Memoirs Of Two Poets

Author : Billy Merrell
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545608091

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Talking in the Dark by Billy Merrell Pdf

PUSH continues to break new ground with this remarkable poetry memoir of growing up, coming out, and exploring love.This is a memoir that is lived in moments. The moments you know - when you see your parents' marriage dissolving, when you realize you're a boy who likes boys, when you speak the truth and don't know if it will be heard. The moments you don't recognize until later - when you leave things unsaid (even to yourself), when you feel your boyfriend letting go, when you give up on love. And the moment you get love back. In an amazing narrative of poems, Billy Merrell tells an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Author : Ruby Dhal
Publisher : Ajmeet Dhal
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1527240983

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A Handful of Stars by Ruby Dhal Pdf

A Handful of Stars is a journey of courage and resilience that readers take from falling to healing, realising along the way that the journey is not going to be easy. The book branches over various themes from love, heartbreak, loss and womanhood to self-love, revival and healing.

Author : Ruby Dhal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1527205320

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Memories Unwound by Ruby Dhal Pdf

Memories Unwound is a collection of poetry and prose that covers a variety of human emotions. Each piece aims to fuel the realization of sentiments that fabricate our being. Emotions such as love, pain or happiness and by the end of it readers are shown the possibility of hope, redemption, closing old chapters and moving on to make new memories.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393248531

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Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf

National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374712181

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Memoirs by Robert Lowell Pdf

A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs

Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393319512

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The Lost Land by Eavan Boland Pdf

An Irish poet with an international following unites personal history with national legend in a collection of powerful poems set in a ghostly terrain somewhere between earthly existence and the land of dreams. Reprint.

Author : Jill Bialosky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781451693218

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Poetry Will Save Your Life by Jill Bialosky Pdf

From a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet comes “a delightfully hybrid book: part anthology, part critical study, part autobiography” (Chicago Tribune) that is organized around fifty-one remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath. For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell. As Bialosky narrates these moments, she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge. While Bialosky’s personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences, from the awkwardness of girlhood, to crises of faith and identity, from braving a new life in a foreign city to enduring the loss of a loved one, from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist. Each moment and poem illustrate “not only how to read poetry, but also how to love poetry” (Christian Science Monitor). “An emotional, sometimes-wrenching account of how lines of poetry can be lifelines” (Kirkus Reviews), Poetry Will Save Your Life is an engaging and entirely original examination of a life while celebrating the enduring value of poetry, not as a purely cerebral activity, but as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and intimacy. In doing so the book brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780345807014

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Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Pdf

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393083897

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Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf

A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.

Author : Eileen Simpson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374713003

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Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson Pdf

In 1942, Eileen Simpson—then Eileen Mulligan—married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently—from New York to Boston, then Princeton—chasing jobs, living simply, relying on the hospitality of more successful friends like Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford, or R. P. Blackmur and his wife, Helen. Rounding out their circle of intimates were other struggling poets like Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz. Berryman alternately wrote and despaired of writing. Everyone stayed up late arguing about poetry. Poets in Their Youth is a portrait of their marriage, yes, but it is also a portrait of a group of spectacularly intelligent friends at a particular time, in a particular place, all aflame with literature. Simpson's recollections are so tender, her narrative so generous, it is almost possible to imagine the story has a different ending—even as Schwartz's marriage crumbles, as Lowell succumbs to a manic episode, as her own relationship with Berryman buckles under the strain of his drinking, his infidelity, his depression. Filled with winning anecdotes and moments of startling poignancy, Simpson's now classic memoir shows some of the most brilliant literary minds of the second half of the twentieth century at their brightest and most achingly human.

Author : George Gilfilan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375108557

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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets by George Gilfilan Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author : Lucille Clifton
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781942683575

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Good Woman by Lucille Clifton Pdf

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton’s career—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection and memoir, Good Woman is now available for the first time as a deluxe eBook edition. Enhanced with previously unpublished photographs from the Lucille Clifton Estate and a special foreword by Aracelis Girmay, this eBook is a must-have for longtime Clifton fans and newcomers alike.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345810

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She Had Some Horses: Poems by Joy Harjo Pdf

A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.

Author : Spencer Reece
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644210437

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The Secret Gospel of Mark by Spencer Reece Pdf

An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. "This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as redemption." —Colm Toíbín The Secret Gospel of Mark is a powerful dynamo of a story that delicately weaves the author's experiences with an appreciation for seven great literary touchstones: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Mark Strand, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In speaking to the beauty these poets' works inspire in him, Reece finds the beauty of his own life's journey, a path that runs from coming of age as a gay teenager in the 1980s, Yale, alcoholism, a long stint as a Brooks Brothers salesman, Harvard Divinity School, and leads finally to hard-won success as a poet, reconciliation with his family, and the fulfillment of finding his life's work as an Episcopal priest. Reece's writing approaches the truth and beauty of the writers who have influenced him; elliptical and direct, always beautifully rendered.

Author : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : OCLC:1048778601

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Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets;. by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Pdf