Download or read book Angel Visits and Other Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Island written by H. Mark Lai and published by San Francisco Study Center. This book was released on 1980 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scale How Meditations written by Charlotte Maria Mason and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of Meditations comprise a verse by verse commentary on the first seven chapters of the Gospel according to St. John delivered as Sunday talks by Charlotte Mason to her disciples at "Scale How", The House of Education in Ambleside, and mailed weekly to subscribers during the year 1898 and later published in "The Parents' Review". This edifying collection is also an indispensable source for any one interested in exploring more deeply Mason's religious convictions.

Download or read book The Angel in the House written by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teeth Never Sleep written by Ángel García and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2019 PEN Open Book Award Winner, 2019 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Drawing on folklore and fantasy, childhood memory and hallucination, and marked by a tone of piercing divulgence, Teeth Never Sleep nimbly negotiates the split consciousness a culture of dominance requires of men (especially men of color), highlighting the fissures in selfhood created by the pressure to seek submission over intimacy while still wanting desperately to be loved, and tracing the contorted route by which emotional pain finds expression in violence. “The night my girlfriend tells my mother I beat her, / I feel betrayed. This was a secret we kept between us. / That night, I was no longer my mother’s loving son,” the speaker in one poem confesses, and later “I never wanted to be this kind of animal.” And yet, through the lens of Ángel García’s sharp imagining, men frequently appear as beasts (sometimes literally)—as hybrid beings both tender and brutal—that he steadfastly refuses to let off the hook as he obsessively catalogs the origins of toxic masculinity (the first time I made my mother cry, the first time I pitied my father, the first time I saw a girl bleed) and its quiet, lasting effects: “Still a part of me believes a / man shouldn’t cry in front of a woman, even in the dark.” In a culture of weaponized masculinity, the poems in Teeth Never Sleep make a doorway of a wound, inviting readers to walk through and sit down inside the raw pain they harbor to meditate on two central, urgent questions: what it means to be a man and how, as a man, to love.

Download or read book An Alien at St Wilfred s written by Adrian Plass and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Adrian Plass tells the humorous and poignant tale of a small alien who comes to live in a parish church.

Download or read book Poems written by William Byrne (of Cheltenham.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phenomenal Woman written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou These four poems, “Phenomenal Woman,” “Still I Rise,” “Weekend Glory,” and “Our Grandmothers,” are among the most remembered and acclaimed of Maya Angelou's poems. They celebrate women with a majesty that has inspired and touched the hearts of millions. “Phenomenal Woman” is a phenomenal poem that speaks to us of where we are as women at the dawn of a new century. In a clear voice, Maya Angelou vividly reminds us of our towering strength and beauty.

Download or read book Sounding the Seasons written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.

Download or read book Questions About Angels written by Billy Collins and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2003-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Questions About Angels--one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--is remarkable for its wry, inquisitive voice and its sheer imaginative range. Edward Hirsch selected this classic book for the National Poetry Series, and each of Collins's poems-from his meditation on forgetfulness to his musings on the behavior of angels-is an exploration of imaginative possibilities. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."

Download or read book The Christian Poet Or Selections in Verse on Sacred Subjects written by James Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deluge written by Leila Chatti and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma." —Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding. In the Qur’an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment. The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection’s themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction. Deluge investigates the childhood roots of faith and desire alongside their present day enactments. Chatti’s remarkably direct voice makes use of innovative poetic form to gaze unflinchingly at what she was taught to keep hidden. This powerful piece of life-writing depicts Chatti’s journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both. Chatti blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and medical terminology in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.

Download or read book The Christian Poet Or Selections in Verse on Sacred Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Suite of Angels written by Kenneth Pitchford and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most collections, this well-wrought book is unified around certain central themes and images. These images may depict the various forms of love, either experienced in reality by the waking self or suffered anew in the archetypes of sleep, where old myths take on new meanings. The book is an investigation of the forms of love and through their effects on a single individual their effect on us all. Originally published in 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Download or read book Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems written by Michelle Castleberry and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Castleberry's "Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems" is the remarkable debut of a poet in strong voice and with a sure poetic sense in matters great and small. Stepping into the world presented here is to open a present you did not expect and find yourself almost overwhelmed with delight at what you have been given. The Gideons, jazz, the god of fire, nightmares, love and divorce, the devil's nephew, a Delta lullaby, and so much more are examined and brought to life here. Her poems are rich with imagery from her childhood among the tomato fields and timber lanes of southeastern Arkansas; Michelle Castleberry remains grounded in what is most important from her beginnings, even as she ventures out into the realm of intelligent and inspired imagination. This extraordinary first book by an already accomplished poet reminds us of the continuing importance, relevance, and, yes, necessity of poetry, poetry that offers us both pleasure and truth. Michelle Castleberry is a poet, sometime saxophonist, and clinical social worker. Her work has appeared in "Umbrella," "Bellemeade Books," "The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature," "Poemeleon," "The Anthology of Southern Poetry, Vol. V: Georgia," and "The Chattahoochee Review." She is most proud of her involvement in the Athens, Georgia, community of Word of Mouth, a monthly open poetry reading. She lives in Watkinsville, Georgia. Praise for "Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems" "Michelle Castleberry's poems are often quiet, but never subtle or shy. In fact, they are fearless and dead set on searching out and praising beauty in this world: from a coroner's exam table to a hospital burn unit in Afghanistan, or a winter carnival, these poems sing with feather and grit. Read this book and be moved." -Travis Wayne Denton, author of "When Pianos Fall from the Sky" and "The Burden of Speech" "Michelle Castleberry's poems are probative and lyrical, proving instinct and heart are still essential for our customary lives. 'Dissecting the Angel' is a fervent, defiant, and fresh collection from a poet of ardor and nerve." -Stephen Kuusisto, author of "Planet of the Blind" "In 'Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems, ' Michelle Castleberry conjures a landscape that is both of the real world-her home in rural Arkansas, and in equal measure, of the dreams we all carry within us of home: 'For most of my life/I've woken up from nightmares/mouthing the wish to go Home.' These poems are created out of sharply etched images and filled with insight. Most importantly, they all come straight from the heart of the poet." -Judith Ortiz Cofer, author of "A Love Story Beginning in Spanish" "Raw, piercing, full of sass and the sacrament of longing, her imagery captures the universal." -Trish Joyce, professor, creative writing, Broward College "Whatever gift it takes to make poetry, and from whichever god of words that gift is given, Michelle Castleberry has been exceedingly blessed. Her collection, 'Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems, 'is triumphant writing, a far better offering than anything I've read in a very long while. Lovers of rich, profound language will be mesmerized by her descriptive power and by the surety of her insight. The gods have chosen well." -Terry Kay, author of "To Dance with the White Dog" and "The Book of Marie"

Download or read book Bring Now the Angels written by Dilruba Ahmed and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon coexists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed’s second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss—of a beloved family member, of human dignity and potential, of the earth as it stands, of hope. Her poems weave mourning with the erratic process of healing, skepticism with an unsteady attempt to regain faith. With poems that are by turns elegiac, biting, and tender, Bring Now the Angels conveys a desire to move toward transformation and rebirth, even among seemingly insurmountable obstacles: chronic disease, corporate greed, environmental harm, and a general atmosphere of anxiety and violence. UNDERGROUND …They are turning their locks to paint their faces and their daughters’ faces. They look on as the girls regard their eyes in mirrors, in the long cracked mirror of history, and war. They paint themselves into existence inside the shuttered rooms of their hearts, where freedom still bristles…

Download or read book A Visit to William Blake s Inn written by Nancy Willard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests and residents, human and animal, at William Blake's inn.