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Duty, Second Edition, a Poem with Photography by Kent Oliver Burt Long Fat Tuesday Book Publishing Saint David's, Newfoundland Second Print Edition, 2014 (c) All rights reserved Remembrance Day, 2014 Published on Remembrance Day, 2014, in Honour of those who have served, and done their Duty. I wrote this poem in honour of all those that have served, and those that continue to serve. Those that serve either by going away to serve, or by staying home. Those that serve in times of peace, and times of war. Those that serve by being mothers and fathers, workers and those who work at home. It is dedicated to all who do their Duty, each and every da

A collection of poetry and short stories from those who have served in the military and those who love them. This book is dedicated to the brave men and women who have served, and are serving, in our military. A donation of one dollar will be made to the Wounded Warrior Project for every book sold.

Duty, a Poem by Kent Oliver Burt Long Fat Tuesday Book Publishing Saint David's, Newfoundland First Print Edition, 2014 (c) All rights reserved Remembrance Day, 2014 The poem DUTY is full of dark emotional turmoil, loss and pain. And yet filled with hope. I wrote this poem many years ago while staring out at the water during a wicked storm and feeling like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders, my duty seemed to be crushing me. I updated the poem and added photographs on Remembrance Day 2014 as a tribute to all those who serve. I wrote this poem in honour of all those that have served, and those that continue to serve. Those that serve either by going away to serve, or by staying home. Those that serve in times of peace, and times of war. Those that serve by being mothers and fathers, workers and those who work at home. It is dedicated to all who do their Duty, each and every da

The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.

Since at least the time of Plato’s Republic, the relationship between poetry and ethics has been troubled. Through the prism of what has been called the “new” ethical criticism, inspired by the work of Emmanuel Levinas, G. Matthew Jenkins considers the works of Objectivists, Black Mountain poets, and Language poets in light of their full potential to reshape this ancient relationship. American experimental poetry is usually read in either political or moral terms. Poetic Obligation, by contrast, considers the poems of Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian in terms of the philosophical notion of ethical obligation to the Other in language. Jenkins's historical trajectory enables him to consider the full breadth of ethical topics that have driven theoretical debate since the end of World War II. This original approach establishes an ethical lineage in the works of twentieth-century experimental poets, creating a way to reconcile the breach between poetry and the issue of ethics in literature at large. With implications for a host of social issues, including ethnicity and immigration, economic inequities, and human rights, Jenkins's imaginative reconciliation of poetry and ethics will provide stimulating reading for teachers and scholars of American literature as well as advocates and devotees of poetry in general. Poetic Obligation marshals ample evidence that poetry matters and continues to speak to the important issues of our day.

A magnificent collection of classic poems to thrill the senses and stir the blood. Poems of duty, honour, freedom, sacrifice and conflict. Poems that rally the call to arms and sing of victory and defeat. Poems to inspire courage when courage seems to fail; to create hope when hope seems forlorn; to build character and the bravery to face yourself when you are afraid. This anthology serves its title well, offering a marvellous collection of high quality old favourites as well as a number of very welcome surprises. The scope and depth of this selection works in a way that the work of no single poet could.

This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott