Download or read book Fire Gate Poems written by Henry C. Finney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Gate Poems: A Journey of Spiritual Healing presents a collection of poems and images that mark author Henry C. Finneys journey from grief to healing following the death of his son. Writing poetry and Zen meditation contributed greatly to his recovery from the unthinkable-the loss of a child. The verses and illustrations provide glimpses of the landscape he traversed during this journey-its darkest jungles of grief, its rolling hills of recovery, and finally its brilliant vistas of love and happiness. After a few verses from earlier years (origins), the poems articulate stages of Finneys return to life. They begin with reactions to the tragedy (abyss), continue with poems of return and renewal, and conclude with verses of wonder. His poetic images are enhanced by black-and-white renditions of his drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs. Finneys poems sing of lifes mysteries, sorrows, and beauty; his art celebrates the world. His work demonstrates the healing powers of writing and art. The Lives of Grasses Recovering from my deep frozen winter I wander now amid a sea of grasses of new-grown wild flowers where just last week (Ive lost track) snow lay deep. No path remains. Despite your absence summer has secretly returned. No pretending winter losses any more. I re-awaken like this field whose sea of waving tassels swishing, aromatic
Download or read book Teaching with Fire written by Sam M. Intrator and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaim Your Fire "Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children....Those who want us to believe that teaching is a technocratic and robotic skill devoid of art or joy or beauty need to read this powerful collection. So, for that matter, do we all." ?Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities "When reasoned argument fails, poetry helps us make sense of life. A few well-chosen images, the spinning together of words creates a way of seeing where we came from and lights up possibilities for where we might be going....Dip in, read, and ponder; share with others. It's inspiration in the very best sense." ?Deborah Meier, co-principal of The Mission Hill School, Boston and founder of a network of schools in East Harlem, New York "In the Confucian tradition it is said that the mark of a golden era is that children are the most important members of the society and teaching is the most revered profession. Our jour ney to that ideal may be a long one, but it is books like this that will sustain us - for who are we all at our best save teachers, and who matters more to us than the children?" ?Peter M. Senge, founding chair, SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) and author of The Fifth Discipline Those of us who care about the young and their education must find ways to remember what teaching and learning are really about. We must find ways to keep our hearts alive as we serve our students. Poetry has the power to keep us vital and focused on what really matters in life and in schooling. Teaching with Fire is a wonderful collection of eighty-eight poems from such well-loved poets as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, and Pablo Neruda. Each of these evocative poems is accompanied by a brief story from a teacher explaining the significance of the poem in his or her life's work. This beautiful book also includes an essay that describes how poetry can be used to grow both personally and professionally. Teaching With Fire was written in partnership with the Center for Teacher Formation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Royalties from this book will be used to fund scholarship opportunities for teachers to grow and learn.
Download or read book Fire in the Conservatory written by Linda Gregerson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems for the Fire written by Robert B. Repenning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years these poems sat in file folder. They just didn't seem to belong anywhere, until one day I noticed that they were meant to be together and to be shared. In the old days, poems without a home eventually would be burnt down by the river at Mount Saint Vincent's College. Thankfully Danny O said something discouraging of this practice and so for years poems for the fire have waited to survive the night and see the light of day.
Download or read book Fire Is Not a Country written by Cynthia Dewi Oka and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.
Download or read book The Fire in All Things written by Stephen Yenser and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Richard Howard from almost one thousand entries, Stephen Yenser’s The Fire in All Things is the most recent recipient of the Walt Whitman Award, given annually by The Academy of American Poets to honor an outstanding collection of verse by an American poet who has not previously published a book-length collection. The poems in The Fire in All Things are as intricate as vines that intertwine and twist around the trunk of a tree; yet high though the poems climb, each has its roots in the natural world, and in the heart. Ruins, architectural and emotional, fill these poems even as the language restores itself in puns, internal rhymes, and slant rhymes. The long poem “Bertumnal” begins with these lines: Close call, close call, close call: this early in the morning The raucous crows’ raw caws are ricochets off rock. Afloat on wire from a dead tree’s branch a piece of charred limb Repeats a finch that perched on it in its last life. Here under the pergola, loaded with green wisteria, Misty air wistful with a few late lavender clusters, Light falling in petal-sized spots across the notebook page (Falling just now for instance on the phrase Light falling) . . . The Fire in All Things reveals a poet of mature talent—shrewdly observant of the world around him, possessed of a keen wit and a formidable command of the language.
Download or read book The Gate written by Ansel Brown and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gate opens to possibilities. This collection speaks to the nature of the human spirit. The ever-conquering valor that defines us. It presents a passage through to the prospects that await beyond our immediate state and reality of entrapment and confinement. It bears also, the bounties of free thinking attained when psychological walls and chains of inferiority and self-injuring mindsets are crumbled by the constant bombardment of belief. This book seeks to identify and dismantle the shackles binding us. It is an attempt simply to break free.
Download or read book The Fire of Joy written by Clive James and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget.
Download or read book Fire in the Sea written by Sue Brown Cowing and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative and colorful collection of more than 150 poems contains work by poets from many Pacific lands as well as from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The poems were gathered especially but not exclusively for young readers. Most were written in English, but a few were translated from their original languages. Unlike conventional anthologies, Fire in the Sea places the rich traditional and contemporary poetry of Hawai‘i and the Pacific (often overlooked by anthologists) alongside better-known works from the East and West. Selected works of art from the collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts accompany the poems.
Download or read book Morning in the Burned House written by Margaret Atwood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems -- by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate -- make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word. Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Download or read book Fire in the Conservatory written by Linda Gregerson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gregerson manages to pair narrative immediacy with intricate orchestration, creating a kind of writing that hustles us along even as it reaches back through complicated echoes of earlier moments."--Los Angeles Review of Books
Download or read book Poetry s Fire written by J Asheley Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years ago we began with just one basic idea: we wanted to provide a platform for poets to share their work for free. Issue #1 was started in March 2011 and we have not slowed down since. Submissions from all over the world have been sent to us and we have been excited to read some great work from some great writers with their various and intriguing backgrounds. This compilation consists of Issues #1 through #25 of Poet Speak Magazine in a book format that is easy and pleasurable to read and will certainly make a wonderful keepsake and conversation piece in your homes and classrooms. So go ahead and browse the poetry in this book from talented writers from across the globe and feel Poetry's Fire!
Download or read book Fire Muse written by Cynthia Huntington and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fire Muse, Cynthia Huntington returns to the back shore of Provincetown and the beach and dunes that inspired her 1999 memoir, The Salt House. Reflecting on place, time, and memory, Huntington's poems display a kind of ecstasy born of love for her surroundings and a keen awareness of their sweep and details. Attentive to the outer world as well as what lies within, in these poems we find Huntington exploring her deepening bond with a familiar place.
Download or read book The Fire Landscape written by Gary Fincke and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fire Landscape is a series of poem sequences that chronicle a wide variety of coming-of-age moments from childhood in the 1950s through the beginning of the 21st century. These deeply layered, complex narrative poems are connected by close personal observation of place and time but also by the politics of the Cold War and its aftermath, including a sequence driven by the May 4, 1970, shooting of students by the National Guard at Kent State where Gary Fincke was a student at the time.
Download or read book Tongues of Fire written by Jennifer LeClaire and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access Your Prophetic Advantage in Prayer! What is really happening in the unseen realm when we pray in tongues? In Tongues of Fire, seasoned prophetic teacher and prayer leader, Jennifer LeClaire offers fresh biblical insight into what goes on when we activate our heavenly prayer language. Using directed prayer activations, Jennifer helps you tap into the power of praying in tongues. She examines the physiological effects that praying in tongues has on our bodies as well as the promises of God we access when we pray. Divided into 101 easy to read mini-chapters, you will discover how to: Break Religious Mindsets Strengthen Your Physical Body Tap into Heaven's Revelation and Mysteries Receive Holy Boldness Open Your Seer Eyes to the Unseen Realm Shift Spiritual Atmospheres Pray Perfect Prayers Don't get stuck in a rut of powerless prayer. There’s a whole realm of glory and power awaiting you as you unlock the mysteries of praying in tongues. Tap into it today and see your life transformed from the inside out!
Download or read book Original Fire written by Louise Erdrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate book of poetry from New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. In this important collection, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire. “These molten poems radiate with the ferocity of desire, and in them Erdrich does not spin verse so much as tell tales—of betrayal and revenge, of hunting and being hunted.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Download or read book Singing at the Gates written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious...righteous and prayerful” (Booklist). Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. “A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation
