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  The Apple of Knowledge - THE...

  ANNA GOGOLEVA

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  A novel about the one thing money can never buy... and the one thing we will destroy to possess.
   
  When the wealthy and powerful Boyarina Marfa witnesses a simple shepherd's love for a peasant girl, something inside her snaps. She has everything—status, land, the power of life and death over her serfs—but she has never been loved. Not truly. Not the way Mitri loves Natasha.
   
  Then Cleopatra comes to her in dreams.
   
  The ancient Queen of the Nile, dead for fifteen hundred years, offers Marfa the secrets of seduction that once made men drown empires. Milk baths. Forbidden perfumes. The art of becoming a treasure locked in a fortress, a prize worth pursuing.
   
  But when every lesson fails, when the shepherd chooses his simple love over his mistress's wealth, Cleopatra offers one final gift: a small, withered apple. The Apple of Knowledge. Eat it, and he will forget everything but you. His past. His love. His soul. All burned away.
   
  Set against the brutal beauty of medieval Russia—where winter lasts half the year, where peasants jump over Kupala fires in search of love, and where a woman's loneliness can curdle into something monstrous—this is a story about the difference between loving and possessing. About the fire that consumes and the sun that gives life. About the price of wanting what is not yours.
   
  For fans of Russian psychological fiction, dark historical romance, and stories where myth and reality intertwine.

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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in New England.  This corner of America where the first Europeans began to push the indigenous culture back from its home is a grid of small States that have been home to some of the greatest poets ever born anywhere, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helen Hunt Jackson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Kathy Lee Bates.

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  The Love I Met on the Trail

  Lee Jeon-Rok

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  The breathing sound of birth pangs. 
  This collection is the author's first collection of poems and is being republished after 30 years. It consists of 30 poems divided into the following five parts:Plum Flower, a Thousand Year of LoveThe Sun's Mistress, WolgyeAh! Late Autumn, Flaming SunsetMy Love, Sunae,Bo ( Pure Love, Story)The Reason Yew Trees have survived for 2,000 yearsAuthor said the feeling of republishing of this collection after 30 years, is not only strange , but even magical. Well then he is reborn, let's do some cuddles. What is poetry? He asked this question 30years ago too. Like finding an answer to aquestion that everyone can ask but no one can still on the line of verbal barbarism,as much as the atar in the night sky scattered. He ask poetry again. He said that although he may not be phonex whose wings flutter across the light, he may not a phoenex who eats bamboo shoots and does not anything other than the precious paulownia tree but like a skylark singing in the spring, like a cicada enjoying the summer, like a wildflower blooming in abundance in the field in the fall, even if it's an old tree full of snow flakes in winter , It's good. So he hope to do this best to write healthy articles that comfort and support everyone and himself.

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  The Poetry of Aleister Crowley -...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
   
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
   
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
   
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
   
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
   
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
   
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Aleister Crowley - An Introduction 
  2 - The Wizard Way by Aleister Crowley 
  3 - Hymn to Lucifer by Aleister Crowley 
  4 - The Pentagram by Aleister Crowley 
  5 - Hymn to Pan by Aleister Crowley 
  6 - A Birthday by Aleister Crowley 
  7 - The Quest by Aleister Crowley 
  8 - Boo to Buddha by Aleister Crowley 
  9 - All Night by Aleister Crowley 
  10 - Necrophilia by Aleister Crowley 
  11 - Mathilde by Aleister Crowley 
  12 - Ballade de la Jolie Marion by Aleister Crowley 
  13 - Rondels by Aleister Crowley 
  14 - Man's Hope by Aleister Crowley 
  15 - A Jealous Lover by Aleister Crowley 
  16 - Long Odds by Aleister Crowley 
  17 - Power by Aleister Crowley 
  18 - Optimist by Aleister Crowley 
  19 - Dumb by Aleister Crowley 
  20 - The Titanic by Aleister Crowley 
  21 - The Buddhist by Aleister Crowley 
  22 - The Mantra-Yoga by Aleister Crowley 
  23 - The Poet by Aleister Crowley

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  After Long Grief

  Madison Cawein

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of After Long Grief by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 22, 2012.Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature as a child. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems.  His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". (Summary from Wikipedia )

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  The Open Window

  Edward Rowland Sill

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Open Window by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 27th, 2011.Edward Rowland Sill, American poet and educator, was born in Windsor, Connecticut. He was a modest and charming man, a graceful essayist, a sure critic. His contribution to American poetry is small but of fine quality. His best poems, such as "The Venus of Milo," "The Fool's Prayer" and "Opportunity," gave him a high place among the minor poets of America, which might have been higher but for his early death. (summary from Wikipedia)

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