Curly Verse

Author: Michael Leunig
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143204756
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy of war, and revels in the redeeming power of love.

Selected Poems

Author: Michael Nilsen
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784624705
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Spanning 1993 to 2015, Selected Poems is a collection of poetry by Michael Nilsen, which he began writing as a way to vent his angst and frustration upon discovering he had contracted the debilitating illness M.E. The poems within this collection embrace a diverse range of themes, including nature, autobiographical, surrealism, diatribes and light-heartedness. EFFLORESCENCE The seed snuggles in the glebe, The sun smiles upon the soil, Showers bless the little plot, Awakens the seed, A bud stretches and yawns To greet the day, Grows into a fine flower, And pleases all who see. Written in a distinctive and accessible style, Selected Poems will encourage readers to see the familiar in new ways and will appeal to those who enjoy poetry.

Selected Poems

Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810166577
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
James McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement by Stalin as “the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch,” Mayakovsky has most often been interpreted—and translated—within a political context. McGavran’s translations reveal a more nuanced poet who possessed a passion for word creation and linguistic manipulation. Mayakovsky’s bombastic metaphors and formal élan shine through in these translations, and McGavran’s commentary provides vital information on Mayakovsky, illuminating the poet’s many references to the Russian literary canon, his contemporaries in art and culture, and Soviet figures and policies.

Abacus of Loss

Author: Sholeh Wolpé
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682261980
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
"In Sholeh Wolpé's memoir in verse, the poet wields an abacus as an instrument of remembering. Bead by bead, she takes the reader on a journey of love and exile, loss and triumph"--

Selected Poems

Author: Pierre Ronsard
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140424249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
One of France's most influential love poets, Pierre de Ronsard embraced a variety of themes from politics, science, and philosophy to bawdy and risqué material that outraged religious reformers. Drawing on classical and Italian poetic models and on powerful imagery from ancient mythology, Ronsard created verse that revolutionized the French poetic tradition. His style ranges from the sublime rhetoric of the Pindaric odes and hymns to the lyricism and sensuality of his sonnets. Ronsard's poetry has influenced many twentieth-century writers and artists, including W. B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath, and Henri Matisse. The dual-language format of this new edition provides English-speaking readers with an enhanced perspective on one of the most innovative voices in the history of European poetry.

Selected Poetry

Author: Alexander Pushkin
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241207150
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood's translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin's verse.

Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba: Selected Poems

Author: Sana Camara
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004339191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
While in exile in Gabon (1895–1902), Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba marked a historic moment with his poetry of resilience, pivotal to the cultural and religious transformation of the Murīds of Senegal. The qaṣāʾid (poems) included in this annotated edition, most of them hymns of praise to the qualities of Allāh and the Prophet Muḥammad, and professions of faith that demonstrate how to realize the precepts found in the Qur’ān, display the underlying elements of Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba’s imaginative energy and poetic vision. They reveal a unifying poetic purpose and exemplify Ṣūfī literary traditions in subject matter, form, and versification and aim to explore the deepest regions of mysticism in search of the divine truth.

The Bedbug and Selected Poetry

Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253201898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
A play and selected poetry by Russian author Vladimir Mayakovsky.

The Curly Pyjama Letters

Author: Michael Leunig
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760140864
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 87

Book Description
These letters are a small fragment of the vast correspondence known to have taken place between lone voyager Vasco Pyjama and his friend and mentor Mr Curly of Curly Flat. While domestic contentment and ease with the natural world are Mr Curly's major attributes, Vasco's restless nature has compelled him into a great voyage of discovery. In the company of his direction-finding duck, he has wandered far and wide, risking, finding, enjoying and observing much. Theirs is a language of unique personal protocol, as is often found in conversations between creative and intelligent minds in awe of life's complex grandeur, beauty and pathos.

War & Love, Love & War

Author: Aharon Shabtai
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Most recent book of poems is Things on Which I've Stumbled. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007 --Book Jacket.