*Claudia Rankine selected the author’s chapbook for Seattle Review Chapbook Contest and described the book as, “A decolonization of space and self is made physical in this stunning, textured, and ambitious collection of poems.” <br>*Beloved teacher at Winter Tangerine, an online journal and literary arts workshop.<br>*Uses a range of different poetic forms and strategies from the experimental to the traditional lyric.<br>*Inspi ...
Dir zur Feier – anlasslich des 140. Geburtstags von Rainer Maria Rilke luden die Schopfer des Rilke Projekts Richard Schonherz und Angelica Fleer renommierte Schauspieler und Musiker in die Alte Oper Frankfurt ein. Vor begeistertem Publikum interpretieren Ben Becker, Hannelore Elsner, Nina Hoger, Robert Stadlober, Max Mutzke und Peter Maffay Rilkes Lyrik zu den Kompositionen von Schonherz & Fleer. Unterstutzt werden die Protagonisten von de ...
Edda Moser hat mit viel Liebe und Freude Gedichte uber den Mond von den unterschiedlichsten Autoren zusammengestellt und mit beeindruckender Interpretationskraft vorgetragen. Sie wird bei ihrem Vortrag harmonisch und untermalend von ihrem Pianisten Ivan Torsz begleitet. ...
Pluviophile is a poetic rumination on where language originates and what value it retains to unearth the sacred in postmodernity, among other subjects. The opening poem, “The Place Where Words Go to Die,” winner of the Malahat Review ’s 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter the symbiotic relationship with the human, where “saxum [is] sacrificed ...
"Even the worst tea is sweet when first made from the new leaf."–Japanese proverb.Here is a Lafcadio Hearn gem about Japanese customs and traditions destined to survive the inroads of time and Western trends. This masterpiece has the deep azure patina of Fuji-san; it utters the chirping notes of Suzumushi, the caged insect; it is as melodious as Kajika, the singing frog–and is an altogether delightful and entrancing portrayal of a nation&ap ...
The publisher is proud to present this new edition of an old American favorite, authentically and unforgettably illustrated by a distinguished American artist.Artist-illustrator Herbert Meyer's illustrations give new life to Longfellow's epic poem. Besides being warmly evocative, they are historically authentic, for the artist did extensive research on the American Indians. Meyer's artistic vision does full justice to Longfellow&a ...
David Lloyd's verses are a genuine contribution to the literature of haiku. They capture an image, a moment in time, and engrave it in the memory for all time. This is the mark of good haiku, as indeed it is of good verse in general. His haiku can excite the senses, as in:See the sharp needlesforever sewing the skyTo the pine branches.Free of irony, except the irony of nature which sets the tone, calls the shots, with a not always recogniza ...
