Download or read book Roberta and Other Poems written by Ricardo Quinones and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricardo Quinones has followed his first volume of poems, Through the Years (2010), with a second, dedicated in large part to his wife, Roberta. Unlike other such volumes of personal interest, these poems begin with specific qualities that are then raised to the general. The poem "Odalisque" transfigures women, even in their sexual composure, into the sources of culture and civilization. Several of the poems are humorous, such as the one describing the couple's futile attempts to set aside Tuesday as a day of abstinence. All of these poems are rich in historical allusions. The second part of the volume contains a philosophical poem, "Rocks and Their Fellow Travelers," which begins with the premise that nowhere in the Bible does it say that God created rocks and then proceeds to compare the nature of these anti-gods with Satan, Esau, Sisyphus, Iago, and Goneril (from King Lear). The volume adds to the very popular "Wallet Poems" from Through the Years and then finishes with "Profanities," a poem that the late poet and critic Aino Passonen of Santa Monica declared made Quinones "a major American poet."
Download or read book Roberta s Coffee Table Book of Love written by Klaus J Joehle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I tried to be good But the boots Were to big And kept falling off
Download or read book Cicadas written by Roberta Hill Whiteman and published by Holy Cow! Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most respected Native American poets, a comprehensive collection of seventy-five poems, spanning some thirty years.
Download or read book Roberta Hill s Book of Poetry written by Roberta Hill and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has poems that I have been writing since 1999. The first chapter is poems that my granddad Robert I. Phelps wrote. There are many poems about adventure, travel, spirituality and many more topics.
Download or read book In Other Words Literature by Latinas of the United States written by Roberta Fernàndez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberta Fernàndez has gathered the best and most representative examples of fiction, poetry, drama and essay currently being written by Latina writers of the United States. The work is arranged by genre, and topics are as varied as the voices and styles of the writers: the challenge of living in two cultures; experiencing marginality as a result of class, ethnicity, and/or gender; Latina feminism; the celebration of oneÍs culture and its people. Most of the pieces are in English and some are presented bilingually in English and Spanish. A preface and an introduction by the editor and a foreword by the noted critic of Latin American literature, Jean Franco, serve to contextualize the writers and their work; a primary and secondary bibliography serves as an appendix.
Download or read book Life s Journey written by Roberta Dawn and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life's Journey by Roberta Dawn is a collection of one hundred poems she has written over the years. Some poems have been inspired by her personal experiences and some from trying to understand the world around her. There is at least one poem for everyone to relate to, if not several. Anyone who has family, friends, a significant other, a bad or good day, lived military life, and more will have something to relate to. In fact, anyone who has walked this journey through life should enjoy this book. Roberta Dawn hopes these poems can help people understand others better and understand their own thoughts and feelings. These poems can also help others know they are not alone, that others may have faced similar challenges and may be experiencing similar emotions. Life's Journey is a variety of poems written about love, heartache, sadness, happiness, grief, and life from the author's perspective. Each poem is written from the author's heart as they came to her like a gift in the wind when she needed the words to express her thoughts, feelings, love, and sometimes pain. Every word is written with many possible impressions, feelings, thoughts, experiences. These poems are meant to be read and reread, to be read alone and shared, and to be appreciated and enjoyed.
Download or read book Roberta Hill s Book of Poetry written by Roberta Hill and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has poems that I have written since 1999.
Download or read book Star Quilt written by Roberta Hill Whiteman and published by Holy Cow Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can bend time and place with poetry, with songs. Along with illustrations by Ernest Whitemen, one finds in this work a map of the journey each of us must complete, wittingly or not, as children and exiles of the Americas... I have long admired Roberta Hill Whiteman and celebrate that, with this book, her poems have become more possible in this country -- Carolyn Forché.
Download or read book The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse written by Roberta Frank and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying architecture of the two poetries, their irregularities of pace, startling formal conventions, and tight verbal detail work. The passage of time has worn away most of the circumstantial details that literary scholars in later periods take for granted, but the public relations savvy and aural and syntactic signals of early northern verse remain to some extent retrievable and relatable, an etiquette prized and presumably understood by its audiences. The second and longest chapter investigates the techniques used by early northern poets to retrieve and organize the symmetries of language. It illustrates how supererogatory alliteration and rhyme functioned as aural punctuation, marking off structural units and highlighting key moments in the texts. The third and final chapter describes the extent to which both corpora reveled in negations, litotes, indirection, and down-toners, modes that forced audiences to read between half-lines, to hear what was not said. By decluttering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a tight mesh of meter, alliteration, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and stitched together a poetics of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here. So will students in Old English and Old Norse courses.
Download or read book Nothing Special written by Charlotte Joko Beck and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN NOTHING IS SPECIAL, EVERYTHING CAN BE The best-selling author of 'Everyday Zen' shows how to awaken to daily life and discover the ideal in the everyday, finding riches in our feelings, relationships, and work. 'Nothing Special' offers the rare and delightful experience of learning in the authentic Buddhist tradition with a wonderfully contemporary Western master.
Download or read book The Songs We Know Best written by Karin Roffman and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography focusing on the poet John Ashbery's early life"--
Download or read book The Unworn Necklace written by Roberta Beary and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notorious written by Roberta Lowing and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She came walking out of the desert, just as the famous poet Rimbaud had centuries before. Now the nameless woman lies horribly scarred and close to death in an asylum deep in the North African desert. An Australian official, a man code-named John Devlin, has come to question her. It is clear that the woman and Devlin share some kind of past, and all kinds of secrets. As the wind calls up a deadly sandstorm, the inhabitants of the asylum discover they are linked by a diary written by Rimbaud. Over the next 120 years, everyone who sees the diary will want it. Most will do anything to possess it. For the ruthless Polish aristocrat Aleksander Walenska, the diary holds secrets that will bring him wealth and power; for his troubled and religious son Czeslaw, it is a book of death, a penance to be fulfilled by sacrifice; for Czeslaw’s sister, it is a book of the desert that will redeem her family’s name; for Devlin, the diary is worthless and the desert is not a place of revelation but of modern terrorism. Only the nameless woman, whose dark past is entwined with those who would possess Rimbaud’s diary at any cost, knows the true worth of the book . . .
Download or read book Huerfano written by Roberta Price and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "splendid book that beautifully captures the spirit of [commune life] . . ." (Nick Bromell, author of "Tomorrow Never Knows"), Price's memoir is at once comic, poignant, and honest, recapturing the sense of affirmation and experimentation that fueled the counterculture without lapsing into sentimentality or cynicism. 40 illustrations.
Download or read book A Ghost and His Gold written by Roberta Eaton Cheadle and published by Tsl Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Tom and Michelle Cleveland move into their recently built, modern townhouse, their housewarming party is disrupted when a drunken game with an Ouija board goes wrong and summonses a sinister poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904. Estelle makes her presence known in a series of terrifying events, culminating in her attacking Tom in his sleep with a knife. But, Estelle isn't alone. Who are the shadows lurking in the background - one in an old-fashioned slouch hat and the other, a soldier, carrying a rifle? After discovering their house has been built on the site of one of the original farms in Irene, Michelle becomes convinced that the answer to her horrifying visions lie in the past. She must unravel the stories of the three phantoms' lives, and the circumstances surrounding their untimely deaths during the Second Anglo Boer War, in order to understand how they are tied together and why they are trapped in the world of ghosts between life and death. As the reasons behind Estelle's malevolent behaviour towards Tom unfold, Michelle's marriage comes under severe pressure and both their lives are threatened.
Download or read book How to Build an Insect written by Roberta Gibson and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See what the buzz is about in this fresh, fun look at insect anatomy. Let's build an insect! In the pages of this book, you’ll find a workshop filled with everything you need, including a head, a thorax, an abdomen, and much more. Written by entomologist Roberta Gibson and accompanied by delightfully detailed illustrations by Anne Lambelet, this wonderfully original take on insect anatomy will spark curiosity and engage even those who didn't think they liked creepy, crawly things!
Download or read book Slivers written by Roberta M. Roy and published by ALVA PRESS. This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My thought on my poetry is that across the course of my life it has been wrung from me like slivers from my deepest, most passionate parts. The tenor varies with my age and circumstance at the time of writing. The poems I have included not as an editor might do, but as a biographer. They reflect my emotional life and critical events over the years.While older and wiser, in matters of the heart I remain open, vulnerable and ever grateful that in my times of greatest joy and greatest pain slight slivers of poetry have permitted me to state my deepest feelings in a manner that gives them dignity when all the world might think me mad to love or hurt so passionately.I have divided the poems loosely into groups by topic. "Miniatures" are of people in my life; "Love Poems" of different aspects of romantic love, love in disrepair and friendship; "Moments" reflect very brief actual events presented as expressions of brief observations, questions, or insights; and "Musings" are of views on a variety of topics and events in my life. The last section, "Bereft," are cameos of emotionally disturbed grade schoolers with whom I have done speech language therapy. While these poems do not in any way provide a biography, they may at times suggest the maturing and adapting of my ideas over time. My hope is that the poems will bring the reader at least some pleasure.
