Schillers weltberuhmte Ode «An die Freude», vertont durch Beethoven in dessen 9. Sinfonie («Freude, schoner Gotterfunken»), hier gelesen von Anna Thalbach. Zusatzlich finden Sie auf diesem Horbuch eine kleine Auswahl weiterer Gedichte von Friedrich Schiller: «Der Ring des Polykrates» in einer Lesung von Ulrich Matthes und sowie «Die Teilung der Erde» gelesen von Udo Wachtveitl. Die Aufnahme der Ode «An die Freude» ist ursprunglich erschienen im ...
Winner of the National Poetry SeriesMothers masquerading as witches and sepulchral bellhops who reveal themselves to be fathers: in Justin Boening’s debut collection of poems, selected for the National Poetry Series by Wayne Miller, nothing is as it seems.Peopled by figures both uncanny and tragic—lionesses who dance and cry, surgeons who carry with them the trauma of past lives, an opera singer whose notes go awry—No ...
My poems are about places on Cape Ann, in the wider world, and in interior places of mind and heart. I often write poetry about beauty as revelatory of transcendent meanings in nature, community, and intuitions of the divine. The introduction reveals my literary and religious connections to Lucy Larcom, a nineteenth-century writer who is most famous for her book of prose, A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory and her book of poetry, Wild R ...
Last Call is a book of poems that explores the journey and search for our elusive God. This is the journey of the soul, and the search is joined through the intimacies of everyday experiences, the confusions of relationships, the ever-present struggle with aging and mortality, and the wanderings amid the mysteries of faith. These poems reflect that, even in our uncertainty and not-knowing, we are continually summoned to live with an abiding sens ...
Mulled Psalms is a book of poetry. Using the metaphor of mulled cider or wine, it is a collection of carefully brewed, distilled, and spiced beverages. The basic ingredient in each of these 150 poems is the biblical psalm of the corresponding number. Thus, the length, subject, tone, and other aspects of a specific poem resemble that of the original psalm. Because each psalm was mulled individually, at varying times and temperatures of Spirit-fir ...
This is a collection of thoughts I have had over the past ten years since retirement. They are mostly in poetic form–some rhyme, others don't. I am bringing them to print mainly for my children and grandchildren. As the name of the book implies, they cover my strong objections to war, some miscellaneous whimsical thoughts, and my feelings about God and religion. ...
Jede dunkle Wahrheit kommt ans Licht. Ihr ausverkauftes Konzert nahert sich gerade dem fulminanten Hohepunkt, als die beruhmte Sangerin Joe Sanderson mitten auf der Buhne erschossen wird. Tausende Fans stehen unter Schock. Doch dies ist erst der Beginn einer spektakularen Anschlagsserie auf Prominente. Kommissar Peer Modrich und seine Kollegin Gudrun Faltermeyer nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Dabei sto?en sie auf gut gehutete Geheimnisse, die bris ...
