Download or read book My Mind Boggling Poems written by Sandra Nixdorf and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the whimsical mind of eleven-year-old poet Sandra Nixdorf comes a colourful collection of poems that will delight children and parents both. My Mind-Boggling Poems contains over fifty creative, fun, and hilarious poems and is brimming with vibrant illustrations (all drawn by the author!). Wacky animals, goofy aliens, delicious food, and more are brought to life by Sandra’s imagination in wonderfully playful language. The collection also demonstrates more than ten kinds of poems, from alliteration poems to limericks to haiku and beyond, helping kids learn about different types of poetry and inspiring them to write their own! My Mind-Boggling Poems is a perfect read-along book for adults with young children and for reading-age children and pre-teens to enjoy on their own. Help young minds have fun and discover a love of poetry with My Mind-Boggling Poems.
Download or read book A Poem for Your Thoughts written by Wylondria Jefferson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poem for Your Thoughts is a book of poems that takes a walk in your inner most thoughts. You as a reader will feel as if we have had several conversations through what you will read and how you can relate to what I have written. You will be surprise, shed tears, laugh, and feel loved. The experience of reading these poems will not only having you thinking, but also provide you a solution to your problems. The love, relationships, loss...will have a morale and lesson that will put you at ease. Enjoy this mind and thought provoking experience, because you too can relate.
Download or read book Life Hell Heaven written by The Poet Amin and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarik Amin Clayton, a/k/a The Poet Amin was born in New Britain, CT. He comes from a loving family and is the youngest of six siblings. The Poet Amin grew up in a fairly rough neighborhood on New Britain's north side of town. This is where his journey of writing began.The Poet Amin suffers from mental illness, in particular major depression, and started drinking and abusing drugs at a very young age. He was in and out of prison for possession charges, but the poet never lost his vision. The poet now lives drug and alcohol free since June 3, 2009.Life, Hell & Heaven is his own personal story, which confronts the pain of being trapped in hell. Before you enter into the "Heaven" part of this book, it begins with the poem "Welcome." You will then start traveling into this "One World of Poetry." As he prepares you for future book titles to come, Life, Hell & Heaven is the foundation and is guaranteed to bring an understanding to those who may not know its roots of destruction. Looking in from the outside, but hearing about it from the horse's mouth is another thing; this man has been there and done that! He says to all active addicts that there is a better way. He thanks God every day for his divine talent and being able to express himself and help others in his own creative way.The Poet Amin runs a poetry venue in New Britain at the public library where he and others meet once a month and read openly to the public, but mostly to one another. As an end note, for many years the Poet could not read or write, and he memorized his poems and had friends write his words down. Growing tired of this process, The Poet Amin taught himself to read and write, and is currently working on obtaining his GED. Someday, he hopes to be a drug and alcohol counselor for troubled teens.
Download or read book 69 Provoking Poems written by Jaimeen Baxi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harsh world-view, preposterous theories and a profound exchange of ideas and thoughts, this book is all about experiencing one’s internal viewpoints - assessing them through comparison. Have a weird world view? Read this and relate!
Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2006 written by Billy Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry -- from Laura Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women." In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.
Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2009 written by David Wagoner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.
Download or read book Oh No Where are my Pants written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was simply the worst the most terrible day. Nothing but NOTHING was going my way. If you've ever wondered whether anyone else knows what it's like to have a really bad day, this special collection of poignant and funny poems is for you.
Download or read book Simple and to the Core written by Stephen G. O'Sullivan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all about the big picture and bridging all of humanity while embracing different cultures. Acceptance to the fact that we are all humans and we are all here together. Let's make the best of it and enjoy each other as well as enjoying who we are as individuals, setting aside the petty fears that separate us from this ultimate goal. Moving forward and growing together through our common humanity and our cultural differences. Our potential is unlimited and mind boggling. There is no disease or environmental problem that we could not cure or overcome, if we could just stay focused on what is really important. "Cut to the chase" if you will.
Download or read book The Question of Language in African Literature Today written by Eldred D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ea s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story written by Martin Worthington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a ‘bitextual’ message: one which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of ‘folktale prophecy’. The argument is supported by interlocking investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides arguing for Ea’s duplicity, the book explores its implications – for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasīs, the Hellenistic historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh, word-play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood.
Download or read book A Word With Wilderness Poems Inspired by American Nature written by Gyaneshwari Dave and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the author's self-portrait sketch on the cover, ""A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature? is a collection of soulful nature poems accompanied by her elegant and delightful hand-drawn sketches. The gifted poet's subtle yet innocent, and often spiritual way of looking at nature's wonders makes her poetry a joy for any true nature lover - in America or any other part of the world. NOTE: This paperback edition has BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR featuring the illustrations in classic monochrome style. The preview may show color. Gyaneshwari Dave is a writer/poet, illustrator, nature photographer and the founder of www.pineconedream.com.
Download or read book Poetry in Pieces written by Michelle Clayton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings---Peru and Paris---which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo---and Latin American poetry---to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.
Download or read book In a Poet s Mind written by Sonya Flie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Don’t Know My Journey I’ve had choices in my life that I had to make, some that didn’t work in my favor, but I never considered them as bad ones, I just took them as a loss and moved on. While going through my journey, it moved slowly and I had to learn patience. I’ve always wanted to do something important, but I knew there were challenges and big steps for acceptance, I started to notice the mouths that would speak around me and had to read the lips that sour the taste of judging words. So I've learned how to block out the negativity. In order to make it work I made some adjustments. My journey started when I first went through something, continuing on was the beginning of my phase. I realized that we make life hard by worrying so much instead of focusing on how to sort a situation. I write my thoughts down when they are strong, not that I would forget, but because they will be useful later. Going through a journey is never an ending because a journey is a lifetime.
Download or read book Romanticism written by Duncan Wu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: “An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come.” Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary “This anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting.” Leslie Brisman, Yale University Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in 1994, and is the most widely used teaching text in the field in the UK. Now in its fourth edition, it stands as the essential work on Romanticism. It remains the only such book to contain complete poems and essays edited especially for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with his explanatory annotations and author headnotes. This new edition carries all texts from the previous edition, adding Keats’s Isabella and Shelley’s Epipsychidion, as well as a new selection from the poems of Sir Walter Scott. All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, are revised for this new edition. Romanticism: An Anthology remains the only textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage, The Pedlar, The Two-Part Prelude, Michael, The Brothers and the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd edn, 1786), The Emigrants, Beachy Head Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Records of Woman sequence (all 19 poems) Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion, The Mask of Anarchy and Adonais Keats, Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes Hannah More, Sensibility and Slavery: A Poem Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England As well as generous selections from the works of Mary Robinson, John Thelwall, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Letitia Landon and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Visit www.romanticismanthology.com for resources to accompany the anthology, including a dynamic timeline which illustrates key historical and literary events during the Romantic period and features links to useful materials and visual media.
Download or read book Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals written by Patricia Lockwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire “A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn’t anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of Lockwood’s lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems’ subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.
Download or read book Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue Woman written by Zafira L. Cohen and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2003-09-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick Israeli poet Yona Wallach (1944-1985) is often remembered for her outrageous and unconventional personality and the controversies engendered by her sometimes shamelessly erotic verse. But she is regarded by many of her friends and colleagues as the most important among the Israeli poets of her generation, perhaps even the greatest Hebrew poet of modern times, and has had a profound effect on Israel's cultural life ever since her works began to appear in periodicals in the early 1960s. Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen presents the first full-length critical analysis in English of her works, exposing the roots of her poetry in the poetic revolution in Israel during the 1950s and explain how she epitomizes the literary climate of her time. Wallach's poetry reflects the cultural crises that shook the academic world of the 1960s and the intellectual battles many artists fought with the prison-house of semiotic systems in which the human mind, they felt, was entrapped. Mysticism, religion and prophecy, passion, genius, sex, and madness are only some of the terms associated with this woman and her poetic art, which one critic has called a "unique combination of elements of rock and roll, Jungian psychology and street slang, break-neck pace and insistent sexuality." Cohen paints a background for Yona Wallach's poetry by outlining her short life and surveying her critical reputation. Drawing on her own rich and varied background in Bible, mythology, Hebrew language, and Poststructuralist and Postmodernist literary and linguistic theory, Cohen traces Wallach's poetic corpus, translates and interprets representative examples of her works, and situates them within a variety of historical and literary contexts.
Download or read book Reflections written by Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth collection of poems, titled "Reflections," comprising one hundred poems of Dr. Ashok T. Chakravarthy, primarily concentrate on key universal issues of concern. The poems promote welfare-oriented universal concepts viz., universal peace and brotherhood, protection of environment, concern for nature, care for children rights, the priceless feelings for a mother and so on. The poet's quest for world peace is focused in quite a number of poems, and the feelings that peace remains an essential imperative to be inculcated in world citizens. Despite disappointments and conflicts still existing elsewhere, the poet takes it as his moral duty to promote his chosen concepts on environment protection, children welfare, nature and so on. The task to promote and protect universal culture does not lag behind. His thirst to contribute the best of poetry to safeguard universal values, ideologies, and religions is visible in his poems and stokes serene feelings in every reader. These recurring aspirations in the poet's thoughts and in particular the incessant longing to express them through poetry compositions is worth a rare phenomenon which ought to be recognized as a rare poetic talent. Most of the verses of Dr. Ashok T. Chakravarthy are literary kits that give good rhythm when tuned to music for enlivening the lyrical philosophy. The poet's pursuit to strengthen the ideals of peace in every world citizen, every nation and in every peace-yearning youth have carved a niche in the hearts of several citizens across the world. This particular volume invites a strong literary debate that will upsurge the advocacy for the changes it strives to uphold across global boundaries.
