Particles: New and Selected Poems

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Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321815
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Particles: New and Selected Poems by : Dan Gerber

Download or read book Particles: New and Selected Poems written by Dan Gerber and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the same time."—Library Journal "[Gerber] is one of the most adept and accessible of the poets who explore the meaning of humans' relation with earth and existence itself."—ForeWord Into a frenzied world that hurtles ever faster somewhere, Dan Gerber's poetry offers a necessary and reflective presence. Drawing upon eight previous collections, and including a book-length selection of new poems, this retrospective tunes its senses to the natural world and a provenance that includes the influence of Buddhism, English Romanticism, and a deep reading of Rainer Maria Rilke's oeuvre. Pastoral and expansive, Gerber's poetry is concerned with the universe just outside each of our windows—the immediately viewable landscape in front of us and the mysterious vastness beyond. From "Dark Matter": The visible drapes itself around the invisible, the way my jacket takes its shape from my shoulders. An unseen gravity whirls near the center of our galaxy, an unseen heart near the center of the bodies in which we desire. I seldom think of Neptune out there, way beyond my pointing to it on a summer night . . . Dan Gerber is the author of eight collections of poetry, three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. A former professional race-car driver, he has traveled extensively as a journalist, particularly in Africa. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.

God Particles

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547523882
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis God Particles by : Thomas Lux

Download or read book God Particles written by Thomas Lux and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation’s most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux’s book. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems, a lighthearted grace instills even the somberest moments with unexpected sweetness. In the title poem Lux writes, “there’s no reason for God to feel guilt / I think He was downhearted, weary, too weary / to be angry anymore . . . / He wanted each of us, / and all the things we touch . . . / to have a tiny piece of Him / though we are unqualified, / of even the crumb of a crumb.” Dark, humorous, and strikingly imaginative, this is Lux’s most compassionate work to date.

Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

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Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635763452
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Book Synopsis Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle by : Ellen Gilchrist

Download or read book Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction from a National Book Award-winning author and “short-story writer of substantial gifts and reputation” (The New York Times). From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the Washington Post as “a national treasure,” comes a colorful collection of short stories integrating favorite characters with captivating newcomers. Rhoda’s reveling in her childhood and infinite possibility in “The Tree Fort” and “The Time Capsule” is juxtaposed with her darker adulthood in “Mexico.” Nora Jane returns alongside Lin Tan Sing, a Chinese medical student and geneticist who predicts the birth of her twins. Fans of Gilchrist won’t want to miss the author’s exploration of the many stages of life—and the lightness and darkness each can bring. “Several stories in Gilchrist’s latest collection are distinguished by her old magic—they have energy and gusto and humor, and a dark layer of knowledge beneath their nostalgic tone.”—Publishers Weekly “A validation of the author’s skill and versatility. Gilchrist creates new experiences for characters from earlier stories and … creates new characters who reveal her skill in portraying character and place.”—Library Journal

Second-hand Coat

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Second-hand Coat by : Ruth Stone

Download or read book Second-hand Coat written by Ruth Stone and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-hand coat -- Where I came from -- At the center -- Poetry -- How to catch Aunt Harriette -- Scars -- What can you do? -- Drought in the lower fields -- Moving right along -- Pokeberries -- Mother's picture -- Liebeslied -- Curtains -- Something -- From the arboretum -- Winter -- Shadows -- The miracle -- You may ask -- Names -- Why kid yourself -- Message from your toes -- Sunday -- Pine cones -- Father's day -- Orange poem praising brown -- The room -- American milk -- How Aunt Maud took to being a woman -- Comments of the mild -- An academic life -- Procedure -- When the furnace toes on in a California tract house -- Icons from Indianapolis -- Snow trivia -- The latest hotel guest walks over particles that revolve in seven other dimentsions controlling latticed space -- Years later -- Surviving in Earlysville with a broken window -- Turning -- Happiness -- Turn your eyes away -- Body among trees -- Some things you'll need to know before you join the union -- Women laughing -- Translations -- A last cloud -- Ceam -- Codicle -- Loss -- From the other side -- The tree -- Habit -- Illinois -- Fading -- U of my -- Drams of wild birds -- Vegetables I -- Vegetables II -- Periphery -- Separate -- Overlapping Edges -- Communion -- And yet -- Being a woman -- Cocks and mares -- Shotgun wedding -- Family -- Mine -- The infant -- Laguna beach -- Out of Lost Angeles -- The nost -- Bazook -- Something deeper -- The song of Absinthe granny -- Dream of light in the shade -- The talking fish -- Memory of knowledge and death at the mother of scholars -- Being human -- Tenacity -- The excuse -- Salt -- Denouement -- Between th elines -- The plan -- Poles -- Emily -- Green apples -- Haying -- Habitat -- Eclat -- The principle of mirrors -- behind the facade -- I have three daughters -- A mother looks at her child -- Advice -- End of summer -- Seat belt fastened? -- Disappeared child -- The sotry of the churn -- It -- Metamorphosis -- Topography -- The magnet -- In an iridescent time -- The season -- The burned bridge -- Orchard -- The splinter -- The mold -- An old song -- Love's relative -- Vernal Equinox.

Connecting the Dots: New and Selected Poems

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483485609
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis Connecting the Dots: New and Selected Poems by : Helen Kanevsky

Download or read book Connecting the Dots: New and Selected Poems written by Helen Kanevsky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Kanevsky dismantles the separation between fact and fiction in her new poetry collection that enlightens with imagery but also delves into literal truth. Life, the endless reverse from which Helen Kanevsky draws her bitter-sweet poetic brew, is just too weird to grasp and maybe not worth grasping ("Life violates every code of decency"). It is "Rabbis in kimonos munching on gefilte fish sushi." It is an entity that, when you think you've found the particles from which it is constructed, turned into a wave and scatters - its meaning ever elusive, and fading into old recollections. And yet, there is that reality that must be connected with sobriety. As the poet says, "Memories are useless ballast ... until you are brought in for questioning." Reality in Helen's poems defies exactitude, best captured not by exciting exposition, but in the Kanevsky-esque disquisition. And, it is FUN! Bruce Neuburger, writer, educator, and peace activist

New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395924884
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 by : Thomas Lux

Download or read book New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 written by Thomas Lux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."

Selected Poems

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141960078
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Poems by : Rabindranath Tagore

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as 'Earth' and 'In the Eyes of a Peacock' present a picture of natural processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in 'Recovery - 14', convey the poet's bewilderment about his place in the world. And exuberant works such as 'New Rain' and 'Grandfather's Holiday' describe Tagore's sheer joy at the glories of nature or simply in watching a grandchild play.

The Cradle Place

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618619445
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cradle Place by : Thomas Lux

Download or read book The Cradle Place written by Thomas Lux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cradle Place is a collection from Thomas Lux, a self-described "recovering surrealist" and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. These fifty-two poems bring to full life the "refreshing iconoclasms" Rita Dove so admired in Lux's earlier work. His voice is plainspoken but moody, humorous and edgy, and ever surprising. These are philosophical poems that ask questions about language and intention, about the sometimes untidy connections between the human and natural worlds. In the poem "Terminal Lake," Lux undermines notions of benign nature, finding dark currents beneath the surface: "it's a huge black coin, / it's as if the real lake is drained / and this lake is the drain: gaping, language- / less, suck- and sinkhole." In the ominous "Render, Render," the narrator asks us to consider a concentration of the essences of our lives: all that is physical, spiritual, remembered, and dreamed for, melded together to make the messy self we present to the world. Lux's voice is intelligent without being bookish, urgent and unrelentingly evocative. He has long been a strong advocate for the relevance of poetry in American culture. The Los Angeles Times praises Lux for his "compelling rhythms, his biting irony, and his steady devotion to a craft that often seems thankless." As Sven Birkerts noted, "Lux may be one of the poets on whom the future of the genre depends."

If This Is the Age We End Discovery

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Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1948579499
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Book Synopsis If This Is the Age We End Discovery by : Rosebud Ben-Oni

Download or read book If This Is the Age We End Discovery written by Rosebud Ben-Oni and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of “Efes” which is “zero” in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.

The Hatred of Poetry

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478201
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hatred of Poetry by : Ben Lerner

Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Randomly Moving Particles

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571352103
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Randomly Moving Particles by : Andrew Motion

Download or read book Randomly Moving Particles written by Andrew Motion and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Motion's expansive new collection is built around two long poems that form its opening and close. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American politics. The more straightforwardly narrative poem, 'How Do the Dead Walk', while reaching back to immemorial stories of brutality, addresses issues of contemporary violence. The book is direct in its emotional appeal, ambitious in its scope, all the while retaining the cinematic vision and startling expression that so freshly lit the lines of his last, Essex Clay.

A Throw of Particles

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Book Synopsis A Throw of Particles by : Douglas G. Jones

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More in Time

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227948
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis More in Time by : Jessica Poli

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Shards of Light and Hope: In a Darkening Time

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493145770
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Shards of Light and Hope: In a Darkening Time by : Carol Thomas, Ph.D

Download or read book Shards of Light and Hope: In a Darkening Time written by Carol Thomas, Ph.D and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Thomas holds a PhD in literature and psychology from Union University and Institute, a doctorate in applied theology from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a master of arts in creative writing and poetry from Stetson University in Florida in addition to a master of arts in psychology from Saint Leo University in Florida. She has taught literature, psychology, and women's studies at the University of Connecticut, Bowie State University, and Cameron University as well as a number of additional universities and colleges. She has also taught creative writing at Gavle University in Storvik, Sweden. During her sojourn of eleven years at the University of Connecticut, she taught psychology and creative writing and enjoyed private practice with Shoreline Psychiatric Associates. In addition, for three years she was also an adjunct professor at Niantic Prison for Women. Her classes resulted in a book of original art and poetry, which was eventually published by the State of Connecticut. Dr. Thomas and her recently retired husband, Dr. Frank Thomas, a surgeon, now reside in Ormond-by-the Sea, where they are inveterate beach walkers, writers, and proud parents of their newly acquired schnauzer, Rocky, who accompanies them on their frequent walks. Including a number of published chapbooks, this will be Dr. Thomas's fifth book of poetry.

Greetings From Angelus

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Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671987
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Greetings From Angelus by : Gershom Scholem

Download or read book Greetings From Angelus written by Gershom Scholem and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem. With this volume, Scholem's work reaches beyond the confines of the academy and enters a literary dialogue with writers and philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Hans Jonas. Gershom Scholem's Greetings From Angelus contains dark, lucid political poems about Zionism and assimilation, parodies of German and Jewish philosophers, and poems to writers and friends such as Walter Benjamin, Hans Jonas, Ingeborg Bachmann, S. Y. Agnon, among others. The earliest poems in this volume begin in 1915 and extend to 1967, revealing how poetry played a formative role in Scholem's early life and career. This collection is translated by Richard Sieburth, who comments, "Scholem's acts of poetry still speak to us (and against us) to this very day, simultaneously grounded as they are in the impossibly eternal and profoundly occasional." The volume is edited and introduced by Steven M. Wasserstrom, who carefully situates the poems in Scholem's historical, biographical, and theological landscape. One of the greatest scholars of the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem virtually created the subject of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. Literature played a crucial role in his life, especially in his formative years. This bilingual volume contains his dark, shockingly prescient poems about Zionism, his parodies of German and Jewish philosophers, and poems to other writers, notably a series of powerful lyrics addressed over the course of years to his closest and oldest friend, Walter Benjamin. Translator Richard Sieburth comments, “Scholem’s acts of poetry still speak to us (and against us) to this very day, grounded as they are in the impossibly eternal and profoundly occasional.”

Child Made of Sand

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547580983
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Child Made of Sand by : Thomas Lux

Download or read book Child Made of Sand written by Thomas Lux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Child Made of Sand, Kingsley Tufts-winner Thomas Lux demonstrates a restless energy to explore new territory while confirming his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry.

Through Sun-glinting Particles

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Publisher : UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
ISBN 13 : 1934795380
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Through Sun-glinting Particles by : Allegra Jostad Silberstein

Download or read book Through Sun-glinting Particles written by Allegra Jostad Silberstein and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silberstein focuses her poems on those mysteries that populate our day to day lives, among them those strange spaces between people described as ‘friendship,’ ‘love,’ and ‘desire,’ which resist true expression in words. Instead, she turns to nature and its healing powers: “Let us sing aubades to morning light, / to each new day, to each new start, to all / the wild birds that whisper hope in their flight./ Do not acquaint me with the dark of night.” Allegra Silberstein was born in the middle of a blizzard on a farm in Wisconsin. Her Norwegian ancestors by-passed the flat prairie land and settled in the coulees and hills of the non-glaciated area near the Mississippi River. Her love of poetry began as a child when her mother recited poems as she worked. Silberstein has lived in California since 1963 but her growing years on the farm in Wisconsin brought a deep appreciation for the out-of-doors world that stays with her and sustains her. She has over a hundred publications in journals such as Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review and others. Her work is included in anthologies like The Sacramento Anthology: 100 Poems; Gatherings: A Woman’s Place; and Where Do I Walk. She has two chapbooks: Acceptance, published by Small Poetry Press and In The Folds, published by Rattlesnake Review. In March of 2010 she was selected as the first Poet Laureate for the city of Davis, California. A review of Through Sun-glinting Particles appeared in the May 2012 issue of the Midwest Book Review.