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Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Release : 1970
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Love and the Turning Year by : Kenneth Rexroth
Download or read book Love and the Turning Year written by Kenneth Rexroth. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.
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Release : 1970-01-17
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year by :
Download or read book One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year written by . This book was released on 1970-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation. Love and the Turning Year includes a selection from the Yueh Fu—folk songs from the Six Dynasties Period (fourth-fifth centuries A.D.). Most of the songs are simple, erotic lyrics. Some are attributed to legendary courtesans, while others may have been sung at harvest festivals or marriage celebrations. In addition to the folk songs, Rexroth offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse: works by 60 different poets, from the third century to our own time. Rexroth always translated Chinese poetry—as he said—“solely to please myself.” And he created, with remarkable success, English versions which stand as poems in their own right.
Author : Bill Martin Jr
Release : 2007-09
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 555/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Turning of the Year by : Bill Martin Jr
Download or read book The Turning of the Year written by Bill Martin Jr. This book was released on 2007-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning celebration of every month of the year.
Author : Jessica J. Lee
Release : 2018-04-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Turning by : Jessica J. Lee
Download or read book Turning written by Jessica J. Lee. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ears. The sound of it is a muffled roar, the vibration of the body amplified by water, every sound felt as if in slow motion . . .' Summer swimming . . . but Jessica Lee - Canadian, Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons and especially loves the winter. 'I long for the ice. The sharp cut of freezing water on my feet. The immeasurable black of the lake at its coldest. Swimming then means cold, and pain, and elation.' At the age of twenty-eight, Jessica Lee, who grew up in Canada and lived in London, finds herself in Berlin. Alone. Lonely, with lowered spirits thanks to some family history and a broken heart, she is there, ostensibly, to write a thesis. And though that is what she does daily, what increasingly occupies her is swimming. So she makes a decision that she believes will win her back her confidence and independence: she will swim fifty-two of the lakes around Berlin, no matter what the weather or season. She is aware that this particular landscape is not without its own ghosts and history. This is the story of a beautiful obsession: of the thrill of a still, turquoise lake, of cracking the ice before submerging, of floating under blue skies, of tangled weeds and murkiness, of cool, fresh, spring swimming - of facing past fears of near drowning and of breaking free. When she completes her year of swimming Jessica finds she has new strength, and she has also found friends and has gained some understanding of how the landscape both haunts and holds us. This book is for everyone who loves swimming, who wishes they could push themselves beyond caution, who understands the deep pleasure of using their body's strength, who knows what it is to allow oneself to abandon all thought and float home to the surface.
Author : Brian Lawson
Release : 2010-08-27
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 081/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Turning Year by : Brian Lawson
Download or read book The Turning Year written by Brian Lawson. This book was released on 2010-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turning Year This ones for the records. 2009 has been a complex novel, from the prosaic Chapter One, all the way to Chapter Twelve, where I, the protagonist, is left wondering why it all went down the way it did. In the opening pages of January, how could I have ever known that in two months time Id meet the girl of my dreams, and feel her, touch her in ways I never thought possible? How could I have known that this connection would happen, fulfilling my urges, yet at the same time signing the order of execution on the heart of someone who had only committed the crime of trusting me? But soon I lost them both, left them hating me and wanting to be rid of me.
