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Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013

Author : BJ Ward
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583946772
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013 written by BJ Ward and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BJ Ward, an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have been featured on National Public Radio and in publications such as The Sun Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, and the New York Times, has brought together in one volume the fruits of his labor spanning over twenty years. Winner of the 2014 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, this rich collection of thoughtful and often ironic reflections reveals both the reverence and irreverence of human experience. Jackleg Opera contains material from Ward's three previous books Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, 17 Love Poems with No Despair, and Gravedigger's Birthday, as well as thirty-five new poems that are reminiscent of the clear simple style of Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Under the Elm We left the party, walked / beneath a moon that seemed / more a spotlight than night, / until we found a tree. / We pressed against it / and the grass rose against us, / the sky continued to darken, / and soon days, weeks, migrations, / and metamorphoses passed / as we kissed ourselves out / of our bored lives. / Us--two thousand miles away now, / the grass still growing wild around our feet. "In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the brightest voices of his generation."--Stephen Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013

Author : BJ Ward
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583946780
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013 written by BJ Ward and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BJ Ward, an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have been featured on National Public Radio and in publications such as The Sun Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, and the New York Times, has brought together in one volume the fruits of his labor spanning over twenty years. Winner of the 2014 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, this rich collection of thoughtful and often ironic reflections reveals both the reverence and irreverence of human experience. Jackleg Opera contains material from Ward's three previous books Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, 17 Love Poems with No Despair, and Gravedigger's Birthday, as well as thirty-five new poems that are reminiscent of the clear simple style of Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Under the Elm We left the party, walked / beneath a moon that seemed / more a spotlight than night, / until we found a tree. / We pressed against it / and the grass rose against us, / the sky continued to darken, / and soon days, weeks, migrations, / and metamorphoses passed / as we kissed ourselves out / of our bored lives. / Us--two thousand miles away now, / the grass still growing wild around our feet. "In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the brightest voices of his generation."--Stephen Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Basho in America

Author : Sander Zulauf
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491742402
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Basho in America written by Sander Zulauf and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: only two people at our moon viewing party and one at a time Sander Zulauf In Basho in America, 17th century haiku master Matsuo Basho leaves his Lake Biwa abode of illusion to visit an abode of illusion on Lake George. In this stunning collection Sander Zulauf makes a convincing bid to become our American Basho. Poem after brief poem struck me right between the eyes, with shocks of recognized truth. X.J. Kennedy

Red Sugar

Author : Jan Beatty
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990695
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Red Sugar written by Jan Beatty and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the “romantic” “and the “brutal” and how they exist within us and between us.

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

Author : Lenore Kandel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583943722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel written by Lenore Kandel and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Kerouac immortalized her in his novel Big Sur. A student of Zen, she hung out with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg and was a speaker at San Francisco’s Human Be-In. But Lenore Kandel was no muse or hanger-on; she was a brilliant lyric poet, often unabashedly erotic, and that’s where her legacy lies. Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel contains 80 examples of her art, from the “holy erotica” of her early years to later, more contemplative works. Many of the poems have never been published, others only in rare ephemeral publications. Some are explicit, celebrating carnal love as part of the divine. Others are humorous and cover more quotidian subjects. A recurring theme is the “divine animal” duality. The collection includes poems written from the early fifties up until Kandel’s death. The paradox of Lenore Kandel is that despite her prodigious talent, she was one of the least read and critically appreciated of modern poets. Kandel found her voice at a time when the Beat era was giving way to the countercultural age, and though she straddled both eras, it meant that she also fell through the cracks in terms of recognition. Now for the first time the full range of her work appears in one volume.

Westport Poems

Author : Jonathan Towers
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556435959
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Westport Poems written by Jonathan Towers and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner life exploring the tarot, medieval history, courtly love and relationship, and the pre-Socratic philosophers. These poems beautifully evoke a sense of place, while also powerfully critiquing the forces of modern life that threaten it.

17 Love Poems with No Despair

Author : B. J. Ward
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556432439
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book 17 Love Poems with No Despair written by B. J. Ward and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 Love Poems with No Despair resounds with the voice of a clear, powerful speaker. Ward does not naively deny despair but rather refuses it, making a case to the beloved and to the reader that proffers love as an antidote. This book is an offering of passion wrought with charm and poignancy. Always one is aware of the strength that is required to love long and well.

Tides of Expectation

Author : Elane Gutterman
Publisher : Kelsay Books
ISBN 13 : 9781639800858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Tides of Expectation written by Elane Gutterman and published by Kelsay Books. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tides of Expectation is evidence not only of a life well-lived, but of a life beautifully translated to verse. Here we have the discerning eye of the engaging memoirist coupled with a poet's pressure on the line. The result is a book that dazzled me. It allures by precision of detail, wins us over by the humor found in unexpected places, and entertains us by the stories so very well told. --BJ Ward, author of Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013 Elane Gutterman can claim, as she does in one of these memoir poems, to be "The Reluctant Protester," but she is hardly resistant to the Resistance. It's just that not even her political poems are dominated by doctrine; rather, she develops her outward-looking civic and humanistic themes from very personal recollections and reveries into which she welcomes us with an outpouring of images and details. Tides of Expectation circumnavigates the latitudes of the earth and the longitudes of a poet joyously facing life and bravely facing mortality. --James Penha, editor, The New Verse News In Tides of Expectation, Elane Gutterman displays a wry humor and broad knowledge of modes of contemporary poetry as she delivers a rich collage of her life experiences. From the pen of a born storyteller, these skillful poems offer variety in abundance-including fascinating news items and multi-layered portraits of family, friends and acquaintances. However, the character that shines the brightest throughout is the narrator herself, as is suggested by the subtitle, Memoir Poems. What a treat it is to shadow Gutterman on her travels in Poland, Hungary, Israel, El Salvador, and East Africa, and to savor the foods she clearly enjoys preparing and eating! The fortitude and resolve that saw the poet through her bout with breast cancer are the backdrop to many of these finely drawn scenes, and the reader is left with the deep imprint of a strong and inspiring woman who, like her Ugandan safari guide Lilian, should never be underestimated. --Anna M. Evans, author of Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic

Gravedigger's Birthday

Author : B. J. Ward
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556434228
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Gravedigger's Birthday written by B. J. Ward and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the bright up-and-coming voices of his generation." —Stephen Dunn, Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Dead Lies Dreaming

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250267013
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Dead Lies Dreaming written by Charles Stross and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health

Author : Pedro M. Arezes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030147304
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health written by Pedro M. Arezes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a number of important issues in the area of occupational safety and hygiene. Presenting both research and best practices for the evaluation of occupational risk, safety and health in various types of industry, it particularly focuses on occupational safety in automated environments, innovative management systems and occupational safety in a global context. The different chapters examine the perspectives of all those involved, such as managers, workers and OSH professionals. Based on selected contributions presented at the 15th International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2019), held on 15–16 April, 2019, in Guimarães, Portugal, the book serves as a timely reference guide and source of inspiration to OSH researchers, practitioners and organizations operating in a global context.

Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands

Author : B. J. Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556431845
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands written by B. J. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In BJ Ward's Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, each poem is a journey filled with discovery as we travel roads of America and the heart, trusting always Ward's steady hand upon the wheel. The poems are richly diverse, from 'The Dying of the Light,' with its insistent pathos, or the wry premise of 'Shakespeare as a Waiter,' and the generous elegance of 'Dancing with the Teacher.' What unites this stunning debut is Ward's consistent depiction of a world filled with the anguish and promise of 'something here, something now' that sweet something that won't grasp you or be grasped.

Catching Light

Author : Joanna McClure
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583946306
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Catching Light written by Joanna McClure and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene. Growing up on a ranch in the Arizona desert, Joanna developed early on a deep sensitivity to the beauty of nature. Her move to San Francisco as a young woman in 1951 launched a lifelong love affair with that city and the poetry it engendered. Thriving on the energy of the Beat movement, the young poet found herself inside a circle of famous poets and great writers in American poetry and American literature, including San Francisco Renaissance poet Robert Duncan and his lover, artist Jess Collins, as well as the Beats Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Gary Snyder. She heard Ginsberg's first public reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in 1955, and the home she shared with Michael became a gathering place for beatniks. Meanwhile, Joanna was developing own body of poetic work, allowing her clear inner voice to guide her. Her poems ardently claim the freedoms her generation struggled to achieve, yet they often do so in a playful and generous voice, reveling in the beauty of the natural world and everyday moments and elegantly celebrating sensuality and intimate love. In the late 1950s she began publishing her work in literary journals and chapbooks, and her first book of poems, Wolf Eyes, was published in 1974. Like many of her female Beat poet contemporaries, and American women writers throughout the 20th century, Joanna McClure wrote prolifically yet quietly year after year, even as her life shifted focus to a career in early childhood development and she and Michael divorced. "Poetry is where I keep company with myself," she declares. Now for the first time the full range of McClure's voice is accessible in one volume, spanning the poet's entire writing life.

Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth

Author : Gerrit Lansing
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556437544
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth written by Gerrit Lansing and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved. A distinguished figure of American letters, whose work and spirit have bridged five decades of creativity, Gerrit Lansing provides a perfect launch for the series with this collected edition of his poetry, which astonishes by the variety of its poetic forms and concerns, lyrical and cosmological. It cannot easily be fitted into niches currently fashionable. Like a "seed growing secretly" (to quote a favorite poet of his, Henry Vaughan), it has influenced the American cultural underground since the late 1950s. Lansing was a friend and associate of generations of creative minds as diverse as the poet Charles Olson and the legendary filmmaker Harry Smith. Poet Robert Kelly notes that "he is the most learned among us, and the most fun." Lansing has patiently fashioned a body of work that ranges from short poems such as "The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward" and "In Northern Earth," from which this collection takes its title, to longer cycles like the alchemical serial poem "The Soluble Forest." With themes at once personal and social, erotic and esoteric, Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth manifests the creative spirit of one of the important unheralded masters of modern poetry.

Brown Album

Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564713
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Brown Album written by Porochista Khakpour and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment. Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her own family's modest life and culture, and becoming an assimilated American. Porochista rebels--she bleaches her hair and flees to the East Coast, where she finds her community: other people writing and thinking at the fringes. But, 9/11 happens and with horror, Porochista watches from her apartment window as the towers fall. Extremism and fear of the Middle East rises in the aftermath and then again with the election of Donald Trump. Porochista is forced to finally grapple with what it means to be Middle-Eastern and Iranian, an immigrant, and a refugee in our country today. Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays, at times humorous and at times profound, drawn from more than a decade of Porochista's work and with new material included. Altogether, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that life can give.

In a Fine Frenzy

Author : David Starkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In a Fine Frenzy written by David Starkey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing poems by more than ninety contemporary American poets, In a Fine Frenzy reveals what Shakespeare's poetic children have made of their inheritance. Particularly interested in Viola, Miranda, Prospero, Desdemona, Iago, Lear, Cordelia, Hamlet, Horatio, and Ophelia, the poets respond to the sonnets, the comedies, the tragedies, the romances, and, to a lesser degree, Shakespeare the man. In so doing they reveal the aspects of his work most currently captivating to modern writers. Those who cherish Shakespeare's mercurial wit will delight in the rapid shifts, from grief to hilarity, so characteristic of the bard himself. Comic poems about tragedies follow decidedly somber poems about comedies. Single poems contain multiple emotional twists and turns. Some pay homage; most interact directly with the original Shakespearean text. Collectively, they corroborate Ben Jonson's assertion that Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time.

Leading Men

Author : Frank Miller
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811854672
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Leading Men written by Frank Miller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough, sophisticated, witty, and handsomefrom Rudolph Valentino to Buster Keaton, Cary Grant to Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart to Steve McQueen, each of the actors featured in this book brought a magnetic presence to the screen and made a powerful and enduring mark on film history. Produced by Turner Classic Movies, this stylish and definitive guide as the inside scoop and off-the-record reveals of fifty unforgettable actors and is also the focus of an on-air film festival on the channel. The lives and accomplishments of each actor are celebrated in an insightful career overview, accompanied by an annotated list of essential films, filmographies, behind the scenes facts, Academy Award wins and nominations. Full of surprising trivia, film stills, posters, and stunning photos, Leading Men pays tribute to the most charismatic, enduring, and elegant actors of the silver screenan essential resource for movie buffs and pop-culture enthusiasts alike.