The Beheaded Poetess is a book about the life of the T'ang Dynasty Nun and Poetess, Yu Xuanji. Two books in one: history and poetry. The work of Genevieve Wimsatt in her 1937 book: Selling Wilted Peonies is revised into Concrete Poetry throughout the book, with acknowledgements below each section and poem. Intermingled with the original translations of Yu Xuanji, with a modern day Poet Laureate Editing it, and including her own versions, homages to, and inspired by poems. She has combined her love of history with poetry to come up with a First Edition, winning combination. This book began as only an Homage to book, and somehow evolved into an accurate historical write, with many interesting facts worked in throughout the book. Included are a few illustrations. Truly a work of love by Jean Elizabeth Ward.

Jean Ward, Jean E. Ward, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Poetry, Prose, Quotes, Kimo Poetry, Senryu Poetry,and poems from the Masters of Poetry: F.G. Scott, J. Logan, J. Aldrich, E.R. Sill, Lord Byron, P.B. Marston, E.A. Poe, G. Herbert, W.H. Lythe, A.J. Munby, M.E.M. Sangster, L.A. Bennett, W. Gladden, T. Hood, H. Hunt, H. Bonar, Lord Tennyson, Sir. W. Scott, J. Shirley, T. Gray, T. Moore, R. Browning. Elizabeth Browning, W.S. Landor, Shakespeare, R. Burns, Dinah M.M. Craik, Julia C.R. Dorr, Belle E. Smith, P.H. Hayne, Walt Whitman's "The Death of Lincoln, F. Auguste, The German of Gluck, The Greek of Meleager, R. Le Gaillienne, Lady Dufferin, A.L. Barbaruld, A.L. Barbareld, M.W. Deland, T. Chatterton, Silas W. Mitchell, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illustrations within.

PROLOGUE The First Book of Adam and Eve Details the life and times of Adam and Eve After they were expelled from the garden To the time that Cain kills his brother Abel. It tells of The Cave of Treasures,Adam and Eve's first dwelling - And their trials and temptations; Satan's many apparitions to them; The birth of Cain, Abel, And their twin sisters; and Cain's love For his beautiful twin sister, Luluwa, Whom Adam and Eve wished to join to Abel.This book is considered by many scholars To be part of the "Pseudepigrapha" (soo-duh-pig-ruh-fuh). The "Pseudepigrapha" is a collection of historical biblical works That are considered to be fiction. Because of that, This book was not included in the compilation of the Holy Bible.

Several illustrations, along with a Mandala with Elvis Presley in it by the author. Various short poems, by Jean Elizabeth Ward, Han Dynasty Poets, Tang Dynasty Poets, Basho, Japanese Poet, Shakespeare, John Milton, Ezra Pound, John Donne, American Indian Poems, Kimo Poems, Haiku Poems, Senryu Poems, A Naani Poem; various styles and authors, with history intermingled. A delight for the reader without time to work out longer poems.A varying blent in alphabetical order, sure to please.

For the cover of this presentation the author has made copies of actual American Indian drawings, arranged them in a collage, and completed it with an acrylic overpaint, which was then antiqued to achieve the effect. This book is a combination of poems by American Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward, with such poems as Ozarks Blabbermouth Lissenbee, added to a series of thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister which was published in 1917, with an Indian Pronouncing Library to complete this book, which children and adults alike will enjoy.

Poems of Adversity from poets: Adelaide Anne Procter, Percy Shelley, Charles, Kingsley, James W. Watson, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Amelia Anne Blandford Edwards, John Fletcher, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chediock Tichborne, Lord Houghton, Walter Savage Landor, Henry Neele, John Keats, Ralph Hoyt, Will Carleton, Mary Louise Ritter, John Milton, George Crabbe, Thomas Noel, Thomas Hood, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Moss, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ya Perezhil Svoi Zhelanya, Pierre-Jean De Beranger, Frances Quarles, Frances Bacon, and a final chapter by American Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Ed. including Naani, Tanka, Kimo, Choka, and Shape Poems. The Wail of Prometheus Bound with picture. Poems mentioning Houston, Texas, Texas, New Quay, Wales, and the Titanic.

During the Tang dynasty (618–907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women, from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families, could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy. In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.

A POEMS is the first of the alphabet, filled with well over 600 poems, all beginning with an A. With an Alien Acrylic Illustration on the cover. Elvis Presley Poems, Chinese Homage Poems, Child Abuse Awareness Poems, Children's Poems, and many more, with a Reference of Poetry in the beginning of this 300 page book, with 40 Illustrations.

This book is an Introduction to Tang Dynasty Poet Li He Chang-ji, with English Translations of The Chinese Songs and Ballads of Li He Chang-ji. An American Female paying an Homage to a Chinese Tang Dynasty Poet. With an introduction to Han Yu included. A few illustrations are within this charming, First Edition, alphabetized book, which will capture your heart and soul. NOT A TRANSLATION but an introduction to a most interesting poet.

Jean Ward, Jean E. Ward, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Poetry, Prose, Quotes, Kimo Poetry, Senryu Poetry,and Poems from Various Famous Poets: John Hay, Robert Burns, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Jean Engelow, Tennyson, Mrs. Norton, Whittier, Motherwell, W. Scott, P. Sidney, and many more.