Probes, Poetry, and Stories

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059514361X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Probes, Poetry, and Stories by : Rita Fleisher

Download or read book Probes, Poetry, and Stories written by Rita Fleisher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probes, Poetry, and Stories, A Spiritual Enlightenment for Everyday Use, is a fantastic book that is to be used everyday. The book contains probes, which are sayings of one to eight lines, wonderful poems, and stories. Each day, as you awaken, or before you leave for the day, open this book and pick a probe for the day. This will be an inspiring and uplifting saying for you to help you lift your spirits. Share your thoughts from the book with others. This book is to be used, over and over again.

Literature for Today's Young Adults

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Publisher : Pearson Scott Foresman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature for Today's Young Adults by : Kenneth L. Donelson

Download or read book Literature for Today's Young Adults written by Kenneth L. Donelson and published by Pearson Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1989 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems Seven

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800230
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems Seven by : Alan Dugan

Download or read book Poems Seven written by Alan Dugan and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan’s new poems continue his career-long concerns with renewed vigor: the poet’s insistence that art is a grounded practice threatened by pretension, the wry wit, the jibes at the academic and sententious, and the arresting observations on the quotidian battles of life. All the while he peppers his poems with humorous images of the grim and daunting topics of existential emptiness.

The Crazy Bunch

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143132695
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crazy Bunch by : Willie Perdomo

Download or read book The Crazy Bunch written by Willie Perdomo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."

Crime Against Nature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Crime Against Nature by : Minnie Bruce Pratt

Download or read book Crime Against Nature written by Minnie Bruce Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designated as the prestigious 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, and winner of the 1991 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award, Pratt's Crime Against Nature is a stunning achievement. This beautifully crafted sequence of poems takes its title from language in the statute under which the author could have been prosecuted as a lesbian if she had sought legal custody of her children. These are poems of despair, self-doubt, sexual bliss, sexual shame, exhilaration, rage, hope, victory. In Crime Against Nature, Pratt breathes new life into the words lesbian, poet, mother. Without contradiction or self-denial, she holds herself, her loves, and her children in a world of passion, of power being realized, of wholeness."--AUTHOR WEBSITE.

A Shimmer of Something

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Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814637396
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis A Shimmer of Something by : Brian Doyle

Download or read book A Shimmer of Something written by Brian Doyle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever—welcome to the melodic world of Brian Doyle’s “proems,” swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories, moments photographed with ink. Accessible, easy to read, blunt, brief, and sometimes unforgettable, “these are not poems,” says the author, “but life set to the music of poetry.” In A Shimmer of Something, Brian Doyle’s characteristic humor and sincerity combine to make this collection a delight to read. From his conviction that miracles breed ripples that do not cease, to his lack of faith about the life of an elderberry bush, to the amusing story of a friend’s experience of driving the Dalai Lama to Seattle, to the humorous experience of his second Confession, to an intimate story of love and loss, Doyle’s lean stories of spiritual substance inspire, entertain, and captivate.

A Poetry Handbook

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156724005
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis A Poetry Handbook by : Mary Oliver

Download or read book A Poetry Handbook written by Mary Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.

Sublime to Ridiculous

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ISBN 13 : 9781410789877
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Sublime to Ridiculous by : Terri Powers

Download or read book Sublime to Ridiculous written by Terri Powers and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Ariel

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Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770565329
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis My Ariel by : Sina Queyras

Download or read book My Ariel written by Sina Queyras and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women.

In Full Velvet

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Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 194141138X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (414 download)

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Book Synopsis In Full Velvet by : Jenny Johnson

Download or read book In Full Velvet written by Jenny Johnson and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "natural" world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community. They contain a sinuous, shape-shifting quality that makes her explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant. Jenny Johnson won a 2015 Whiting Fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Why Bob Dylan Matters

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062685759
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis Why Bob Dylan Matters by : Richard F. Thomas

Download or read book Why Bob Dylan Matters written by Richard F. Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED. “The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan’s Nobel Prize brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan seminar—affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101"—Thomas is introducing a new generation of fans and scholars to the revered bard’s work. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas’s famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets. Asking us to reflect on the question, "What makes a classic?", Thomas offers an eloquent argument for Dylan’s modern relevance, while interpreting and decoding Dylan’s lyrics for readers. The most original and compelling volume on Dylan in decades, Why Bob Dylan Matters will illuminate Dylan’s work for the Dylan neophyte and the seasoned fanatic alike. You’ll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again.

First Probe to Antarctica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis First Probe to Antarctica by : Barry Ballard

Download or read book First Probe to Antarctica written by Barry Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "In this deft and soulful collection, Barry Ballard writes with a sculptor's care, a sense of each line as a palpable, meaningfully weighted and invited, marked by imaginative wit, beautiful in itself, and essential to the visionary whole" - Bruce Bond, American Literary Review. "As a maker of sonnets, Barry Ballard has few contemporary peers.The clarity of voice and the authority of moment and, above all, the surety of control place him solidly among the few of this new century who know that form and feeling are important and that it does take both to write good poetry" - Jim Barnes, Chariton Review.

Count

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542198
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Count by : Valerie Martínez

Download or read book Count written by Valerie Martínez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count is a powerful book-length poem that reckons with the heartbreaking reality of climate change. With sections that vary between poetry, science, Indigenous storytelling, numerical measurement, and narration, Valerie Martínez's new work results in an epic panorama infused with the timely urgency of facing an apocalyptic future.

Hawk Parable

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Publisher : Akron Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9781629221052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Hawk Parable by : Tyler Mills

Download or read book Hawk Parable written by Tyler Mills and published by Akron Poetry. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Mills proves that Faulkner underestimated a poet's ability to manage enormous shifts of scale...Haunted by the unverified possibility of her fighter-pilot grandfather's 'involvement in the Nagasaki mission, ' Mills scans skies for contrails, scrutinizes negatives, reads survivors' accounts, and sifts through white sands...Mills has written a book for the long nuclear century." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Hawk Parable begins with a family mystery and engages with the limits of historical knowledge--particularly of the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped at the end of the Second World War and the repercussions of atomic tests the U.S. conducted throughout the 20th century. These poems explore a space between environmental crisis and a crisis of conscience. As a lyric collection, Hawk Parable begins as a meditation on the author's grandfather's possible involvement in the Nagasaki mission and moves through poems that engage with the legacy of nuclear testing on our global environment. At times, Hawk Parable borrows language from declassified nuclear test films, survivor accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, scientific studies of bird migrations through the Nevada Test Site, and the author's grandfather's letters. This book enacts what it means to encounter fragments--of historical records, family stories, and survivor accounts--through exploring a variety of forms. Hawk Parable seeks what it means to be human in the spaces between tragedy and beauty, loss and life, in the relationships between the lyric speaker, history, and personal memory.

The Xenotext

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Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770564349
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis The Xenotext by : Christian Bök

Download or read book The Xenotext written by Christian Bök and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bök has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials."—The Guardian Internationally best-selling poet Christian Bök has spent more than ten years writing what promises to be the first example of "living poetry." After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of E. coli, Bök is on the verge of enciphering a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of an unkillable bacterium (Deinococcus radiodurans), which can, in turn, "read" his text, responding to it by manufacturing a viable, benign protein, whose sequence of amino acids enciphers yet another poem. The engineered organism might conceivably serve as a post-apocalyptic archive, capable of outlasting our civilization. Book I of The Xenotext constitutes a kind of "demonic grimoire," providing a scientific framework for the project with a series of poems, texts, and illustrations. A Virgilian welcome to the Inferno, Book I is the "orphic" volume in a diptych, addressing the pastoral heritage of poets, who have sought to supplant nature in both beauty and terror. The book sets the conceptual groundwork for the second volume, which will document the experiment itself. The Xenotext is experimental poetry in the truest sense of the term. Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (1994) and Eunoia (2001), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780861403103
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature by : Michael Kenneally

Download or read book Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature written by Michael Kenneally and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of four collections of essays intended to be published under the general title Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature (only two were) which are devoted to critical analysis of Irish writing since the 1950s.

Shaler's Fish

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190707
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Shaler's Fish by : Helen Macdonald

Download or read book Shaler's Fish written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Devoted readers of H Is for Hawk will find Macdonald’s gift for stunning language, patient curiosity, and expansive wisdom on full display in her poems.”—Publishers Weekly From the naturalist and author of the New York Times bestseller H is for Hawk, which appeared on more than twenty-five Best Books of the Year lists, Shaler’s Fish is a collection of poetry that roams both the outer and inner landscapes of the poet’s universe, seamlessly fusing reflections on language, science, and literature with the loamy environments of the natural worlds around her. Moving between the epic (war, history, art, myth, philosophy) and the specific (CNN, Ancient Rome, Auden, Merleau-Ponty), Helen Macdonald examines with humor and intellect what it means to be awake and watchful in the world. These are poems that probe and question, within whose nimble ecosystems we are as likely to encounter Schubert as we are “a hand of violets,” Isaac Newton as a “winged quail on turf.” Nothing escapes Macdonald’s eye and every creature herein—from the smallest bird to the loftiest thinker—holds a significant place in her poems. “Macdonald is a poet of vision and sound, oracular one moment and playful the next, whose first love and only loyalty is to the music of words.” –O, the Oprah Magazine