Download or read book Perspective and Other Poems written by Flor Ana and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspective (And Other Poems) is a collection of poetry that I have written as I transcended adolescence. It focuses on keeping the magic, finding yourself, connecting with nature, and opening one's eyes to the many different perspectives of reality. There is a tone of curiosity and questioning, as well as a love for life, nature, and oneself. There are poems that focus on family, self-worth, love and growth, and nature.
Download or read book The Upside Down House and Other Poems written by Debbie Sleeper and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Welcome my friends to the Upside Down House," a topsy-turvy place where anything is possible. Inside its wacky walls you'll meet a girl with a beard, a boy who never gets out of bed, a sword swallower, a pirate, a dinosaur who plays basketball, and the Grunk, who would love to take you to a dance-and maybe even have you for dinner. Find out what really happened to the three little pigs. Dare to ride your sled down Speedwell Street. Have lunch with Solid Stomach Steven, a boy who eats the grossest food imaginable, or watch a show with Jugglin' Joe, who juggles everything from soup, to staplers-to you! Not since Shel Silverstein has there been such an outrageously funny and thought-provoking collection of poems. The Upside Down House is truly a delight for all ages, and is guaranteed to keep you turning the pages!
Download or read book A Matter of Perspective written by Patricia L. Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE is Patricia L Stevenson's second poetry collection. In this book of seventy-one poems, she presents perspectives in a variety of areas using her own very insightful and unique poetic voice. Ms Stevenson's love of nature, people, and places is evident in this collection of sometimes humorous and sometimes serious poems about nature and life. She writes each poem using contemporary language and often in free verse form to share her "poetic stories." A couple of her very rare rhymed poems are included here. The collection contains poems from observations of nature, life, and places from her travels including Nantucket and Australia -- though a few poems may be from dreamland. Her poetry can be philosophical, yet it is still manages to be personal. Whatever Ms Stevenson writes, you soon know that she writes from the heart and often adds a bit of her quirky humor. The book was inspired by an encounter with a young girl ("A Matter of Perspective") which made her think about how people really do see 'things' differently--even a pair of socks. Everyone should always see life from their own unique perspective--and that includes poetry!
Download or read book Some Glad Morning written by Barbara Crooker and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Glad Morning, Barbara Crooker’s ninth book of poetry, teeters between joy and despair, faith and doubt, the disconnect between lived experience and the written word. Primarily a lyric poet, Crooker is in love with the beauty and mystery of the natural world, even as she recognizes its fragility. But she is also a poet unafraid to write about the consequences of our politics, the great divide. She writes as well about art, with ekphrastic poems on paintings by Hopper, O’Keeffe, Renoir, Matisse, Cézanne, and others. Many of the poems are elegaic in tone, an older writer tallying up her losses. Her work embodies Bruce Springsteen’s dictum, “it ain’t no sin to be glad we’re alive,” as she celebrates the explosion of spring peonies, chocolate mousse, a good martini, hummingbirds’ flashy metallics, the pewter light of September, Darryl Dawkins (late NBA star), saltine crackers. While she recognizes it might all be about to slip away, “Remember that nothing is ever lost,” she writes, and somehow, we do.
Download or read book Liza s Monday and Other Poems written by Bettie Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1986, Bettie Sellers's book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing in a narrative and lyrical style, Sellers brings life to new stories and songs based on the downtrodden women she has encountered.
Download or read book The Autistic Alice written by Joanne Limburg and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two acts of recovery in this book - one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice. In its title-sequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass to explore her own experiences as a girl and young woman. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, she often identified with Alice, a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world. Collaging lines and phrases drawn from the two Alice books, she creates a disturbingly effective language to express the nature, discomfort and alienation of autistic experiences. In her neurodiverse verse, a text can become a rabbit-hole to another world, or a mirror. The poems that make up the book's opening sequence, The Oxygen Man, originally published as a pamphlet, were written in response to the death of Limburg's younger brother, a brilliant chemist who took his own life in 2008. They follow her as she visits the mid-Western town where he lived, worked and died; range back over their shared childhood; and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind.
Download or read book SoundMachine written by Rachel Zucker and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir, part lyric essay—and not limited by any of these categories—SoundMachine is a book written out of the persistent feeling that the human voice is both a meaningless sound and the only way we know we exist.
Download or read book Conversation Pieces written by Kurt Brown and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An utterly delightful collection of responses to poems written across the centuries, these modern poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.
Download or read book Mandela the Spear and Other Poems written by Atukwei Okai and published by African Perspectives Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okais burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.
Download or read book Whale Day written by Billy Collins and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most durable and interesting poets.
Download or read book One With Others written by C.D. Wright and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Library Journal, and The Huffington Post. "One With Others represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet."—The New Yorker "[A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own."— National Public Radio "[A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy."—Booklist Today, Gentle Reader, the sermon once again: "Segregation After Death." Showers in the a.m. The threat they say is moving from the east. The sheriff's club says Not now. Not nokindofhow. Not never. The children's minds say Never waver. Air fanned by a flock of hands in the old funeral home where the meetings were called [because Mrs. Oliver owned it free and clear], and that selfsame air, sanctified and doomed, rent with racism, and it percolates up from the soil itself . . . In this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories—especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitow—with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists. This history leaps howling off the page. C.D. Wright has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose. Among her honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.
Download or read book Half caste and Other Poems written by John Agard and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flawed Thoughts Imperfect Perspectives written by W.A. Gordon and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flawed Thoughts & Imperfect Perspectives is a book intended to poetically express the ideas and feelings of many that are brought forth by way of a bold and unashamed writer, W.A. Gordon. The poems of this book explore several facets, centering tightly around the lives that many people live, but choose to reserve their opinion or beliefs on. The book is divided into two sections (Love and Life) and also includes a bonus section (Dedication). Each poem that has been included in this collection is nothing short of a open window into the life, or at least viewpoint, of the plainspoken author. The range of topics allow all readers to embrace an idea to identify with, a different outlook to consider, or even simply a feeling of knowing that their idea is not as flawed or imperfect as the title humorously suggests. Even though similarly fashioned works are grouped together for continuity, each poem has its own story to tell. The creativity of the flow of words carefully selected to construct each selection, keeps the reading of Flawed Thoughts & Imperfect Perspectives entertaining and sure to draw out laughs, tears, and other feelings that all can appreciate. Sit back and read this book that was so candidly constructed, but carefully considered for all to enjoy, be inspired, and encourage those who need or seek it.
Download or read book Beautiful Somewhere and Other Poems written by Calitho N. Roberts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Somewhere is a poetic journey through life. this book will take you on an emotional walk through the heart and mind of the author Calitho Roberts. The selections of poems were inspired by experiences felt and observed, but most of all these poems were motivated by love. This book will leave you thinking about past and present relationships. It will give you a fresh perspective about love, life and all the other facets of emotions that's within us all. May all who read these words be filled with emotions, May all who read these poems be filled with love. As you continue to read may you enjoy the experiences they bring.
Download or read book The Sea Accepts All Rivers Other Poems written by Judy Brown and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply moving . . . complex emotions and ideas are handled with disarming simplicity John W. Gardner, Former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. This is a book of wisdom in the form of poems, useful, yet delightful and even sometimes surprising. A single poem can shift thinking so everything is different from then on Carol Pearson, author of The Hero Within. Judys work is rooted in the shared soil of our lives, and her images help us understand how lovely and full of promise our common ground is. You hold a feast of insight in your hands. Read it and be nourished. Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak and A Hidden Wholeness.
Download or read book Conversation Pieces written by Kurt Brown and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To write a poem is to become part of a great conversation with one's literary predecessors, but the poems in this anthology are a special breed, their authors deliberately addressing a particular poem or poet of the past or present. They may be replies, reproofs, updatings, acts of sabotage or adulation; they may argue with, elaborate upon, poke fun at, or pay tribute to their originals. From Raleigh's famous answer to Marlowe's 'Passionate Shepherd', to Anthony Hecht's 'The Dover Bitch', from Ogden Nash sending up Byron to Mona Van Duyn giving us Leda's perspective on the swan or Annie Finch's 'Coy Mistress' arguing her case with Marvell, these remarkable poems are not only engaging in themselves, but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems which inspired them. Thisconversation of the greats includes Philip Larkin replying to Sir Philip Sidney, Ezra Pound to Edmund Waller, Randell Jarrell to W.H. Auden, Denise Levertov to Wordsworth, Galway Kinnell to Rilke, David Lehmann to Pound, C.K. Williams to Coleridge - and many more.
Download or read book Another s Perspective written by Oshane Levy and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's a time in life you must step to reality from the TV shows for reality shows never really show what life really holds.""Too limited to feel unlimited. Maybe its mankind biggest challenge;Man's ultimate obstacle."This is a reflection of a young black man's thoughts while self indulging, self diagnosing himself in order to maintain his mentality in the art form of poetry!If you read the eBook version, then you would be excited to know the paperback versions comes with three additional worth the read poems so relatable you will cringe.
