Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania
10 best books like Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (Jerome Rothenberg): Poetry as Survival, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Loba, Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico, Mythologies, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Poems Bewitched and Haunted, The Collected Books, Splay Anthem
| Author | Gregory Orr |
| ISBN | 0820324280 |
Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...
| 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...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140587527 |
Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness...
In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection...
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 0689820879 |
A beautiful collection of bilingual poems and stories from Mexico, paired with paintings by Mexican artists.
“Remember, the tree is older than you are and you might find stories in its branches.”
So begins this wondrous collection of poems and stories from Mexico that invites...
| 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 | Tina Chang |
| ISBN | 0393332381 |
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
| 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
,
A Book of Music
,
Billy the Kid
,
Fifteen False Propositions About God
,
Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander
,
A Red Wheelbarrow
,
Lament for the Makers
,
Heads of the Town up to the Aether
,
The Holy Grail
,...
| Author | Nathaniel Mackey |
| ISBN | 0811216527 |
Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections—"Braid," "Fray," and "Nub" (one referent Mackey notes in his stellar Introduction: "the imperial, flailing republic...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 0061583243 |
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.
When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0871563681 |
Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross-cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger-than-human consciousness operating in the universe. The book’s 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary...
| 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 | Terence McKenna |
| ISBN | 1879323265 |
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| Author | Antonin Artaud |
| ISBN | 0374230900 |
Artaud received a grant to travel to Mexico, where he met his first (Mexican) Parisian friend, the Painter Federico Cantú in 1936 when he gave lectures on the decadence of Western civilization. He also studied and lived with the Tarahumaran people and experimented with peyote, recording his experiences,...
| Author | William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS, known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis,...
| 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 | Paul Celan |
| ISBN | 1931243743 |
The second in the series of poetry books by Paul Celan written after his great “turn” in writing, Threadsuns was written in fast-paced, shifting moods, often containing a near-desperate sarcasm, as Celan collapses his concerns of mind, spirit, and language into a work of great continuity despite...
| 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...
