Alchemy Of Words And Poetry

Author : Elizabeth Guy
Publisher : First Rider Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780645111309
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemy of Poetry written by Elizabeth Guy and published by First Rider Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alchemy of Poetry promises access to some of the greatest poems ever written. It demonstrates the various ways a close reading or analytical interpretation can be conducted and in so doing provides tools for a life time of poetry reading. This text is personal. It establishes a relationship between the reader and the poem and myself. Why? It is in relationships that we are able to most effectively learn and teach and grow. I think great Art belongs to everyone; thus, it is crucial that we continue the dialogue between ourselves and the poem. It is in this dialogue that we witness the alchemy of poetry; the way it transmutes from language form and feature to a universal elixir, an undiscovered gold and most significantly, "A thing of beauty". Poetry makes sense of life, it offers us truths, it brings us unimagined worlds and it liberates our pain. I have selected 160 poems that you cannot live your life without!Poetry offers ritual and cadence; sacrifice and secrets. Poetry offers a nation state, a place within a place when it no longer confers sovereignty upon you. Poetry is sacred and profane and thus it is at once sublime and mighty. It is audacious and disturbing but always - and this applies to all great poetry - yours. Mine. Ours. Indeed, what is the point of living if there is no Art? And poetry is the most concentrated of all Art. It is the oldest of all literary forms. Without poetry we are an idiotic uncivilized people telling tales "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". Poetry is, in one crowded hour, the only one in the room. So, we read poetry to face the truth. To stand there and dig in, to stumble over words we don't get, to find a phrase that flicks a light on in our memory, to cat-paw over and over an image that was laid down long ago. Most of all, we read poetry to remind ourselves of what really matters. To witness the soaring light that tears up our small lives.

Author : Edward Francisco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978997410
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemy of Words written by Edward Francisco and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tradition of alchemists in the Middle Ages, poet searches for precise language to shed light on why we live the way we do.

Author : Peter Dome
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365061396
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “Alchemy of Words and Poetry” written by Peter Dome and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Peters second book is once again a most wonderful collection to be enjoyed, within you will find poems about life as Peter as both seen and lived it, plus poems with much Humour, about Nature, Spirituality and the joy of Love

Author : Camilla Downs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980056846
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words of Alchemy written by Camilla Downs and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer O'Shea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781960038135
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy of Words and Light written by Jennifer O'Shea and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577317491
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Alchemy written by and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry. These concise, tightly focused meditations span only a few lines but reveal worlds of meaning. The poems explore many aspects of human life and the spiritual path, but they center on the liberating power of love.

Author : Mena Teijeiro
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532031637
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemy of Words written by Mena Teijeiro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when life grants you everything and yet you are not happy? Are you allowed to complain when the rest of the world is plagued by disease, war, and abuse? Instead of feeling shame about her unease, Mena Teijeiro believed she had a responsibility. With resources, a curious brain, and a burning fire within, it was her duty to stop living an empty life and instead explore who she was to understand the human experience. Full of courage and a big heart, Menas poems are vulnerable and raw. Written mostly in free verse and in the first person perspective, her musings are bravely personal. The Alchemy of Words carries the essence of love and truth, disappointment and loss, abandonment and loneliness, and joy and innocence. Mena has been gifted with the ability to alchemize tender and precious moments into vibrant words, offered as whispers to our higher selves. It is time to take a journey of surrender in which we remember that, in our hearts, we are all pure, loved, and awakened to possibility. Menas use of natural phenomena for inner transformation hints at our connection with the Earth. The time is ripe for a deeper understanding.

Author : Aurielle Marie
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988380
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gumbo Ya Ya written by Aurielle Marie and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black gxrl dies “by the barrel of the law” or “for loving another Black gxrl.” Part familial archival, part map of Black resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and the tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away more whole than we began and thoroughly satisfied. Excerpt from “transhistorical for the x in my gxrls” What I mean is, this country is mine if only because from my mouth I spit its loam and unspun a noose. I won’t exploit the only metaphor they gave us willingly, and instead hunt for other vicious things to make a muse. I earned this country. I owe it nothing. With my infinite, infant hand, I manipulated a death sentence into a compound-complex one. from the umbilical, I bled a life worth writing down and in a century’s time, there will be another word created still for the weeping magic of this same story: a Black gxrl’s first breath.

Author : Robert M. Schuler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136159282
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700 written by Robert M. Schuler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174860
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dime-Store Alchemy written by Charles Simic and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Paperback In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.