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After the Dream Poems: 2009-2011

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728347211
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book After the Dream Poems: 2009-2011 written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth five-book collection of poetry by poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald, After the Dream: Poems 2009-2011, brings the author even closer to home than in his previous work, with a thought to where the world is headed. The title poems for each of the five books in the mix, Born in the City, The Class of No Return, Touched by Life, Back to Astoria and What Lies Ahead, all speak of a man still searching to incorporate his early life into the realities of the 21st Century. Other notable pieces from each collection include “Friendships to Eternity,” “Together One, as Always” (City), “While the Leaves Blew,” “Always too Old to Change Anything” (Class), “When the Game Simply Took You Away,” “I’ve Never Forgotten About Friendship” (Life), “Scenes From a Lost Neighborhood,” “When Fear Overrides Our Humanity” (Astoria), “Needed in the Land of the Needy” and “A Glimpse of Bernadine” (Ahead). A solid entry from the still wandering and wondering balladeer.

Poet in the Parks

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665528796
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Poet in the Parks written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After going to various states on the Major League landscape over 21 seasons, poet/writer Thomas Porky McDonald came upon the notion of continuing to tour the rest of the contiguous United States, using Minor League parks as a starting point. A pair of Western tours with his niece Jaclyn and her son Alex, as well as a stop in Graceland with his sister Patti, would be in the mix, with each stop bringing out more of McDonald’s signature poetry. Poet in the Parks is a sequel of sorts, as the earliest trips chronicled feature returns to Major League parks with his Poet in the Grandstand road partner, Adam Boneker, who later hits the Minors trail with McDonald, as well as a stop in New Orleans during the time of a World Pandemic. Ultimately, this second travel/poetry volume is merely a quest to savor the American landscape, no matter how many cities, states, parks and places of interest you pass through along the way.

Porkwalk

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665501839
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Porkwalk written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having packaged his more than 3,100 poems in chronological and themed collections, poet & writer Thomas Porky McDonald had the idea of putting together a volume of some relevant pieces that feature his lifetime home of Queens, New York. On addition, Porkwalk: The Queens Collection utilizes the same formula that McDonald chose in a previous collection based on his 20 years working out of neighboring Brooklyn, Dem Poems: The Brooklyn Collection. The 364 poems contained in this book are divided into sections, with old friends, his Astoria neighborhood, baseball and the losses he has suffered in the mix. This collection brings the poet back to where it all began and is thus arguably the most important one to date.

Vespers at Sunset

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452042659
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Vespers at Sunset written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth collection of poetry to be released by Thomas Porky McDonald, Vespers at Sunset: Poems 2005-200 7 sees the poet alternately reaching back and looking forward, with the usual five-book format along For The ride. Up first is the Fat Parrot Diaries, a volume which contains a number of reflective pieces, like "Deuce" and "47," about Frank Brady, a friend whom McDonald has alluded to often in the past. The passing of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks inspired the impassioned verse "The Buses Won't Be Running in Heaven Tonight" And The growing specter of aging exballplayers spurred the longing ode "As Those Years Deplete the Roster." Diaries is complemented by its immediately succeeding set, Drfling Shadows, whose title piece contains lasting images also seen in both "Lookin' Out Mikey's Window" and "A Vision of Kirby," written for an old friend and a baseball icon, respectively. The present is even more in evidence in Shadows, with a country visit ("At Lackawanna," and "The Life Goes on and On") and a Midwest trip ("The Guy From Midwood," "The Other Side of the Street") supplying the muse. In the Alley brings the poet back to New York, As the day-to-day ("The Room That Con Ed Missed"), The great beyond ("Till the Canyons Evolving Are Done") And The most evil day of all ("At 8:45") each pitch a tent. As always, baseball is well represented, with the city of Baltimore ("Legends House," "Ripken County") providing the latest stop on the tour. Alley also contains thoughts of impending doom ("A Feeling, As Yet Unknown") and Eternal gratefulness ("Those Who Set You Free"), balanced by a seminal classic ("A Time"). The final two books of Vespers are Frankie Rules, a book centered on the memory of Brady ("Frankie's Cure," "Frankie's Sport," Frankie's Heart And The title piece), and Old Phenoms, where the soon to be razed Shea Stadium ("The Space Beyond 1' Street," "Queries to an Usher on Doomsday") stands astride a pair of more personal farewells ("The Bond of the Eternal Souls," "The Window on the Second Floor"). Another representative collection from the kid from Queens.

A Walk in the City

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 149695937X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book A Walk in the City written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A random poem, written on a birthday years before, finds a new life when a series of interrelated profiles come together in a most unexpected way. This is what constitutes A Walk in the City, writer/poet Thomas Porky McDonald's New York City travelogue. A compilation of pieces written originally for an internal website at his workplace in New York City transit, this volume shares brief, yet effective vignettes on a number of various sites in the city--some famous, and others hardly on the radar. It is dedicated to the average tourist and/or the lifetime New Yorker. McDonald's love of the place he's called home for his entire life comes across most vibrantly. Though the outer boroughs are touched upon transiently, this collection of go-to sketches and reminisces is centered mainly in Manhattan, which--as any New Yorker knows--is the place that all those who live in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island call "The City." From the world famous sites, like the Empire State Building and Times Square to hidden jewels like the New York City Transit Museum, the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, or the New York City Fire Museum, A Walk in the City provides something for anyone seeking interesting pit stops in New York, whether planned ahead or merely in the course of a day already begun. The book is subtitled An Incomplete Tour since it is McDonald's contention that no one could truly put every point of interest in the city into a single volume. Here, an unencumbered collection of articles attempts to send the reader out in search of something that cannot be explained without actually having the experience of being there. In any case, this is a city wanderers' bonanza, one that should be considered by anyone who aspires to explore the diverse venues located in the greatest city in the world.

And These Thy Gifts

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 150490625X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book And These Thy Gifts written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh collection of poetry to be released by Thomas Porky McDonald, And These Thy Gifts: Poems 20072009, contains another five-book set of unique material. In Theresa, Red and Serenity, the self-styled ramble poet began an arc that would permeate throughout the entire volume. Pieces like God through the Lens of a Kaleidoscope, You Wonder Where Were At, and These Thereafters all spoke of the current world, in relation to a world that once was. Where is My Spy? and Irish Girls in Waiting cited friends McDonald had made in his two decades working in NYC Transit, and Incident on Blake Street, Inside the Crawford Grill, and Is Heaven Such a Place? touched on the ballpark. In book two, Contemplating Farewell, the collection amps up, as the impending demise of Shea Stadium and the sudden loss of a dear childhood friend take center stage. I Wonder About Yesterday and A Final Opened, Indeed honor Roy Riegel, who passed away on Opening Day of the 2008 baseball season, and The Lights of Skillman, A Ramp Overlooking Ecstasy, and In 73 all looked back at Shea, even as it still hung on for dear life. Whispering to Heaven, the third book of the set, used a trip to Los Angeles (Risin Mojo on the Diamond, The Night the 70s Returned and When Nothing Turns Up Differently), Anaheim (The Boater Battalion, A Rubys Diner Monday) and San Francisco (Where Were Without Willie, The Known at Polo Guy) to lead up to the final days of the old yard in Queens (Sittin in the Greens). In the last two books of the collection, On the Steps With You and The Wonder of the Silver Wander, the final days of Shea and the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black U.S. President offer up the most evocative images. The Planes Weep Openly, And So the Fade Begins, The Sound of Hope and Another Tuesday (Steps) and The Seats that Have Come Home Again, Agee and Jones, From 16 to 44 and Whistle Stops (Wander) offer up the best of these. All in all, And These Thy Gifts: Poems 2007-2009, might well be McDonalds most reflective volume yet.

Dreamers of Dreams

Author : John Ivan Simon
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dreamers of Dreams written by John Ivan Simon and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated critic returns to his first love, poetry, with essays on Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Rilke, Eliot, Akhmatova, Celan, Wilde, Graves, Brodsky, Larkin, and others. "Fascinating."--Booklist.

San Diego Poetry Annual -- 2009-10

Author : William Harry Harding
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449080715
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book San Diego Poetry Annual -- 2009-10 written by William Harry Harding and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Diego Poetry Annual is now part of the permanent collection of every college and university library in the San Diego region, as well as the San Diego County Library system, the San Diego City Library and the libraries of individual cities, including Carlsbad, Oceanside and Escondido. This 4th edition is the biggest and most diversified yet, featuring 146 poets and 222 of the best poems from every corner of San Diego. Copies of each edition of the San Diego Poetry Annual are donated in the name of contributing poets to public and college libraries in San Diego County and to select libraries nationally.

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571259413
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis written by Wendy Cope and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redoublé')

Hummingbird Sleep

Author : Coleman Barks
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034575X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hummingbird Sleep written by Coleman Barks and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Hummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barks's appearance on PBS NewsHour, a note Keats once left on Wordsworth's mantelpiece, a splinter in the heel, and a quote from the Upanishads—all make their way into Barks's most recent poems, which achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.

Marsh Boy and other Poems

Author : ogbowei, g ebinyo
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789180691
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Marsh Boy and other Poems written by ogbowei, g ebinyo and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsh Boy and other Poems is a welcome contribution to the tradition of poetry devoted to the revolutionary struggles of the people of the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The poems celebrate the radical spirit of the oppressed and exploited people in their relentless quest for equity, equality, and justice. They are songs of anguish, revenge, defiance, love and patriotism.

Birthcry

Author : Nwakanma, Obi
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789183682
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Birthcry written by Nwakanma, Obi and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unspeakable tenderness and palpable trepidation, Nigerian poet Obi Nwakanma captures the universal experience of childbirth. From his earlier collection The Horsemen and Other Poems, Nwakanma has become a “sojourner from a tangled past traveling to an uncertain future”, trying to root, shape and steel his unborn child to a world filled with graphic horror and indescribable wonder. Along the way he meets his muse, the sixteenth century mystical Indian poet Mirabai, and recites Elizabeth Bishop over tea. Thematically, Bithcry is intimate, lyrical and unrestrained while retaining a measured, coherent and precise form.

Fate and Faith

Author : Adeniran, Tunde
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789183267
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Fate and Faith written by Adeniran, Tunde and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fate and Faith Tunde Adeniran the polemicist celebrated nature, people and the omnipotence of god. There are striking images of a society in need of restoration. Adeniran writes with passion and sometimes with anger but not without the subtlety of a patriotic poet concerned about the future of his people.

Sea of My Mind

Author : Remi Raji
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9789182538
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Sea of My Mind written by Remi Raji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having produced five volumes of poetry, with a vision conscious of nationhood, Raji has become a stable dependable and enduring voice in recent Nigerian poetry. A poet with a consummate political theme, Raji sees versification as an engagement in the socio-political discourse of his land, aimed at forging a just nation.

Spells of Solemn Songs

Author : Fasasi, Khabyr Alowonle
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789183240
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Spells of Solemn Songs written by Fasasi, Khabyr Alowonle and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spells of Solemn Songs is a collection of poems that raises strident voices of confrontation against the bastardisation of the space on political, economic, religious and foreign fronts as well as condemns without fear the lacklustre attitudes of some apathetic figures. It further redirects minds to some ideal African ethos and humane values that engender communal and social well-being and oneness. Carved in a language so mellifluous and so unreservedly resolute, its matchless rhythimic cadence enhances easy reading, flow and comprehension while critically challenging the readers’ perception of the world around.

The Fourth Masquerade

Author : Yeibo, Ebi
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789181698
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Masquerade written by Yeibo, Ebi and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most important Nigerian poets who continue to write the nation in verse, Yeibo, in this fifth collection of poems, has strategically fashioned a kind of poetry that does not only derive its idiom from the prosody and folk tradition of the Izon of Nigeria, it equally advances the poet’s vision through form and structure. His recourse to folklore and reliance on oral materials in the image making process gives coherence and form to the poems. However, what distinguishes this collection from the previous ones is the question of the form through which he demonstrates an intense awareness of the Nigerian experience.

Songs of Myself: Quartet

Author : Ojaide, Tanure
Publisher : Kraft Books
ISBN 13 : 9789183313
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Myself: Quartet written by Ojaide, Tanure and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of Myself: Quartet is deeply rooted in the indigenous African poetic tradition. The great udje poets first composed songs paying tribute to the god of songs, followed by songs of self-exhortation,and then songs mocking themselves before satirizing others. This collection incorporates some of these aspects of the oral poetic genre in its four-part structure. It deals with self-examination and the minstrel’s alter-ego as a way of attempting to know himself. So, there is self-mockery that justifies mocking others. The four parts of the collection are: “Pulling the Thread of the Loom,” “Songs of Myself,” “Songs of the Homeland Warrior,” and “Secret Love and Other Poems.”