Download or read book Our Destiny and Other Poems written by Ernest J. Bowden and published by William Briggs. This book was released on 1911 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naming Our Destiny written by June Jordan and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1993-02-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with racism, oppression, justice, ecology, poverty, and life in modern American

Download or read book Negotiations written by Destiny O. Birdsong and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Full of wonder." —Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy Magazine What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists.

Download or read book The Seeker and Other Poems written by Alexander Russell and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stone Child and Other Poems written by Syl Cheney-Coker and published by Hebn Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone Child is about the nameless gemstone child that became a great in the recent history of Sierra Leone, the poet's country. With compassion and moral deliberation, the poems in the first section of this new collection resound with the pain and love that the poet felt as he reflected on the tumultuous politics and tragic destiny of his beautiful land. Other poems are in homage to people and places around the world that have deeply touched the poet. Syl Cheney-Coker is a poet and novelist. His novel The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar won best book in the Africa region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He has also won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize; and his poetry has been translated into, Chinese, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Download or read book Ten Poems to Open Your Heart written by Roger Housden and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems to Change Your Life, such as Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, along with contributions from Sharon Olds, Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov, and others. Any one of the ten poems and, indeed, any one of Housden’s reflections on them, can open, gladden, or pierce your heart. Through the voices of these ten inspiring poets, and through illustrations from his own life, Housden expresses the tenderness, beauty, joys, and sorrows of love, the presence of which, more than anything else, gives human existence its meaning. As Housden says in his eloquent introduction, “Great poetry happens when the mind is looking the other way and words fall from the sky to shape a moment that would normally be untranslatable. . . . When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.” From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book Sillage and Other Poems written by Chitra Govindraj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we choose? Why do we worry about what others think of us? Why do we doubt ourselves? Here are some of the questions the poet ponders, and delves into emotions that we experience every day. Each poem makes the reader realize that they are about our feelings or what happens to us, but we never really put into words because we take the simple things for granted.

Download or read book Records and Other Poems written by Robert Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sonnets Triumphs and Other Poems of Petrarch written by Francesco Petrarca and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thoughts of Peace and Other Poems written by A. E. R. and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fairy Islands and Other Poems written by Valley Flower (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Lives Our Destiny written by Sabrina Garcia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book’s premise is based on the struggles of a young woman, who like many in her plight to be free and establish her identity, finds that she does not know herself as well as she thought.

Download or read book The Romance of the Dreamer and Other Poems written by Joseph Edwards Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sonnets Triumphs and Other Poems of Petrarca written by Francesco Petrarca and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Pumpkin Vine and Other Poems written by Ephraim Terry and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Download or read book All the Flowers Kneeling written by Paul Tran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “This powerful debut marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political violence.” —New York Times Book Review A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both “tender and unflinching” (Khadijah Queen) Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.

Download or read book Haruko Love Poems written by June Jordan and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love poems is a vitally important modern classic.