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Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Illini Poetry ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Slade
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683354729
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Exquisite written by Suzanne Slade and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071058
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Songlines in Michaeltree written by Michael S. Harper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems--with the sparkling addition of some new ones--of one of America's most revered poets. Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers his astonishing technical virtuosity with a compassionate and healing vision. A keen observer and a potent commentator, Harper calls a complacent society vigorously to account while cradling the wounded and remembering the lost. Calling Harper "one of the finest poets of our time . . . [and] one of the most human and humane," George Cuomo of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle observed, "Harper's poetry has drawn its vitality from the incredible energy of his language and the honesty of his perceptions." Songlines in Michaeltree is a magnificent celebration of Harper's continuing, unstinting gifts.
Author : Ángel García
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756479
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Teeth Never Sleep written by Ángel García and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2019 PEN Open Book Award Winner, 2019 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Drawing on folklore and fantasy, childhood memory and hallucination, and marked by a tone of piercing divulgence, Teeth Never Sleep nimbly negotiates the split consciousness a culture of dominance requires of men (especially men of color), highlighting the fissures in selfhood created by the pressure to seek submission over intimacy while still wanting desperately to be loved, and tracing the contorted route by which emotional pain finds expression in violence. “The night my girlfriend tells my mother I beat her, / I feel betrayed. This was a secret we kept between us. / That night, I was no longer my mother’s loving son,” the speaker in one poem confesses, and later “I never wanted to be this kind of animal.” And yet, through the lens of Ángel García’s sharp imagining, men frequently appear as beasts (sometimes literally)—as hybrid beings both tender and brutal—that he steadfastly refuses to let off the hook as he obsessively catalogs the origins of toxic masculinity (the first time I made my mother cry, the first time I pitied my father, the first time I saw a girl bleed) and its quiet, lasting effects: “Still a part of me believes a / man shouldn’t cry in front of a woman, even in the dark.” In a culture of weaponized masculinity, the poems in Teeth Never Sleep make a doorway of a wound, inviting readers to walk through and sit down inside the raw pain they harbor to meditate on two central, urgent questions: what it means to be a man and how, as a man, to love.
Author : Dave Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065842
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (658 download)
Download or read book Floating on Solitude written by Dave Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forging through this voluminous collection is akin to visiting at length with a charismatic, if highly disturbed, relative. Generally, the poems start out presenting facades of well-mannered normalcy, e.g., brief narratives or odes to nature and the sea, but then something shifts and goes terribly right. A sentence turns odd and powerful; a quiet, streak of insanity emerges; a young girl leaves her scent upon a young boy's body. Sometimes a poem pops up that is dangerous from start to finish, such as "The Suicide Eaters" or "Drunks," about a reading at a V.A. hospital for recovering addicts and alcoholics. Smith is highly conscious of word choice. He tinkers with grammar and rhythm just enough to be utterly engaging, leaving the reader exhausted after the visit, but wiser for the effort."- Publishers weekly.
Author : Mark Doty
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063176
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)
Download or read book My Alexandria written by Mark Doty and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about mortality, the mortal weight of AIDS in particular.
Author : Angela Jackson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810150010
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dark Legs and Silk Kisses written by Angela Jackson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry Angela Jackson brings her remarkable linguistic and poetic gifts to the articulation of African-American experience. The recurrent motif of the spider, which she presents as both creator and predator, demonstrates her deliberate reshaping of myth in the context of contemporary human experience. Informed by African-American speech and poetic traditions, yet uniquely her own, these poems display Jackson's stylistic grace, her exuberance and vitality of spirit, and her emotional sensitivity and psychological insight.
Author : Harriet Monroe
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poetry written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068492
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The Poet and the Dream Girl written by Carl Sandburg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These letters reveal the thoughts of two fine, strong minds drawn to each other first by their interest in socialism, then by their love of poetry and a similarity of ethics and ideals. My mother recognized this in his early prose and poetry. They learned so much about each other from these letters, yet it seems extraordinary that there was so little personal contact."-- From the introduction by Margaret Sandburg
Author : Cleo Wade
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250831296
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book What the Road Said written by Cleo Wade and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the Road Said is the New York Times-bestselling comforting and uplifting picture book from bestselling poet and activist Cleo Wade. Which way do I go? That is your choice to make, said the Road. But what if I go the wrong way? The Road curved a little, almost as if it was giving me a hug, and said, Do not worry. Sometimes we go the wrong way on our way to the right way. It's okay to be afraid or to sometimes wander down the wrong path. Bestselling poet and activist Cleo Wade's What the Road Said features illustrations by Lucie de Moyencourt and encourages us to lead with kindness and curiosity, remembering that the most important thing we can do in life is to keep going.
Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252011931
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Dear John, Dear Coltrane written by Michael S. Harper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of rhythmic poems with such varied themes as pain, love, and the experience of jazz.
Author : Maria Damon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076087
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Poetry and Cultural Studies written by Maria Damon and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical texts exploring poetry's engagement with the social
Author : Julie Kane
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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rhythm & Booze written by Julie Kane and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems which trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts and destructive old patterns.
Author : David Wagoner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068034
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Traveling Light written by David Wagoner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language. His collections have garnered Poetry's Levinson and Union League Prizes, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and nominations for the American Book Award and the National Book Award. For his most recent collection, Walt Whitman Bathing, Wagoner was honored with the Ohioana Book Award in the category of poetry.
Author : Jean Garrigue
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062247
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Jean Garrigue and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling for the natural world, and especially for animals, runs equally deep. Her later work moves outward to wider perspectives on travel, politics, art, and literature itself, while exploring the philosophical questions of permanence and change, the role of the artist in an indifferent world, and the struggle of the spirit with the fact of death. Garrigue's lyrical vein broadens into a long, meditative lyric, often fused with a richly detailed evocation of place, that.
Author : Michael Van Walleghen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252005701
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Wichita Poems written by Michael Van Walleghen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malin Pereira
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028373
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism written by Malin Pereira and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate of the United States, Rita Dove has written prolifically since the early 1970s. In this, the first full-length critical study of her entire body of work by an American scholar, Malin Pereira traces the development of Dove's literary voice, looking at the ways she combines racial specificity with the perspective of the unraced universal. Pereira examines Dove's poetry, fiction, drama, and literary criticism closely and chronologically, charting her path through the racially charged culture wars of the 1970s and 1980s. She demonstrates how Dove eventually transcended racial protocols that threaten to define her work and moves into a nomadic poetic articulation of her cosmopolitan identity. As Pereira addresses Rita Dove's cosmopolitanism, she also examines the thematic concerns that reoccur in Dove's work - themes, such as incest, miscegenation, nomadism, the blues, and patriarchal oppression.
