Waar sy debuut hoofsaaklik handel oor die verbrokkeling van ’n huwelik in Duitsland – sy “break-up album” – is Al is die maan ’n misverstand ’n tuiskoms, nie net op eie bodem nie, maar ook in ’n nuwe verhouding. Tog is Marais se poesie allermins geluksalig – verlorendheid is steeds die gevoel wat sy digterlike instink onderle. Hier is praatverse, verse wat doelbewus ingeskryf is teen die gedrae en verhewe metriese trant wat tradisioneel die Afri ...
In this collection, poet Sarah Law presents lucid, lyrical reflections on the much-loved saint, Therese of Lisieux (1873-97), whose life and writing has been an inspiration to so many people. For Sarah Law, there is something about Therese that catches at the heart, and her poems flow from that sense of friendship and tenderness with her subject. Many of the poems meditate on events, large and small, in Therese's brief but spiritually signi ...
“Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God's generosity at work such as “spring's impos ...
Eine szenische Live-Lesung Zum siebten Mal fand im September 2012 das FESTSPIEL DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE statt. Norbert Beilharz, Hermann Beyer, Christian Grashof, Benjamin Kruger, Hans Stetter, Anna und Katharina Thalbach und Elisabeth Trissenaar standen auf der altehrwurdigen Buhne des Goethe-Theater in Bad Lauchstadt und haben in einer szenischen Lesung von NATHAN DER WEISE die hohe Kunst der Interpretation dargeboten und das Publikum begeistert ...
In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another. A farmer, poet, activist, pastor, and mystic, Britts (1917–1949) has been called a British Wendell Berry. His story is no romantic agrarian elegy, but a life lived in the thick of history. As his country plunged headlong into World War II, he joined an internationa ...
Though most of Jane Tyson Clement’s poems remained hidden in private notebooks during her lifetime, the few that traveled beyond her hands were widely admired and drew critical acclaim. Now, with this first comprehensive anthology of her work, the public can at last discover this gifted poet and give her the audience she deserves. Evoking comparisons to such better-known contemporaries as Jane Kenyon, Wendell Berry, and Denise Levertov, Cleme ...
