Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Magical Poems [Paperback]

Magical Poems [Paperback] Aditi Upmanyu (Author)


  • Paperback: 50 pages
  • Publisher: Rochak Publishing (May 15, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8190381253 ISBN-13: 978-8190381253
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    This book is a collection of contemporary poems. Poetry, which is often associated with words like archaic or dry, but poetry holds its relevance maximum in the twenty first century. People often prompted me that poetry doesn’t sell.

    Poetry is one of the best means to convey deep messages and my poems are a small effort to do so. Each line that I’ve composed comes from my heart and is pure in terms of the originality of my thoughts. You are never too old or young to read a poem or even compose a one. Since kindergarten a child is made to learn nursery rhymes and then grows up reading works of PB Shelley, Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare. The reason is simple. Since times immemorial, poetry has always been a form of not just expressing one’s thoughts but also imbuing them within the heart. My poems deal with different topics including humour, motivation, hopes and relations. The poems do not intend to hurt any religion, caste, creed, sex, community or individual.

    I’m a fifteen year old girl who currently lives in Jaipur. I study at MSMSV; a school that has nurtured within me my talent and recognized it. Reading and writing prose and poetry has always been a passion. Though I hold no degrees of literature, I’ve achieved enough in terms of knowledge, vocabulary and writing skills. Literature, of any language, is a part through which I’ve developed my personality. I’m in class tenth and I’d seen the dream of getting my book out five years back. But perhaps I saw it with open eyes, now. I still dream of being a distinguished writer and I would try my best to give the most succulent pieces of literature in the upcoming times.

    The Awakened One Poetics [Paperback]

    The Awakened One Poetics [Paperback]

    Joseph Spence advises us to "touch the Buddha" inside us, "Follow the Dharma," "bring to light true love," "bury the drums of warfare." T. S. Eliot also in his The Waste Land (1922) reveals the impact of Buddhism: "Datta, dayadhvam, damyata" (Give, sympathise, control). "Dantescan light" prevails around Joseph's luminous and visionary book celebrating Buddhist enlightenment. Joseph Spence has created a convincing Haiku world in which our search for moral pivot can take place. His haikus are a testimony to the fact that as a haiku poet his place is secure and permanent by virtue of his message, delicacy, a crystalline charm, and his dignified utterance. The book becomes more attractive with the inclusion of poems about soup and food. Lewis Carroll's apt words "Who for such dainties would not stoop?" ("The Mock Turtle's Song") are truly applicable to these soup poems, enough to cheer up the people when they are feeling down. Joseph is the inventor of the Epulaeryu poetic form which is about succulent dishes, drinks and various cuisine. The Awakened One Poetics is divided into Section One, Beautiful Smiles from Japan, Poland and China; Section Two, Enchanting Smiles in Japanese, Spanish, Polish & Chinese; Section Three, Captivating Smiles from Egypt, Poland and China; Section Four, Elevating Smiles in French, Polish & Chinese and Section Five, Radiant Smiles in Jamaikan Patwa, Polish and Spanish. It is a multilingual book with Chinese, French, Polish, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic and Jamiekan Patwa translations. Cross-cultural cosmopolitanism inspires Joseph Spence, and here he is different from Voltaire and Goethe. "Even Voltaire's and Goethe's concepts of literature universelle and Weltliteratur were basically monolingual and linked to linguistic patriotism and imperialism" (Literary Multilingualism i: General Outlines and Western World - K. Alfons Knauth). The Awakened One Poetics by Joseph S. Spence, Sr. is a magnificent book, sure in its handling, and restrained in its expression of passion.

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  • Paperback: 195 pages
  • Publisher: Rochak Publishing; 2 Sept. 2010 edition (August 25, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8190381245
  • ISBN-13: 978-8190381246
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • About the Author

    Joseph S. Spence, Sr. is the co-author of two poetry books, A Trilogy of Poetry, Prose and Thoughts for the Mind, Body and Soul (2005), and Trilogy Moments for the Mind, Body and Soul (2006), Winner of The 2009 Best Christian Poetry Book Award from ChristianStoryTeller.com. He invented the Epulaeryu and Seventh Heaven poetry forms and is published in various forums including: Word Catalyst Magazine, Harvest of New Millennium Journal, Joyful Magazine, Taj Mahal Review, The Phoenix Magazine, The Rubicon, and World Haiku Association. Joseph is a Goodwill Ambassador for the State of Arkansas, a military veteran, college adjunct faculty, and resides in Wisconsin.








    NO NUKES: Brave New World of Beauty [Paperback]


    This philosophical and ecclesiastic poem by Dr Santosh Kumar is a life s quest in the working of a mind that understands the present nature of the world, terrorism, its causes and possible solutions. In this Theological Odyssey, not unlike the great works of Dante Alighieri s The Divine Comedy, Milton s Paradise Lost, St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica, and, more recently, Kahlil Gibran s The Prophet, we are taken through a dream with The Poet who is accompanied by Aaron, son of Moses and led by God Himself. They are shown that only through the rose of love planted in the hearts of all mankind by the Holy Spirit, can survival be possible in the wake of terrorism as well as a holocaust of sin and destruction at the hands of those criminals who yearn to see humanity end. We need only look back through history to know what leads to acts of terrorism and genocide. Adolph Hitler established the Nazi party which overthrew the Weimar Republic, the German democratic government from 1919 to 1934, formed after Germany 's defeat in World War I. Hitler went on to commit murder of Jews whom he believed to be enemies of the state. In his desire for a pure Aryan race, he terrorized and killed over six million Jews.
  • Paperback: 68 pages
  • Publisher: Rochak Publishing (January 28, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8190381237
  • ISBN-13: 978-8190381239
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
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    About the Author

    Dr. Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer and an editor from UP India; DPhil in English; Chief Editor of an international literary journal Taj Mahal Review; several awards; member of World Poets Society (W.P.S.); member of World Haiku Association, Japan; published poetry in Indian Verse by Young Poets (1980), World Poetry (1995 & 1996), The Fabric of A Vision (2001), The Still Horizon (2002), The Golden Wings (2002), Voyages (2003), Symphonies (2003), New Pegasus (2004), Explorers (2004), Dwan (USA), Promise (Purple Rose Publications,USA), TMR 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007). He has also edited sixteen World Poetry Anthologies, and four books of World's Great Short Stories. He is also the author of a collection of poems entitled Helicon (Cyberwit, 2006, India, ISBN 81-901366-8-2). He is able to achieve masterly poetic effects full of a singular beauty and rhythmical artistry in his new collection New Utopia.

    New Utopia [Paperback]

    New Utopia [Paperback]

    Dr. Santosh Kumar has successfully shown that he has both a good understanding of the classical form and literary history of the haiku as an art form, and more importantly possesses the literary experience, expertise, sensitivity and dexterity required to update and further develop this classical art form in his own way thus both ensnaring and enticing the reader to join him in his own contemporary pas de deux, expressive of the wonders and dilemmas of today's social, spiritual and psychological experience. This resonance in the reader/audience, together with the «magic» of boundless possibilities, is essential to the success and the survival of the artist's expression as a «living, and ever changing» organism. I would encourage readers of this gem of a book to put away their musical scores and mathematical-literary formulas, to momentarily forget their guardianship of the more restrictive regulations regarding classical haiku-writing .. and even to attempt to avoid the perils of getting "stuck" in the search for the perfect «haiku moment», as that could possibly inhibit one's ability to recognize (and co-create) the essence of the poem. Furthermore, I would encourage the reader to try to see all poems in this book as being integral and connected parts of the entire artistic work. Although these individual works function quite well on their own, there is even greater "music" to be heard in discovering the silent transitions from haiku to haiku .. and experiencing the work in its totality: a comprehensive mural which rivals the frescoes of the greatest known and un-named painters from several centuries ago: yes, a haunting image dating from the earliest cave-dweller paintings on record to the Renaissance and Classical periods to Post Modern expressionism. Adam Donaldson Powell

    About the Author

    Dr. Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer and an editor from UP India; DPhil in English; Chief Editor of an international literary journal Taj Mahal Review; several awards; member of World Poets Society (W.P.S.); member of World Haiku Association, Japan; published poetry in Indian Verse by Young Poets (1980), World Poetry (1995 & 1996), The Fabric of A Vision (2001), The Still Horizon (2002), The Golden Wings (2002), Voyages (2003), Symphonies (2003), New Pegasus (2004), Explorers (2004), Dwan (USA), Promise (Purple Rose Publications,USA), TMR 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007). He has also edited sixteen World Poetry Anthologies, and four books of World s Great Short Stories. He is also the author of a collection of poems entitled Helicon (Cyberwit, 2006, India, ISBN 81-901366-8-2). He is able to achieve masterly poetic effects full of a singular beauty and rhythmical artistry in his new collection New Utopia.