We Borrowed Gentleness

Author : J. Estanislao Lopez
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781948579377

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We Borrowed Gentleness by J. Estanislao Lopez Pdf

We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction—through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history. The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope. By juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate failings within a family, often portrayed with a realist aesthetic, the book attempts to work through the essential fault in man, in men—in the structures that they design and maintain.

Author : Candace Williams
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949944259

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I Am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams Pdf

Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn't just use poetry to comment on life and history. The book is a comment on writing itself. What have words done? When does writing become a form of disengagement, or worse, violence? The book is an exercise in paring the state down to its true logic of violence and imagining what can happen next. There are many contradictions—Although the protagonist teaches the same science that was used to justify enslavement and a racial caste system, she knows she will die at the hands of science and denies the state the last word by penning her own death certificate. As an educator and knowledge worker, she is an overseer of the same racist, misogynistic, and homophobic systems that terrorize her. Yet, she musters the courage to kill Kurtz, a primordial vision of white terror. She is Black and queer and fat and angry and chill and witty and joyful and depressed and lovely and flawed and an (im)perfect dagger to the heart of white supremacist capitalism.

Author : David Lehman,Elaine Equi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982186777

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The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman,Elaine Equi Pdf

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is “deft, delicate [and] subversive” (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today. Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.

Author : Sarah Ghazal Ali
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949944310

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Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali Pdf

Moving between the scriptures of the Qur’an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing. Navigating both scripture and culture, the poems in Theophanies work to spin miracles from the mundanities of desire and violence. Through art and music, Pakistani history, and scriptural stories, these poems struggle to envision a true self and speak back against time to the matriarchs of the larger Abrahamic faiths, the mothers at the heart of sacred history Stitched through these poems is longing—for mothers, angels, and signs from the divine. Theophanies asks: is seeing really believing, and is believing belonging? The speaker seeks to understand her own, bewildering “I,” to use it with reverence, and to mythologize herself and all mothers to ensure their survival in a male-dominated world hard at work erasing them In the absence of matrilineal elders in her family, the speaker turns to the archetypal “mother of nations” for whom she is named, Sarah, and her sent-away “sister,” Hajar. What does it mean to have a woman’s body when that body has been hailed a vessel for the divine? Theophanies arises from the speaker’s tenuous grip on her own faith while navigating the colonial legacy of Partition and inherited patriarchal expectations of womanhood.

Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949944266

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The Wild Delight of Wild Things by Brian Turner Pdf

Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016). The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the meditations on love and loss blur the boundaries between poetry and lyric prose. In Italian, the word "stanza" is rooted in the word "room." And so, stanza by stanza, room by room, page by page, we draft ourselves forward into the imagination, our arms filled with all that we can carry from the days gone by. This is the art of survival. Profound grief teaches us how to dwell in the house of memory—that vibrant temporal landscape of the past—where we might live with the dead we love once more.

Author : Katie Farris
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949944235

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Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris Pdf

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval. With humor and honesty, the book portrays both the pleasures and the horrors of the lover, the citizen, and the medical subject. How can we find, in the midst of hell, what isn’t hell? And whom can we tell how much we want to live? An intimate, hilarious and devastating look into some of the most private moments of a life—even if they happen to occur in a medical office with six strangers looking on. This book is for anyone who's ever asked how to live in the face of suffering, and doesn't expect an easy answer. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive looks unflinchingly at painful realities, posing the question "What isn't hell?" and finds the answer in a powerful eros, letting a loved one pull laughter out of the narrator's reluctant mouth like a "redvioletcerulean handkerchief."

Author : Ina Cariño
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949944273

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Feast by Ina Cariño Pdf

Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located in the Philippines, at others in the United States, the speaker of these poems is curious about how home can be an alchemy from one to the other. Feast explores the intricacies of intergenerational nourishment beyond trauma, as well as the bonds and community formed when those in diaspora feed each other, both literally and metaphorically. The language in these poems is full of musicality—another way in which abundance manifests in the book. Feast feeds its readers by employing lush sonics and imagery unafraid of being Filipino and of being Asian American. Feast offers abundance and nourishment through language, and reaches toward a place an immigrant might call home. The poems in this collection—many of which revolve around food and its cultural significance—examine the brown body's relationship with nourishment. Poems delve into what it means to be brown in a white world, and how that encourages (or restricts) growth.

Author : Vandana Khanna
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949944242

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Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna Pdf

Against the backdrop of iconic, ancient Hindu texts, Burning Like Her Own Planet reimagines the lives of Hindu goddesses through a contemporary, feminist lens. Told in a series of persona poems and dramatic monologues, the book reinvents these myths into essential stories of love, betrayal, and faith. In these poems, the goddesses question their predetermined fates and examine what it means to be human and divine. They speak in the voices of girls, wives, and mothers, all trying to carve a space for themselves in a world ruled by jealous gods and capricious luck. Overcoming a string of challenges, these goddesses discover their own agency, and the power that comes from telling their own stories. At the heart of the book are the goddesses Sita and Parvati—women who are cast in the role of the “perfect” wife, the “perfect” mother. Here, the goddesses describe their own transformations from naïve, untried women into powerful forces claiming their autonomy. Each in her own way challenges the traditional notions of what it means to be a woman, illuminating the connections between the personal and the universal, the devout and the earthly. The poems highlight the tension between obligation and freedom, examining the consequences for those who try and change the narrative. Whether blessed or cursed, these women, these girl-goddesses, forge their own place within the pages of ancient texts, writing the bitter and the sweet of own lives as they undergo the trials of becoming holy.

Author : Jill McDonough
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781948579384

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American Treasure by Jill McDonough Pdf

From the perspective of a teacher in a youth detention center, these hard-hitting poems have a unique blend of dark humor and realism. In a composition of both compassion for America’s unheard voices and contempt for the systems’ unjustness, American Treasure chronicles McDonough’s personal place within the nation. She considers her work with incarcerated students, her privilege, her womanhood, and the connection she shares with others. Through this exploration, McDonough writes with care about the possibility of a people in a country built on cruelty. Poems prod, ache, question, and laugh, as they tap into the complexity of a modern nation full of contempt for the vile systems woven into the American fabric, while also celebrating those who live in spite of them.

Author : Omotara James
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781948579483

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Song of My Softening by Omotara James Pdf

Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot “It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.” —Starred review by Library Journal The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.

Author : Andrea Gibson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781638340164

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You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson Pdf

2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

Author : Stanley Hussey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317893509

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The English Language by Stanley Hussey Pdf

The 'correct' use of English has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent years. But what defines 'correctness' in our use of language? And how has this altered over time? In this authoritative survey of the history of the English language, the author examines how linguistic traditions have changed and developed over the centuries to produce the language that we are familiar with today. Taking present-day usage as its starting point, the book uses a topic-based approach to explore the historical development of vocabulary, grammar, syntax, sounds and spellings, thus providing both a firm sense of the structure of the language and an outline of its history.

Author : Thomas Shadwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1690
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020150596

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Psyche: a tragedy, etc. in five acts and in verse, partly borrowed from the French of Molière by Thomas Shadwell Pdf

Author : Patrick Carnes
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592858439

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A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps by Patrick Carnes Pdf

A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps Updated and Expanded

Author : Billie Barrett
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639619788

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God's Gentle Giant by Billie Barrett Pdf

God's Gentle Giant is the story of John and Billie Barrett's work with Pastor Ernest Kabole Okhonya and the creation of a new mission in Kenya, East Africa. A new clinic and a new free school for orphans from the area were built. It's also the story of the many obstacles in building this new mission. John and Billie had to go into hiding for three months after being threatened with death by a former member of parliament who had become the chairman of the previous mission John and Billie worked for at Ematsayi. It's God's miraculous intervention that kept them safe and allowed the work to be completed. https://billiebarrett1321.wixsite.com/billies. 2