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Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters

Author : Debora Greger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440673004
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters written by Debora Greger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poet Debora Greger grew up in Washington near the site of the Hanford atomic plant, which, unbeknownst to its workers, manufactured plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. “The high school team was named the Bombers,” she writes. “The school ring had a mushroom cloud on it.” In Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters she uses what The Nation has characterized as her “deadpan wit, intelligence and marvelous insight” to explore the legacy of a Catholic girlhood spent in a landscape where “even the dust, though we didn’t know it then, was radioactive.” “Call us out of the animal,” Greger writes, invoking the ghost of a poet conjured in “Nights of 1995,” in what could be construed as the motto of a collection filled with what Poetry called “priceless instants where the mundane flares up into the miraculous.”

Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters

Author : Debora Greger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140587746
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters written by Debora Greger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a poetic meditation on the legacy of the atomic bomb and how those who played a minor role in its creation can come to terms with the past

The Narrow Circle

Author : Nathan Hoks
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101613092
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Narrow Circle written by Nathan Hoks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young John Ashbery called Reveilles, Nathan Hoks’s debut book, a “dazzling” collection and Hoks a poet whose “fine gradations of observation turn the reader into a barometer of strong subtleties like those of the weather, that can be minute even as they affect us powerfully.” The poems in Hoks’s new book, The Narrow Circle, perform a similar magic. In associative lyrics and fabulist prose, Hoks explores inner and outer experiences. The poems frequently focus on the body as a membrane where everything becomes inside-out—where the “face disperses with angels of teeth and loam,” where “sky comes out of the mouth,” where a giant green worm “burrows a hole in the head,” and where the heart is a vestibule that cannot be closed. Suites of pictures within the text further delineate this inward-outward pull, offering visualizations of interior voices and sketches of exterior shadows.

Owed

Author : Joshua Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505652
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Owed written by Joshua Bennett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker) Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "abounding in tenderness and rich with character," with a "virtuosic kind of code switching." Bennett's new collection, Owed, is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre and form--from elegy and ode to origin myth--these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.

Wind in a Box

Author : Terrance Hayes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440626987
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Wind in a Box written by Terrance Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular Music, he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss. Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality. This new book displays not only what the Los Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.

Absentia

Author : William Stobb
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143120182
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Absentia written by William Stobb and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from the author of Nervous Systems, winner of the National Poetry Series. William Stobb has won acclaim for wide-ranging poetry that features tender realism, jazzy dissonance, luminous descriptions, and, in the words of Donald Revell, a "strange and elegantly accomplished serenity of tensions attenuated to their uttermost." The poems in his second collection, Absentia, see the big picture-the sweep of history, the ongoing evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations. Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and inside us.

Quickening Fields

Author : Pattiann Rogers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524705063
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Quickening Fields written by Pattiann Rogers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry A new collection by an award-winning poet who “presents her apprehensions of the natural world with striking accuracy and emotional impact” (Orion Magazine) Denise Levertov has called Pattiann Rogers a “visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed.” Quickening Fields gathers fifty-three poems that focus on the wide variety of life forms present on earth and their unceasing zeal to exist, their constant “push against the beyond” and the human experience among these lives. Whether a glassy filament of flying insect, a spiny spider crab, a swath of switch grass, barking short-eared owls, screeching coyotes, or racing rat-tailed sperm, all are testifying to their complete devotion to being. Many of the poems also address celestial phenomena, the vision of the earth immersed in a dynamic cosmic milieu and the effects of this vision on the human spirit. While primarily lyrical and celebratory in tone, these poems acknowledge, as well, the terror, suffering, and unpredictability of the human condition.

Scattered at Sea

Author : Amy Gerstler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698183304
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Scattered at Sea written by Amy Gerstler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new collection from an award-winning poet--longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. The title of her new collection, Scattered at Sea, evokes notions of dispersion, diaspora, sowing one’s wild oats, having one’s mind expanded or blown, losing one’s wits, and mortality. Making use of dramatic monologue, elegy, humor, and collage, these poems explore hedonism, gender, ancestry, reincarnation, bereavement, and the nature of prayer. Groping for an inclusive, imaginative, postmodern spirituality, they draw from an array of sources, including the philosophy of the ancient Stoics, diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s disease, 1950s recipes, the Babylonian Talmud, and Walter Benjamin’s writing on his drug experiences.

Ghost Girl

Author : Amy Gerstler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142000649
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Girl written by Amy Gerstler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler’s abiding interests—in love and mourning, in science and pseudoscience, in the idea of an afterlife, in seances and magic—are all represented here. Entertaining and erudite, complex yet accessible, these poems will enhance Gerstler’s reputation as an important contemporary poet.

Madame X

Author : William Logan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101603429
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Madame X written by William Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection by one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry. The moody poems in Madame X, the author’s tenth collection, find their subjects in the byways of the past two centuries. Henry James visits his birthplace, the most beautiful woman in Europe ends up in a barrel at a fun fair, and a minor writer succumbs to tuberculosis at a German spa. In the title poem, the portrait of Madame X offers our century a lesson in seduction; but such public shows are balanced by poems of private desire, of whispers, of age, of the present always vanishing before us. These densely figured poems, rich in language and appointment, argue for a knowledge not sustained by the everyday. This is a triumphant collection of shimmering intensities and hard truths. National Book Critics Circle Award winner William Logan is one of the most technically gifted poets of his generation; his work has frequently elicited comparison to W. H. Auden and Robert Lowell, and has been called brilliant, formidable, passionate, and cranky. Donald Hall has written of him that “he writes like an angel–an elegant, literary angel,” and Sven Birkerts has commented that “he is like the eel in the well–a purifying agent.” This new volume of fifty-four poems displays Logan’s trademark refinement and classicism.

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Author : Debora Greger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143114444
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Men, Women, and Ghosts written by Debora Greger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from Debora Greger??a special poet in every sense? (Poetry) In her eighth book of poetry, Debora Greger travels not just the present but the past, looking for some strange place to call home. She takes a taxi to Stonehenge. She writes letters to Li Po and Tu Fu, Shakespeare and Jane Austen, always seeking out the beast that is man and the beast that is woman. She explores both the remoteness of the past (those radioactive fifties that were her childhood), and the weight of it?or, better, the responsibility of it. These modern traveler?s tales?musing, insistent, marvelous?place one woman?s collection of pasts into a world inhabited by Horace, Chekhov, the bank vault of England, and the giant octopus of Puget Sound.

Blue Rose

Author : Carol Muske-Dukes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524705012
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Blue Rose written by Carol Muske-Dukes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of emotionally rich, issue-oriented poems from an award-winning poet whose work “has long been essential reading” (Jorie Graham) Carol Muske-Dukes has won acclaim for poetry that marries sophisticated intelligence, emotional resonance, and lyrical intensity. The poems in her new collection, Blue Rose, navigate around the idea of the unattainable – the elusive nature of poetry, of knowledge, of the fact that we know so little of the lives of others, of the world in which we live. Some poems respond to matters of women, birth, and the struggle for reproductive rights, or to issues like gun control and climate change, while others draw inspiration from the lives of women who persisted outside of convention, in poetry, art, science: the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, the scientist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, and the Californian poet and writer Ina Coolbrith, the first poet laureate ever appointed in America.

Lean Against This Late Hour

Author : Garous Abdolmalekian
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134930
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Lean Against This Late Hour written by Garous Abdolmalekian and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation A vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise. Abdolmalekian resists definitive separations between cause and effect, life and death, or heaven and hell, and challenges our sense of what is fixed and what is unsettled and permeable. Though the speakers in these poems are witnesses to the deforming effects of grief and memory, they remain alive to curiosity, to the pleasure of companionship, and to other ways of being and seeing. Lean Against This Late Hour illuminates the images we conjure in the face of abandonment and ruin, and finds them by turns frightening, bewildering, ethereal, and defiant. "This time," a disembodied voice commands, "send us a prophet who only listens."

Way More West

Author : Edward Dorn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440623562
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Way More West written by Edward Dorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential anthology of an innovative American poet Edward Dorn was not only one of America’s finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and commentator. He was a student of Charles Olson, who helped him to see the American West as a site for his quest for self-knowledge; at the core of his work is a deep sense of place and the people who occupy it, underpinned by a wry ironic dissent. It was Dorn’s comic-epic masterpiece, Gunslinger, which began appearing in 1968 and had already become an underground classic by the time it was published in its entirety in 1974, that established his reputation in the wider world. This new volume brings together poems from Dorn’s entire career, including previously uncollected work.

David's Copy

Author : David Meltzer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440626898
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book David's Copy written by David Meltzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive interest in the interface between jazz and poetry that exploded in the 1950s. This new edition of selected poems includes previously unpublished material and serves as a map to this very prolific and interesting poet.

New and Selected Poems 1974-2004

Author : Carl Dennis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440650330
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 written by Carl Dennis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times has called Carl Dennis’s poetry “wise, original, and deeply moving.” A poet with a growing audience of admirers, Dennis writes in a clear, classically simple language that is both personal and universal. Making use of a rich variety of genres—advice, meditation, elegy, and prophecy—his poems take unexpected turns as they explore their subjects, catching the reader off balance in a way that is liberating. This new anthology gathers the best of his eight previous books along with a generous sampling of new poems.

Fear of Description

Author : Daniel Poppick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525506225
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Fear of Description written by Daniel Poppick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments, narrative poems that find millennials adrift--in political upheaval and personal crisis--and trying to find their way back to one another Winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy These poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals, precariously (or just un-) employed, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet's future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election, Fear of Description reinvigorates the prose poem, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship, artifice and technology, writing and ritual, hauntings and obsessions--searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.