Category: Poetry

Rumi: A New Translation of Selected Poems

Rumi: A New Translation of Selected Poems

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Marked by lyrical beauty and spiritual insight, a deep understanding of human suffering that coexists with rapturous abandon, the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi continue to be relevant almost eight centuries after they were composed, with...
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Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

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In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters...
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Second Child

Second Child

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Nine years after the stunning debut of her critically acclaimed poetry collection “A Working Girl Can't Win,” which chronicled the progress and predicaments of a young woman, Deborah Garrison now moves into another stage of...
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That Awkward Age: Poems

That Awkward Age: Poems

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Roger McGough's eagerly-awaited new collection is a powerful testament to the miraculous in the everyday. Here he builds us his world: one of chance encounters and embarrassing moments, of big questions and small wonders. ‘At that...
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It Never Rains

It Never Rains

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While up at Magdalen Spent the time dagdalen. Moved on to Caius Became the baius knaius. ‘Oxford Blues' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised edition of The State of Poetry, Roger McGough's book of short humorous...
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A Cynic Looks at Life

A Cynic Looks at Life

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The question “Does civilization civilize?” is a fine example of petitio principii, and decides itself in the affirmative; for civilization must needs do that from the doing of which it has its name. But it is not necessary to...
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