Excerpt from Foreword "Arneeb Mahbub’s versatility is clearly reflected in his poems ranging from satirical to serious, marmoreal to kinetic. His poetry is elegant, sharp-eyed, and witty. He speaks of matters dear to us, in our private and public selves. He sees the making of poetry as an act of reconciliation, where he experiments, wrestles, and shapes with language and its meanings. It is an act of love, and he eloquently draws a magic circle of understanding and transcend...

Immerse yourself in the lyrical beauty and profound emotions of William Shakespeare’s The Sonnets. This exquisite collection of 154 sonnets offers a glimpse into the timeless themes of love, beauty, and the passage of time through Shakespeare’s masterful verse.How do the sonnets capture the essence of human experience and emotion? Discover the rich tapestry of Shakespeare’s reflections on love, longing, and the nature of beauty as you delve into this celebr...

Great poetry calls into question everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his own reflections, the author of Sacred America shows how poetry illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the ...

The Complete Ovid Anthology is a collection of all the works of Publius Ovidius Naso, the great Roman poet in English translation. Ovid has remained popular through the ages, to artists and fellow poets, as well as scholars and historians. Ovid was notably the favourite poet of William Shakespeare, and his poems and treatises have inspired countless works of art since the Roman era.This comprehensive ebook contains the entire collection of Ovid's works, complete with unique illustr...

‘The human desire for patterned language is as strong as the need for narrative.’ —Geoff PageIn The Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who’s who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page’s selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry scene.Robert Adamson • Jordie Albiston • Judith Beveridge • Eileen Chon...

The Caucasus has an extremely rich folk literature, almost unknown among English speakers, which includes myths, legends, magical tales, anecdotes and proverbs. The one hundred and one legends included in this book reflect the cultures of fourteen different ethnic groups - their dynamism and the matters that concerned them: survival against external dangers, the risk of starvation and the persistence of the family or clan as a coordinated group. Descended from an oral tradition, much of th...

In this unforgettable book, Arthur Waley brings together a number of his articles, poems and translations. Included in this collection are pieces on the eighth-century Chinese poet Ts’ên Shên and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yü, as well as some of Waley’s original poems and stories. But the most compelling is ‘The Secret History of the Mongols’, consisting of long extracts from a thirteenth-century Chinese saga. Written in vivid, elegant prose, it recounts fantastic tales of epic ba...

Discover how a little poetry can lift your spirits and inspire your life, with selections from Yeats, Byron, Poe, Dickinson, and other greats.Including William Blake's "The Tyger," Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," John Keats's "A Thing of Beauty" (from "Endymion"), and ninety-six more, this collection of classic poems allows you to spend a few moments each day with timeless verses.Escap...

Women played major roles in the history of Buddhist China, but given the paucity of the remaining records, their voices have all but faded. In Daughters of Emptiness, Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse - by turns assertive, observant, devout—of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with the brief biographical accounts that accompany them, affords readers a glimpse into the extra...

AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONERPoetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation that it was. Never since have the possibilities of poetic form and, esp...

The centuries have changed little in this art,The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth RexrothWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"?Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicate...