Poetry
epub |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Liu Xiaobo [Xiaobo, Liu]

Conclusion China has transitioned from politics-are-everything in the Mao era to money-is-everything in the post-Mao years. A totalitarian society dominated by politics has turned into a post-totalitarian society where the ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Diane J Rayor [Rayor, Diane J]

Hail, Goddess, ruler of well-built Cyprus! I began with you and will turn to the rest of the hymn. 6. HYMN TO APHRODITE I will sing to lovely Aphrodite, revered ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-30 | Author:Lisa Creech Bledsoe [Bledsoe, Lisa Creech]

Apologies Thank you so much for the invitation but I have to count the leaves on the three-leaf clovers wrinkle the periwinkle, and repeat the day's directions to the wind ...
( Category: Poetry October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Christina Rossetti [Rossetti, Christina]

( Category: Poetry October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:David Lehman & Major Jackson

from The New Yorker JOHN MURILLO * * * On Confessionalism Not sleepwalking, but waking still, with my hand on a gun, and the gun in a mouth, and the ...
( Category: Poetry October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Sandra Cisneros [Cisneros, Sandra]

Ah, Lorenzo, I’m a fool. Eternity or bust. That’s how it is with me. Even if eternity is simply one kiss, one night, one moment. And if love isn’t eternal, ...
( Category: Love Poems October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-19 | Author:Robert Hass [Hass, Robert]

Sloan lay on his boyhood bed, still fully dressed—except for his boots, of course. Lydia would thump his head for putting dirty feet on her hand-stitched quilt. Lydia. He rubbed ...
( Category: Love Poems October 8,2019 )
epub |fra | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Hass [Hass, Robert]

* * * 146 Robert Hass / 1999 its drained tongue as dead driftwood soaking the vein as these words float up out of body in a joke sharpened in ...
( Category: Anthologies October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1989-04-15 | Author:Tu Fu & David Hinton [Fu, Tu & Hinton, David]

My oar-strokes hushed, I leave for rivers and lakes, Distances without promise. I step out the gate, look Away—and suddenly, all trace has vanished. These Drug-cakes shoring me up—they alone ...
( Category: Chinese October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-07 | Author:Major Jackson

Early Spring Now she is going with the rain, like a blinking stoplight, falling methodically. Nothing in the world is knowing. Her ears burst, a slow suicide of clouds coerced ...
( Category: Poetry October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Tracy K Smith [Smith, Tracy K]

6. Who understands the world, and when Will he make it make sense? Or she? Maybe there is a pair of them, and they sit Watching the cream disperse into ...
( Category: Poetry October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Giacomo Leopardi [Leopardi, Giacomo]

“As in the lonely night, over the silvered fields and the waters where the zephyrs play, where the far-off shades take a thousand vague appearances and deceitful forms, amid the ...
( Category: Poetry October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-27 | Author:Adam Mickiewicz [Mickiewicz, Adam]

A Note on the Translation The whole of Pan Tadeusz is composed in the “Polish Alexandrine,” or 13 syllable rhymed couplets. The typical line is further broken down into two ...
( Category: Poetry October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Dean Young [Young, Dean]

The New Savagery What does the new savagery require of me? If I pound a nail into the wall, the wall is my heart. All that gnawing on my own ...
( Category: Anthologies October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Mukalel, Cyril [Mukalel, Cyril]

Unable to hinder the magnificent glory, Desolate clouds part in reluctance. Stunned by the crimson carriages drawing Night’s agony fades to distance. Rustling breeze hugs the fruitless Easing the pain ...
( Category: Short Stories September 20,2019 )