Cloud Poetry

The Bible 08.12.2021 7:39 ↓

Excerpts from the Bible in no particular order

The Scent of Time 08.12.2021 34:19 ↓

Excerpts from Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time

The Expulsion of the Other 08.12.2021 27:31 ↓

Byyng-Chul Han’s analysis of our global everyday existence under the challenges of electronically induced hypercommunication.

Poems 08.12.2021 1:06:05 ↓

Poems in no particular order

Double entry bookkeeping 08.12.2021 10:17 ↓

Double-entry bookkeeping, in accounting, is a system of book keeping where every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account. The double-entry has two equal and corresponding sides known as debit and credit. Assets = Liabilities + Equity

Six poems by Tristan Tzara 08.12.2021 11:45 ↓

Way, Approach, Volt, Approximate Man, Monsieur AA, Antiphilosopher, A poem in Yellow

Eloisa to Abelard 08.12.2021 20:30 ↓

Alexander Pope’s verse epistle, published in 1717, based on a well-known Mediaeval story.

The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber 08.12.2021 14:15 ↓

Cao Xuequn, 1760

Asian-American poetry 08.12.2021 18:45 ↓

A selection of Asian-American poetry

Poems on Immigration and Immigrant life 08.12.2021 28:49 ↓

From Poetry Foundation

The Expulsion of the Other 08.12.2021 58:28 ↓

The Expulsion of the Other by Byung-Chul Han

Bach’s Letter of Resignation 08.12.2021 2:54 ↓

Bach’s Letter requesting dismissal describing his desires as Kapemeister

A Rascuache Prayer 08.12.2021 3:29 ↓

Reflections on Juan Felipe Herrera by Luis Alberto Urrea

Labyrinths 08.12.2021 43:36 ↓

Jorge Luis Borges’ collected short stories

Consider the Lobster 08.12.2021 24:41 ↓

Short story by David Foster Wallace

In Defense of Fanny Price 08.12.2021 11:40 ↓

From the Paris Review. By Tara Isabella Burton.

Chinese proverbs 08.12.2021 10:35 ↓

Bits of Chinese proverbs and wisdom in Mandarin and English

Poems of the Masters 08.12.2021 12:34 ↓

China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Years, translated by Red Pine

One Hundred Poets, One poem each 08.12.2021 29:23 ↓

A compilation of Classical Japanese poems dating to around 1230-40 and assembled by the renowned poet and scholar Fujiwara no Taika. In English and Japanese.

The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi 08.12.2021 12:33 ↓

Poems from Yanyi’s The Year of Blue Water

List of Sundial mottos 08.12.2021 19:40 ↓

Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun. Begone about Thy business. Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours. Let...

Jacobean poetry 08.12.2021 48:34 ↓

A selection of sacred English Jacobean poetry of the Reign of King James the First (1603-1625)

FROG AND TOAD TENTATIVELY GO OUTSIDE AFTER MONTHS IN SELF-QUARANTINE 08.12.2021 12:28 ↓

Two short stories by Jennie Egerdie, published in McSweeney’s

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 08.12.2021 50:40 ↓

Excerpts from “Caste: The origins of our discontents”, in which Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of the hierarchical caste and racial ranking divisions operating invisibly throughout American society.

Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres by Wai-Lim Yip 08.12.2021 1:05:50 ↓

Spanning two thousand years—from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chü form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260–1368)—these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn. Correcting more than a century of distortion of the classical Chinese by translators unconcerned with the intricacies and aesthetics of the Chinese language, these masterful translations by Wai-lim Yip...