Download or read book Out of Order written by Alexis Sears and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental health to race and identity. Alexis Sears's debut collection, Out of Order, is a collage of unapologetic intimacy, risk-taking vulnerability, and unwavering candor. A biracial millennial woman, Sears navigates the challenges of growing out of girlhood and into womanhood with its potential dangers, interrogating the male gaze, beauty standards, and confidence and identity. Pop culture references run through the collection, with rock icons David Bowie and Prince and poets like Kenneth Koch offering windows into desire and adaptation. In these poems, Sears works through heavy topics, such as loneliness, mental illness, chronic pain, the legacies of race and racism, and the aftermath of a father's suicide. As she writes, "I'm learning something every ravishing day / and none of it is easy." This young poet demonstrates an uncommon mastery of craft, writing in forms including the sonnet redoublé, sestina, canzone, and villanelle. With all her linguistic skills, Sears's work remains approachable, offering readers a striking blend of honesty, humor, anguish, joy, and surprise. Drawing influence from contemporary poets like Mark Jarman, Erica Dawson, and Tiana Clark, Sears cuts a path of her own. Out of Order was the 2021 winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize.

Download or read book Long Day written by Peter Sears and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this volume bring us a taste of Peter Sears' unique range of sensibility. Entertaining, somberly hilarious, exquisite and filled with refreshment, these are poems for all seasons, reasons, purposes, and tastes. This small book is a treasure.

Download or read book A Small Book of Poetry written by Duane Sears and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My poetry was inspired by my family and friends. Everyone who reads or hears my poetry likes it. My story is about my son, who is overseas. He wanted me to get a computer so we could stay in touch by e-mail. So to try out my poetry, I went on Poetry.com and entered a poem. I got the Editor's award, and then they asked me to enter another poem for a chance to go Las Vegas, and I went to Las Vegas.

Download or read book Small Talk written by Peter Sears and published by Northwest Masters (Unnumbered). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Talk gathers poems from Peter Sears's eight previous collections, and adds thirty entirely new poems. The many admirers of his poetry will be delighted to find so many old friends back in print and under a single cover. Eclectic, comic, disarming, deadly, and ever fresh and surprising, these poems offer a feast of necessary delights.

Download or read book Selections from American Poetry written by Margaret Sprague Carhart and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Treasury of American Poetry written by Nancy Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of best-love poems by American poets.

Download or read book The Brink written by Peter Sears and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition. Voice Poems.

Download or read book Selections from American Poetry written by Frederick Houk Law and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2000 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Poet Laureate Dove has chosen the best poems of the year from a wide range of literary magazines and journals, presenting works by W.S. Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Susan Mitchell, John Ashbery, and others. The poets comment about their work. Lehman writes the Foreword.

Download or read book A Wilted Flower in Your Watered Garden written by Donald Sears II and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilted Flower I'm a mortal, born of woman Full of doubt and full of trouble I came up like a flower, now I'm wilted With a gray beard of stubble There is hope for a tree Cut it down, it will sprout again But when mortals die What happens to us then? Will the heavens open wide? Will the dead rise again And walk in a paradise Unknown to living women and men? When we die, will our minds Turn completely into sand? Are we good for nothing more Than to fertilize the land? Over time the mountain falls The rain washes it away But for now I'm a wilted flower With a beard of gray

Download or read book American Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Union of American Poetry and Art written by John James Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry written by J. D. McClatchy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.

Download or read book The Heart of American Poetry written by Edward Hirsch and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what’s best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew—from Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” and Phillis Wheatley’s “To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works” to Garrett Hongo’s “Ancestral Graves, Kahuku” and Joy Harjo’s “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks”—exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation. “This is a personal book about American poetry,” writes Hirsch, “but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me, part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.”

Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2011 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.

Download or read book Contemporary American Poetry written by Donald Hall and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary American Poetry written by Various and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1989-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you’ll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall, describes the face of American poetry as "subjective." The American poem “reveals through images not particular pain, but general subjective life . . . The poet uses fantasy and distortion to express feeling.”