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Selected Poems 1983–2020

Author : Steven Heighton
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487007388
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems 1983–2020 written by Steven Heighton and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation. Selected Poems 1983–2020 is Steven Heighton’s seventh volume of poetry and the first since his Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection, The Waking Comes Late. Incorporating a grouping of previously unpublished poetry and a selection of key poems from his six previous acclaimed collections, this timely volume showcases a generational talent whose work has been described by critics as “exhilarating,” “genuine,” and “arrestingly beautiful.” Heighton’s debut collection, Stalin’s Carnival,won the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1990. Subsequent books, which include bestselling novels, essays, and critical writings, confirmed Heighton as an exciting and important voice in Canadian letters. Heighton’s poetry is recognised for its technical skill and musicality, its erudition, and its empathy and unvarnished emotion.

A Certain Clarity

Author : Lawrence Joseph
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720606
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Certain Clarity written by Lawrence Joseph and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer Drawing from his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph’s "poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness” (John Ashbery), each poem “an inspired, made thing by a poet-advocate who has honed a timely song within an urgent testimony that embraces the complex density of truth” (Yusef Komunyakaa). Joseph’s poems constitute one of the most essential and visionary bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. No other American poet covers the territory Joseph does. His ever-new interactions of thoughts, voices, and languages—influenced by his Lebanese and Syrian Catholic heritage, his professional life as a lawyer and legal scholar, and the economies of the world of working-class labor from which he comes—bear witness, on multilayered spatial and temporal planes, to the velocities of global and historical change, and to power structures embodied in endless wars, unleashed capital, racism, and ecological destruction, presenting an ongoing chronicle of what it means to write poetry in the turbulent times in which we live. But also integral to Joseph’s poetry is a sensual intimacy, passionately driven by an acute awareness of a deeper order in which beauty, love, and justice are indistinguishable. Meticulously formed, emotionally fierce, intellectually challenging, Joseph’s poems press back against the high-stakes pressures of our time with a moral and aesthetic intensity not easily forgotten.

Selected Poems, 1963-1983

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : George Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems, 1963-1983 written by Charles Simic and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Poems, 1958-1983

Author : Asoka Weerasinghe
Publisher : Cornwall, Ont. : Vesta Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780919301511
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems, 1958-1983 written by Asoka Weerasinghe and published by Cornwall, Ont. : Vesta Publications. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Waking Comes Late

Author : Steven Heighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781487000936
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Waking Comes Late written by Steven Heighton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.

Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

Author : Alden Nowlan
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770893768
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Alden Nowlan Selected Poems written by Alden Nowlan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave. Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. Alden Nowlan Selected Poems is for Nowlan fans and new readers alike. The poems included in this volume reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work, and it is truly the best of his poetry. Above all, this volume is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.

Selected Poems II

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395454060
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems II written by Margaret Atwood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.

Selected Poems of Anthony Hecht

Author : Anthony Hecht
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307598977
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Anthony Hecht written by Anthony Hecht and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series. Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and experienced the best and worst of the twentieth century. Readers of this volume—the first selected poems to be made from Hecht’s seven individual volumes—will be captivated by Hecht’s dark music and allusions to the literature of the past. As J. D. McClatchy explains in his introduction, Hecht was a poet for whom formal elegance was inextricably bound up with the dramatic force, thematic ambition, and powerful emotions in each poem. The rules of his art, which he both honored and transformed, are “moral principles meant finally to reveal the structure of human dilemmas and sympathies.” This elevated sense of what poetry can accomplish defines our experience of reading Hecht, and will ensure his place in the canon for years to come. Adam and Eve knew such perfection once, God’s finger in the cloud, and on the ground Nothing but springtime, nothing else at all. But in our fallen state where the blood hunts For blood, and rises at the hunting sound, What do we know of lasting since the fall? Who has not, in the oil and heat of youth, Thought of the flourishing of the almond tree, The grasshopper, and the failing of desire, And thought his tongue might pierce the secrecy Of the six-pointed starlight, and might choir A secret-voweled, unutterable truth? —from “A Poem for Julia”

The Milky Way

Author : Jon Anderson
Publisher : New York : Ecco Press
ISBN 13 : 9780880010078
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Milky Way written by Jon Anderson and published by New York : Ecco Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems explore the nature of memory and portray the author's feelings of loneliness, uncertainty, and love

Selected Poems

Author : Galway Kinnell
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852245412
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Galway Kinnell and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Galway Kinnell shows how the traditional Christian sensibility of his early work gives way to the sacramental, transfiguring dimension of the later poetry.

Reaching Mithymna

Author : Steven Heighton
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771963778
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Reaching Mithymna written by Steven Heighton and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book • A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 • A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020 “Combining his poetic sensibilities and storytelling skills with a documentarian’s eye, [Heighton] has created a wrenching narrative.”—2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY-—a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the tourists that had been its lifeblood, Heighton-—alongside the exhausted locals and under-equipped international aid workers—-found himself thrown into emergency roles for which he was woefully unqualified. From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind.

Times Alone

Author : Antonio Machado
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572101
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Times Alone written by Antonio Machado and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: "Just as before, I'm interested/in water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest." "Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to 'go down to the hells' or stick to the ordinary," Robert Bly writes in his introduction. He brings to the ordinary—to time, to landscape and stony earth, to bean fields and cities, to events and dreams—magical sound that conveys order, penetrating sight and attention. "The poems written while we are awake&…are more original and more beautiful, and sometimes more wild than those made from dreams," Machado said. In the newspapers before and during the Spanish Civil War, he wrote of political and moral issues, and, in 1939, fled from Franco's army into the Pyrenees, dying in exile a month later. When in 1966 a bronze bust of Machado was to be unveiled in a town here he had taught school, thousands of people came in pilgrimage only to find the Civil Guard with clubs and submachine guns blocking their way. This selection of Machado's poetry, beautifully translated by Bly, begins with the Spanish master's first book, Times Alone, Passageways in the House, and Other Poems (1903), and follows his work to the poems published after his death: Poems from the Civil War (written during 1936 – 1939).

What We Carry

Author : Dorianne Laux
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160371
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book What We Carry written by Dorianne Laux and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.

Dream Work

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059383268X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Dream Work written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, an “astonishing” book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Primitive and “one of our very best poets” (New York Times Book Review) Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness, so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive, continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit, to accepting the truth about one’s personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

Only As the Day Is Long

Author : Dorianne Laux
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393652335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Only As the Day Is Long written by Dorianne Laux and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive volumes, including her confident debut Awake, National Book Critics Circle Finalist What We Carry, and Paterson Prize–winning The Book of Men, the poems in this collection have been "brought to the hard edge of meaning" (B. H. Fairchild) and praised for their "enormous precision and beauty" (Philip Levine). Twenty new odes pay homage to Laux’s mother, an ordinary and extraordinary woman of the Depression era. The wealth of her life experience finds expression in Laux’s earthy and lyrical depictions of working-class America, full of the dirt and mess of real life. From the opening poem, "Two Pictures of My Sister," to the last, "Letter to My Dead Mother," she writes, in her words, of "living gristle" with a perceptive frankness that is luminous in its specificity and universal in its appeal. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long shows Laux at the height of her powers.

Country Music

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572268
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Country Music written by Charles Wright and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.

The Power of Adrienne Rich

Author : Hilary Holladay
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0385541503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Adrienne Rich written by Hilary Holladay and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet. Adrienne Rich was the female face of American poetry for decades. Her forceful, uncompromising writing has more than stood the test of time, and the life of the woman behind the words is equally impressive. Motivated by personal revelations, Rich transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of prose as well as poetry. In doing so, she emerged as both architect and exemplar of the modern feminist movement, breaking ranks to denounce the male-dominated literary establishment and paving the way for the many queer women of letters to take their places in the cultural mainstream. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished materials, including Rich's correspondence and in-depth interviews with numerous people who knew her, Hilary Holladay digs deep into never-before-accessed sources to portray Rich in full dimension and vivid, human detail.