Poems of Love and War
Title | Poems of Love and War PDF eBook |
Author | A. K. Ramanujan |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231157355 |
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In Mad Love and War
Title | In Mad Love and War PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1990-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780819511829 |
Sacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.
Poems of Love and War
Title | Poems of Love and War PDF eBook |
Author | S. B. Macleod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
Poems About Love, War and Just for Fun
Title | Poems About Love, War and Just for Fun PDF eBook |
Author | Jack DiNola |
Publisher | Abbott Press |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1458200884 |
Vietnam Gray lead and shiny yellow brass Pushing death From a stainless steel gun Thats not made of flesh: Its integral parts lubricated By oil and grease To withstand the heat and humidity, But what is there to erase The red stain On white cloth that covers The pain On a moving part of anatomy Or the look on a human face?
Poems of Love and War
Title | Poems of Love and War PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hilliard |
Publisher | Big Table Publishing Company |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-12-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781945917257 |
Robert Hilliard's collection of poetry carves a distinguished path for us to navigate in a world between the anguish and power of war and the beauty and innocence of love. Hilliard's poems "For Jo Ann: Love Senses" and "Blind Love" shows us of the enchantment and tenderness of affection. His evocative use of language is visceral and unreeling in "Black Blood," written on the front lines of combat during WWII, and "Silence." Poems of Love and War remind us that it is our deep, everlasting connections to each other that command our hearts and minds. RENUKA RAGHAVAN, Out of the Blue __________________________________________________ Robert Hilliard has lived a most interesting life, and now at age 92 honors us with his first book of poems. Poems of Love and War has its share of romance ("For where I once saw many things/I now see only you"), but it is the poems he wrote as a soldier in WWII in Europe (he was at the Battle of the Bulge) and shortly thereafter that give the collection its backbone. The representative poem "Did I see Versailles...?" shows us what war is really like from the infantry soldier's point of view: "There were no chateaus, no sights to pick. I'm sorry, sir, just Krauts to lick." Hilliard is giving us a history of a generation in these poems. I'll bet that somewhere members of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Romantic English poets he so loves are saluting him and agreeing that poetry ...pierces the darkness/turns shadow into light." TIM SUERMONDT, Election Night and the Five Satins ___________________________________________________ In Poems of Love and War, we can be sure that Robert Hilliard does not hold back on either. With poetic voice that ranges from deep love poems-"no parable/ or mundane speech/ for love's literate glow" to the bare yet harsh poem of guns-"Will they kill us just for sport?"- to the warnings of a country divided-"Weep for your country/cry for your land," Hilliard gives an outstanding view of well-conceived, masterfully written poetry as only a poet who has traveled the ages can. Ripe with poetic devices, Hilliard offers poems on love, war, aging, and America, with expressive variation. This is a book I want in my collection. ELIZABETH SZEWCZYK, Fragments of Survival
Songs of Love and War
Title | Songs of Love and War PDF eBook |
Author | Sayd Majrouh |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Pages | 71 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1635421276 |
The authors of oral literature in the Pashtun language create their work at a far remove from any books. Generally deprived of the support of schools and universities, their compositions are inseparable from song. Their poetry is never declaimed; rather, their rhyme and rhythm have melodic value. These popular improvisations do not exalt mystic love. In them there is no aspiration whatsoever to an unfathomable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary, they are songs of the earth. They celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dawn and night’s magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, beauty and death. The repression of Afghan women has caused untold suffering, particularly through moral subjugation. Infant daughters and their mothers are received with scorn and shame, and lead lives of subordination and humiliation. Their rebellion against these tribal codes comes only through suicide and song. Translated from the Pashtun into French by the eminent Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, the greatest Afghan poet of the twentieth century, his text has been rendered into English in the expert hands of Marjolijn de Jager of the Translation Department at NYU.
Viking Poetry of Love and War
Title | Viking Poetry of Love and War PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Jesch |
Publisher | British Museum Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780714128306 |
The Vikings are not often thought of as poets, though they came from a culture that valued poetry highly and rewarded poets handsomely. There is evidence for the kinds of poetry favoured by the Vikings from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, in oral tradition, in runes and in medieval manuscripts. This book features a selection of carefully-chosen poems to encompass the rich store of genres and styles of the Vikings, whose poetic language is colourful, intricate and steeped in mythological knowledge. The style of the poetry ranges from the highly formal to the scurrilous, and is often light-hearted, even in the face of death and tragedy. Beautifully illustrated with works of art from the British Museum collection, this book captures perfectly the essence of Viking Poetry and offers a fascinating glimpse into the ideology of the time.