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Japanese Death Poems
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 1998-04-15
Japanese Death Poems written by and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-15 with Poetry categories.
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Death Poems
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Author : Russ Kick
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Death Poems written by Russ Kick and has been published by Red Wheel Weiser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Poetry categories.
Pretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until now, no anthology has gathered the best and most famous of these verses in one place. This collection ranges dramatically. With more than 320 poems, it goes across all of history, from the ancients straight through to today. Across countries and languages, across schools of poetry. You’ll find a plethora of approaches—witty, humorous, deadly serious, tear-jerking, wise, profound, angry, spiritual, atheistic, uncertain, highly personal, political, mythic, earthy, and only occasionally morbid. Every angle you can think of is covered—the deaths of children, lost loves, funeral rites, close calls, eating meat, serial killers, the death penalty, roadkill, the Underworld, reincarnation, elegies for famous people, death as an equalizer, death as a junk man, death as a child, the death of God, the death of death . . . . You’ll find death poetry’s greatest hits, including: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by Walt Whitman “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe The rest of the band includes . . .Jane Austen, Mary Jo Bang, Willis Barnstone, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, Lucille Clifton, Andrei Codrescu, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, T.S. Eliot, Nick Flynn, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Kimiko Hahn, Homer, Victor Hugo, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Amy Lowell, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, Thich Nhat Hanh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilfred Owen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christina Rossetti, Rumi, Sappho, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, Ruth Stone, Wislawa Szymborska, W.B. Yeats, and a few hundred more.
Death Poetry
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Author : Stephanie Buckwalter
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Death Poetry written by Stephanie Buckwalter and has been published by Enslow Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Is death the end, or a new beginning? Should it be feared, or embraced? Or is it simply a ceasing to exist? What better way to examine this great unknown than through poetry. Author Stephanie Buckwalter explores eight poems and poets, with chapters on John Donne, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Buckwalter unravels each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.
Twilight Passages
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Author : Hanoch Guy Kaner
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2020-06-07
Twilight Passages written by Hanoch Guy Kaner and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-07 with Poetry categories.
The Yiddish writer Moyshe Leyb Halpern wrote, in his poem Momento Mori, “And should Moyshe-Leyb, the poet, say / That he saw Death... /Just as he sees himself in the mirror... / Will they believe Moyshe-Leyb?” These poems by Hanoch Guy-Kaner may occasion a like incredulity. After all, if, as Wittgenstein asserted, “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death,” then what about the contending, equally experiential statement by Rebbe Bunam of Przysucha about himself that “All my life I have been learning how to die”? Hanoch Guy-Kaner does not care to explain or reconcile the seeming paradox----if there is one, or even to prefer one assertion to the other. Himself a poet, like Moyshe-Leyb, he too sees his long-familiar neighbor, Death, just as he sees himself in the mirror. Thus these poems, each of them a momento vitae, are each a kind of self-portrait as well. And as with late Rembrandt self-portraits, these poems too, in the words of John Berger, “contain or embody a paradox: they are clearly about old age, yet they address the future. They assume something coming toward them apart from Death.” A “something” which he, the poet, sees already, remembers already (and for which, it would seem, Death itself is the mirror). But will they believe Hanoch Guy-Kaner? “Death stands behind you On the supermarket long line As other unexpected events” Robert Margolis We dread it. We avoid thinking about it but it is present all the time. The poems in this book are explorations of the unknowable and nightmares. The poet pulls veils from what is beyond but so close and tangible for a journey like no other in which we call upon angels.spirits and souls. We visit heaven and hell and hope to enter though the gate of mercy. HGK
Death Poems
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Author : Thomas Ligotti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Death Poems written by Thomas Ligotti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Death categories.
Life After Death
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Author : Jane Rohrer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Life After Death written by Jane Rohrer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Poetry categories.
A first collection of poems by a lifelong poet.
Death
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Author : D. IRVINE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-31
Death written by D. IRVINE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-31 with categories.
Death - Composed From The Shadows possesses poems on the darkness that awaits us all. Words have been combined, creating alluring visuals that will take you on a journey beyond the shadows. D. J. Irvine has forged a seductive book that will read differently every time you gaze inside. If you have questions about Death or would like to read poetry entwined with philosophy, this book needs to be in your collection. Death Poems This book of death poems combines an assortment of rhyme, free verse, and philosophical poems to complete this second anthology by D. J. Irvine. The poetry within these pages is written in different styles, lengths and scenes to help take you off into a different dimension. The eBook version is composed using text only, while the paperback is filled with beautiful photography. Both versions have a very different feel to capture the reader's imagination. As you read this book, Death! Will sit next to you, stand at the edge of your bed or take your hand when you sleep and show you what awaits in the afterlife. As you finish this book, your state of consciousness will climb a new mountain; into this moment, we define as reality. A Little About The Author As I type these words onto this blank canvas, flashes of high definition pictures project through the front of my mind. My four sons faces, smile with delight and remind me of my journey on this tiny rock we call Earth. They have helped me carve out most of the pansophy that awaits your lucid being. My wife is a lush-emerald-glen found in the highlands of Scotland because she can break any storm that ignites around the family home. Emma is the peacekeeper, carer and nurtures our growing minds with love and tranquillity. If things seem tough or we need a moment of serenity, you can find us walking the vanilla beaches of Norfolk. We let the sea crash between our toes while gorging on fish and chips in a moment where time seems infinite. Growing up in a town called Wellingborough gave me a wealth of life experience I still use to this very day. I'm the oldest brother of five siblings, and we grew up in a little council house. We learned to stick together, help out, cook, clean, get ourselves to school and enjoy each others company. The laughs and tears we all shared helped fabricate this book into existence. My brothers and sisters look up to me, mainly because I'm the oldest, and I always had to set the rules around the house. My door is still open, and I keep in touch and talk to them all, primarily through all the highs and lows of life. With this being my second book on Amazon; I look forward to all the criticism, reviews, remarks, suggestions and outrageous profanities. Thank you for the purchase, and I hope you enjoy the impenetrable obscurities within.
Japanese Death Poems
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Japanese Death Poems written by and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Poetry categories.
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pity, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined—from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
A Year In The Life Of Death Poems Inspired By The Obituary Pages Of The New York Times
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Author : Shawn Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-19
A Year In The Life Of Death Poems Inspired By The Obituary Pages Of The New York Times written by Shawn Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with Poetry categories.
When Shawn Levy had the notion to write a poem each day for a year, inspired by the obituary pages of The New York Times, he had no way of knowing that the year in question, 2016, would claim so many of the world's most iconic figures. His project became, in effect, a vehicle for surveying the breadth of the twentieth century: Titans from all fields of endeavor, lives that contained one quirky but insoluble achievement, and people who had special significance in his own life. From Nancy Reagan to Muhammad Ali, David Bowie to Arnold Palmer, Prince to Janet Reno, Antonin Scalia to Mary Tyler Moore, and including a Black Miss America, an obsessive weather reporter, the nurse famously kissed by a sailor on VJ Day, the man who put the '@' in your email address, and the last man to walk on the moon, the lives recollected in these one hundred poems provoke compassion, sorrow, outrage, surprise, nostalgia, even laughter.
Love And Death
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Author : Eddie Wainwright
language : en
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Love And Death written by Eddie Wainwright and has been published by Lapwing Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Poetry categories.