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Middle Distance: Poems

Author : Stanley Plumly
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006153
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Middle Distance: Poems written by Stanley Plumly and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The probing, commanding final volume from "one of contemporary America’s most gifted and influential lyric poets" (David Baker, Kenyon Review). After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance—looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his final collection, he pushes onward into new territory with extended hybrid forms and revelatory prose pieces. The result is the moving culmination of a long career, a work of fearless, transcendent poems that face down the impending eternal voyage. Plumly populates this collection with tender depictions of poets, family, and friends—the relationships that sustained him throughout his life—as well as unflinching self-portraits. In “White Rhino,” for instance, he adopts the voice of the “last of [his] kind,” using the rare creature as a canvas to depict the dying, aging poet himself. In “Night Pastorals,” he writes vividly and movingly about being on his deathbed, with fragmentary impressions of the other side. In profound lyric narratives, Plumly reaches out to a past that feels closer than ever, returning to the Ohio of his childhood and the shadows of a country at war. Blending documentary and memoir with his signature Keatsian lyricism, Middle Distance contemplates at every turn the horizons of Plumly’s life.

In the Middle Distance

Author : Linda Gregg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the Middle Distance written by Linda Gregg and published by . This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and resplendent collection by Linda Gregg, whose poems "have the elegance of Greek statuary and the good-humored poise of haiku" (Poetry) I finally fell in love with all of it: dirt, silence, rock and far views. It's strange that my heart is as full now as my desire was then. —from "Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing" In one poem in this emotional and spiritual collection, Linda Gregg asks, "It is clear why love / took me to the shore of death, / but why did it bring me back?" In the Middle Distance, Gregg's sixth book, explores up to and beyond the crossroads of devastation and desire. There, she finds not only survival but also salvation—hard-won, resilient, and meaningful. This collection brings Gregg's passion and intensity together with a new wisdom and vitality that is unmistakably original.

The Middle Distance. [Poems.].

Author : Florance Waterbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Distance. [Poems.]. written by Florance Waterbury and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

Author : Alan Sillitoe
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504028112
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner written by Alan Sillitoe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a seventeen-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention center who is known only by his surname, Smith. The wardens have given the boy a light workload because he shows talent as a runner. But if he wins the national long-distance running competition as everyone is counting on him to do, Smith will only vindicate the very system and society that has locked him up. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” has long been considered a masterpiece on both the page and the silver screen. Adapted for film by Sillitoe himself in 1962, it became an instant classic of British New Wave cinema. In “Uncle Ernest,” a middle-aged furniture upholsterer traumatized in World War II, now leads a lonely life. His wife has left him, his brothers have moved away, and the townsfolk treat him as if he were a ghost. When the old man finally finds companionship with two young girls whom he enjoys buying pastries for at a café, the local authorities find his behavior morally suspect. “Mr. Raynor the School Teacher” delves into a different kind of isolation—that of a voyeuristic teacher who fantasizes constantly about the women who work in a draper’s shop across the street. When his students distract him from his lustful daydreams, Mr. Raynor becomes violent. The six stories that follow in this iconic collection continue to cement Alan Sillitoe’s reputation as one of Britain’s foremost storytellers, and a champion of the condemned, the oppressed, and the overlooked. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Sillitoe including rare images from the author’s estate.

The Grace of Distance

Author : Matthew Thorburn
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807171867
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Grace of Distance written by Matthew Thorburn and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life—between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love. He seeks to name, and find, that elusive, essential sense of connection humanity hungers for. In one poem, a boy places a bell in the hollow of a tree so someone might find it. In others, an overworked baker wishes for an annunciation of her own, while a man calls down into a well until another voice calls back. Set in China and America, in the present and the distant past, Thorburn’s poems examine both Eastern and Western ideas of spirituality, looking closely at the ways we can lose faith, then sometimes find it again. The poems also confront the unbridgeable distances we must live with and the perhaps surprising grace they can provide—a greater sense of perspective, understanding, and peace—even as our lives move in the only direction they can, away from the past.

Sincerely

Author : F. S. Yousaf
Publisher : Central Avenue Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771681934
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Sincerely written by F. S. Yousaf and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sincerely is passionate. Honest. Charming. F. S. Yousaf has beautifully encapsulated in a book what it feels like to fall in love.”—Madisen Kuhn, author of Almost Home Fans of top-selling Sincerely are saying "unexpected perfection", "not your basic poetry book", "breathtaking", "helped me appreciate my marriage". Searching for a profound way to propose to his love, F.S Yousaf reread the letters she had written him. In them he found his proposal, and inspiration to write his own prose and poetry. This is a compilation of letters and love poems that exemplifies the spirituality and the magnitude of how much one person can mean to another. It carries messages of positivity, hope, and most of all, true love.

The Space Between Us

Author : Courtney Peppernell
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524867780
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Space Between Us written by Courtney Peppernell and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A universal narrative on the significance of distance with love; remember to hold on to what you believe in. Ideal for those “whose love knows no bounds," The Space Between Us is full of profound anecdotes and messages, illustrating the courage and heartache of enduring physical distance. The Space Between Us explores the trials of love and what it's like to live a life separated by distance from someone you care about. Its content is thoughtfully divided into five chapters, or phases, of the long-distance experience: At First Glance Living for Tomorrow Lonely Nights Grow Together/Grow Apart When I See You. A combination of poems and prose are sporadically connected with small graphics and maps to visualize the journey of physical distance. These poems serve as an adhesive between the reader and the ones they miss, the longing, the anticipation, and the eventual relief. Though both authors bring with them a unique perspective, the lens is singular; each is attuned to navigating this complex terrain.

The New Testament

Author : Jericho Brown
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 161932119X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The New Testament written by Jericho Brown and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library Journal NPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-present death, but also the joy of survival and sin. And not everyone has the chutzpah to rewrite The Good Book.”—NPR.org "Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry."—Rain Taxi "To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius."—Claudia Rankine In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast. Fairy Tale Say the shame I see inching like steam Along the streets will never seep Beneath the doors of this bedroom, And if it does, if we dare to breathe, Tell me that though the world ends us, Lover, it cannot end our love Of narrative. Don’t you have a story For me?—like the one you tell With fingers over my lips to keep me From sighing when—before the queen Is kidnapped—the prince bows To the enemy, handing over the horn Of his favorite unicorn like those men Brought, bought, and whipped until They accepted their masters’ names. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. He currently teaches at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Middle Earth

Author : Henri Cole
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877766
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Middle Earth written by Henri Cole and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and "a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom) Time was plunging forward, like dolphins scissoring open water or like me, following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef, where the color of sand, sea and sky merged, and it was as if that was all God wanted: not a wife, a house or a position, but a self, like a needle, pushing in a vein.—from "Olympia" In his fifth collection of verse, Henri Cole's melodious lines are written in an open style that is both erotic and visionary. Few poets so thrillingly portray the physical world, or man's creaturely self, or the cycling strain of desire and self-reproach. Few poets so movingly evoke the human quest of "a man alone," trying "to say something true that has body, / because it is proof of his existence." Middle Earth is a revelatory collection, the finest work yet from an author of poems that are "marvels—unbuttoned, riveting, dramatic—burned into being" (Tina Barr, Boston Review).

Years Spent

Author : Lalit Kumar
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1684946271
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Years Spent written by Lalit Kumar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey of 10,000 miles Across India and USA, A few milestones of Success, failure and hope. Countless moments of Adventure, passion and desires. Encapsulated in this book – ‘Years Spent: Exploring Poetry in Adventure, Life and Love’

My Thoughts Are Clouds

Author : Georgia Heard
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250244676
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book My Thoughts Are Clouds written by Georgia Heard and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection that both illustrates what mindfulness is and encourages young, growing minds to be present, from poet and educator Georgia Heard, with art by Isabel Roxas. Poets have long observed the world in a mindful way. They point out beauty we might have missed, draw our attention to our inner thoughts, and call us to see our society in new ways. But as daily life become more and more chaotic, children grow distracted. According to the CDC, 9.4% of children have ADHD and 7% have anxiety/depression. And these numbers continue to climb. As treatment doctors recommend healthy eating, physical activity, plenty of sleep, and mindfulness techniques. Georgia Heard is a poet and educator—and she has long had her own meditation practice. In My Thoughts Are Clouds, she uses poetry to demonstrate what mindfulness is and gives kids—and their parents and teachers—accessible ways to learn mindfulness tools.

Speculum

Author : Hannah Copley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913642556
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Speculum written by Hannah Copley and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Speculum, Hannah Copley considers the difficult history of the female body. Mirroring the title object used for centuries by gynaecologists, the poems uncover the hidden lives behind scientific progress. From the enslaved women exploited in the name of invention to the anonymous residents of mother and baby homes, Copley navigates personal, historical and forgotten legacies with equal exactitude and tenderness. Speculum is not only important as a feminist text, but its poetry is immaculate; a virtuosic first collection.

Smoke & Mirrors

Author : Michael Faudet
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449490069
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Smoke & Mirrors written by Michael Faudet and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Faudet’s latest book takes the reader on an emotionally charged journey, exploring the joys of falling madly in love and the melancholy world of the brokenhearted. Beautifully captured in poetry, prose, and short stories, Faudet's whimsical and sometimes erotic writing has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of readers from around the world.

A Working Girl Can't Win

Author : Deborah Garrison
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307493393
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Working Girl Can't Win written by Deborah Garrison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work.

The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse

Author : Stonehouse
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321181
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse written by Stonehouse and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."—Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an admonition: "Do not to try singing these poems. Only if you sit on them will they do you any good." Newly revised, with the Chinese originals and Red Pine's abundant commentary and notes, The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse is an essential volume for Zen students, readers of Asian literature, and all who love the outdoors. After eating I dust off a boulder and sleep and after sleeping I go for a walk on a cloudy late summer day an oriole sings from a sapling briefly enjoying the season joyfully singing out its heart true happiness is right here why chase an empty name Stonehouse was born in 1272 in Changshu, China, and took his name from a cave at the edge of town. He became a highly respected dharma master in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Red Pine is one of the world's leading translators of Chinese poetry. "Every time I translate a book of poems," he writes, "I learn a new way of dancing. And the music has to be Chinese." He lives near Seattle, Washington.

Felon: Poems

Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652157
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Felon: Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."

Long Distance

Author : Steven Cordova
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Distance written by Steven Cordova and published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ). This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Long Distance, the fourth title in the Canto Cosas series, Steven Cordova vividly portrays the life of a young gay man living in New York - in this case, a man who has tested positive for HIV. The poet uses ironic humor to dissolve the figurative ghetto associated with the subject and to describe a general human condition in which those who survive pick up the pieces and continue their search for harmony. An important step in the evolution of AIDS poetry, Long Distance is the poet's first book-length collection." --Book Jacket.