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Octavio Paz (México, 1914–1998) was one of the foremost poets and essayists of the twentieth century. Read in translations into many of the world’s languages, Paz received numerous awards and prizes during his lifetime, participated in major artistic and political movements of the twentieth century, served as Mexico’s ambassador in India (1962–1968), and was the editor of Plural and Vuelta, two literary journals of prominent influence in Mexico, Latin America, and Spain. In 1990 Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book of essays is a commemoration of Octavio Paz on the first centenary of his birth, a celebration undertaken with Paz’s distinguishing legacy: criticis...
Mary Rudge is one of the too few people on this planetwho know the meaningful things to write about andwho have the ability to do this for the world.----Jack London George Rowan, Jr Musician, Cultural and Community Activist-'Jack London' George Rowan, Jr Award winning Musician, Culturaland Community Activist Mary reminds us of our basic human connectedness, one possible antidote against war... Elaine Starkmanco-editor State of Peace; The Women Speak
Passionate as any descendants of wild geese, immigrants, transplants through diaspora, generations removed from a birthright land she did not inherit whose love for justice cries out in poems, Mary Rudge adds Ireland, the place she has searched for in her heart, to her geography of books. The poet's love of cultures, explored through poems and journals on her travels, bring a magic carpet of the mind taking readers on an exotic adventure. Her books include: Passport Always Everywhere Poems; Sri Lanka Firewalk Tour; Austria, Hungary and Other Passions; Ipagpatawad Ninyo Kami (Pardon Us) Poems for the Philippines, with Amy Estrada; Street Spirit, Justice News and Homeless Blues, on the nation of homeless in America, with Claire J Baker; Water Planet; Jack London's Neighborhood (a Pleasure Walker's and Reader's Guide to History and Inspiration in Alameda); Beat She Can't Be Beat; (most titles available through Xlibris; and many more books by small presses, through the ages the poets traditional means of communication.
This book can serve as a guide with information about Alameda that may have been relevant or add interest concerning Jack Londons life and times in Alameda. Individuals may use this little handbook to explore, and follow for themselves a walk from place to place. Eventually Jack London Walks may be offered by story-tellers or history docents or as a commercial enterprise equivalent to historic walks in Oakland, San Francisco and other areas. There are very few island cities such as Alameda in our nation. I hope you will enjoy seeing Alameda and these places as they exist today and putting them in the context of the history of this area which had significance to the story of Jack Londons life and times in Alameda. This is your invitation, to Jack Londons Neighborhood. It is my neighborhood, too.
Travel in poetry of intimate, stirring, personal and unique insights, through time and cultures a passport that is universal and always. In a book like no other, International Poet Laureate, peace activist, educator, Mary Rudge, known world wide for her legendary travels on 5 continents as poet, speaker at global events, gives a kaleidoscopic view of the world. A significant, eclectic collection. Follow the poets ardent heart through a wide range of interest, from ancient China to Elvis, the Beats and The Doors. People everywhere will choose this book for pleasure and knowledge.
Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition. With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry. Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic, and digital poetry that questions what the literary means, what constitutes poetry, and how, if at all, visual and verbal arts should be differentiated. Radical Poetry examines how poets use the latest technologies (cinematography, radio, tele...
In Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing, a renowned Irish poet shows us how haiku may be used as a powerful tool for spiritual interpenetration. This implies that we divest ourselves of the ever-chattering mind, shed the voracious ego and enjoy momentary glimpses of unity with natural phenomena. In the companion volume, Haiku Enlightenment, he further explores these thoroughly delightful experiences and invites us to disappear! Haiku is dynamically focussed on the present, from season to season, from day to day, from hour to hour, from second to second. But how illusory, how fleeting is that present moment? How caught up is it with the past, with the future? Can we stop its flow? Are there more ways than one of experiencing its essence? If we experience a moment intensely enough, might we disappear? Surprises await those readers who may have considered haiku to be nothing more than an innocuous three-line poem. A renowned poet shares his experience of haiku and its potential to surprise us again and again into a sudden awakening and thus to a deeper sense of what it is to be truly alive. His remarkably refreshing insights have delighted confreres around the world.
The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.
An illustrated collection of haiku from all over the world arranged by season.