MPH and Other Road Poems

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ISBN 13 : 9780988988583
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Book Synopsis MPH and Other Road Poems by : Ed Roberson

Download or read book MPH and Other Road Poems written by Ed Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Edited by Andrew Peart. In 2015, while, in his words, "dismantling my house in New Jersey and preparing it for sale," Ed Roberson discovered in some envelopes in his attic a manuscript he thought lost, drawn from the experiences of the summer of 1970, when the poet, along with two friends, rode cross-country from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and back on two BMW motorcycles. The recovery of this manuscript,--over forty years later--alerted Roberson to the fact that he had been relating to its material ever since, yielding for him work that "calls across the span of a lifetime." MPH is Roberson's epic, serial road poem, decades in the making, stamped with and guided by the talisman of its title. "one thing visible every day / any time 24/7 / for 3 months 8000 miles / was mph // on the speedometer. / a small petty thing. / a pin. / down of a larger / limiting. // a sighting an ideograph / even more than a picture beyond word."

The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems by : Diane Wakoski

Download or read book The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems written by Diane Wakoski and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729009X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle by : Tom Andrews

Download or read book The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle written by Tom Andrews and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second wise and passionate book, Tom Andrews explores illness as a major theme, avoiding sentimentality without being merely confessional. He advances his considerable talent with great strength and forcefulness. The poems ae buoyant with humor and mindful of larger mysteries even as they investigate very personal issues. There is an urgency that is compelling; the work is immersed in the private grief of the speaker without excluding the reader. There is real and hard-won wisdom and intelligence in the poems, offering genuine surprises and delight; their attractive humility is not a pose.

Motorcycle Haiku Poetry

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500579593
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)

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Book Synopsis Motorcycle Haiku Poetry by : Walter F Kern

Download or read book Motorcycle Haiku Poetry written by Walter F Kern and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on user submissions received by Walter F. Kern while he was the Motorcycles Guide at About.com and also during his current assignment as Editor of Motorcycle Views, which he founded. The book is an anthology of motorcycle haiku poems including seven original poems written by Walter. The other authors are motorcyclists from all walks of life. They have created short 3-line, 17-syllable haiku poems that reflect their love of riding motorcycles. Haiku is a three-line unrhymed verse with the first line containing five syllables, the second line containing seven syllables and the last line containing five syllables. Sometimes the verse has a seasonal theme. Haiku is an old literary, poetic form. Motorcyclists seem to like motorcycle haiku poems. That is evident as you read the 17-syllable haiku poems contained in this book. You will be amazed to find out that the feelings of motorcycle riders can be so succinctly expressed in just three short lines. Here's an example: Fresh wind in my face On an early morning ride Biking therapy Each haiku poem has been titled and then paired up either with a motorcycle picture or a motorcycle tattoo. Each bike or tattoo picture is described, and then Walter offers his own thoughts to link together the poem and the bike or tattoo picture. Some safety or riding tips and philosophy may also be included in the narrative. If you've never read haiku before, you're in for a treat. Sit back and enjoy this book of Motorcycle Haiku Poetry.

Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems

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Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0812924347
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems by : Jimmy Carter

Download or read book Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems written by Jimmy Carter and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 1995 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter's private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Riding with Rilke

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Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780143051312
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Riding with Rilke by : Ted Bishop

Download or read book Riding with Rilke written by Ted Bishop and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English professor and motorcycle enthusiast Ted Bishop is taking one last ride before fall term when his bike vibrates out of control and he is flung into a ditch, breaking his back and collapsing his lungs. With limited mobility, Ted finally has time to savour the reading experience. He begins writing about his crash, realizing that two worlds had come together when his head hit the pavement. The more he thinks about it, the more it seems that archival work is the inverse, not the opposite, of motorcycling. Ultimately, what surrounds both reader and rider is silence. In Riding with Rilke, Ted Bishop takes us on the road through some of the richest landscapes in North America and Europe, with numerous stops along the way. Whether describing the archival jolt of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising Main Street in small-town America on a bike nicknamed “Il Mostro,” Bishop tells a story filled with insight and humour.

Rubber Side Down

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Publisher : Archer Books
ISBN 13 : 1931122199
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Rubber Side Down by : José Gouveia

Download or read book Rubber Side Down written by José Gouveia and published by Archer Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Biker poet? The words don't seem to fit together. But, no so long ago, neither did cowboy poet. Biker poetry was originally meant to be recited and found its way into performance, or slam, poetry, with readings conducted at every major biker rally. Today, the biker poetry movement is alive and spreading quickly in print form, not only in the US, but all around the world.RUBBER SIDE DOWN provides a look inside this movement, not only through the poetry being written by its members, but also through contributions by established poets like Allen Ginsberg, Thom Gunn and Diana Wakoski; essays on the movement's history and evolution; and photography by noted motorcycle photographer Michael Lichter and others.

She's a Bad Motorcycle

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Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560253174
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis She's a Bad Motorcycle by : Geno Zanetti

Download or read book She's a Bad Motorcycle written by Geno Zanetti and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people ride motorcycles? Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, writes: "For much of society, the motorcycle remains a forbidden indulgence, an object of fantasy, and danger." And of envy. No other machine is thought of as the vehicle—"the perfect vehicle" Melissa Holbrook Pierson calls it—of rebellion, lawlessness, and freedom. She's A Bad Motorcycle collects the writings of those who have sought that freedom. From the genre-defining—and exploding—Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to Chasing Che the motorcycle has inspired a startlingly rich, unabashedly romantic body of writing that celebrates the risks and exhilaration of the journey to self-discovery. The book includes selections from Eric Burdon, Harry Crews, Harlan Ellison, Robert E. Fulton, Jr., Che Guevara, Fred Haefele, S.E. Hinton, Dennis Hopper, Richard La Plante, Erika Lopez, Horace McCoy, Allen Noren, Robert Pirsig, Gary Paulsen, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Patrick Symmes, Keith Tye, Hunter S. Thompson, Lois Wilson, Daniel R. Wolf and Tom Wolfe, as well as photographs by Bruce Davidson, Martin Dixon, Ann Ferrar, Danny Lyon, Helge Pedersen, and Irving Penn.

A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1950268519
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by : Hoa Nguyen

Download or read book A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure written by Hoa Nguyen and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue

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ISBN 13 : 9780316844338
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue by : Wallace Tripp

Download or read book Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue written by Wallace Tripp and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

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Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 160868282X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by : Alice Walker

Download or read book Hard Times Require Furious Dancing written by Alice Walker and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one“ So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality, the power we each share to express our truest, deepest selves. Beloved for her ability to speak her own truth in ways that speak for and about countless others, she demonstrates that we are stronger than our circumstances. As she confronts personal and collective challenges, her words dance, sing, and heal.

Girl on a Motorcycle

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593116291
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Girl on a Motorcycle by : Amy Novesky

Download or read book Girl on a Motorcycle written by Amy Novesky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book biography by an award-winning team about the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world One day, a girl gets on her motorcycle and rides away. She wants to wander the world. To go . . . Elsewhere. This is the true story of the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world alone. Each place has something to teach her. Each place is beautiful. And despite many flat tires and falls, she learns to always get back up and keep riding. Award-winning author Amy Novesky and Governor General's Award-winning illustrator Julie Morstad have teamed up for a spectacular celebration of girl power and resilience.

Emerald Ice

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780876857441
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis Emerald Ice by : Diane Wakoski

Download or read book Emerald Ice written by Diane Wakoski and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and one of the most important and controversial poets to come out of California in the 1960s." From Amazon.

The World's Lightest Motorcycle

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Publisher : Zephyr Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938890840
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The World's Lightest Motorcycle written by and published by Zephyr Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Living Fire

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307701336
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Living Fire by : Edward Hirsch

Download or read book The Living Fire written by Edward Hirsch and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild gratitude” in poetry. In poems chronicling insomnia (“the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead”), art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul Celan, love poems in the voices of Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein, a meditation on two suitcases of children’s drawings that came out of the Terezin concentration camp), and his own experience, including the powerful, frank self-examinations in his more recent work, Edward Hirsch displays stunning range and quality. Repeatedly confronting the darkness, his own sense of godlessness (“Forgive me, faith, for never having any”), he also struggles with the unlikely presence of the divine, the power of art to redeem human transience, and the complexity of relationships. Throughout the collection, his own life trajectory enriches the poems; he is the “skinny, long-beaked boy / who perched in the branches of the old branch library,” as well as the passionate middle-aged man who tells his lover, “I wish I could paint you— / . . . / I need a brush for your hard angles / and ferocious blues and reds. / . . . / I wish I could paint you / from the waist down.” Grieving for the losses occasioned by our mortality, Hirsch’s ultimate impulse as a poet is to praise—to wreathe himself, as he writes, in “the living fire” that burns with a ferocious intensity.

The Nooce and Other Poetry

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Publisher : Laurel Highlands Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941087094
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nooce and Other Poetry by : Janice McLaughlin

Download or read book The Nooce and Other Poetry written by Janice McLaughlin and published by Laurel Highlands Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore thirty-five different forms of poetry from the traditional rhyme to the more obscure nooce. Janice explains and gives examples of every form, encouraging you to write your own. From light poems to more serious subjects, this poetry collection has something for all ages.

Floaters: Poems

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541045
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Book Synopsis Floaters: Poems by : Martín Espada

Download or read book Floaters: Poems written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love. Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande, and allegations posted in the "I’m 10-15" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love—even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. The collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl’s gently racist question. Whether celebrating the visionaries—the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets—or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.