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The Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

II It is the celestial ennui of apartments That sends us back to the first idea, the quick Of this invention; and yet so poisonous Are the ravishments of truth, ...
( Category: Poetry July 18,2018 )
Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens
epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

ESTHÉTIQUE DU MAL I He was at Naples writing letters home And, between his letters, reading paragraphs On the sublime. Vesuvius had groaned For a month. It was pleasant to ...
( Category: Poetry July 18,2018 )
The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

2 SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER I O juventes, O filii, he contemplates A wholly artificial nature, in which The profusion of metaphor has been increased. It is something on ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 18,2018 )
Opus Posthumous by Wallace Stevens
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

She then writes … There are no banyans, frangipani nor jack-fruit trees; nor an exotic serpent life. If she had said in so many words that there were banyans, frangipani, ...
( Category: United States July 18,2018 )
The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens
epub |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

II A red bird flies across the golden floor. It is a red bird that seeks out his choir Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing. A torrent ...
( Category: Poetry July 18,2018 )
The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi by Antony Cummins
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Antony Cummins [Cummins, Antony]

This is so you will not be deceived by a false signal. However, in an emergency, the clappers should be clapped at full tilt in a rhythm of 4, 4, ...
( Category: Poetry July 17,2018 )
You Took The Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Brian Bilston [Bilston, Brian]

Parties I am always in the kitchen at parties, hiding in the vegetable rack, wondering when it might be safe to slip out the back. We Are Books I am ...
( Category: Poetry July 17,2018 )
Richard Brautigan by Richard Brautigan
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Brautigan

Smith Smith I WAS A BLOCK AWAY from the radio station, busy thinking about my shoes, when the name Smith Smith flashed into my mind and I blurted out, “Great!” ...
( Category: Literary July 17,2018 )
Hart Crane by Maurice Riordan
epub |eng | 2008-07-16 | Author:Maurice Riordan [Maurice Riordan]

And on, obliquely up bright carrier bars New octaves trestle the twin monoliths Beyond whose frosted capes the moon bequeaths Two worlds of sleep (O arching strands of song!) – ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 17,2018 )
Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: A Buddhist Poem for Today by Shantideva
epub |eng | 2002-01-14 | Author:Shantideva [Shantideva]

Chapter Eight The Perfection of Meditation 1. Upon developing zeal in that way, one should stabilize the mind in meditative concentration, since a person whose mind is distracted lives between ...
( Category: Buddhism July 14,2018 )
Maybe Baby by Lori Leibovich
epub |eng | | Author:Lori Leibovich

PETER NICHOLS We’ll Always Have Paris WHEN I WAS TWENTY-NINE, MY WIFE BECAME PREGNANT. We were broke and living in the Caribbean aboard a small wooden sailboat. We were planning ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 12,2018 )
Sisters' Entrance by Emtithal Mahmoud
epub |eng | 2018-05-07 | Author:Emtithal Mahmoud

Tenets Four men stood smoking by the mosque, scorched tobacco billowing against Moroccan-style tile. One among them paused: Isn’t smoking forbidden? In unison: God is forgiving Deliverance in the Information ...
( Category: Poetry July 12,2018 )
Works and Days by Hesiod
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Hesiod

He spoke, and all the gods obeyed their chief. 70 To Zeus’s plan, the Cripple7 right away Modelled a modest maiden out of clay; Clear-eyed Athena dressed her, cinched her ...
( Category: Poetry July 12,2018 )
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings
mobi |eng | 2001-02-16 | Author:E. E. Cummings

4. April” this letter’s dated “23, 1946” and if anything could prove the unprovable coming of such a spring as nobody every imagined(including me) Joe(for it’s he)Gould’s final remark would ...
( Category: Poetry July 11,2018 )
The Poetry Handbook by Lennard John;
epub |eng | 2005-07-10 | Author:Lennard, John;

Whereas I took the Butterfly— Aforetime in my hat— He sits erect in ‘Cabinets’— The Clover bells forgot (“‘Arcturus’ is his other name”, Johnson 70) Her first stanza provides a ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 11,2018 )

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