William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Me apasionan las ciencias, pero siento que vivo en un mundo de poesía. La danza, poesía en movimiento; la fotografía, poesía encapsulada en un instante... La naturaleza, la música, el amor, la vida, la muerte, la alegría, el dolor, las emociones todas son pedacitos de cielo que atesoro con mis letras. Son alteraciones benditas que expanden sus alas y cuales gaviotas sin nido huyen... y con ellas me pierdo, me encuentro.
John Yau (born 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism. According to Matthew Rohrer's profile on Yau from Poets & Writers Magazine, Yau's parents settled in Boston after emigrating from China in 1949. His father was a bookkeeper. Yau characterizes his father as an outsider - "My father was half English and half Chinese [...] so he never fit in." As a child Yau was friends with the son of the Chinese-born abstract painter John Way. By the late 1960s Yau was exposed to, "a lot of anti-war poetry readings in Boston [and] so I'd heard Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, people like that. I don't know - Robert Kelly (poet) just seemed a different kind of poet. Mysterious, in a way. He was interested in the occult, in gnosticism and abstract art - things that had a particular appeal to me." According to Rohrer, Yau's decision to attend Bard College was motivated by his admiration of Kelly. Yau's most recent books are Exhibits (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (Distributed Art Publishers, 2009), and The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2006). His collections of poetry include Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin, 2006), Ing Grish, with Paintings by Thomas Nozkowski (Saturnalia, 2005),Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin, 2002), Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996), Berlin Diptychon with Photographs by Bill Barrette (Timken, 1995), Edificio Sayonara (Black Sparrow, 1992),Corpse and Mirror (Holt & Rinehardt, 1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery, and Broken Off by The Music (Burning Deck, 1981). Artists' books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has also edited Fetish (1998), a fiction anthology. Yau has been the Arts editor of The Brooklyn Rail since March 2004. He also runs a small press, Black Square Editions, which publishes translations, poetry, and fiction. Yau currently teaches art criticism at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Awards Yau has received awards and grants from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, the Academy of American Poets (Lavan Award), The American Poetry Review (Jerome Shestack Award), the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the General Electric Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Bibliography * 1983 – Corpse and Mirror (Poems) * 1989 – Radiant Silhouette: Selected Writing 1974-1988 (Poems and prose) * 1992 – Edificio Sayonara (Poems) * 1993 – In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (Critique) * 1995 – Berlin Diptychon (Poems) * 1995 – Hawaiian Cowboys (Short stories) * 1996 – Forbidden Entries (Poems) * 1996 – The United States of Jasper Johns (Critique) * 1998 – Fetish (Editor) * 1998 – My Symptoms (Short Stories) * 1999 – In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations (Essay) * 2002 – Borrowed Love Poems (Poems) * 2005 - Ing Grish * 2006 - Paradiso Diaspora * 2006 – "andalusia" Authors: John Yau (Poems), Leiko Ikemura, Verlag: Weidle Verlag, ISBN 3-931135-96-9 * 2008 - A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns, Distributed Art Publishers, ISBN 1933045620 * 2010 - Exhibits (Poem) * 2012 - Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press) (Poetry) References Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yau
Creo que lo más importante de mi vida es que soy feliz. La felicidad es algo que se construye, lo tengo claro, una continua retroalimentación en el proceso de crecimiento espiritual (o envejecimiento..) en el que encontramos los perfiles que nos proporcionan bienestar y los vivimos repetidamente, pese al dolor, al esfuerzo o la decepción que pueden aparecer, si te lo propones, como pinceladas en el tiempo. Así, cuando te detienes a recordar, sólo hay cabida para momentos felices. Entonces sonríes... ¡y vuelves a ser feliz!!! Agradezco a mi famila, por hacérmelo todo tan fácil desde que tengo uso de razón. Agradezc0 a mi esposo, que me brinda su amor incondicional. Agradezco a mis niñas, que con mirarlas hacen que surjan a borbotones los sentimientos más puros como si de un manantial se tratara...
La escritura sincera es esa que sale de una emoción o de algun sentimiento, es la que lleva vida y eso soy yo; vida. Soy quien transita por mis adentros en este mundo externo que de vez en cuando dejo escrito en alguna nota lo que me gusta llamar "Metamorfosis Poética del Tema Sagrado".
Escritor aficionado que pretende hacer de su pasatiempo en un plato de lentejas; en lo escrito hay una fauna recelosa, una que otra rima, y algo parecido al verso. Estoy repleto de contradicciones, de derrotas y desamores; soy una escolopendra o una mandragora, no le tengo miedo a nada, no importa nada me tiene miedo.
I have a long life story, in just 19 years of life, but holy is the lord like chris Tomlin says.. I love God more than any earthly thing, nothing can take away that love. And I will worship the Lord with all my heart . everything I have gone through in the past will stay buried , for God has given me life , and he has made me a new creature, a daughter of the king of Kings deserves a newbeggining for his blood has washed aWay all my sins.
nací el 24 el septiembre de 1999 , en Iquique , soy hija de una repostera y de un taxista , que actualmente están separados , mi pasatiempo siempre fue leer y dibujar , tenia una gran imaginación y siempre dibujaba pero también me gusta crear historias , me dedico a la literatura tanto como historias y poemas , actualmente soy escritora de 6 poemas