World Poetry

From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness left the army unable to fill its ranks. Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche.

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czeslaw Milosz famously bore witness to its violence in his native Poland and in the war’s aftermath from exile in Europe and the United States. Immediately after the war, he lived in Washington, D.C., working as a diplomatic official, having left behind an old world stained by bloodshed and still in the throes of ideological conflict as he sought to find his bearings in a new world.

Amora dares explore the way women love each other - the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed.

Леся Українка (Лариса Петрівна Косач) — українська письменниця, перекладач, культурний діяч. Писала у жанрі поезії, лірики, епосу, драми, прозі, публіцистики. Також працювала на ниві фольклористики (220 народних мелодій записано з її голосу). Бояриня — драматична поема, написана впродовж трьох днів у Хельвані (біля Каїра, Єгипет-Міср). Це єдиний твір письменниці, який базується на українській історії. Події в поемі розгортаються в часи Руїни (60-ті роки XVII ст.) на Лівобережній Україні та у Москві.

How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.

Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervor and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare.

Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship, mental illness and politics. He reveals also the existence of a previously unrecorded love child from a South Seas romance. The WW1 legend was largely brought about by the words of one of his sonnets: "If I should die, think only this of me/That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England".

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald."

Do you know what goes on behind the scenes of a Hollywood basement? It's a silly little goose with her screws tied loose always on time except for every once in a blue moon. Discover what that means in a slam of "truth" with a collection of 41 poems from a radical revolutionary. An asset of space for war, romance, and underground secrets of a third-eye chakra now on Audible with added freestyle!

Here are some of the finest poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), a unique voice in American poetry. She is known for her short poems, full of acute observations, and deft use of language. This careful but imaginative selection shows the remarkable variety she produced, despite the miniature nature of her medium.

Сколько слов, стихов, песен сложено о любви! Чувстве, которое близко людям всех поколений, чувстве, которое будоражит кровь и разум, чувстве, которое рождает потрясающие по своей силе строки и метафоры... Любовная лирика – пожалуй, один из самых красивых жанров, по сути это сама жизнь, переданная автором в образах и строфах. Именно со стихотворений о любви чаще всего начинается творческий путь поэта, становление его рифмы и слога. XIX–XX вв. подарил нам прекрасные образцы любовной лирики: стихотворения М. Лермонтова и Ф. Тютчева, А. Блока и К. Бальмонта, М. Цветаевой и А. Ахматовой и многих других.

In the war a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of war as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from soldiers, from auxiliaries, from friend and from foe.

While others often respond to the cares and concerns of our day through anger, And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World attempts to offer a response steeped in the heartbeat of Love. This book is an invitation to encounter the lived experience and philosophical musings of another as a human, not as a project or agenda to conquer. Without apology, it embraces humanity and all the emotions, back stories, and history that come along with who we are and who Love is inviting us to be.

In a dry dusty place where the sand sparkled gold, stood a mighty flat rock—all craggy and old. And under that rock in a tinyful house, lived the littlest, quietest, meekest brown mouse. Fed up of being ignored by the other animals, Mouse wishes he could roar like Lion. But, as he discovers, even the biggest, bossiest people are scared sometimes...and even the smallest creatures can have the heart of a lion!

To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, CSA Word is proud to release a brand new recording of over 100 poems written by the men and women who served during the war. A formidable and unique legacy, this striking collection of poems and voices, framed by helpful narration, evokes the atmosphere and feelings of war in all its aspects: the pain, passion, fear, loneliness, anger, and some unexpected humour too.

A collection of Poems by F.E. Feeley Jr. F.E. Feeley Jr is the author of several books including The Haunting of Timber Manor, Objects in the Rearview Mirror, Still Waters, When Heaven Strikes, and Closer. He’s also been a part of several anthologies including Indigent as well as Gothika 5: Contact. This is his first published work of poetry. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1981, he became an avid reader and lover of the written word.

Tradotte magistralmente da Silvia Bre per la Collezione di poesia Einaudi, queste Centoquattro poesie attraversano il percorso poetico...

From the author of the best-selling children's book When God Made You comes a rhythmic, whimsical journey through creation - for little listeners who love science and wonder and the beginnings of all things. For spiritual parents who are looking for a different kind of creation book, Matthew Paul Turner's When God Made the World focuses on the complex way that God created our vast and scientifically operating universe, including the biodiversity of life on our planet and the intricacies of a vast solar system.

A beautiful collection of love letters from some of the world's most famous personalities.