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This book is close enough to reality to be hilarious. I cannot tell you how many times a verse or a snippet of a song has gotten stuck in my brain and it won't go away until I write it down. Usually, though, I enjoy the freedom for my thoughts to roam unhindered while I work. I cannot tell you how many blog posts I have mentally drafted or new projects I have begun to develop while running around. I write poetry in part, for what it does for my mind!
"There are two tools that I use almost everyday to seek out balance and some semblance of sanity: poetry and running. Usually, the only place these two indulgences intersect is in my head while I'm on a run, sifting through an idea for a poem. With Simple Rhythms, Charbonneau has found that sweet spot where the two can coexist in a lighthearted, easy reading sort of way." -Jason Fisk, author of Sadly Beautiful Anything you do regularly takes on layers of meaning. Running regularly certainly gives you time to think, and to find meaning in simple things and perhaps in things not so simple. In Simple Rhythms, Ray Charbonneau finds poetry in motion, the simple and basic motion of running. "Simple Rhythms is a work of love for an activity that a lot of people hate. There are some wonderful surprises inside, with poems, parodies, free verse, limericks, musings, and mantras. As someone who runs but struggles with motivation, I find much of myself in Charbonneau's work and find that familiarity a comfort. Poetry will always be the closest humans get to painting with emotion, and Charbonneau shares his love and struggles as clearly in this work as Bob Ross shares his happy little trees and affinity for painting with trowels." -Jesse Parent, author of The Noise That Is Not You and two-time Individual World Poetry Slam runner-up "Simple Rhythms is a refreshing read even for non-runners. After all, as the author well knows, poetry itself is made up of running feet. From free verse to haikus to limericks to a Poe-inspired lament, this collection celebrates the confluence of poetry and running throughout. As with Charbonneau's prose, Simple Rhythms offers insight, commiseration, and humor that any reader is sure to enjoy." -Laura Cherry, author of Haunts and Two White Beds "Ray calls this a book of poetry for runners. He is correct on every count." -Mark Remy, DumbRunner.com
John Ashbery’s wild, deliriously inventive book-length poem, inspired by the adventures of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls Henry Darger, the prolific American outsider artist who died in 1973, leaving behind over twenty thousand pages of manuscripts and hundreds of artworks, is famous for the elaborate alternate universe he both constructed and inhabited, a “realm of the unreal” where a plucky band of young girls, the Vivians, helps lead an epic rebellion against dark forces of chaos. Darger’s work is now renowned for its brilliant appropriation of cultural ephemera, its dense and otherworldly prose, and its utterly unique high-low juxtaposition of popular culture and the divine—some of the very same traits that decades of critics and readers have responded to in John Ashbery’s many groundbreaking works of poetry. In Girls on the Run, Ashbery’s unmatched poetic inventiveness travels to new territory, inspired by the characters and cataclysms of Darger’s imagined universe. Girls on the Run is a disquieting, gorgeous, and often hilarious mash-up that finds two radical American artists engaged in an unlikely conversation, a dialogue of reinvention and strange beauty.
The Result Is What You See Today PB by Kim Moore,Paul Deaton,Ben Wilkinson Pdf
Curated by poet-runners Ben Wilkinson, Kim Moore, and Paul Deaton, this book threads running and poetry through myriad routes, venturing into the how, why, and where of a timeless human act. This affirmative anthology shows that poetry and running have much in common, fulfilling a basic need to live freely, expressively and to feel alive. The poems gathered here reflect this freedom in all its forms: from the track to nature's trails, from sprints to endurance, from near-spiritual moments of private connection to the buzz of competitive camaraderie.
Run - a Book for Real Runners by Alistair Jones Pdf
What is a real runner? RunningMrJones, an award winning blogger, is a firm believer that if you run, you are a real runner. A book of motivational poems about all aspects of running aimed at anyone who loves running.
Faith Run offers the most recent work by the well-known poet Ray Gonzalez. The poetry here isÑat onceÑperhaps his most personal and most universal. At the heart of these lyrical, sometimes ethereal, poems is a deep sense of the mystery and even the divinity of our human lives. Although Gonzalez invokes the names of many poets who have come before him, including Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Charles Wright, Allen Ginsberg, and Federico Garc’a Lorca, he writes in his own singular voice, one sculpted by the scorched and windblown landscapes of the American Southwest, by the complications of life in a borderland, by the voices of ancestors. With the confident touch of a master craftsman, he creates a new world out of the world we think we know. In his poems, the personal suddenly becomes the cosmic, the mundane unexpectedly becomes the sublime. For Gonzalez, it seems, we humans can transcend the ordinaryÑjust as these poems transcend genre and create a poetic realm of their ownÑbut we never actually leave behind our rooted, earthbound lives. Although our landscape may be invisible to us, we never escape its powerful magnetism. Nor do we ever abandon our ancestors. No matter how fast or far we run, we can never outrun them. Like gravity, their influence is inexorable. These poems enchant with their language, which often leaps unexpectedly from worldly to otherworldly in the same stanza, but they cling and linger in our memoriesÑnot unlike the voices of friends and relatives. Ê
The PR - The Poetics of Running by Carmen F Micsa Pdf
A book of poetry in motion was inspired by my running meditation as a runner and marathoner. Each poem has a corresponding picture that was taken during my runs. Each poem conveys the deep spiritual aspect of running when we look inward, or when we simply stop to take the views all in. This book makes a perfect coffee table book due to its inspiring, transcendent poems, and beautiful pictures. At the end of the book, I have included 100 lessons that running has taught me, as well as 50 ways to write poetry to inspire the poet in each of us. Most poems are written in free verse and contain rich and playful imagery that I hope will delight and rejoice your souls and soles. Happy reading!
"I don't even want to drive that far." It's the most common retort when you tell people you run 100 miles (or more) for fun. And yet... the authors of the poems and short stories in "Run To Save Your Life" not only run that far, but they do it again... and again... and again. Sometimes further than 100 miles. Sometimes for days. And they find peace. And magic. And joy. And love. In this compelling compilation of short works by runners, "Run To Save Your Life" offers the reader a glimpse into what some view as salvation... or at least a very good time. So put on your running shoes. Maybe they've been in the closet for a while... dust them off and come on a journey. You might just save your own life.
I feel there is a message in each of my poems for someone. Only they will know if it is for them. Some of the thoughts seemed to be meant for me, but then we are all very much alike as humans. And, everything God does has a purpose. I hope these poems will be help and comfort for the ones He intended them for. Writing poetry was not something I planned. I can't say I really wanted to write poems. At the age of 66, I had a startling experience. On March 3rd. 1993, I awoke at 5:00 AM with a poem running through my mind. I got up and wrote the lines just as they came into my mind. That was my first poem, "What Happens". By the time I had finished the first one, another started in my mind. So I was only writing down my thoughts, and they were in poem form. It seemed my thoughts rhymed. People were asking me how I write a poem. I began thinking about it and that's how I wrote, "How I Write A Poem". Even though God is not mentioned in all of my poems, He is still in them to me. He gives me all my thoughts and abilities. Therefore, I give God the credit for every poem I write. I found I had put a lot of my life into these poems. But they are not just about me. I feel they are about how I look at life and God's creations. But most importantly, without Him watching over and protecting me all my life, I would not be here today.
Run Wild and Be: A Collection of Poems & Stories Inspired by Wild Spaces & Endurance Running. by Sydney Zester Pdf
A collection of poems and stories inspired by wild spaces and endurance running. Shifting the narrative from the tired trope centering around the white man conquering a gritty race or mountain, Run Wild & Be explores the female experience embracing freedom and self love through her time spent running long outside. Drawing inspiration from a 4000 mile run across the United States, this book weaves readers through tiny mountain towns, into the desert, and sprawling metropolises, while noting gender inequities, power imbalances, changing goals, and morphing identities.
The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: “Fierce, and fearless” (The New York Times). Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs, gang wars, and police brutality. But unlike most of those around him, Rodríguez found a way out when art, writing, and political activism gave him a new path—and an escape from self-destruction. Always Running spares no detail in its vivid, brutally honest portrayal of street life and violence, and it stands as a powerful and unforgettable testimonial of gang life by one of the most acclaimed Chicano writers of his generation. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodríguez including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Pdf
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.
