Download or read book Exhaling Life Changing Poems written by Tara L. Crockett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letting you in my heart. Allowing you to feel what I was feeling or felt. Expressing my feelings and emotions sincerely. Leaving nothing to the imagination or in question. Giving it to you straight without compromise. A soulful collection of poems! Written to entice your intellect, change your mood, and heal your brokenness.
Download or read book Life Is A Living Breathing Poem written by Yosipa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Is a Living Breathing Poem is Yosipa’s second collection of heartfelt poems. Inspired by life and the beauty of nature, Yosipa’s style of simplicity and depth of each verse is pure poetry that engages your senses. The author’s journey endures through painful changes, while learning to embrace the shadows of life with a silver lining. The art of poetry is alive throughout these pages.
Download or read book Poems of Healing written by Karl Kirchwey and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Download or read book Watch Me Trick Ghosts written by Robert Krut and published by Codhill Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangers and spirits intersect between surreal city streets and tactile dreams in this fourth collection from the award-winning poet.
Download or read book Strength in Silhouette Poems written by T. L. Cooper and published by The TLC Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We revere strength. We malign strength. We both fear and admire strength. When we reach inside during our weakest moments and find the strength to move forward, we discover the best thing about being human. Our humanity lies in both the strengths and the weaknesses that connect us and separate us. The poems within explore the many facets of strength in the hopes we never allow strength to become merely a silhouette.
Download or read book Living Poetry with Dynasty Hill written by Dynasty Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Poetry with Dynasty Hill is a phenomenal collection of poetry at random by the author as she lives day by day. The author gives the reader more than a collective piece in organized fashion, but she writes by inspiration day to day about random topics that come to play. Living Poetry with Dynasty Hill is a reality of real talent as well as everyday thoughts, fears, and challenges that may come to challenge hearts every day. Dynasty chose to keep this artistic read interesting in what is next and demonstrates raw emotion in poetry that helps connect her audience to their emotion and evoke change, healing, restoration, and peace. She chose to keep in a random fashion read to keep the reader interested in what is next, as well as to demonstrate raw skill that is needed in poetry that helps people put their words to their emotions and hopefully create a positive outcome to reality as to evoke change. Dynasty is known to write and speak by creative vision and inspiration, and this is clearly seen in the topic that inspired and ignited her heart. Life now is ever changing from one moment to the next, with happiness to the next sadness, life to death at the blink of the eye; therefore the title takes meaning as she writes living poetry with Dynasty Hill. Life sends setbacks and forward comebacks shifts and turns, and she wanted to connect with readers by writing a book that does not organize poetry by categories but help the reader as life happens. Dynasty Hill pieces not only intrigue on whats next but engages the reader to fulfill engagement by pieces from helping so many understand what poetry really is and how it helps humans heal. She navigates the reader with pieces from love, dating a man that is not right, and life and death to self-esteem topics that motivate. She even includes pieces that help all gender male and female and teen to adolescents. Its a must read again book. She even gives parents a poem to read to their children. She does not leave no one out. It is especially meant to inspire and ignite zeal and zest in this life to make good grades to helping dating and married couples. She always will be a Christian writer and by right, a poet. Dynasty was in the Mega Festival of Poets in 2017, and her signature poem Let Your Doves Fly could be heard with beauty as she demonstrates her words with two doves. Dynasty Hill is known for how she captures the heart of people with words of inspirations, evolving thought, evoking change, and proving to a dark world that words heal and bring peace and hope. She takes the reader to lessons of wisdom and also success and how to come to know the Lord as saviour.
Download or read book Write a Poem Save Your Life written by Meredith Heller and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Join Heller on her quest to help save the world, one poet at a time.” — from the foreword by Susan G. Wooldridge Write a Poem, Save Your Life helps writers of all ages and experience levels navigate their way through all aspects of life. With writing prompts, tools, encouragement, and moving student examples, Meredith Heller gently guides us in the art of using poetry to figure out who we are and what matters to us and to heal the deeper issues many of us face, such as depression, addiction, health and body image issues, low self-esteem, trauma, gender and sexual identity issues, and home and family problems. Along the way, we learn that writing poems helps us believe in ourselves, make positive life choices, and find direction, purpose, and meaning.
Download or read book Breathing for Clouds written by Christopher Reilley and published by Big Table Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Reilley's latest collection, Breathing for Clouds, has an emotional and architectural grandeur built page after page, written in many shapes, moods and even styles. In "A Digital Voice," Reilley writes, "I speak in puddles/but I write in oceans." Everything in this book is big, "like an old dozing elephant," embracing not only the whole of human emotion - love of child, of woman, of abuser, sadness, rage - but crossing literary genres, too, with the gritty noir prose pieces "Tales from the Grand Cafe," the poignant "An Open Letter to my Daughters," and of course, "Sabbath in Paradise." Breathing for Clouds does not look away or let up - ever. In its epic scope, in its muscularity of language, Reilley states, "In my greed, I offer you all I have." Who dares offer themselves like this? Jennifer Colella Martelli, Apostrophe Christopher Reilley deftly draws the reader from sentiment to the heartbreak of human folly. The sweetness of his poems and prose for his daughters, "Open Letter..." and the wistful "Pick Me A Winner" contrast starkly with pieces that detail darker visions, like "The Grand Cafe" tales and poems of crumbling relationships. The yearning "Danger Days" artfully applies middle age sensibility to reflections of youthful adventures. With wit, wry turn of the rhyme, and keen instinct, Breathing for Clouds invites us to view modern life through Reilley's lens. Richard Fox, Time Bomb ..".the Chuck Norris of poetry." Catherine Thorpe, In a Celadine World In Breathing for Clouds, Christopher Reilley (Poet Laureate of Dedham, Ma.) walks us on a tightrope, brings us to the edge of a tall building, and places us on the brink of life-changing decisions. His poems hit us universally as we are all on the verge, tittering above our changing situations. Do we choose to take action or to not take action and continue to sink? Check it out! Timothy Gager, The Shutting Door
Download or read book Exhale written by Rebecca Boykin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available.
Download or read book Breathing the Seasons written by James Bracy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is intended to give the reader an outlook on the lasting effects of people’s everyday responses to anything involving the touching of our emotions and choices regarding such topics. Anything you feel is something combining your stance as existing with your possible engagement. So I called it Breathing the Seasons. Breathing in response to the winds of life. Enjoy.
Download or read book The Undressing Poems written by Li-Young Lee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love. The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.
Download or read book My Life So Far written by Sally L. Fulton and published by Mercury Heartlink. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book of published poetry, My Life So Far: Breathing Lessons, by Sally L. Fulton invites you to enter intimately into her life and shows the reader, with clear and lyrical imagery, how she finds meaning in each moment. Her life is a microcosm of the suffering and transformation that everyone faces. That transformation, for this writer, is found in nature, and in the Buddhist principal which Thich Nhat Hanh calls "interbeing," the knowledge based on both spiritual and physical understanding that we are all a part of something greater that unifies us. Included in this artistic volume are several images of her paintings, each as rich and diverse as her poems. These paintings reflect the beauty of what the painter sees with her eyes as well as what she encounters in the unexpected nature of the spontaneous. It is through both language as well as through painting that she has come to find potent avenues toward an expression of her own truth.
Download or read book Breathing Aesthetics written by Jean-Thomas Tremblay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the disability diaries of Bob Flanagan, to the Black queer speculative fiction of Renee Gladman. In readings of these and other minoritarian works of experimental film, endurance performance, ecopoetics, and cinema-vérité, Tremblay contends that articulations of survival now depend on the management and dispersal of respiratory hazards. In so doing, they reveal how an aesthetic attention to breathing generates historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics and strategies for living under precarity.
Download or read book Poetry Unbound 50 Poems to Open Your World written by Pádraig Ó. Tuama and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.
Download or read book Make It the Same written by Jacob Edmond and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Make It the Same explores how poetry—an art form associated with the singular, inimitable utterance—is increasingly made from other texts through sampling, appropriation, translation, remediation, performance, and other forms of repetition. Edmond tracks the rise of copy poetry across media from the tape recorder to the computer and through various cultures and languages, reading across aesthetic, linguistic, geopolitical, and technological divides. He illuminates the common form that unites a diverse range of writers from dub poets in the Caribbean to digital parodists in China, samizdat wordsmiths in Russia to Twitter-trolling provocateurs in the United States, analyzing the works of such writers as Kamau Brathwaite, Dmitri Prigov, Yang Lian, John Cayley, Caroline Bergvall, M. NourbeSe Philip, Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Christian Bök, Yi Sha, Hsia Yü, and Tan Lin. Edmond develops an alternative account of modernist and contemporary literature as defined not by innovation—as in Ezra Pound’s oft-repeated slogan “make it new”—but by a system of continuous copying. Make It the Same transforms global literary history, showing how the old hierarchies of original and derivative, center and periphery are overturned when we recognize copying as the engine of literary change.
Download or read book As Long As You re Breathing written by Cristina Firtala and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Long As You're Breathing is a collection of poems about; love, purpose and existence. Within each poem exists a realisation, an awakening of the power and worth we withhold, that there is always so much more than our emotions and difficulties conceal. It brings to life the parts of our existence we struggle with or cannot confront, through hopeful messages, empowering imagery and worded therapy that could be a salvation. All of which guides the reader towards answering one question... what do you do when the world consumes you- from within?
Download or read book News of the Universe written by Robert Bly and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross–cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger–than–human consciousness operating in the universe. The book's 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary voices like Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Charles Simic, and Mary Oliver. Brilliant introductory essays trace our shifting attitudes toward the natural world, from the "old position" of dominating or denigrating nature, to the growing sympathy expressed by the Romantics and American poets like Whitman and Dickinson. Bly's translations of Neruda, Rilke, and others, along with superb examples of non–Western verse such as Eskimo and Zuni songs, complete this important, provocative anthology.
