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AAAbdul al-Hazred
Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary book Kitab al-Azif (the Necronomicon), and as such an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore. Despite the existence of several hoax Necronomicons, it is clear that neither Alhazred nor his book ever existed. The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five years. The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips family lawyer. Abdul is a common Arabic name component (but never a name by itself; additionally the ending -ul and the beginning Al- are redundant), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a name from Lovecraft's family tree. It might also have been a pun on "all-has-read", since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth. Abdul Alhazred is not a real Arabic name, and seems to contain the Arabic definite...
1 poezii, 0 proze
JLJosé Lezama Lima
José Lezama Lima (19 decembrie, 1910 în Havana, Cuba - 8 august, 1976 în Havana, Cuba) a fost un romancier ți poet cubanez. Born in the Columbia Military Encampment close to Havana in the city of Marianao where his father was a colonel, Lezama lived through the most turbulent times of Cuba's history, fighting first against the Machado dictatorship, and later surviving the Castro regime. A gay man himself,[1] his literary output includes the semi-autobiographical, baroque novel Paradiso (1966), the story of a young man and his struggles with his mysterious illness, the death of his father, and his developing homosexuality and poetic sensibilities. Lima also edited several anthologies of Cuban poetry and the magazines Verbum and Orígenes, presiding as the patriarch of Cuban letters for most of his later years. In addition to his poems and novels, Lezama wrote many essays on figures of world literature like Mallarmé, Valéry, Góngora and Rimbaud as well as on Latin American baroque...
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DHDashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the newspaper comic strip Secret Agent X-9 and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction". Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 to 2005. Hammett was born on a farm called "Hopewell and Aim" off Great Mills Road, St. Mary's County, in southern Maryland, United States. His parents were Richard Thomas Hammett and Anne Bond Dashiell. (The Dashiells are an old Maryland...
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FBFranz Bardon
Franz Bardon (December 1, 1909 – July 10, 1958), born in Opava, Austrian Silesia, was both a stage magician and student and teacher of Hermetics. He was member of Czech hermetic society Universalia. During World War II Bardon was at one point held in a concentration camp for refusing to participate in Nazi Mysticism. Bardon was rescued by Russian soldiers who raided the camp. Bardon continued his work in the fields of Hermetics until 1958 when he was arrested and imprisoned in Brno Czechoslovakia. Bardon died on July 10, 1958 while in the custody of police. He is best known for his three volumes on Hermetic magic. These volumes are Initiation Into Hermetics, The Practice of Magical Evocation and The Key to the True Quabbalah. Additionally there was a fourth work attributed to him by the title of Frabato the Magician, supposed to be a disguised autobiography. Though the book lists its author as Bardon, it was actually written by his secretary, Otti Votavova. While some elements of the...
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LSLasse Söderberg
S-a născut la Stockholm în anul 1931. A publicat critică literară în paginile mai multor ziare și reviste suedeze, printre care „Dagens Nyheter”, „Expressen”, „BLM”. Debutează ca poet în anul 1955 cu volumul de poezii Akrobaterna (Acrobații), publicând după aceea numeroase volume, majoritatea excelând prin bogăția imaginilor. Printre acestea Sexton dikter (Șaisprezece poezii), 1991; Pilar mot månen (Săgeți spre lună), 1992 și Mitt nittonde år (Cel de-al nouăsprezecelea an al meu), 1993. În 1986 îl prezintă publicului suedez pe Emil Cioran, traducând cartea acestuia „Despre neșansa de a te fi născut”. Este inițiatorul Festivalului de Poezie de la Malmö. **** Lasse Söderberg, poet and translator from a variety of languages, was born in 1931 and eventually settled in Malmö where he started and for the last nineteen years has been the organizer and artistic leader of the International Poetry Days in Malmö. He has published — in addition to translations and non-fiction — more...
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JSJaime Sabines
Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 - March 19, 1999) is arguably Mexico's most influential contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages. His writings chronicle the experience of everyday people in places such as the street, hospital, and playground. Sabines was also a politician. Jaime Sabines was born on March 25, 1926 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Before he devoted himself to the study of literature, he spent three years studying medicine before moving on to his real vocation: Spanish and literature, studying at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and obtaining a postgraduate degree. Sabines was an outstanding student at the Mexican Writers Centre from 1964 to 1965 and part of the jury for the Casa de las Americas prize. In addition to his literary activity, he participated in politics...
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Rachel Carlson
Carson, Rachel Louise (1907-1964) Biologist, Writer: Born on May 27, 1907 in western Pennsylvania, Carson became interested in wildlife as a child. An avid reader and eager writer, she wrote poetry while studying zoology at the Pennsylvania College for Women and Johns Hopkins. During the summers, she studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological laboratory, and went on to teach at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland. In 1935, Carson\'s father died, and she began working as an aquatic biologist for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, later called the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Meanwhile, she wrote scripts called \"Seven Minute Fish Tales\" for a radio series. In 1961, Carson published The Sea Around Us, for which she won the National Book Award. In addition, a documentary made from the book won an Academy Award. As a result of the commercial success of her book, she was able to quit her job at the Bureau of Fisheries and return a Guggenheim Fellowship to the foundation. Her best...
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LALupercio Leonardo de Argensola
Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (Barbastro (Huesca), 14 de diciembre de 1559 - Nápoles, 1613) fue un poeta, historiador y dramaturgo español. Destaca por su obra poética, de corte clasicista, y por ser uno de los iniciadores del teatro clásico español, adscribiéndose a la escuela renacentista de fines del siglo XVI, con sus dos tragedias conservadas Isabela y Alejandra, escritas en su juventud. Su poesía fue reunida y publicada por su hijo Gabriel junto con las de su hermano, el también poeta, Bartolomé, con el título de Rimas. Cronista del Reino de Aragón, publicó obras sobre las Alteraciones de Zaragoza y continuó la labor de los Anales de la Corona de Aragón, con adiciones a dicha obra, escrita por Jerónimo Zurita. Cursó estudios de Filosofía y de Jurisprudencia en Huesca y de Retórica e Historia en Zaragoza con Andrés Scoto y, finalizados éstos, se trasladó a Madrid, donde concurrió a academias poéticas y adoptó el seudónimo de «Bárbaro», jugando con el nombre de Mariana...
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addiction
de Luminita Baboianu
s-a ales praful de pietre sub ploaia de iluzii n-a rămas nici o urmă sub valul de umbre ca și când n-aș fi fost niciodată aici... plutesc încă la o palmă de mare mă las încă atrasă de soare... și nu...
Addiction
de Adrian Dorie
‘Risc să pierd totul…’ își șopti, cu lacrimi în ochi, tânărul Joe. ‘Nu! Nu vreau să bocesc!’. După ce își uscă ochii cu ajutorul unei mâneci, Joe se trânti nervos pe-o canapea. ‘Nu mă pot abține!’ e...
poetry and love
de Cristina
if i would be dying and love and poetry and love would die than i would not want to live, i would want to go with them. poetry gives me a chance, a chance to say waht i want, a chance to express...
Connections
de Coana Loenida
Yet another glitch An addition to out list Of missed connections
ORLANDO BLUE: 31st Chorus
de Jack Kerouac
O Gary Snyder we work in many ways In Montreal I suffered tile and rain In Additional Christmas waylayed babes In old crow Hotels full of blue babes in pink dressinggowns down But O Gary Snyder...
fără filtru
de Marinescu Victor
scotocesc prin noapte după femeia fără filtru aproape de slăbiciuni cu un sentiment de vinovăție știu lipsesc prea mult Carefully cured virginia tobacco Brings additional mellowness to This classic...
Sonnet XX
de William Shakespeare
A woman\'s face with Nature\'s own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman\'s gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women\'s fashion; An eye...
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
de Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873) By Friedrich Nietzsche Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there...
O confirmare incontestabilă - Magdalena Dale în Modern English Tanka
de Corneliu Traian Atanasiu
Modern English Tanka este una din cele mai prestigioase publicații de tanka online pentru autorii de limbă engleză. Publicată în Baltimore, Maryland, USA, ea se află deja la al treilea număr....
Shakespeare 2016
de tea nicolescu
Shakespeare 2016 Motto: “ “This above all: to thine own self be true.”(Hamlet) Nu-mi propusesem să scriu despre Shakespeare în acest aprilie iernatic, dar am citit ieri la BBC un...
The Poems of Sappho Part I
de Sappho
The Poetry of Sappho: Introduction By J.B Hare Imagine that two millenia or so in the future, literary experts attempt to collect the glories of our literature. Most of our paper writings have...
Roiku vs. Haiku…
de Romulus Câmpan Maramureșanu
Trebuie să recunosc cu sinceritate, că relația mea cu genul haiku a fost una de „amor la prima vedere... cu reticențe”. M-a atras sobrietatea juridică aproape, a lui 5-7-5, repugnându-mi totuși,...