Hesiod, the Poems and Fragments, Done Into English Prose
Title | Hesiod, the Poems and Fragments, Done Into English Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Hesiod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN |
In Praise of Fragments
Title | In Praise of Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | Meena Alexander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781643620121 |
In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592-1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketches of memoir about her childhood in Kerala, the subject of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines. The writings are accompanied by a series of sumi ink drawings by Alexander and an afterword by Leah Suffrant.
Stung with Love
Title | Stung with Love PDF eBook |
Author | Sappho |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2009-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0140455574 |
Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.
The Poems and Fragments Done Into English Prose
Title | The Poems and Fragments Done Into English Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Hesiod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Title | Night Sky with Exit Wounds PDF eBook |
Author | Ocean Vuong |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 2016-05-23 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1619321564 |
Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" “Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”—The New Yorker "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence."—Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016" "This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level...A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.”—2016 Whiting Award citation "Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power."—LitHub "Vuong’s powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identity—all with a tremendous humanity."—Slate “In his impressive debut collection, Vuong, a 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, writes beauty into—and culls from—individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity. Managing this balance becomes the crux of the collection, as when he writes, ‘Your father is only your father/ until one of you forgets. Like how the spine/ won’t remember its wings/ no matter how many times our knees/ kiss the pavement.’”—Publishers Weekly "What a treasure [Ocean Vuong] is to us. What a perfume he's crushed and rendered of his heart and soul. What a gift this book is."—Li-Young Lee Torso of Air Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of night—sealed with bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve & carve until a coin of light appears & you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side— waiting. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City, New York.
Hesiod, the Poems and Fragments, Done Into English Prose
Title | Hesiod, the Poems and Fragments, Done Into English Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Hesiod |
Publisher | Theclassics.Us |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230263441 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... tempting Providence (oin avfifbipet deofiaxetv). There is no advantage to a man in sowing or planting what he would like, rather than what the ground pleases to produce or nurture. If the land, owing to the sloth of its tenants, is not able to show its nature, one can learn a truer account of it from the observation of any neighbouring place often than from a neighbouring man (i.e. tenant). At the same time land left untitled (xepa-dovaa) exhibits its nature. If it produces a fine crop of wild plants, then with cultivation it will produce a fine crop of cultivated plants. Even those inexperienced in farming are able to distinguish the nature of land. S. Yes, even seamen, passing hurriedly along the coast, do not hesitate to characterize land as good or bad according to the crops they see, agreeing in general with experts in agriculture. /. Where then shall I begin my precepts in agriculture--you know a great deal. S. I want to know--being a philosopher--by what method of culture I can, if I will, get the best crop of barley or of wheat. /. Well, you know, first of all, that one must prepare the fallow for sowing (rw mropui veov det V7repyd er8at). S. Yes. I. Suppose then we commenced ploughing (dpovv) the land in winter i S. Nay, it would be mud. /. Well, summer? S. The ground will be hard for a team to stir (o-xXippa... Ktve'tv To) feuyei). /. I dare say then we must begin this operation in spring. S. Yes, for it is natural that the ground when stirred at that season should most of all be loosened. 7. And also the grass (noav), being turned up at that season, will furnish manure (eojrpoi/) for the land, and at the same time it will not shed seed so as to grow. You know, I fancy, that if the fallow (ij veos) is to be good, it...
The Poems and Fragments Done Into English Prose with Introd. and Appendices
Title | The Poems and Fragments Done Into English Prose with Introd. and Appendices PDF eBook |
Author | Hesiod |
Publisher | Palala Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-05-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781359027092 |
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