Download or read book Poems of the Pretentious Minds written by TJ Mustafa and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of the Pretentious Minds features a wide array of self-indulgent, darkly comical but heart-wrenching poetry that covers many topics such as love, family, friendship, death, sex addiction, abuse, anxiety, depression, suicide, mental turmoil, the city of London, various other locations around the UK and the intricacies of the world itself. Some of the poems also explore the contradiction of humanity and how one can appreciate the minute things in life, whilst others delve deeper into the human condition and how our emotions can ultimately cloud our judgement. Later poems take a more autobiographical approach and instead focus on the poet himself, detailing his personality, conflicting emotions, life experiences, deep-rooted thoughts and his overall outlook of the world. Most of the poems have a sharply satirical edge to them, particularly the ones that focus on modern-day society as a whole, and real life events that have sparked mass debate and controversy.
Download or read book True Minds written by Marie Ponsot and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People written by Henrik Hoeg and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Minds of a Western Poet written by David Mason and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet
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 Sleeping with the Dictionary written by Harryette Mullen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."
Download or read book Trouble in Mind written by Lucie Brock-Broido and published by Knopf Group E-Books. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of her own allegory,” Brock-Broido searches for a lexicon adequate to the extremities of experience–a quest that is as capricious as it is uncompromising. In the process, she reveals, unsparingly, things as they are. In “Pamphlet on Ravening” she recalls, “I was a hunger artist once, as well. / My bones had shone. / I had had rapture on my side.” The book is laced with sequences: haunted, odd self-portraits; a succession of poems provoked by discarded titles by Wallace Stevens; an intermittent series of fractured and beguiling lyrics that she variously refers to as fragments, leaflets, and apologues. Trouble in Mind is a book that astonishes us afresh at the agility and the uncanny will of language, which Brock-Broido is not afraid to follow where it may lead her: “That the name of bliss is only in the diminishing / (As far as possible) of pain. That I had quit / The quiet velvet cult of it, / Yet trouble came.” Even trouble, in Brock-Broido’s idiom, becomes something resplendent. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Stones from the Quarry Or Moods of Mind Poems With Notes written by Henry Browne (pseud. [i.e. Henry Ellison.]) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delusions of a Popular Mind written by Martha McFerren and published by NEW ORLEANS POETRY JOURNAL. This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of Healing written by Karl Kirchwey and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Download or read book The Essential T S Eliot written by T.S. Eliot and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work—including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)—continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.
Download or read book What Kind of Woman written by Kate Baer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.
Download or read book Triumphant Reflections of the Mind written by Jeanne M. Brohl and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triumphant Reflections of the Mind Poems & Essays "To be or not to be? That is the question." Shakespeare had posed this question which led me to this exploration of existence vs. non-existence. One way to look at existence is by persistence, after being recognized as a non-existent, human being. Persistence is used as a vehicle through which one is transported to a reality that they feel is true. Existence involves the recognized five senses, i.e. feeling, touching, seeing (viewing), tasting, and hearing. When acknowledging these five senses, one is able to function as a evolutionary human being leaning toward an international understanding of the benefits mankind received through God, our Father. However, one can be self-actualizing by using the senses available to one by the moment he needs the senses. If, for some reason all five senses are not available, then compensation is brought to the forefront by making the other senses more intense, thereby allowing for the maximization of a unified body functioning at its fullest. Constantly reviewing, applying, and directing self, to maximize each sense in accordance with his conscience - leads to the betterment of society. This betterment can be seen as either good or excellent. Mediocrity has no place to focus on the purest of quests. At this present writing, it is felt that there are many loopholes in the systems developing a quasi or even a false sense of well being.. is it is the thought process of the brain and its motivation to excel or fail, that might allow for a leaning of the masses to entice honest and demonstrative leadership Leadership that is existing, to allow its citizens the fullest benefit for societal gain, could occur if the masses are led by ethical, persuasive, and pure reasons. For decisions made by a person in power, to allow the consideration of an architectural mind building a peaceful environment in the land to which he rules -- either by a Republic or not. Is one dilemma in mankind's pursuit of peace. PAX Praise God for our diversity and welcoming new ideas! Jeanne Brohl
Download or read book Little Kisses written by Lloyd Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called “the master of the poetic one-liner” by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignant and comic poems about personal loss—the mysterious disappearance of his oldest friend, his mother’s failing memory, a precious gold ring gone missing—along with uneasy love poems and poems about family, identity, travel, and art with all of its potentially recuperative power. Humane, deeply moving, and curiously hopeful, these poems are distinguished by their unsentimental but heartbreaking tenderness, pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, formal surprises, and exuberant sense of humor.
Download or read book The Pleasures of the Damned written by Charles Bukowski and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.
Download or read book The Mind Inside written by Ken W. Simpson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mind Inside is a volume of 34 free verse poems that's a continuation of a series of poetry books by author Ken W. Simpson. There is no beginning, middle or end to the book, with each poem representing the author's personal struggle and confrontation with aspects of life and the inevitability of death. "I started writing poetry very late in my life, but after a long apprenticeship I am finally beginning to understand how to write, from verbal thoughts to lines and verses - with a sense of awe at the mental complexity involved, and the effort needed to mould everything into an entity - with a feeling of pride - at having accomplished something original and unique. My use of characters has to do with themes and how we may be used or abused by politicians and vested interests, to the detriment of mankind and the environment. Thus I may examine instances of environmental vandalism at present and relate it to an imagined future." - Ken W. Simpson Ken W. Simpson grew up in South Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. After studying art at Swinburne he enjoyed a successful career as an art teacher. Since retiring, he has devoted his time to writing poetry. The Mind Inside: Free Verse by Ken W. Simpson is his fourth published volume. Currently he resides in Lysterfield, Victoria with his family. When he is not writing, he enjoys growing vegetables. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/KenWSimpson
Download or read book Cecil the Pet Glacier written by Matthea Harvey and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a starred review Publishers Weekly raves: "It’s an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within—and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that." Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier. How Cecil, as the ice pet is named, proves himself to Ruby—risking his own meltdown—is a story sure to thrill and delight young readers.
