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Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine (1923) is an epic poem and accompanying scholarship by José Hernández and Henry A. Holmes. Originally published in two parts, the poem has been praised as a defining work of Argentine literature for its depiction of national identity in relation to the gaucho culture, which was used to consolidate the historical and political image of the country against European influence. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Hernández was a writer who grew up in a ranching family, who knew firsthand the prowess of a people who helped Argentina free itself from Spanish control.

A TRUE EXPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH...AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BOOK. Jay Sizemore's incendiary poem SCOWL was released to intense controversy on 8/24/2015. Published by the now rebooted Revolution John Magazine, an online journal, the poem was immediately met with a backlash of criticism and condemnation in a brutal display of unmitigated irony. SCOWL was written to showcase the hypocrisy of "call-out culture" and "mob shaming" that had become a prevalent staple of new-wave feminism and social media activism. The provocative nature of the work garnered the exact type of response it set out to critique, proving the thesis of the work. As a result, Revolution John was intimidated through ruthless online bullying until its editor decided to permanently delete all web content. The poem is printed here for the first time, along with several other poems that had been showcased in Revolution John Magazine, many of which are themed around freedom of expression. Poet Heath Brougher says, "This book is a True expression of freedom of speech. It's sad that we live in a society that censors free speech like we do, but this book reminds us that we need to wake up before it's 1984. The embers of pure unadulterated Freedom live within the pages of this book. This book is an extremely imortant book. It is a must read for anyone who is against censorship. " Poet Dustin Pickering says, "...draws comparisons between the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo, Puritanical forms of shame-and-blame, and other varieties of censorship to the current trend of social media activism. This is a fine work of social criticism..."

The Metaphor is an awakening, here to coach us past the trauma, here to teach us the difference between love and infatuation. The Metaphor will counsel us to see the poetry in our loneliness and woes. The Metaphor shall set us free.Act 1: Morality - A deep dive into themes like love, loss, depression, and family.Act 2: Honesty - An exercise in obsession, longing, romance, and possession.Characters: Christopher, The Metaphor, The Passerby, Jennifer Meroux, aka Ladylove, Natasha, the Goddess of Honesty, Rudy, the God of Morality, Edgar Allen, Shondra, and Ra

Joseph Nechvatal's epic passion poem, Destroyer of Naivetes, takes up a position of excess from within a society that believes that the less you conceal, the stranger you become. We live and love in a culture where surveillance/intrusion is tied to our drive for self-revealing everything (an anti-private-life culture of curiosity, egotism, solitude, fear, voyeurism, exhibitionism and resentment - where the feeling is that nothing could or should remain unknown to us).The sex farce poetic overindulgence of Destroyer of Naivetes takes inspiration from the books of Jean Genet, Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, drawings by Hans Bellmer, film/performances of Bradley Eros, and the erotic scribblings of Giacomo Casanova, Georges Bataille, Petronius, Vladimir Nabokov, Marquis de Sade, Yukio Mishima, Ovid, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Kathy Acker and I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia.

"The Gilgamesh Epic is the most notable literary product of Babylonia as yet discovered in the mounds of Mesopotamia."The Gilgamesh Epic recount the exploits and adventures of a favorite hero and become the medium of illustrating aspects of life and the destiny of mankind. This Sumerian poems may be regarded as a confirmation of the statement that there are various traditions of the deluge apart from the Biblical one, which is perhaps legendary like the rest. This text (dating (circa 2100 BC) is often regarded as the first great work of literature.While credit should be given to Dr. Langdon for having made this important tablet accessible, Dr Albert T. Cay has shown that attention be called to his failure to grasp the many important data furnished by the tablet, which escaped him because of his erroneous readings and faulty translations. This new edition contains their complete texts (footnotes and commentaries included): (1) An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic-On the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts by Albert T. Clay and Morris Jastrow Jr. (2) The Epic of Gilgamesh-A Fragment of the Gilgamesh Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform by Stephen Langdon."Now with the tendency to attach to popular tales and nature myths lessons illustrative of current beliefs and aspirations, Gilgamesh's search for renewal of life is viewed as man's longing for eternal life. The sun-god's waning power after midsummer is past suggests man's growing weakness after the meridian of life has been left behind. Winter is death, and man longs to escape it. Gilgamesh's wanderings are used as illustration of this longing, and accordingly the search for life becomes also the quest for immortality. Can the precious boon of eternal life be achieved? Popular fancy created the figure of a favorite of the gods who had escaped a destructive deluge in which all mankind had perished. Gilgamesh hears of this favorite and determines to seek him out and learn from him the secret of eternal life. The deluge story, again a pure nature myth, symbolical of the rainy season which destroys all life in nature, is thus attached to the Epic. Gilgamesh after many adventures finds himself in the presence of the survivor of the Deluge who, although human, enjoys immortal life among the gods. He asks the survivor how he came to escape the common fate of mankind, and in reply Utnapishtim tells the story of the catastrophe that brought about universal destruction. The moral of the tale is obvious. Only those singled out by the special favor of the gods can hope to be removed to the distant "source of the streams" and live forever. The rest of mankind must face death as the end of life."

Considerada como la obra más perfecta de la humanidad por Jorge L. Borges, La Divina Comedia ofrece al lector un viaje alegórico y filosófico por el infierno, el purgatorio y el paraíso. Es considerada la obra maestra de la literatura italiana y una de las cumbres de la literatura universal.

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two epic poems from Ancient Greece which have become cornerstones of Western literature. This stunning jacketed hardcover brings together these two works in accessible prose translations, ideal for those wanting to be thrown into the action of these thrilling tales. In The Iliad, the Greek's best warrior Achilles has abandoned the war with the Trojans on a mission of revenge. Only the death of his best friend Patroclus persuades Achilles to return to battle and confront the Trojan leader Hector in single combat. The Odyssey is set after the Trojan War as Odysseus sets off on his ten-year journey home to Ithica, encountering natural and supernatural threats along the way. Filled with fallible gods and foolhardy heroes, these two classic works offer incredible insight into ancient Greek mythology and culture as well as remaining thrilling tales in their own right. ABOUT THE SERIES: The World Classics Library series gathers together the work of authors and philosophers whose ideas have stood the test of time. Perfect for bibliophiles, these gorgeous jacketed hardcovers are a wonderful addition to any bookshelf.

PAN TADEUSZ tells the story of two feuding families and the young lovers caught in the middle. Adding to the intrigue, Napoleon is camped in Warsaw, preparing to attack the occupying Russian forces. Woven into the historic tapestry are memorable characters such as the sultry coquette, virtuous maiden, besotted young officer, corrupt Russian soldiers, fearless Polish swordsmen, wise old men and even a mysterious monk, who prays piously even as he shoots with deadly aim. Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855) wrote "Pan Tadeusz" while exiled in France. His homeland was occupied by Russia, where he would not have had the freedom to write this ode to Polish history and heritage. His great work remains today required reading in Polish schools. This English version was translated by George Rapall Noyes in 1917. He wrote it in prose rather than the original poem structure, but it retains all the grand sweep of historical detail, rich cultural references and romantic passions of a time when Napoleon coveted Russia and Poles desired their freedom.

'STUCK ON THE WHEEL' is S.E. McKenzie's 29th epic poem. 'STUCK ON THE WHEEL' is a work of fiction which explores the roundness in life's cycles.

Social media can be used to heal. The secret is to openly share our own unique truth. This is a collection of these truths. Thousands of strangers from around the world joined an online course for 30 days of writing. A diverse group of one hundred writers remained connected for the following year in a Facebook group, pouring out their lives to each other in poetry and prose. They encouraged each other, embraced their differences, and lived by only one rule: to love. They breathed each other's words as air. Together, many of them became authors. These writers show us that deep relationships and personal growth are possible, even in this age of declining personal communication and true connection.

The Weirding Storm is an epic poem. Witches, dragons, malevolent spirit animals, dire wolves, hate, war, community, peace, and love spill out of the lines in a dance of words. After watching a young girl whose mother has died in the remote cottage below the dragon cliffs, a great dragon lands in front of a hunter from the nearest human village. Ssruuanne tries to tell Ruarther, the hunter, about the small human girl, but he sends an arrow bouncing uselessly off her scales. Her fiery breath sets a tree behind him alight, and the hunter runs, even though he had always told himself he would never quail before a dragon's power. Thus begins an epic story poem flowing out of a witch's death into the courage of a young girl and the terrifying build-up to a dragon/human war. Dragons, in their immense caverns and tunnels, face extinction, searching desperately for a way to control young rebel males in their midst. Humans, in the village below where the young girl is left alone to face a brutal winter, struggle against the coming war. Desperate to escape war, they search for dormant arts and powers long denied. Then, as Wei, the young girl, achieves an impossible transformation, war and the realms of death loose dire wolves and a storm of extinction as an epic climax threatens humans and dragons alike even as the possibility for human and dragon redemption takes flight into winter skies. Written in blank verse, or iambic pentameter, it is a formal epic featuring most of the elements that are characteristic of this ancient form of storytelling which has been around since the time of Beowulf and Homer's Odyssey. The Weirding includes an 'invocation' to the poetic muse, a hero's visit to the realms of death, and a story that encompasses a spirit so large it can be told only through a long poem. "Thomas Davis has taken a literary form that goes all the way back to the great sagas of antiquity's oral literature, and fashioned a contemporary tale that will enthral both adults and their children. Davis has heard the song/Dredged from the ancient dragon memories and given us a story-poem that is part Beowulf and part Game of Thrones. Filled with witches, dragons, warriors, battles a wondrously stark universe comes to life in The Weirding Storm." Terence Winch, winner of the American Book Award and author of fifteen books of poetry and prose. "In his epic poem, The Weirding Storm: A Dragon Epic, Thomas Davis discovers vivid and often stunning language to explore both ancient worlds and our present world with its ongoing cycles of death and resurgence, war and peace. Here you will find language and story that mesmerize the reader, that transport one to places where words and stories are born. This epic poem serves as a bridge between realms: substance and spirit, beast and human, reality and dream, none of which are separate in any moment of life." James Janko, winner Association of Writers and Writing Programs Prize for the Novel; author of Clubhouse Thief and Buffalo Boy and Geronimo.

In a magical world of ease and well-being, one man is tormented by a terrible beast that has grown up right in his very home. After devastating encounters with the beast, the hero must voyage out into the world to destroy, or reconcile himself with, the strange monster. With courage, audacity, and a little luck, the rewards of his triumph are nothing short of a miracle.

Valley of the Damned Epic Poem Valhalla! Norse gods, spirits o' war, shades, pallorous ghost traces, werewolves, demons, spectres, wraiths and other haunting creatures of untold dread all come together in this Epic action-packed, martial arts adventure never before heard of tale on earth-- "The Valley of the Damned!" In this "Forgotten tale that no one knows," readers are invited for the first time to venture into the razor-exotic unseen Netherworld of the dead, where remnant spirits contend with each other for power and control over kingdoms, unspeakable legions of fallen shades, and the most prized "possession" of all the immortal human soul! Ride with three killer-phantoms on their quest to pursue the vainglorious "karate" movie star Mark Theman for his soul, the arrogant human whom all spirits wish to capture for their own sinister purposes! Trail teenage Valkyrie Kari "mass-battle" artist known for her psychotic poetic-sword s'kills and who will confront all odds to win. Shadowing her is the jackal-like Angel-Heart, amoral sword-slingin' duelist who always dogs her, never missing an opportunity to exploit and track with Dark Storm, ruthless bounty huntress who will stop at nothing in order to seize the power that Theman possesses his soulish living human "aura!" Rich in description and replete with scores of villainous and heroic spirits, "Valley" is an outrageous tale of valor and woe, of damnation and redemption, played out on an immense spiritual killing field where spectral phantoms are tried and tested in the fires of their (and our) own passions. In "Valley" readers will: - Enter the grotesque "Market of the Soul" where long-lost warriors screech in vain to recapture their former glory. - Sit with warlords of all climes and listen to Motion-Effectrix St. Kari of the Blade, Valk extraswordinaire spin inspirangular tales of gallantry as Evil lurks about, waiting to devour the unwary then follow her into stark raving lunacidal pitched battle. - Join with Mark Theman, the ruthless martial arts movie star as he desperately attempts to retrieve his long-lost soul before it is hurled headlong into the deepest Abyss of Hell. - Ensnare pitiful souls with the ruthless bounty hunting phasma-revenant Dark Storm in her bid for supreme power over millions and the coveted throne of Asgard. - Follow the hell-hound packin' cold mercenary Angel-heart as he slices and dices the damned on his way up to become the top blade in the grisly Mortuus. "Valley" is laced with myth/hist notes from the world over. (S)word-plays and inter-twistorted tales corridor and pierce the Epic with elusive mind-resonances, shadowy mental focal lengths, pale thought-illusions and graspless realizations nigh unto dimensions invisi'bled, labyrimazing readers down into the inner sanctums of her lores; the uncanny, disturbing veiled Nether and the grim, obliquitious secrets she brings to dark! "Valley" culminates in a superlative modern fable that will stir the imaginations of those hearts who desire a bold, soul-searching undertaking into the stark core of their own Heavenly stratums or the dankest helks of their own personal Hells!

The Sanctity of Rhyme is a metamusical exegesis, in poetry and prose, of an Americana Desolation Punk Rock band, Crying 4 Kafka. Though band narratives generally follow a simple formula (e.g. unbridled sex, excessive drugs, trace elements of plot, etc.) this book is different. The Sanctity of Rhyme is a singular poetic vision that draws freely from the traditions of Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, B.H. Fairchild, Rimbaud, Anne Sexton, Jack Spicer and others, crafted with the cadence and manic energy of punk rock and slam poetry. Essays, fictive authors and conversations, lyrics, flyers, photos, drawings, and remnants of parental abuse populate the text. The Sanctity of Rhyme is ultimately a tribute to personal autonomy and artistic freedom.

Filled with some of the most amazing, inspiring and empowering lines ever written in the form of poems! This book is a modern day meets classical era of poetry at its finest. Prepare to have your heart and soul touched as you flip through these pages.