Come The Slumberless To The Land Of Nod

Author : Traci Brimhall
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322196

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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall Pdf

Written during the trial for a close friend’s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend’s murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic. In lullaby, lyric essay, and always with brutal sincerity, Brimhall examines how beauty and terror live right alongside each other––much like how Nod is both a fictional dreamscape and the place where Cain is exiled for murdering Abel. By plucking at the tensions between life and death, love and hate, truth and obscurity, Brimhall finds what it is that ties opposing themes together; how love and loss are married in grief. Like Eve thrust from Eden, Brimhall is tasked with finding meaning in a world defined by its cruelty. Unrelenting, incisive, and tender, these poems expose beauty in the grotesque and argue that the effort to be good always outweighs the desire to succumb to what is easy.

Author : Michael Wiegers
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322684

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A House Called Tomorrow by Michael Wiegers Pdf

Copper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years. Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board—past and present—to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon’s early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, “Certain poems / In an uncertain world— / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back.”

Author : Kara Dorris
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809339068

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Writing the Self-Elegy by Kara Dorris Pdf

"Self-elegies are cultural artifacts, lenses for understanding and defining self as well as sharing and creating community.The poems and prose in this anthology are a mix of autobiography and poetics, incorporating craft with race, gender, sexuality, ability/disability, and place"--

Author : Ada Limón
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571317926

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You Are Here by Ada Limón Pdf

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers. For many years, “nature poetry” has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature poetry,” illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what “nature” and “poetry” are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

Author : Kendra DeColo,Tyler Mills
Publisher : Diode Editions
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781939728432

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Low Budget Movie by Kendra DeColo,Tyler Mills Pdf

Low Budget Movie weaves together the voices of two contemporary poets into a singular persona who sings about vintage guitars, movie props, Dunkin' Donuts, misogyny, the male gaze, low budget movies, and the unexpected glitter caught in the cracks of it all.

Author : Sara Ryan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781602234499

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I Thought There Would Be More Wolves by Sara Ryan Pdf

After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and the bleak romantic expanses of the UP, she saw her own body reflected in the bodies of animals. These poems have teeth and bones and blood—they interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and a fascination with animal and female bodies. Grief, death, loss, recovery, and rebirth dwell in the soft spaces of this book. The poems are a skeleton, strong and unflinching. They clack and bruise and make loud sounds. But in between the lines, in the warm places where the blood hides, that is where the animals dwell, where the wolves come out of the woods and run across the frozen surface of Lake Superior. Ryan writes about the animal body because it is the body she can control. She navigates the deaths of animals, the knives and guns that kill them, the preservation of their skins; she sees her own body in the animal—in that wolf, that horse, that crow. She sees her body in the animal that is preyed upon. The animal presence in this book leads to a discourse with the female body that is urgent and necessary. This collection of poems is about terrible and beautiful things; pain and what lies beyond it.

Author : Simmons Buntin,Elizabeth Dodd,Derek Sheffield
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781595349132

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Dear America by Simmons Buntin,Elizabeth Dodd,Derek Sheffield Pdf

America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that patriotic spirit, nearly two hundred writers, artists, scientists, and political and community leaders have come together since the 2016 presidential election to offer their impassioned letters to America, in a project envisioned by the online journal Terrain.org and collected, with 50 never-before-published letters, in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. In the inaugural piece in Terrain.org’s Letters to America series, Alison Hawthorne Deming writes, “Think of the great spirit of inventiveness the Earth calls forth after each major disturbance it suffers. Be artful, inventive, and just, my friends, but do not be silent.” Joining Deming are renowned artists and thinkers including Seth Abramson, Ellen Bass, Jericho Brown, Francisco Cantú, Kurt Caswell, Victoria Chang, Camille T. Dungy, Tarfia Faizullah, Blas Falconer, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, David Gessner, Katrina Goldsaito, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Hogan, Pam Houston, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Merrill, Kathryn Miles, Kathleen Dean Moore, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Naomi Shihab Nye, Elena Passarello, Dean Rader, Scott Russell Sanders, Lauret Savoy, Gary Soto, Pete Souza, Kim Stafford, Sandra Steingraber, Arthur Sze, Scott Warren, Debbie Weingarten, Christian Wiman, Robert Wrigley, and others. Dear America reflects the evolution of a moral panic that has emerged in the nation. More importantly, it is a timely congress of the personal and the political, a clarion call to find common ground and conflict resolution, all with a particular focus on the environment, social justice, and climate change. The diverse collection features personal essays, narrative journalism, poetry, and visual art from nearly 130 contributors—many pieces never before published—all literary reactions to the times we live in, with a focus on civic action and social change as we approach future elections. As Scott Minar writes, we must remain steadfast and look to the future: “Despair can bring us very low, or it can make us smarter and stronger than we have ever been before.”

Author : Traci Brimhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556595174

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Saudade by Traci Brimhall Pdf

Inspired by her mother's ancestry and described by Brimhall as "autobiomythography," Saudade explores the myths within an Amazon River town.

Author : Tory Adkisson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780809338429

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The Flesh Between Us by Tory Adkisson Pdf

"Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, this book explores the limits of sexual intimacy, familial intimacy, and the attachments we have to ourselves, arguing that our connections to each other may be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, but are, above all, unavoidable and necessary"--

Author : Traci Brimhall
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:$B799520

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Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall Pdf

"Poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radiant with lyric intelligence." --Carolyn Forché

Author : Kasey Jueds
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822988373

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The Thicket by Kasey Jueds Pdf

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world—rivers, birds, stones—and with a “you” that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both. Often speaking of/to the small or overlooked (weeds by a roadside, an abandoned silo), the poems orient themselves toward edges, transitional spaces like the one where fields shift into woods. Where does one body stop? The Thicket takes an interest in becoming, one thing flowing into something else.

Author : Angela Voras-Hills
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807172995

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Louder Birds by Angela Voras-Hills Pdf

Angela Voras­-Hills’s Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that is “impossible to navigate.” Yet Voras-Hills presses on, untangling the distinctions that surround her (human and animal, domestic and wild) with both bravery and respect. She writes, “The boundaries between home and the road / are insecure: it’s impossible to navigate this landscape. / We’ve all been in the presence of something dark / and have chosen not to seek shelter.” As the poet hones in on naming the void, her surroundings grow more threatening—but not once does she surrender or turn back. Voras-Hills’s poems are smart enough to know the distinctions themselves are tenuous at best, and wise enough to know that we must always pay our dues to the world beyond our door. Wondrous, ruminative, and revelatory, Louder Birds is a collection that is not to be missed.

Author : Jenny Molberg
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780807173442

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Refusal by Jenny Molberg Pdf

"In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the surreal-invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide-to investigate trauma, addiction, and patriarchal forces of oppression. This confrontational collection examines societal, cultural, and personal gaslighting in situations of domestic abuse. "Love and hate simultaneously is the trick of abuse," writes Molberg, "and the trick of abuse is a vexation of the mind." A sequence of epistolary poems looks to friendship as a safe haven from violent romantic relationships, while a series of poems on a mother's struggle with addiction addresses the complicated nature of a parent-child relationship affected by alcoholism. Refusal seeks to break silences, following the #MeToo movement, and to interrogate a cultural misogyny that weighs heavily on a woman's position in the world"--

Author : Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : English Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015059548340

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Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne Pdf

Author : W. Todd Kaneko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162557133X

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This Is How the Bone Sings by W. Todd Kaneko Pdf

"THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of war and unspeakable trauma. This lyric collection of profound beauty and grief reminds us to share our tales of generational trauma and topography-shaping our individual and collective memories-in place of forgotten histories."-Karen An-hwei Lee "What does it mean to be safe in America? In THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS, W. Todd Kaneko explores the legacy of concentration camps in the United States and how memory is carried forward. This book knows how to sing-to America, not its expected script, but the anthems of its history; and to a son, lessons on how to bring back the dead with stories, with a fading map, with birds."-Traci Brimhall "The best books about history are those that are also about the future. W. Todd Kaneko's marvelous THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS is more than a mere song-it is a singing across time and distance. In lyrics both personal and political, Kaneko composes a score that spans four generations, connecting his grandparents, who were prisoners in the unfathomable Minidoka concentration camps, to his young son and this unfathomable era in which he was born."-Dean Rader "To enter this book is to enter an orchard alive with memory's beasts. To read THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS is to witness how a poet at the height of his powers can alchemize history's violence into lyric and myth."-Brynn Saito "These are much-needed poems of unapologetic tenderness and talent-in other words, this collection does the near-impossible: it points us towards love even if what we know of this world doesn't."-Aimee Nezhukumatathil