that have influenced me along the way. To my special loved one’s Mr. Emanuel Lippett, Ada Lippett, Ronnie Lippett retired NFL New England Patriots football team and family for being a huge ...

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One, including: Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deorum Est"; "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae; "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"; and many more that bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them.

This book is a great book that tells the readers about my life. It's starts from very young to present years. You'll learn a lot about my life and some of my belief's. Enjoy the ride, but hold on!

The World and Humans is an unusual collection of poetic reflections and philosophical insights that try to decipher the relationship between nature and humanity. This thought-provoking work centers on the essence of being human, exploring profound themes such as thought, language, truth, madness, and the constructs of society. Through a series of reflective pieces, the book may inspire readers to reflect on their own lives and grapple with existential questions. Structured into six poetic sequences—“Meditations,” “Toys and Machines,” “Thought and Touch,” “Traps,” “...

With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.

A collection of six stories from the world of Rachel Bright & Jim Field. Meet a brave lion, two squabbling squirrels, a wandering whale and many more incredible animal characters in these best-loved rhyming tales.

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...

EMPOWERING, INSPIRING BOOK. Janelle makes ordinary experiences glow. Listening, living, hearing, watching & breathing in the world around her inspires Janelle to write expressively, as her Real & Raw Poetry does not fail to cut deep into your heart strings. An aspiring Author with talents expanding into the Fiction & Non - Fiction world of novels, songwriting, & submitting books to film, is something Janelle will explore. Janelle is a mother, wife and Nana. Janelle's family is her strength in life. When Janelle is not writing, she is passionate about being in the outdoors connecting to Nature.

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”.

Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet - he’s still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist.

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with my gift so I can uplift! To my Mother Ada Timmons a secretary and Father Arrie Davis a carpenter, auto mechanic, gun smith and jack of all trades! I appreciate all my readers that read my book, so thanks for taking your time. The University of West Alabama and University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. Thank you! I want to thank all of my friends and family members that have influenced me along the way. To my special loved one’s Mr. Emanuel Lippett, Ada Lippett, Ronnie Lippett retired NFL New England Patriots football team and family for being a huge ...

This book is a great book that will uplift your spirit, and make you smile. If you have lost a close love one that was close and near, then this book will bring back several memories and may make you smile plus drop a tear. Be happy till the end, so start reading this book from the very start till the very end. Now " Let's begin ! " Kiss!

Poems and letters and thoughts and ideas about life when you are still trying to make sense of the world which surrounds you. The writer talks to others and to herself, and tells stories about her life, personal stories. There are messages to share, perspectives to realize, and emotions to recognize. The writer waxes eloquently about love relationships, nonreciprocal relationships, and the relationship she has with herself. When a person is in doubt, but picks up a pen to write it all down, they can be heard. Sometimes getting the thoughts out on paper can relieve the mind of stress, and ...

A rich and varied collection of contemporary short stories, extracts from novels, and poetry that will go a long way toward informing the English-speaking world of the latest developments in Iranian literature. This sampling - or to use the Farsi term golchine, a bouquet - provides a window onto an important but sorely neglected segment of world culture. We hope it will also serve to awaken further interest in the work and in translations of Iranian novelists and poets.

Poems that starts quoting Auden, another time has other lives to live, and Les Murray, art can contain only one idea, to thresh the cardinal points of life, based on the power of love. From the poems cabezón Steps emphasizes the idea of ​​changing the world, trying, and the yoke of oxen, small contrition, the liver of Prometheus, of empathy, of travel, to dream of Scipio and the voice of silence.

Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.