In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature....

When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...

Jean Marie Patty was raised in Anniston, Alabama. She has also lived in California, Florida, New Hampshire and Atlanta. Jean Marie loves to take photos of nature and animals. This book is a must for all animal lovers! Jean Marie hopes that all who read this book will find great inspiration! Jean Marie studied at Florida State University and enjoyed art and writing classes. She worked as a photographer while living in Florida. She loves God, family,...

THE MARTYRDOM: Th e Revenge of Art 1992-1994, was written in early nineteen-nineties. It is a Surrealist poem, with modern text, with projective verse, made up words, and words made of capitals and small letters. It also had traditional verse. It is the story of Julietta and Sebastian, as well as Godriella, Tarketa, Xlara. Th ere are six completed portions, and two unfi nished. Th e fi ctional Communist Left , and its 13th President FiLMer...

Once a friend-scientist asked me: "What is meant by the inner life?" I answered: "Read my poetry." He read, and he said: "Now I know." Longings is a collection of the songs of a soul singing, crying, and laughing about the sun and the moon, reflected in the seemingly still waters of the lake, hiding the never-peaceful water-god and his court. Longings paints the images of myriads of feelings and thoughts that find their lives in words. These words...

A collection of poems. 1 STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. 2 O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words. 3 THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal. 4 IT is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom....

International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler... The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks' common devotion to... fortified spirits... is able to allay... The present translation of the mock epics of Poland's greatest figure of the Enlightenment,...

In December 1970, amid a harsh winter and an even harsher economic situation, the ruling communist regime in Poland chose to drastically raise prices on basic foodstuffs. Just before the Christmas holidays, for example, the price of fish, a staple of the traditional Christmas Eve meal, rose nearly 20%. Frustrated citizens took to the streets to protest, demanding the repeal of the price-hikes. Things took an especially dramatic turn in the northern...

Only a handful of prominent émigré Ukrainian poet-scholar Bohdan Rubchak's poems have appeared in English translation prior to the publication of this volume. Rubchak died in 2018 at the age of 83 after publishing six collections of poetry, the last for which he received the prestigious Pavlo Tychyna Prize in Ukraine in 1993. Rubchak was part of the extremely talented displaced generation that escaped from the traumatic experiences of World War...

FIFTY YEARS ON PROJECT – Volume Two is a sequel to FIFTY YEARS ON PROJECT – Volume One. It is the product of a concentrated effort entailing inspiration and creativity. Certain poems evolved into songs and are published on SoundCloud. The links are located just below the song titles in this publication. Clicking the link automatically invokes the music. The book is categorized into four color-coded sections. SECTION I – Justice? embodies...