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Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey

Author : James Hoch
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807177016
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey written by James Hoch and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize With Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey, James Hoch gives readers a heart-lugged romp and a work of resistance, conversing with the interstices of public and personal histories and identities in the context of ecological deterioration. Drawing on emotional experiences prompted by his brother’s going to war in Afghanistan, the death of his mother from ovarian cancer, and the raising of his sons, Hoch investigates the difficulty of loving and of making beauty in times of crisis when faced with knowledge of its limitations and necessity. Lyrical and meditative, intense and intimate, his poems evoke landscapes with views of the New York water supply system, industrialization along the Hudson River, and the geology of the Palouse in the Pacific Northwest. A bare-knuckled argument for the sublime in the context of war and environmental degradation, Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey asserts the redemptive power of art as survival.

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140586687
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror written by John Ashbery and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems “of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore” (The New York Times).

Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems

Author : Augusta Webster
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770484108
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems written by Augusta Webster and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augusta Webster was very widely praised in her own time—Christina Rossetti thought her “by far the most formidable” woman poet. Her work has again come into favour, so much so that Isobel Armstrong and her co-editors of the influential anthology, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, declare that “there can be no doubt that Augusta Webster ranks as one of the great Victorian poets.” This collection is the first edition of Webster’s poems since 1895. It is a selection of her best work, emphasizing her powerful dramatic monologues and including a substantial number of her lyrics. With an introduction and background documents that highlight the distinctiveness of her work, this edition will help to re-establish Augusta Webster as a major figure of nineteenth-century English literature.

Love and Other Poems

Author : Alex Dimitrov
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 161932234X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Love and Other Poems written by Alex Dimitrov and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

More Truly and More Strange

Author : Lisa Russ Spaar
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0892555068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book More Truly and More Strange written by Lisa Russ Spaar and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed anthologist Lisa Russ Spaar compiles poems for the Instagram age, assembling 100 of America’s greatest poets exquisitely depicted in their own eyes and words. Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems—brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections—from the mid-twentieth century through today. By experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America’s glorious struggle with defining itself. John Ashbery, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others.

A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems

Author : Marilyn Chin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652181
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems written by Marilyn Chin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dark, playful, incisive and heartbreaking.” —San Diego Union-Tribune Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin’s passionate, polyphonic poetry is deeply engaged with the complexities of cultural assimilation, feminism, and the Asian American experience; she spins precise, beautiful metaphors as she illuminates hard-hitting truths.

Registers of Illuminated Villages

Author : Tarfia Faizullah
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979904
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Registers of Illuminated Villages written by Tarfia Faizullah and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision.” —Natasha Trethewey Somebody is always singing. Songs were not allowed. Mother said, Dance and the bells will sing with you. I slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I locked the door. I did not die. I shaved my head. Until the horns I knew were there were visible. Until the doorknob went silent. —from “100 Bells” Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam. Faizullah’s new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices—elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, “Register of Eliminated Villages,” suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur’an in which the speaker’s name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and—even in its unsparing brutality—full of love.

Children of Grass

Author : B. A. Van Sise
Publisher : Schaffner Press
ISBN 13 : 9781943156825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Children of Grass written by B. A. Van Sise and published by Schaffner Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our time and celebrate creativity as only these poets in collaboration with Van Sise could convey. Children of Grass is also a timely homage to Walt Whitman--of whom Van Sise is a relative--and his masterpiece, "Leaves of Grass," during this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Children of Grass, will, as a contemporary homage to Whitman, stand as a lasting tribute to the vitality and creativity that flourishes in our country."--Publisher's website.

Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems

Author : Augusta Webster
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551111640
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems

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

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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.

The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

Author : Molly McCully Brown
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0892554789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded written by Molly McCully Brown and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the emergence of a poet of exceptional poise and compassion, who grew up in the shadow of the Colony itself.

Chamber Music and Other Poems

Author : James Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847495853
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Chamber Music and Other Poems written by James Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production. This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.

Antechamber, & Other Poems

Author : Michael McClure
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206822
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Antechamber, & Other Poems written by Michael McClure and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antechamber and Other Poems, Michael McClure's latest book with New Directions, joins a growing list of contributions that includes the verse collection September Blackberries (1974) and Jaguar Skies (1975) as well as the musical play Gorf (1976). His writing in recent years is "alchemical" in its intent, yet his twin declarations, "Biology Is Politics" and "I Am A Mammal Patriot," perhaps express more accurately both the universality of his outlook and its humane particularity. McClure's mysticism is vigorously scientific. Even the familiar patterned shapes of his poems remind us of the stars in the night sky and those we see when we shut our eyes. In the dancing lines of his newest work--the title poem "Antechamber" most especially--are the whirl of galaxies, the radiance of molecules, the energy lines of the double helix coiling around its core.

Apocalypse, and Other Poems

Author : Ernesto Cardenal
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206624
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse, and Other Poems written by Ernesto Cardenal and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardenal, Apocalypse and Other Poems. Poems for revolution.

The Others

Author : Matthew Rohrer
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1940696623
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Others written by Matthew Rohrer and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. this night they all seemed asleep for a while the stark shadows held me only my mind moved wildly behind my eyes until I heard a tiny song coming from the driver song of a bandit’s broken heart, song of his betrayal I slept and dreamed I was awake Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

Pictures from Brueghel

Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202343
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Pictures from Brueghel written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1962 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems written between 1950 and 1962 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, including the complete texts of two earlier volumes, as well as a selection of previously uncollected works.

Mysticism for Beginners

Author : Adam Zagajewski
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374526877
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism for Beginners written by Adam Zagajewski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Zagajewski] is in some sense a pilgrim, a seeker, a celebrant in search of the divine, the unchanging, the absolute. His poems are filled with radiant moments of plenitude. They are spiritual emblems, hymns to the unknown, levers for transcendence. --Edward Hirsch, Doubletake. Zagajewski deserves the attention of readers accustomed to swerve away from poetry. And moreover, he is good: the unmistakable quality of the real thing -- a sunlike force that wilts clichés and bollixes the categories of expectation -- manifests itself powerfully through able translation. --Robert Pinsky, The New Republic.