Download or read book Red Paint written by Sasha LaPointe and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved great-grandmother—a linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of Lushootseed—Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, determined to build a better future for herself and her people. Set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Coast Salish ancestral land and imbued with the universal spirit of punk, Red Paint is ultimately a story of the ways we learn to find our true selves while fighting for our right to claim a place of our own. Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art, Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples. Red Paint is an intersectional autobiography of lineage, resilience, and, above all, the ability to heal.
Download or read book Joy written by Sasha Dugdale and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award. Contains the poem 'Joy' - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection, Joy, features the poem of that title which received the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. 'Joy' is a monologue in the voice of William Blake's wife Catherine, exploring the creative partnership between the artist and his wife, and the nature of female creativity. The Forward judges called it 'an extraordinarily sustained visionary piece of writing'. The poems in Joy mark a new departure for Dugdale, who expresses in poetry a hitherto 'silent' dialogue which she began as an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation with writers such as Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Maria Stepanova and Svetlana Alexeivich. Dugdale combines an open interest in the historical fate of women and in the treacherous fictional shaping of history. In the abundant, complex and not always easy range of voices in Joy she attempts to redress the linear nature of remembrance and history and restore the 'maligned and misaligned'.
Download or read book I have to live written by Aisha Sasha John and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection ablaze with urgency and radiant inquiry from a 2015 finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry A demand and promise; an obligation and challenge; a protest and call: I have to live. Juiced on the ecstasy of self-belief: I have to live. A burgeoning erotics of psychic boldness: I have to live. In which sensitivity is recognized as wealth: I have to live. Trumpeting the forensic authority of the heart: I have to live. This is original ancient poetry. It fashions a universe from its mouth.
Download or read book Welfare Handbook written by Sasha Dugdale and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dugdale's fifth collection deals with the women's experience: domestic and sexual abuse; and the female experience of emigration, displacement and changed identity. From the winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
Download or read book For Want of Water written by Sasha Pimentel and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award–winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Juárez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina’s life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a city—but the breadth of a country—away. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much “a body will hold,” reaching from the border to the poet’s own Philippines. These poems thirst in the desert, want for water, searching the brutal and tender territories between bodies, families, and nations.
Download or read book Technelegy written by Sasha Stiles and published by Eyewear Poetry. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With digital immortality making headlines, stories about robot companions going viral, and crypto upending reality as we know it, it's time to ask: what does it mean to be human in a nearly post-human era? This highly anticipated debut from poet, artist and AI researcher Sasha Stiles captures both the thrill and peril of our intimate relationship with technology, fusing the zero-one rhythms of binary code with the pulse of elegiac couplets in a hybrid text unlike any ever written. Both groundbreaking and heartbreaking, the collection weaves together masterful human verse with captivating language experiments by the author's AI alter ego, alongside full-color photos of Stiles' critically acclaimed art. An urgent investigation of the human condition in a time of profound change, TECHNELEGY is a transhuman manifesto with poetic soul -- and, in the words of leading futurist Martine Rothblatt, "an instant techno-classic." The future of human and machines, and the future of the virtual environment is unravelling fast. Human and machine poetry, a language of shimmering light and sound. Sasha's beautiful poetry evokes the experience of an intimate social gathering, with views on life that make me feel I'm there. Who can pass on that? This is a great read. " A brilliant book--wildly imaginative, playful, smart--the record of a poet grappling with our technological present, and future."--Alan Lightman "TECHNELEGY is an immersive journey into today's entangled web of existence. A fascinating brainbath that leaves the mind inspired, awake and expanded."--Ani Liu "Sasha Stiles' TECHNELEGY is the most comprehensive expression I've seen of our anxiousness for and angst about human-extending technology, as well as its cultural advocacy known as transhumanism. With preternaturally accurate phraseology, and a deft braiding of poetry structures and graphic textuals, Stiles has uniquely managed to create a book of poetry that is as momentous in its reach as are the prospects of AI and digital humanity in theirs. This book will never get old; it is an instant techno-classic."--Martine Rothblatt "The merger between ourselves and our intelligent creations is already underway and will ultimately recreate the nature of everything we hold dear such as life, death, sex, relationships, work and prosperity. Sasha Stiles has fashioned this future scenario into a wonderful series of poems and images that bring the sensitivity of humanity to our transhumanist destiny."--Ray Kurzweil
Download or read book Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World written by Sasha Fletcher and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This emotionally resonant dystopian succeeds at turning the end of the world into a new beginning." - Publishers Weekly A love story set in a bad dream about America, concerning permanent debt, secret police, making dinner, and unpaid invoices—right up until the end of the world. It’s Brooklyn. It’s winter. It’s so cold outside you could execute billionaires in the street about it. Sam lives with Eleanor and they are in love. He has three or four outstanding invoices that would each cover rent for a month. At some point, the President is going to make some absolutely wild announcements that will only end in doom. In a surreal, funny, and heart-breaking version of reality, Sasha Fletcher’s highly anticipated first novel occupies that rare register that manages to speak to an increasingly incomprehensible world. Through scenes that poetically transform the mundane into the sublime and the absurd into the tragic, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is about the exquisite beauty of being in love in a world that is falling apart.
Download or read book A Mouth Full Of Lust written by Sasha Nudel and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poetry and prose about love, lust, sensuality, sexuality, and vulnerability that celebrates personal growth, individuality, and rawness through words as well as a flip animation of a heart metamorphosis.
Download or read book Everything Awake written by Sasha Steensen and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Awake was written during a dreamy, disorienting period of insomnia. In the middle of the night, I began studying Catullus, imagining that his hendecasyllabic rhythms might shush me to sleep. Instead, they prompted a series of eleven-line poems with eleven syllables per line. I was drawn to the number, via Catullus, because it felt both excessive and insufficient, just like the space of an insomniac's day. Eleven opened up onto an expanse in which I could think about dwelling, in a day, at the foot of a wind-swept mountain, in a family of humans, animals and plants, all of whom needed my care. Like Catullus's neoteric poems, these poems attempt to bring the private, domestic space to bear upon the larger, public sphere in hopes that each might inform the other. The assumption of these poems is an ancient one-our most basic daily acts of care, and our most intimate relationships, define our relationship to the larger world. My hope is that these poems might offer one humble account of care in our deeply damaged world. "In Steensen's verse the elusive "seam between dawn and dreams" is luminous, tenderly sewn into gardens of quiet, tucked between tumultuous days and nights. When we find ourselves sleepless, when there is "no feed," when we are "out to sea" her poems are rowboats, groves, refuge. In Everything Awake the known gives birth to the unknown and brings us closer not only to lucid dreams, but to the necessity of lucid wakefulness. This beautiful book provides solace for the unmoored, not by providing fixity, but by reminding us that the lens of the sacred is made of consciousness, excludes nothing, and is always curious." -Laynie Browne
Download or read book Thou written by Aisha Sasha John and published by Book*hug Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In THOU, Aisha Sasha John knows the day - biblically. What if time itself was an object of desire? And the book was a theatre for that? Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time. Which is why she discipled in it. For three years. Also for three months. Also for three months at 33. Ya. Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time and discipled in time, moving it across her body, watching it, um, course the day. She slowed it down and thought along it, she cut it up. She slowed it down and thunk along it and sped it up. She cut it up and spaced it out and rhythmed it down and laid it flat and looked at it hard. Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time. She did it. She did time. It was gross and funny and it was hard and it was good. The result is/was - THOU.
Download or read book Peace and Other Radical Ideas written by Sasha Temerte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhilarating debut by Instagram icon @ironandwords, this poetry book is a must-read for all-whether it's readers of Milk and Honey, fans of slam poetry, or anyone who wants to make a difference. A riveting inside look into society, Peace and Other Radical Ideas explores modern social issues through thought-provoking pieces. Bursting with inspiration, this heart-wrenching collection is a rallying cry for peace, understanding, and change. Sasha Temerte's poetry is the powerful spark that ignites humanity-one word at a time. The real warriors believe in an ideal world because the hardest battle to fight for is the one nobody believes even exists.
Download or read book Failure and I Bury the Body written by Sasha West and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure and I Bury the Body by Sasha West has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
Download or read book The Shining Material written by Aisha Sasha John and published by Book*hug Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African American Studies. In THE SHINING MATERIAL, Aisha Sasha John is a hostess; welcome to her house. Inside there is a party, a prayer, a painting that puts its fingers in your mouth--let it: in THE SHINING MATERIAL witness Aisha Sasha John braid self-portraiture, ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to create a collection of poems that is a tonic: dizzying in its open-mouthed, symphonic charge. These poems stage intimate encounters as they work against the language of the banal. Dancing across, between and at the interstices of the self, no poem is a single statement: they all recognize language as a perpetual subject of inquiry. THE SHINING MATERIAL is an opportunity to trace a fresh sensibility that will continue and make the work of this young innovative woman writer a powerful force in avant-garde writing around the world.
Download or read book America Mine written by Sasha Banks and published by Co-Im-Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African & African American Studies. Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. Sasha Banks's searing debut poetry collection america, MINE is a radical conjuring of a post-white supremacist United States of America. Blending speculative poetics and historiography, Banks creates a rich revisionist account of America, in which its most fraught institutions collapse and Uhmareka emerges --layering a new, strange, and graphic landscape with the textures of supernatural happenings, ghosts, creatures, and inconsistent recollections of American histories. Spurred on by the trauma of and lack of local and national accountability for Michael Brown's murder in 2014, Banks mixes magical realism and keen rage to interrogate white supremacy's narratives, challenge its prerogatives, and usher in a future where it can thrive no longer. In so doing, these Afrofuturist poems by turns summon historical and archetypal Black figures like Fannie Lou Hamer and Aunt Jemima to the National Mall; rouse the ghosts of Tituba, Rekia Boyd, and Cynthia Wesley at the Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson; and describe a period of raucous destruction before Uhmareka is ushered in by the strange and mysterious forces that herald it. Will Black lives thrive in the re-envisioned Uhmareka, or will they struggle to balance new freedom with the lingering fear of the old ways' return? In america, MINE, Sasha Banks demands that we consider what possibility may spring forth from such imagining. "In america, MINE Banks comes to collect a devilish debt. A conduit for ancestral wisdom and wizardry, Banks shows us how words can be all things --a wish, a whip, a wound, a world, a wonder. This book be a black mirror reflecting all that we hope for, 'some spectacular / abundance,' and all that we fear, 'the twisted shape / of grief.' These poems interrogate what it means to be American and Uhmarekin, trouble and antagonize America's hostile history (distant and recent), and fantasize a fertile future for Black protagonists who will soon 'inherit the sky / somehow.'" --T'ai Freedom Ford "america, MINE takes on the hard work of refracturing an already fractured landscape and rebuilding it in a more honest image. What I love most about the work of Sasha Banks is how the language offers a permission to grieve and a permission to feel rage. But, even beyond, a permission to fully see your people on the other side and figure out how to love them best there. A place where 'The blood will not be ours, anymore.' This book truly sings." --Hanif Abdurraqib "With trenchant wit and thrilling inventiveness, Sasha Banks's visionary poems invite us to imagine building the post-white supremacist, post-capitalist America of our dreams on the ruins of the past --will 'Uhmareka' be an Afrofuturist utopia, an Afro-pessimist wasteland, or some bizarre combination of the two? Can we build anything at all on so shaky a foundation? Let's watch!" --James Hannaham
Download or read book It is Going to be a Good Year written by Sasha Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Bank robberies. Kissing. Presidential announcements. Suits. In his first full-length book of poetry, Sasha Fletcher chronicles the domestic lives of two people living with ghosts, certain doom, an unidentifiable number of children, and each other. Funny and disastrous, tragic and optimistic, IT IS GOING TO BE A GOOD YEAR is the sort of love story that you only hear about when you listen, very carefully, to the kind of things you are too terrified to ask for. "There are ghosts in this book, which means there's an afterlife. You might even be in the afterlife. But even though there's an afterlife, I'm sorry, you're still going to need to find something to eat, and the Beloved is still going to leave you. I love Sasha Fletcher's voice for the fearless way it celebrates the world's collapse and for its endless confidence. Listen: it is going to be a good year, whether it is going to be a good year or not." Josh Bell"
Download or read book The Estate written by Sasha Dugdale and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Sasha Dugdale's second book of poems, in which she capitalizes on the promise of her debut collection.
Download or read book Red House written by Sasha Dugdale and published by Oxford Poets. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging in theme, 'Red House' includes traditional folk songs and poems after the Russian greats Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. These lyric poems are infused with the atmosphere of Russia, where the poet lived for several years.
