Download or read book Pebble Lake Review written by Amanda Auchter, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Home of the Famous Dead written by Jo McDougall and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall’s long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet’s signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humor; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom concerning death and loss. In McDougall’s world, folks making do with what they have take the stage to speak of, in the words of one critic, “the tangled mysteries of their faltering lives.” Her work has been described as having “excruciating honesty” (Gerald Stern), giving voice to the “ineffable emotions of plain people” (Judith Kitchen). Miller Williams notes that the work has “cleanness and clarity . . . in all the funk and smell of humanity.” This is the poetry of midwestern plains and southern botttomlands, of waitresses and professors, farmers and bankers, the disadvantaged and privileged alike. Often beginning in the personal and expanding to the universal, this poet takes note of the phenomenological world with a mixture of joy, despair, and awe, providing a haunting look at the cosmic irony of our existence. McDougall’s style is indescribable, yet wholly accessible. As Kelly Cherry notes, “Call it magic, call it art; either way [Jo McDougall’s work] is something like a miracle.”

Download or read book Centaur written by Greg Wrenn and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greg Wrenn's debut collection opens with a long poem in which a man undergoes surgery to become a centaur. Other poems speak in voices as varied as those of Robert Mapplethorpe, Hercules, and a Wise Man at the birth of Jesus. Centaur skitters along the blurred lines between compulsivity and following one's heart, stasis and self-realization, human and animal. Here, suffering and transcendence are restlessly conjoined.

Download or read book The Endarkenment written by Jeffrey McDaniel and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet employs colloquial diction, references pop and classical culture, and travels at 1000 miles per hour in his fourth collection. For those who think contemporary poetry is about abject confessions, vacation in Provence and opaque ‘academicisms,’ McDaniel is an intro to a new world.

Download or read book Blood Work written by Matthew Siegel and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut collection of poetry explores pain and longing, vulnerability, and the illness of Crohn's disease, leavened by moments of quiet humor and hope.

Download or read book City of the Big Shoulders written by Ryan G. Van Cleave and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city’s history, lore, inhabitants, landmarks, joys and sorrows, pride and shame. The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America’s literary landscape, from Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks to experimental writers and today’s slam poets. The one hundred contributors to this vibrant collection take their materials and their inspirations from the city itself in a way that continues this energetic dialogue. The cultural, ethnic, and aesthetic diversity in this gathering of poems springs from a variety of viewpoints, styles, and voices as multifaceted and energetic as the city itself. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz: “I want to eat / in a city smart enough to know that if you / are going to have that heart attack, you might / as well have the pleasure of knowing // you’ve really earned it”; Renny Golden: “In the heat of May 1937, my grandfather / sits in the spring grass of an industrial park / with hundreds of striking steelworkers”; Joey Nicoletti: “The wind pulls a muscle / as fans yell the vine off the outfield wall, / mustard-stained shirts, hot dog smiles, and all.” The combined energies of these poems reveal the mystery and beauty that is Second City, the City by the Lake, New Gotham, Paris on the Prairie, the Windy City, the Heart of America, and Sandburg’s iconic City of the Big Shoulders.

Download or read book 2012 Poet s Market written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-20 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Trusted Guide for Getting Poetry Published The 2012 Poet’s Market includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including poetry publications, book/chapbook publishers, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and—when offered—payment information. Plus, the editorial content in the front of the book has been revamped to include more articles on the Business of Poetry, Promotion of Poetry, Craft of Poetry, and Interviews with Poets. Learn how to navigate the social media landscape, write various poetic forms, offer writing workshops, and more. You also gain access to: • Lists of conferences, workshops, organizations, and grants • One-year access to the poetry-related information and listings on WritersMarket.com • A free digital download of Writer’s Yearbook featuring the 100 Best Markets: WritersDigest.com/upload/images/WritersDigest-Yearbook-11.pdf Includes an exclusive 60-minute FREE WEBINAR with editor and poet Robert Lee Brewer that will teach you how to build an audience for your poetry. "Ridiculously relevant! I’ve been using Poet’s Market since I was in college more than 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve published hundreds of poems and two books." —Aaron Belz, author of Lovely, Raspberry "I returned to writing in 2006 and Poet’s Market was the first book I purchased. It guides everyone—from newbie to seasoned writer—on the path to publishing their poems." —Jessie Carty, author of Paper House

Download or read book Strange Borderlands Poems written by Ben Berman and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Borderlands, Ben Berman’s first full-length collection, counterpoises insights with uncertainties while chronicling the poet's immersion in a new culture. In compelling metrical, free verse and prose poems, Berman provides a vivid narrative of exotic adventures, especially his Peace Corps service in Zimbabwe—the people, the land, and his “struggling with the blurred lines of where things end” on his return home. This distinctive collection can go from humorous to heartbreaking, and is spellbinding from start to finish—a rare achievement. PRAISE FOR STRANGE BORDERLANDS: Ben Berman’s wonderful first book, Strange Borderlands, is a masterful study in the power and limits of empathy, of respect for difference in tension with the urgent need for common ground. Beyond his formal and stylistic range, linguistic flexibility, eye for detail, irrepressible wit and powerful feeling, what’s most impressive about this terrific book is Berman’s inclusive generous spirit, the deadly serious imaginative play he exercises in every line of every poem. This is a book to cherish. —Alan Shapiro These are poems that weigh, consider, and restore some flesh-and-blood meaning to the experience of multiculturalism, a word so overused it is often flattened out to a platitude or piety. But not in this book. —Fred Marchant (from the “Foreword”) Ben Berman’s lyric poems set in Zimbabwe dig deep into the casual and the casualty of daily life: the hammer striking the sheep’s head, the sustenance that follows; disciplinary beatings that students, giggly and protesting, could count and count on to fade. Unassuming but wise, compassionate yet wildly, unpredictably funny at times, Berman delivers to us escalating hardships that somehow elevated us toward the sacred; the pathetic harvest and sweetness that comes from the least likely of places. This least likely of places is where Berman thrives, calling on closely observed facts to chronicle the perimeters of tenderness and cruelty. I believe every word in this collection. This is an unforgettable debut by a powerful and humble voice. —Dzvinia Orlowsky Ben Berman’s marvelous first book, Strange Borderlands, chronicles in startling and unforgettable poems his sojourn in Zimbabwe and his immersion in a culture that both embraces and exiles him, attracts and reproaches, changing him forever. Using a variety of poetic approaches—rhymed couplets, prose paragraphs, sonnets, free verse—he gives us a multi-tonal description of landscapes that are as elusive as they are inviting, as unfamiliar to most of us as they are intuitively recognizable. This is a compelling poetry of “strange borderlands where distance and intimacy collide.” —Gregory Djanikian

Download or read book Ascension written by J. Scott Brownlee and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Brownlee’s poems meditate on the inescapability of place. Organ Solo with Oblivion and Gar Skittish fish lay eggs in this shallow stone cleft of an algae chorus. Turn my soul into song, if you can, River Lord. Treat believing the same as each minnow slipping coin-like into deep murk. Your spirit mimics me unblinking, fishbone face framing brackish absence, saying, Kneel into this. Lean low, sinner, & drink. Bitter infidel, swallow the black granite whole if you are not afraid of what comes after it: ___________. Live forever.

Download or read book Broken Symmetry written by Jack Ridl and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan poet Jack Ridl leads readers into reflective connection with the everyday world in this unique and enjoyable volume. Broken Symmetry is a collection drawn from the experiences of daily life and organized through the context of mathematics. Poet Jack Ridl uses remarkably clear and precise language to express a singular awareness of the world around us. Some of the poems in this volume deal with the universal human experience of loss, others discover a fresh perspective on what is easily overlooked, and many seek the goodness and joy that remain in a challenging world. Poems are grouped into chapters by mathematical themes, suggesting a commonality in these two separate worlds that is often overlooked. The straightforward language and universal subject matter make Broken Symmetry a profound collection of poetry that will appeal to readers of all backgrounds.

Download or read book Hothouse written by Karyna McGlynn and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karyna MyGlynn takes readers on tour through the half-haunted house of the contemporary American psyche with wit, whimsy, and candid confession. Disappointing lovers surface in the bedroom; in the bathroom, "the drained tub ticks with mollusks & lobsters;" revenge fantasies and death lurk in the basement where they rightly belong. With lush imagery and au courant asides, Hothouse surprises and delights. Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl and three chapbooks. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Translation at Oberlin College.

Download or read book Self Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur written by Casey Thayer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part fun-house hall of mirrors in its distorted and dizzying central narrative, part spaghetti western, and part prayer, Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur is an exploration into the possibilities of storytelling. Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth.

Download or read book Neck of the World written by F. Daniel Rzicznek and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek’s work: “Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold."

Download or read book Veil and Burn written by Laurie Clements Lambeth and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.

Download or read book The Crooked Inheritance written by Marge Piercy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exquisite . . . spot on” (The Hudson Review) collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poetry about love, nature and reflections on the stages of life, and political, ranging from the war in Iraq and Katrina to concerns such as women’s rights and the poet’s childhood in Detroit.

Download or read book All about Skin written by Jina Ortiz and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short fiction anthology of work by award-winning, multicultural, women writers, All about Skin captures the reality of harsh media pressures, difficult family relationships, racial prejudices, and other problems that face women of color around the world.

Download or read book Jean Valentine written by Kazim Ali and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected essays on the work of Jean Valentine