Saudade: Thirty Poems of Longing
Author | : Elizabeth Varadan |
Publisher | : Finishing Line Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781646621484 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Varadan |
Publisher | : Finishing Line Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781646621484 |
Author | : Mena Borges-Gillette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2020-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Portuguese are known for saudade, a deep state of profound longing for something lost while maintaining hope for the future. And nobody expresses that nostalgic longing more than those who hail from the Azores.As an Azorean-born poet who immigrated to the United States as a child by way of war-torn Angola, Mena Borges-Gillette bears the weight of that longing, not just for herself but for her family as well. In Saudades of a Nightingale, Borges-Gillette uses a rich tapestry of poetic works to wrestle with expressions of identity and culture.Though its Luso-American focus is strong, Saudades of a Nightingale honors the experience of anyone who has ever felt alone in a crowd or struggles with feelings that they don't "belong." This collection of poems speaks to the outsider in us all.
Author | : B. D. Esgalhado |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2018-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781635346688 |
Author | : William Wordsworth |
Publisher | : Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Lost Poems provides reading texts of all the poems in their earliest finished versions, variant readings from all surviving manuscript and print forms over which the poet exercised control, Wordsworth's and the editors' notes to each of the poems, and photographs and transcriptions of selected manuscripts.
Author | : Claribel Alegría |
Publisher | : Curbstone Press Contemporary P |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
From the Publisher: Sorrow Claribel Alegria Sorrow is a remarkable collection of love poems which Alegria wrote for her recently deceased husband. The poems are not only a recollection of their past, but also meditations on the meaning of death and the pain of separation as well as reflections on their eventual reunion. Most of the poems are brief piercing lyrics which radiate strength and optimism.
Author | : Suneeta Peres da Costa |
Publisher | : Giramondo Publishing |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1925336700 |
A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony’s independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and their dependence on the Angolans who are their servants. The title (saudade means ‘melancholy’ in Portuguese) speaks to the longing for homeland that haunts its characters, and especially the young girl who is the book’s protagonist and narrator. Suneeta Peres da Costa’s novella captures with intense lyricism the difficult relationship between the daughter and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate world opens up questions about domestic violence, the legacies of Portuguese slavery, and the end of empire. The young woman’s intellectual awakening unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism, and the violent political ruptures that ultimately lead to her father’s death, and their exile. ‘[Her] voice is unique: neither childlike nor grownup, but instead by turns gravely articulate, wildly poetic, and hilariously original…a haunting and magical vision of childhood.’ Austin Chronicle
Author | : Rosalia de Castro |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1991-07-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438400594 |
This book presents translations of poems by the Spanish poet, Rosalía de Castro, who is today considered one of the outstanding figures of nineteeth-century Spanish literature. Her poetry, often compared to that of Emily Dickinson, is characterized by an intimate lyricism, simple diction, and innovative prosody. Included here are a critical introduction, notes to the translations, two of the poet's own autobiographical prologues that have never before been translated, and over one hundred poems translated from both Gallician and Spanish. The selected poems are from de Castro's most important books, Cantares gallgos; Follas novas; and En las orillas del Sar.
Author | : Katherine Vaz |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2013-11-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0822978849 |
• Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, relatives in the Azores fight over a plot of land owned by their expatriate American cousin. Even apparently small images are cast in terms of the earth: Milton, one narrator explains, has made apples the object of a misunderstanding by naming them as Eden's fruit: "In the Bible, no fruit is named in the Garden of Eden - and to this day apples are misunderstood. They were trying to tempt people not into sin but into listening to the earth more closely. . . . their white meal runs wet with the knowledge of the language of the land, but people do not listen."Vaz's beautiful, intensely conscious language often delicately slips her stories into the realm of the fado, the Portuguese song about fate and longing. "Listen for the nightingale that presses its breast against the thorns of the rose," on character sings, "that the song might be more beautiful." Such a verse might describe Vaz's own motive behind her willingness to confront her subject's ambiguities and her characters' conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life's discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure.