Download or read book Crazy Horse in Stillness written by William Heyen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems explores the collision between a civilization of western time and one of primal timelessness.
Download or read book Ennui Prophet written by Christopher Kennedy and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Singular and deeply pleasurable. Christopher Kennedy's prosetry is a lonely anarchic nation-state unto itself, half vacation funspot, half eerie purgatorial layover."—Dave Eggers The poems in Ennui Prophet, Christopher Kennedy's fourth collection, range from deeply personal explorations of relationships with family and friends, to examinations of the political climate in the first decade of the millennium. Whether personal or public, Kennedy gazes through a slightly distorted lens to better see the world around us. Christopher Kennedy's previous book, Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007) received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. He directs Syracuse University's MFA program in creative writing.
Download or read book The Persistence of Objects written by Richard García and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonnets, fables, prose poems - surrealism with a heart by a master of radically inventive poetry.
Download or read book What He Took written by Wendy Mnookin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an auto accident that occurred during a family outing that took the life of Ms. Mnookin’s father, the ensuing poems track the effect of that tragedy and loss, as the family heals from disaster, as the child grows up in a household with a stepfather and makes her uneasy way into adulthood, all under the shadow of a psychic uneasiness born of loss and impermanence. Wendy Mnookin’s poetry has received awards from journals including The Comstock Review, Kansas Quarterly and New Millennium Writings. She was a 1999 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She teaches poetry in Boston. Also available by Wendy Mnookin To Get Here TP $12.50, 1-880238-73-X o CUSA
Download or read book Faith and Doubt written by Patrice Vecchione and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems from around the world that explores the many facets of faith and doubt.
Download or read book The Biography Book written by Daniel S. Burt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marilyn to Mussolini, people captivate people. A&E's Biography, best-selling autobiographies, and biographical novels testify to the popularity of the genre. But where does one begin? Collected here are descriptions and evaluations of over 10,000 biographical works, including books of fact and fiction, biographies for young readers, and documentaries and movies, all based on the lives of over 500 historical figures from scientists and writers, to political and military leaders, to artists and musicians. Each entry includes a brief profile, autobiographical and primary sources, and recommended works. Short reviews describe the pertinent biographical works and offer insight into the qualities and special features of each title, helping readers to find the best biographical material available on hundreds of fascinating individuals.
Download or read book Small Press Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demands of the Dead written by Katy Ryan and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by death-row prisoners, playwrights, poets, activists, and literary scholars provides literary perspectives on the subject of the death penalty.
Download or read book Directory of American Poetry Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumb Luck written by Sam Hamill and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill's Dumb Luck affirms his ability to give us back the world and all its vicissitudes. Here you will find Zen fables, elegies and haiku, bluesy riffs, and poems that celebrate births, marriages, the liberating exile of the poet, as well as verses that present the dumb luck that has peppered the poet's life. Sam Hamill is the author of a dozen volumes of original poetry, as well as three collections of essays. He is the Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press, director of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, and contributing editor at The American Poetry Review.
Download or read book At My Ease written by David Ignatow and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth collection from major 20th century American poet David Ignatow.
Download or read book The End of Pink written by Kathryn Nuernberger and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters—Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin—all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and—of course—joy.
Download or read book To Get Here written by Wendy Mnookin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems that speak to a mother's anguish over her son's drug addiction; the son - as Superman - answers.
Download or read book Fuel written by Naomi Shihab Nye and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing", "Fuel" covers topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas to small ferns and forgotten books to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.
Download or read book The Hoopoe s Crown written by Jacqueline Osherow and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatically urgent from the get-go, many of Jacqueline Osherow's poems approach inconsistencies and mysteries in Biblical texts. From traditional poetic forms (sonnet, terza rima, villanelle, sestina, acrostic, loose ottava rima) to an austere free verse, Osherow mixes humor and seriousness while maintaining a conversational tone. These poems deal with Jewish tradition and the land of Israel in revelatory new ways. Jacqueline Osherow is the author of four previous poetry collections. Her work has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998) and The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. Awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah.
Download or read book Splendor written by Steve Kronen and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. Some of the poems in Splendor focus on our inescapable vulnerability due to aging or accident. Splendor also includes love poems to the author's wife and daughter. Many of the poems are rhymed and metered and use formal elements such as sonnets, villanelles, a sestina, a Dantean canzone, nonce forms, and others. Steve Kronen's first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Poems from Splendor have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere.
Download or read book And written by Michael Blumenthal and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Michael Blumenthal’s eyes we gain a renewed, childlike wonder at everything from plants, trees, and relationships to the most fundamental word in our vocabulary: AND. Blumenthal uses the conjunction to unify this collection and create a chanting, sonorous rhythm to his work. The result is a book of poems-as-hymns-and-praises. Michael Blumenthal holds the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. His other books include the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (HarperCollins Publishers, 2002), and the poetry collection Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1999), for which he was awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. Blumenthal’s new collection of poems, titled “And,” is the closest that the stoicism of Ecclesiastes will come to getting a 21st-century makeover. In it, there’s a time to laugh and cry, scatter stones and gather them up, and all the rest. There’s no point, though, in toil and hope beyond that. After reading these poems, which are designed with a cosmic sweep, you get the feeling that Blumenthal’s plan is, as in Dylan Thomas’s poem, eventually just to go gentle into that good night: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” be damned. --THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD Michael Blumenthal’s stunning new book, And, is an Eliotic celebration of life in the world as continuum and progress. He achieves this through a simple and seductive meditation upon the conjunction, “and,” and the way it enriches the complexity of language as it shapes lived experience. --The Montserrat Review
