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Instagram-Poetin Sarah Marie berührt eine ganze Generation, wenn sie über Hoffnung spricht. Dabei schaut sie auch den unschönen Seiten des Lebens ins Auge und wagt Zuversicht in Anbetracht der Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Gefühlen wie Angst und Verzweiflung werden Mut und Liebe gegenübergestellt, sodass die Botschaft klar ist: Das Kapitel mag schwierig, die Wolken dunkel sein – doch da folgt noch eine Seite, auf der die Sonne wieder scheint. Mit ihren gefühlvollen Gedichten hat die Spoken-Word-Künstlerin Sarah Marie schon mit ihrem ersten Buch unzählige junge Menschen erreicht.

Wenn Poetry Slammerin Sarah Marie ein Video über die Wirkung von Instagram auf das Selbstbild der Menschen oder ein Plädoyer für die Liebe online stellt, schauen Hunderttausende zu. Die junge Spoken-Word-Künstlerin weiß, was die junge Generation Z bewegt: auf der Welt, in der Liebe und in ihrem persönlichen Sein. In ihrem Buch "himmelhochjauchzend gedankenvertieft" greift sie all diese Themen auf und kleidet sie in kunstvolle Worte. Ein modernes Buch voller bewegender Lyrik für eine Generation, die mehr will.

With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father’s Parkinson’s Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death, and fearlessly probing the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt’s lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.

Cleanness is the second of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Cleanness tells several stories, all related by theme “ the disastrous consequences of uncleanness, and the good fortune to be had by being clean. The poet carefully constructs a complex accumulation of stories and examples, whose main source is the Old Testament. The three major stories are the Flood, then Sodom and Gomorrah, followed by Belshazzar's Feast.

Pearl is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. It is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of medieval English literature. In the poem the grief-stricken protagonist describes the loss of a precious pearl in a garden. He falls asleep and in his dream sees a vision of a beautiful Maiden, who through complex imagery is gradually revealed as the pearl, a lost loved one, often interpreted as the Dreamer's young daughter, though never explicitly identified.

Although his output was small, John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish poetry. All his verses explore the same theme: the search of the soul for union with its creator and the glory of the resulting "mystical marriage". This selection of 20 poems opens with his most famous poem, "The Obscure Night of the Soul" and concludes with a free translation of "Psalm 137 (By the Waters of Babylon)".

Patience is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right. The poet's usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and that of waiting, holding back, and exercising moderation and self-control.

Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet “I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans...