Download or read book Suitcases and Other Poems written by Shannon Bramer and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Suitcase written by Naomi Shihab Nye and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes-a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders. Valentine for Ernest Mann You can’t order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter and say, "I’ll take two" and expect it to handed back to you on a shiny plate. Still, I like you spirit. Anyone who says, "Here’s my address, write me a poem," deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Once I knew a man who gave his wife two skunks for a valentine. He couldn’t understand why she was crying. "I thought they had such beautiful eyes." And he was serious. He was a serious man who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly just because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them as valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding in the eyes of skunks for centuries crawled out and curled up at his feet. Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite. And let me know.
Download or read book A Suitcase of Seaweed and Other Poems written by Janet S. Wong and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that reflect the experiences of Asian Americans, particularly their family relationships.
Download or read book Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife written by Colleen Redman and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife is a collection of 34 poems that probe the questions: 'How much does the essence of one's psyche weigh? Is the soul the one carry-on that we actually take with us? In the end, what do we value and what do we leave behind?' The poems are a distillation that read like a memoir, tracking the journeys of childhood, aging, care giving and life's inevitable losses. Informed by the past and grounded in the present, they're drawn from the inner life, where humor and darkness intersect. Everyday domestic scenes and visitors from the natural world appear as signposts throughout the collection. "At this stage of life, my dreams are more lifelike, and my life is more dreamlike," says the author Colleen Redman, a widely-published poet and writer who covers events for her local newspaper. "Realistic with tinges of the surreal," wrote Felicia Mitchell in a recent review. Mitchell, a poet and creative writing teacher at Virginia's Henry and Emory College, went on to state, ..".she has, paradoxically, told the untold, touching on that which resides in both dreams and in life and in the borders between..." Redman, a long-time Floyd, Virginia resident, who is originally from the small coastal town of Hull, Massachusetts, writes about packing a suitcase before returning to her hometown to care for her ailing mother ... The last of the packing comes down to one question / should I bring extra shoes or make room for a book / Guide to a Happy Life? / I'm still looking for a good Sinatra record / because he was to your generation / what the Beatles were to mine / and music is a memory that doesn't skip... Another poem takes a metaphysical turn, questioning the reality of time and matter ...The days are small / packed tightly together / Not much room / for last minute changes ... Poetry is a passport / in the universal mother tongue / It's only 4% visible / and 96% dark riddle ... In 2001 Redman wrote The Jim and Dan Stories, a memoir about losing two of her brothers a month apart that was used in a grief and loss class at Radford University before it went out of print. Redman lost her older sister and mother in 2015, a loss she gives voice to in some of the poems.
Download or read book Good Luck Gold and Other Poems written by Janet S. Wong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with the joys and sorrows of growing up Chinese American, and the prejudice which Chinese Americans sometimes face.
Download or read book Inside the Suitcase written by Clotilde Perrin and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, in a little house behind the hills, a boy packs his suitcase for a long journey. Lift the flaps to see what he takes, and travel with him over oceans and mountains, under water and into the forest. With every step on this voyage of obstacles, the boy faces a decision that will lead to a new adventure and help him get home. Delve deeper into each page and always remember what's in the suitcase! Part puzzle, part fairy tale, this is a magical adventure from the mischievous Clotilde Perrin, author of international lift-the-flaps bestseller Inside the Villains.
Download or read book A Suitcase of Seaweed More written by Janet S. Wong and published by YUZU. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Suitcase of Seaweed was originally published in 1996 by Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, as thirty-six poems plus three prose pieces. It received many accolades and was named an NCSS Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. While the entire text of the original book is presented here in A Suitcase of Seaweed & MORE, more than half of this book is brand new. You'll find snippets of story about the inspiration behind the poems, extensions of the themes, and general musings, as well as writing prompts to get young readers thinking, talking, and also writing about their own identities. Wong's "Advice for Writers" will inspire them to write their own books, too!
Download or read book The Things We Bring with Us written by S G Huerta and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sassy, witty, and expectedly peregrine, these panoramic poems are sharp and personal. They seem to arise from above, even higher than where pigeons choose to dismantle their bowel movements. Well-researched and deftly written, these tightly controlled, prudent, perceptive, and expedient poems are capable of turning your inflamed heart into snow or a Renaissance painting or a Catholic Church. - Vi Khi Nao, judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize The Things We Bring With Us: Travel Poems is simply stunning. The poems span the world and confront the baggage we carry and also the baggage burdened on us by others' narrow definitions of self. Huerta's razor-eyed insights combined with their precise language make for a dazzling debut. - Charlotte Pence, author of Code The poems in this chapbook debut tell stories I want to listen to. S.G. deftly writes of loneliness and feeling in-between, of traveling and searching for something in far-away places. It's a collection about being pulled in different directions, about finding oneself in traveling, but also in the places traveled-from. S.G. contemplates what they are drawn to and drawn from, carefully questioning the symmetry between the places they know well and the cities where they feel like a stranger. These powerful poems are queer and quiet, but ring loud with language, family, love, and eager movement through an unfamiliar world. - Sara Ryan, author of I Thought There Would Be More Wolves
Download or read book My Father s Suitcase written by Orhan Pamuk and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Suitcase written by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a weary stranger arrives one day with nothing but a suitcase, his new neighbors ask nervous questions about who he is and where he comes from before they are challenged to decide between trusting the newcomer or taking the risk of not believing him"--
Download or read book Panic in a Suitcase written by Yelena Akhtiorskaya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A virtuosic debut [and] a wry look at immigrant life in the global age.” —Vogue Having left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a sense of finality, the Nasmertov family has discovered that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they had imagined. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, returning is just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. Pursuing the American Dream once meant giving up everything, but does the dream still work if the past refuses to grow distant and mythical, remaining alarmingly within reach? If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family’s youngest, Frida, can’t help looking back—and asking far too many questions. Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s exceptional debut has been hailed not only as the great novel of Brighton Beach but as a “breath of fresh air … [and] a testament to Akhtiorskaya’s wit, generosity, and immense talent as a young American author” (NPR).
Download or read book Suitcase Charlie written by John Z. Guzlowski and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago, May 30, 1956: On a quiet corner in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a heavy suitcase is discovered on the sidewalk late at night. Inside is the body of a young boy, naked and hacked into pieces. Two hard-drinking Chicago detectives are assigned to the case: Hank Purcell, who still has flashbacks ten years after the Battle of the Bulge, and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz, a wise-cracking Jewish cop who loves trouble as much as he loves booze. Their investigation takes them through the dark streets of Chicago in search of an even darker secret--as more and more suitcases turn up. Praise for Suitcase Charlie Every detective has a case that haunts him. For the Chicago cops Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz, that would be the "dead kid in the suitcase" whose broken body epitomizes "some kind of evil that was one-of-a-kind, fresh and original down to its buttons." In writing Suitcase Charlie, John Guzlowski was inspired by a true crime that horrified his city in 1955 and retains the power to shock us today. Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer... The sheer cruelty of the case's multiple murders demands coarse language, at which Guzlowski excels. But in describing the saintly Sisters of St. Joseph nuns who live near the murder scene as "tough broads, eyes like razors," he lets us know that, back in the day, the city of Chicago was an all-around rough town. Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Suitcase Charlie, a tough-as-rusty-nails police procedural by John Guzlowski, is set in Chicago in the spring of 1956 - when the radio is playing hits by Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry, many citizens are smoking Chesterfields and Lucky Strikes, and "Dragnet" and "General Electric Theater" are TV favorites. In Mr. Guzlowski's book, the "second city" is being terrorized by a series of child killings in which the small victims are drained of blood, dismembered and stuffed into luggage left in public spaces. Detective Hank Purcell... with his heavy-drinking partner Marvin Bondarowicz, scours the city in search of clues. The duo visit the musty apartment of a reclusive language tutor, the elegant suite of a physicist in the employ of the U.S. government, and the shadowy ghetto lair of a brutal young hoodlum. Each environment seems spookier than the last in a narrative driven by lyrical anxiety. Little by little, Purcell - treading the blurred line between burnout and breakdown - perceives these sickening new crimes as the fruit of diseased notions and lingering hatreds from earlier decades and even centuries. "I thought all of that bad s__ would just disappear when the war ended," Purcell tells his wife. "And it didn't. It's still here." Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal John Guzlowski beautifully conjures up the seamy side of the allegedly innocent 1950s with a thrilling serial murder mystery featuring two boozehound detectives. Hank Purcell...and his Jewish partner, Marvin Bondarowicz, have been known to break the rules. Both men are survivors of the mean streets, appealing in their humorous repartee and in their willingness to seek justice, even if insubordination is part of their means to that end. ...The plot moves sure-footedly to a powerful and plausible conclusion. While the mystery and its resolution are powerful, the novel's greatest attractions are the characterizations of the partners and the stunning evocation of time and place in a great American city. In important ways, Chicago is the main character, and Guzlowski gives it muscle, pulse and breath. Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book Council Chicago in 1956 is a tough town, but a boy's dismembered body found stuffed in a suitcase shocks even the toughest detectives in Guzlowski's novel. Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz are the detectives who catch the case... The detectives question witnesses and possible suspects, but when more bodies are found, their bosses and even Purcell wonder if they'll ever catch the killer. The author grew up in Chicago during the time of the novel, and it shows in his details of places, people, and the prejudices of the era. The author's strongest asset is his dialogue; whether it's the cops talking with each other or neighbors and crooks casually chatting, the talk always rings true... This vivid re-creation of a time and place may not be enough to make Chicago your kind of town. Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book A God at the Door written by Tishani Doshi and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are homesick everywhere,” writes Tishani Doshi, “even when we’re home.” With aching empathy, righteous anger, and rebellious humor, A God at the Door calls on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to redefine belonging and unveil injustice. In an era of pandemic lockdown and brutal politics, these poems make vital space for what must come next—the return of wonder and free movement, and a profound sense of connection to what matters most. From a microscopic cell to flightless birds, to a sumo wrestler and the tree of life, Doshi interrupts the news cycle to pause in grief or delight, to restore power to language. A God at the Doorinvites the reader on a pilgrimage—one that leads us back to the sacred temple of ourselves. This is an exquisite, generous collection from a poet at the peak of her powers.
Download or read book The Secret Gospel of Mark written by Spencer Reece and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. "This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as redemption." —Colm Toíbín The Secret Gospel of Mark is a powerful dynamo of a story that delicately weaves the author's experiences with an appreciation for seven great literary touchstones: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Mark Strand, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In speaking to the beauty these poets' works inspire in him, Reece finds the beauty of his own life's journey, a path that runs from coming of age as a gay teenager in the 1980s, Yale, alcoholism, a long stint as a Brooks Brothers salesman, Harvard Divinity School, and leads finally to hard-won success as a poet, reconciliation with his family, and the fulfillment of finding his life's work as an Episcopal priest. Reece's writing approaches the truth and beauty of the writers who have influenced him; elliptical and direct, always beautifully rendered.
Download or read book More Anon written by Maureen N. McLane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected poems of Maureen N. McLane More Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane’s critically acclaimed first five books of poetry. McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a finalist for the National Book Award, is a poet of wit and play, of romanticism and intellect, of song and polemic. More Anon presents her work anew. The poems spark with life, and the concentrated selection showcases her energy and style. As Parul Seghal wrote in Bookforum, “To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle. Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she’s at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy.” In More Anon, McLane—a poet, scholar, and prizewinning critic—displays the full range of her vertiginous mind and daring experimentation.
Download or read book The Suitcase written by Julie Mertus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of the refugees from the war in Bosnia.
Download or read book Poetry Unbound 50 Poems to Open Your World written by Pádraig Ó. Tuama and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.
