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The Love Poems of Rumi

Juliet — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:59 +0000

Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems. Exalted yearning, ravishing ecstasy, and consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on their creation more than 700 years ago.

The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz (Compass)

Juliet — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:20:01 +0000

To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to create modern, inspired translations of the world's most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky's translations, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the centuries singing his message of love.

Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation

Juliet — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:27:56 +0000

â��Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?â�� â��Mary OliverThis luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours.In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prizeâ��winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson.The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housdenâ��s â��Ten Poemsâ�� series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.

The Love Poems of John Keats: In Praise of Beauty

Juliet — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:06:28 +0000

These are the words John Keats chose to epitomize his short, frustrating, and tragic life. They appear as his epitaph in Rome's Protestant cemetery. Often called the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, Keats had a lifelong preoccupation with early death. This sense of mortality, along with the poet's famous, unrequited love for Fanny Brawne, sparked dozens of finely written sonnets and lyrics of love.This beautifully crafted collection contains some of the most heartfelt of Keats' personal poems. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci A Ballad" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" are paragons of the gothic lyric, wherein mysterious lovers, dream visions, and late-night fantasy come magically to life. Lighter verse, such as "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?" and such passionate, pensive poems as "When I have fears that I may cease to be" provide a personal glimpse of the young poet's dreams and dreads.This selection of twenty-six poems also presents an introduction to the life of John Keats, notes on the indivdual poems, and ten illustrations, half of which are of biographical interest and half underscore thematic elements contained in the poems.

Finding The Right Books For Valentine’s Day This Year

Juliet — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:57:59 +0000

Choosing the proper books for Valentine's Day gifts could be a tricky thing to do sometimes. There's the common rash of trashy paperbacks, poetry books and such at this time of the year, and it can be difficult to work out just what your loved one may enjoy and read. Valentine's Day is a wonderful time of year for buying new books for your beloved, and it's also an excellent time for you to play around with different types of books for them.

A brilliant idea to find the most suitable Valentine's Day gift books for your other half will be to get them 1 or 2 titles that you know they will enjoy, together with the title the they might not have originally considering reading themselves. That way you recognize you have gotten something that they will enjoy, but you are also safe in the knowledge you may have drawn them to something they are going to come to cherish.

There are countless tons of books to decide from via retailers both on the internet and on the high street, and you are literally spoilt for choice when it comes to titles you can purchase for your loved one on Valentine's Day. Whatever you do select for your other half this year, be sure to include a tiny dedication from yourself inside the first few pages of the novel you buy.

This personalises the gifts for your serious other and ensures they will have something to remind themselves of the two of you and the special times you pass as a couple in years to come. Books with romantic dedications inside them can turn into much treasured belongings as a connection matures and follows its own course.

And, they could be savoured again and again, making them very cost-effective Valentine's Day gifts too. Take a look about at the numerous titles which are now on offer for Valentine's Day, and see which titles would best suit the hobbies and personality of your loved one. With the fitting titles as gifts for Valentine's Day you can be sure that your partner will want to keep on flipping the chapters of your relationship and get to that fairytale end.

Love: Ten Poems

Juliet — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:14:38 +0000

Poems from the Film Il Postino. The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest love poet of the century. Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such un-sentimental directness and sensual precision. Here, too, we find Neruda at his most accessible, the language of his odes and lyrics refined to the point at which it achieves, in critic Jean Franco's words, "the naturalness of song". This short selection draws on work from throughout his writing life, from the famous early collection Twenty Love Songs & a Song of Despair (1924) to the key works of his maturity, Residence on Earth (1935), Elemental Odes (1954) and the autobiographical Memorial de Isla Negra (1964). It offers an enticing glimpse of one of modern poetry's greatest masters.

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

Juliet — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:34:35 +0000


Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. From lilting lines about a love that "dizzies up the brain's back room" to haunting fragments betokening death and decline in a suffering world, Kim Addonizio articulates the ways that our connectionsâ��to the world, to self, and to othersâ��endure and help make us whole.

Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love

Juliet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:30:38 +0000

Beloved children's book author and speaker Pat Mora has written an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heartâ��s desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses.Also included are the authorâ��s footnotes on the various types of poetic forms used throughout to help demystify poetry and showcase its accessibility, which makes this a perfect classroom tool for teachers as well as an inspiration to readers who may wish to try their own hand at writing.

Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Juliet — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:57:38 +0000

The epic romance of one of the most celebrated poets in the English language Coming to theatres in September 2009 is the tragic love story of nineteenth-century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny Brawne. Keats died at the young age of twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and letters ever written, inspired by his deep love for Fanny. Bright Star is a collection of Keat's romantic poems and correspondence in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cut cruelly short.

Searching For The Most Romantic Love Poems For Valentine’s Day

Juliet — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:39:59 +0000

The best love poems for valentine's day can be hard to decide upon, as the effects of a verse could differ from individual to individual, and there are always a quantity of writers folks will like over others. There are , however , some simple pointers to help you start with discovering the most suitable love poems for Valentine's Day.

There are a number of unforgettable poets that you are able to dig into the works of to hit upon that exceptional poem for your Valentine's Day parties. Find poems by legends such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Shelley or maybe even the sublime majesty of Lord Byron. How about a sonnet by William Shakespeare? All these unforgettable writers created poems and rhyme that are excellent for Valentine's day.

If you would like something more recent for the one that you love, then there are also contemporary writers to test out, or you might even read them some favourite song lyrics by the giants of music,eg the Beatles or Elvis Presley, or latest performers whose lyrics are especially poetic. The secret's to discover something that fits well with well with your affections for your loved one, as well as something you can boldly read aloud to them.

Once you have found the appropriate poetry for your other half, give it a practice on your own a couple of times to make sure you don't stutter over any particular terms when you scanned the poems out on valentine's day itself. Be certain that your choice works well as a verbal piece, and is easy to punctuate and emphasize in the right places.

A different idea could be to draft your own love poems for valentine's day. What could be more romantic than verse written particularly for a loved one? Seek out some of the masters mentioned above and see if you are able to write something yourself along those lines for your major other. A personalized love poem is a really unique Valentine's day gift notion which your partner is sure to like.