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Precious Were The Hours

Author : John Larrabee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578734989
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Precious Were The Hours written by John Larrabee and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If poetry is not your "thing," this book will change your mind. C. S. Lewis wrote, "We ought not write about our actions but about our thoughts. We busy ourselves talking about the weather and the little trivial happenings of each day, while the thoughts of our hearts, the really great experiences of ourselves, are seldom mentioned."Approaching the end of a long and fulfilling life, an aging Baby Boomer publishes his first book - a collection of poems originally written for his grandchildren and never intended to be made public.* Writing in verse, the author reminisces about the joys of family, friends, nature, and living a simple but rewarding life. Opening with a nostalgic reverence for our ancestral beginnings and hope for future generations, "A Grandparent's Message" sets the stage for a wide-ranging series of poems that will take you for a ride along life's emotional roller coaster. * Thirteen years ago the author's niece suffered a severe spinal cord injury at the age of 27, and has been confined to a wheelchair since then. Prior to the injury, she was an avid outdoor adventurer, enjoying mountain climbing, hiking, biking and camping.Following two unsuccessful years of complete bed rest to heal lower body pressure wounds, she spent four months at Maine Medical Center in 2020 for reconstructive surgery.All proceeds from the sale of Precious Were The Hours, will go toward the purchase of a standing wheelchair for Rebecca to help reduce the risks of future pressure wounds.

The Book of Forms

Author : Lewis Turco
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650225
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Forms written by Lewis Turco and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.

I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling

Author : Amanda Holmes
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783333227
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling written by Amanda Holmes and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening in 1969 in New England, I KNOW WHERE I AM WHEN I'M FALLING is as rich in relationships as the colours and textures of the time. Ruby Lambert, is the eldest daughter in the eccentric Lambert family who get caught up in the life of Angus Aleshire, a charming, smart and athletic boy who they try to help and who shares Ruby's unconventional bent and love of the piano. Ruby and Angus fall in love but Angus has a dark side. His boyish charms start to wear thin losing him family and friends along the way and when his clever schemes and misbehavior get him in trouble, culminating with an art heist, he tries even Ruby’s love for him. The story spans thirteen years, and poses uncomfortable questions about the blindness of love, nurture versus nature and life through rose tinted glasses. Ruby struggles to square her vision of Angus’s potential with the unsettling and mounting reality.

The Book of Men: Poems

Author : Dorianne Laux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080919
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Men: Poems written by Dorianne Laux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine The narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, luminous" (San Diego Union-Tribune). from "To Kiss Frank," make out with him a bit, this is what my friend would like to do oh these too many dead summers later, and as much as I want to stroll with her into the poet's hazy fancy all I can see is O'Hara's long gone lips fallen free of the bone, slumbering beneath the grainy soil.

Whale Day

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760989649
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Whale Day written by Billy Collins and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most durable and interesting poets.

Worldly Things

Author : Michael Kleber-Diggs
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317635
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Worldly Things written by Michael Kleber-Diggs and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry “Sometimes,” Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.” In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love—teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics—couple with moments of wrenching grief—a father’s life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother’s waist; Freddie Gray’s death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But Worldly Things refuses to “offer allegiance” to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. “Let’s create folklore side-by-side,” he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. “All of us want,” after all, “our share of light, and just enough rainfall.” Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics. Additional Recognition: A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021" A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection An Indie Gift Guide 2021 Indie Next Selection

Tributaries

Author : Laura Da'
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531552
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Tributaries written by Laura Da' and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tributaries, poet Laura Da’ lyrically surveys Shawnee history alongside personal identity and memory. With the eye of a storyteller, Da’ creates an arc that flows from the personal to the historical and back again. In her first book-length collection, Da’ employs interwoven narratives and perspectives, examines cultural archetypes and historical documents, and weaves rich images to create a shifting vision of the past and present. Precise images open to piercing meditations of Shawnee history. In the present, a woman watches the approximation of a scalping at a theatrical presentation. Da’ writes, “Soak a toupee with cherry Kool-Aid and mineral oil. / Crack the egg onto the actor’s head. / Red matter will slide down the crown / and egg shell will mimic shards of skull.” This vivid image is paired with a description of the traditional removal path of her own Shawnee ancestors through small towns in Ohio. These poems range from the Midwestern landscapes of Ohio and Oklahoma to the Pacific Northwest, and the importance of place is apparent. Tributaries simultaneously offers us an extended narrative rumination on the impact of Indian policy and speaks to the contemporary experiences of parenthood and the role of education in passing knowledge from one generation to the next. This collection is composed of four sections that come together to create an important new telling of Shawnee past and present.

Love Three

Author : Aaron Kunin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940696829
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Love Three written by Aaron Kunin and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking, sustained meditation on sex, love, power, and poetry.

Love Rhymes with Everything

Author : Kat von Cupcake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781618220523
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Love Rhymes with Everything written by Kat von Cupcake and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love Rhymes with Everything, you'll meet sanctuary animals and beloved pets, rescues and strays now living in peace among their own, or in forever homes with their human families. You'll meet cows and pigs, dogs and fish, chickens and ducks, cats and goats--and many more. You'll see the beautiful faces of these exquisite creatures captured by Dana Feagin's whimsical paintings, and you'll hear their voices in Kat von Cupcake's affecting poetry. In this collection of rescued and beloved animals, you'll learn that, for these fortunate animals, love truly can conquer all--and, with all proceeds from this book benefiting animal rescue organizations, that love stretches far beyond these pages. In this unique collaboration, artist, poet, and publisher have volunteered their time, skills, and resources to create a book that will delight and entertain as well as benefit animal rescue organizations. Every penny from the sales of Love Rhymes with Everything will benefit animals.

The Math Campers

Author : Dan Chiasson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593317742
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Math Campers written by Dan Chiasson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet. The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say," a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from a stranger. Who made up whom? Chiasson, an acclaimed poetry critic, has invented a remarkable structure where the reader and a poet speak to one another, across the void of silence and mystery. He is also the father of teenaged sons, and this volume continues the autobiographical arc of his prior, celebrated volumes. One long section is about the age of thirteen and the dawning of desire, while the title poem looks at the crucial age of fifteen and the existential threat of climate change and gun violence, which alters the calculus of adolescence. Though the outlook is bleak, these poems register the glories of our moment: that there are places where boys can kiss each other and not be afraid; that small communities are rousing and taking care of each other; that teenagers have mobilized for a better world. All of these works emerge from the secretive imagination of a father as he measures his own adolescence against that of his sons and explores the complex bedrock of marriage. Chiasson sees a perilous world both navigated and enriched by the passionate young and by the parents--and poets--who care for them.

House of Sound

Author : Matthew Daddona
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578711928
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book House of Sound written by Matthew Daddona and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'It takes a lot to say I love you, I mean it / and mean it, ' says the speaker in Matthew Daddona's rich and impactful debut, House of Sound. These poems articulate not just love as an act, but also absence, longing, and philosophies, all as a measure of life and its relevance. To stay or to go? This is the central question that haunts the speaker. And when one goes, is one ever really gone? These poems ring with questions: 'I want their wings. I want their answer.' In sound, memory, and the lack thereof. In life, love-and the lack thereof. This collection is an exciting example of language as meditation, mediation, and conciliation, as well as action. To write, to love, to understand, to contemplate-these are all verbs that require action and attention. Attend to the quiet yearning in these poems. 'Because a shadow / wants to leave you / but doesn't know how, ' attend to the way these beautiful poems move through the body as heartsong, as a form of human touch." -Chelsea Dingman, author of Through a Small Ghost and Thaw Academy of American Poets prize-winning poet Matthew Daddona's debut collection, House of Sound, is a rumination on domesticity and modern-living, a playful and earnest attempt to discover truth within silence and hope within noise. In these twenty-eight poems, Daddona combines narrative and lyricism to recreate a home-and thus, a mode of living-that delivers to us a family searching for contact amid society's cacophony. In "Poem for Leaving," a narrator attempts to put together a former friend's reason for deserting him for a more alluring country, while in "Tourist Trap," a husband reckons with trying to protect his wife from verbal and physical assault while pondering the language of violence and appeasement. As the roles of mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, are often exchanged, borrowed, interplayed, the collection externalizes their choices by showing the narrator take flight from his hometown in the conclusive "Poem for Returning." Celebrating language, and ultimately the liberty of choice, Daddona writes, "To become love, / dress in idiom." House of Sound is a dynamic and dexterous debut from a bold new writer, a commentary upon the joys and defeats of trying to live most beautifully.

Meditación Fronteriza

Author : Norma Elia Cantú
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539359
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Meditación Fronteriza written by Norma Elia Cantú and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a beautifully crafted exploration of life in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Written by Norma Elia Cantú, the award-winning author of Canícula, this collection carries the perspective of a powerful force in Chicana literature—and literature worldwide. The poems are a celebration of culture, tradition, and creativity that navigates themes of love, solidarity, and political transformation. Deeply personal yet warmly relatable, these poems flow from Spanish to English gracefully. With Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational work as an inspiration, Meditación Fronteriza unveils unique images that provide nuance and depth to the narrative of the borderlands. Poems addressed to talented and influential women such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Adrienne Rich, among others, pour gratitude and recognition into the collection. While many of the poems in Meditación Fronteriza are gentle and inviting, there are also moments that grieve for the state of the borderlands, calling for political resistance.

Selected Poems of Rita Dove

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679750800
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Rita Dove written by Rita Dove and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives. Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's Selected Poems is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling.

Fall Higher

Author : Dean Young
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556593112
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Fall Higher written by Dean Young and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Young's poems are as entertaining and imaginative as a three-ring circus painted by Hieronymous Bosch

Recovered Body

Author : Scott Cairns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Recovered Body written by Scott Cairns and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth collection of poems by Scott Cairns, Recovered Body employs disarming language as it revises and gives new life to a wide range of familiar stories. Here, we overhear some of Wallace Stevens's late ruminations, we witness an erotic frolicking between poet and muse, and we receive an epistle on the subjects of love and the body from Mary Magdalen. The poet's richly cadenced style of story-telling allows him to offer theological poetry that leaves even the most cynical of readers nodding and grinning.

Reckless Lovely

Author : Martha Silano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989979719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Reckless Lovely written by Martha Silano and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Silano's newest collection of cosmic lingo tango

Requeening

Author : Amanda Moore
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063096293
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Requeening written by Amanda Moore and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean Vuong Engaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the home, and the world at large. Beyond the productivity and excess, the sweetness and sting, Requeening brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood, an evolving relationship of care and tending, responsibility and joy, dependence and deep love. The poems that anchor this collection don’t shy away from the inevitability of a hive’s collapse and consider the succession of “requeening” a hive as “a new heart ready to be fed and broken and fed again.” The collapse is both physical—there are poems of illness and recovery—and emotional, as the mother-daughter relationship shifts, the daughter becoming separate, whole, and poised to displace. The liminal spaces these poems traverse in human relationships is echoed in a range of poetic and hybrid form, offering freedom and stricture as they contemplate the way we hold one another in love and grief. Requeening is a vivid and surprising collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition.