Song of Two Worlds

Song of Two Worlds
Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1439865477

In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative, we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After decades of living "hung like a dried fly," emptied and haunted by his past, the narrator awakens one morning revitalized and begins a Dante-like journey to find something to believe in, first turning to t

Two Worlds Exist

Two Worlds Exist
Author: Yehoshua November
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780990691792

Finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, ''Two Worlds Exist,'' movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America. November's beautiful and profound meditations on work and family life, and the intersections of the sacred and the secular, invite the reader--regardless of background--to imaginatively inhabit a life of religious devotion in the midst of our society's commotion.

Two Worlds Walking

Two Worlds Walking
Author: Diane Glancy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The book transcends the dead end topic of 'race'--an issue that necessarily invites conflict--and concentrates instead upon culture, in all its nebulous, universal and unmistakable influence.--Pacific Reader

T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds

T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds
Author: David Ward
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317304594

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described as ‘the Tradition’. It also recognises the fact that Eliot, for all his attempts at universality, was a product of time and place, and gives an account of the way in which his education and experience shaped his most important interests. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Poems of the Two Worlds

Poems of the Two Worlds
Author: Frederick Morgan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1977
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780252006043

In the Shadow of Islam

In the Shadow of Islam
Author: Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0720616697

An extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North Africa In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, at the age of 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and the desire to break free from the confinements of her society she traveled into the desert, and into the heart of Islam. Her experiences inspired a profound self-examination, and a book that today is regarded as one of the true classics of travel writing. In the current political climate, it is also a book uncannily current in its treatment of the culture of Islam in North Africa. One of the most astonishing travel documents of all time, this book is also a feminist classic in its own right.

My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults

My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781558856769

More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The Young Sor Juana", "Graduation Morning", "Border Town 1938", "Legal Alien", "Abuelita Magic", and "In the Blood".

The Fortunate Traveller

The Fortunate Traveller
Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466880341

Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves

Winter Stars

Winter Stars
Author: Larry Levis
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 105
Release: 1985-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0822991101

Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a "representative life" of our time.