Download or read book The Slaughterhouse Poems written by Dave Newman and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Slaughterhouse Poems, Dave Newman's first full-length poetry collection, is a series of narrative poems that tell the stories of people often kept behind the scenes in American literature - slaughterhouse workers, bowling-alley managers, strippers, prisoners dreaming of better lives. Written in the spirit of world poets like Nicanor Parra and Nazim Hikmet, coupled with American grittiness, Newman's poems hold a place of their own - real, heartfelt, true.
Download or read book Beyond the Slaughter House written by Gauri Deshpande and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Slaughterhouse of Love written by David Bond (Poet) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lesson in Smallness written by Lauren Goodwin Slaughter and published by National Poetry Review Press. This book was released on 2015-01-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lesson in Smallness is an invitation that builds--word by shiveringly, perfectly placed word, cadence by subtle, breath-catching cadence-into shifting vignettes, vistas, vision. There's nothing small at all here, it turns out. Vastly imponderable, and also close, and cherished: nature and human nature and the nature of art, all at once in these moving poems. A book to read and read again. - Robin Behn Early in her new poetry collection, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter speaks of "the necessary oomph." Which is also an excellent way of describing the pizazz of this wonderful book. Though titled A Lesson in Smallness, Slaughter's language is large, attentive, loving, and dynamic, even while acknowledging that our connections to others-in this case, as wife, mother, daughter-sometimes require a steep mortgage on a woman's most intimate and individual desires. I love this book's truthfulness and clarity of vision, and I'm betting you will, too. - Erin Belieu A Lesson in Smallness is a book seized by hunger and the umbilical. It is at once a travelogue, a junk drawer, a menu, a romance, an anti-romance, a cultural inquiry, and a mystery, which is to say it is fascinating and not at all aimless but deft, meticulous, and at the same time lavish. It proceeds by pleasurable and painful tension and release to a Rilkean abundance. The sensational third section of the book is an eruption into Slaughter's full powers of language in the service of transport. The "smallness" is a modest way to say her acts of attention expand our sense of what is possible. It's a beautiful [and dangerous] debut. - Bruce Smith Lauren Goodwin Slaughter a lesson in smallness The National Poetry Review Press Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is the recipient of a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her poetry has appeared in venues such as Blackbird, Blue Mesa Review, Hayden's Ferry, Hunger Mountain, Kenyon Review Online, and Verse Daily, among others. She is co-fiction editor at DIAGRAM and an assistant professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Originally from Philadelphia, she now lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and two young children.
Download or read book Proper Etiquette in the Slaughterhouse Line written by James Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2022-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proper Etiquette in the Slaughterhouse Line, 17 poems that start out discussing modern day office life, the "rise and grind" corporate cog culture that decimates souls, and evolves into a story of that workaday world crumbling into an apocalyptic landscape of humanity's final gasp as Earth reboots itself, becoming a more peaceful world if only for the lack of us.James Duncan's new collection of poems punch me square in the teeth. Most of us work a job we hate just so we can survive in a world that would rather see us exhausted than in love, that would rather see us depressed than creative, that would have us put our heads down and live among the meaningless than to look up and discover awful truths. These are poems in the vein of Carver, Bukowski, and James Wright. Workers, fighters, and people with little hope, trapped in a system they cannot beat, but sometimes can beat late at night during the exhausted hours. These poems take the everyday mundane existence we are force fed eight hours a day and show us there is hope, but only if we are willing to open the doors of the slaughterhouse. -Frank Reardon, author of Loud Love on the Sevens and Elevens, Blood Music and othersWith Proper Etiquette in the Slaughterhouse Line, James H. Duncan does a superb job of showing us our humanity exactly as we are living it, the pain, the struggle, the sickness and all the manifestations of any joys we can find to keep ourselves grounded. Duncan's poems are both heartbreaking and equal parts exuberant within the expression of the simplest speck of human minutiae. This book of poetry exposes our very soul. -John Grochalski, author of Eating a Cheeseburger During the End Times and P-Town Forever
Download or read book Poems from the Dayglow Slaughterhouse written by J. Martin Strangeweather and published by Weird Roach Productions. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sort of deviltry has J. Martin Strangeweather conjured up this time? Magister Strangeweather would have us believe this collection of diabolical poesy is an exorcism, a purgation. Humorous, startling, and painfully insightful, the incantations herein are sure to leave the reader transformed. Between these pages you will find Beelzebub, Mammon, Mephistopheles, zombie yogis, a stranger version of the Frankenstein monster, and all manner of demons bound upside down in the service of righteousness. Abandon all fear, ye who enter here.
Download or read book To the Slaughterhouse written by Jean Giono and published by Peter Owen Modern Classics (20. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long regarded as one of France's finest writers of the twentieth century, Jean Giono is best known for his ecological bestseller The Man Who Planted Trees, but this neglected classic, published in 1931, is his masterpiece. Set during the First World War, conscription comes to a rural Provençal community, and its young men leave for the trenches on the Western Front. Based on his experiences at the battle of Verdun, at which he was one of only eleven survivors from his company, Giono produced one of the most powerful and affecting accounts of war ever written. This unflinchingly realistic yet at times intensely poetic novel grimly contrasts the destruction of men, land and animals at the front with the disintegration of daily life and accepted morality back home in a remote community with its own savagery, lusts and yearnings. Giono ends his masterwork with a message of hope, reflecting his faith in the ability of the earth to renew itself, which readers of The Man Who Planted Trees will find familiar. Part of the new look Peter Owen Modern Classics range featuring a logo crafted by graphic design icon Alvin Lustig.
Download or read book Soft Focus Slaughterhouse written by Dylan Krieger and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New collection of poetry by Dylan Kreiger
Download or read book A Bumpy Ride to the Slaughterhouse written by Dag T. Straumsvåg and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by Dag T. Straumsvag translated from Norwegian to English.
Download or read book Spectacle written by Lauren Goodwin Slaughter and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spectacle, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter's second full-length collection, the poet deepens her commitment to the enduring and eternal subjects of womanhood, motherhood, and family, and deftly considers how those devotions intersect in ways joyful, mysterious, and cruel within personal and political landscapes. Slaughter’s poems seek out and explore authentic, raw humanity, at times employing the gaze of Dutch photographer and artist, Rineke Dijkstra—several of whose photographic portraits are included in the collection alongside ekphrastic poems—as a lens to view what Dijkstra calls the "uninhibited moment.” When artistic eye meets the fierceness of subject, the result is poetry deeply rooted in its lyricism and empathy, grounded in its depth of emotion, and unflinching in its alertness to the poet's beloveds and world.
Download or read book Abattoir written by Angelo Mao and published by Burnside Review Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angelo Mao's ABATTOIR is an unnerving yet moving take on the cold-metal safety cabinet of human consciousness, with its five different kind of scissors, in which we are all imprisoned, the experimental subjects of our own destructive and tender syntaxes. The book opens with a series of protocols, then becomes 'fleshed out' with the tissues of embodiment and subjectivity with which the human likes to identify itself. Yet the book is most tender when it is most bare of excuses, performing the courtesy of observing the black pool of a decaying mouse's pupil as it goes so delicately white. I never took such a quiet breath as when I read this book."--Joyelle McSweeney Poetry.
Download or read book Macello written by Ivano Ferrari and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of poems by Ivano Ferrara, translated into English verse by Matteo Gilebbi. The poems, published originally in Italian, as the title suggests are mostly about the slaughter of animal for consumption"--
Download or read book The Sorrow Festival written by Erin Slaughter and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slaughterhouse Five written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 1999-01-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.
Download or read book In the City of Slaughter written by Chaim Nachman Bialik and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaim Nachman Bialik's epic response to the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom roars with with fresh urgency and rage in this dynamic literary translation by Jeffrey Burghauser, one of America's premier formalist poets.
Download or read book In Service of Slaughter written by John Baltisberger and published by Madness Heart Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry in one form or another has been around almost as long as language. We have used it to communicate our joys and heartbreaks, our victories and our losses. But fear has also been a constant companion, and our ghost stories and monsters stretch their claws back into history as far as the eyes can see. The second chapbook in this collection, 'In Service of Slaughter' explores twenty-five more poetic forms. Ranging from the English Madrigal to the nearly unheard of Magic-9 poem. This collection moves through nightmares to the forefront of cinematic pop culture and explores the world of serial killers and supernatural slashers. Masked killers and revenants rise from the swamp to trudge through poems celebrating the hunt for victims. Praise for “In Service of Slaughter These take dark and demented to a whole new level. Dive into the mind of a crazed killer, feel their joy and excitement as they kill.… At first you'll be shocked, then uneasy, then you'll start to dig deeper. This book will leave you twisted. -Roxanne Rhoads, allthingshalloweenguide.blogspot.com “A fun experiment in poetry styles and horror themes.” -David Doub, Writer/Publisher Dusk Comics
Download or read book The Man Grave written by Christopher Salerno and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, poems that consider and attempt to allay toxic masculinity The Man Grave portrays the corrosiveness, violence, and loneliness of all-too-familiar strains of American masculinity. In perceptive and moving poems, Christopher Salerno explores patriarchy, boyhood, lust, misogyny and homophobia, infertility, and family in an effort to diagnose—and remedy—inherited patterns of manliness. “Have I / made it any further than my father / in his laughter, before his slaughter?” Salerno writes. His new collection is a moving and generous answer.
