Download or read book Little Glass Planet written by Dobby Gibson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world,” Gibson writes, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love.
Download or read book Poems for a Small Planet written by Robert Pack and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-three poets forge a vision of nature for the post-industrial age.
Download or read book Poems for a Small Planet written by Robert Pack and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-three poets forge a vision of nature for the post-industrial age.
Download or read book Short Poems for a Small Planet written by Will Webster and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Here written by Elizabeth J. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HERE is fierce poetic imagination that faces indifference and cynicism with a rallying call for individual activism and collective action.
Download or read book Earth Lines written by Pat Moon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's poems celebrate Earth and reflect a concern for its survival in an age of pollution.
Download or read book Earth Verse Haiku from the Ground Up written by Sally M. Walker and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocks, fossils, earthquakes. Seventeen short syllables? Earth Science haiku! In a stunning combination of haiku and impressionistic (but accurate) art, this one-of-a-kind book encourages readers to think playfully about our planet and its wondrous processes. Sibert Medal–winning author Sally M. Walker covers Earth’s many marvels — fossilized skeletons of plants and animals, terrific volcanic eruptions, the never-ending hydrologic cycle — in sometimes straightforward, sometimes metaphoric three-line haikus. Expertly drawn art by William Grill, author-illustrator of Shackleton’s Journey, provides a visual reference for each poem. In clear and creative back matter, Walker and Grill further use their skills to provide additional detailed explanations for the science behind each concept. A unique, artistic intersection of poetry and science, Earth Verse is sure to enthrall any and all readers interested in the world around them.
Download or read book Sublime Planet written by Magdalena Ball and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two award-winning poets living from two hemispheres collaborated on Sublime Planet, a book of poetry that honors life on earth and the universe. Part of the poets' Celebration Series, this one honors Earth Day. Writer Mary Guglielmo says, "they are poems about the human experience woven into the world we live in. This is a great read!" Carolyn Howard-Johnson is listed on Poets & Writers' prestigious roster of poets and won the Franklin-Christoph prize for poetry. Magdalena Ball's work is also widely published and is the owner of the esteemed Compulsive Reader review site.
Download or read book Words for a Small Planet written by Nanette Norris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays are representative of international scholarship on ecology and the environment, and display the range of insight of which this criticism is capable. Focusing on popular culture, this volume is in the vanguard of our collective reflections on the directions in which our various societies are going.
Download or read book Some Planet written by John Mortara and published by YesYes Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "After john puts us through the paces with experiments and games, throws us talismans of rose quartz and 'tired-sick teeth, ' we return to the beginning--or, more appropriately, a beginning, with the final poem, 'how to start.' Again, as with the cosmos, we begin 'in the dark.' We begin with a meditation, a poem to speak aloud to ourselves. We start with our eyes closed, and then we open them, and then we read."--Carolyn DeCarlo some planet is a tiny cosmos in fevered conversation with itself. some planet is what it's like to recover from your own self. some planet is what it's like to be a human. existing in one's mind, in one's body, in one's world, in one's galaxy, all tiny universes inside tiny universes all locked in fevered conversation. some planet is the coin in your pocket when you don't know how to choose. some planet is when everything is both itself and simultaneously else. some planet is a house covered in overgrowth on the outside, plastered with memory and story on the inside. john mortara is leading you through the woods by the hand. trying to get you home safe before sun goes down.
Download or read book All the Wild Wonders written by Wendy Cooling and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebration of our Earth, distinguished anthologist Wendy Cooling has chosen poems to make children look, think, and ask questions. Why are trees so important? How are motorways damaging our countryside? What can we do about rubbish? What can we do to protect our Earth for the future? Strong, colourful illustrations combine to make this a gift book with a difference.
Download or read book Poems from a Green and Blue Planet written by Sabrina Mahfouz and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, this stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrates the diversity of life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with all the family. With new poems from Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Kate Tempest, Hollie McNish, Dean Atta, Sabrina Mahfouz and more. Dive into this book and be swept away on a journey around our green and blue planet, from the peak of the snowiest mountaintop to the bottom of the deepest, bluest ocean. Meet the birds circling its skies, the beasts prowling its plains, and the people toiling in its fields and forests and cities... Explore all the worlds that make up our world, and hear the voices, past and present, that sing out from it. From haikus to sonnets, from rap to the Romantics, this joyous collection celebrates life in all corners of our beautiful planet.
Download or read book The Spring of My Life written by Kobayashi Issa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior. In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more than 160 of Issa's best haiku and an introduction providing essential information on Issa's life and valuable comments on translating (and reading) haiku.
Download or read book A Planet Is a Poem written by Amanda West Lewis and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An out-of-this-world poetic exploration of the wonders of our solar system. From a ballad of Earth and an ode to the sun to a villanelle for Venus and a sestina for Saturn, here are 14 original poems about planets and other bodies in our solar system. Each different poetic form reflects the object’s unique characteristics, and each poem is bursting with intriguing details sure to capture readers’ imaginations. Information about both the object and the poetic form accompanies each poem. This innovative, immersive and beautifully crafted book blends science and poetry to create something strikingly new. Readers will be enchanted.
Download or read book Work and Days written by Tess Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet hailed as "stunning" reveals a fierce and sensual intelligence in a meditation about farming, reproducing, and what it means to try to forge a relationship with the earth.
Download or read book Make the Earth Your Companion written by J. Patrick Lewis and published by Creative Editions. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Make the Earth your companion. Walk lightly on it, as other creatures do." With this powerfully reverent refrain, readers are reminded to treat the world around us with the respect it deserves and the care it needs. Mountains, lakes, rivers, grasslands, forests, deserts—even the sky above—all of our natural environs have some message to impart, if we will but listen. Picturesque illustrations imbue the images with mysticism, making visual connections to not only the words themselves but to the feelings of wonder they evoke.
Download or read book Bartlett s Poems for Occasions written by Geoffrey O'Brien and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance -- from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say?
