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Author : P. Lal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Parrot's Death written by P. Lal and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucille Land Day
Publisher : Blue Light Press
ISBN 13 : 9781421836645
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place written by Lucille Land Day and published by Blue Light Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventy-four poems in Lucille Lang Day's Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place take the reader on a journey across continents, seas, and time itself. Charged with a lyricism that is at the same time tough and vulnerable, the poems recreate and preserve images of a beauty that is on the verge of disappearing or has already disappeared. Sometimes it is the beauty of the rain forests of Costa Rica or the birds of the Galápagos or that of cities like Athens, San Miguel de Allende, or Venice in flood. Sometimes it is a beauty that exists only in a single word such as "Oregon, ...from wauregan, an Algonquian word for 'beautiful river.'" Yet for all the beauty she evokes, Day does not shy away from difficult topics like global warming, genocide, regret, loss, and death. The result is a remarkable collection of poems that are deeply layered, deeply felt, and deeply moving. Lucille Lang Day has published six previous full-length poetry collections, including Becoming an Ancestor, and four chapbooks, including Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. She is also a coeditor of two anthologies, Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, and the author of two children's books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her books have received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, the Blue Light Poetry Prize, and two PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Literary Awards; her poems, short stories, and essays have received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. The founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, she received her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley.
Author : Ali Liebegott
Publisher : Amethyst Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781936932504
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (325 download)
Download or read book The Summer of Dead Birds written by Ali Liebegott and published by Amethyst Editions. This book was released on 2019 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.
Author : Max Porter
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979378
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Grief Is the Thing with Feathers written by Max Porter and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.
Author : Zaina Alsous
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756746
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Theory of Birds written by Zaina Alsous and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze. Putting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems—their subjects and their logics—refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.
Author : Jane Kenyon
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451182
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon written by Jane Kenyon and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry.” —Wendell Berry Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America’s most cherished poets—celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon’s poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. As a crucial aspect of these beloved poems of companionship, she confronts her struggle with severe depression on its own stark terms. Selected by Kenyon’s husband, Donald Hall, just before his death in 2018, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon collects work from across a life and career that will be, as she writes in one poem, “simply lasting.”
Author : Pádraig Ó. Tuama
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132403548X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World written by Pádraig Ó. Tuama and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.
Author : Alastair W. Thomson
Publisher : Lapwing Publications
ISBN 13 : 1905425562
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Emperor's Parrot, and Other Poems written by Alastair W. Thomson and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Emperor's Parrot inanimate objects and natural phenomena are given a voice in a very contemporary Aesopian manner in which metaphorisation is subverted from ornamental applications. Cultural politics and the politics of culture seem to lie under these poems in much the same way that they may be subtexts to fables such as The Emperor's New Clothes. Fable was and is a narrative mode of disguise.
Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946684219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Dead written by Muriel Rukeyser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Author : Jean Baptiste L. Gresset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The parrot, and other poems, tr. by T.S. Allen written by Jean Baptiste L. Gresset and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271766
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Philip Larkin Poems written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom?... Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin Amis
Author : Lewis Ellingham
Publisher : Ithuriel's Spear
ISBN 13 : 0979339057
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Birds and Other Poems written by Lewis Ellingham and published by Ithuriel's Spear. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. San Francisco poet and longtime resident Lew Ellingham presents a selection of poems which unites cultural interests with the adventures of an expert bird-watcher. Samuel R. Delany says, "This is astonishing poetry lucid, inventive, at once deeply civilized and wonderfully sensitive to the marvelous."
Author : Karen McCarthy Woolf
Publisher : Carcanet
ISBN 13 : 1906188254
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book An Aviary of Small Birds written by Karen McCarthy Woolf and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labour, the baby's heart gives out. However, just as grief is not linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a chronological arc. Ultimately, it is a closely felt connection with nature that allows the author to transcend the experience and honour the spirit of her son.
Author : Caitlin Bailey
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319751
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Solve for Desire written by Caitlin Bailey and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut poetry collection exploring the real lives of siblings Georg and Grete Trakl while addressing themes of desire, addiction, loss, and absence. Georg Trakl is one of the most celebrated poets of the early twentieth century. Less is known about his sister, Grete: also gifted, also addicted to drugs, and dead by her own hand three years after Georg’s overdose. But in Solve for Desire—selected by Srikanth Reddy as the winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—Caitlin Bailey summons Grete from the shadows. At once sensual and acidic, obsessive and bereft, the Grete of these poems is a fairy-tale sister leaving “missives dropped around the city, crumbs / for your ghost.” Can one person be addicted to another? Can two souls be twinned, and where does that leave the physical? How do we solve for desire when the object we adore disappears—and how does the poet solve and resolve the past, its wounds and its absences? “Each time I write your name,” Bailey writes, “a key / turns somewhere in a lock.” Like the “perfect red burst” of poppies and of blood, these poems are a blooming, keening exploration of desire between brother and sister, poet and subject, the living and the dead. Praise for Solve for Desire “The work of a poet who sings, boldly, across the distances between us.” —Srikanth Reddy “A sobering look at desire, addiction, loss, and absence in this debut collection of short, lyric poems that are by turns lush and understated, lofty and plainspoken. . . . She performs a kind of feminist resuscitation of the lesser-known Grete, focusing on small moments of quiet, grief, lust, and memory, and fleshing out a story that is still disputed” —Publishers Weekly “This precarious, satisfyingly disjointed debut collection of poetry captures the spirit of the [Trakl] siblings. . . . Bailey’s brilliantine lyrics shine brightest when the siblings’ characters are wrought in full relief.” —Booklist
Author : Sheila Carter-Jones
Publisher : Lotus Press (MI)
ISBN 13 : 9780979750953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Three Birds Deep written by Sheila Carter-Jones and published by Lotus Press (MI). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is lyric poetry using words and phrases in a very creative and original way.
Author : Angela Voras-Hills
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807172995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Louder Birds written by Angela Voras-Hills and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Voras-Hills’s Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that is “impossible to navigate.” Yet Voras-Hills presses on, untangling the distinctions that surround her (human and animal, domestic and wild) with both bravery and respect. She writes, “The boundaries between home and the road / are insecure: it’s impossible to navigate this landscape. / We’ve all been in the presence of something dark / and have chosen not to seek shelter.” As the poet hones in on naming the void, her surroundings grow more threatening—but not once does she surrender or turn back. Voras-Hills’s poems are smart enough to know the distinctions themselves are tenuous at best, and wise enough to know that we must always pay our dues to the world beyond our door. Wondrous, ruminative, and revelatory, Louder Birds is a collection that is not to be missed.
Author : Peter Markus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814348513
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds written by Peter Markus and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry. Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the wordsbrother and fish and mud. In an essay on Markus's work, Brian Evenson writes, "If it's not clear by now, Markus's use of English is quite unique. It is instead a sort of ritual speech, an almost religious invocation in which words themselves, through repetition, acquire a magic or power that revives the simpler, blunter world of childhood." Now, in his debut book of poems, When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds,Markus tunes his eye and ear toward a new world, a world where father is the new brother, a world where the father's slow dying and eventual death leads Markus, the son, to take a walk outside to "meet my shadow in the deepening shade." In this collection, a son is simultaneously caring for his father, losing his father, and finding his dead father in the trees and the water and the sky. He finds solace in the birds and in the river that runs between his house and his parents' house, with its view of the shut-down steel mill on the river's other side, now in the process of being torn down. The book is steadily punctuated by this recurring sentence that the son wakes up to each day: My father is dying in a house across the river.The rhythmic and recursive nature to these poems places the reader right alongside the son as he navigates his journey of mourning. These are poems written in conversation with the poems of Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Jim Harrison, Jane Kenyon, Raymond Carver, Theodore Roethke too—poets whose poems at times taught Markus how to speak. "In a dark time . . .," we often hear it said, "there are no words." But the truth is, there are always words. Sometimes our words are all we have to hold onto, to help us see through the darkened woods and muddy waters, times when the ear begins to listen, the eye begins to see, and the mouth, the body, and the heart, in chorus, begin to speak. Fans of Markus's work and all of those who are caring for dying parents or grieving their loss will find comfort, kinship, and appreciation in this honest and beautiful collection.
