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On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year

Author : Lee Ann Roripaugh
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386755
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year written by Lee Ann Roripaugh and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Murasaki wrote in The Tale of Genji that thirty-seven is “a dangerous year” for women. Evoking the styles of Murasaki and other women writers of the Heian-period Japanese court, Lee Ann Roripaugh presents a collection of confessional poems charting the course of that perilous year. Roripaugh, in both an homage to and a dialogue with women writers of the past, explores the trials of women facing the treacherous waters of time while losing none of the grace and decadence of femininity. Often calling upon the passing of the seasons and revelations of nature, these lyrically elegant poems chronicle the dangers and delights of a range of issues facing contemporary women—from bisexuality and biracial culture and identity, to restless nights and lingering memories of the past. The pleasures of the senses collide with parallels of time and the natural world; tangible solitude lies down beside wistful memories of relationships gone by. What is ultimately revealed is both heartbreaking and illuminating. At once provocative, humorous, and bittersweet, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year is a pillow book for the twenty-first century, providing a candid and whimsical look into the often tumultuous universe of the modern woman.

On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year

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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Murasaki wrote in The Tale of Genji that thirty-seven is "a dangerous year" for women. Evoking the styles of Murasaki and other women writers of the Heian-period Japanese court, Lee Ann Roripaugh presents a collection of confessional poems charting the course of that perilous year. Roripaugh, in both an homage to and a dialogue with women writers of the past, explores the trials of women facing the treacherous waters of time while losing none of the grace and decadence of femininity. Often calling upon the passing of the seasons and revelations of nature, these lyrically elegant poems chronicle the dangers and delights of a range of issues facing contemporary women-from bisexuality and biracial culture and identity, to restless nights and lingering memories of the past. The pleasures of the senses collide with parallels of time and the natural world; tangible solitude lies down beside wistful memories of relationships gone by. What is ultimately revealed is both heartbreaking and illuminating. At once provocative, humorous, and bittersweet, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year is a pillow book for the twenty-first century, providing a candid and whimsical look into the often tumultuous universe of the modern woman.

Threshold

Author : Jennifer Richter
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809385678
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Threshold written by Jennifer Richter and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term "threshold." Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating—from birth and the small yet profound distances that part a mother and child, to the separation caused by illness and its toll on relationships. At the same time, she is progressively gathering, piecing together the remnants of her life, collecting her children into her arms, and welcoming a future without pain. Pain is often present in these poems, as the narrator frequently confronts her own threshold for enduring a ravaging illness. Her harrowing struggle through recovery is chronicled by a poem at the end of each section, tracing her powerful journey from deep suffering to a fragile yet steadfast sense of hope. These gripping lyric and prose poems explore duality in its many forms: the private, contemplative world versus a world of action; the mirror sides of health and sickness; the warmth of a June sun and the deep, long nights of winter; mother and child; collecting and letting go. From the comfort of a morning bed at home to the desperate streets of Hanoi, Threshold is a searing portrait of healing, the courage it takes to bridge the gulfs that divide, and the wonder of the ties that bind. What Is My Body Without You? My son’s pajamas unsnapped on the floor: small husk of his body relaxing on its back, legs and sleeves still filled with his rush. This part of him hasn’t outgrown my arms and sometimes lets me lift him up our steep stairs, carry him to bed and pull his shade against the gray thin winter sky like milk my daughter wakes up wanting. In the last days of lifting her to my breast, I fill her less than the air already gone from my son’s flat shape. Twice like that I have lain back, the doctor opening me along the same clean seam. Each time I was watching: with a few tugs the child was out, naked and heading toward other hands, each child cut loose before I knew it.

Egg Island Almanac

Author : Brendan Galvin
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336073
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Egg Island Almanac written by Brendan Galvin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bounty and cruelty of nature infuses this latest collection of poems from Brendan Galvin, which takes as its maxim finding the extraordinary in the ordinary all around us--that there's wonder aplenty in our own backyards.

Abide

Author : Jake Adam York
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809333287
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Abide written by Jake Adam York and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2015 Colorado Book Award Finalist, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama poet Jake Adam York set out on a journey to elegize the 126 martyrs of the civil rights movement, murdered in the years between 1954 and 1968. Abide is the stunning follow-up to York’s earlier volumes, a memorial in verse for those fallen. From Birmingham to Okemah, Memphis to Houston, York’s poems both mourn and inspire in their quest for justice, ownership, and understanding. Within are anthems to John Earl Reese, a sixteen-year-old shot by Klansmen through the window of a café in Mayflower, Texas, where he was dancing in 1955; to victims lynched on the Oklahoma prairies; to the four children who perished in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963; and to families who saw the white hoods of the Klan illuminated by burning crosses. Juxtaposed with these horrors are more loving images of the South: the aroma of greens simmering on the stove, “tornado-strong” houses built by loved ones long gone, and the power of rivers “dark as roux.” Throughout these lush narratives, York resurrects the ghosts of Orpheus, Sun Ra, Howlin’ Wolf, Thelonious Monk, Woody Guthrie, and more, summoning blues, jazz, hip-hop, and folk musicians for performances of their “liberation music” that give special meaning to the tales of the dead. In the same moment that Abide memorializes the fallen, it also raises the ethical questions faced by York during this, his life’s work: What does it mean to elegize? What does it mean to elegize martyrs? What does it mean to disturb the symmetries of the South’s racial politics or its racial poetics? A bittersweet elegy for the poet himself, Abide is as subtle and inviting as the whisper of a record sleeve, the gasp of the record needle, beckoning us to heed our history.

Sympathetic Magic

Author : Amy Fleury
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332256
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Sympathetic Magic written by Amy Fleury and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Fleury’s bewitching new collection of poems, Sympathetic Magic, unveils the everyday manifestations of sympathy as well as the connections wrought by “sympathetic magic”—that indelible tether that binds people, places, and objects across time and distance. Fleury’s lyrics journey across the landscapes of childhood and old age, body and spirit, past and future, exploring the boundless permutations of sympathy as it appears in the most surprising locations. Connections reveal themselves in the aggressive silence of the small town or the round penmanship of a loved one, and echo throughout the solitude and regeneration of the forest as well as the antiseptic air of the hospital. At the center of these travels lies the narrator, stretching her limbs from the heart of the heartland, her body a compass summoning us from all directions, emphasizing with tender simplicity that “we all live under the self-same moon, no matter the phase.”

Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love

Author : Wally Swist
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809331004
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love written by Wally Swist and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, poet Wally Swist blends themes of love and epiphany to lead readers into a more conscious interaction with the world around them. These ethereal poems call upon a spirituality unfettered to any specific religion, yet universal and potent in its scope, offering a window through which life can be not only viewed but also truly experienced. This luminescent collection illustrates the joys to be found in the everyday world and the power of existence. Unveiled here are the twin edges of love and madness; the quiet mysteries and revelations of a New England night or the glittering spark of snowdrops; the sharp scents of sugar maple and cinnamon; and the rustle of a junco’s wings. From the restoration and peace of silence or the rush of a brook, to spiraling hawks and Botticelli’s “The Annunciation,” Swist’s poems linger somewhere between the earthbound and the sublime.

Queer Girls in Class

Author : Lori Horvitz
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433110979
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Queer Girls in Class written by Lori Horvitz and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lori Horvit'z short stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Horvitz, the recipient of an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D. in English from SUNY Albany, she has been awarded writing fellowships from Yaddo, Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Blue Mountain Center, Cottages at Hedgebrook, and Fundaci=n Valparaiso. She is Associate Professor of Literature and Language at UNC-Asheville, where she teaches courses in creative writing, literature, and women's studies. --Book Jacket.

Ordinary is Perfect

Author : D. Jackson Leigh
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635552818
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary is Perfect written by D. Jackson Leigh and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army veteran Catherine Daye long ago accepted her passable looks, mediocre talent, and average intelligence. In fact, she bought a rundown farm on seventy acres to retreat from the world and live out her simple, ordinary life. Atlanta marketing superstar Autumn Swan’s world is anything but simple. Constantly plugged in to what’s trending on social media, it’s her job to keep her clients ahead of the competition. When her favorite cousin dies suddenly, she finds herself the owner of a modest country home, guardian to a sullen, tomboyish ten-year-old, and neighbor to an intriguing woman who isn’t as ordinary as she appears.

When All Hope Is Lost

Author : Alyce Elmore
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669888282
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book When All Hope Is Lost written by Alyce Elmore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women of 2029 faced a terrible crisis when a pandemic killed all adult males, but they survived and now, twenty years later, they are once again starting to thrive. The problem is that the disease continues to kill males as they reach maturity and there's no cure in sight. Having adapted to a world that is no longer dependent on men, is it time to change history to her story?

Zion

Author : TJ Jarrett
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809333562
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Zion written by TJ Jarrett and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zion, the latest collection of poems by TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the resonating effects of the civil rights movement on one family. Jarrett lovingly explores the minutiae of mortality and race across three generations of “Dark Girls” who have come together one summer to grieve and to remember as one of them passes to the farther shore—a place beyond retribution, where there is only forgiveness. The Mississippi of Jarrett’s collection is alive with fireflies and locusts and murders of crows; yet for some, it is a wasteland of unanswered prayers, burning evenings, and the shades of dead or disappeared loved ones. There, the dark nights of the soul weigh long and heavy, and “every heart has its solstice, and its ache is unrelenting.” Yet much as every solstice has an equinox, every time to kill has a time to forgive. Throughout the volume, the author imagines opportunities for compassion on multiple levels, from sweeping pardons to the most intimate of mercies. Jarrett’s faceless narrator confesses the past through conversation and exploration with notorious Mississippi governor Theodore Bilbo: two minds, two hearts, two races at last face to face. At once brutal and achingly tender, Jarrett’s volume itself is a vibrant and musical body, singing to all its parts.

Tongue Lyre

Author : Tyler Mills
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933223X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tongue Lyre written by Tyler Mills and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tongue Lyre, Tyler Mills weaves together fragments of myth and memory, summoning the works of Ovid, Homer, and James Joyce to spin a story of violence and the female body. Introducing the recurring lyre figure in the collection—a voice to counter the violence—is Ovid’s Philomena, who, while cruelly rendered speechless, nonetheless sets the reader on an eloquent voyage to discover the body through music, art, and language. Other legendary figures making appearances within—Telemachos, Nestor, Cyclops, Circe, and others—are held up as mirrors to reflect the human form as home. In this dynamic collection, the female body and its relationship to the psyche traverse mythic yet hauntingly familiar contemporary settings as each presents not a single narrative but a progressive exploration of our universal emotional experience.

Fieldglass

Author : Catherine Pond
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809338157
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fieldglass written by Catherine Pond and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual identity, female friendship, and queer experiences of love Fraught with obsession, addiction, and unrequited love, Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass immerses us in the speaker’s transition from childhood to adulthood. A queer coming-of-age, this collection is a candid exploration of sexual identity, family dynamics, and friendships that elude easy categorization, offering insight on the ambiguous nature of identity. Saturated by her surroundings and permeated by the emotional lives of those close to her, the speaker struggles with feelings of displacement, trauma, and separateness. She is perpetually in transit, with long drives, flights, and train rides—moving most often between the city and the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. As the collection unfolds, the speaker journeys toward adulthood, risking intimacy and attempting to undo her embedded impulses toward silence and absorption. Reflective, graceful, and understated, Pond’s images accumulate power through restraint and suggestion. Deeply personal and intense, searching and yearning, associative and lyric, Fieldglass is a confessional about growing up, loving hard, and letting go.

In the Absence of Clocks

Author : Jacob Shores-Arguello
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809331047
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book In the Absence of Clocks written by Jacob Shores-Arguello and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fascinating collection of poems, In the Absence of Clocks, poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello’s lyrics of a revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and familiar. Throughout the collection are the iconic images and myriad juxtapositions of Ukrainian life. wolves howling in the snow and bakers pounding early-morning loaves of bread; farmlands and cities alike rocked by political transformation; gypsies and protesters; opulent images of Byzantium and the concrete ghosts of Chernobyl—all meet here at the crossroads of East and West, democracy and communism, reality and mythology. As the narrator travels across the Ukraine, he does much more than cross the distances between Horlivka and Odessa or Kiev and the Black Sea. As the tides of change swirl around him, they mirror his own search for a cultural identity and history.

Stalking the Antichrists (1965?2012) Volume 2

Author : George E. Lowe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477142738
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Stalking the Antichrists (1965?2012) Volume 2 written by George E. Lowe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Primitive Observatory

Author : Gregory Kimbrell
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334801
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Primitive Observatory written by Gregory Kimbrell and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of The Primitive Observatory, set roughly in the Gilded Age, take readers into a dreamy, alluring world where hapless travelers, doomed heirs, and other colorful types grapple with horrors. This volume offers a dark and evocative experience through the tangible grotesque.

Vanishing Acts

Author : Brian Barker
Publisher : Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
ISBN 13 : 0809337274
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Acts written by Brian Barker and published by Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vanishing Acts, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry's great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. With a dark whimsicality, Barker explores such topics as extinction, power, class, the consequences of tyranny and war, and the ongoing destruction of the environment in the name of progress. A linked sequence of poems forms the book's backbone, with an oracular voice from the future heralding the return--or hoped for return--of common animals. Part lyrical odes, part creation myths, part excerpts from a bizarre guide for naturalists, these poems mix fact and fiction, science and fable to create an unsettling vision of a dystopian world stricken by extinction, one where the world's last catfish sleeps "in the shadow of a hydroelectric dam." The imaginative language and bizarre stories of these poems are perfectly suited to capture a world that no longer makes sense: a man who wears a toupee to hide an injury inflicted by secret police, a group of villagers who make a bad bargain with a land agent. The poems in Vanishing Acts straddle the comic and the tragic. They are by turns funny and haunting and ripe with scathing satire. They draw on the genres of speculative and science fiction as much as poetic traditions, and speak to the precarious state of man and the natural world in the twenty-first century.