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Author : Tennie Boman Spann
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146280411X
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Grandmother's Lost Poems written by Tennie Boman Spann and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paulette Guerin
Publisher : Futurecycle Press
ISBN 13 : 9781952593208
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Wading Through Lethe written by Paulette Guerin and published by Futurecycle Press. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wading Through Lethe, a girl growing up in rural Arkansas learns to navigate life, love, and loss as she approaches womanhood. She leaves home to study and to travel. The heroes and gods of Greek myth appear alongside Christian saints; rural landscapes and cicadas give way to Gothic churches and the Roman Forum. Metamorphosis is at the heart of these poems-the necessary transformations that leave us changed as memory pulls us to the past, where nothing and everything is the same. With musical language, these formal and free verse poems highlight the way we shape memory and the inevitability of forgetting. In the end, the search becomes not about discarding the past but about choosing what we keep. Orpheus may have lost Eurydice, but there is still music.
Author : Anne Coltman
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780533159727
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (597 download)
Download or read book For the Love of Grandma written by Anne Coltman and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of Anne Coltman's debut volume of poetry is grandmothers and grandchildren. Now a grandmother herself, Coltman reflects upon the special bond she shared with her grandmother, the relationship her children had with her own mother, and the role she plays as a grandmother today. The result is a collection of verse examining her often humorous experiences as a family matriarch as well as an exploration of the unique role grandmothers have in modern family life. This collection is sure to be a treat for readers young and old.
Author : Arnold Rampersad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195125630
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry written by Arnold Rampersad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry covering over two centuries, and includes selections by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. Du Bois, and many more.
Author : Matty Weingast
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834842688
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The First Free Women written by Matty Weingast and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The original authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.
Author : Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Words Under the Words written by Naomi Shihab Nye and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems in which the author draws upon her experiences as a Palestinian-American living in the Southwest, and her travels in Central America, the Middle East, and Asia, to comment upon the shared humanity of different cultures throughout the world.
Author : John James
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317244
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Milk Hours written by John James and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A “luminous [and] memorable” debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss (Publishers Weekly). “We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. While John James begins with the biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: What is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom—or what—do we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse? “A poet of staggering lyricism, intricate without ever obscuring his intent. Quite simply, The Milk Hours announces the arrival of a great new talent in American poetry.” —Shelf Awareness
Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307833275
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.
Author : Dunya Mikhail
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226131
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh’s genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.
Author : Joe Weil
Publisher : New York Quarterly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781935520801
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Great Grandmother Light written by Joe Weil and published by New York Quarterly Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. From 1982 until 2002, Joe Weil worked as a tool grinder and union shop steward in a mold making plant in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Many of the poems in THE GREAT GRANDMOTHER LIGHT were written on the graveyard shift while on break at the factory. There, Weil read the poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Ceasar Vallejo, Gabrielle Mistral, Miguel Hernandez, Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly, and William Carlos Williams, as well as hundreds of contemporary poets. The poems in THE GREAT GRANDMOTHER LIGHT chart the history of his journey from tool grinder to university lecturer. Weil claims the common thread of his poems to be his "Catholic worker" sensibility and his reading in the Spanish poets as well as Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor. "I am a Catholic writer," Weil says, "I believe in Eucharistic reality ... in beauty and truth hidden under the signs of what is broken and appears to be discounted. I agree with George Bernanos: all is grace. But this grace is difficult, sometimes impossible to quarry." Weil's poems are about the difficulty of quarrying grace where no one expects it to come. His poems read as if he expects to be ambushed by grace at any given moment. This is the great grandmother light, a light present at all times and in all places, that he shares with his readers.
Author : Bianca Stone
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1935639749
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Someone Else's Wedding Vows written by Bianca Stone and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated debut collection from a celebrated young poet, Someone Else's Wedding Vows marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in American poetry. Someone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts a human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psychological, and even supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing towards the absurdity of our choices. They recede into the imaginative in order to understand and translate the distressing nature of reality. It is a bittersweet question this book raises: Why we are like this? There is no easy answer. So while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.
Author : Sophie Herxheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780725345
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Velkom to Inklandt written by Sophie Herxheimer and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Canon Henry Scott Holland
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780285628243
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Death Is Nothing at All written by Canon Henry Scott Holland and published by Souvenir PressLtd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comforting bereavement gift book, consisting of a short sermon from Canon Henry Scott Holland.
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Penny Candy Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999658499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Little Called Pauline written by Gertrude Stein and published by Penny Candy Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump into extreme language play with A Little Called Pauline where young readers will experience Gertrude Stein's playful, mysterious language for the very first time--and delight in a girl named Pauline who lives by the sea with her mom.
Author : Lynn Darimont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781644161357
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Grandma Lost Her Teeth! written by Lynn Darimont and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandmas are sweet and fun and nice, but sometimes they can get themselves into a pickle! And they just might need your help to get out of it! When Mikey's grandma loses her "smile" one winter afternoon, she calls on her good grandson to come over and help her find it. Grandma does not know that Mikey is having his own very bad day! Even so, Mikey comes over to help his dear grandma. With a little prayer, kindness, and determination, Mikey helps Grandma to "smile" again and learns some valuable lessons along the way. When you help someone in need, your own day suddenly seems a little brighter. And it's definitely okay to giggle while you're helping!
Author : Bianca Stone
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807163702
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours written by Bianca Stone and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful mutants, vagabond scuba divers, lovers with disordered gorilla hearts: These poetry comics place the lyric and the grotesque, the elegant and the despondent, side by side in one emotionally intense panel after another. At the vanguard of a movement that embraces our increasingly visual culture and believes poetry has an essential place therein, Bianca Stone redefines how we think about poetry, what we expect from comics, and how we interpret our own lives. Although reminiscent of illuminations by William Blake, Thomas Phillips's A Humument, and more recent visual-poetic hybrids by Mary Ruefle and Matthea Harvey, Stone's comics feature a mixture of dreamy expression and absurdist wit that is entirely her own. Her watercolor panels are filled with anthropomorphic horses and baffled ballerinas that guide the reader through the poet's graphic dreamscape: "I was moving like a monsoon through a forest. I was thinking about where I saw myself in two thousand years... And where I saw myself was a tiny subspace ripple sliding through the corridors with a plastic horse in my hand." This book, its own small universe, erases genre distinctions between the visual and the literary, and offers readers a poetic vision of artistic possibilities.
Author : Nickole Brown
Publisher : BOA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781938160578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Fanny Says written by Nickole Brown and published by BOA Editions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.
