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The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth: The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Copper Sun by Countee Cullen, delivered by three multiaward–winning narrators.

Ángelo Néstore, fiel a su poética, nos ofrece un acercamiento al deseo y su potencialidad que se materializa en la infancia y el entorno familiar, escenarios en los que se forja ese impulso y se limita su poder. Desde ese lugar nos sitúa ante un conflicto que nos libera y nos plantea otras formas de imaginar, de disfrutar y de amar orientadas hacia lo colectivo, lo orgánico y lo animal con el fin de proponer comunidades de afecto en las que otras formas de goce y placer sean posibles.

En 1947 apareció en la revista Trabajos y Días un poema titulado "La barca nevada". Lo firmaba Carmiña Martín Gaite, y suponía el debut de quien buscaba aún su voz, e incluso su nombre. Luego se sucederían los libros en otros géneros, pero Carmen Martín Gaite mantuvo siempre su fidelidad a la poesía. Siguió escribiéndola —así lo demuestran sus cuadernos—, publicándola —con las ediciones ampliadas de A rachas— y recitándola, en cafés y centros culturales, en la grabación digirida por Alberto Pérez que aquí recuperamos.

Descubre con esta antología la poesía de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, el primer poeta moderno, recitada por grandes actores y actrices como Adriana Ozores, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, María Luisa Merlo, María Galiana y Juan Echanove. En sus ‘Rimas’ se une el romanticismo tardío con la voluntad de reducir sus excesos sentimentales.

Los poetas son los protagonistas en esta antología de Poética 2.0 en la que recitan sus propios textos. La selección de autores incluye nombres consagrados y nuevos poetas: Antonio Gamoneda, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Luis García Montero, Jenaro Talens, Juana Castro, Beatriz Hernanz, Ángel Guinda, Almudena Guzmán, Francisca Aguirre, Guillermo Carnero y Rafael Soler comparten espacio, entre otros, con Marta Agudo, Jordi Doce, Rosana Acquaroni, Carmen Jodra, Ana Castro, Elena Medel, Antonio Lucas, Carlos Marzal, Juan Vicente Piqueras y Julieta Valero.

Poesía Española Clásica es una antología que arranca en la Edad Media con los romances anónimos y Jorge Manrique; sigue su recorrido con Garcilaso de la Vega y poetas del Siglo de Oro como Quevedo, Góngora o Lope de Vega y llega al siglo XIX con, entre otros, Espronceda, Rosalía de Castro y Bécquer.

María Beneyto es una de las principales figuras de la generación poética valenciana de los cincuenta junto a Vicent Andrés Estellés y Joan Fuster, con una obra extensa que va de lo social a lo más intimista. En esta app interpretan una selección de sus poemas actores y actrices como Marina Vinyals, Silvia Rico, Sergio Caballero, Jordi Ballester, María Albiñana y Ana Conca, entre otros.

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken... Mit dabei: "Mohn", "Ein Charakter", "Und doch in den Tod", "Das Ereignis", "Der Sterbetag".

The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast with its Occidental counterpart. These seminal poems were passed down orally, before great collections reassembled works of art spanning several centuries in written form as early as the 8th century, from the Kojiki to the Kokinshu. Later, a number of female writers rose to prominence (Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon); then in the 17th century, the haiku form became extremely popular, in large part due to the work of Matsuo Bashō, a prolific writer and traveler.

Here are 60 of the greatest poems of all time: the art of three major French authors, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, translated into English with perfect accuracy and elegance, and carefully selected excerpts of Japanese poetry, for a world-encompassing literary culture and delight.

Todos los días podemos encontrar un poco de magia dentro de nuestra vida rutinaria, encontrar una pizca de amor, una señal que nos haga pensar en lo que nos pasa sin darnos cuenta.

Are you a fan of poetry? Do you enjoy poems that have deeper meaning, poems written to make you laugh, or even poems that were just randomly thought up in the shower? If so, this is the book for you! From the author of The Storyteller’s Diary, the beloved collection of short stories by J. Edwards Holt, comes The Reason for Rhyming— a book of poems with many of the same mystical and heart-warming elements.

Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets. This select band lived during the sixteenth century reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st. Amongst their storied ranks were Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Davies, Michael Drayton and Mary Sidney (Herbert), the Countess of Pembroke.

The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English and are simply poems or songs that tell a story. Maybe it’s because of childhood associations or that we all enjoy a cracking good story told in rhyme but as this volume demonstrates, the ballad has endless appeal. We include favourites such as Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee as well as classics such as Sir Patrick Spens, the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats.

In 1890 W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys founded a poetry club. Based mainly at Fleet Street’s immortal ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ pub, with occasional appearances at the Domino room in the Café Royal, poets gathered together to dine and drink. Whilst it was based on a core of poets, many others attended on an ad hoc basis including Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson & Lord Alfred Douglas. The camaraderie, banter and poetry that played out in their dreams, ambitions and for many, their difficult lives led Yeats to call them ‘the tragic generation’.

Silence is rare in Nature. When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone. Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature’s beauty is always there for us. In these 60 minutes Nature takes us through her world of wonder.

Silence is rare in Nature. When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone. Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature’s beauty is always there for us..

Una estrofa popular abre este poemario: «Llamadme amparo,/ el enfermo buscaba el alivio/ malito, y yo no lo hallo». A continuación, Niño de Elche empieza a hilvanar distintas estampas poéticas dedicadas a la idea del hogar, imagen que caldea la memoria y la imaginería de cada uno, lo que nos ampara contra los embates de la vida.

Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries, devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’, which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.

Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W. Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve. We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around. This is our tribute to mothers everywhere.