Gedichte

"I Tumors favn" handler om at leve et halvt år med en tumor på størrelse med en appelsin inde i sit bryst. Alle forfatterens tanker, følelser og oplevelser beskrives fra den dag, hun får stillet brystkræftdiagnosen til den dag, hun er færdigbehandlet. Cirka et år senere og et bryst fattigere. En lærerig og bevægende historie om at have fået en kritisk sygdom. En fortælling, der når hele følelsesregistret igennem og både giver anledning til smil og tårer. Skrivestilen er intuitiv, umiddelbar både sart, følsom og rå realistisk – krydret med besk humor. Let tilgængelig og rørende læsning, der ledsages af gribende illustrationer. Digtsamlingen er skrevet kronologisk og inddelt i syv afsnit, der hver giver en kort introduktion til, hvor vi befinder os i brystkræft behandlingsforløbet. Bagerst i bogen findes uddrag fra forfatterens dagbog. Ingen vil være i tvivl om hvilke kampe, der skal kæmpes, når man først har sagt ”Ja-tak!” til brystkræftpakkens lange seje behandlingsforløb i Danmark anno 2015. Hver solgt bog udløser en donation til Kræftens Bekæmpelse/Støt brysterne og DBO (Dansk Brystkræft Organisation).

Grafik af Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, fotos af Line Esbjørn, tekst af Tomas Thøfner. En sammenfiltret masse.

Forfatteren tager som 50-årig på ferie i Egypten medbringende en notesbog i håb om at få ryddet op i forstyrrende tanker og at få gjort status over sit liv. Da pennen sættes til papiret, flyder ordene nærmest ubevidst - der bliver sat ord på tanker og følelser og beretningen kommer ud i verseform. Digtene kommenterer opvæksten, indre og ydre konflikter, kærlighedens diversitet og naturens skønhed og er gennemsyret af en forankring i det guddommelige.

Temaet i Anne Voels anden haikusamling er vandring,hvori hun lader sig inspirere af japansk wabi-sabi æstetik.Anne Voels enkle haiku akkompagnerer hendes enestående billeder,som giver anledning til at stå stille.

Birthe Wilke blev født i København den 19. marts 1936 og allerede som 15-årig startede hun en sangkarriere. I 1955 fik hun sit store gennembrud med »Den gamle gartners sang«, som hun sang sammen med kgl. operasanger Mogens Wedel. I 1957 medvirkede hun i det første danske og internationale Melodi Grand Prix i Frankfurt i Vesttyskland, hvor hun sammen med Gustav Winckler sang »Skibet skal sejle i nat«. Sangen sluttede med et meget laaangt kys, som stadig huskes af mange.I 1959 medvirkede hun atter i det internationale Melodi Grand Prix, denne gang i Cannes i Frankrig, med sangen »Uh! jeg ville ønske jeg var dig«. Og i 1961 vandt hun en international sangkonkurrence i Sopot i Polen, med en komposition af Ib Glindemann »Wake up«. 50-erne var et forrygende årti for Birthe Wilke med masser af succes. Hun indspillede ca. 200 sange på grammofonplade og medvirkede også i flere film. Mest som sangerinde. I midten af tresserne, hvor hun i mellemtiden var blevet mor, trak hun sig ud af rampelyset for at hellige sig familielivet. I 2003 trådte hun atter frem for offentligheden, idet hun begyndte at holde foredrag om sin karriere i 50-erne.

"Tankespind & Drømmesind" er en forunderlig bog, der fører læseren fra det ene eventyrlige ordmaleri til det andet. Teksterne danner de smukkeste billeder på nethinden, alt imens man bevæger sig gennem farverige og fascinerende universer der taler til både følelser og fantasi. Bogens tekster er en oase i en travl hverdag.

her er lidt om mig og hvad der forgår i mit liv og lidt hvorfor det er vigtigt vi stopper cloning og hvad der også kunne være sket 9/11 i usa.

Den finlandssvenske digter Gunnar Björling (1887-1960) er en af de helt store skikkelser i det 20. århundredes nordiske digtning. I forfatterskabets tidlige år afprøver Björling en lang række æstetiske former under inspiration fra ekspressionismen og dadaismen. Fra midten af 1930'erne finder han en individuel form og orienterer sig i stigende grad mod naturen og sanserne.Björlings metode giver en fremstilling af Björlings naturdigtning og dens filosofiske kontekst. Med afsæt i Björlings poetikker opridses en vitalistisk naturopfattelse som udgangspunkt for digtningen. Henri Bergsons naturfilosofi , herunder begreberne tid, erfaring og intuition, bliver i analysen brugt som teoretisk grundlag. På baggrund af de teoretiske overvejelser udarbejdes Björlings metode i den kunstneriske skabelsesproces og hans bestræbelse på at revitalisere den klassiske naturlyrik.Livet er ikke begribeligt;det er at gribe.

The Secret Rose (1897) is a collection of poems by W.B. Yeats. Written in response to demands that the poet write ¿a really national poem or romance,¿ The Secret Rose exhibits Yeats¿ devotion to personal mythology and occult orders, and is a brilliant display of symbolism by one of Irish literature¿s premier poets.¿To the Secret Rose¿ opens the collection. The poem, inspired by Yeats¿ membership in the Rosicrucian Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, uses symbolism to evoke religion, myth, and history. The ¿Far off, most secret, and inviolate Rose¿ is an image of utopian longing, an ideal moment the poet awaits, envisions, and longs for. ¿The Crucifixion of the Outcast¿ is a parable in which a wandering bard is led by Christian brothers to his execution. As his cross is set in the earth, he offers a portion of his last meal to the beggars who have gathered to watch. When he is nailed to the cross, however, he finds that mercy without humility is a seed that cannot grow. In ¿The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows,¿ Puritan soldiers storm an abbey and attack a group of friars. Before he dies, the abbot raises the cross upon the altar, and promises divine vengeance. Immediately afterward, the soldiers are told that two messengers have escaped on horseback to warn and gather the people for a counterattack. The Secret Rose explores themes of faith and persecution while illuminating the proximity of life and myth for a poet whose subject is the soul.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats¿s The Secret Rose is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.B. Yeats. Dedicated to Maud Gonne, an actress and revolutionary whom Yeats unsuccessfully courted for years, The Countess Cathleen underwent several editions before being performed in its final version at Dublin¿s Abbey Theatre in 1911.Based on an Irish legend, the play, set during a period of intense famine, follows a land-owning Countess who decides to sacrifice her wealth and property in order to save the starving Irish people. As dusk gathers, a family prepares for dinner in their rural home. The fire is lit, and Shemus, the father, has returned home from a day of hunting with nothing to show for it. As they scrounge what they can to make themselves a meal, the Countess Cathleen arrives to ask them for directions. Touched by their suffering, the Countess returns home and begins to wonder what she can do to alleviate their difficult circumstances. Impatient, Shemus yells to the darkening woods to welcome whatever being, angel or devil, that would bring them money or something to eat. When two merchants arrive offering him gold for his services, it appears that the Countess, despite her good intentions, may already be too late. The Countess Cathleen is a drama written in blank verse that explores themes of poverty, faith, and Irish independence.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats¿s The Countess Cathleen is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between language and the world it describes. Part essay, part poem, Spring and All is a landmark of American literature from a poet whose daring search for the outer limits of life both redefined and expanded the meaning of language itself. ¿There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here.¿ In Spring and All, Williams identifies the incomprehensible nature of consciousness as the single most important subject of poetry. Accused of being ¿heartless¿ and ¿cruel,¿ of producing ¿positively repellant¿ works of art in order to ¿make fun of humanity,¿ Williams doesn¿t so much defend himself as dig in his heels. His poetry is addressed ¿[t]o the imagination¿ itself; it seeks to break down the ¿the barrier between sense and the vaporous fringe which distracts the attention from its agonized approaches to the moment.¿ When he states that ¿so much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow,¿ he refers to the need to understand the nature of language, which keeps us in touch with the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Carlos Williams¿ Spring and All is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.