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Poet in the Grandstand

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452073503
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Poet in the Grandstand written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the area of ballpark hopping, there have been a number of accounts written, recorded or talked about in recent times, sometimes for a cause or others just as a gimmick. Through Poet in the Grandstand, poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald gives us a most unique twist on a preoccupation which has grown in the past few decades, in the wake of the closings of classic old yards and the birth of the more entertainment and nostalgia driven open-air parks. From his first trip in 1990, to the fabled Comiskey Park of Shoeless Joe Jackson, Bill Veeck and the Go-Go Sox, on through to the 2010 opening of Minnesotas fabulous Target Field, featuring the modern M&M Boys, Joe Mauer and Justin Mourneau, McDonald offers up a book that is part travelogue and part poetic tribute to all the places that men and women have gone to over the years for a very personal sense of joy. This journey, done methodically, over two decades, picks up steam as the chapters begin to flow. The effect of McDonald himself clearly growing as a poet through the years is accentuated by the fact that more and more pieces are written in the later trips. The end result is a most interesting volume of not just ballparks, but Americana, as numerous attractions taken in during those ballpark weeks and weekends are also noted and/or dissected. For fourteen seasons on his own and then six more accompanied by friend and confidant Adam Boneker, McDonalds travels, highlighted by over 300 poems, can take the reader back to a simpler time or into the possibilities of the future. In chapter and in verse, Poet in the Grandstand has something for both the baseball enthusiast and the curious traveler. Fans of the game and lovers of the road will each find much to offer within these pages.

Poet in the Parks

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665528796
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Poet in the Parks written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After going to various states on the Major League landscape over 21 seasons, poet/writer Thomas Porky McDonald came upon the notion of continuing to tour the rest of the contiguous United States, using Minor League parks as a starting point. A pair of Western tours with his niece Jaclyn and her son Alex, as well as a stop in Graceland with his sister Patti, would be in the mix, with each stop bringing out more of McDonald’s signature poetry. Poet in the Parks is a sequel of sorts, as the earliest trips chronicled feature returns to Major League parks with his Poet in the Grandstand road partner, Adam Boneker, who later hits the Minors trail with McDonald, as well as a stop in New Orleans during the time of a World Pandemic. Ultimately, this second travel/poetry volume is merely a quest to savor the American landscape, no matter how many cities, states, parks and places of interest you pass through along the way.

A Walk in the City

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 149695937X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book A Walk in the City written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A random poem, written on a birthday years before, finds a new life when a series of interrelated profiles come together in a most unexpected way. This is what constitutes A Walk in the City, writer/poet Thomas Porky McDonald's New York City travelogue. A compilation of pieces written originally for an internal website at his workplace in New York City transit, this volume shares brief, yet effective vignettes on a number of various sites in the city--some famous, and others hardly on the radar. It is dedicated to the average tourist and/or the lifetime New Yorker. McDonald's love of the place he's called home for his entire life comes across most vibrantly. Though the outer boroughs are touched upon transiently, this collection of go-to sketches and reminisces is centered mainly in Manhattan, which--as any New Yorker knows--is the place that all those who live in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island call "The City." From the world famous sites, like the Empire State Building and Times Square to hidden jewels like the New York City Transit Museum, the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, or the New York City Fire Museum, A Walk in the City provides something for anyone seeking interesting pit stops in New York, whether planned ahead or merely in the course of a day already begun. The book is subtitled An Incomplete Tour since it is McDonald's contention that no one could truly put every point of interest in the city into a single volume. Here, an unencumbered collection of articles attempts to send the reader out in search of something that cannot be explained without actually having the experience of being there. In any case, this is a city wanderers' bonanza, one that should be considered by anyone who aspires to explore the diverse venues located in the greatest city in the world.

After the Dream Poems: 2009-2011

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728347211
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book After the Dream Poems: 2009-2011 written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth five-book collection of poetry by poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald, After the Dream: Poems 2009-2011, brings the author even closer to home than in his previous work, with a thought to where the world is headed. The title poems for each of the five books in the mix, Born in the City, The Class of No Return, Touched by Life, Back to Astoria and What Lies Ahead, all speak of a man still searching to incorporate his early life into the realities of the 21st Century. Other notable pieces from each collection include “Friendships to Eternity,” “Together One, as Always” (City), “While the Leaves Blew,” “Always too Old to Change Anything” (Class), “When the Game Simply Took You Away,” “I’ve Never Forgotten About Friendship” (Life), “Scenes From a Lost Neighborhood,” “When Fear Overrides Our Humanity” (Astoria), “Needed in the Land of the Needy” and “A Glimpse of Bernadine” (Ahead). A solid entry from the still wandering and wondering balladeer.

Under the Grandstand

Author : Jim Lyons
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475971370
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Under the Grandstand written by Jim Lyons and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have lived not just witnessed - the efflorescence of a pivotal culture moment never see the world through veiled eyes again. Jimmy Lyons was there, devising wholly original inventions of words and music while the Beats, the neo-folk troubadours, the post-bop jazz shooting stars, and the tie-dyed psychedelic rockers were scorching through the underbrush and opening new paths of creativity as alternatives to the increasingly bottom line-driven mainstream. Lyons, though, wasnt content to find a niche in one countercultural movement or another. He kept moving, observing, and writing new poems, stories, and songs. But he never gave up on the wry sophistication of the classic American popular song. Indeed, he has dedicated himself to infusing the same hallowed forms perfected by Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and others, with his singular fantasias of ingeniously colored and textured wordplay. These plays have a subtext only Lyons can provide, derived from what he calls the rituals of the road and the the circular rhythms of the race track, the beats and pulses of everyday American life that rarely raise a ripple on the surface of American culture. Lyons hears the screams and dreams of his countrymen and woman; from them he creates new modes of expression. He has been changed by each of his open-hearted an open-eared encounters, and this body of work is his way of making those changes sing and swing. Derk Richardson

Reaper's Milonga

Author : Lucian Charles Mattison
Publisher : YesYes Books
ISBN 13 : 9781936919543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Reaper's Milonga written by Lucian Charles Mattison and published by YesYes Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Latinx Studies. Lucian Mattison's poetry collection, REAPER'S MILONGA, is one that holds Lorca's notion of duende at its core. The reader travels from places, both real and imagined, with the cloaked figure of Death as her guide. Poems range in subject matter, touching on politics, music, love, art, and cultural identity, all with vulnerability, mortality, and sensuality as the pistons driving the whole.

Calligrammes

Author : Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520242128
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Calligrammes written by Guillaume Apollinaire and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual edition of one of Guillaume Apollinaire's most important volumes of poetry, with extensive commentary by the translators.

Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002

Author : Martín Espada
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393352072
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002 written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An astonishing collection of political poetry at its finest."—The Progressive, Favorite Books of 2004 Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to Puerto Rico; a prison inmate provoking brawls so he could write poetry in solitary confinement; a janitor and his solitary strike; Espada's own father, who was jailed in Mississippi for refusing to go to the back of the bus. The poet bears witness to death and rebirth at the ruins of a famine village in Ireland, a town plaza in México welcoming a march of Zapatista rebels, and the courtroom where he worked as a tenant lawyer. The title poem pays homage to the immigrant food-service workers who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center. From the earliest out-of-print work to the seventeen new poems included here, Espada celebrates the American political imagination and the resilience of human dignity. Alabanza is the epic vision of a writer who, in the words of Russell Banks, "is one of the handful of American poets who are forging a new American language, one that tells the unwritten history of the continent, speaks truth to power, and sings songs of selves we can no longer silence." An American Library Association Notable Book of 2003 and a 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "To read this work is to be struck breathless, and surely, to come away changed."—Barbara Kingsolver "Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors. If it was up to me, I'd select him as the Poet Laureate of the United States."—Sandra Cisneros "With these new and selected poems, you can grasp how powerful a poet Espada is—his range, his compassion, his astonishing images, his sense of history, his knowledge of the lives on the underbelly of cities, his bright anger, his tenderness, his humor. "—Marge Piercy "Espada's poems are not just clarion calls to the heart and conscience, but also wonderfully crafted gems."—Julia Alvarez "A passionate, readable poetry that makes [Espada] arguably the most important 'minority' U.S. poet since Langston Hughes."—Booklist"Neruda is dead, but if Alabanza is any clue, his ghost lives through a poet named Martín Espada."—San Francisco Chronicle

Poems by Divine Appointment

Author : Dorothy Turner
Publisher : Elm Hill
ISBN 13 : 1400326214
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Poems by Divine Appointment written by Dorothy Turner and published by Elm Hill. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by Divine Appointment are poems with purpose. They were written to inspire and to stir up your spirit. You will find some of these poems are quite long while others are very short. Nevertheless, each poem has a message that’s clear and get straight to the point leaving nothing to the imagination. These poems are power packed, and I hope every reader will experience the presence of God through reading these poems. Yes, Poems by Divine Appointment are mine, but they came from God’s creative mind. Now allow me to give you a little peek inside of the book with this poem. What’s In the Sea I’ve seen deep in the sea, Things we are about to see. There are a lot of things in the sea, But it’s nothing that I can’t see. Fishermen are on the sea Trying to catch what they can’t see. The birds of the air; the fish of the sea Will make do with what they see. Don’t be disturbed by what you see, It’s just the beginning of what it’s going to be. I’ve seen deep in the sea, Trouble stirring in the sea. Memphis, Tennessee Will soon be nothing to see. Things are stirring up in the sea, Things you are about to see. When I looked across the sea, I saw things I didn’t want to see. I’ve been fishing in the sea To catch what the fishermen couldn’t see. Who made the sea? The one you cannot see. I’ve seen deep in the sea, Things that’s about to be. Memphis, Tennessee Is about to be nothing to see.

The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088982
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley written by Madeleine Callaghan and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative vision and historical circumstance is their central poetic achievement. Madeleine Callaghan explores the different types of poetic heroism that evolve in Byron’s and Shelley’s poetry and drama. Both poets experiment with, challenge and embrace a variety of poetic forms and genres, and this book discusses such generic exploration in the light of their developing versions of the poet-hero. The heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.

Three Stories & Ten Poems

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Stories & Ten Poems written by Ernest Hemingway and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All The Time Jim Was Gone On The Deer Hunting Trip Liz Thought About Him. It Was Awful While He Was Gone. She Couldn’t Sleep Well From Thinking About Him But She Discovered It Was Fun To Think About Him Too. If She Let Herself Go It Was Better. The Night Before They Were To Come Back She Didn’t Sleep At All, That Is She Didn’t Think She Slept Because It Was All Mixed Up In A Dream About Not Sleeping And Really Not Sleeping. When She Saw The Wagon Coming Down The Road She Felt Weak And Sick Sort Of Inside. She Couldn’t Wait Till She Saw Jim And It Seemed As Though Everything Would Be All Right When He Came. The Wagon Stopped Outside Under The Big Elm And Mrs. Smith And Liz Went Out. All The Men Had Beards And There Were Three Deer In The Back Of The Wagon, Their Thin Legs Sticking Stiff Over The Edge Of The Wagon Box. Mrs. Smith Kissed Alonzo And He Hugged Her. Jim Said “Hello Liz.” And Grinned. Liz Hadn’t Known Just What Would Happen When Jim Got Back But She Was Sure It Would Be Something. Nothing Had Happened. The Men Were Just Home That Was All. Jim Pulled The Burlap Sacks Off The Deer And Liz Looked At Them. One Was A Big Buck. It Was Stiff And Hard To Lift Out Of The Wagon...FROM THE BOOKS.

New Collected Poems

Author : W.S. Graham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571262473
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book New Collected Poems written by W.S. Graham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' Harold Pinter. From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. This New Collected Poems, edited by poet and Graham-scholar Matthew Francis and with a foreword by Douglas Dunn, offers the broadest picture yet of Graham's work.

The Poet's Delight

Author : Jahmillah
Publisher : blakgirl publishing.com, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780977923205
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Poet's Delight written by Jahmillah and published by blakgirl publishing.com, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected and New Poems

Author : H. D. Wagener
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475928396
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Selected and New Poems written by H. D. Wagener and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of H. D. Wagener has been written from several perspectives, including the skeptical Western scientist. an expatriate from the old South, an emigrant to Maine, and a long-term student of a Hindu age. Now, he presents this new compilation, sharing his best work from previous collections, plus his inspiring new poems. Including poems from The Entire Packet and Gleanings and Giftings, Selected and New Poems follows Wageners evolution as he travels the eastern seaboard and experiences eye-opening life changes. Using primarily free verse, Wagener provides his wisdom on man and mans relation to physical and spiritual reality. The collection is eclectic, and follows a broad range of themes and subjects, from academic or metaphysical to the fate of Jews in Nazi Germany. In the midst of this, he travels to his own memory of a 1954 Chevy and a lost love. Intended to entertain and enliven, Wageners poems paint life in bright colors.

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871403455
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Walking Home: A Poet's Journey written by Simon Armitage and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain’s version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking “the backbone of England” by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a poetry reading in a different village in exchange for a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet’s place in our bustling world. In Armitage’s own words, “to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self.”

A Poet's Path

Author : Norah Ranck
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664215158
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book A Poet's Path written by Norah Ranck and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wide range of subjects and drawing from events in her life and the Bible, Norah Ranck has written a heartwarming collection of inspirational poems and prayers that will enchant the reader. You will find love, sympathy, courage, and more in this collection. Each poem is an honest account of the everyday adventure of a life lived in faith. It is a book you will want to return to again and again.

The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train

Author : Geoffrey Douglas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493041495
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train written by Geoffrey Douglas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 20 years, Geoffrey Douglas has written feature-length pieces for Yankee magazine that chronicle extraordinary stories that have taken place in New England. Some have been about public events, widely reported––a Maine town turning against itself under the weight of an influx of Somalis, a fatal fire in Worcester MA, a Vermont reporter’s defense of marriage equality. Others, have been more private, the stories of men and women surviving, facing choices, living life––a small-time jockey scratching out an existence at county-fair racetracks; the long, sad fall of a Maine lottery winner, a poet’s love affair with his town. The best of these, taken together, make for a rich and updated collection of New England portraits: mostly ordinary lives, upended by choice or chance, turned suddenly, unexpectedly remarkable.