The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen
Title | The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Whalen |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 924 |
Release | 2007-12-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780819568595 |
The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet
Overtime: Selected Poems
Title | Overtime: Selected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Whalen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1999-05-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 110117711X |
Like his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as Whalen calls it, "continuous nerve movie") of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent American—one who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited Selected Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems
Title | Ring of Bone: Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Lew Welch |
Publisher | City Lights Publishers |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2012-06-19 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0872865797 |
"Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings . . . jazz musical phrasings of American speech is one of Welch's clearest contributions." ? Gary Snyder Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. He disappeared in 1971, leaving a suicide note behind. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and some drawings, documenting the full sweep of his creative output from his early years until his death. First published by legendary poetry editor Donald Allen, this new edition includes photos, a biographic timeline, and a statement of poetics gleaned from Welch's own writing.
Overtime: Selected Poems
Title | Overtime: Selected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Whalen |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999-05-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780140589184 |
Like his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as Whalen calls it, "continuous nerve movie") of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent American—one who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited Selected Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.
Scenes of Life at the Capital
Title | Scenes of Life at the Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Whalen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781940696928 |
"A reprint of the 1971 Grey Fox edition of Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen with an afterword by David Brazil"--
The Second Child
Title | The Second Child PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Garrison |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2008-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1588367274 |
Nine years after the stunning debut of her critically acclaimed poetry collection A Working Girl Can’t Win, which chronicled the progress and predicaments of a young woman, Deborah Garrison now moves into another stage of adulthood–starting a family and saying good-bye to a more carefree self. In The Second Child, Garrison explores every facet of motherhood–the ambivalence, the trepidation, and the joy (“Sharp bliss in proximity to the roundness, / The globe already set aspin, particular / Of a whole new life”)– and comes to terms with the seismic shift in her outlook and in the world around her. She lays out her post-9/11 fears as she commutes daily to the city, continues to seek passion in her marriage, and wrestles with her feelings about faith and the mysterious gift of happiness. Sometimes sensual, sometimes succinct, always candid, The Second Child is a meditation on the extraordinariness resident in the everyday–nursing babies, missing the past, knowing when to lead a child and knowing when to let go. With a voice sound and wise, Garrison examines a life fully lived.
Mary Magdalene
Title | Mary Magdalene PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Chilton |
Publisher | Image |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2005-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0385516975 |
After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity. Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms—witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and perhaps even the wife) of Jesus. In this brilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblical scholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait of this fascinating woman. Through groundbreaking interpretations of ancient texts, Chilton shows that Mary played a central role in Jesus’ ministry and was a seminal figure in the creation of Christianity. Chilton traces the evolving images of Mary Magdalene and the legends surrounding her. He explains why, despite her prominence, the Gospels actually say so little about her and why the Catholic Church for thousands of years has sought to marginalize her importance. In a probing look at the Church’s attitudes toward women, he investigates Christian misogyny in the ancient world, including the suppression of women priests who patterned their activities on Mary’s; explores the impact of Gnostic ambivalence toward women on its depictions of Mary; and shows that these traditions still influence modern portrayals of her. Chilton’s descriptions of who Mary Magdalene was and what she did challenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar to most readers. Placing Mary within the traditions of Jewish female savants, Chilton presents a visionary figure who was fully immersed in the mystical teachings that shaped Jesus’ own teachings and a woman who was a religious master in her own right.