New and Selected Poems of Edith Shiffert

New and Selected Poems of Edith Shiffert
Author: Edith Shiffert
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1995
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780934834131

New and Selected Poems of Edith Shiffert spans over twenty years of writing, including nearly the whole of her work, most of which is out of print in earlier editions. "From the nature of her experience a woman draws poetry--this woman--gentle and sensitive--the sharing of a lifetime with us."--Cid Corman

Pathways

Pathways
Author: Edith Marcombe Shiffert
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781893996373

Pathways is a distillation of six decades of poetry

Be the Pine, Be the Ball

Be the Pine, Be the Ball
Author: Paul J. Zingg
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1984516884

Focusing on the landscapes and memory of golf and examining the games nature and appeal, this collection of seventy-two haiku poems and essays aims to lead readers to a fuller appreciation of the culture and history of golf and a deeper awareness of a players place in the game. Be the Pine, Be the Ball also reveals the compelling beauty and power of haiku, the most popular poetic form in the world. Through the brevity of its style, precise language, and ability to reveal how ordinary moments and elements of our lives are pathways to a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us, haiku can have both a meditative and consequential effect on the reader. A key to the connection between haiku and golf is that both foster powers of concentration and detailed observation with a related reduction of distractions. Both seek to cultivate a more tranquil and disciplined mind and to translate that condition into how a life is lived and a game is played.

Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence

Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence
Author: John Brehm
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1614298815

A new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. Explorations on a journey through the darkest and brightest moments of our lives, the poems gathered here are explorations of loss, of thanksgiving, of transformation. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are, but all are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed otherwise inexpressible, to touch deep inside our hearts—and also pull ourselves out of our selves and into greater connection with the world around us. Includes poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Danusha Lameris, Ada Limon, Kevin Young, Arthur Sze, Ellen Bass, Li Young-Lee, Natasha Tretheway, and many more. The editor also includes an essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems, offering us a chance to have an even deeper experience of reflection.

The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry

The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry
Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349253510

In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us. He begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry now, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life. With a practitioner's empathy Silkin reads the poetry of Whitman, Hopkins, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Bunting and eight British poets from the post-second World War period to illustrate how free and metrical verse create, separately or together, a poetic harmony. Additionally, he includes crucial statements on modern poetry from poets themselves, concluding with a fine memoir of Basil Bunting by Connie Pickard, published in book-form for the first time.

American Poets Since World War II.

American Poets Since World War II.
Author: Joseph Mark Conte
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Bibliographical, biographical, and evaluative commentary of contemporary American poets who published since 1945.

Haiku Master Buson

Haiku Master Buson
Author: Buson Yosa
Publisher: Heian International
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1978
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

"Haiku Master Buson is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognized as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In addition to a large selection of haiku, the book also includes a selection of Buson's prose and a critical introduction." -- Amazon.com