Download or read book Goblin Market written by Christina Georgina Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hold Your Own written by Kae Tempest and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From playwright, novelist, spoken-word star, and the youngest-ever winner of the Ted Hughes Award, an electrifying poem-sequence based on the myth of the gender-switching prophet Tiresias. My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat. Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakes--and is punished by the goddess Hera, who turns him into a woman. So begins Hold Your Own, a riveting tale of youth and experience, wealth and poverty, sex and love, that draws ancient figures into a fiercely contemporary vision. Weaving elements of classical myth, autobiography and social commentary, Tempest uses the story of the blind, clairvoyant Tiresias to create four sequences of poems, addressing childhood, manhood, womanhood, and late life. The result is a rhythmically hypnotic tour de force--and a hugely ambitious leap forward for one of the most broadly talented and compelling young writers today.
Download or read book Poetry in Progress written by Poetry in Progress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry in Progress is a microcosm of a diverse and creative group that comes together in DeSoto, Texas Civic Center the first Monday of each month. With fellow poets and poetry lovers they share with abandon the joy, sorrow, and many shapes and shades of their inner world. By reading this book you get to eavesdrop on them and hopefully find yourself within their lines.In an article written by Sydni Thomas in the November 2013 issue of Southwest Now magazine, a founding member of the group says, “I believe poetry is all about self-discovery. Community is also about self-discovery, and we wanted to bring both together. Our goal in creating this group was to build culture and community through poetry. … When people get into poetry it breaks down barriers.” Another member says, “What a joy it is to see all of the different cultures come together and read poetry, … I guarantee almost everyone in the group has brought a poem that was difficult to get through emotionally, we stand in and read those difficult poems for each other.”
Download or read book The Prince s Progress and other poems written by Christina Rossetti and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems" by Christina Rossetti is a poetic masterpiece that transcends time, exploring themes of love, spirituality, and the human condition. Rossetti, a Victorian poetess, weaves a tapestry of enchanting verses that invite readers into a world of lyrical beauty and emotional depth. In "The Prince’s Progress," a narrative poem, Rossetti tells the story of a prince's spiritual journey, blending allegory and rich imagery to convey profound insights into faith and redemption. The additional poems in the collection showcase Rossetti's diverse poetic talent, addressing themes of love, nature, and introspection. With meticulous craftsmanship, she paints vivid pictures with her words, creating a symphony of emotions that resonates with readers. "The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems" is a testament to Rossetti's ability to infuse her work with spiritual and emotional resonance, making it a timeless treasure for poetry enthusiasts. Immerse yourself in the exquisite verses of Christina Rossetti and experience the enduring beauty of her poetic legacy.
Download or read book Poems of Progress written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems Progress written by Wendy Barker and published by Absey. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets are revealed in this informative book that allows the reader to understand the process of one poet's journey from idea to written form. Each poem in Poems' Progress is followed by an explanation of the thought-process or experience that led to the writing itself. Reproductions of rough drafts add a visual element to the book that allows the reader to "see" as well as "hear" the writing process. Poet Wendy Barker guides readers through the fascinating world of creating poetry with an ease that makes this book perfect to simply savor or to use as an instructional tool.
Download or read book Poems of Progress written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Am Her Tribe written by Danielle Doby and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that serves to create moments of connection through empowerment and storytelling. Focusing on inspiration, Doby's poetry invites its reader to "Come as you are. Your tribe has arrived. Your breath can rest here." both soft and fierce can coexist and still be powerful
Download or read book Swan written by Mary Oliver and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver’s tribute to “the mortal way” of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been “totally loyal.”
Download or read book The Prince s Progress and Other Poems written by Christina Georgina Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Begin in Gladness written by Craig Morgan Teicher and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a life Though it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear clearly and, as much as possible, without interruption, the voice of his or her mind, the voice that gathers, packs with meaning, and unpacks the language he or she knows. It can take a long time to learn to let this voice speak without getting in its way. This slow learning, the growth of this habit of inner attentiveness, is poetic development, and it is the substance of the poet’s art. Of course, this growth is rarely steady, never linear, and is sometimes not actually growth but diminishment—that’s all part of the compelling story of a poet’s way forward. —from the Introduction “The staggering thing about a life’s work is it takes a lifetime to complete,” Craig Morgan Teicher writes in these luminous essays. We Begin in Gladness considers how poets start out, how they learn to hear themselves, and how some offer us that rare, glittering thing: lasting work. Teicher traces the poetic development of the works of Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, and Francine J. Harris, among others, to illuminate the paths they forged—by dramatic breakthroughs or by slow increments, and always by perseverance. We Begin in Gladness is indispensable for readers curious about the artistic life and for writers wondering how they might light out—or even scale the peak of the mountain.
Download or read book All the Flowers Kneeling written by Paul Tran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “This powerful debut marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political violence.” —New York Times Book Review A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both “tender and unflinching” (Khadijah Queen) Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.
Download or read book Leaving Yuba City written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in the U.S. (Yuba City Poems). Groups of interlinked poems divided into six sections are peopled by many of the same characters and explore varying themes. Here, Divakaruni is particularly interested in how different art forms can influence and inspire each other. One section, entitled Indian Miniatures, is based on and named after a series of paintings by Francesco Clemente. Another, called Moving Pictures, is based on Indian films, including Mira Nair's "Salaam Bombay" and Satyajit Ray's "Ghare Baire." Photographs by Raghubir Singh inspired the section entitled Rajasthani. The trials and tribulations of growing up and immigration are also considered here and, as with all of Divakaruni's writing, these poems deal with the experience of women and their struggle to find identities for themselves. This collection is touched with the same magic and universal appeal that excited readers of Arranged Marriage. In Leaving Yuba City, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni proves once again her remarkable literary talents.
Download or read book The Prince s Progress written by Christina Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prince's Progress, and other poems By Christina Rossetti 47 Classic Rossetti Poems Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. lthough Rossetti's popularity during her lifetime did not approach that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her standing remained strong after her death. In the early 20th century Rossetti's popularity faded in the wake of Modernism. Scholars began to explore Freudian themes in her work, such as religious and sexual repression, reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry. In the 1970s academics began to critique her work again, looking beyond the lyrical Romantic sweetness to her mastery of prosody and versification. Feminists held her as symbol of constrained female genius, placed as a leader of 19th-century poets. Her work strongly influenced the work of such writers as Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Jennings, and Philip Larkin. Critic Basil de Selincourt stated that she was "all but our greatest woman poet ... incomparably our greatest craftswoman ... probably in the first twelve of the masters of English verse." Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and go, The bride she sleepeth, waketh, sleepeth, Waiting for one whose coming is slow: - Hark! the bride weepeth. 'How long shall I wait, come heat come rime?' - 'Till the strong Prince comes, who must come in time' (Her women say), 'there's a mountain to climb, A river to ford. Sleep, dream and sleep; Sleep' (they say): 'we've muffled the chime, Better dream than weep.'
Download or read book Poem in Progress written by John Logan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overcoming Speechlessness written by Alice Walker and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony. Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suffering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speechless by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us, often women and children, but also men of conscience who resist evil but are outnumbered by those around them who have fallen victim to a belief in weapons, male or ethnic dominance, and greed.
