Download or read book Milkweed Smithereens written by Bernadette Mayer and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her “The Lobelias of Fear”: …but how will we, still alive, socialize in the winter? wrapped in bear skins we’ll sit around pot-bellied stoves eating the lobelias of fear left over from desperation, last summer’s woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black cherries eaten in a hurry while the yard grows in the moonlight shrinking like a salary …

Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2023 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is “deft, delicate [and] subversive” (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today. Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt written by Amy Clampitt and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet was born in New Providence, Iowa, the firstborn of Roy and Pauline Clampitt's five children.

Download or read book Six Mile Corner written by Robert Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems which chiefly concern the poet's travels in the West.

Download or read book Milkweed Smithereens written by Bernadette Mayer and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer

Download or read book The Fantastic Travels of William and the Monarch Butterfly written by Christina Steiner and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William, a studious and curious North Dakota boy, captures a Monarch butterfly—a trophy he wants to present for show-and-tell at school next Friday. The captive girl butterfly, Anka, is able to speak. With a sad, trembling voice, Anka pleads for freedom so she may fulfill her life destiny. Worried to show up at school empty handed, William resists her pleas. But clever Anka bargains for her freedom by enticing William to accompany her as a passenger on her fantastic journey. There is one catch, though: William has to shrink in size and become a miniature boy in order to ride on Anka’s back. William faces a dilemma. Should he set Anka free and show up at school empty handed? Or should he join this girl butterfly on an adventure to an unknown destination? Intrigued, he agrees to join Anka on her special trip. Whisked away on the wings of a butterfly, a whole new world unfolds for William. Together, he and Anka soar south-southwest from North Dakota to the Oyamel fir forests in central Mexico. A strong friendship develops as they depend on each other for survival. They stay for five months at their destination high up in the mountains—the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. There, William learns much about Monarch butterflies, about survival, and about himself. During their return travels in the spring, William better understands the significance of Anka’s need for freedom. This story is about the importance of friendship and trust. It is also about one of nature’s most amazing wonders—the curious life-cycle and incredible migration of a fourth-generation, eastern Monarch butterfly.

Download or read book Marshmallows Over Manhattan written by William Weger and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Doppel finds a subway token and begins a wild adventure ride from Manhattan to the Kingdom of Menlo. At the Junkyard of Goofy Inventions, the curious boy discovers his deserted weather machine. Will the wacky invention rescue the Box Island prisoners held captive by a vengeful witch? Will it save New Yorkers pummeled by a walloping blizzard? And will Hugo finally become a famous inventor? ** An intriguing blend of what has made so many books classics, Marshmallows over Manhattan is great for ages 9 and up.

Download or read book 2156 written by C.M. Dancha and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 22nd century, human cloning has become a reality. Soon, the pharma-tech company Phoenvartis will create the first artificial human being. The head of the development team, Rollie Sweats, is tasked to produce the replicant. His orders are to use samples from the ruling World Council, but his gut tells him to use the DNA of his great-grandmother, who claims to be a distant relative of an American Founding Father. With the clock ticking, Rollie has 24 hours to meet the government's demands. What he doesn't realize is that his actions will forever define the future of the human race.

Download or read book The ReLife Project Collection written by C.M. Dancha and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both two books in 'The ReLife Project', a series of science fiction novels by C.M. Dancha, now available in one volume! 2156: In a future where human cloning is a reality, Rollie Sweats, head of the development team at Phoenvartis, faces a pivotal choice: follow government orders to create an artificial human using provided samples, or trust his instincts and use his own ancestral DNA. With time running out, Rollie's decision will shape the fate of the human race, forever altering the course of history in this gripping tale of ethical dilemmas and technological advancements. World War: Amidst a backdrop of global conflict, a cloning company falls into the hands of a ruthless ruler, leading to a wave of violence and oppression. In the midst of this chaos, a rebel group obtains a cloning machine to resurrect a notorious figure from the past. As a former Founding Father and his allies gather support, a battle ensues between freedom and tyranny. C.M. Dancha crafts a thrilling narrative of political intrigue and historical stakes, exploring whether democracy can triumph over the forces of evil and the looming threat of another devastating plague.

Download or read book The Oldest Son written by Robert Fedorchek and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 3, 1945, turns into a fateful night of horror for a young American Marine caught in the onslaught of Japanese fire on Iwo Jima. But worse than the machine-gun wounds that he sustains is a reality that he will bury, a mental and psychological scar so terrible that he wont allow it to surface with doctors at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco. It is only with a nurse who has an actual scar of her own from an abusive stepfather that he finds some respite. Given a medical discharge after V-E Day, the wounded Marine returns to his home in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, which lies on the fringes of the dying coke and coal country. There he begins the agonizing journey of recognition to confront a naked, shattering truth. How he deals with his strong-willed father, friends, one antagonist, and the nurse who makes her way to Mount Pleasant, will determine the outcome of his nightmare on Iwo Jima. The Oldest Son is a story of the triumph of hope that springs from the love between a woman and a man.

Download or read book A Concordance to The Poetry of Robert Frost written by Edward Connery Lathem and published by New York : Holt Information Systems. This book was released on 1971 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hole in the Wall written by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Sebby has found the perfect escape from his crummy house and bickering family: The Hole in the Wall. It's a pristine, beautiful glen in the midst of a devastated mining area behind Sebby's home. But not long after he finds it his world starts falling apart.

Download or read book The Fall of Alice K written by Jim Heynen and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeen-year-old star student and gifted athlete hides the painful truths about her private life, including a failing family farm, her mother's growing apocalyptic fears, the institutionalization of her special-needs sister, and her romance with the son of Hmong immigrants.

Download or read book The Orange Grove written by Larry Tremblay and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Bicycle Eater shares “a fluid and troubling fable” of brotherhood, tragedy, and the limits of art, written in “a subtle and fine poetry” (La Presse, CA). Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family’s orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys’ grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood. And in order to avenge their grandparents’ deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin—now a student actor in wintry Montreal—is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Author Larry Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses the difficult question: can art ever adequately address suffering? Both current and timeless, The Orange Grove depicts the haunting inheritance of war and its aftermath.

Download or read book Thin Places written by Kerri ní Dochartaigh and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indie Next Selection for April 2022 An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022 A Junior Library Guild Selection Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of “two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose” (The Guardian). Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like ní Dochartaigh’s, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape. In Thin Places, a luminous blend of memoir, history, and nature writing, ní Dochartaigh explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone’s throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard and terror to creep back in. Ní Dochartaigh asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours, but—at the same time—it never really was.

Download or read book House of Caravans written by Shilpi Suneja and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelous debut novel exploring the fractures caused by the Partition of India, as well as the legacy and contemporary parallels of sectarian violence around the world. Lahore, British India. 1943. As World War rages, resentment of colonial rule grows, and with it acts of rebellion. Animated by idealistic dreams of an independent India, Chhote Nanu agrees to plant a bomb intended for the British superintendent of police. Some four years later, following a torturous imprisonment, Chhote flees the city as it descends into violence. Carrying the young son of his murdered wife through scenes of unspeakable bloodshed, he encounters his brother, Barre Nanu, the two of them caught between a vanishing past in the new nation of Pakistan and a profoundly uncertain future in India. Kanpur, India. 2002. Following the death of his grandfather, Barre Nanu, Karan Khati returns from New York to join his sister in their childhood home, which has been transformed by the embittered Chhote Nanu into a hostel for Hindu pilgrims. When their mother arrives from Delhi, Karan and Ila learn that their fathers were two different men—one Hindu, one Muslim—relationships with both of whom were doomed by familial bias and prejudice, the siblings resolve to reconnect, and to understand the painful twist and turns in the family’s story. Moving back and forth from the tumultuous years surrounding Partition to the era of renewed global sectarianism following 9/11, this extraordinary historical novel, “Tolstoyan in its scope” (Ha Jin), portrays a family and nations divided by the living legacy of colonialism. Richly evocative and timely, House of Caravans will endure in the ways only the best literature does.