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Poetry to Heal Your Blues

Author : Marilyn Hacker
Publisher : Spruce
ISBN 13 : 9781840726688
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Poetry to Heal Your Blues written by Marilyn Hacker and published by Spruce. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be hard to share your pain with others when the words for such raw emotions seem impossible to express. When you're deep into the blues, and your world feels dark, find a quiet place, open the pages of this beautiful book, and let the healing power of poetry pour into your soul. What you will discover in this wonderful collection are 100 poems that will take your blues away. They have been chosen with care and thought from the abundant resources of American and international writing. Favorite poets of the past such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens stand alongside the newer voices of Robert Bly, Louise Glück, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Galway Kinnell, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Marilyn Hacker, Dorianne Laux, James Wright, and others. Though they all speak with different voices, these poets find their own, miraculous words to expose pain and through this exposure, heal it.

Blues Poems

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375414584
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Blues Poems written by Kevin Young and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.

Poems of Healing

Author : Karl Kirchwey
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 1101908254
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Healing written by Karl Kirchwey and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

The Poetry of the Blues

Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486839583
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of the Blues written by Samuel Charters and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A signal event in the history of the music." — Ted Gioia. A noted blues historian and folklorist explores blues lyrics as poetry, quoting lyrics at length to reveal their depth of feeling and incorporation of complex literary forms.

The Art of Losing

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194663
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Losing written by Kevin Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about the various stages of grief, with 150 selections from a variety of 20th-21st century poets.

The Blues Comes With Good News

Author : Sonny Hall
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529383986
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Blues Comes With Good News written by Sonny Hall and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul searching poetry for a new generation. Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating addiction, self-destruction and identity, to romantic relationships, his journey to recovery and his unapologetic depiction of truth, through life and its happenings. At 18 years old Sonny entered a treatment centre for alcohol and drug addiction, after losing his biological mother - who he remained close to despite being adopted aged 4 - to a heroin overdose. Three months into his treatment, Hall started writing poems as a way of ordering 'all the madness' in his head. He has since written hundreds of poems, which all portray his newfound intimacy with life, figuring it out as he goes on, never failing to write sincerely about the sting of life, through a rare candour, explicit and seedy within the realms of his own indulgence. Illustrations by JACK LAVER

Hurricane Blues

Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976041351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Hurricane Blues written by Philip C. Kolin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts--written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. This collection not only records history but serves in some way as a balm, a relief effort toward the inevitable reconstruction of the region. Accordingly, all proceeds from Hurricane Blues will go toward the relief effort. This is poetry as bread, cast upon the surface of the waters.

Heavy Daughter Blues

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780876857014
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Heavy Daughter Blues written by Wanda Coleman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1987 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with city life, marriage, work, parents, baby sitters, racism, poverty, death, thieves, language, chance, lesbianism, childhood, and the past

Blues Doula

Author : Meta Commerse
Publisher : Story Medicine Worldwide Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780578587691
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Blues Doula written by Meta Commerse and published by Story Medicine Worldwide Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second collection of poetry for this author has been described as blues, written in the tradition of African American blues. The collection is organize in three parts: homage, emote, and home, to illustrate movement in the work.

Conjure Blues

Author : Jaki Shelton Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conjure Blues written by Jaki Shelton Green and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Music, Black Poetry

Author : Professor Gordon E Thompson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472430603
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Black Music, Black Poetry written by Professor Gordon E Thompson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.

Jelly Roll

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375709894
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Jelly Roll written by Kevin Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of the self at its strongest.

The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504073738
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Weary Blues written by Langston Hughes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first published poetry collection from the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet behind such works as “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and “Life is Fine.” Originally published in 1926, The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes’s first collection of poetry. Broken into seven thematic sections, the sixty-eight poems capture the heart of a young budding artist and the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. The title poem, “The Weary Blues,” tells the story of a musician performing in a bar and uses a very lyrical style that flows throughout the collection. Other poems include, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Danse Africaine,” “Dream Variation,” “Mother to Son,” “Suicide’s Note,” and “Winter Moon.” The work touches on subjects like art, identity, race, class, urban life, music, and the Black experience in 1920s America.

Conamara Blues

Author : John O'Donohue
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006193576X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Conamara Blues written by John O'Donohue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent, eternal memory of Conamara or focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship. The result is a musical, transcendent, and deeply moving series of poems that exemplifies O'Donohue at his finest. Written with penetrating insight and distilled transparence, Conamara Blues offers a singular and lasting imaginative vision of a landscape of hope and possibility -- powerfully exhibiting the mastery of a poet at the height of his lyric powers.

Eva-Mary

Author : Linda McCarriston
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810150089
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Eva-Mary written by Linda McCarriston and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 1991 National Book Award for PoetryWinner, Terrence Des Pres Prize for Poetry "I lean into my own loving/touch, for which no wound/is too ugly, ' Linda McCarriston says at the end of 'Healing the Mare, ' one of the many poems of extraordinary poignancy and power in Eva-Mary. These unflinching poems of violence and violation and loss earn her the right to such a claim. It's a survivor's claim and these are the poems of a survivor, as scrupulous in their language and art as they are in their quest to register honestly the familial unspoken, a life inside a life." --Stephen Dunn

Cape Verdean Blues

Author : Shauna Barbosa
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298329X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Cape Verdean Blues written by Shauna Barbosa and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.” —Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music -- A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It uniquely captures the essence of “Sodade,” as it refers to the Cape Verdean American experience, and also the nostalgia and self-reflection one navigates through relationships lived, lost, and imagined. And its layers of unusual imagery and sound hold the reader in their grip.

Crazy Brave

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073467
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Brave written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.