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Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day - from the legacy of Hasan's poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin. As with other Persian poets, Hasan worked within a highly regulated set of poetic conventions that brought into relief the interpenetration of apparent opposites - metaphysical and material, mysterious and quotidian, death and desire, sacred and profane, fleeting time and eternity. Within these strictures, he crafted a poetics that blended Sufi Islam with non-Muslim Indic traditions. Of the Persian poets who practiced the ghazal, Hafez and Rumi are best known, but their verse represents only a small fraction of a rich tradition. This collection reveals the geographical range of the literature while introducing an Indian voice that will find a place on readers' bookshelves alongside better known Iranian names.
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As palavras "épica" e "herói" resistem a generalizações, especialmente as universalizantes. Mesmo como conceitos gerais, "épico" e "herói" não estão necessariamente relacionados. Reconhecendo dificuldades desta natureza, a presente exposição explora os exemplos mais representativos dos constructos da poética antiga conhecidos comumente como "heróis épicos", ao se concentrar sobre Aquiles e Odisseu na Ilíada e na Odisseia de Homero. Pontos de comparação com estas figuras homéricas incluem: Gilgamesh e Enkidu nos registros cuneiformes sumérios, acadianos e hititas; Arjuna e os outros Pāṇḍava-s no épico indiano Mahābhārata; e Eneias na Eneida do poeta romano Virgílio.
Epic poetry. --- Heroic poetry --- Poetry
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"Don't sit on your stool, watching life go by," insists Soutcho Lydie Toure. In this collection of reflections written over a decade, she explores insecurities and vulnerabilities, with which many a reader will relate. She shares about loneliness and feeling different and goes on to ponder everyday life in "Politicking" and "VDN" -- a memorable highway in Dakar which pedestrians must cross "under the mocking smile of the sun." Toure draws on experiences and insights from her life betwixt and between West Africa and North America. In her verses, spiced with nature, color, joy, humor and fantasy, questions and answers compete equally for the reader's attention. A veritable source of confidence in the force of life and love. Confidence that makes one grow wings.
Poetry --- Poetry, Modern
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David Pol presents an ontology of war in the form of the lyric poem. “Do you hear what I’m shooting at you?” In I Open Fire, all relation is warfare. Minefields compromise movement. Intention aims. Touch burns. Sex explodes bodies. Time ticks in bomb countdowns. Sound is sirens. Plenitude is debris. All of it under surveillance. “My world is critically injured. It was ambushed.” The poems in this book perform the reductions and repetitions endemic to war itself, each one returning the reader to the same, unthinkable place in which the range of human experience has been so flattened that, despite all the explosive action, “Almost nothing is happening.” Against this backdrop, we continue to fall in love. But Pol’s poems remind us that this is no reason for optimism. Does love offer a delusional escape from war, or are relationships the very definition of combat? These poems take up the themes of love, sex, marriage, touch, hope — in short, the many dimensions of interpersonal connection — in a world in unprecedentedly critical condition. “And when the night goes off the shock wave throws us apart toward each other.
Love poetry. --- Poetry --- poetry --- love --- warfare
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"Noble's work has always engaged, in its own way, with the Western Canadian tradition of poetry as intellectual experiment grounded on local experience. Death Drive marks a counter-turn in the work of one of Southern Alberta's most distinctive writers." - Chris Jennings, Department of English, University of Ottawa In this collection of poetry, Charles Noble further reins in an already tight form - haiku - only to let loose a "logopoeic" poetry. He presents poems of extraordinary rigour and riddles of wit that are solved by "lifetime" insights - a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognizing the curled-up-but-everywhere world of media and markets - á la Fredric Jameson. And yet, these "haikus" go straight - to "the shock of the naïve." They turn to a middle ground, in Aristotle's sense of difficult target. They point to human acts, human reactions, and enact, themselves, a meta-linguistic wrestling, at one with the quarreling couple in the bar hanging on each other's words and insistent with "what do you mean by [a simple word]?" But they are also implicated in what he calls the death drive (not death wish), which arcs freely over a human life span - think architecture - and which, more radically, in the "pleated-crossword," "make's good// a/ bit/ of/ bad/ infinity," no expenses, save for that toehold, earth, as he would have it.
Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy
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Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry.
Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy
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In his foreword, J.D. McClatchy speaks of the musical qualities of Lindsay's work: ""It is impossible, reading her poems, not to hear a musical hand at work. This is not just a matter of delicacy or virtuosity. It is also a matter of knowing how to phrase a line... Lindsay moves from detail to trope with utter poise, with an intuitive sense of what to sustain or emphasize. Her language is crisp. I can pick a stanza at random... and praise its plosive energy, its modulated vowels, its variety and elan... Where She Always Was allows us . . . the rare gratification of watching a poet-
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Der Band "Wer spricht im Gedicht?" steht im Kontext eines übergreifenden Projekts mit dem Ziel, den Arbeitsbereich Lyrikforschung schärfer als bisher zu konturieren und auf diese Weise ein klar umrissenes Forschungsfeld Lyrikologie zu etablieren. Analog zu den Teilbereichen der Allgemeinen Literaturwissenschaft, die sich der Erforschung von erzählenden und dramatischen Texten widmen - der Narratologie und der Dramen- bzw. Theatertheorie - soll auf diese Weise die systematische Erschließung der dritten Großgattung der Literatur stärker in den Fokus der Literaturwissenschaft gerückt werden.
German poetry --- Lyric poetry --- History and criticism. --- poetry theory --- poetry
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Poetry --- Appreciation.
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