Download or read book Left handed written by Jonathan Galassi and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They take us from the streets of New York City to a house in the country, from the island of Naxos to the Roman Forum. They reach back to the sonnets of Shakespeare but find inspiration, too, in contemporary life."--Dust jacket.

Download or read book Left Handed Wolf written by Adam Day and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Day’s Left-Handed Wolf offers short lyrical meditations and narratives that wrestle with contemporary issues of the environment, spirituality, and the social. These compact, imagistic poems welcome space and silence as a way of addressing both the commonality and complexity of people and experience. Day’s poems—influenced by meditation practice, as well as by classical Japanese and Chinese verse—are serious and bawdy, reverential and impertinent, accessible and eclectic, yet unified in their tone, atmosphere, and sensibility.

Download or read book Left handed written by Jonathan Galassi and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation. Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They take us from the streets of New York City to a house in the country, from the island of Naxos to the Roman Forum. They reach back to the sonnets of Shakespeare but find inspiration, too, in contemporary life. Naked and raw, lyrical yet formally inventive, rich with the melancholy wisdom of age, this is a work of resonant and shimmering beauty.

Download or read book Left Handed Poetry written by Linda Lamenza and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left-Handed Poetry weaves poems of pain and healing through a traumatic accident involving the poet as pedestrian, and a vehicle. It combines both the medical and emotional experience of being hit by a car. From on the pavement to learning how to write with a non-dominant hand, this collection takes us on a poet's passage from tragedy to hope. She learns how to function effectively from her non-dominant right-brain and offers small pearls reflecting on both life and death from the hemispheric opposite lens of her usual daily routines. Left-Handed Poetry was a finalist for the Hunger Mountain May Day Chapbook series.

Download or read book Left Handed Poetry from a Right Handed Poet written by Tracey Odessa Kane and published by Rowanvale Books. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, in order to find your way, To begin to see the light, You have to pick up the pen and find something more, Using the hand with which you don’t normally write. To live the life you dream of living, to be your best you, you’re going to have to do something different, something that you’ve never done before. What will you do? Where will your journey truly begin? Tracey Odessa Kane has always been fascinated with hands. She believes they show a lot about a person, and as a right-handed poet, has always wondered if she began to write left-handed, would her work – the things she writes about, her passions, the tone and the quality – be different, or the same? Would her voice be identifiable or unrecognisable? And so, just a few short years ago, she began writing with her left hand. This was not always easy, but Kane persisted and having finally mastered this new ability, Left Handed Poetry from a Right Handed Poet was born. Writing in such a way had unleashed a voice with hidden depths; a voice that was desperate to be heard, and will beckon you to look deeper into life, into purpose, and into our why.

Download or read book Left Handed Wolf written by Adam Day and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Day’s Left-Handed Wolf offers short lyrical meditations and narratives that wrestle with contemporary issues of the environment, spirituality, and the social. These compact, imagistic poems welcome space and silence as a way of addressing both the commonality and complexity of people and experience. Day’s poems—influenced by meditation practice, as well as by classical Japanese and Chinese verse—are serious and bawdy, reverential and impertinent, accessible and eclectic, yet unified in their tone, atmosphere, and sensibility.

Download or read book New American Best Friend written by Olivia Gatwood and published by Button Poetry. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.

Download or read book Where Your Left Hand Rests written by Fiona Kidman and published by Godwit Pub.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been 35 years since Dame Fiona Kidman's first book of poems was published, and now she is back with another, perfectly timed for her 70th birthday in March 2010. There has been renewed interest in her poetry since the recent publication of her memoirs, and this exquisitely packaged collection will not disappoint.

Download or read book Ursula K Le Guin s the Left Hand of Darkness written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Download or read book me and Nina written by Monica Hand and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monica Hand's me and Nina is a beautiful book by a soul survivor. In these poems she sings deep songs of violated intimacy and the hard work of repair. The poems are unsentimental, blood-red, and positively true, note for note, like the singing of Nina Simone herself. Hand has written a moving, deeply satisfying, and unforgettable book."—Elizabeth Alexander In an intimate conversation with the "High Priestess of Soul," Monica A. Hand surveys the places and moods of alienation through poems that are as musical and stylistically diverse as Nina Simone's work. Hand readily embraces a "mass hypnosis" style, putting "a spell on [us]" with her intensely passionate cries and commitment to embracing both tragedy and exuberance in these insightful poems. From "Dear Nina": I am not recession depression oppression compression crooked line broken line polka dot parking lot or spot I am a Gift from God I know that I am an un-kept solo song Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist currently living in Harlem, New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Aunt Chloe, Black Renaissance Noire, The Sow's Ear, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Frontier, African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University and is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.

Download or read book When My Brother Was an Aztec written by Natalie Diaz and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it— He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

Download or read book Lend a Hand written by John Frank and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A picture book collection of poems centered on spontaneous acts of kindness, representing diverse voices and topical themes"--

Download or read book Diary of a Left handed Birdwatcher written by Leonard Nathan and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With charm, wit, and "luminous clarity" (KIRKUS REVIEWS), an award-winning poet reveals the complexities of birdwatching. Leonard Nathan is on a quest to spot the elusive Snow Bunting and, as with all obsessions, it rules his hours, both waking and sleeping. In DIARY OF A LEFT-HANDED BIRDWATCHER, he invites us along on his lively personal journey.

Download or read book So Far So Good written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in So Far So Good, an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her death in January, 2018. Fans will recognize some of the motifs here—cats, wind, strong women — as well as her exploration of the intersection between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown. The writing is clear, artful and reverent as Le Guin looks back at key memories and concerns and looks forward to what is next: 'Spirit, rehearse the journey of the body/ that are to come, the motions/ of the matter that held you.'"―Washington Post "Le Guin’s farewell poetry collection, contains all that created her reputation for fiction—sharp insight, restless imagination, humor that is both mordant and humane, and, above all else, that connection to all creation, that 'immense what is'."—New York Journal of Books “It’s hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin.” —Salon “She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is.” —Margaret Atwood “There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin’s.” —Grace Paley Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her ground- breaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet, and wrote across genres for her entire career. In this clarifying and sublime collection—completed shortly before her death in 2018—Le Guin is unflinching in the face of mor- tality, and full of wonder for the mysteries beyond. Redolent of the lush natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, with rich sounds playfully echoing myth and nursery rhyme, Le Guin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career. From “How it Seems to Me”: In the vast abyss before time, self is not, and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light. In time, soul brings the misty self to be. Then slow time hardens self to stone while ever lightening the soul, till soul can loose its hold of self . . . Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of over sixty novels, short fiction works, translations, and volumes of poetry, including the acclaimed novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Her books continue to sell millions of copies worldwide. Le Guin died in 2018 in her home in Portland, Oregon.

Download or read book Left Handed Poetry from a Right Handed Poet written by Tracey Odessa Kane and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, in order to find your way, To begin to see the light, You have to pick up the pen and find something more, using the hand with which you don't normally write. You see, this life that we all live, it's a breath-taking, heart-breaking thing; a conundrum of epic proportion, and that's just on its most average of days! It is a sonnet that never ends, a painting that we will never live long enough to see completed. It is a story we will never get to read the end of, a ballad we will only ever remember in part and thus hum in childlike fashion. And yet, it is completely, irrevocably, spellbinding and beautiful. To live the life you dream of living, to be your best you, you're going to have to do something different, something that you've never done before. What will you do? Where will your journey truly begin? Perhaps it starts here, when you begin reading this book, when you walk in my shoes for a day.

Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Download or read book The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write Poems written by Gregory Orr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent lyric poet at the top of his form writes indelibly of grief and love. In his twelfth volume, “master of the lyric poem” (Paris Review) Gregory Orr returns with a passionate exploration of the forces that shape us. Moving from personal trauma (“Song of What Happens”) to public catastrophe (“Charlottesville Elegy”), Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language. The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write engages the deepest existential issues with wisdom and humor and transforms them into celebratory song. FROM “AFTERMATH INVENTORY” My wounds? If, Somehow, I Grow through them, Aren’t they also a boon?