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Count the Waves: Poems

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243214
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Count the Waves: Poems written by Sandra Beasley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beasley uses humor and surprise like a scythe, cutting to the root of a matter.”—Washington Post In Count the Waves, Sandra Beasley turns her eclectic imagination to the heart's pursuits. A man and a woman sit at the same dinner table, an ocean of worry separating them. An iceberg sets out to dance. A sword swallower ponders his dating prospects. "The vessel is simple, a rowboat among yachts," the poet observes in "Ukulele." "No one hides a Tommy gun in its case. / No bluesman runs over his uke in a whiskey rage." Beasley's voice is pithy and playful, with a ferocious intelligence that invites comparison to both Sylvia Plath and Dorothy Parker. In one of six signature sestinas, she warns, "You must not use a house to build a home, / and never look for poetry in poems." The collection’s centerpiece is a haunting sequence that engages The Traveler's Vade Mecum, an 1853 compendium of phrases for use by mail, telegraph, or the enigmatic “Instantaneous Letter Writer." Assembled over ten years and thousands of miles, these poems illuminate how intimacy is lost and gained during our travels. Decisive, funny, and as compassionate as she is merciless, Beasley is a reckoning force on the page.

Counting the Waves

Author : Deborah Cummins
Publisher : Wordtech Communications Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781933456300
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Counting the Waves written by Deborah Cummins and published by Wordtech Communications Llc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Water Sings Blue

Author : Kate Coombs
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 081187284X
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Water Sings Blue written by Kate Coombs and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.

I Was the Jukebox

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339661
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis I Was the Jukebox by : Sandra Beasley

Download or read book I Was the Jukebox written by Sandra Beasley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandra Beasley eschews the poet-as-speaker convention and unleashes a collection teeming with the inanimate, the anachronistic, and the animal kingdom. In these poems Beasley approaches the world with all of its wild music, Wednesday compromises, migrating battlefields, and lovelorn minotaurs with clarity, humor, and compassion."--

The Traveler's Vade Mecum

Author : Helen Klein Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597092241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book The Traveler's Vade Mecum written by Helen Klein Ross and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working today. For poetry lovers and lovers of history.

Made to Explode: Poems

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393531619
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Made to Explode: Poems written by Sandra Beasley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times. In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson’s shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires prose poems documenting and critiquing our capital’s institutions and monuments. In these poems, Ruth Bader Ginsberg shows up at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s show of Kiss Me Kate; Albert Einstein is memorialized on Constitution Avenue, yet was denied clearance for the Manhattan Project; as temperatures cool, a rain of spiders drops from the dome of the Jefferson Memorial. A stirring suite explores Beasley’s affiliation with the disability community and her frustration with the ways society codes disability as inferiority. Quintessentially American and painfully timely, these poems examine legacies of racism and whiteness, the shadow of monuments to a world we are unmaking, and the privileges the poet is working to untangle. Made to Explode boldly reckons with Beasley’s roots and seeks out resonance in society writ large.

Don't Kill the Birthday Girl

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307588130
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Don't Kill the Birthday Girl written by Sandra Beasley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written and darkly funny journey through the world of the allergic. Like twelve million other Americans, Sandra Beasley suffers from food allergies. Her allergies—severe and lifelong—include dairy, egg, soy, beef, shrimp, pine nuts, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honeydew, mango, macadamias, pistachios, cashews, swordfish, and mustard. Add to that mold, dust, grass and tree pollen, cigarette smoke, dogs, rabbits, horses, and wool, and it’s no wonder Sandra felt she had to live her life as “Allergy Girl.” When butter is deadly and eggs can make your throat swell shut, cupcakes and other treats of childhood are out of the question—and so Sandra’s mother used to warn guests against a toxic, frosting-tinged kiss with “Don’t kill the birthday girl!” It may seem that such a person is “not really designed to survive,” as one blunt nutritionist declared while visiting Sandra’s fourth-grade class. But Sandra has not only survived, she’s thrived—now an essayist, editor, and award-winning poet, she has learned to navigate a world in which danger can lurk in an unassuming corn chip. Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl is her story. With candor, wit, and a journalist’s curiosity, Sandra draws on her own experiences while covering the scientific, cultural, and sociological terrain of allergies. She explains exactly what an allergy is, describes surviving a family reunion in heart-of-Texas beef country with her vegetarian sister, delves into how being allergic has affected her romantic relationships, exposes the dark side of Benadryl, explains how parents can work with schools to protect their allergic children, and details how people with allergies should advocate for themselves in a restaurant. A compelling mix of memoir, cultural history, and science, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl is mandatory reading for the millions of families navigating the world of allergies—and a not-to-be-missed literary treat for the rest of us.

Vinegar and Char

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354309
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Vinegar and Char written by Sandra Beasley and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering. The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain, Molly McCully Brown, and forty-five more. These poets represent past, current, and future conversations about what it means to be southern. Throughout the anthology, region is layered with race, class, sexuality, and other shaping identities. With an introduction by Sandra Beasley, a thought-provoking foreword by W. Ralph Eubanks, and luminous original artwork by Julie Sola, this collection is an ideal gift. Meant to be savored slowly or devoured at once, these pages are a perfect way to spend the hour before supper, with a glass of iced tea—or the hour after, with a pour of bourbon—and a fitting celebration of the SFA’s focus and community.

A Thousand Mornings

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124056
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Mornings written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

Chicago Poems

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Poems written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Iraqi Nights

Author : Dunya Mikhail
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122287X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Iraqi Nights written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new collection by one of Iraq’s brightest poetic voices The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a future beyond the violence of a place where “every moment / something ordinary / will happen under the sun.” Unlike Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with a deep poetic intimacy. The author’s vivid illustrations — inspired by Sumerian tablets — are threaded throughout this powerful book.

Poems (1962-1997)

Author : Robert Lax
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 193351776X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Poems (1962-1997) written by Robert Lax and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of out-of-print and previously unpublished work from a lesser known yet highly influential American poet.

The Owl and the Pussycat

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553378288
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Owl and the Pussycat written by Edward Lear and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.

Counting Waves

Author : Lozan Yamolky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927616512
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Counting Waves written by Lozan Yamolky and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love's Last Number

Author : Christopher Howell
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319336
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Love's Last Number written by Christopher Howell and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Gaze, a collection of poetry reflecting on the human condition, time, and the passing of existence. From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love’s Last Number is a series of musings on time’s arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future — before and after — and the ultimately porous and recursive nature of time itself. A soldier remembers limes, and curious children in Portugal. Refugees cross a dangerous land, and find each other in love. Boy scouts play war in devastating ways, a child listens to a baseball game in a more innocent time. In this multiplicity of voices and tones, the collection reflects on what we, as humans, do about memory, love, grief, war, and the search for meaning. In its sinuous sequences, Love’s Last Number insists that life—and history—are a continuing crisis of faith, imagination, consciousness, and moral clarity. And yet these poems, like existence itself, offer moments of transcendent joy and sudden hilarity: laughter against the darkness. Praise for Love’s Last Number “Howell demonstrates the imagination of a fabulist and the intellect of a philosopher in his richly contemplative poetry collection. . . . Love’s Last Number showcases a visionary mind and serves as a testament to the power of imagination in connecting human beings with each other.” —Shelf Awareness “These poems are great gifts. They contain multitudes of Whitmanesque wisdoms. These poems read as what our fathers would say to us after they are dead and gone. These poems are necessary. They are essential.” —John Hodgen, author of Grace

Theories of Falling

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of Falling written by Sandra Beasley and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. THEORIES OF FALLING is the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Judge Marie Howe said of THEORIES OF FALLING, "I kept coming back to these poems--the tough lyric voice that got under my skin. Clear, intent, this poet doesn't want to fool herself or anybody else. Desire pushes defeat against the wall, and the spirit climbs up from underground." "Sandra Beasley slices her way down the page with precision and punch. Her haunting 'Allergy Girl' series will set off such an itch, I doubt you'll ever fully recover...This poet leaves us to smolder and ache in small kingdoms where 'even the tame dogs dream of biting clear to the bone.'"--Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

The Waves

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090322920
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Waves written by Virginia Woolf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.