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Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781558857049
When a poet moves into the apartment above hers, young Juliana asks to meet her and together they write poems of tropical birds and a river that flows to the sea, typing out words that change the world, if only for a while.
Author : Octave Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:49015000485343
Author : Julia Fine
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062975843
Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award A Good Morning America Book of the Month Selection • A Popsugar Must-Read Book of the Month • A Buzzfeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year “Provocative…. [An] assured, beautifully written book.” —Sarah Lyall, New York Times In this provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—a postpartum woman’s psychological unraveling becomes intertwined with the ghostly appearance of children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown. There’s a madwoman upstairs, and only Megan Weiler can see her. Ravaged and sore from giving birth to her first child, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels for work. Physically exhausted and mentally drained, she’s also wracked with guilt over her unfinished dissertation—a thesis on mid-century children’s literature. Enter a new upstairs neighbor: the ghost of quixotic children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown—author of the beloved classic Goodnight Moon—whose existence no one else will acknowledge. It seems Margaret has unfinished business with her former lover, the once-famous socialite and actress Michael Strange, and is determined to draw Megan into the fray. As Michael joins the haunting, Megan finds herself caught in the wake of a supernatural power struggle—and until she can find a way to quiet these spirits, she and her newborn daughter are in terrible danger. Using Megan’s postpartum haunting as a powerful metaphor for a woman’s fraught relationship with her body and mind, Julia Fine once again delivers an imaginative and “barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness, and hereditary inheritances” (Washington Post).
Author : Dan Chiasson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593317747
A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet. The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say," a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from a stranger. Who made up whom? Chiasson, an acclaimed poetry critic, has invented a remarkable structure where the reader and a poet speak to one another, across the void of silence and mystery. He is also the father of teenaged sons, and this volume continues the autobiographical arc of his prior, celebrated volumes. One long section is about the age of thirteen and the dawning of desire, while the title poem looks at the crucial age of fifteen and the existential threat of climate change and gun violence, which alters the calculus of adolescence. Though the outlook is bleak, these poems register the glories of our moment: that there are places where boys can kiss each other and not be afraid; that small communities are rousing and taking care of each other; that teenagers have mobilized for a better world. All of these works emerge from the secretive imagination of a father as he measures his own adolescence against that of his sons and explores the complex bedrock of marriage. Chiasson sees a perilous world both navigated and enriched by the passionate young and by the parents--and poets--who care for them.
Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : Write Me a Poem
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1608186237
The conventions of poetry may seem imposing, but a good poem can be enjoyed at any age. This new series, geared toward the early elementary learner who may be encountering literary forms and terms for the first time, teaches by example, showing how poets use language in playful and effective ways to create meaning. The friendly illustrations add another layer of approachability, and each book invites the reader to Write Me a Poem based on a key idea outlined earlier. An elementary exploration of the forms and themes of poetry, introducing famous poets William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Pablo Neruda. Includes a writing exercise. Includes TOC, biographical profile, glossary, book references, websites, and index. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Author : William A. Katz,Linda Sternberg Katz,Esther Crain
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023110104X
Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Author : Judy Young
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627532051
Bring the magic of poetry to life with R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet. From acrostics and ballads to meter and metaphor, author and poet Judy Young has written a delightful collection of poems to illustrate poetic tools, terms and techniques. Each term or technique is demonstrated in an accompanying poem so readers can see the method at work. Whether haiku or rap, sonnets or cinquain, budding writers of all ages will be inspired to put their imaginations to work crafting their own poems.Judy Young remembers showing one of her poems to her grandmother when she was about 10 years old, and she has been in love with writing poetry ever since. Judy is the author of another Sleeping Bear Press book, S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet. Judy lives with her family near Springfield, Missouri. Victor Juhasz's humorous illustrations and caricatures have been commissioned by such clients as Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. He is also the illustrator of the popular D is for Democracy: A Citizen's Alphabet. Victor lives and works in Stephentown, New York.
Author : Brady Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194591713X
-Brady Peterson invites you into his poems as if you were a close friend-bridging the difference between writer and reader. He looks out his window, sips his morning coffee, and sees not only what is there but (to borrow from Norman Mclean) also notices what is not there-what is remembered and what was forgotten. This collection is his best work yet. Myra McLarey, The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble -Brady Peterson is a poet of the moment-the once, the always, and the never again. From an Upstairs Window, he narrates a world populated by lost fathers and mourned daughters, singing the song of the rip saw and the Kingsman, of tequila and coffee and the stolen kiss, watching the Confederate Army march across a field, his great-grandsire among them, seeing himself navigate the dangerous terrain of memory ghosted by poets who sing their own songs (Lorca, Whitman, Sexton, Pound). But Peterson's poems don't keep their distance from the shocks and sorrows that make a life. Instead, they drive us straight into the country of mystery, the spaces and places where the veil is thin, where you can nearly touch the other side, so bright does the past burn, so loud does the present beckon. This is how we touch, how we remember, the poet writes, in this luminous world of things.- Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Still Pilgrim
Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822982951
Children’s and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience, and what that means for the authors as they overcome societal obstacles and aesthetic complexity. The authors also speak extensively about their experiences within the publishing industry and with their audiences. As such, Aldama’s collection presents an open forum to contemporary Latino/a writers working in a vital literary category and sheds new light on the myriad formats, distinctive nature, and cultural impact it offers.
Author : Maci Bookout
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781682617854
In this eclectic collection of free verse, Maci Bookout lays bare the pain of past heartbreak, while revealing the strength of womanhood and the power to be found in the truth. Taking cues from the style of Rupi Kaur and Charly Cox, Maci’s poetry tells a picturesque tale that weaves through her life thus far, from the emotional collapse of past relationships to the serenity and fortitude she found within herself.
Author : Ray Robertson
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781771960731
“The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified.” — LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the “greater or lesser heat” with which each musician shaped their genre, while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford.
Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545281546
Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.
Author : Cecilia Minden,Kate Roth
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781610803151
New addition to the award winning Language Arts Explorer Jr series, this titles teaches students how to write review.
Author : Yvonne Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 163143697X
"Presents an overview of prose poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use prose poems to express ideas"--Publisher's website.
Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781529083545
‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - Guardian In this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique bond between parent and child. Empty Nest contemplates growing old, the love of a parent, the everyday of family life, as well as poems that explore darker terrains – grief, loss and estrangement. Some of our favourite poets are collected here, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage, Shakespeare, Imtiaz Dharker, Seamus Heaney and Don Paterson. These poems are by turns wry, moving, profound, funny, melancholic and wise; they will console and comfort those suddenly facing a house that may be much cleaner, but is also much quieter, than it once was. There is something here for every reader to treasure. ‘Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language’ - Telegraph