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Connecting the Dots: New and Selected Poems

Author : Helen Kanevsky
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483485609
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Connecting the Dots: New and Selected Poems written by Helen Kanevsky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Kanevsky dismantles the separation between fact and fiction in her new poetry collection that enlightens with imagery but also delves into literal truth. Life, the endless reverse from which Helen Kanevsky draws her bitter-sweet poetic brew, is just too weird to grasp and maybe not worth grasping ("Life violates every code of decency"). It is "Rabbis in kimonos munching on gefilte fish sushi." It is an entity that, when you think you've found the particles from which it is constructed, turned into a wave and scatters - its meaning ever elusive, and fading into old recollections. And yet, there is that reality that must be connected with sobriety. As the poet says, "Memories are useless ballast ... until you are brought in for questioning." Reality in Helen's poems defies exactitude, best captured not by exciting exposition, but in the Kanevsky-esque disquisition. And, it is FUN! Bruce Neuburger, writer, educator, and peace activist

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

Author : Maxine Kumin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076490
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 written by Maxine Kumin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where I Live is a collection celebrating the remarkable poetic range of one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from Maxine Kumin's five previous books. The poems take as their concern rural life, family, and poetic legacy, and they wrestle with political and social causes. Also included is a generous selection of twenty-three new poems, which expand upon themes that have preoccupied Kumin and bring her record of poetic mastery up to the present." "Kumin's rare kinship with the natural world is again seen in this collection." --Book Jacket.

Connecting the Dots

Author : Peggy Wireman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351526596
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Connecting the Dots written by Peggy Wireman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its size and social diversity, the United States is one nation, and what happens in one city or neighborhood ultimately affects all Americans. "Connecting the Dots" addresses the complex relationships between family and community, and between community and other players affecting family and community life, including the private sector, government, nonprofit groups, and religious organizations. Contrary to much rhetoric, Wireman argues that America does not suffer from a loss of family values, but from a shift in business practices and public commitments. The American dream of work hard, buy a home, and give your children a better life is no longer realistic for millions of workers, both white-collar and blue-collar. At an individual level, millions of Americans face significant challenges as they go about trying to meet the everyday responsibilities of earning an income, feeding their families, maintaining their health, finding housing, handling everyday household chores, and caring for their children. Besides identifying top-down structures, laws, and attitudes that create a supportive context for family life, the book includes bottom-up anecdotal examples to ground its policy-oriented discussion. It also provides statistical data needed to develop realistic solutions. Wireman examines diversity as well, since how America handles racial and ethnic differences remains crucial to its future. She discusses ways in which communities have created social capital, community cohesion, and local organizational ability. Wireman provides a framework for policymakers, local community leaders, and neighborhood activists to use in analyzing their situations and selecting the best approach; she also describes what various players can and must do to uphold the American dream. "Connecting the Dots" will be of keen interest to sociologists, political scientists, economists, and social workers.

Such Color

Author : Tracy K. Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 164445159X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Such Color written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” —Vogue Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems, her first career-spanning volume, traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. Each of Smith’s four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep of history; when one encounters death and the outer reaches of space, the next bears witness to violence against language and people from across time and delves into the rescuing possibilities of the everlasting. Smith’s signature voice, whether in elegy or praise or outrage, insists upon vibrancy and hope, even—and especially—in moments of inconceivable travesty and grief. Such Color collects the best poems from Smith’s award-winning books and culminates in thirty pages of brilliant, excoriating new poems. These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. This magnificent retrospective affirms Smith’s place as one of the twenty-first century’s most treasured poets.

The Glass Constellation

Author : Arthur Sze
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322366
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Constellation written by Arthur Sze and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet." —NPR National Book Award winner Arthur Sze is a master poet, and The Glass Constellation is a triumph spanning five decades, including ten poetry collections and twenty-six new poems. Sze began his career writing compressed, lyrical poems influenced by classical Chinese poetry; he later made a leap into powerful polysemous sequences, honing a distinct stylistic signature that harnesses luminous particulars, and is sharply focused, emotionally resonant, and structurally complex. Fusing elements of Chinese, Japanese, Native American, and various Western experimental traditions—employing startling juxtapositions that are always on target, deeply informed by concern for our endangered planet and troubled species—Arthur Sze presents experience in all its multiplicities, in singular book after book. This collection is an invitation to immerse in a visionary body of work, mapping the evolution of one of our finest American poets.

Dots & Dashes

Author : Jehanne Dubrow
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933609X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Dots & Dashes written by Jehanne Dubrow and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow's latest book testifies to the experiences of military wives. Dubrow navigates the rough seas of marriage alongside questions of how civilians and military personnel can learn to communicate with each other.

Polka Dot Poems

Author : Zaro Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909991156
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Polka Dot Poems written by Zaro Weil and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joyful book is an exuberant, humorous and eye-popping poetry primer for young children. It is written by acclaimed poet Zaro Weil and exquisitely illustrated in full colour by Lucy Wynne.

Roots in the Air

Author : Nadežda Rumjanceva
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3847104292
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Roots in the Air written by Nadežda Rumjanceva and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2015 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglophone Israeli Literature comprises a loose community of more than 500 authors and it has co-existed with the Hebrew writing tradition in Israel since the 1970s. Consisting mainly of immigrants from Anglophone countries, Anglophone Israeli Literature is characterized by a search for personal and poetic identity in a highly transcultural environment, challenging settled identities and opting instead for flexibility, flux and inclusion. The present volume considers Anglophone Israeli Literature a a phenomenon in its critical, social and historical aspects on the one hand and explores the specific mechanisms of constructing and representing poetic identity on the other hand. The book analyzes three pivotal elements of identity: language, geography and place, and political and emotional self-positioning towards the Other.

Two Brown Dots

Author : Danni Quintos
Publisher : BOA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781950774517
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Two Brown Dots written by Danni Quintos and published by BOA Editions. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls in her debut collection of poems. Two Brown Dots explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. In stark, honest poems, Quintos recounts the messiness and confusion of being a typical '90s kid--watching Dirty Dancing at sleepovers, borrowing eye shadow out of a friend's caboodle, crushing on a boy wearing khaki shorts to Sunday mass--while navigating the microagressions of the neighbor kids, the awkwardness of puberty, and the casual cruelties of fellow teenagers. The mixed-race daughter of a dark skinned Filipino immigrant, Quintos retells family stories and Phillipine folklore to try and make sense of an identity with roots on opposite sides of the globe. With clear-eyed candor and a wry sense of humor, Quintos teases the line between tokenism and representation, between assimilation and belonging, offering a potent antidote to the assumption that "American" means "white." Encompassing a whole journey from girlhood to motherhood, Two Brown Dots subverts stereotypes to reclaim agency and pride in the realness and rawness and unprettyness of a brown girl's body, boldly declaring: "We exist, we belong, we are from here, and we will continue to be."

And Short the Season: Poems

Author : Maxine Kumin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393241009
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book And Short the Season: Poems written by Maxine Kumin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature. A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is "unforgettable, indispensable" (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind. From "Whereof the Gift Is Small" And short the season, first rubythroat in the fading lilacs, alyssum in bloom, a honeybee bumbling in the bleeding heart on my gelding’s grave while beetles swarm him underground. Wet feet, wet cuffs, little flecks of buttercup on my sneaker toes, bluets, violets crowding out the tufts of rich new grass the horses nose and nibble like sleepwalkers held fast— brittle beauty—might this be the last?

The Grand Permission

Author : Patricia Dienstfrey
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566447
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Permission written by Patricia Dienstfrey and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How writing and motherhood influence one another.

Blue Horses

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698170040
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Blue Horses written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments. At its heart, Blue Horses asks what it means to truly belong to this world, to live in it attuned to all its changes. Humorous, gentle, and always honest, Oliver is a visionary of the natural world.

Discovery & Reminiscence: Essays on the Poetry on Mona Van Duyn (p)

Author : Michael Burns
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610751278
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Discovery & Reminiscence: Essays on the Poetry on Mona Van Duyn (p) written by Michael Burns and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona van Dyun is a former U.S. poet laureate (1992) and winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1991). To help broaden and inform our understanding of her work, the editor of this volume has gathered together ten essays, a poem, and a biographical sketch, as well as the author's own laureate address to the Library of Congress. The first section of this collection include tributes by other poets that elucidate the special effect Van Duyn's poetry has had on their work and thought, as well as a poem that extols the qualities of her poems and places those qualities within her contempoarary scene. The second section contains eight essays exploring aspects as varied as Van Duyn's penchant for particularity, her remarkable ability to rediscover for us the strangeness of everyday living, and her elegant style, fluid in both free verse and form. The final section opens with Van Duyn's overview of the state of poetry in America at the close of the twentieth century, and a short narrative history of her literary career.

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

Author : Jeffrey Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610698320
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes] written by Jeffrey Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

Entrepreneurship, Dyslexia, and Education

Author : Barbara Pavey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351036890
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship, Dyslexia, and Education written by Barbara Pavey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of entrepreneurial abilities in people with dyslexia is a subject of great interest. It has gained increasing importance in economically difficult times because of its potential for the development of new business opportunities. This book brings together contributions from researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs with dyslexia, investigating this subject from many perspectives. Is there something different in the profile of a person with dyslexia that supports the development of entrepreneurship? This book aims to draw out key themes which can be used in education to motivate, mentor, and create the business leaders of tomorrow. It offers a fundamental text for this area of study with a comprehensive, international examination of its topic. It includes views by new and established international writers and researchers, providing up-to-date perspectives on entrepreneurship, dyslexia, and education. It is accessible to read, to understand, and to learn from, and is suitable for recommended reading for graduate and postgraduate students. The diverse views and perspectives demonstrated in this book make it as relevant as possible for a wide group of readers. It informs study in the fields of business and dyslexia, and will be of interest to educators, researchers, and to anyone interested in the overlap of entrepreneurship and dyslexia.

Twentieth-century American Poetry

Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century American Poetry written by Dana Gioia and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Poets for Young Adults

Author : Mary Loving Blanchard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313340927
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Poets for Young Adults written by Mary Loving Blanchard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens. Readers will discover an eclectic mix of poets and their styles, from the modern songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Tupac Shakur, to the nineteen sixties icons Jack Kerouac and Sylvia Plath, to such traditional poets as Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake. Poets from all multicultural backgrounds are included, many of whom wrote about the immigration and/or protest experiences, from Colonial through contemporary times. Over half of the poets are women, and more than one third are women of color. Poets include: -Maya Angelou -Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua -Anne Bradstreet -Lewis Carroll -E.E. Cummings -Emily Dickinson -Bob Dylan -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Paul Fleischman -Robert Frost -Nikki Giovanni -Langston Hughes -Paul Janesczko -Myra Cohn Livingston -Ogden Nash -Naomi Shihab Nye -Joyce Carol Oates -Lydia Omolola Okutoro -Gary Soto -Phillis Wheatley -Ray Anthony Young Bear