This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings. Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him an internationally revered figure. These fifteen poems, including “Death of a Lady’s Man,” “On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,” and “The Embrace,” are drawn from across his remarkable career and appear here for the first time with his illustrations. With its lyrical intensity and sensual immediacy, Fifteen Poems offers a potent distillation of the genre-crossing genius of one of the most admired artists of our time.

A collection of dazzling new, contemporary from Iraq, edited by award-winning Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail

Poems With No Glass Shield In Twenty Fifteen features upbeat tempo literature that one's thoughts afloat. The style Jemel Williams emanates is from his educational background and his love for music. Poetry is not written to offend any sort of reader who wants to pick up the book, but it is written to show the reader there are more ways to write using the combination of fiction, non-fiction, literature, auto-biography and biography, etc... About the Author After his registry by the Library of Congress for his second book of poems; Poems with No Glass Shield. He began the first draft of the book in November 2014 and completed the book in July 2015. In Poems with No Glass Shield, Williams demonstrated a complex style of poetry that allows readers to derive their own conclusions from a variety of translations for one poem is moderate in size, it shares common interest in today's times and current events. Throughout his life, he was raised and influenced by a variety of different ethnic groups. He witnessed himself growing up as a little intelligent scholar stepping on stage to steal every honor awarded to him. Williams self-motivation made him work twice as hard when there was not one single choir to complete. That attitude kept him complacent and installing the drive that education will be the secret to his success.

Poems with No Glass Shield In Twenty Fifteen: 50 Short Poems: Volume 2 By: Jemel Williams Jemel Williams was inspired by his own personal experiences and struggles to write Poems with No Glass Shield in Twenty-Fifteen: 50 Short Poems: Volume 2. His poems discuss how people often forget the humane side of themselves and others, emphasizing that we often focus on the negativity in our lives rather than what’s positive.

In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.

It was simply the worst the most terrible day. Nothing but NOTHING was going my way. If you've ever wondered whether anyone else knows what it's like to have a really bad day, this special collection of poignant and funny poems is for you.

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on the Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” and “I’m Your Man” and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy.