the pursuit of happiness and other poems

The Pursuit of Happiness And Other Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Benjamin Robbin Low, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA

Today Tomorrow: The Collected Poems of George Bruce,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bruce, George / Morgan, Edwin, PUBLISHER: Polygon, Over 250 poems reflect the changing personal and social experiences of the poet from childhood during the first World War up to the present day. The collection brings together poems published in collections over the last sixty years, and includes uncollected poems previous to "Sea Talk" () and new material following the publication of "Pursuit" ().

The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Haybron, Daniel M., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren't very good at it? That is the question posed by this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness, understood here as a psychological phenomenon. Engaging heavily with the scientific literature, Dan Haybron argues that people probably know less about their own welfare, and may be less effective at securing it, than common belief has it. This is largely because human nature is surprisingly ill-suited to the pursuit of happiness. For the happiness that counts for well-being is not a matter of what we think about our lives, but of the quality of our emotional conditions. Yet our emotional lives are remarkably difficult to grasp. Moreover, we make a variety of systematic errors in the pursuit of happiness. These considerations suggest that we should rethink traditional assumptions about the good life and the good society. For instance, the pursuit of happiness may be primarily a matter of social context rather than personal choice. This book offers an extensive guide to philosophical thinking about happiness and well-being, correcting serious misconceptions that have beset the literature. It will be a definitive resource for philosophers, social scientists, policymakers, and other students of well-being.

Half-Caste: And Other Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Agard, John, PUBLISHER: Hodder Children's Books, "Half-Caste "is a mixture of old and new poems that address core issues and experiences for young people. Race and cultural identity is a primary theme and shapes the book. There are poems about violence, the environment, relationships, politics, and grief, alongside poems full of fun, looking at everyday events from quirky, unexpected points of view. It's an accessible and inspiring book by a poet who knows and respects his audience.

The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pratt, Minnie Bruce, PUBLISHER: University of Pittsburgh Press, Suffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the American south as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the margins of society. Vivid, lush, and intensely honest, these poems capture the rough edges of the world and force us to pay attention. The Dirt She Ate features thirteen new poems as well as selections from Minnie Bruce Pratt's previous collections of poetry -- The Sound of One Fork (); We Say We Love Each Other (); Crime Against Nature ().

Prayers and Poems of Inspiration

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ideals Publications Inc, PUBLISHER: Ideals Publications, The uplifting prayers and inspirational poems of great men and women are presented in this volume with the stories of the authors' lives and full-page color photographs.

Happy-People-Pills for All

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walker, Mark, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons Inc, "Happy-People-Pills for All" explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happinessA controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of 'happy-pills', to promote the wellbeing of the individual and societyBrings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happinessMaps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacologyOffers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness

The Waking Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Siegel, Amie / Siegel, Andrea, PUBLISHER: North Atlantic Books, These moving poems map the internal geographies of desire and memory. The 19 poems in Amie Siegel's first collection were composed during her extended stays in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and the American Southwest. They evoke the ways we derive meaning from our contact with other places and demonstrate the power of language both to construct and to dematerialize what it describes.

About Night: Selected and New Poems by Dennis Schmitz

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schmitz, Dennis, PUBLISHER: Oberlin, Dennis Schmitz has provoked praise, delight and amazement among his readers. His complex, energetic poems, diving fearlessly into the physical world in pursuit of spiritual meanings, have proved rich and rewarding to those who have encountered them. This collection, the inaugural work of the FIELD Poetry Series, draws on five previous volumes.

The Crow's Vow

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Briscoe, Susan, PUBLISHER: Vehicule Press, Following the story of a marriage come undone, this moving book-length sequence is broken down into four seasons, distilling the details of the failed relationship through physical processes of nature, such as the buzzing life of wildflowers and birds that the speaker--a wife and mother--studies daily for clues on happiness. Intricately constructed and brimming with resourceful linguistic play, these poems are elemental odes on the end of love and its eventual renewal.

The Second Four Books of Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Merwin, W. S., PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press, W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii. W.S. Merwin's "Second Four Books of Poems" includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy." Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium: "East Window" (Copper Canyon Press), "The First Four Books of Poems" (Copper Canyon Press), -X "Flower & Hand" (Copper Canyon Press),

Flareup of Twosomes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pearlman, Bill / Jacob, Jim, PUBLISHER: La Alameda Press, This web of poems of longing digs within raw character: Orpheus and Mr. Lucky in slow tango as the heart spins on a table under hot lamplight. These are not love poems but reflection upon reflection of what we suffer lovingly. Pearlman writes into and out of a language of drama and wry belief. His poems are turbulent contemplations???sources of prayer and grit and flinging the crutch into the sky. They join the inner salt of need with a sweet leaven of hope redeemed in the midnight hour.

John Donne - The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Donne, John / Carey, John, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, John Donne () is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. His poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of tones, images, forms, and personae. This collection of Donne's verse includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, including such well-known poems as "Air and Angels," "The Flea," the "Holy Sonnets," and "The Progress of the Soul." The poems are provided with full Notes and a useful Introduction to Donne's life and poetry.

The Absence of Gray: A Book of Poetry

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Daniels, Amy, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, The thought behind the book THE ABSENCE OF GRAY is to dissuade the concepts of gray or of uncertainty. The poems persuade you to think a different way or expound on ideas that you already believe to be true. This poetry represents feelings of happiness, sadness, peace, rage, unrest, and victory. I hope the journey through this book is one of benefit and consciousness.

Poems about Life and More

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morris, Mitzi A., PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, This is a book of poems about life. I have also added more poems that deal with all different things. Some other poems included are about our country, like "Our Flag" and "." There are also poems like "Alcohol," "Money"and "Pictures." These are rhyming poems and they read like a story. This book is good for teens and adults because it describes some of life's experiences.

The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pope, Alexander / Price, Martin / Miller, Christopher R., PUBLISHER: Signet Classics, One of The Enlightenment's greatest poets, Alexander Pope was famous for his wit, brilliant epigrams, and razor-sharp satire of fashionable society's foibles. Presented here in their entirety are several of his principal works, including the delightful mock-epic "The Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Criticism" and his satirical masterpiece, "The Dunciad."

The Sun Unwound: Poems from Occupied America

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brotherston, Gordon / Dorn, Edward, PUBLISHER: North Atlantic Books, The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward Dorn and scholar Gordon Brotherston, "The Sun Unwound" gathers together the disparate voices of oppressed Americans through the centuries: the hymns, songs, and prayers of Mesoamericans and other native peoples; the verse of eight Latin American guerrillas of the 's; and works by three of Latin America's most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth century. The Native Americans saw their cultures obliterated, most of the guerrillas died in their struggles, and the modernists have faced persecution, prison, and torture for their left-wing convictions. Previously untranslated or unavailable to most North Americans, their poems offer a striking counterpoint to the colonialist, capitalist, Anglo-Saxon ethos.

Pebbles Monochromes & Other Modern Poems:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Howells, William Dean / Cady, Edwin, PUBLISHER: Ohio University Press, For William Dean Howells, the s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his daughter in . The blow altered him radically. Among other changes, a poetry new to him emerged, a poetry in the modern tradition. This "new" poetry is available now as never before in Pebbles, Monochromes, and Other Modern Poems, . It is metaphysical, agnostic, and ironic with a modernist voice. Praised at the century's start by figures as notable as Stephen Crane, Henry and William James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Hamlin Garland, Howells arises again at the end of the century, hailed by the likes of John Updike and Gore Vidal. This rich cache of modern poems by W. D. Howells, lost for so long, is now made accessible under the editorial eye of Edwin Cady. Its significance is central to the understanding of the literary history and culture that defined the modern era and to the progeny that grew from that fertile soil.

William Wordsworth: Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wordsworth, William / Gonet, Stella / Gwynne, Haydn, PUBLISHER: HighBridge Audio, Born in , William Wordsworth was and remains Britain's most celebrated poet. This splendid anthology features poems from the Lyrical Ballads, his famous collection written in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; from The Prelude, the autobiographical work that explores the development of the man and the poet; and his personal and lyrical poems, including "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge". Includes poems in their entirety and unabridged excerpts.

Cities & Towns -Jp

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vogelsang, Arthur, PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press, "Vogelsang's newest poems are rich and complicated, yes, and altogether alluring in their pursuit of the runaway beast known as Love or Life". -- James Tate.

Reaching Out to the World: New and Selected Prose Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bly, Robert, PUBLISHER: White Pine Press (NY), "Joyous, inspired meditations that demonstrate Bly's talent for conveying in the simplest language the richness and complexity of the universe around us."--Library Journal Available for the first time, this significant volume collects over one hundred of Robert Bly's prose poems written over a period of five decades. It includes the bulk of several landmark out-of-print volumes as well as uncollected poems and new material. Bly has been one of the leading writers of the prose poem since the reemergence of the form in the s. Robert Bly is one of the leading poets of his generation.

Original Fire: Selected and New Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Erdrich, Louise, PUBLISHER: Harper, In this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, "Jacklight and "Baptism of Desire, and added new poems to compose "Original Fire. Profound and accessible, this collection anticipates and enlarges upon many of the themes, and even the characters, of Erdrich's prose. A sequence of story poems called "The Potchikoo Stories" recounts the life and afterlife of the questing trickster Potchikoo, echoing the wit and humanity of the inimitable, Nanapush, who appears in several of Erdrich's novels, most recently "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. Similarly, the group of poems called "The Butcher's Wife" contains the germ of Erdrich's most recent novel, "The Master Butchers Singing Club. A powerful new poem, "The Seven Sleepers," forms the core of an entire section of the book and is about the passionate search for the divine in all its forms. The final section, "Original Fire," travels through birth, ordinary life, loss, and redemption. These poems reveal that poetry emerges from what we fear most, and that memory is endurance.

Chupacabras and Other Mysteries

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Corrales, Scott / Davenport, Marc, PUBLISHER: Greenleaf Publications (TN), A veteran bilingual researcher answers the public outcry for information about the "goat sucker" that has mutilated animals and terrorized the residents of Puerto Rico and other countries around the Gulf of Mexico. The author also shares his research findings about UFO encounters, government cover-ups, shape shifters, Bigfoot, and other mysteries of the region. Contains photo section, notes, bibliography, index.

Infinite Light, Poems to the Self

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kelly, Peter, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, This book of poetry is about the infinite. In its poems you will get a priceless education. Life, as we know, it is presented as an illusion of advanced technology, technology possessed by God from the beginning of Creation. As well, timely topics like law, labor and others are treated. The book is written as the authoras legacy to the infinite, as the true self in all behind the illusions of name, form and other appearances. Waking life is presented as just another mental plane where all mind stuff relativity appliesa]

Seeking for the Kingdom of God: Origins of the Bruderhof

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Arnold, Eberhard / Arnold, Emmy, PUBLISHER: Plough Publishing House, A candid look at the faith and daring that led the Arnolds to break away from the established church of their day. Contains letters, poems, and biographical and historical material about the beginnings of the Bruderhof movement.

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