Download or read book Chronicles of Life in Poetry written by Adrian Wee Kok Seng and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems comprises life awakening moments that share much about life encounters, pains, expectations, confessions and many other every day issues. It provides a wide selection of topics which many readers can easily identify as true and authentically written from the soul of the writer. The entries in this book are accompanied by reviews of other poetry lovers to provide a brief insight of what other readers think of my work. My poems touch on the reality of life and it is my hope that this collection of mind-liberating lines will bring comfort to all, even to the point of making us realize that life is not a game that can be easily played and won. The book will be an enlightening read if readers were to only let the words sink and plainly speak to the seeking soul that have long thirst for a release. There will be a sense of satisfaction within the inner self saying, "Yes, you've hit the right note" and soul-searching moments after the message is digested as intended.
Download or read book The Book of Light written by Lucille Clifton and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century. Though The Book of Light opens with thirty-nine names for light, we soon learn the most meaningful name is Lucille—daughter, mother, proud Black woman. Known for her ability to convey multitudes in few words, Clifton writes into the shadows—her father’s violations, a Black neighborhood bombed, death, loss—all while illuminating the full spectrum of human emotion: grief and celebration, anger and joy, empowerment and so much grace. A meeting place of myth and the Divine, The Book of Light exists “between starshine and clay” as Clifton’s personas allow us to bear the world’s weight with Atlas and witness conversations between Lucifer and God. While names and dates mark this text as a social commentary responding to her time, it is haunting how easily this collection serves as a political palimpsest of today. We leave these poems inspired—Clifton shows us Superman is not our hero. Our hero is the Black female narrator who decides to live. And what a life she creates! “Won’t you celebrate with me?”
Download or read book The Chronicles of Life Poetry written by U. M. Hiram and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poetry book is comprised of a number of lyrical content that has been inspired by a variety of life's journeys that I experienced or have witnessed over the years which include true love, long distance love, heartbreak, tragedy and everything in between which equate to the chronicles of life.
Download or read book Poetic Chronicles of Life Love and My Pursuit of Happiness written by The Poetic One and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am The Poetic One, the one that write the poems that make you think about now, then, and later. I am The Poetic One when you read my poems you'll be like "Dang is it like that or Wow I can't believe it." I am The Poetic One read; feel me, be me the one that causes chills to go up your spine and that tingling sensation all over. I am The Poetic One who tells you like it is no sugar coating. Feel my emotions, feel my pain, feel the love as you take your journey through the Poetic Chronicles of Life Love and my Pursuit of Happiness.
Download or read book Chronicles of My Life written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my life." In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet childhood in New York; then he describes his initial encounters with Asia and Europe and the way in which World War II complicated that experience. He captures the sights, scents, and sounds of Japan as they first enveloped him, and talks of the unique travels and well-known intellectuals who later shaped the contours of his academic career. Keene traces the movement of his passions with delicacy and subtlety, deftly weaving his love for Japan into a larger narrative about identity and home and the circumstances that led a Westerner to find solace in a country on the opposite side of the world. Chronicles of My Life is not only a fascinating tale of two cultures colliding, but also a thrilling account of the emotions and experiences that connect us all, regardless of our individual origins.
Download or read book Poems to Live Your Life By written by Chris Riddell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated collection of poems for every walk of life Curated by artist and writer Chris Riddell, Poems to Live Your Life By is a beautifully illustrated collection of poems for readers young and old to carry with them as they grow. The book includes favorites, both old and new—from selections of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets to original poems by Neil Gaiman to lyrics to an indie rock song by Phoebe Bridgers. It is divided into different subjects and includes poems about youth, love, imaginings, and endings. Brought to life by Chris Riddell’s striking artwork, Poems to Live Your Life By is the kind of book that readers can return to again and again at different moments in their life.
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965 2010 written by Lucille Clifton and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly "All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly "If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."—NPR "The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post "The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry—is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."—Toni Morrison, from the Foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965–1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.
Download or read book Chronicles of a Soul written by Ghada El Kurd and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles of a Soul, an authentic compilation of one woman's life through three decades, from the innocence of love, through marriages, divorce, depression, awakening, rediscovery, to sensuality, motherhood, self empowerment and actualization.
Download or read book A Poetic Sojourn Into Life s Chronicles written by Sumitra Woodhull and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a romantic style of writing based upon creative imagination and a unique descriptive flow of prose using engaging play of words.
Download or read book The Cocaine Chronicles written by Gary Phillips and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of cocaine stories from the creators of The Speed Chronicles—“Caution: these stories are addicting” (Harlan Coben). This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Cocaine is the subject, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today’s most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.
Download or read book Equinox written by Leon A. Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equinox Chronicles from the Archives of Life Equinox is a beautifully written, yet stunning revelation of life that is presented without reservations or boundaries. The third collection of short stories and poetry by Leon A. Walker, it is most certainly his most compelling and comprehensive work. This book is somewhat of an anthology as it contains written works from his first two collections as well as many new poems and short stories that were written in recent years and some, specifically for this project. Readers of Equinox will be moved by many of the sensitive themes as well as the creative and classic style that is so masterfully employed by this writer. A style that has become the signature aspect of his personal literary flair. As a poet, he is widely recognized for his ability to weave passion and emotion into his works. A talent that many believe sets him apart from many modern-day writers, through his brilliant and captivating use of word blends and his meticulous sense of rhythm and tempo. Equinox is a marvelous collection of short stories and poetry that any collector or reader or creative writing or classic literature would vastly appreciate. www.leon-walker.com
Download or read book Immigrant Chronicle written by Peter Skrzynecki and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Skrzynecki is a poet and fiction writer of Polish-Ukrainian descent. His poems are largely poems of reflection and observation, but in the course of their 'meditations' on experience they touch on the special pathos of immigrant families as they come to terms with a new and very foreign country.
Download or read book Kendall s Chronicles written by Kendall Smith-Sullivan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Kendall's Chronicles studies diverse topics and transforms them into provocative artistic writing. The poems "Double-Prints" and "The First Night" will have you longing for a decadent vacation in Europe while stories such as "Earth Visit" and "Sea Medicine" remind that sometimes home is where you most want to be. Employing powerful metaphors, a wealth of personification, and wry wit, this former professor demonstrates that not only can she instruct writing, but she can also create literature that is inspiring and thought-provoking. This sampler of poetry and non-fiction is perfect for word lovers but may also be utilized as a prompting tool for other writers. Topics cover childhood, desire, loss, spirituality, nature, womanhood, and personal identity. A special bonus is the final section which excerpts her soon to be released book Soulmate Logic: How Any Woman Can Use Her Head to Obtain Her Heart's Desire.
Download or read book Instant Chronicles written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new poem which is at times a critique of modern biography and at other times an autobiographical memoir. "Enright is a major poet who quietly but insistently reminds us that civilization still matters."--John Russell Taylor, The Times (London). "(Enright's) poetic achievement is eloquent and humane"--Paul Theroux, Sunday Times (London)
Download or read book The Life written by Carrie Fountain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exquisite book of poetry with a lens on motherhood that’s existential, funny and tender.” —Elle Acclaimed poet Carrie Fountain deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful and wise poems The poems in Carrie Fountain's third collection, The Life, exist somewhere, as Rilke says, between “our daily life” and “the great work”—an interstitial space where sidelong glances live alongside shouts to heaven. In elegant, colloquial language, Fountain observes her children dressing themselves in fledgling layers of personhood, creating their own private worlds and personalities, and makes room for genuine marvels in the midst of routine. Attuned to the delicate, fleeting moments that together comprise a life, these poems offer a guide by which to navigate the signs and symbols, and to pilot if not the perfect life, the only life, the life we are given.
Download or read book Another Life written by Daniel Lipara and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. Translated by Robin Myers. ANOTHER LIFE, Daniel Lipara's subtle and shimmering debut, is a family history, an intimate epic, a travel story, and an initiation. Both meditative and cinematic, engaging both playfully and ardently with the Odyssey and Alice Oswald's Memorial, this book chronicles a constellation of relatives pushed into the light by the centripetal force of death. ANOTHER LIFE is less elegy than eulogy, summoning a vibrant range of voices and tones,--caustic, tender, solemn, ecstatic,--to praise the many lives that fit inside each and every one of us. "A vivid, evocative account of family, place and memory, through Homeric poetry and myth, beautifully translated by Robin Myers."--Emily Wilson "Family, spiritual discovery, the recovery of myth and what it means when we use words like 'sacred,' or 'soul',--Daniel Lipara explores all the larger questions with grace, compassion and deft humour in this gem of a collection. Inventively and scrupulously translated by Robin Myers, ANOTHER LIFE is one of the finest books of poetry that I have read in some time."--John Burnside "It is hard to describe all that ANOTHER LIFE is,--epic poem, bildungsroman, family chronicle, elegy. The thing is, though, description doesn't matter,--the poem beguiles and charms, moves as muscular as an epiphany through the silence it meditates on halfway through when the speaker comes of age at an ashram with his mother. It is dappled with dazzling Homeric similes, describing the life of an Argentine boy descended from Greek farmers and Russian seers as he witnesses, say, his mother being wrapped into a sari in rural India, or his father disassemble an engine in Mataderos. It is home to an effortless abundance, but never a clutteredness, thanks in large part to Robin Myers exceptional translation. In her hands, the lines are as lucent and bracing as ice cubes dropped in a glass of water,--llava halts, gusts of smoke bluster,--and the syntax is as fluid and free of punctuation as the Aeolian winds that move Lipara's people across oceans and eras and into as much as out of each other's lives. Unaffected yet profound, casual but alert to the innate dignity of life, the poem that Robin Myers has brought us does what great poems do: show us the ancient in the contemporary, the lightness in the gravity, the gleaming thread of the sacred woven everywhere in the commonplace."--Conor Bracken
Download or read book The Chicken Chronicles written by Alice Walker and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “life-affirmative and eccentrically inspirational” collection from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Kirkus Reviews). In these glorious, offbeat, and compassionate tales, one of America’s preeminent authors shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of affectionately named chickens. Walker addresses her “girls” directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, during her travels to Bali and Dharamsala as an activist for peace and justice. On the way, she invites readers along on a surprising journey of spiritual discovery. Both heartbreaking and uplifting, The Chicken Chronicles lets us see a new and deeply personal side of one of the most captivating writers of our time. In turn, Walker has created a powerful touchstone for anyone seeking a deeper connection with the natural world. “Heartfelt, thought-provoking ruminations on sustenance from perspectives of both giver and receiver.” —Library Journal “Walker’s sage, compassionate memoir is meant to be savored and contemplated.” —Kirkus Reviews
