Download or read book Headwaters Poems written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Luminous. . . . Each reading reveals the tug of opposites, and in this tension the poet shows her brilliance.”—Library Journal, starred review Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages—owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills—and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has accumulated a lifetime’s worth of skills herself: she too has survived. The power of these extraordinary poems lies in their recognition that all our experience is ultimately useless—that human beings are at every moment beginners, facing the earth as if for the first time. "Don’t you think I’m doing better," asks the first poem. "You got sick you got well you got sick," says the last. Eschewing punctuation, forgoing every symmetry, the poems hurl themselves forward, driven by an urgent need to speak. Headwaters is a book of wisdom that refuses to be wise, a book of fresh beginnings by an American poet writing at the height of her powers.
Download or read book Headwaters Poems written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschewing punctuation, forgoing every symmetry, the poems hurl themselves forward, driven by an urgent need to speak. Headwaters is a book of wisdom that refuses to be wise, a book of fresh beginnings by an American poet writing at the height of her powers.
Download or read book Paddle for a Purpose written by Barb Geiger and published by eLectio Publishing. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You want to what?" Barb regards her husband with incredulity at the prospect of paddling down the entire length of the mighty Mississippi River in their recently completed tandem kayak. Paddle for a Purpose sweeps the reader into a journey of faith and personal discovery, as Barb and Gene feel called to volunteer with charity organizations in quaint river towns along one of the most scenic and powerful river systems in America. Against a backdrop of picturesque settings and the river's changing moods, exciting and often humorous accounts of adventure and mishap intermingle with inspiring stories of healing, renewal, beauty, compassion and trust in God.
Download or read book Headwaters written by Anthony Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headwaters is the sixteenth collection from a widely revered poet writing at the height of his passions.
Download or read book The Art of Syntax written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure—this architecture—is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of America's best and most influential poets and teachers.
Download or read book Wish Meal written by Tim Whitsel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPRINGFIELD
Download or read book Brocade River Poems written by Xue Tao and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply moving, amusing, and thought-provoking. Drawing knowledgeably on a rich literary tradition, she created images that here live again for the contemporary reader of English. This bilingual edition contains about two-thirds of Xue Tao's extant poems. The translations are based on accurate readings of the originals and extensive research in both Chinese and Japanese materials. The notes at the end of the book explain allusions and place the poems in the context of medieval Chinese culture and its great literary heritage, while the opening essay introduces Xue Tao's work and describes her unusual life history.
Download or read book What Falls Away is Always written by Katharine Haake and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Searing, poignant, and downright funny, What Falls Away Is Always brings together more than thirty writers of both prose and poetry to reflect on the experiences of aging and writing they share, along with the possibly more daunting question--what next?"--
Download or read book Approaching the Fields written by Chanda Feldman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut collection, Chanda Feldman's stunning poems unveil her childhood as well as that of her parents. Memories of desegregation, the days after the assassination of Dr. King, and what life was like for sharecroppers-- including the weddings, family feasts, and hardscrabble conditions that composed their lives-- unfold in this beautiful collection. Both timely and timeless, Feldmen presents a thoughtful and resonating first book.
Download or read book Kyrie written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fifth collection of poetry, sonnets explore the lives of people coping with a plague as they reflect on the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed some twenty-five million people around the globe. Reprint.
Download or read book Hold Outs written by Bill Mohr and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution of contemporary American poetry in Los Angeles, California.
Download or read book Mountains and Rivers Without End written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth — sky, rock, water — while exploring the human connection to nature with stunning wisdom. Winner of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Society's John Hay Award, among others, Gary Snyder finds his quiet brilliance celebrated in this new edition of one of his most treasured works.
Download or read book The Shortest Farewells are the Best written by Chuck Rosenthal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Flash Fiction. A short volume of Flash Fiction noir stories in which every line has been taken from a noir movie of the '40s and '50s.
Download or read book Tomorrow You ll be One of Us written by Chuck Rosenthal and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Sci-fi Studies. TOMORROW YOU'LL BE ONE OF US is a collection of poems composed entirely of dialogue from sci-fi movies of the 50s and early 60s, each poem accompanied by an apt and witty illustration. Succinct, resonant, hilarious, and space-age, this is a book that celebrates an era of filmmaking and at the same time creates something entirely new.
Download or read book Where are You From written by Tomás Q. Morín and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Start with a Small Guitar written by Lynne Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start With A Small Guitar is a collection of poems that celebrate and suspect, extol and mourn, despise and pray for love, in all its terrible, bewitching iterations. Neither biography nor dream--despite the way the poems' titles mislead--these poems hope and pretend and, in the end, wrap their arms around a language that gives rise to love's mysteries. The poet hopes that her readers will be bewildered and enchanted, infuriated and left on a precipice. -- Provided by publisher.
