Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - General

Pacharan Dreams conveys the existential joy of living in the moment that the nine-day festival of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona bestows upon its participants. It chronicles the months of anticipation leading up to the ritual, the celebration itself governed by the inherent rhythms of the special events, and the anguish of separation from the new community of revelers formed during the fiesta. This book is for those who seek to learn of other cultures through their festivals, Hemingway fans, or anyone who has experienced the freedom of living in the moment. __________

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"Henrik Nordbrandt's poems pour out as cold, clear, and mineral-tanged as spring water. . . . Nordbrandt is a master, masterfully reborn in English. This is a book of signal beauty and mystery."--Rosanna Warren

Although most of his life has been spent abroad in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Henrik Nordbrandt has simultaneously and undeniably emerged, next to Inger Christensen, as one of Denmark's very best contemporary poets. If it was Paul Celan who first claimed that poetry was "a message in a bottle, sent out in the--not always greatly hopeful--belief that somewhere...

Kipling for Christians is both an introductory work on the amazing literature of Rudyard Kipling and a Christian thinker's user-guide for a small selection of Kipling poems. This book contains an insightful introduction to Kipling's life, so influenced by the times in which he lived, times when the British Empire stretched the far reaches of the globe. In addition to the introduction of Kipling's life, the book contains a chapter arguing that poetry is the supreme art. Each of the poems is given a brief introduction that gives an explanation from a Biblical worldview.

This book will...

Canvas, Zagajewski's second book to appear in English, features all of this poet's distinctive traits. In these sixty-one poems, syntax explodes, masses of detail spill from profuse catalogs, lines break in ways apt but unexpected, and compressed lyrics alternate with extended riffs. European culture is the poet's native province throughout these explorations, and time is a recurrent metaphysical concern.

Powerful New work by a modern master.

You must listen, listen, listen.
Tired springs breathe under water.
At four in the morningthe last, lonely bolt of lightning
scribbles something quickly in the sky.
It says "No." Or "Never.
"Or "Take courage, the fire's not dead."
-from "The Last Storm"

Mysticism for Beginners is the third and most beautiful of Adam Zagajewski's collections to appear in English. The poems are about nature, history, the life of cities, the transformations of art, the spiritual essence of everyday life. Their remarkable staying power...