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  The Shipwreck Sea - Love Poems...

  Jeffrey M. Duban

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  Sappho, in the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), was "simply nothing less – as she is certainly nothing more – than the greatest poet who ever was at all." Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho, the namesake lesbian, wrote amorously of men and women alike, exhibiting both masculine and feminine tendencies in her poetry and life. What's left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary, and thus ever subject to speculation and study.
  The Shipwreck Sea highlights the love poetry of the soulful Sappho, the impassioned Ibycus, and the playful Anacreon, among other Greek lyric poets of the age (7th to 5th centuries BC), with verse translations into English by author Jeffrey Duban. The book also features selected Latin poets who wrote on erotic themes – Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, and Petronius – and poems by Charles Baudelaire, with his milestone rejoinder to lesbian love ("Lesbos") and, in the same stanzaic meter, a turn to the consoling power of memory in love's more frequently tormented recall ("Le Balcon"). Duban also translates selected Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, the poems frequently Anacreontic in spirit.
  The book's essays include a comprehensive analysis with a new translation of Horace's famed Odes 1.5 ("To Pyrrha"), in which the theme of (love's) shipwreck predominates, and an opening treatise-length argument – exploring painting, sculpture, literature, and other Western art forms – on the irrelevance of gender to artistic creation. (No, Homer was not a woman, and it would make no difference if she were.) Twenty full-color artwork reproductions, masterpieces in their own right, illustrate and bring Duban's argument to life.
  Finally, Duban presents a selection of his own love poems, imitations and pastiches written over a lifetime – these composed in the "classical mode", which is the leitmotif of this volume. The Shipwreck Sea is a delightful and continually thought-provoking companion to The Lesbian Lyre, both books vividly demonstrating that classicism yet thrives in our time, despite the modernism marshaled against it.

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  The River of Light - Written and...

  Rachel Lawson

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  poems of the night and bonus gift seven pillars of wisdom a poem on the life and death of Lawrence of Arabia

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  An Outbreak of Peace - Stories...

  Cherry Potts

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  November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of WWI. After all the commemorative works of art over the past four years, we felt it was important to reflect on what comes after - an outbreak of peace, and what that means to the combatants and those left at home. This wide ranging collection brings together stories and poems from many countries, on both sides of the 1914-18 conflict, find their inspiration in many wars and their endings.

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  Incunabula

  Anna Nicholas

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  Literary figures from a book thief’s library come alive, offering romantic and other advice. The  “Incunabula” is a prize book that the thief has purloined. Will he get away with his greatest theft, or will hard reality intervene to strip him of his prized possesion?An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Alan Corduner, Ken Danzinger, Joanna Frank, Marabina Jaimes, Alan Raichins, Elizabeth Ruscio, Jeanne Sakata, Carolyn Seymour and James Warwick.Directed by Robert Robinson. Recorded before a live audience in February, 1993.

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  Islamic Poetry - Volume 1 - The...

  Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir

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  Islam is one of the world’s great religions and over the centuries one of its strongest voices.  For Peace. For Tolerance.  For the realization that we are all in this World together.  Whatever our individual beliefs much of its teachings are wise words for us all. 
   
  As Islam moved from its Arabian heartland to a wider geographic area so its core message remained albeit adapted to different lands, to different ears. Poets were ever eager to provide an alternate way of delivering the ‘message’ in beautiful verse.  Their simplicity was embracing, their ornateness a humble offering to greater forces. 
   
  The poems here are both profound and wide-ranging.   They give verse to thoughts that still preoccupy mankind as central to their message is love and humility. Civilizations may come and go, rise and fade, but culture and its arts linger on in oral histories and the written word. 
   
  The contribution of these Mystic or Sufi poets comes in many forms.  They view the world in ways that give us pause to reconsider our own.   Obviously, translations come in many shades and hues and even if the translator colours the original meaning of the poem, the essential truths remain. 
   
  In this volume we have gathered many of the most celebrated of these ancient and classical verses by poets of the caliber and brilliance of Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz and many others. Their wise words illuminate much of what we search for.

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  The Soul of Rumi - A New...

  Coleman Barks

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  Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet AnotherRumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks's exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the definitive versions for our time. Barks's translations capture the inward exploration and intensity that characterize Rumi's poetry, making this unique voice of mysticism and desire contemporary while remaining true to the original poems. In this volume readers will encounter the essence of Sufism's insights into the experience of divine love, wisdom, and the nature of both humanity and God.While Barks's stamp on this collection is clear, it is Rumi's voice that leaps off these pages with a rapturous power that leaves readers breathless. These poems express our deepest yearning for the transcendent connection with the source of the divine: there are passionate outbursts about the torment of longing for the beloved and the sweet delight that comes from union; stories of sexual adventures and of loss; poems of love and fury, sadness and joy; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion. For Rumi, soul and body and emotion are not separate but are rather part of the great mystery of mortal life, a riddle whose solution is love. Above all else, Rumi's poetry exposes us to the delight that comes from being fully alive, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk of discovering our core self:No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.These fresh, original translations magnificently convey Rumi's insights into the human heart and its longings with his signature passion and daring, focusing on the ecstatic experience of the inseparability of human and divine love. The match between Rumi's sublime poetry and Coleman Barks's poetic art are unequaled, and here this artistic union is raised to new heights.

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