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  • Half a loaf and a jug of wine

    by Wide Ocean ...
    'Half a loaf and a jug of wine' explores the Sufi mystic path of beauty and love that emerged during the eleventh and twelfth centuries in Central Asia through the verses of the poet Omar Khayyam. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La pasión según Georg Trakl. Poesía y expiación

    by Hugo Mujica ...
    «Tal como uno de esos pálidos ángeles de mármol que se emplazan sobre los sepulcros como un pálido mensajero sobre las ruinas del fin de una época Georg Trakl se alza como el testigo testigo partícipe y víctima de la imposibilidad de nuestro tiempo: encarnar el alma en el mundo. Trakl miró la vida y vio la muerte por eso escribió para vivir. Para dejarnos lo que fue esa vida: su obra. Hace años ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leaves of Grass

    The First (1855) Edition

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Study of Theodose Valentinian's "Amant resuscité de la mort d'amour" : a religious Novel of Sentiment and its Possible Connexions with Nicolas Denisot du Mans

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Birth of the Elegy in France : 1500-1550

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of the Desert

    by Thomas Merton ...
    The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit.The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Poems of St. John of the Cross

    Saint John’s poetry of love and joy describes the soul’s passage through dark night to final illumination in mystical union with Absolute Being. The allegory the poet uses is that of earthly love, and the poems are strikingly effective on the immediate level of personal experience, quite apart from their theological meanings.Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Portable Chaucer

    Revised Edition

    Translated by Theodore Morrison ...
    Series series Portable Library
    In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Three Mennonite Poets

    by Jean Janzen ...
    This well-received collection features three poets who differ widely in culture and style, yet are rooted in common values. Yorifumi Yaguchi is a well-known Japanese poet and professor. Jean Janzen is a Fresno, California, poet whose work has appeared in many literary magazines, and David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian with several books to his credit. Why publish a collection of this sort? Poetry as ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Celestial Ladders : Readings in Marguerite de Navarre's Poetry of Spiritual Ascent

    by Paula Sommers ...
    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    L'échelle qui de la terre va jusqu'au ciel, est une image chère aux mystiques. La présente étude examine cinq poèmes religieux de la reine : Le Petit Oeuvre et le Dialogue en forme de vision nocturne (1524-26?), le Le Miroir de l'âme pécheresse (1531), La Navire et Les Prisons (1547-49) et son commentaire s'éclaire de références à toutes la littérature mystique, de l'Antiquité à Briçonnet. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Pieces Of The Puzzle

    by Doug Peters ...
    In 1980, Doug Peters experienced an out-of-body, near-death experience, and began to write spiritual inspirational poetry. Pieces Of The Puzzle was published as the first in the series of his 9 poetry books, collectively entitled, Poetry Of Time And Conscience. While on a hospital emergency room bed his consciousness rose to become one with the light above him, where warmth, love and kindness ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neruda and Vallejo

    Selected Poems

    "Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America's foremost poets, and a translator of uncommon brilliance. The combination makes for a priceless volume."—Long Beach Press TelegramFrom the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Red Trousseau

    Poems

    by Carol Muske ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Red Trousseau is the latest work from one of America’s greatest modern poets. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Carol Muske has discovered a way to work magic within the boundaries of technical achievement … Her contemplation of experience is personal yet moves further, into the spiritual and philosophical; then it be longs not only to the poet but to all of us.The poems in Red Trousseau use Los ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Lucerna Visionaria

    by Maria D'Ambra ...
    Poesia forte, controcorrente, che rifiuta facili bellezze letterarie, che non s'ispira e non si apre a ottimismi vitali ma che si è liberata da ogni suggestione da "lamento del Sud". ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nerve Storm

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    "Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm."In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstlerexplores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Strange Things

    'Strange Things' was published in 1994 by Snail Press. This volume of poetry has received positive reviews and has been amongst poetry selected to represent South Africa in Geneva in a World Book Fair in 1995. Numerous translations of this collection as well ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Book!?

    Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop

    Edited by Gary Gach ...
    With poems from spiritual teachers to jazz musicians, from the monastery to the street, What Book!? brings together a boad range of verse, expressions of living in an awakened way. " A poet once located poetry as somewhere before or after words take place. Mindfulness is the practice of finding that realm, dwelling there, and cultivating the ability to live completely in the present, deeply aware ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ronsard & Du Bellay versus Beze : Allusiveness in Renaissance Literary Texts

    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Dernière étude du regretté Malcolm Smith, qui a su regarder toute l’histoire de la poésie française du XVIe siècle d’un œil neuf, débarrassé des préjugés confes-sionnels et sensible à toutes les positions religieuses du temps, réconciliant ainsi histoire littéraire et histoire religieuse. M. Smith reprend ici les combats versifiés entre Ronsard, vu comme un “moyenneur”, et Du Bellay contre le ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Snake in the Parsonage

    by Jean Janzen ...
    Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean Janzen received The Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Selected by a panel of major poets. Once again Jean Janzen shows us life -- colored deeply and in irrepressible light. She finds both ecstasy and incompleteness -- while waiting, at the piano and in the halls of the old people's home, lying in ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Le Zodiaque de la vie = Zodiacus vitæ

    by Palingène ...
    Series series Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance
    Le titre donné à ces douze livres ne doit pas égarer le lecteur, il ne s’agit pas de développements astrologiques, mais d’un long poème indiquant “comment régler de la meilleure manière la vie de l’homme, son orientation et sa moralité” (sous-titre du Zodiacus vitæ). Ce poème est un traité de morale, il décrit une progression intellectuelle, parcourt les étapes d’un itinéraire qui mène du plus bas ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Descent of Alette

    by Alice Notley ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In The Descent of Alette, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Upholding Mystery

    An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry

    Edited by David Impastato ...
    Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry. Indeed, the very idea that a vital Christian poetry might arise within our thoroughly secular culture seems almost inconceivable ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Ranking the Wishes

    by Carl Dennis ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In his seventh book, Carl Dennis explores the ways in which our wishes - those in our power to fulfill at any moment and those that have no chance of ever being realized - define who we are. While some of the poems view wishing as a failure to do justice to the world we have, others regard it as a recognition that no present, however rich, can satisfy the imagination, and suggest that one of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Intended Place

    Series Book 3 - Wick Poetry First Book
    “Many of the poems in Rosemary Willey’s Intended Place are flawless meditations on possibility and denial. The voice in these poems is straightforward, and there isn’t an emotional placebo behind the terse syntax and the believable imagery. “From the very first few pages, we realize that this voice embodies empathy and a to-the-point inquiry. Rosemary Willey cannot keep her mind off the real ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus