Download or read book Calling a Wolf a Wolf written by Kaveh Akbar and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny Howe This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight. From "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before" Sometimes you just have to leave whatever's real to you, you have to clomp through fields and kick the caps off all the toadstools. Sometimes you have to march all the way to Galilee or the literal foot of God himself before you realize you've already passed the place where you were supposed to die. I can no longer remember the being afraid, only that it came to an end. Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.

Download or read book My American Heritage written by Ralph B. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of songs, poems, speeches, sayings and other writings.

Download or read book The Lost Ring and Other Poems written by Caroline Atherton Mason and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fallen and Other Poems written by James Benjamin Kenyon and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Soldier s Fortune and Other Poems written by Ed Brown and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Brown is a Canadian Forces veteran of Tsimpshian First Nations and Scottish-Canadian heritage. During his 19-year military career, he served on peacekeeping missions to the former Yugoslavia, Israel, Syria and Turkey (in support of Afghanistan), and aboard HMCS Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg and Moresby. Ed began writing poetry as therapy for PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). Songwriter Denis Donnelly says, "With strong street language that often gains power from echoing the innocence of nursery rhymes, these poems of Ed's peacekeeping experiences, both narrative and psychological, paint an unforgettable picture of war and its human costs." Psychologist Agnes Sawchyn says that Ed writes "with unflinching frankness and emotional honesty... Ed extends a message of hope to others by describing what, in the end, made his journey back to health possible and worth navigating: his love for his children, the apprehension and joy of experiencing new love, the simple beauties of nature, and an irrepressible sense of humour and playfulness." Full Advance Reviews "There are at least two gifts in the poetic, and sometimes wrenching, accounts of a soldier's journey. The first is that the scenes of people caught up in war's horrors are brought vividly to life. The second is the gift of following a returning soldier through despair and personal struggles into final acceptance. With strong street language that often gains power from echoing the innocence of nursery rhymes, these poems of Ed's peacekeeping experiences, both narrative and psychological, paint an unforgettable picture of war and its human costs, and testify that those costs are not only to those in the line of fire." - Denis Donnelly, BMus, songwriter, poet, choir director, arranger, workshop leader "With unflinching frankness and emotional honesty, Ed has described the horror of war as viewed through the eyes of a Canadian Forces peacekeeper. His experience of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder that resulted, with nightmares, horrific images, violent emotions, confused thoughts, feelings of guilt and shame, and loss of sense of self, is painfully captured in his words, as is his struggle to find his way back from despair and feeling broken to rediscovering the "freedom to live and enjoy life." Ed extends a message of hope to others by describing what, in the end, made his journey back to health possible and worth navigating: his love for his children, the apprehension and joy of experiencing new love, the simple beauties of nature, and an irrepressible sense of humour and playfulness." - Dr. Agnes Sawchyn, psychologist

Download or read book Urbain Grandier and Other Poems written by M. E. Landon and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When My Brother Was an Aztec written by Natalie Diaz and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it— He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

Download or read book The Poet s Quest and Other Poems written by Charles James Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lover s Revenge and Other Poems written by J. Thigpen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Download or read book Revelations of Life and Other Poems written by John Edmund Reade and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tower Unbuilded and Other Poems written by Benvenuta Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Linda and Other Poems written by Jane Cross Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tryphena and Other Poems written by John William Fletcher (poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Call Me By My True Names written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THICH NHAT HANH POETRY COLLECTION: Over 50 inspiring poems from the world-renowned Zen monk, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness. “ . . . the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows. His books help me be more human, more me than I was before.” —Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Though he is best known for his groundbreaking and accessible works on applying mindfulness to everyday life, Thich Nhat Hanh is also a distinguished poet and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. This stunning poetry collection explores these lesser-known facets of Nhat Hanh’s life, revealing not only his path to becoming a Zen meditation teacher but his skill as a poet, his achievements as a peace activist, and his experiences as a young refugee. Through more than 50 poems spanning several decades, Nhat Hanh reveals the stories of his past—from his childhood in war-torn Vietnam to the beginnings of his own spiritual journey—and shares his ideas on how we can come together to create a more peaceful, compassionate world. Uplifting, insightful, and profound, Call Me By My True Names is at once an exquisite work of poetry and a portrait of one of the world’s greatest Zen masters and peacemakers.

Download or read book The Magdalen and Other Poems written by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papers from My Desk and Other Poems written by William Emerson (Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Snowflake and Other Poems written by Arthur Weir and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Snowflake and Other Poems by Arthur Weir