Avra Cadivra is a book of charms and poems based on the assumption of the power of words to change bad situations and bless good ones. Addiction, love, pain and loss are some of the difficult situations for which help is sometimes needed, and when happy events take place, sometimes a blessing is wanted to reinforce the positive experience.

Pour Lire Au Bai (1884) est un recueil de po�����mes �����crit par l'auteur fran�����ais Catulle Mendes. Les po�����mes sont caract�����ris�����s par leur style lyrique et leur th�����me romantique. Le titre du livre est un jeu de mots sur ""pour lire au lit"", sugg�����rant que les po�����mes sont destin�����s ������ ������tre lus dans un endroit confortable et intime. Les po�����mes se concentrent sur des th�����mes tels que l'amour, la beaut�����, la nature et la mort. Les po�����mes sont �����crits en vers libres et en prose po�����tique. Le livre a �����t����� bien accueilli par la critique de l'�����poque et est consid�����r����� comme l'un des meilleurs travaux de Mendes.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Every moment of Alison Stone's new collection is one of stillness, of waiting, to see what glimmers may rise from the ashes, and the earth.

In her third collection, Alison Stone presents us with 42 poems of struggle and redemption. Her style is crisp and unencumbered by literary pretence as she evokes the raw emotions that inspired her poems with a rare honesty and clarity.

Paperback in very good condition. Signed by the author.

In this edition, which was originally published in 1961, Dr Prawer follows his study of the Buch der Lieder with a full-length study of the later works of Heine. A brief introductory study of the Buch der Lieder is followed by detailed treatment of Neue Gesichte, Atta Troll, Deutdchland, ein Wintermärchen, Romanzero, Gedichte 1853 und 1854, and the poems in the posthumous Letzte Gedichte und Gedanken. Dr Prawer extracts and relates to Heine's life the underlying themes in his poetry; those, and the consistent careful analysis of the poems, makes his book an excellent introduction to the poet's work.

This multi-volume work is a reprint of Israel Davidson's classic opus, with a new introduction by piyyut scholar Michael Rand. Originally published in four volumes by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America throughout the 1920s and 30s, and reprinted in 1970 by Ktav with an introduction by Jefim (Hayyim) Schirmann, Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetrycatalogues Medieval Hebrew poetry in over 35,000 entries spanning over 2,000 pages. Written at a time when Genizah research was just beginning to flourish, the Thesaurus serves primarily as a catalogue of the Medieval Hebrew poetic corpus as it had been known from printed works predating the publication of Genizah poetry. In addition to constituting an important reference work, the Thesaurus represents a stage in the history of piyyut study, before the publication of thousands of Genizah poems forever altered the course of Medieval Hebrew poetry scholarship.

Karen Shenfeld is a well-established poet, freelance writer and film researcher, living in Toronto. Her first collection of poetry. The law of Return (Guernica Editions, 1999), explores her familial roots, and won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry in 2001. In The Fertile Crescent, Shenfeld gives poetic life to ancient and medieval Jewish travelers. She also draws upon her own powerful experiences of traversing the globe, including crossing the Sahara Desert and voyaging down the Congo River. Book jacket.

This book explores two millennia of south Indian Tamil civilization, with a special emphasis on the way Tamil speakers and literati understood the unique features of their language and the major cultural themes articulated in Tamil over this long time span. Tamil is one of the great world languages, with its 80 million speakers, its ancient, classical past, and the profound richness of its cultural traditions, which spread throughout South Asia and beyond to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia and, today, to a large Tamil Diaspora scattered around the globe. Presented in the format of a south Indian musical composition, the chapters take the reader through the whole of Tamil cultural history, from its beginnings at the end of the first millennium B.C. through the stunning poems of love and war known as "Sangam Poetry", the burst of intense religious movements in the mid-first-millennium A.D., the Chola period of imperial expansion, and into late-medieval and modern times, including present-day Tamil politics and the vast cultural production of Chennai, Madurai, and Tanjavur. The treasures of the Tamil language deserve a wide audience--thus the book is aimed at readers with no special knowledge of India no less than at speakers and connoisseurs of Tamil. Translated verses and spicy stories of poets, lovers, musicians, warriors and kings fill the pages of this book, which paints a wide-angle, panoramic canvas of one of the most creative civilizations in the history of South Asia as it evolved and transformed itself from the distant past up to our own generation.--

Cover and contents in very good clean condition.