Reprint of the Original from 1911.

Collection of Poetry. The poems of the collection create images of the cycle of history. The world of the paleolithic, the age of knights and castles, and the End Times. The world will begin anew, and all will return, endlessly.Published with the bonus books Our Lady of Silk - and Children of the Dawn.**** The poems of Jerome Brooke have been described as:'Savage and barbarous ... intricate and complex ... horrific. ...talent, interest, and clarity of diction (Joseph Hart. -- Isles of Myst Review) * * * *...the poems remind me of ancient primeval legends ... . The imagery is active and personified (Joseph G Phillips. -- New Mirage Quarterly)* * * *...A terse series of quatrains which evoke the cold and dark realms ... of the Ice Age.' (Carol Hamilton, New Mirage Quarterly).* * * *His work is: 'A timeless tradition of honor, bravery, and romance. ... tales of mediaeval warfare ... spell-binding. Charming and seductive ... . (Lorraine Tolliver, New Mirage Quarterly).* * * *The work of the poet has images of:'Battle, victories, defiance, perseverance ring melodiously throughout the pages ... . The victor within us all prevails. (Paul Truttman, Western Archipelago).* * * *The poems are:'Primitive, barbaric, spare, austere, but eloquent ... frightening. The images .. are savage. The poems are exciting and moody. (Joseph Hart, Isles of Myst Review).

"Between the discovery that there is a design which only his poetry enables him to find as he confronts the world and the discovery that such a design is a snare, merely a means of keeping him from further discernment, Michael Rosen is wedged, is productively pinioned, [ should say, for it is just this pressure--of meaning discerned on one hand and of meaning distrusted on the other--which makes the tension of these poems, a new version of the old wars between mind and body, memory and hope, self and surround. How tender and inclusive are Rosen's preoccupations, and how disabused his conclusions! One reads these playful, stricken poems with wonder--how will such ventures conclude, or even persist? What will happen next? Here is a poet who persuades us, as the saying goes, to stay tuned."--Richard Howard Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Poetry. Amiri Baraka calls MIRAGE "A fine book--important on painting." Basil King attended Black Mountain College as a teenager in the 1950s, and completed his apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist painter in San Francisco and New York. Since that time, his art has taken a different turn, reaching through abstraction back to surrealism and forward into a new approach to the figure. Although he did not begin to write regularly until 1986, an involvement with poetry has always been part of his life, first in doing art to accompany poems in books and magazines, later as a book artist, now as a poet/painter. Among his many books, THE EARTH SUITE by Carl Rakowsi, with drawings by Basil King, is available from SPD.

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This print contains three series of poems: Axis Mundi, Carpe Noctum, and Fiat Lux, each with their own concept reflecting the mind of the writer. Rous' poems are excellent for meditation, reflection, and thought-provocation.

Excerpt from Mirage Poems The majority of the poems comprising this volume had been written before I had a definite conception of the true nature of art. This, of course, can in no way affect their value, and I only mention it with the intention of leading up to another matter which I consider to be of real importance to everyone who has attained to years of discretion. These years are in many ways less delightful than those spent in the perpetual wonderland of youth. But in others they are greatly more interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last 150 years.