Download or read book Life on Mars written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.
Download or read book Mars and Her Children written by Marge Piercy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new collection of poems about women's lives and the closing circle of nature, from a bestselling poet. These poems celebrate the beauties of nature and the eternal cycle of love, death and birth that is being interrupted by the assault on the environment.
Download or read book Mars Being Red written by Marvin Bell and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman.”—Harvard Review In a recent interview Marvin Bell said, “I’ve been trying for thirty years to figure out how best to put the news into poems—what other people would call politics. But there are some hairy aesthetic questions connected to overtly political poems.” Mars Being Red is the most political book of Bell’s storied career—and one of his most beautiful. Infuriated by our country’s military aggression and destructive politics, Bell asks, What shall we do, we who are at war but are asked / to pretend we are not? What Bell has done is craft a book of urgency and insight, anger and action: . . . I am, like you, a witness to the coffins that were Viet Nam and Iraq, to a political machine that came up three lemons . . . I am the big ears and the wide eyes to whom time happened. I lived in stormy weather writing songs of love because, tell me if you know, who can help it? Marvin Bell served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for over thirty years. He is the first and current poet laureate of Iowa.
Download or read book Comets Stars the Moon and Mars written by Douglas Florian and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blast off with Douglas Florian's new high-flying compendium, which features twenty whimsical poems about space. From the moon to the stars, from the Earth to Mars, here is an exuberant celebration of our celestial surroundings that's certain to become a universal favorite among aspiring astronomers everywhere. Includes die-cut pages and a glossary of space terms.
Download or read book You Don t Have to Go to Mars for Love written by Yona Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems document the Afro-futuristic journey of an unnamed, female protagonist passing through various districts in space"--
Download or read book Black Holes Stars Earth and Mars written by Sean Raymond and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE IN DR. SEUSS-STYLE RHYME Ladies and gents, listen up if you please! Let's hop in a rocket and zoom past the trees. We'll check out the Moon and black holes; we adore 'em! Of course, we'll find planets and stars and explore 'em Determine just how old our Universe is. And please, don't you worry. There won't be a quiz! Astronomer Sean Raymond wraps space facts in poetry, explaining complex topics in playful prose. Drawings by Owen Raymond illustrate how our Universe works, from the phases of the Moon to "spaghettification." Eleven astronomical poems cover topics ranging from telescopes to black holes, from galaxies to the search for extra-terrestrial life, from the Big Bang to the planets. PRAISE FOR BLACK HOLES, STARS, EARTH AND MARS This book (with its wacky poems and Dr. Seuss-like rhymes) appeals both to adults' inner child, and to the curious natural scientist in all our children. The illustrations by a 12-year old artist convey a reassuring sense of "I got this!" -- Jill Tarter, Astronomer and pioneer of SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) This delightful book is a gentle reminder of the better things in life, and science. With echoes of Dr Seuss and the skilled crafting of Edward Lear, Raymond and Raymond create a world well worth losing yourself in, all the while telling a story about the frontiers of our understanding of the universe. An absolute pleasure. -- Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University and author of The Copernicus Complex Cutting edge concepts dished out in poetry you'll want to be reading in striped pyjamas, Raymond presents clear explanations of the biggest concepts in astronomy today in a form guaranteed to intrigue and delight both scientists and artists of all ages. -- Elizabeth Tasker, Astrophysicist, science communicator, and author of The Planet Factory Black Holes, Stars, Earth and Mars is like an Astronomy 101 textbook wrapped up in delightful Dr. Seuss style poetry. It's remarkably comprehensive and covers serious physics, but the easy rhymes make it simple to understand. I'd recommend it for kids learning about space, but also for any astronomy enthusiast! -- Gillian Rhodes, Astronomy/Art Fusion Show Host and Dancer/Choreographer
Download or read book Ordinary Light written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her “extraordinary range and ambition” (The New York Times Book Review): a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. The youngest of five children, Tracy K. Smith was raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But just as Tracy is about to leave home for college, her mother is diagnosed with cancer, a condition she accepts as part of God’s plan. Ordinary Light is the story of a young woman struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. In lucid, clear prose, Smith interrogates her childhood in suburban California, her first collision with independence at Harvard, and her Alabama-born parents’ recollections of their own youth in the Civil Rights era. These dizzying juxtapositions—of her family’s past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future—will in due course compel Tracy to act on her passions for love and “ecstatic possibility,” and her desire to become a writer. Shot through with exquisite lyricism, wry humor, and an acute awareness of the beauty of everyday life, Ordinary Light is a gorgeous kaleidoscope of self and family, one that skillfully combines a child’s and teenager’s perceptions with adult retrospection. Here is a universal story of being and becoming, a classic portrait of the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home.
Download or read book The Body s Question written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States * Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize * You are pure appetite. I am pure Appetite. You are a phantom In that far-off city where daylight Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone. --from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y" The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."
Download or read book Mars Poetica written by Wyn Cooper and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Mars Poetica examine the conscious and unconscious ways we comprehend both the world around us and the one inside.
Download or read book A Martian Sends a Postcard Home written by Craig Raine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poet on Mars written by N.C. Dovegate and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eerie void of outer space is filled with the ethos of New Mexico's alien wilderness in N.C. Dovegate's second collection of poetry: Poet on Mars. Fascinated and awestruck by the Land of Enchantment, the author's imagination takes mystery and enigma to the realm of narrative. Featuring four short stories alongside an original series of flash fiction, the poet's journey from logic to lore, Earth to the unknown, reads as a chilling reminder that things are not always as they seem and the future may prove stranger than expected.
Download or read book The First Poet Laureate of Mars written by T E Olivant and published by Shuna Publishing. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spacewoman, smuggler, poet, spy. Hester needs to get away from Earth. To get to Mars she’s told a teeny tiny little lie. She said she was a poet. And she’s not. Now somehow she’s the first and only Poet Laureate of Mars. What could possibly go wrong? Tolly is an augmented human in charge of mapping the surface of Mars. But when he finds something he's not supposed to see his own people want to wipe his memory. And he can't let that happen. Hester might be able to help Tolly, but she’ll have to get over her own hatred of the Augments first. She’s going to have to prevent the biggest war that Mars has ever seen. And there’s always the worry that she’s going to run out of rhymes for ‘dust’.
Download or read book Genesis written by Frederick Turner and published by Ilium Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, Genesis was the first major work of fiction that addressed the idea of terraforming Mars. It not only suggested the idea, but provided a feasible solution for doing so. During its initial publication, Genesis was on the list of recommended reading at NASA, and has since gone on to enjoy cult status. Its acknowledged list of admirers includes such literary luminaries as Brian Aldiss, Amy Clampitt, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, James Merrill. It is with great pride that Ilium Press brings this influential and prescient work back into print.
Download or read book The First Poet on Mars written by Trevor R. Fairbanks and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: sci-fi poetry 1993-2002
Download or read book Martian written by James Cagney and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Poetry A blistering exploration of America’s legacy of anti-Black violence from an indispensable poet of our time American history got you down? Are you feeling alienated? Join poet James Cagney in his blistering second collection, Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, as he journeys through time, space, and memory with caustic, satirical beauty. Recall American history through its spent shell casings! Turn familial ghosts into art valuable for generations! In these fully charged poems, James Cagney storms through American fields blooming with artillery and anger on his thirsty quest for love, peace, and acceptance in the smallest, most precious gestures.
Download or read book Mars Beyond Poems written by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure to an imaginary Mars and further metaphysics, this work is by the poet of Dawn Visions (City Lights, 1964), Burnt Heart (City Lights, 1972), The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (1967-69).
Download or read book poems from mars written by douglas harbin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems From Mars a book of modern poetry blending many viewpoints into one of a kind book.
