 | Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: November 12, 2002| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist in society and the creative process. The poems gathered in Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, first published in 1974, show us that the concerns of the author have not changed since she was in her twenties. Hers is a poetry of fact -- of science and nature, eternity and time, and how we know what we kno...
 |  | Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays
Release Date: April 22, 1995"In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary... This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow.... Highly recommended." —Choice"An excellent rendition in English of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary... The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader." —The Journal of Indo-European StudiesThis elegant translation brings Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman rel...
|  | Eliza R Snow: The Complete Poetry (Documents in Latter-Day Saint History)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Series: Documents in Latter-Day Saint History Edited by Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson BYU StudiesMormon Studies/Poetry Eliza R. Snow first published her poetry pseudonymously inan Ohio newspaper in 1825, when she was twenty-one. Her last poem was publishedin 1887, when she was eighty-three. In the intervening sixty-two years she wrotemore than 500 poems. Her early work covered such various topics as the fight forGreek independence, the plight of the American Indian, and the deaths of ThomasJefferson and John Adams on the fiftieth anniversary of t...
|  | The Eye of the Prophet
Release Date: January 29, 2008The Eye of the Prophet is a luminous collection of Gibran's writings translated from Arabic into French and now into English. Here the author is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, seeking the best in people, refusing to separate humankind from the natural world. Ordinary work and life, he says, has the potential to be inherently noble, if we can learn to enact our affairs with the sublimity of nature's creations. Gibran’s descriptions celebrate the dignity and freedom of animals, birds, the seasons, oceans, ...
|  | Quiet Water: The Inspirational Poems of James Kavanaugh
Publication Date: May 1, 1993James Kavanaugh’s favorite inspirational reflections,offering courage when life’s most difficult passages seem impossibleto endure.As said by the author: "For centuries mankind waslocked in religious systems, falsely based on a Bible consistentlyinterpreted in myriad ways. Many, perhaps most remain fundamentalistchildren. Bold reformers in every century spoke another language,until today angry religious myths are losing their power. In the newmillennium honest and unpretentious humanness will flourish." AsKavanaugh writes, "There is quiet water in the c...
|  | Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Publication Date: March 30, 2010| Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, theRamayana and theMahabharata, simultaneously.Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tami...
|  | Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems
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|  | Strange Dreams: Collected Stories & Drawings
Publication Date: September 1, 2005The fourth book of the trilogy, "Strange Dreams", appears to have been completed on the artist's birthday in September, 1996, but that's only because you can do what you'd like with time when you're printing books yourself. To be honest, he was actually trapped in Paris with an ear infection on his birthday. The books were safely boxed and sitting here at StoryPeople, waiting for his return. "I'd always planned on doing a trilogy", he says, "but I didn't figure out that meant I'd have to stop at three. So, I've developed a more relaxed a...
|  | Reader: Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry
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|  | Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs
Release Date: November 10, 2009This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while spe...
|  | Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
Release Date: December 26, 2008Landmark translations of the Sufi poet/mystic Rumi from the acclaimed interpreter of the Tao Te Ching. Jonathan Star has assembled selections of Rumi?s verse in a treasury that spans the poet?s life and includes his most celebrated and poignant work. It is an enchanting volume of classic Eastern thought that creates an exhilarating experience for all readers. ...
|  | Shakespeare the Papist (Sapientia Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Series: Sapientia Classics Shakespeare, who wrote at the beginning of the long period in which the Catholic faith as violently suppressed in the British Isles, has long enjoyed an iconic status.Some readers have interpreted him as an early agnostic, expressing modern angst about whether anything exists besides "this mortal coil" that seems to be merely "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."In recent years, however, thanks largely to the work of Peter Milward, close study of Shakespeare's plays has raised the question: Was Shakespeare in fact a bel...
|  | The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy (American Academy of Religion Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
Publication Date: October 13, 2008Dante's metaphysics--his understanding of reality--is very different from our own. To present Dante's ideas about the cosmos, or God, or salvation, or history, or poetry within the context of post-Enlightenment presuppositions, as is usually done, is thus to capture only imperfectly the essence of those ideas. The recovery of Dante's metaphysics is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy ." That problem is what to make of the Comedy 's claim to the "status of revela...
|  | The Diary of an Old Soul
Publication Date: January 1, 2008"The Diary of an Old Soul" is a collection of 366 daily Christian devotional poems by Scottish author, poet, and Christian Minister George MacDonald. Known primarily for his fantasy works and fairy tales, MacDonald was heavily influenced in his life and his writings by theology. This influence can easily be seen in "The Diary of an Old Soul" as well as in many of his fictional works too. ...
|  | Hafiz: The Scent of Light
Publication Date: March 2002In modern day Persia, the 14thcentury poet Hafiz remains the most treasured voice of his homeland-a place where his work outsells Rumi, and even the Koran. Yet only recently have Westerners come to know this wild Sufi mystic's astonishing verses on love and spiritual longing. Now, with Hafiz: The Scent of Light, listeners join Daniel Ladinsky-the acclaimed translator of The Gift-to revel in more than 30 of Hafiz' most stirring works. Offered here in the manner that Hafiz composed them, spoken or sung spontaneously amid companions and inspired music, each of these ...
|  | Selected Poems from the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi: Along With the Original Persian (Classics of Persian Literature, 5)
Publication Date: March 1, 2001Rumi at the age of thirty-seven meets Shams Tabrizi (the sun of Tabriz) "a weird figure wrapped in coarse black felt, who flits across the stage for a moment and disappears tragically enough." Shams has variously been described as: "being extremely ugly"; "a most disgusting cynic;" and having an "exceedingly aggressive and domineering manner." Jalaluddin, who until then had no interest or liking for poetry "found in the stranger that perfect image of the Divine Beloved which he had long been seeking. He took him away to his h...
|  | Mencius (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 30, 1970| ISBN-10: 0140442286 | ISBN-13: 978-0140442281The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.371-288 BC) explicated his master's moral principles and reinterpreted them for the harsh conditions of the 4th century BC, when they were threatened by the aggressive and amoral doctrines of legalism. With its stress on the "thinking heart" (or individual conscience), "Mencius" is a defence of morality in private and public life. ...
|  | Teachings of Rumi
Release Date: July 6, 1999Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) led the quiet life of an Islamic teacher in the central Anatolia (modern Turkey) until the age of thirty-seven, when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabriz—through whom he encountered the Divine Presence in a way that utterly transformed him. The result of this epiphany was the greatest body of mystical poetry the world has ever seen, and the establishment of a spiritual movement that would eventually stretch from Africa to China, enduring to our own day.This collection of versions of Rumi by Andrew Harvey contains some of t...
|  | Lao-tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years
Publication Date: April 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1562790854 | ISBN-13: 978-1562790851| Edition: 1ST Red Pine's translation of the most revered of Chinese texts corrects errors in previous interpretations, truly breathes new poetic life into the English version, and includes selected commentaries-judged by Chinese scholars to be essential to understanding the wisdom of Taoism. Pine incorporates the commentaries of emperors and prime ministers, Taoist monks and nuns, Buddhist priests, poets, scholars, and the country's most famous philosophers of the past 2,000 years. This marks the first time th...
|  | Book of Hours: Prayers to the God
Publication Date: October 8, 2002He is the Lord of the Wild, the Great Father, the Divine Son, the Beloved Consort . . . the God is the masculine principle of the universe. In order to seek and find balance in our lives, we must first find it in our spirituality. Balance exists with the Goddess and the God--both are necessary, for with the balance created by their cosmic union comes wholeness and holiness. Book of Hours: Prayers to the God is a companion to Book of Hours: Prayers to the Goddess. The two can be used together, or this book can stand alone if you prefer to focus on the God in y...
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