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Download or read book Stranger in Town : New and Selected Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald E. McFarland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stranger in Town written by Ronald E. McFarland and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Ron McFarland is a poet of meticulous detail and strong vision. He sees into the lives of the unremarkable people around us- the spinsterish school teacher, the gypo logger, the woman who collects the blossoms of her lovers- with remarkable clarity and compassion. Stranger in Town is a gathering together of a wonderful poet's steady wisdom." - James Welch
Author : Marilyn Hacker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244652
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014 written by Marilyn Hacker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets. Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker’s generous selections in A Stranger’s Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp. In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafés, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations, and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on the Turkish/Syrian border; contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet; intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on Skype—perhaps with gunfire in the background. These poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaiyat to Hayden Carruth’s “paragraph.” Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read. A Stranger’s Mirror is not meant only for poets. These poems belong to anyone who has sought in language an expression and extension of his or her engagement with the world—far off or up close as the morning’s first cup of tea.
Author : D. Nurkse
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593321413
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book A Country of Strangers written by D. Nurkse and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an illuminating collection of selected poems over thirty-five years, one of our most essential American poets casts a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart’s hidden stories. D. Nurkse’s immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child’s dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures. Whispers of the old country of Estonia provide the backdrop for the boy’s baseballs, thrown in the fading twilight of the 1950s (“Secretly, I was proudest of my skill / at standing alone in the darkness”). The young man explores sexual passion and the arrival of a child in a young marriage (“We showed her daylight in our cupped hands”), while the mature poet writes of loneliness and community in our cities (“but on the streets / there was no one”), and the urgent need for us to keep expressing our will as citizens. Throughout this matchless career, over eleven books, Nurkse has crafted visceral lines that celebrate the fragility of what simply exists—birdsong, moonrise, illness, water towers—and the complexity of human perception, our stumble forward through it toward understanding.
Author : Ron McFarland
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589983816
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (838 download)
Download or read book At the Ballpark written by Ron McFarland and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron McFarland
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589982123
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Ron McFarland Greatest Hits written by Ron McFarland and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cedar Sigo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Stranger in Town written by Cedar Sigo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226244709
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Strangers written by David Ferry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Ferry must have had something up his sleeve when he called his book "Strangers," because his is a poetry of intimacy and familiarity. More than that, Mr. Ferry's short, sparse lyrics are as perfectly and simply composed as Japanese haiku—a rare accomplishment in poetry written in English."—Andy Brumer, New York Times Book Review "Strangers is a remarkably good book for a reader sufficiently attentive to hear its quiet power, to let it work in its distinctive way."—Boston Globe "The poems of David Ferry's Strangers are in fact one book, and it is a splendid one. There is the same austere and poignant voice throughout, asking the unanswerable things, speaking of all that is withheld from us, confronting the unknownness that dwells even in the familiar and dear. Painful and touching, the book offers a distinctive vision which is at the same time inescapably true."—Richard Wilbur
Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524711705
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Stranger by Night written by Edward Hirsch and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in his seventies, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an antiwar demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late mid-century Midwest. As the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is "stranger by night," but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and joy.
Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375755195
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the Room written by Billy Collins and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.
Author : Adam Clay
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319093
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Stranger written by Adam Clay and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heartbreakingly stunning collection dedicated to the unsung suspension of time that occurs when life suddenly goes awry.” —Ada Limón Stranger is a book of both great change and deep roots, of the richest elements of the earth and the instability of a darkening sky. The third collection by Adam Clay dives into a dynamic world where the only map available is “not of the world / but of the path I took to arrive in this place, / a map with no real definable future purpose.” Tracing a period of great change in his life—a move, a new job, the birth of his first child—Clay navigates the world with elegance and wonder, staring into the heart of transition and finding in it the wisdom that “Despite our best efforts to will it shut, / the proof of the world’s existence / can best be seen in its insistence, / in its opening up.” By firmly grasping on to the present, the past and the future collapse into the lived moment, allowing for an unclouded view of a way forward. “In language that is circular, stoic, and almost Zen-like, Clay attempts to remain himself in the face of life shifting underneath him.” —Publishers Weekly “In those moments when one rearranges the furniture in a room or leaves the cast-iron skillet in the oven or contemplates an ink stain on the wall, Clay finds a space for deep inquiry.” —Kazim Ali
Author : Morgan Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040543
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce written by Morgan Parker and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 A Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Collection of Spring A Paris Review Staff Pick A Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at NPR.org, BuzzFeed, VICE, NYLON, and more "This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star." —Terrance Hayes The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.
Author : Micah Ballard
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872865444
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Waifs and Strays written by Micah Ballard and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays.
Author : Julian Brolaski
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872865819
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Advice for Lovers written by Julian Brolaski and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Philip Sydney had been a third-gender queer poet, he might have written the highly erotic Advice for Lovers.
Author : John Coletti
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872866491
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Deep Code written by John Coletti and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Code explores “side language,” as a subset of other languages, whether slang or metaphor, to both communicate and obfuscate.
Author : Alyea Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490459349
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Every Stranger Deserves a Poem written by Alyea Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a birth of a new stranger every 4.4 minutes and a death of a familiar one every 9.1 minutes. Everyone here, in this city, is a stranger who has pockets full of unsaid poems-things strangers desire to say to feel connected, and crave to feel in order to be called human again- but instead, hold their tongue...Each secret held deep in our bones is like a thousand never-ending pages of unsaid stories, which create our life's narration- but no matter how disconnected we are, Love, Life, and Loss, are the three common heartstrings that connect us all. When one of these threads begin to fray, it can mean life or death.Follow Word Smith, an attractive young poet as he takes you along on his most life-changing day when he meets three strangers in New York City. Life, a free spirit struck by illness, is terrified to love another stranger in fear that it may be her last. Love, a workaholic, is unexpectedly hit by love on a Sunday train and now must answer one question, "Does true love knock at the most difficult times to test the pure essence of itself?" Loss is a young woman who misses her first love much more than she has ever loved him and wonders if life is even worth living."...each and every one of us are craving to be connected to someone. Someone that will listen, and not speak. Someone who will speak just enough when the time is right, and make our hearts half full again. Someone who can help us feel alive...And then there is me. I am the kind of stranger who wants a "good" conversation even though the word "good" is subjective. I want to listen to how our lives intertwine. This city is cold, and heartless, and I crave something that can resurrect our hearts." ~Word
Author : Catherine Wagner
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872865657
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Nervous Device written by Catherine Wagner and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience on the map of desire.
