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Vertigo & Ghost: Poems

Author : Fiona Benson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541878
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Vertigo & Ghost: Poems written by Fiona Benson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by Publishers Weekly Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost offers a searing reimagining of Greek myths of sexual violence that crackles with rage, energy, and empathy. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating poems of vulnerability and anger confront Zeus with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. In its place, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson reveals a disturbing contemporary world in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily, even hourly, basis. In the volume’s second half, Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. These moving poems probe the ambivalent terrain of early motherhood—its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love—reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Together, these two halves form a complex portrait of modern womanhood. Dynamic in its range and risk, Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power.

Antarctica

Author : Derek Mahon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica written by Derek Mahon and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vertigo & Ghost

Author : Fiona Benson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473567920
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Vertigo & Ghost written by Fiona Benson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2019** **WINNER OF THE ROEHAMPTON PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2019** Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponised. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage, and as Zeus is confronted with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. A disturbing contemporary world is exposed, in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily – hourly – basis. The book shifts, in its second half, to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. It sounds out the complex and ambivalent terrain of early motherhood – its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love – reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life, and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Vertigo & Ghost is an important, necessary book, hugely impressive in its range and risk, and dramatic in its currency: a collection that speaks out with clarity, grace and bravery against the abuse of power. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE** ‘Misogynistic violence, ancient myth and modern rage confront each other in moving and dynamic verse’ Financial Times

Charms Against Lightning

Author : James Arthur
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320177
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Charms Against Lightning written by James Arthur and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Arthur is among the most intriguing young poets writing today--a world traveler who composes poems entirely in his head

Men, Women and Ghosts

Author : Amy Lowell
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Men, Women and Ghosts written by Amy Lowell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Men, Women and Ghosts" by Amy Lowell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Bright Travellers

Author : Fiona Benson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448191408
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Bright Travellers written by Fiona Benson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Winner of the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection Shortlisted for the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best First Collection In this remarkable, intensely moving, first collection, Fiona Benson shows her fascination with human experience. The poems move on archaeological fast-forward from submerged Devonian forests and a Paleolithic cave-bear skull to the site of decommissioned submarines at HMNB Devonport, where the sea is ‘still a torpedo-path, / an Armageddon road’. She explores the shared human continuum of bodily longing – from the Prehistoric maker of a wooden fertility fetish, to a modern-day couple wading through summer pollen – and the timeless cycles of conception, birth and child-rearing. A central sequence of dramatic monologues addressed to Van Gogh allows for a focussed exploration of depression, violence, passion and creativity. In these poems, as in all the poems in this impressive debut, we feel keenly the sense of life lived at the edge of threat – catastrophe, even – but also on the cusp of beauty and happiness. Other poems about the bewildering loss of miscarriage are hard to read and impossible to forget, moving with grace and authority through great grief to arrive at a hard-won destination of selfless, unqualified love. ‘I remember again / the corridor / of the labour ward // and that woman / sitting weeping / with her man // having given birth / to a death – / small grey face, // no breath, / something you cannot help / but love – // habibi, akushla, /I go home alone / but carry you, // courie you, / little slipped thing, / to the ends of the earth.’

Dizzy in Your Eyes

Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 037585536X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Dizzy in Your Eyes written by Pat Mora and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fifty poems featuring teen narrators who share their thoughts about love and heartbreak, in a volume that also explores a variety of poetic forms.

Poets in Their Youth

Author : Eileen Simpson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374713006
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Poets in Their Youth written by Eileen Simpson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, Eileen Simpson—then Eileen Mulligan—married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently—from New York to Boston, then Princeton—chasing jobs, living simply, relying on the hospitality of more successful friends like Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford, or R. P. Blackmur and his wife, Helen. Rounding out their circle of intimates were other struggling poets like Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz. Berryman alternately wrote and despaired of writing. Everyone stayed up late arguing about poetry. Poets in Their Youth is a portrait of their marriage, yes, but it is also a portrait of a group of spectacularly intelligent friends at a particular time, in a particular place, all aflame with literature. Simpson's recollections are so tender, her narrative so generous, it is almost possible to imagine the story has a different ending—even as Schwartz's marriage crumbles, as Lowell succumbs to a manic episode, as her own relationship with Berryman buckles under the strain of his drinking, his infidelity, his depression. Filled with winning anecdotes and moments of startling poignancy, Simpson's now classic memoir shows some of the most brilliant literary minds of the second half of the twentieth century at their brightest and most achingly human.

A Portable Paradise

Author : Roger Robinson
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845234331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book A Portable Paradise written by Roger Robinson and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection's title points to the underlying philosophy expressed in these poems: that earthly joy is, or ought to be, just within, but is often beyond our reach, denied by racism, misogyny, physical cruelty and those with the class power to deny others their share of worldly goods and pleasures.

At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky

Author : Bridget Lowe
Publisher : Carnegie Mellon Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9780887485633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky written by Bridget Lowe and published by Carnegie Mellon Poetry. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut collection of poems by Bridget Lowe

Christabel...

Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Christabel... written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately

Author : Alicia Cook
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449487858
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately written by Alicia Cook and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects of the human condition: life, death, love, trauma, and growth. "Side B" contains haunting black-out remixes of those poems.

Thresholes

Author : Lara Mimosa Montes
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895871
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Thresholes written by Lara Mimosa Montes and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family’s past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there. What is the threshold between now and then, and how can the poet be the bridge between the two?

Brute

Author : Emily Skaja
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978835
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Brute written by Emily Skaja and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.

Blud

Author : Rachel McKibbens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556595240
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Blud written by Rachel McKibbens and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cultural brujeria, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben's world in blud"--

Ephemeron

Author : Fiona Benson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473596807
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Ephemeron written by Fiona Benson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in 'Boarding-School Tales', or parenting's day-by-day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter Mother'. The long central section, 'Translations from the Pasiphaë', gathers these themes together in a blistering, unforgettable re-telling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, as seen from the point of view of the bull-child's mother - the betrayed and violated Pasiphaë. The familiar legend of the dashing male hero slaying the monster in the labyrinth is transformed here into a story of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary cycle of violence, power and the abuse of power. At the centre lies Pasiphaë calling for her son: 'They took him away from me/and they killed him in the dark, for years.' Telling uncomfortable truths, going deep into male and female drives and desires, our most tender and vulnerable places, and speaking of them in frank, unshrinking ways - these poems are afraid, certainly, but also beautiful, resolute and brave.

Coleshill

Author : Fiona Sampson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448138671
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Coleshill written by Fiona Sampson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. These are slices of life and states of mind; poems of grief, fears and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections and the promise of spring. Coleshill emerges as a “parish of sun / and shade”; its darkness and light perfectly balanced. From the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clarity and power.