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The Lucia Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 0989983234
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Lucia Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. An essential voice in world poetry, Baca chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the birth of his children, Lucia and Esai. Recalling the works of other poets who passed through the horrors of extreme experience–Nazim Hikmet, Paul Celan, Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Wat, Otto René Castillo, and more–The Lucia Poems and The Esai Poems give poignant acknowledgement to one generation’s failings and pass on humane advice to the next. Taken together as Breaking Bread with the Darkness, these two collections offer a poetic primer for paternity, and a model for teaching history, politics, spirituality, and survival. Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet, internationally known for his lyrical, politically charged verse. Of Apache and Chicano ancestry, at the age of twenty-one he was convicted on drug charges and spent over six years in prison, where he found his voice as a poet through correspondence with Denise Levertov of Mother Jones. His books include the poetry collections C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, Set This Book on Fire, Black Mesa Poems, Poems Taken from My Yard, and What's Happening; a memoir, A Place to Stand; a play, Los tres hijos de Julia; a screenplay for the film Blood In Blood Out; and the novel A Glass of Water. He has published three eBooks with Restless Books: The Face and two Breaking Bread with the Darkness poetry volumes. Baca is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for A Place to Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca has devoted his post-prison life to writing and teaching others who are overcoming hardship. His themes include American Southwest barrios, addiction, injustice, education, and cultural difference. He regularly conducts writing workshops in prisons, community centers, and universities throughout the country.

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

Author : Lucia Perillo
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320266
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths written by Lucia Perillo and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."—Booklist "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane."—Time Out New York The poetry of Lucia Perillo is fierce, tragicomic, and contrarian, with subjects ranging from coyotes and Scotch broom to local elections and family history. Formally braided, Perillo gathers strands of the mythic and mundane, of media and daily life, as she faces the treachery of illness and draws readers into poems rich in image and story. When you spend many hours alone in a room you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself— this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal but that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us do not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab? Today I bit a thick hangnail and thought of Schneebaum, who walked four days into the jungle and stayed for the kindness of the tribe— who would have thought that cannibals would be so tender? Lucia Perillo's Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Bobbitt award from the Library of Congress. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Hot with the Bad Things

Author : Lucia LoTempio
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1948579650
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Hot with the Bad Things written by Lucia LoTempio and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems take a closer look at violence against women, both physical and psychological. Follow the intersection of fear, identity, and the malleability of the speaker’s own experiences of violence enacted on her by men, particularly a past partner. Imagistic and evocative, the poems ask how are we conditioned into living with violence, and how do we move forward?

Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones

Author : Lucia Perillo
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321505
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones written by Lucia Perillo and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."—Booklist "The poems [are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—The New York Times Book Review MacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a fearless poet who, with characteristic humor and incisive irony, confronts the failings and wonder of nature, particularly the frail and resilient human body. This generous collection draws upon five previous volumes, including books selected as a New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" and as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From "Again, the Body": When you spend many hours alone in a room you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself— this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal but that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us do not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab?... Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and has published eight books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She was a MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Olympia, Washington.

Inseminating the Elephant

Author : Lucia Perillo
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320231
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Inseminating the Elephant written by Lucia Perillo and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inseminating the Elephant [is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience."—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation "These poems are tough and witty."—The New Yorker "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo."—Time Out New York A 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Inseminating the Elephant delivers hard-edged yet vulnerable poems that reconcile the comic impulse with the complications and tragedies of living in the eating and breathing body—what Lucia Perillo calls the "meat cage." Perillo dissects human failings and sexuality, as well as collisions between nature and the manufactured world, to create an unforgettable poetic vision. How the zoologists start is by facing the mirror of her flanks, that foreboding luscious place where the gray hide gives way to a zeroing-in of skin as vulnerable as an orchid. Which is the place to enter, provided you are brave, brave enough to insert your laser-guided camera to avoid the two false openings of her "vestibule," much like the way of entering death, of giving birth to death, calling it forth as described in the Tibetan Book. Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal and worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and has published five books of poetry. She was a MacArthur Fellow in 2000 and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. She lives in Olympia, Washington.

Dangerous Life

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

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Download or read book Dangerous Life written by Lucia Perillo and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Night Vision

Author : Charles R. Fox
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768462215
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Night Vision written by Charles R. Fox and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While you sleep, the Holy Spirit is still speaking! What did that blue tree mean in your dream last night? Was it because of the pizza you had for dinner, or was God speaking to you? Many believers really want to understand their dreams but aren't sure where to start. In Night Vision, Dr. Charles Fox lays a solid foundation by offering the biblical basis for dreams and then shares his own personal journey of actual dream encounters and their interpretations. Practical advice, common dream symbols, and prayers of activation into greater night encounters with the Lord remind the reader to stay grounded in the Word of God. Night Vision will teach you how to: Interpret your own dreams. Recognize God's instruction, warning, and encouragement in the night seasons. Respond to what God is speaking to you. Discern the counterfeit dreams. Interpret others’ dreams. There are heavenly encounters waiting for you when your head hits the pillow! Sharpen your "night vision" and begin communicating and fellowshipping with the Lord on a whole new level. Receive Dr. Fox’s wisdom and an impartation for more revelatory encounters in your dreams!

Lucia, Navigating the Night

Author : Lucia Blinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976367505
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Lucia, Navigating the Night written by Lucia Blinn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collected Poems

Author : John Robert Lee
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845233518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by John Robert Lee and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Robert Lee's Collected Poems tell both of a continuing journey and a subtly changing voice but also of an underlying, consistent attempt to hold together in one space the things that matter. This is seeking first the kingdom of God; maintaining the community of men and women who incarnate that kingdom and make life meaningful; the beauties of St Lucia's natural world and its rich traditions of folk-culture; and the challenges and demands of poetry.

I've Heard the Vultures Singing

Author : Lucia Perillo
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595340920
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book I've Heard the Vultures Singing written by Lucia Perillo and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing is a clear-eyed and brazenly outspoken examination of her life as a person with disabilities. In unwavering and witty prose, and without a trace of self-pity, she contemplates the bitter ironies of being unable to walk, what it’s like to experience eros as a sick person, how to lower one’s expectations for a wilderness experience, and how to deal with the vagaries of a disease that has no predictable trajectory. Masterfully written, the essays resonate with lovers of literature and nature, and with anyone who has dealt with disadvantages of the body or the hard-luck limitations of ordinary life.

The Body Mutinies

Author : Lucia Perillo
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557530837
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Body Mutinies written by Lucia Perillo and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and certainly sex. Her textual landscape includes rock climbers and the ill, female killers who take to the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they're forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language's highest pitch.

The House of a Mouse

Author : Aileen Fisher
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060218485
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The House of a Mouse written by Aileen Fisher and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems about mice, what they eat, where they live, and how they look.

The Esai Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Sherman Asher Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781890932398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Esai Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Sherman Asher Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He wakes from his afternoon siesta, / flapping legs and hands, / a bluebird perched on the birch/ branch of mother's arm/ ready to raid/ cornfields/ in his father's heart/ THE ESAI POEMS is the first of four books under the series title of BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DARKNESS by American Book Award recipient Jimmy Santiago Baca. The Esai poems are a poignant blend of Baca's wonder of his and his partner's newborn son, and the thoughts and observations of the world he will be inheriting, includlding, including war, racism, indifference and greed. Through Esai the wonder-struck new father explores the idealic world of his family through Esai's new eyes, "He studies his hands as if they are newly discovered planets . . ." but realizing the harsh realities of our times adds perspective with juxtapositions: "I'll wait to tell him how in some places armies cut off the hands of rebels..." Written as a series of thematically connected and dated poems, moving back and forth between ideas, The Esai Poems are some of Baca's strongest poetic work. Already father of two grown sons, Baca explors the implications of beginning another family with another woman. Subsiquent volumes will include explorations of self and family with Essays and Stories, The Lucia Poems (to his young daugher), and to his son, Tones and Gabe Poems and Essays.

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374125619
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom, " and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets."

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

Author : J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679741151
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry written by J. D. McClatchy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-06-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

Voodoo Hypothesis

Author : Canisia Lubrin
Publisher : Wolsak and Wynn
ISBN 13 : 9781928088424
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Voodoo Hypothesis written by Canisia Lubrin and published by Wolsak and Wynn. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voodoo Hypothesis is a subversion of the imperial construct of "blackness" and a rejection of the contemporary and historical systems that paint black people as inferior, through constant parallel representations of "evil" and "savagery." Pulling from pop culture, science, pseudo-science and contemporary news stories about race, Lubrin asks: What happens if the systems of belief that give science, religion and culture their importance were actually applied to the contemporary "black experience"? With its irreverence toward colonialism, and the related obsession with post-colonialism and anti-colonialism, and her wide-ranging lines, deftly touched with an intermingling of Caribbean Creole, English patois and baroque language, Lubrin has created a book that holds up a torch to the narratives of the ruling class, and shows us the restorative possibilities that exist in language itself.

Blond Boy

Author : Lucia May
Publisher : Evening Street Press
ISBN 13 : 1937347176
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Blond Boy written by Lucia May and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lucia weaves [her father’s] story into her own through poetry that is brutally honest while being ‘bathed in the light’ of forgiveness . . . with a glance, a gesture, an image that glows vividly on the page.” —Linda Back McKay, author of The Next Best Thing and Out of the Shadows: Stories of Adoption and Reunion “ . . . the tragic and amazing story of her father’s survival in Nazi- occupied Poland . . . comes wonderfully alive in all its mesmerizing detail. These memories will dance in our minds for a long time.” —Mary Logue, author of Hand Work and Trees “Miss May escaped the quicksand of her father’s cruelty through art, music and literature. She writes exquisite poetry that shines light in the darkness.” —Robert O. Fisch, author of Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust and The Sky Is Not the Limit “ . . . we see how the lucky and the unlucky in this single family lose or find their strength . . .This collection is blunt in its truth telling, and ambitious in its range. I won’t forget these poems.” —Deborah Keenan, author of From Tiger to Prayer and so she had the world Lucia Piaskowiak May writes without any sentimentality whatsoever about her father's life in World War II Poland and about the shadow he cast over her own life. She compresses enormous emotion into tense spare lines to create poetry that is fierce and true. —Keith Maillard, author of The Clarinet Polka