Magnolia: Poems

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Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1953534279
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis Magnolia: Poems by : Nina Mingya Powles

Download or read book Magnolia: Poems written by Nina Mingya Powles and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SPIN, Electric Literature, Book Riot, and The Catholic Post Best Poetry Collection of 2022 Finalist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize & Forward Prize for Best First Collection A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Month Magnolia, Nina Mingya Powles’ exquisite debut poetry collection, pushes the borders of languages and poetic forms to examine memories, myths, and the experiences of a mixed-race girlhood. From Aotearoa to London, from Shanghai to New York City, these poems journey across shifting, luminescent cities in search of connection: through pop culture, through food, through vivid colors. Scenes from Mulan, Blade Runner, and In the Mood for Love braid together with silken tofu and freshly steamed baozi. At the heart of the collection is “Field notes on a downpour,” a lyrical sequence that questions the limits of translation and our ability to understand one another. Alone, the speaker recognizes that “certain languages contain more kinds of rain than others, and I have eaten them all." Full of hunger and longing for a home that can embrace a person’s complexities, Magnolia draws on every sense to arrive at profound, yet intimate insights, and introduces readers to a brilliant new voice in poetry.

M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393059076
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A by : A. Van Jordan

Download or read book M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A written by A. Van Jordan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacNolia Cox won the Akron District Spelling Bee, and at the age of 13 she became the first African American to reach the final round of the national competition. The Southern judges, it is thought, kept her from winning by presenting a word not on the official list. The word that tripped MacNolia, ironically, was "nemesis." When she died 40 years later, the girl who "was almost/ The national spelling champ" had become a cleaning woman, a grandmother, and "the best damn maid in town." Cox's ambition and her later frustration find incisive shape in this remarkably varied meditation on ambition, racism, discouragement and ennui, where successive pages can bring to mind a handbook of poetic forms (a double sestina, Japanese-inspired syllabics, a blues ghazal and prose poems based on definitions of prepositions), Ann Carson's "TV Men" poems, Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and the documentary film Spellbound. Jordan (Rise) begins in Cox's later life, giving voice to her husband, John Montiere, at "The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date," then to MacNolia herself when in 1970 her son dies just after his return from Vietnam. As counterpoints, Jordan intersperses poems about African-Americans who won more lasting public acclaim, among them Richard Pryor, Josephine Baker and the great labor organizer and orator A. Philip Randolph. Jordan's most quotable poems, however, return to the voice of the 13-year-old speller, who "learned the word chiaroscuro/ By rolling it on my tongue// Like cotton candy the color/ Of day and night." (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library Journal.

Magnolia Leaves

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Magnolia Leaves by : Mary Weston Fordham

Download or read book Magnolia Leaves written by Mary Weston Fordham and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tiny Moons

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ISBN 13 : 9781912915347
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Tiny Moons by : POWLES

Download or read book Tiny Moons written by POWLES and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food, belonging and longing. It's also a kitchen notebook, a travel journal, and a dream diary. This is a journey into childhood comfort foods, family feasts, Shanghai street food, and recreating memories through eating and cooking.

Magnolia Canopy Otherworld

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ISBN 13 : 9781949065084
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Magnolia Canopy Otherworld by : Erin Carlyle

Download or read book Magnolia Canopy Otherworld written by Erin Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Carlyle's Magnolia Canopy Otherworld is a stark collection of poems examining female autonomy and hardship within the American South. Included inside is a featured interview with the poet.

Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean

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Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776710312
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by : Sugar Magnolia Wilson

Download or read book Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean written by Sugar Magnolia Wilson and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first collection from a significant new voice in New Zealand poetry. Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to reveal the uneasy, Frankenstein world within.

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067972818X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by : Langston Hughes

Download or read book Selected Poems of Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-09-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems by : Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald

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Accepting the Disaster

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713375
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Accepting the Disaster by : Joshua Mehigan

Download or read book Accepting the Disaster written by Joshua Mehigan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 An astonishing new collection from one of our finest emerging poets A shark's tooth, the shape-shifting cloud drifting from a smokestack, the smoke detectors that hang, ominous but disregarded, overhead—very little escapes the watchful eye of Joshua Mehigan. The poems in Accepting the Disaster range from lyric miniatures like "The Crossroads," a six-line sketch of an accident scene, to "The Orange Bottle," an expansive narrative page-turner whose main character suffers a psychotic episode after quitting medication. Mehigan blends the naturalistic milieu of such great chroniclers of American life as Stephen Crane and Studs Terkel with the cinematic menace and wonder of Fritz Lang. Balanced by the music of his verse, this unusual combination brings an eerie resonance to the real lives and institutions it evokes. These poems capture with equal tact the sinister quiet of a deserted Main Street, the tragic grandiosity of Michael Jackson, the loneliness of a self-loathing professor, the din of a cement factory, and the saving grandeur of the natural world. This much-anticipated second collection is the work of a nearly unrivaled craftsman, whose first book was called by Poetry "a work of some poise and finish, by turns delicate and robust."

The House of Dust

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis The House of Dust by : Conrad Aiken

Download or read book The House of Dust written by Conrad Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Small Bodies of Water

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852166
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Book Synopsis Small Bodies of Water by : Nina Mingya Powles

Download or read book Small Bodies of Water written by Nina Mingya Powles and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.

Good Bones

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Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482420
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Good Bones by : Maggie Smith

Download or read book Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu

The Collected Poems

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623296
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Collected Poems by : C. P. Cavafy

Download or read book The Collected Poems written by C. P. Cavafy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Girls of the Drift

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ISBN 13 : 9780473308438
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Call Me By My True Names

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Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 195269227X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (526 download)

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Book Synopsis Call Me By My True Names by : Thich Nhat Hanh

Download or read book Call Me By My True Names written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THICH NHAT HANH POETRY COLLECTION: Over 50 inspiring poems from the world-renowned Zen monk, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness. “ . . . the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows. His books help me be more human, more me than I was before.” —Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Though he is best known for his groundbreaking and accessible works on applying mindfulness to everyday life, Thich Nhat Hanh is also a distinguished poet and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. This stunning poetry collection explores these lesser-known facets of Nhat Hanh’s life, revealing not only his path to becoming a Zen meditation teacher but his skill as a poet, his achievements as a peace activist, and his experiences as a young refugee. Through more than 50 poems spanning several decades, Nhat Hanh reveals the stories of his past—from his childhood in war-torn Vietnam to the beginnings of his own spiritual journey—and shares his ideas on how we can come together to create a more peaceful, compassionate world. Uplifting, insightful, and profound, Call Me By My True Names is at once an exquisite work of poetry and a portrait of one of the world’s greatest Zen masters and peacemakers.

The City of Poetry

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Publisher : Quarternote Chapbook
ISBN 13 : 9781936747290
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (472 download)

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Book Synopsis The City of Poetry by : Gregory Orr

Download or read book The City of Poetry written by Gregory Orr and published by Quarternote Chapbook. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, the Places You'll Go for English majors, it's a flaneur's take on a city poetry built.

The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

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ISBN 13 : 9781072707110
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen by : Ray Smith

Download or read book The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen written by Ray Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You've seen the woman in the photo. The woman screaming . . ." So begins the story of Molly Valle, who at forty-eight thinks she knows all that life has to offer a single, middle-aged woman--namely, men's dismissal and disrespect. But when handsome activist John Pressman arrives in her Mississippi hometown, he challenges her self-doubt along with nearly everything else in her world. Soon, Molly discovers a strength and beauty she never knew she had--and a love so powerful, it can overcome the most tragic of consequences. The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen is a love story, an adventure novel, and a self-realization journey. It reignites the truth that many women--and men--have unconsciously extinguished: you are special and worthy of love, and it's never too late to make your dreams come true.