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Gulf and Other Poems

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146688035X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Gulf and Other Poems written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As his title suggests, Derek Walcott's new poems--while making beautiful use of Caribbean imagery--are concerned with themes of isolation and the achievement of identity through loneliness. When it was published in England in 1969, The Gulf was awarded the Cholmondeley prize for poetry. As the London Times wrote, "His new collection is as noble and stern and grand as Milton...Walcott writes with a tropical glory of images; handles his huge pyrotechnic vocabulary with iron-discipline , verve and nerve...His glittering intelligence and luxurious command of sensation fuse in a mastery of images which burst in the brain like balls of phosphorescent fire." The subject of the title poem is the alienation and isolation of an America where filling-station signs proclaim the Gulf, an air, heavy with gas sickens the state, from Newark to New Orleans. The central figure in the Caribbean poems is a Robinson Crusoe-like castaway, who "learns again the self-creating peace of islands."

The gulf : And other poems

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book The gulf : And other poems written by Derek Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gulf

Author : Cody Smith
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680032038
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Gulf written by Cody Smith and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulf is one part ode and one part elegy to Smith’s Louisiana. It is a book that, all at once, questions, praises, and eulegizes its muse. Smith’s poetry works to elevate people, places, and things that are often looked over as unpoetic. Trailers, pickups, catfish, menial labor thread through Gulf. But ultimately, the book revolves around family and home. It moves back and forth between innocence and experience, the idyllic and tragic. In Gulf, the past shapes the poet, yet the poet, through so much that has been lost, has little else to access a past other than memory. Ultimately, Gulf becomes a reckoning with memory. These poems are the work of a poet leaving and losing his home, his family, his way of life. But they are not merely past-centric. Loss is a centrifugal force, an inciting incident that leads to the question,what is on the other side? What is left of a state that every year falls farther into the Gulf of Mexico? What is left when the poet moves three thousand miles away? What is it like to come home? Can the poet come home? What remains when the poet leaves? What is he able to bring with him? Though Smith’s relationship to his home is not simple, his first urge is to praise; however, when home is a trailer on wheels in a state that continues to fall down farther into water, Gulf is a book of poems unable to escape the elegiac. The Sabine Series in Literature

Looking for The Gulf Motel

Author : Richard Blanco
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978393
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Looking for The Gulf Motel written by Richard Blanco and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-02-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother's life shaped by exile, his father's death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.

The Gulf and Other Poems by Derek Walcott

Author : Roy Broadbent Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Gulf and Other Poems by Derek Walcott written by Roy Broadbent Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tropical Town and Other Poems

Author : SalomÑn de la Selva
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920512
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Town and Other Poems written by SalomÑn de la Selva and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by a late Nicaraguan writer. In A Prayer for the United States, he wrote: "Apocalyptic blasts are ravaging over-sea. / With lure of flag and conquest the harlot War is wooing. / The horse John saw in Patmos its dread course is pursuing. / I pray the Lord He shelter the stars that shelter me."

A Cold Coming

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Learning Links
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Cold Coming written by Tony Harrison and published by Learning Links. This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the Gulf War for The Guardian, the title poem is Harrison's response to Ken Jarecke's potent photo of a charred Iraqi soldier on the road to Basra. As a poet Harrison doesn't fool around.... There's something about his working-class temperament that hasn't time nor patience for metaphor and the grand abstraction. A Cold Coming is delivered rapid-fire in ninety-two clipped, rhymed couplets that never wear on the ear, driving the piece with relentless wit, heartbreak and a sick humor that is probably the only sane way to deal with the enormity of the subject...Harrison is a major poet, a tough and tender-minded realist fully aware of his spiritual contradictions. -- Willamette Week. Harrison's poetry is fuelled by the strongest feeling and most exhilarating erudition, and attains a quite remarkable singularity. -- TLS.

Gulf Music

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374531471
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Gulf Music written by Robert Pinsky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus. Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces. Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation And invention, is this the image of the promised end? All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever. Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned For love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-woe. --from "Gulf Music" An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky's first book of poetry since Jersey Rain (2000). On the large scale of war or the personal scale of family history, in the movements of people and cultures across oceans or between eras, these poems discover connections between things seemingly disparate. Gulf Music is perhaps the most ambitious, politically impassioned, and inventive book by this major American poet.

The Gulf

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780374508562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Gulf written by Derek Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sea Grapes

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880449
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sea Grapes written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Walcott was aptly described by Laurence Liberman in The Yale Review as "one of the handful of brilliant historic mythologists of our day." Sea Grapes deepens with this major poet's search for true images of the post-Adamic "new world"--especially those of his native Caribbean culture. Walcott's rich and vital naming of the forms of island life is complemented by poems set in America and England, by inward-turning meditations, and by invocations of other poets--Osip Mandelstam, Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, James Wright, and Pablo Neruda. On the publication of Selected Poems in 1963, Robert Graves wrote, "Derek Walcott handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most (if not any) of his English-born contemporaries." This collection of new poems in every way confirms Walcott's mastery. He is also the author of The Gulf, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, and Another Life.

Gulf War Poems and Other Stuff

Author : Edw Gwilym
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3842314574
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Gulf War Poems and Other Stuff written by Edw Gwilym and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Afterland

Author : Mai Der Vang
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979645
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Afterland written by Mai Der Vang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what the current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us. If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roads and waiting pastures of America. We will not ride the water today on the shoulders of buffalo as we used to many years ago, nor will we forage for the sweetest mangoes. I am refugee. You are too. Cry, but do not weep. —from “Transmigration” Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Mai Der Vang is telling the story of her own family, and by doing so, she also provides an essential history of the Hmong culture’s ongoing resilience in exile. Many of these poems are written in the voices of those fleeing unbearable violence after U.S. forces recruited Hmong fighters in Laos in the Secret War against communism, only to abandon them after that war went awry. That history is little known or understood, but the three hundred thousand Hmong now living in the United States are living proof of its aftermath. With poems of extraordinary force and grace, Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.

The Gulf

Author : Belle Boggs
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978347
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Gulf written by Belle Boggs and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelievers Marianne is in a slump: barely able to support herself by teaching, not making progress on her poetry, about to lose her Brooklyn apartment. When her novelist ex-fiancé, Eric, and his venture capitalist brother, Mark, offer her a job directing a low-residency school for Christian writers at a motel they’ve inherited on Florida’s Gulf Coast, she can’t come up with a reason to say no. The Genesis Inspirational Writing Ranch is born, and liberal, atheist Marianne is soon knee-deep in applications from writers whose political and religious beliefs she has always opposed but whose money she’s glad to take. Janine is a schoolteacher whose heartfelt poems explore the final days of Terri Schiavo’s life. Davonte is a former R&B superstar who hopes to reboot his career with a bestselling tale of excess and redemption. Lorraine and Tom, eccentric writers in need of paying jobs, join the Ranch as instructors. Mark finds an investor in God’s Word God’s World, a business that develops for-profit schools for the Christian market, but the conditions that come along with their support become increasingly problematic, especially as Marianne grows closer to the students. As unsavory allegations mount, a hurricane bears down on the Ranch, and Marianne is faced with the consequences of her decisions. With sharp humor and deep empathy, The Gulf is a memorable debut novel in which Belle Boggs plumbs the troubled waters dividing America.

Mural on Second Avenue, and Other City Poems

Author : Lilian Moore
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763619879
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Mural on Second Avenue, and Other City Poems written by Lilian Moore and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that capture various aspects of life in the city.

Gulf

Author : John Cody Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Gulf written by John Cody Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulf is one part ode and one part elegy to Smith's Louisiana. It is a book that, all at once, questions, praises, and eulogizes its muse. Smith's poetry works to elevate people, places, and things that are often looked over as unpoetic. Trailers, pickups, catfish, menial labor thread through Gulf. But ultimately, the book revolves around family and home. It moves back and forth between innocence and experience, the idyllic and tragic. In Gulf, the past shapes the poet, yet the poet, through so much that has been lost, has little else to access a past other than memory. Ultimately, Gulf becomes a reckoning with memory. These poems are the work of a poet leaving and losing his home, his family, his way of life. But they are not merely past-centric. Loss is a centrifugal force, an inciting incident that leads to the question, what is on the other side? What is left of a state that every year falls farther into the Gulf of Mexico? What is left when the poet moves three thousand miles away? What is it like to come home? Can the poet come home? What remains when the poet leaves? What is he able to bring with him? Though Smith's relationship to his home is not simple, his first urge is to praise; however, when home is a trailer on wheels in a state that continues to fall down farther into water, Gulf is a book of poems unable to escape the elegiac.

Collected Poems, 1948-1984

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374520259
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems, 1948-1984 written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.

Yearling

Author : Lo Kwa Mei-en
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584198
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Yearling written by Lo Kwa Mei-en and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Defiant and uncategorizable, Lo Kwa Mei-en's Yearling, with its teeming species, battles, and passions, read like an illuminated manuscript: mysterious, visceral, awe-full. Hers are some of the most enviable poems I have ever read, and herald Mei-en as the new standard bearer for innovative structure, terrifying acknowledgment, ecstatic statement, and, I daresay, beauty."—Kathy Fagan Lo Kwa Mei-en's Yearling explores adolescence through a deeply moving and poignantly raw lens. As the speaker ages, so too does the poetry, creating laments for the loss of friendship, the loss of species, and sometimes the loss of humanity itself. Harsh, forlorn and yet effervescent, Mei-en's lyricism perfectly captures the ethos of youth in an unsure world. From "Rara Avis Decoy": Wild diamond rocking on the floor of a predatory boat. Point & say sweet traitor to the wood & water for wanting to be made of both. My name is I know not what I am as a country of mothers & fathers comes down. They call me sleeping beauty. I dream I am in flight, body unfolding, folding, a bullet wounding water again & again—the mysterious love of a father & mother a two-barreled gaze. The gun in my dream speaks my name & sees a beating vein. Takes aim— Lo Kwa Mei-en is from Singapore and Ohio. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, West Branch, and other journals, and won the Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize and the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize.