Poet Take Exit

Author : Jamaal May
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938584367

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The Big Book of Exit Strategies by Jamaal May Pdf

Praise for Jamaal May: "Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel."—Publishers Weekly Following Jamaal May's award-winning debut collection, Hum (2013), these new poems explore parallel landscapes of the poet's interior and an insidious American condition. Using dark humor that helps illuminate the pains of maturity and loss of imagination, May uncovers language like a skilled architect—digging up bones of the past to expose what lies beneath the surface of the fragile human condition. From: "Ask Where I've Been": Ask about the tornado of fists. The blows landed. If you can watch it all—the spit and blood frozen against snow, you can probably tell I am the too-narrow road winding out of a crooked city built of laughter, abandon, feathers and drums. Ask only if you can watch streetlights bow, bridges arc, and power lines sag, and still believe what matters most is not where I bend but where I am growing. Jamaal May is a poet, editor, and filmmaker from Detroit, Michigan, where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and appears in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, the Believer, NER, and the Kenyon Review. May has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. He founded the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press.

Author : M.H.J
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781452074719

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Poet Take Exit by M.H.J Pdf

These poems that I have prepared for your reading enjoyment are a part of life's experiences that have been explored through my eyes of passion and adventure. This book of poems and quotes is my poem opinion of fact and fiction. I write this book of knowledge for you the reader and I give it to you as a gift from my heart. I hope you will read and reflect on my poetry with a little of your own life. Thank You, M.H.J

Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321564

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Pdf

Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" “Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”—The New Yorker "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence."—Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016" "This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level...A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.”—2016 Whiting Award citation "Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power."—LitHub "Vuong’s powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identity—all with a tremendous humanity."—Slate “In his impressive debut collection, Vuong, a 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, writes beauty into—and culls from—individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity. Managing this balance becomes the crux of the collection, as when he writes, ‘Your father is only your father/ until one of you forgets. Like how the spine/ won’t remember its wings/ no matter how many times our knees/ kiss the pavement.’”—Publishers Weekly "What a treasure [Ocean Vuong] is to us. What a perfume he's crushed and rendered of his heart and soul. What a gift this book is."—Li-Young Lee Torso of Air Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of night—sealed with bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve & carve until a coin of light appears & you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side— waiting. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City, New York.

Author : Sarah Burgoyne
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770566705

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Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne Pdf

Camus’s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun. Vexed by the ‘unremarkable star’ that ‘presses’ Camus’s Meursault to commit murder, Because the Sun considers the blazing sun as a material symbol of ambient violence – violence absorbed like heat and fired at the nearest victim. Likewise, as a friendship between women confronts gendered aggression in Thelma and Louise, the sun becomes the repository of pain, the high noon that pushes us through desert after desert. Because the Sun’s pastiche of voices embodies both stylistic and formal relentlessness by teasing out tonalities that blend and merge into each other, generating a blinding effect, like looking into the sun. “Breathless and death defying, the poems in Because the Sun are high-wire work. They sway above us in a blazing light of Burgoyne’s making. It is so rare that a book of poems is both a tuning fork for our minds as well as a balm for our bodies. But that is exactly what happens page after page in this blazing book.” —Michael Dickman, author of Days & Days “This beautiful work wraps Camus’s The Stranger in a poetics concerning erasure/+ hope. Out of the titular Sun’s burning punctum burst telling shards of what is erased by Camus’s remarkable construction of whiteness in-the-masculine: the dead ‘Arab,’ the female body’s interminable violations – but also its warming, even blinding capacity for consequential pleasures.” —Gail Scott, author of Heroine “Sarah Burgoyne begins with the sun and ends with flowers. In between is a complicated exploration of what it means to exist within a tradition that is Camus, Rimbaud, Blake. Taking her cue from Sara Ahmed, she notices how hard it is to challenge this tradition and yet that it matters to do it anyway.” —Juliana Spahr, author of That Winter the Wolf Came

Author : Elisa Gabbert
Publisher : Birds
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0982617712

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The French Exit by Elisa Gabbert Pdf

Poetry. "What a complex and lovely book this is! Reading Elisa Gabbert's obsessively interior, technically rigorous poems is like listening in on the thoughts of a mind so fiercely observant and subtle that I find in them always some new twist, some surprising layer I hadn't noticed before. By turns moving and witty, sharp-eyed and impressionistic, Gabbert writes with technical sophistication and keen intelligence. This is a terrific book"--Kevin Prufer.

Author : John Keene
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224352

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Counternarratives by John Keene Pdf

Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.

Author : Robert Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0981808891

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Fire Exit by Robert Kelly Pdf

"Fire Exit is all about participatory observation. The reader is taken on a trip, but not an ordinary journey - it is a derive, in the true sense of the word: a detour, a drifting, an ambling. We are not sure where the nameless narrator is taking us, but we are caught up in the narrative, and soon we forget all about ourselves and learn to see things anew: our eyes have been opened. This is not a passive exercise; the reader is required to take part in the journey, to notice the world around her, to take note. A boy sits in the movie theater gazing at the fire exit sign, realizing that the Real Story is not in this dark stuffy overcrowded room but Out There, just outside his reach, glowing red. Walter Benjamin writes in The Arcades, "To walk out of your front door as if you've just arrived from a foreign country; to discover the world in which you already live; to begin the day as if you've just gotten off the boat from Singapore and have never seen your own doormat or the people on the landing... it is this that reveals the humanity before you, unknown until now." These three-line stanzas look unassuming on the page but they are capable of amazing leaps and bounds: in the course of one section they might take us from France to Mascagni to Byron and back, in an astonishing syntactic waltz. Pay attention, like Dante in the underworld, and you will be transformed." --Book Jacket.

Author : Idra Novey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780820343488

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Exit, Civilian by Idra Novey Pdf

In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration has altered American families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what's next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day.

Author : Hadara Bar-Nadav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 098336866X

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Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav Pdf

"2012 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by Lynn Emanuel"--Cover.

Author : Marilyn Lighter Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 189284222X

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Exit Only by Marilyn Lighter Taylor Pdf

Author : Dēmētrēs Lyakos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215514501

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Z213 : Exit by Dēmētrēs Lyakos Pdf

Z213: EXIT marks the beginning of Dimitris Lyacos' poetic trilogy Poena Damni. Written over the course of seventeen years, in reverse order, the present publication sees the trilogy's completion. The last episode, The First Death, was the first to appear in 1996, followed by the second, Nyctivoe, in 2001. The Poena Damni trilogy both straddles and crosses perceived boundaries of literary form - from the journal-like prose in Z213: EXIT, to the elliptical monologues of the distinctly dramatic Nyctivoe, to the pared down poetic idiom in The First Death. Z213: EXIT provides the main axis for the narrative: from its description of the protagonist's escape to a barren and distorted - but nonetheless real - world will emerge the grotesque ritual of redemption, enacted by the proles of Nyctivoe and, finally, the struggle of the mutilated hero on the island in The First Death.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112118003968

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The Royal Shakspere. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the Text of Professor Delius. With The Two Noble Kinsmen and Edward III., and an Introduction by F. J. Furnivall. With Illustrations, Etc by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979614

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WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier Pdf

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074899489

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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : George Henry Boker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101054539307

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Plays: The bethrothal; The widow's marriage. Poems by George Henry Boker Pdf