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Ali Cobby Eckermann (born 1963) is an Australian poet of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. She is a Yankunytjatjara woman born on Kaurna land in South Australia . Eckermann has written poetry collections, verse novels and a memoir, and has been shortlisted for or won several literary awards.
This borrowing is discussed by George Burke Johnston in his Poems of Ben Jonson (1960), who points out that "the poem is not a translation, but a synthesis of scattered passages. Although only one conceit is not borrowed from Philostratus, the piece is a unified poem, and its glory is Jonson's. It has remained alive and popular for over three ...
Asked about the poem "Virtues of a Boring Husband", a poem where a husband speaks to his wife as to help her fall asleep, Lee said: "My sense is that poem meditates on paired-ness, the dyad, two-ness. When the speaker is talking about God, he’s also talking about the two-ness of the mind and God. And there’s the lover and the beloved.
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Ali's poetry also addresses the Kashmiri Pandit community; one of the poems in the collection is dedicated to Suvir Kaul. [8] [5] There is a poem titled "Hans Christian Ostro", about a Norwegian tourist who was captured by Al-Faran militants in Kashmir in 1995. Daniel Hall called this poem "the most poignant of Shahid's political poems". [9]
The texts of all four songs are poems written by Vaughan Williams' wife Ursula who penned several books of poetry throughout her lifetime as well as a biography of her late husband. "Procris" and "Menelaus" deal with figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology and epic poetry while "Tired" and "Hands, Eyes, and Heart" depict images of love ...
She has received a D. Lit from Kenyon College, Guggenheim Fellowship, John Burroughs Nature Award, Lavan Poetry Prize, and has been honored as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. [44] Ackerman has had three New York Times bestsellers : The Human Age (2014), The Zookeeper's Wife (2008), and A Natural History of the Senses (1990).
However, many shorter poems have since been written. A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali. On June 4, 1975, after giving a speech at Harvard University, Ali was discussing poetry on stage with journalist George Plimpton. When asked for the shortest poem of all time, Plimpton recited "Fleas" as above, and Ali responded, "I've got ...