Conversations On Poetry

Author : Pádraig Ó Tuama
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781838856335

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Poetry Unbound by Pádraig Ó Tuama Pdf

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry Unbound This inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig’s illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem. Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn’t necessarily know how to do so. Poetry Unbound contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Layli Long Soldier and more.

Author : Gary Bateman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504938822

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Conversations with My Muse by Gary Bateman Pdf

Conversations with My Muse is a fascinating and compelling new book of selected poetry by Gary Bateman. As a new author, this work is Mr. Batemans first published book of poetry, and with it he brings to the reading public a refreshing and an eclectic selection of many different types of poetry and themes. The multi-thematic variety of Mr. Batemans poetry should capture the attention of most readers who have a sincere interest in poetry. His writings should also be of definite interest to new readers who are just discovering what poetry is all about and its invaluable contribution to world literature. Mr. Bateman brings a distinctive intellectual depth to his poetry and approaches each topic or theme individually with whatever level of commitment, nuance or understanding is required. He has a devout belief in the power of poetry as a most expressive medium for informing the reading public on issues, themes, problems, and life experiencesas part of the continuing human endeavor. Mr. Bateman sees poetry as a mirror for reflecting the very soul of mankind.

Author : Christina Mengert,Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587297915

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12 X 12 by Christina Mengert,Joshua Marie Wilkinson Pdf

This book includes the poetry by and interviews with : Jennifer K. Dick, Laura Mullen, Jon Woodward, Rae Armantrout, Sabrina Orah Mark, Claudia Rankine, Christina Hawkey,Tomaž Šalamun, Christine Hume, Rosemarie Waldrop, Srinkath Reddy, Mark Levine, Karen Volkman, Allen Grossman, Paul Fattaruso, Dara Wier, Mark Yakich, Mary Leader, Michelle Robinson, Paul Auster, Sawako Nakayasu, Carla Harryman, Ben Lerner, and Aaron Kunin.

Author : H. Melt
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781642596687

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There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt Pdf

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt’s writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation. There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture.

Author : Stanley Rogers ( Wolfman)
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440164477

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The Conversations We Have by Stanley Rogers ( Wolfman) Pdf

The Conversations We Have is a book that offers the author's personal thoughts and experiences on a variety of topics. These are popular topics that people either discuss or think about discussing on a regular basis. This book reminds us that regardless of the issues that keep us steadfast or distracted from our goals, we still have a responsibility to communicate our thoughts to each other. The Conversations We Have reminds us of this simple fact by sharing some short stories and poems. The debate about the application of effective communication has long been a topic of discussion concerning its importance to conversations. Although the beliefs may vary, conversations are a very important part of our existence. If we cannot communicate our thoughts to our friends, family, and colleagues, we are lost. This book was not written to confuse anyone. The sole purpose is sharing the author's own ideas and experiences and those that other individuals have shared with him. Through this exchange, he reiterates the fact that people are different and have distinct reasons for, and methods of, communicating. There should be no barriers that limit our ability to share ideas and to learn through the conversations that we have with each other.

Author : Danez Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979775

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Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Pdf

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith—“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith) Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality—the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood—and a diagnosis of HIV positive. “Some of us are killed / in pieces,” Smith writes, “some of us all at once.” Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—“Dear White America”—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.

Author : Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780810144224

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Fire Is Not a Country by Cynthia Dewi Oka Pdf

In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.

Author : Kyle Dargan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780810137851

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Anagnorisis by Kyle Dargan Pdf

In Anagnorisis: Poems, the award-winning poet Kyle Dargan ignites a reckoning. From the depths of his rapidly changing home of Washington, D.C., the poet is both enthralled and provoked, having witnessed-on a digital loop running in the background of Barack Obama's unlikely presidency—the rampant state-sanctioned murder of fellow African Americans. He is pushed toward the same recognition articulated by James Baldwin decades earlier: that an African American may never be considered an equal in citizenship or humanity. This recognition—the moment at which a tragic hero realizes the true nature of his own character, condition, or relationship with an antagonistic entity—is what Aristotle called anagnorisis. Not concerned with placatory gratitude nor with coddling the sensibilities of the country's racial majority, Dargan challenges America: "You, friends- / you peckish for a peek / at my cloistered, incandescent / revelry-were you as earnest / about my frostbite, my burns, / I would have opened / these hands, sated you all." At a time when U.S. politics are heavily invested in the purported vulnerability of working-class and rural white Americans, these poems allow readers to examine themselves and the nation through the eyes of those who have been burned for centuries.

Author : Miriam G. Aw
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781435730625

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Conversations in Poetry: Take Charge of Your Life by 'Preserving Your Sanity' at All Cost! by Miriam G. Aw Pdf

This is a book of thought-provoking conversant poetry speaking about how to 'deal with,' 'distance yourself,' and/or 'break away,' from negative-minded people who don't mean you well in life, and/or who prefer to live their lives with confusion, stupidity, ignorance, and ungodliness. Sadly, there are daughters & sons who've fallen victim to 'emotional blackmail' by a loved one who haven't wrestled nor confronted their own past demons for so long that its toll has become painfully burdensome. And no matter what you say or do, it's never enough, which is why it is so critical to "Preserve Your Sanity At All Cost," to increase the length of time of your existence on Earth to take care of self and your family! In this book you'll find that you (or someone else you know) are not alone when experiencing negative situations of any kind, which is why this subject of maintaining one's own sanity should be addressed publicly without candy-coating the truthfulness about negative human behavior.

Author : David Baker
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781610754972

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Talk Poetry by David Baker Pdf

What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.

Author : Bianca Stone
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781953534057

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What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems by Bianca Stone Pdf

Finalist for the New England Book Award in Poetry and the Vermont Book Award As heard on NPR Morning Edition A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022 A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. “I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,” writes Stone. “I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort.” Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the intimacy and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, What Is Otherwise Infinite deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self—which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.

Author : Kevin Simmonds
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780810143746

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The Monster I Am Today by Kevin Simmonds Pdf

Overture -- Performance -- Postlude.

Author : Kathleen Ossip
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781946448798

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July by Kathleen Ossip Pdf

In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country—whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book’s crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem “July.” In a generous fifty pages, Ossip recounts a road trip from Bemidji, MN, to Key West, FL, with her daughter riding shotgun. Inspired by images that flick across their car windows and nurtured by intimate conversation and plenty of time to think, the poem has an entertaining cinematic sweep. There are poems based on bumper stickers, the names of churches, little shops. Traveling tests her beliefs, and Ossip fully discloses her doubts and confusions. Ossip is an unconventional, mighty magician with words.

Author : Charlotte Turner Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026509839

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Conversations Introducing Poetry; Chiefly on Subjects of Natural History, Etc by Charlotte Turner Smith Pdf

Author : Alan Cummings
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1468308602

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Haiku Love by Alan Cummings Pdf

Haiku poems about the natural world and the seasons are well known, but many poets have also used the haiku genre to capture the fleeting human experience.