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MPH and Other Road Poems

Author : Ed Roberson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988988583
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book MPH and Other Road Poems written by Ed Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Edited by Andrew Peart. In 2015, while, in his words, "dismantling my house in New Jersey and preparing it for sale," Ed Roberson discovered in some envelopes in his attic a manuscript he thought lost, drawn from the experiences of the summer of 1970, when the poet, along with two friends, rode cross-country from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and back on two BMW motorcycles. The recovery of this manuscript,--over forty years later--alerted Roberson to the fact that he had been relating to its material ever since, yielding for him work that "calls across the span of a lifetime." MPH is Roberson's epic, serial road poem, decades in the making, stamped with and guided by the talisman of its title. "one thing visible every day / any time 24/7 / for 3 months 8000 miles / was mph // on the speedometer. / a small petty thing. / a pin. / down of a larger / limiting. // a sighting an ideograph / even more than a picture beyond word."

Asked What Has Changed

Author : Ed Roberson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819580120
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Asked What Has Changed written by Ed Roberson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window, “ever alert to affinities between the small and the vast, the fleeting and the cosmic” (James Gibbons, Hyperallergic). Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry’s orbit what the physical and human sciences reveal about the state of a changing world. These poems test how far the lyric can go as an answer to our crisis, even calling into question poetic form itself. Reflections on the natural world and moments of personal interiority are interwoven with images of urbanscapes, environmental crises, and political instabilities. These poems speak life and truth to modernity in all its complexity. Throughout, Roberson takes up the ancient spiritual concern—the ephemerality of life—and gives us a new language to process the feeling of living in a century on the brink.

Concealed Nations

Author : Joel Felix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988988576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Concealed Nations written by Joel Felix and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. In an agitated, elegiac, and personalized series of poetic propositions, Joel Felix in CONCEALED NATIONS, his follow up to LIMBS OF THE APPLE TREE NEVER DIE, engages questions of justice both racial and social, white survivalism and gun-rights communities, family life and loss, drone strikes and the Islamic State, lab testing, and lyric lineage and transcendence. Tyrone Williams, writing in Jacket2, called LIMBS a moving meditation on the impossibility and necessity of poetry, on history as 'enslavement without end, ' and the possibility, however unlikely, that there remains, its brutalities notwithstanding, a truth-telling residue in language. CONCEALED NATIONS presses that truth-telling towards oracle and curse, finding a voice of clarity and frustration to reflect the times. The page, writes Felix, is the glass I am trying to break.

To See the Earth Before the End of the World

Author : Ed Roberson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819571014
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book To See the Earth Before the End of the World written by Ed Roberson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016) In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the manifold connections tying them together. The poems raise large questions about the natural world and our place in it, and they do not flinch from facing up to those questions. Roberson’s poems range widely through different scales of time and space, invoking along the way history and myth, galaxies and garbage trucks, teapots and the history of photography, mating cranes and Chicago's political machine. This collection is composed of five sequences, each developing a particular constellation of images and ideas related to the vision of the whole. Various journeys become one journey—an epic journey, invoking epic themes. There are songs of creation, pictures of the sorrows of war, celebrations of human labor and human society, a respect for tools and domestic utensils that are well made, the deep background of the past tingeing the colors of the present, and the tragic tones of endings and laments, a pervading awareness of the tears in things. Most of all, there is the exhilaration of a grand, sweeping vision that enlarges our world.

Trophic Cascade

Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819577200
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Trophic Cascade written by Camille T. Dungy and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A soulful reckoning for our twenty-first century, held in focus through echoes of the past and future, but always firmly rooted in now.” —Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018) In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of power, a world in which we all must survive, these poems resonate within and beyond the scope of the human realms, delicately balancing between conflicting loci of attention. Dwelling between vibrancy and its opposite, Dungy writes in a single poem about a mother, a daughter, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, brittle stars, giant boulders, and a dead blue whale. These poems are written in the face of despair to hold an impossible love and a commitment to hope. A readers companion will be available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions. “Dungy asks how we can survive despair and finds her answers close to the earth.” —Diana Whitney, The Kenyon Review “Trophic Cascade frequently bears witness—to violence, to loss, to environmental degradation—but for Dungy, witnessing entails hope.” —Julie Swarstad Johnson, Harvard Review Online “Tension. Simmering. Beneath her matter-of-fact, easy-going, sit-yourself-down, let-me-tell-it-like-it-is clarifying. And her power we take deadly seriously.” —Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews “[Trophic Cascade] asks us, in spite of the pain or difficulty of being human today, to find joy and vibrancy in our experiences.” —Elizabeth Flock, PBS Newshour

Road Poems

Author : Michael Angros
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387044133
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Road Poems written by Michael Angros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poems I wrote when I ran away from home trying to escape from my problems. Everything in this book was originally contained in a notebook which was simply used as an outlet. I have never considered myself a writer, and never will. However, some people have really related to some of my work, which is why it is now published. A much larger book is in the works.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff

Author : Jack Canfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1453279032
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest offering in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series explores a host of challenges faced by today's teens. Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings on difficult issues, ranging from poor self-image to thoughts of suicide, from family discord to coping with the loss, from peer pressure to school violence.

Etai-Eken

Author : Ed Roberson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980827
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Etai-Eken written by Ed Roberson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present's knowledge and experience of it.

City Eclogue

Author : Ed Roberson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book City Eclogue written by Ed Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ed Roberson was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to writing poetry, he has pursued a variety of remarkable interests. He has worked as a limnologist (conducting research on inland and coastal fresh water systems in Alaska's Aleutian Islands and in Bermuda), and for a period he was employed as a diver for the Pittsburgh Aquazoo (training porpoises, among other things). He worked for a period in an advertising graphics agency and in the Pittsburgh steel mills. Twice Ed Roberson was a team member on the Explorers' Club of Pittsburgh's South American Expeditions, in which context he climbed mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes and explored the upper Amazonian jungle in eastern Ecuador. He has motorcycled across the USA, and traveled in Mexico, the Caribbean, and in Nigeria, West Africa. In recent years, he has been employed primarily as a teacher and as an academic administrator, most recently at Rutgers University and at Columbia College in Chicago."--Publisher's website.

Rise and Float

Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317724
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Rise and Float written by Brian Tierney and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.

On and Off the Road

Author : Bill Chatfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735269801
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book On and Off the Road written by Bill Chatfield and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On and Off the Road: Poems of New Hampshire is a poetry anthology with 48 poems in a variety of styles by poets throughout New England and a few other states. Poem topics are about New Hampshire - past, present, future, and fantasy. This is the first book published by Peterborough Poetry Project. Authors range from the Presidents of the New England Poetry Club and the Poetry Society of NH to unpublished poets. Enjoy the imagery! Order from https://www.peterboroughpoetryproject.org

Road Poems U. S. A.

Author : Cat Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450716062
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Road Poems U. S. A. written by Cat Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Good Poems

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142003441
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Good Poems written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.

Winter Recipes from the Collective

Author : Louise Glück
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374604118
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Winter Recipes from the Collective written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. “Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.

Where I'm from

Author : Steven Borsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Where I'm from written by Steven Borsman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House

Road

Author : Mark Dunster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780794900717
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Road written by Mark Dunster and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One for the Road

Author : Emily Nash
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984591207
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book One for the Road written by Emily Nash and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There here writes a poet Miss Nash, some poems she had in a stash. Fun for you kids and adults as well, be moved and amused by the stories they tell. Some are funny, be sure they all rhyme with pictures, cartoonish, to capture your time. You won’t find a pantoume or kennings or ode but this little book is one for the road!