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Book Synopsis Rocket Fantastic by : Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Download or read book Rocket Fantastic written by Gabrielle Calvocoressi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family. Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer. “A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time.”—Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Song written by Brigit Pegeen Kelly and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.... Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led."--Library Journal
Book Synopsis Lyric Generations by : G. Gabrielle Starr
Download or read book Lyric Generations written by G. Gabrielle Starr and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. "Refreshingly, this impressive study of poetic form does not read the eighteenth century as a slow road to Romanticism, but fleshes out the period with surprising and important new detail."—Times Literary Supplement G. Gabrielle Starr is the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and a professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience.
Book Synopsis To the Man I Loved Too Much by : Gabrielle G
Download or read book To the Man I Loved Too Much written by Gabrielle G and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first collection of poems, Gabrielle G. depicts different love stories from the initial spark to the last heartbreak and writes in verses the heartache we've all been through. A poetry book to make your heart smile and weep at the same time.
Download or read book Hard Damage written by Aria Aber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind. While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.
Book Synopsis Everything and Other Poems by : Charles North
Download or read book Everything and Other Poems written by Charles North and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything and Other Poems" is a new collection of poetry by Charles North. North has published eleven books of poems, three books of critical prose, and collaborations with artists and other poets. With James Schuyler, he edited the poet/painter anthologies "Broadway" and "Broadway 2." His "New and Selected: What It Is Like" headed NPR's Best Poetry Books of 2011, and he has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, two NEA grants, four Fund For Poetry Awards, and a Poets Foundation Award. He lives with his wife, the painter Paula North, in New York City. More info at charles-north.com"--
Book Synopsis 100 Poems to Break Your Heart by : Edward Hirsch
Download or read book 100 Poems to Break Your Heart written by Edward Hirsch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A really beautiful book” of poems that delve into—and help us transcend—suffering, loss, fear, and loneliness, by the author of How to Read a Poem (The Boston Globe). Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, Edward Hirsch—prize-winning poet, critic, and author of How to Read a Poem—selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within them. “Darkly illuminating.” —Booklist (starred review) “These 100 poems will indeed break hearts, but they also offer examples of resilience, the lasting impact of words, and a wisdom that a reader can return to and share.” —New York Journal of Books
Download or read book Ugly Music written by Diannely Antigua and published by Yesyes Books. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Diannely Antigua's debut collection, UGLY MUSIC, is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss where survival and surrender are blurred. The poems span a traumatic early childhood, a religious adolescence, and, later, a womanhood that grapples with learning how to create an identity informed by, yet in spite of, those challenges. What follows is an exquisitely vulgar voice, unafraid to draw attention to the distasteful, to speak a truth created by a collage of song and confession, diary and praise. It is an account of observation and dissociation, the danger of simultaneously being inside and outside the experiences that mold a life. UGLY MUSIC emerges as a story of witness, a realization that even the strangest things exist on earth and deserve to live. "Diannely Antigua's UGLY MUSIC is a beautiful disturbance of erotic energy. This debut counters the pull of thanatos with the effervescent allure of pure imagination, and everything is dangerously alive. Antigua's seduction is both intellectual and physical, a force strong enough to counter the emotional pains recounted here--an abandoning father, trespassed bodies, pregnancies lost, wanted, feared. At times, the speaker of these poems trespasses on her own body, as if to say a body is both precious and to be ruined, used, used up. At its deepest song, this is a theological protest and investigation by a speaker wrestling with faith and fathers, with unapologetic desire. These poems have found a way to circumvent the most precarious silences, to boast and to rue." --Catherine Barnett
Book Synopsis That Peculiar Affirmative by : Jonathan Farmer
Download or read book That Peculiar Affirmative written by Jonathan Farmer and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems are social. They reach out, however crookedly, to another person, however imperfectly imagined. And sometimes they not only embody but enact those things that we might value in the other parts of our social lives--kindness, for example, or joy--as well as the complications those values entail. Looking closely at poems from Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Terrance Hayes, Spencer Reece, Robert Pinsky, Claudia Rankine, Jericho Brown, Patricia Lockwood, Ross Gay, Paisley Rekdal, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and many others, That Peculiar Affirmative tries to understand what it means for a poem to be humble or humorous, decorous or confident, and what that tells us not only about poems, but also about the larger world of social virtues, personal vulnerabilities, and political problems that define so much of our time together and apart. "If I had to imagine an ideal reader or critic of poetry it would be Jonathan Farmer, and his soulful book of essays, That Peculiar Affirmative, would be my ideal book. These essays constitute more than a series of discrete engagements with modern and contemporary poets; together they conduct nothing less than a spiritual autobiography that tracks the growth of the writer's moral and aesthetic imagination. There is no book like this in its combination of personal revelation and writerly attention to technique, in its thrilling recreation of the mind through poetry redefining what it thinks and feels." --Alan Shapiro "Along the front line of a new generation of poetry commentators, I place Jonathan Farmer beside Meghan O'Rourke, Philip Metres, and Solmaz Sharif. It's a very fertile moment for poetry, and Farmer is one of the first critics I look to now for clarity and depth. His readings in That Peculiar Affirmative are uniformly brilliant, unswayed by partisan aesthetics, and marked by real joy in intellectual and social engagement with the lyric poem. Even his subtitles point to this rare odic impulse; he writes "on" decorum and humility, "on" politics and humor, even as he applies contemporary issues of racial and sexual identity, for instance, to an old-school devotion to close reading. His touchstones--Sidney and Shakespeare, Kristeva and Durrell--are as aptly rangy as his contemporary subjects, from Brooks and Bishop to Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, or Claudia Rankine. I greet this critic and his book with celebratory gratitude." --David Baker "That Jonathan Farmer writes in his introduction that in this book, he 'has tried to make something worth your time' is characteristic of the critical voice you will find in this thoughtful, probing, and reflective book of essays. The 'I' of That Peculiar Affirmative is modest while its eye is expansive and inclusive; Farmer's curiosity is palpable, both in the questions he poses and the questions he hears in the poems he reads. In beautiful and generous essays on subjects of perennial poetic relevance and contemporary sociopolitical relevance, Farmer rethinks topics like joy, decorum, humility, kindness, humor, and political discourse itself through insightful readings of contemporary poets as varied as Ross Gay, Patricia Lockwood, Paisley Rekdal, Jill McDonough, Mary Syzbist, Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and more, as well as a vast array of interlocutors across time, such as Hamlet, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop (whose phrase gives this book its title), Lucille Clifton, and even Allie Brosh of the iconic web comic Hyperbole and a Half. As befits an exploration of the social life of poetry, That Peculiar Affirmative is a book that will not only speak to you about poetry, affect, and politics, but will speak with you. Farmer has met his goal and then some: this book is dazzlingly and rewardingly worth your time." --Sumita Chakraborty
Book Synopsis Fantasia for the Man in Blue by : Tommye Blount
Download or read book Fantasia for the Man in Blue written by Tommye Blount and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2020 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of a brutal America through the voices of its most vulnerable sons. In his debut collection, Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence. A black man's late-night encounter with a police officer - the titular "man in blue" - becomes an extended meditation on a dangerous, erotic fantasy. The late Luther Vandross, resurrected here in a suite of poems, addresses the contradiction between his public persona and a life spent largely in the closet: "It's a calling, this hunger / to sing for a love I'm too ashamed to want for myself." In "Aaron McKinney Cleans His Magnum," the convicted killer imagines the barrel of the gun he used to bludgeon Matthew Shepherd as an "infant's small mouth" as well as the "sad calculator" that was "built to subtract from and divide a town." In these and other poems, Blount viscerally captures the experience of the "other" and locates us squarely within these personae"--
Download or read book Summer of Pink written by Gabrielle Mbeki and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful collection of poems reflecting on the breakdown of relationships and intimacy, and how it influences a person. Created with three sections in mind to show the intuitiveness of looking at the past, present, and future, with the help of three Major Arcana tarot cards; the most impactful cards to the author in order to guide her, and the reader through her path of love, loss, and redemption. a decade of what ifs pulling on the invisible string that always made me crawl back to you, even if once in a blue moon. all for the power you gave me from pleasuring you.
Download or read book Too Many Seeds written by Gabrielle Myers and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on a poetic journey with food production and what this means in America. Too Many Seeds explores food and nourishment as experienced through farm, kitchen, and food factory work as well as more metaphorical ways of feeding the soul.
Book Synopsis Afterglow Effect by : Alecia Gabrielle
Download or read book Afterglow Effect written by Alecia Gabrielle and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afterglow Effect, Alecia Gabrielle's debut collection of poetry, includes pieces which are transparent journeys through the profound experiences of early childhood and aching heartbreak which often accompanies adolescence. Flooded with detailed poetry that is sure to ignite a pastel sunset of emotion inside of readers, the poems inside highlight what it means to feel unwanted and discouraged while also exuding emphasis on how to be resilient in the glowing dawns to come.
Book Synopsis ( Ghost Gestures ) by : Gabrielle Civil
Download or read book ( Ghost Gestures ) written by Gabrielle Civil and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Drama African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Nonfiction Chapbook Contest. How can you return to where you've never been? ( GHOST GESTURES ) conjures diaspora hauntings and traces black bodies across space and time. In Dakar and Banjul, Detroit and Montreal, Tlaxcala and Río Piédras, Gabrielle Civil showcases black bodies dancing, hiding, and re-emerging. In performance writing, she invokes the doll, the queen, and the ghost to explore where black women have never and always been. She plays hide-and-seek with her own transforming body and tackles history, identity, art, and desire. "bring this here / bring this back / keep this here / bring us back / bring us here / bring us back to this." Incorporating chants, notations, images, and scores, ( GHOST GESTURES ) will spirit you away.
Download or read book Dunce written by Mary Ruefle and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.
Book Synopsis The Best American Poetry 1996 by : David Lehman
Download or read book The Best American Poetry 1996 written by David Lehman and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1996-09-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, in its ninth year, The Best American Poetry 1996 is universally acclaimed as the best anthology in the field. The compilation includes a diverse abundance of poems published in 1995 in more than 40 publications ranging from The New Yorker to The Paris Review to Bamboo Ridge.
Book Synopsis Touch Me Real and Other Stories by : Karen Gabrielle Lennon
Download or read book Touch Me Real and Other Stories written by Karen Gabrielle Lennon and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touch Me Real and Other Stories Lennon s short stories are hilarious and heart wrenching. Her writing opens up the depths of human sorrow, despair, and joy, in a broad rainbow of human experiences. With a universal appeal of profound emotional truth, her writings are accessible, fun, quirky, dark, exotic, erotic, and ecstatic. In these compelling stories, Lennon delves into a great diversity of subjects including: *A seven-year-old who struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder. *A college student s eating disorder and sick relationship with her mother lead to self-destructive choices and then healing. *A young woman falls in love with her best friend, and witnesses firsthand the shocking onset of paranoid schizophrenia. *A tampon comes to life and has wild and wacky adventures with her unconventional friends. *Plus a section of zany bonus stories. What Reviewers Are Saying: An extremely powerful opus, an overwhelming piece of prose. Gabrielle Lennon never fails to shock, penetrate, teach and inspire. Lennon has laid her heart on the table for all to see .I m stunned. The words Lennon writes here pierce not only the heart but the very soul. Rey Madueno, author of The Gate Of The Green Sunset No politeness here. Gabrielle Lennon writes with immense creativity about the rawness of life, love, desire, sexuality, mental illness, violence, and ultimately that essential place called the heart. Barry Vissell, MD and Joyce Vissell RN, MS, authors of The Shared Heart, The Heart s Wisdom, and Meant To Be (SharedHeart.org). "These stories are intensely intimate, as if Lennon has invented an emotional electron microscope to observe the most minute nuances of human feeling." Jim Gladstone, author of The Big Book of Misunderstanding "Gabrielle Lennon creatively approaches the ordinary as no other. Her vignettes will leave you with a sly smile on your face, as you have secretly shared this unique moment with her." Laura Alexandria, Theater and Music Critic, The Muskegon Chronicle and Department of English, Baker College Pure spirit comes from pure living. And with pure spirit comes the ability to express one's purest self. Lennon gives us her essence. She bares her soul, lets us tour around inside, and shows us the many sides of her most loving heart. Read. Laugh. Cry. Cringe. Reach out. And read some more. Dr. Doug Graham Author of The 80/10/10 Diet, Nutrition and Athletic Performance, and Grain Damage "Challenging, provocative, heart breaking, there is no doubt Lennon's talent is immense. A stunning achievement." Christopher Pennock, actor and graphic novelist About the Author Presenting her writings throughout the United States, Gabrielle Lennon has given compassion and encouragement to those in life s most crucial emotional moments. Her words have helped heal a veteran s emotional scars from Vietnam, and guided a mother bringing a new life into the world. Gabrielle Lennon graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Performance Studies and the Honors Program in Creative Writing. Her work focused on analysis, interpretation, and performance of prose, poetry, and drama. She has spent years living abroad, and has backpacked around the world twice. In addition to her unique poetry and prose, Lennon writes professionally for magazines, newspapers, newsletters, journals, and the theater.
