Loba
10 best books like Loba (Diane di Prima): The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, Rain in the Trees, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Vice: New and Selected Poems, Mythologies, Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Poems Bewitched and Haunted, The Collected Books
| Author | Mina Loy |
| ISBN | 0374525072 |
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake, she has been translated into French and Italian to great acclaim, and in the Times Literary Supplement Thom Gunn compared her to the great Augustan satirists....
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 0394758587 |
A literary event -- a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry -- The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication five years ago of his Opening the Hand.
Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.
My favorites were:
p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
Ai's collection is startling, difficult, and important. Selected from the five books preceding this collection - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed - these poems tackle dangerous parts of the human spirit in ways that leave readers gasping for air. Her metaphors and similes are often spiritual,...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0684826216 |
Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...
| Author | Rita M. Gross |
| ISBN | 0791414043 |
This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis...
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520049128 |
Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight,"...
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0819510157 |
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead...
| Author | John Hollander |
| ISBN | 1400043883 |
A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve.
From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched...
The Collected Books includes
After Lorca
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Admonitions
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A Book of Music
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Billy the Kid
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Fifteen False Propositions About God
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Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander
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A Red Wheelbarrow
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Lament for the Makers
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Heads of the Town up to the Aether
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The Holy Grail
,...
| Author | Vicki Noble |
| ISBN | 0062506676 |
I enjoyed Vicki Nobles commentary. From the recommendations that I received I thought it would be one of my favorite books of all time, but I wasn't as impressed as I had anticipated. I didn't really like how she seemed to dis sorcery and tenets of magick that she didn't understand (and maybe didn't agree...
| Author | Geoffrey of Monmouth |
| ISBN | 0708305202 |
The VITA MERLINI (LIFE OF MERLIN) is an often-overlooked, but nonetheless important and fascinating, account of the life of Merlin, the good wizard of the Arthurian legendarium. In this volume, we have the original Latin poem (from the 12th century), an English translation thereof, and copious notes...
The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg
| Author | Paul Portuges |
| ISBN | 0915520176 |
The first major full-length study of the most famous poet of our time, this insightful book is drawn from unlimited access to Ginsberg's papers as well as conversations with the poet. A fascinating and coherent presentation of some of the largely unknown facts about Ginsberg's background as a poet,...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811206866 |
Snyder's book-length poem can be called mythopoeia; creating modern myth based upon modern culture and history. Snyder's previous work and environmental concerns form the background of his mythic poem. The three religions, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism reflect his beliefs in his work....
| Author | Evelyn Underhill |
| ISBN | 1463705069 |
Practical Mysticism is a work by one of the foremost 20th century Christian mystics, Evelyn Underhill. Her book, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, is the authoritative text of modern mysticism. This shorter work, Practical Mysticism, is an abridged version...
| Author | Lorraine Anderson |
| ISBN | 1400033217 |
Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the...
| Author | Octavio Paz |
| ISBN | 0811201503 |
Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn,...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811214885 |
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
| Author | C.A. Conrad |
| ISBN | 1940696011 |
CAConrad's ECODEVIANCE contains twenty-three new (Soma)tic writing exercises and their resulting poems, in which he pushes his political and ecological efforts even further. These exercises, unorthodox steps in the writing process, work to break the reader and writer out of the quotidian and...
Several writers are currently doing collaborative translations of Rumi's poetry, but none of them have anywhere near the publication record, the popularity, or the following of these done by Coleman Barks. Approximately 250,000 of his volumes have sold in the last 12 years, including, along with...
| Author | Josh Bell |
| ISBN | 1932023216 |
Transmundane. There are things I want to call this anthology and one of them is "tour de force" and another of them is "unparalleled" and another of them is "magnum opus." I actually feel lucky to have read NO PLANETS STRIKE. Bell's writing style is grimy and contemporary, ramble-y in a smart and wonderful...
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 0766144550 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
