Download or read book Redemption Ground written by Lorna Goodison and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship. Taking her title from one of Kingston's oldest markets, a historic meeting place that was almost destroyed by fire, she introduces us to a vivid cast of characters and remembers moments of epiphany—in a cinema in Jamaica, at New York's Bottom Line club, and as she searched for a black hairdresser in Paris and drank tea in London's Marylebone High Street. Enlightening and entertaining, these essays explore not only daily challenges but also the compassion that enables us to rise above them. Goodison's poet's eye, profound vision and glorious combination of metaphysical and post-colonial sensibilities confirm her as a major figure in world literature.
Download or read book Helen Redeemed and Other Poems written by Maurice Hewlett and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maurice Hewlett's 'Helen Redeemed and Other Poems' showcases the author's poetic prowess through a collection of verses that span a range of emotions and themes. Hewlett's lyrical craftsmanship infuses each poem with depth and resonance, offering readers a chance to explore the human experience from various angles. This collection serves as a testament to the power of words and the art of poetic expression."
Download or read book Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy written by Simon Haines and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
Download or read book The New Testament written by Jericho Brown and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library Journal NPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-present death, but also the joy of survival and sin. And not everyone has the chutzpah to rewrite The Good Book.”—NPR.org "Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry."—Rain Taxi "To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius."—Claudia Rankine In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast. Fairy Tale Say the shame I see inching like steam Along the streets will never seep Beneath the doors of this bedroom, And if it does, if we dare to breathe, Tell me that though the world ends us, Lover, it cannot end our love Of narrative. Don’t you have a story For me?—like the one you tell With fingers over my lips to keep me From sighing when—before the queen Is kidnapped—the prince bows To the enemy, handing over the horn Of his favorite unicorn like those men Brought, bought, and whipped until They accepted their masters’ names. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. He currently teaches at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Download or read book World Make Way written by Metropolitan Museum of Art, The and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” —Leonardo da Vinci Based on this simple statement by Leonardo, eighteen poets have written new poems inspired by some of the most popular works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum. The collection represents a wide range of poets and artists, including acclaimed children’s poets Marilyn Singer, Alma Flor Alda, and Carole Boston Weatherford and popular artists such as Mary Cassatt, Fernando Botero, Winslow Homer, and Utagawa Hiroshige. Accompanying the artwork and specially commissioned poems is an introduction, biographies of each poet and artist, and an index.
Download or read book To My Husband and Other Poems written by Anne Bradstreet and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America s first poet, a splendid selection of poems whose themes encompass love, home life, religious meditations, dialogues and lamentations, and formal elegies. "
Download or read book Poems of Inspector Chen written by Xiaolong Qiu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in the present collection are compiled chronologically. Some of them have appeared-either entirely or partially-in the Chen novels, but with his writing in a hurry under the stress of the job, he usually takes time later to revise them, so the poems here may show difference, sometimes substantial, from the original versions. And some of them, either written in his pre-inspector days, or conceived in fragments only in his mind, now appear for the first time in the collection here.
Download or read book Redemption written by Natalia Dughbaj and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redemption is a poetry collection about a mother and teacher's homecoming journey during the unprecedented year of 2020. As she navigates her way through motherhood and teaching virtually, she finds herself struggling with confidence, depression, and anxiety. What began as healing words in a journal, soon came to be a profound story that shares pain, passion, and power. Redemption takes the reader onto a journey that touches a range of topics including breaking intergenerational trauma, the beauty of being bold and authentic, reclamation of one's voice, the strength in being a woman, shining a light on America's horrid truths, continued fight for justice, and so much more. Don't forget to get your copy today, and be sure to share Redemption with the rest of the world. Why are you obsessed with trying to market me? The fruit that I can grow in me is not yours to decide when its season should be. The cotton I need for the blood that I bleed to birth life-should be free. It's called birth control. Not woman control. Let me be free. -RedemptionAbout the Author Natalia Dughbaj is a writer, feminist, activist, and teacher. She received her Bachelors of Science in Developmental Biology from the University of California, Merced. She is a proud Latina who advocates for mental health, women's rights, and underrepresented communities. Redemption is her first book.
Download or read book The Road Not Taken Birches and Other Poems written by Robert Frost and published by Coyote Canyon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as: Mountain interval. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1916.
Download or read book Sheehan written by Terry Trueman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHEEHAN: HEARTBREAK AND REDEMPTION is a re-publication of the 1992 poem that inspired the Printz Honor novel STUCK IN NEUTRAL by Terry Trueman. In the second part of this e-book, based onthe 2007 Xlibris edition,is an extensive interview that includes 23 photographs relating to the real life story of Truemans son Henry Sheehan, the creation of the poem, and the remarkable history of thenovel STUCK IN NEUTRAL, an internationally beloved best seller. Soon this book will be updated with anew interview segment, in e-book format,available at www.terrytrueman.comand other e-book distributors.
Download or read book Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis written by Sarah Bachelard and published by Meditatio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Experiencing God in a time of Crisis, Sarah Bachelard explains that there are critical times in our lives in which our frameworks of sense seem to collapse and no longer enable us to convey meaning to overwhelming events. Bachelard suggests that the practice of meditation and contemplation may help us endure and integrate such experiences.
Download or read book Mira and Other Poems of Guyana written by Stanley Niamatali and published by Mountain Arbor Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like "The Hinterlands, Mira and Other Poems of Guyana" do not open the window to the "...unspoil'd Guiana, whose great Citie Geryon Sons/ Call El Dorado ..." (Milton, John. "Paradise Lost" 11. 409 - 10). Instead, these poems unveil naked truths and realism with colors, scents, tastes and sounds that evoke tears, laughter and wonderment. The sacred and profane are counterpoints in a chord of homage and horror. These poems unforgivably detail man's arrogance as he compromises his integrity for paltry things. Poems of intensity are countered with lighter poems that give the reader a full spectrum of a slice of Guyana in its inseparable grandeur and ugliness.
Download or read book The One Year Book of Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This daily devotional of Bible-inspired poetry contains some of the most eloquent, inspiring, and profound poetry ever written. Readers will glean understanding, wisdom, and inspiration for life's struggles and victories. But most of all, they will learn more about their Savior and be inspired to devote their lives to him wholeheartedly. Includes indexes.
Download or read book The Next Infinity written by Nancy C. Botkin and published by Broadstone Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. There is something wondrously imponderable about the title of Nancy Botkin's latest poetry collection: the next infinity. What would that be like, the something that comes after everything? After negotiating one's way through religion, through the legacy and loss of parents, through a past receding "small and dim" as the memories of scratchy songs on an AM car radio, through moments fleeting like "ice cream melting faster than we could eat it." At another point she observes, "I'm starting to wonder if I'm in this poem / all by myself." A bit later, in the same poem, she asks "if we are keepers of our own asylum." By unpacking the experience of radical isolation in such unflinching terms, Botkins reveals how we are each our own infinity. And because we share this, we are not so alone after all. It's a lot to think about, and at times she acts as if she'd rather not: "My brain is even less inviting / when it's wild with dark birds flitting / through its spangled hallways." Perhaps less inviting to Botkin, but it is a blessing to her readers who join with those birds flitting through the hallway of her rich imagination. The final image of the book is a cosmic parlor trick, and perhaps that is all life is. And if so, these poems assure us, that's enough.
Download or read book Once written by Meghan O'Rourke and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry by the author that explores grief, loss, death, violence, and recovery.
Download or read book Mountain Redemption written by Nick McRae and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Nick McRae's splendid Mountain Redemption, the contradictions of family and faith are hard to hold in balance. They are the fulcrum of a teeter totter that tips back and forth between passion and violence. But as he meditates on growing up in Georgia and the complexities of the faith he was born into, the poet himself is balanced, thoughtful, judicious-and loving. As he struggles to sustain that love, McRae sometimes borrows the cadences-large, passionate, and elegiac-of the prophets he knows so well."-Andrew Hudgins Nick McRae is also the author of Moravia (Folded Word Press).
Download or read book You Are Not Too Much Love Notes on Heartache Redemption Reclamation written by Jeanette LeBlanc and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love letter to those in the midst of the breakdown or a reckoning or a rise. A love letter to the wild ones, to the lost souls, to the free. To the seekers and the lovers of leaving and those intent on finding themselves amidst the rubble. Love letters to you. And always, in the end love letters to myself.
