Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347664
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 written by Carolyn Forché and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.

The Country Between Us

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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Country Between Us written by Carolyn Forché and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where ForchE worked as a journalist and was closely involved with the political struggle in that tortured country in the late 1970's. ForchE's other poems also tend to be personal, immediate, and moving. Perhaps the final effect of her poetry is the image of a sensitive, brave, and engaged young woman who has made her life a journey. She has already traveled to many places, as these poems indicate, but beyond that is the sense of someone who is, in Ignazio Silone's words, coming from far and going far.

The Nearness of You

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Publisher : Science
ISBN 13 : 9780914742975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Nearness of You written by Carolyn Kizer and published by Science. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Poetry

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463487088
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Urban Poetry written by Carolyn Gibson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Poetry is a collection of 60 poems that express the fiery emotions ("A Waste of Time") and bittersweet opinions ("Rude People") of an African-Americanwoman who has experienced the extremes of ecstasy ("Man So Fine") and disappointments with men ("Fall is Not a Season"), along with the stress of living life in an urban city ("Metro Spit"). Author Carolyn Gibson's poetry further chroniclesher explorationof self-empowerment ("Mind Power"), and showsthe appreciation and admiration she has for the spiritual challenges between men and women ("Truth Freed Me"). Carolyn's observations of relationships, extreme behavior, and the constant struggle to maintain a sense of self have been chronicled in "Urban Poetry". From her "Once a Week Blues" to her "Celebration of Men", Carolyn's poems willstimulate and persuade you to readthis bookover and over again.

In the Lateness of the World

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525560408
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book In the Lateness of the World written by Carolyn Forché and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY “An undisputed literary event.” —NPR “History—with its construction and its destruction—is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave—a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker Over four decades, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another. Her first new collection in seventeen years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination arrives and “there is nothing that cannot be seen.” In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today.

Mermaids in the Basement

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mermaids in the Basement written by Carolyn Kizer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pro Femina, she writes: "From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. / How unworthy to discuss it! Like a noose ... / Juvenal set us apart in denouncing / our vices / Which had grown, in part, from / having been set apart: / Women abused their spouses, / cuckolded them, even plotted / To poison them ... "

Cool, Calm, and Collected

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Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556591810
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Cool, Calm, and Collected written by Carolyn Kizer and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a "Best Book of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times and Booklist magazine, and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, Cool, Calm, and Collected is a tour de force from one of the nation's premier poets. For four decades, Carolyn Kizer has been one of the most influential, controversial, and recognizable figures in American poetry. A feminist practically before the term existed, she has never been afraid to say what is on her mind, writing poems infused with sexual politics, social awareness, and literary irreverence. Cool, Calm, and Collected was reprinted four times in cloth and became one of Copper Canyon Press's bestselling titles. It features new poems, work from all of Kizer's previous volumes, translations "from a dizzying number of poets" (New York Times), and several prose pieces, including "Pakistan Journal" and "My Good Father." . . . We women, Outside, breathing dust, are still the Other. The evening sun goes down; time to fix dinner. "You women have no major phiolosophers." We know. But we remain philosophic, and say with the Saint, "Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love." --from "Pro Femina" "We cannot do without Kizer and never could--here are four decades of compelling reasons why."--Los Angeles Times "Carolyn Kizer is a national treasure."--San Francisco Chronicle "The book will appeal to poetry lovers and activists of all stripes."--Publishers Weekly "No library should be without this collection."--Booklist (starred review) Carolyn Kizer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College. She co-founded Poetry Northwest; served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; and has been a poet-in-residence at Columbia, Stanford, and Princeton. Kizer lives in Sonoma, California.

Carolyn's Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis Carolyn's Poems by : Carolyn Kjera Pederson

Download or read book Carolyn's Poems written by Carolyn Kjera Pederson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How I Got Ovah

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis How I Got Ovah by : Carolyn M. Rodgers

Download or read book How I Got Ovah written by Carolyn M. Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble

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Publisher : Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr
ISBN 13 : 9781647690915
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble by : Carolyn Oliver

Download or read book Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble written by Carolyn Oliver and published by Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the apiarist searching for honey in a seething hive, the poems of this volume are keenly aware of the world's potential for sweetness and sting.

The Way a Woman Knows

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ISBN 13 : 9780986330407
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Way a Woman Knows by : Carolyn Martin

Download or read book The Way a Woman Knows written by Carolyn Martin and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn Martin, in her second collection of poetry, is not afraid to ask the difficult questions and tackles them with her intelligent wit, wrapping them individually in her quilt of compassion. "I love the intimacy, feistiness, smarts, and charm of Carolyn Martin's second collection of poetry. She is a poet deeply invested in everyday holiness, in "cobwebs sighing on a wall" and "glory pouring over earth." In love with mysteries brought down to earth, Martin knows what contemporary oracles are for; her often visionary gaze lets us see "what's useful to know/when nothing's just itself." She handles the most difficult subjects - death, gender identity, love, families, war, and belief - with great compassion and clarity." - Kathleen Halme, author of My Multiverse, winner of the 2014 Green Rose Prize

What You Have Heard is True

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ISBN 13 : 0525560378
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book What You Have Heard is True written by Carolyn Forché and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.

Blue Hour

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062004239
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Blue Hour by : Carolyn Forche

Download or read book Blue Hour written by Carolyn Forche and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour,' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted. "The voice we hear in Blue Hour is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to be equal to what she has seen. The hunger to know is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time, though unillusioned, wise beyond any possible taint of a false or assumed innocence." -- Robert Boyers

Poetic Expressions by Carolyn

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Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781432755393
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Expressions by Carolyn written by Carolyn Martin and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn V. Martin, BS MS State of Connecticut A writer by nature. I fell in love with writing at the age of seven. Whether that be with poetry or free writing always allowing my feelings to just flow. I'm inspired to write with a vision, seeing things for more than what they actually are. I like to take my audience on journeys of free flow and sultry landings. My style in poetry is unique and articulated by music. Music is rhythm. Poetry is rhythm. Therefore my writings have a certain beat. My God has given me a gift to share with all who are willing to listen. As a Poet and Writer, I've always shared the same feelings and valued quotes from: Maya Angelou! "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die." I, Carolyn Martin truly believe that you can let love live and let love reside. It involves acceptance, humility, and forgiveness. Bringing back morals, values, and principals. I refer to my poetry as words of wisdom because most poets are usually inspired by God, our Heavenly Father of Wisdom. Such selections of words could only be approved by him. When you are reading, read without judgment and prejudice. Many of my selections are diverse just as my memoir book will be and I am quite sure many will be able to relate. I offer many situations that allow the reader to journey into leading to a positive outcome.

Carolyn’S Corner

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490736301
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Carolyn’S Corner written by Carolyn C. VanHinkle and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poems written in four sections. The first section is a short story called A One Night Stand, which is about a woman who falls in love with the wrong man. The second is called Love Letters, which is just that, letters written to her love. The third section is called Inspiration Corner, a collection of poems designed to inspire. The fourth and last section of the book is called Something to Ponder On. These are poems written with the thought to have the reader think about what it was he or she has just read.

Poems to Learn by Heart

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Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781423108054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems to Learn by Heart by : Caroline Kennedy

Download or read book Poems to Learn by Heart written by Caroline Kennedy and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this companion to her New York Times best-selling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than a hundred of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization. Some are joyful. Some are sad. Some are funny and lighthearted. Many offer layers of meaning that reveal themselves only after the poem has been studied so closely as to be learned by heart. In issuing the challenge to memorize great poetry, Caroline Kennedy invites us to a deeply enriching experience. For as she reminds us, “If we learn poems by heart, not only do we have their wisdom to draw on, we also gain confidence, knowledge and understanding that no one can take away.” Illustrated with gorgeous, original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth , this is truly a book for all ages, and one that families will share again and again. Caroline’s thoughtful introductions shed light on the many ways we can appreciate poetry, and the special tradition of memorizing and reciting poetry that she celebrates within her own family.

The Carolyn Poems

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ISBN 13 : 9781895593099
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Carolyn Poems by : Stephen Morrissey

Download or read book The Carolyn Poems written by Stephen Morrissey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: