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  Blood of the Sun - Poems

  Salgado Maranhão

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  “A perfect English rendering of Salgado Maranhão’s deft expression of the tonality of this people and land.” —Gregory Rabassa, acclaimed American translator 
   
  In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranhão integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual—butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time—resulting in a collection varied as well as unified, an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern. Writing in forms both fixed and free, Maranhão’s language suggests a jazz-like musicality that rings true in Alexis Levitin’s masterful translations. For readers who enjoy the complexity of Charles Simic, or the stylistically innovative syntax of César Vallejo, Maranhão’s Blood of the Sun is a sensually provocative amalgamation of both. 
   
  “Alexis Levitin’s translation of the Afro-Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão’s Blood of the Sun succeeds in negotiating the quirky experimental richness of Maranhão’s Pre-Columbian, Amazonian, and Yoruba influences with his traditional rhymed lyrics and jazz-like syncopations . . . Levitin skillfully alerts us to the presence of a complex and offbeat poet whose work merits a wide audience.” —Colette Inez, author of The Secret of M. Dulong 
   
  “What we see are classic themes of chivalry, reflections on the rural, a playful, imaginative use of language, a mix of romance and realism, and—oh yes—love, lyric narratives of calm resignation.” —Harvest Time 
   
  “Salgado Maranhão deliberately stretches the meanings of words up to their very limits to see if he can get more meaning out of words than they normally have.” —Plattsburgh Press-Republican

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  Short Poetry Collection 053

  Various Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 053: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  The Moon That Turns You Back -...

  Hala Alyan

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  From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.  
  A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. 
  These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?

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  Poets of the Early 20th Century...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, T S...

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  In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.   
   
  The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot. 
   
  The World was more connected than ever before.  Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe.  Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay. 
   
  The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times. 
   
  The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was.  But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. 
   1 - The Poets of the Early Twentieth Century  - Volume 2 - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett 
  3 - 1841-1891 by Joseph Mary Plunkett 
  4 - If We Return by F W Harvey 
  5 - The Soldier Speaks by F W Harvey 
  6 - The Negro Soldiers by Roscoe C Jamison 
  7 - Into Battle by Julian Grenfell 
  8 - Prayer For Those on the Staff by Julian Grenfell 
  9 - Hymn by Fenton Johnson 
  10 - Tired by Fenton Johnson 
  11 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa 
  12 - If, After I Die by Fernando Pessoa  
  13 - I Have A Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  14 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger 
  15 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger 
  16 - The Unseen Planets by Raymond Chandler 
  17 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
  18 - I Saw A Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart 
  19 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot 
  20 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot 
  21 - Preludes by T S Eliot 
  22 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield 
  23 - Stars by Katharine Mansfield 
  24 - A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield 
  25 - I Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova 
  26 - When I Write Poems by Anna Akhmatova 
  27 - Poetry by Claude McKay 
  28 - The White House by Claude McKay 
  29 - The Lynching by Claude McKay 
  30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  31 - Crucifix Corner by Ivor Gurney 
  32 - Serenade by Ivor Gurney 
  33 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  34 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg 
  35 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  36 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston 
  37 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson 
  38 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  39 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  40 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  41 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  42 - Unity by Cesar Vallejo 
  43 - Love by Edith Sodergran 
  44 - On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System by Edith Sodergran 
  45 - Insouciance by Richard Aldington 
  46 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington 
  47 - Grey Hairs by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  48 - Lady with Camelias by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  49 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  50 - Back To Rest by Lietenant William Noel Hodgson MC 
  51 - Before Action  by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC 
  52 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky 
  53 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky 
  54 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker 
  55 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker<p

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  Theatre Royal - The Sire de...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fyodor...

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  Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Anton Chekhov.  These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first installment of theatrical history.

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  A Song of a Young Lady to Her...

  John Wilmot

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6th, 2009.

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