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Write About an Empty Birdcage

Elaina M. Elllis

Author : Elaina M. Elllis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904298

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Write About an Empty Birdcage by Elaina M. Elllis Pdf

With an ironic swish of the skirt, Elaina M. Ellis has delivered a sweetly strange first collection of poems. Reinventing femininity with each teasing line-break, Ellis pulls sexuality from form, and vulnerability from meter. By turns playful, blunt, and prayerful, Write About an Empty Birdcage documents the painful end of a romantic relationship; revels in the budding of new desire; and ultimately allows hope to climb quietly in through the back window. The poems which explicitly explore identity -- femaleness, Jewishness, queerness -- do so with a critique of power that blends humor, bloodied confession, and a reverence for tension. Ellis is a new poet to watch out for, neither belonging to the full-open swing of spoken word, nor to the inaccessibility of academia: the sonnet is a torch song, the prose poem is a fist. Here you find all the fleshy reveal of the truth, without the ease of nakedness. Write About an Empty Birdcage is a book of poetry that is worth the work of undressing. Elaina M. Ellis has a voice that cuts through wool. Rich in sound and sense, meaning and madness, she signals and signifies. Her imagery comes from a place of truth and her people sweat and breathe. Hers is a talent that can set the world on fire. -Jenny Factor, Antioch University Los Angeles

How to Love the Empty Air

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938912818

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How to Love the Empty Air by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Pdf

New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s How to Love the Empty Air reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes real?for better and for worse. Aptowicz’s journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changes?in love and in life?she can’t help but “tell the sun / tell the fields / tell the huge Texas sky.... / tell myself again and again until I believe it.” However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poet’s mother. In the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire “to elope with this grief, / who is not your enemy, / this grief who maybe now is your best friend. / This grief, who is your husband, / the thing you curl into every night, / falling asleep in its arms...” As in her award-winning The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life “ripples boundless, like electricity, like joy / like... laughter, irresistible and bright, / an impossible thing to contain.”

Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Anna Waterhouse

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Anna Waterhouse
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785659317

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Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Anna Waterhouse Pdf

The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1873, and as the economies of Europe threaten to crumble, Mycroft Holmes finds himself in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims, only a mysterious calling card. Meanwhile, Sherlock has already taken it upon himself to solve the case, as his interest in the criminal mind grows into an obsession. Mycroft begrudgingly allows Sherlock to investigate, as Ai Lin--the woman he is still in love with--needs his aid. Her fiancé has been kidnapped, and the only man who might know his fate is a ruthless arms dealer with a reputation for killing those who cross him. Mycroft persuades his friend Cyrus Douglas to help find the young man, but Douglas himself is put in harm's way. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for the Fire Four Eleven murderer, both he and Mycroft will discover that the greed of others is at the root of the evil they are trying to unearth...

Birds and Cages

Ida Tomshinsky

Author : Ida Tomshinsky
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781796022094

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We are not afraid to say that we are fascinated by birds. Flying birds always provoke human admiration. There is this unexplained mysterious feeling that surrounds us when watching birds on the forest trees, in our backyard, at the ocean, sea, or lake. Birds are an infinite treasure of inspiration for humans, waking us up in the morning with beautiful birdsongs. Their little brain is of a size of an unshelled walnut and is associated with intelligent behavior and the same capabilities of humans and apes’ mental tasks. When you think about all the animals in the world, you quickly realize that birds are, in fact, among some of the most intelligent creatures we have on earth. Although there are more than ten thousand bird species worldwide, only a handful of them have made the list for the extremely talented and incredibly intelligent. So who are these super intelligent feathered friends? It is difficult to pick one. Perhaps kea, ravens, and crows are equally smart; while macaws, cockatoo, and jays are on the top of any list too. Who knew that an African gray is capable of working out the location of hidden food by using the kind of deduction and elimination skills previously seen only in humans and apes? And as you probably have heard, they are exceptional talkers! Today, we all know that it is bad to imprison birds in cages, but it was not always the case throughout the history. According to Stephen King, “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.” Due to beautiful poetry and cultural expressions, the flying bird became a symbol of freedom and independence. There are cases of historic acknowledgment of birdcages, especially in the Victorian era. People were listening to birdsongs in cages as it was their radio entertainment outlet. During wartimes, birds demonstrated their unique abilities in courageous heroic efforts to help humans in transferring information through the battlefields. The birds and birdcages both have a longtime history. Our love for the amazing earth creatures makes us stand out for their protection and safety to enjoy our shared inhabitants on the planet, and as for the birdcages, people find them pretty appealing in various ways of the aesthetic repurposing.

The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Poets & Writers Inc
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs by Anonim Pdf

This essential handbook, revised and updated for 2010, provides everything you need to know about deciding where and how to apply to the best graduate creative writing programs for you. -The top programs in the United States. -How to decide where to apply. -Advice on preparing your application. -A look at PhD programs in writing. -Tips on becoming a teaching assistant. -How to get the most out of your MFA experience. A collection of articles edited by the staff of Poets & Writers Magazine, this handy resource includes straightforward advice from professionals in the literary field, additional resources to help you choose the best programs to apply to, and an application tracker to keep you organized throughout the process.

Pansy

Andrea Gibson

Author : Andrea Gibson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781949342130

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Pansy by Andrea Gibson Pdf

The top-selling queer poet in America, Andrea Gibson's Pansy balances themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, illness, family and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a fierce willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to truly heal. Each turn of the page represents both that which as been forgotten and that which is yet to be released. While this book is a rally cry for political action, it is also a celebration of wonder and longing and love.

Racing Hummingbirds

Jeanann Verlee

Author : Jeanann Verlee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904908

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Racing Hummingbirds by Jeanann Verlee Pdf

Racing Hummingbirds examines, critiques, and at times delights in one woman's navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process. Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings which address gender, sex, race, poverty, heartbreak, and survival with such stark intimacy, you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you, yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclaim hope. They are as the opening poem suggests, nothing short of communion. Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark – much like a razor slashing silk – on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape. Her unflinching and uncompromising stanzas will change the way you move through the world. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Any storyteller can recount powerful experience [she] makes you feel something powerful is happening in the telling. It is when safety dissolves that we discover possibility...It’s a special person that will make you wish they were your villain. -Brian S. Ellis, “Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom" ...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion, and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an utterly arresting mosaic. -Danse Macabre Magazine

The Last Time As We Are

Taylor Mali

Author : Taylor Mali
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904854

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You don't need a classroom to be a teacher, and you don't need to be a teacher to help someone learn a lesson. Taylor Mali's poetry explores this truth in entertaining and plainspoken ways because "the last thing this world needs is another poem" ("The Call to What We Know"). Whether discussing the language of love or the love of language, the poems contained in The Last Time As We Are prove that "He who dares to teach must never cease to learn." Not since Taylor Mali has there been a poet the likes of Taylor Mali-he is a man of unique properties. He is tagged as a performance poet, but his performances, rather than being frontal assaults, are leavened by charm and wit and could survive happily on the page. -Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate In this latest collection, Mali's work buzzes, hums, snaps and zaps, the tour-de-force of Mali on stage having been properly captured and catalogued on the page. -Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, “Everything Is Everything”

38 Bar Blues

C.R. Avery

Author : C.R. Avery
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904090

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38 Bar Blues by C.R. Avery Pdf

C.R. Avery's audaciously charismatic second book, 38 Bar Blues, is a tome of poetry loaded with bar stool musicality and brass knuckle poetry. Welcome to a clear glimpse into a motel 50 miles outside of town, a window into the life of a modern troubadour and the courage of a young father trying to keep the highway of diamonds shining while singing the song of innocence. C.R. Avery's writing flows like a Tennessee Williams stage play, from haiku-size poems to longer erotic tales that sink the reader deeper into backstage smoke of Avery’s worlds. 38 Bar Blues is like a Bob Dylan setlist; a play constructed like a Charlie Chaplain silent film; a book built to make the reader laugh and cry. It all comes out as true music. 38 Bar Blues is the perfectly crafted journal of a living legend. Enter the back-room of an old Italian cafe, where dirty dirty politics, outlaw love, and outrageous beauty are all in the cards.

The Constant Velocity of Trains

Lea C. Deschenes

Author : Lea C. Deschenes
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904823

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The Constant Velocity of Trains by Lea C. Deschenes Pdf

Author Lea Deschenes' collection of honest, inquisitive poetry takes readers on a tour from the front steps in her native New England to uncharted jungles and beyond the edge of the universe, accompanied by Einstein, Marcus Aurelius and Rumi. Poetically, she balances precise craft with heartfelt meaning. From studies of a culture moving at the speed of light to meditations upon capital-L Love, The Constant Velocity of Trains finds its heart in relativity: the intersecting, interlocking, and often exasperating perspectives that make up reality. Lea Deschenes is flirting with perfection. It’s taken much too long for her words to reach a larger audience, an audience that’s been searching fruitlessly for what her work has always offered – bold glimpses of what exhilarates, frightens and moves us. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Lea Deschenes throws the well-aimed stone of her poetry through the glass houses of hypocrisy and human coldness... she is at all times intelligent, tender, and wedded to the quest for self-knowledge...There's wisdom at work, and at play, in this book. -Alicia Ostriker, “No Heaven" every poem feels entirely free to find its own voice, its own form. ...this latest volume adds an absolute precision in charting our emotional minefields; a wisdom and a surety of touch that make these poems utterly convincing. -Jack McCarthy, “Good Night”

Learn Then Burn

Derrick Brown

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904021

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Learn Then Burn by Derrick Brown Pdf

Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we’ve heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F’s and the S’s and the B’s and the Z’s. We’ve provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what’s around. We’ve also included some amazing lessons in its companion book for the teacher, sold separately.

Live For A Living

Buddy Wakefield

Author : Buddy Wakefield
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904878

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Live For A Living by Buddy Wakefield Pdf

“Tender, jarring and deeply human, Live For A Living is a book of poetry that is pulsing with the same electricity and honesty found in Buddy’s live performances.” - Andrea Gibson; International Poet-Activist

We Will Be Shelter

Andrea Gibson

Author : Andrea Gibson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781949342208

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We Will Be Shelter by Andrea Gibson Pdf

We Will be Shelter, edited by poet and activist Andrea Gibson, is an anthology of contemporary poems that addresses issues of social justice. Unique to this anthology is its focus on creating positive social change through gorgeous, gusty poetry. Alongside and embedded in featured poems are concrete ways to address social and political issues raised. The goal of We Will be Shelter is to raise awareness, encourage critical self-reflection, and call readers to action.

Yesterday Won't Goodbye

Brian S. Ellis

Author : Brian S. Ellis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904137

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Yesterday Won't Goodbye by Brian S. Ellis Pdf

Brian S. Ellis' second book, Yesterday Won't Goodbye, explores the author’s wild origins and punk rock Americana in powerful poetic form. Brian Stephen Ellis is borne of Gelfling and gutter punk. Unwashable stain ...His poems speak with an unbridled urgency yet come to you patient, coy, brimming with wisdom-and acutely aware of their own necessity. Read these poems. You've never been so alive." -Jeanann Verlee, "Racing Hummingbirds" ...Ellis expertly shifts between free verse poetry and creative non-fiction, consistently producing work that is captivating and original, all while having one of the most dynamic, affective, and unapologetically raw live performances anywhere. -Jared Paul, "Prayers For Atheist"

Scandalabra

Derrick Brown

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935904922

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Scandalabra by Derrick Brown Pdf

Derrick Brown’s long awaited new collection of poetry and prose, Scandalabra, is a book that boils with true grit Americana, sensual power and black oceanic wildness. About.com rated his newest collection 'Scandalabra' as one of the top poetry books of 2009. Written at sea aboard a fishing vessel and in the hills of Tennessee, these poems roar in six unique sections never before seen from this acclaimed writer. I wish I had written “Patience”. I mean written it down on paper. I’ve thought it to myself several times in different countries, but now Derrick has re-earned my trust after initially losing it by naming his book with a pun. -Comedian David Cross Brown is leading a revolution to inject poetry, both written and spoken, with the raucous and booze-infused spirit of rock n’ roll. -Sara Graham, VenusZine

Write About An Empty Birdcage

Write About an Empty Birdcage by Elaina M. Elllis Pdf

How to Love the Empty Air by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Pdf

Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Anna Waterhouse Pdf

Birds and Cages by Ida Tomshinsky Pdf

The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs by Anonim Pdf

Pansy by Andrea Gibson Pdf

Racing Hummingbirds by Jeanann Verlee Pdf

The Last Time As We Are by Taylor Mali Pdf

38 Bar Blues by C.R. Avery Pdf

The Constant Velocity of Trains by Lea C. Deschenes Pdf

Learn Then Burn by Derrick Brown Pdf

Live For A Living by Buddy Wakefield Pdf

We Will Be Shelter by Andrea Gibson Pdf

Yesterday Won't Goodbye by Brian S. Ellis Pdf

Scandalabra by Derrick Brown Pdf

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