Life &Poetry Entropy | 02 Feb 2012
The cherished Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska passed away on Wednesday evening at her home in Kraków at the age of 89 “In Szymborska’s poetry, we divide ourselves not into body and surviving work but into body and unfinished whisper, poetry is no more than an unfinished whisper, laughter that swiftly falls [...]
Vikram Seth defies convention and proves that for every reason, there’s a rhyme… All you who sleep tonight alone … All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right And emptiness above – Know that you aren’t alone The whole world shares your tears, Some for two [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 22 Jul 2011
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich is one of America’s foremost public intellectuals. Widely read and hugely influential, Rich’s career has spanned four decades.. In our dark times we need poetry more than ever, Eloquent Commentary by Adrienne Rich In “The Defence of Poetry” 1821, Shelley claimed that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”. [...]
Amy Uyematsu’s poems are intersection of mathematics, spirituality, and the natural world, her poems articulate a distinct perspective—a life defined by poetry, mathematics and Asian identity. The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem —Is where space ends called death or infinity? Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions A mere eyelid’s distance between you and me. [...]
Zbigniew Herbert – (1924-1998 ) was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. The important, and known for his poetry, which from his very debut had a distinctive, recognizable tone , which feature in an era of unbridled and extravagant individualisms: the most important thing shaping the poet’s style was [...]
Diane Ackerman is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the Senses. She has a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978, where her dissertation advisor was Carl Sagan. This poem reveals her intense sensitivity & thoughts on the world of nature, science, and society. On a personal [...]