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Ordinary Poems for Extraordinary People in These Ordinary Times

Author : Jon Sanders
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595428916
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Poems for Extraordinary People in These Ordinary Times written by Jon Sanders and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write poetry that uses ordinary language but still has the capacity to hold sophisticated ideas. Language is meant for communication and is usually lost somewhere within the confines of the modern poet. My poetry's profound in many instances, but it never tries to elude the grasp of the reader's mind. I write for the ordinary person. And that's why I write ordinary poetry with extraordinary ideas. I write that way so that those who might think they're just an ordinary person will realize the truth. I write so that the ordinary may realize that they're extraordinary, because that's the truth of who they are. That's the truth that most have unfortunately forgotten throughout the years. I write ordinary poems for extraordinary people in these ordinary times.

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

Author : Marie Howe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346986
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems written by Marie Howe and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those apparently unmiraculous periods of everyday trouble and joy?

Ordinary Poems

Author : Benjamin Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948237468
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Poems written by Benjamin Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary moment in time it is easy to become overwhelmed. This book was birthed during a global pandemic as a response to the waiting, the unknowing and the helplessness of sitting in front of a living room window, watching much of the world shut down.These poems look for some encouragement and comfort in the ordinary parts of life, and the beauty that is in those ordinary things when we slow down to see it.

Ordinary Poems For Extraordinary People

Author : Marie Gebel
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059541897X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Poems For Extraordinary People written by Marie Gebel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems are easy to read and comprehend. They are written so you know someone else feels the way you do. These are feelings disguised as words, an undressing of the soul. Some are controversial, but that will stimulate your spirit. If you are kind, insightful, self analytical, good to animals, offbeat, sensitive and compassionate-you are extraordinary. There are poems for everyone about everything. Simple words describing sometimes complicated emotions.

The Gift of an Ordinary Day

Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446558095
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of an Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.

Ordinary Blessings

Author : Meta Herrick Carlson
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506450628
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Blessings written by Meta Herrick Carlson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. This collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offers a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Open it when the spirit moves you or when the spirit feels distant--the words will be here to inspire, calm, and encourage you either way. From gifted poet and empathetic pastor Meta Herrick Carlson, Ordinary Blessings collects blessings for loving yourself, enduring hard things, authenticity, living with others, and the rhythms of each day. Pause, take a deep breath, and open these pages to find that you've been standing on holy ground all along.

Poems for Ordinary People

Author : Carol Allis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878395828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Poems for Ordinary People written by Carol Allis and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poems for and about ordinary people and the things that mean the most to us--"--Page 4 of cover.

What the Living Do

Author : Maggie Dwyer
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 152552870X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book What the Living Do written by Maggie Dwyer and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.

Ordinary Beast

Author : Nicole Sealey
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062688820
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Beast written by Nicole Sealey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey The existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey’s work is restless in its empathic, succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human. The ranging scope of inquiry undertaken in Ordinary Beast—at times philosophical, emotional, and experiential—is evident in each thrilling twist of image by the poet. In brilliant, often ironic lines that move from meditation to matter of fact in a single beat, Sealey’s voice is always awake to the natural world, to the pain and punishment of existence, to the origins and demises of humanity. Exploring notions of race, sexuality, gender, myth, history, and embodiment with profound understanding, Sealey’s is a poetry that refuses to turn a blind eye or deny. It is a poetry of daunting knowledge.

Ordinary Words

Author : Ruth Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Words written by Ruth Stone and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Words is the luminous, wild, and lyrical collection of poetry that brought Ruth Stone the critical acclaim she long deserved with the National Book Critics Circle Award, and it paved the way to the National Book Award and long-deserved critical attention. Ordinary Words captures a unique vision of Americana, marked by Stone's characteristic wit, poignancy, and lyricism. The poet addresses the environment, poverty, and aging with fearless candor and surprising humor. Sister poet to Nobel Prize-winner Wislawa Syzmborska, Ruth Stone offers a view of her country and its citizens that is tender humorous, and filled with hard political truths as well as love, beauty, cruelty, and sorrow. Ruth Stone is a poet of the people, and poet's poet. Ordinary Words shows that poetry is about everyday life, our life. Poems are set in Rutland, Vermont; Indianapolis; Chattanooga; Houston; Boise; and Troy, New York (where celluloid collars were made). Stone's subjects are trailer parks, state parks, prefab houses, school crossing guards, bears, snakes, hummingbirds, bottled water, Aunt Maud, Uncle Cal, lost love, dry humping at the Greyhound bus terminal, and McDonalds as a refuge from loneliness. Her heroes are dead husbands, wild grandmothers, struggling daughters: ordinary Americans leading simple and extraordinary lives.

Listen with the Heart

Author : Sister Joan Chittister
Publisher : Sheed & Ward
ISBN 13 : 0585483191
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Listen with the Heart written by Sister Joan Chittister and published by Sheed & Ward. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as one of the most challenging and charismatic leaders in Christianity, Joan Chittister is a Benedictine sister with an ecumenical outreach and vision. Listen with the Heart is her insightful, personal call to reach beyond the immediacy of a moment in everyday life and savor the sacred rituals that underlie it. This volume encompasses such rituals as Blessing, Fasting, Prayer, Community, Music, and Waiting - Sr. Joan makes the ordinary gleam with light and meaning. Each of the 12 chapters begins with an introduction on that topic, followed by a collection of meditations. Listen with the Heart is an inspiring invitation to stretch the soul and understand the messages of rituals that are common to monasticism and, in many ways, to us all.

The Writer's Eye

Author : Amy E. Weldon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350025321
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Eye written by Amy E. Weldon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to write starts with learning to do one big thing: pay attention to the world around you, even though just about everything in modern life makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Developing habits and practices of observing, and writing down what you notice, can be the first step away from the anxieties and doubts that can hold you back from your ultimate goal as a writer: discovering something to say and a voice to say it in. The Writer's Eye is an inspiring guide for writers at all stages of their writing lives. Drawing on new research into creative writers and their relationship with the physical world, Amy E. Weldon shows us how to become more attentive observers of the world and find inspiration in any environment. Including exercises, writing prompts and sample texts and spanning multiple genres from novels to nonfiction to poetry, this is the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to write seriously and offers refreshing perspectives for experienced writers seeking new inspiration.

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Author : Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793527
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book A Fortune for Your Disaster written by Hanif Abdurraqib and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” —Booklist, Starred Review In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'." It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared. Abdurraqib uses touchstones from the world outside—from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs—to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.

Poems of Rural Life in Common English

Author : William Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Rural Life in Common English written by William Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mystery of it All

Author : Paul L. Mariani
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781640603332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of it All written by Paul L. Mariani and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the lives of some of our greatest modern poets. This is a life-spanning collection of his prose explorations of what it means to be a person of wonder and imagination.

Forty Prophetic Poems: Symbolic of the Gestation Period

Author : Fay Warren Jarrett
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973608642
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Forty Prophetic Poems: Symbolic of the Gestation Period written by Fay Warren Jarrett and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If You Ever Feel Afraid Know that fear is only a feeling, and we walk by faith and not by sight. So trust in God, and all fears will go for perfect love casts out fear. Know that even in the darkness you have Me, God. All spiritual seekers question, at one time or another, what happens to our prayers, how Gods angels are helping us, and what happens to us when we die. Fay Warren Jarrett shares forty prophetic poems that are symbolic of the gestation period that marks the time from conception to birth. Within varied verse and prose, Fay addresses diverse topics like fear, praise, worship, success, faith, love, forgiveness, surrender, prayer, and angelic protection while providing inspiration for anyone interested in attaining insight on the nature of God and how he works His grace into the lives of those who surrender to Him. Included with each poem are personal reflections that provide a fresh perspective and relatable anecdotes. In this collection of inspirational poems, a spiritual influencer encourages others to find strength and faith within a loving relationship with God to survive challenging times.

Art of the Ordinary

Author : Richard Deming
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720155
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Art of the Ordinary written by Richard Deming and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary he argues, is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can never be approached, since to do so is to immediately change it. Art of the Ordinary explores how philosophical questions can be revealed in surprising places—as in a stand-up comic’s routine, for instance, or a Brillo box, or a Hollywood movie. From negotiations with the primary materials of culture and community, ways of reading "self" and "other" are made available, deepening one’s ability to respond to ethical, social, and political dilemmas. Deming picks out key figures, such as the philosophers Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, and Richard Wollheim; poet John Ashbery; artist Andy Warhol; and comedian Steven Wright, to showcase the foundational concepts of language, ethics, and society. Deming interrogates how acts of the imagination by these people, and others, become the means for transforming the alienated ordinary into a presence of the everyday that constantly and continually creates opportunities of investment in its calls on interpretive faculties. In Art of the Ordinary, Deming brings together the arts, philosophy, and psychology in new and compelling ways so as to offer generative, provocative insights into how we think and represent the world to others as well as to ourselves.