Download or read book The Shy Poet Emerges written by Chasity M. Conley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry from the heart. It makes you think, it causes you to feel, but most of all, it helps you heal. Sit back and take an eye opening journey with The Shy Poet.

Download or read book The Shy Poet Emerges written by Chasity Conley and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shy Poet Emerges, Chasity Conley explores poetry in everyday life. With her ability to find light and hope in all aspects of life, this book combines stunning photography, and vibrant verse.

Download or read book The Shy Poet written by Chasity Conley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shy Poet continues on with her quest of self-discovery She delves into personal obstacles, paths unknown, and the fires she's encountered in her life. Join her as she emerges from the flames.

Download or read book The Shy Poet Re Emerges written by Chasity Conley and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shy Poet Re-Emerges, Chasity Conley picks up where she left off on her emotional journey to peace. Her words lend voice to thoughts deep in our hearts, and have helped many to heal. Join her, and discover why she has thousands of Facebook followers that count on her poetry for daily inspiration.

Download or read book The Shy Poet written by Chasity Conley and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The shy Poet: After The Storm, Chasity Conley continues her tradition of fine poetry. She touches our souls, heals our hearts, and shows us there is life after the storm.

Download or read book Gun Shy written by Jim Daniels and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change. The poems in Gun/Shy deal with the emotional weight of making do. Tinged with both the regrets and wisdom of aging, Jim Daniels's poems measure the wages of love in a changing world with its vanishing currency. He explores the effects of family work—putting children to bed, leading parents to their final resting places—and what is lost and gained in those exertions. Childhood and adolescence are examined, through both looking back on his own childhood and on that of his children. While his personal death count rises, Daniels reflects on his own mortality. He finds solace in small miracles—his mother stretching the budget to feed five children with "hamburger surprise" and potato skins, his children collecting stones and crabapples as if they were gold coins. Daniels, as he always has, carries the anchor of Detroit with him, the weight both a comfort and a burden. He explores race, white privilege, and factory work. Eight Mile Road, a fraught border, pulses with division, and the echoes of music, singing through Detroit's soiled but solid heart, resonate in these poems. His first long poem in many years, "Gun/Shy," centers the book. Through the personas of several characters, Daniels dives into America's gun culture and the violent gulf between the fearful and the feared. Throughout, he seeks connection in likely and unlikely places: a river rising after spring rain and searchlights crossing the night sky. Comets and cloudy skies. Cement ponds and the Garden of Eden. Adolescence and death. Wounds physical and psychic. Disguises and more disguises. These are the myths we memorize to help us sleep at night, those that keep us awake and trembling. Daniels's accessible language, subtlety, and deftness make this collection one that belongs on every poetry reader's shelf.

Download or read book Human written by The Shy Poet and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "the shy poet" is an anonymous poet from Los Angeles, California. Their debut book, "human" celebrates the beauty of being human. This poetry collection evokes emotions we all feel. From heartbreak to love, from our immaturities to our wisdom, "human" reveals the poetry in our humanity. "the shy poet" exposes the beauty in tragedy and uncovers hope from the rubble of our foolishness. Every reader relates to "human" in both universal and unique ways. The sad poems are an invitation for anyone struggling; a reassurance of belonging because everyone hurts at some point. The love poems are so genuine they could be used for wedding vows. The most interesting part of the collection is a section which forces readers to be honest with themselves. This section steps into the mind of someone who is selfish and manipulative, shedding light on their tricks and typical characteristics. There are many poems full of endearing wisdom, promoting self-love and nature. "human" is a poetry collection for anyone feeling alone, for anyone who loves literature because it helps them to know they belong. Follow "the shy poet" on Instagram: @theshypoet_

Download or read book I Threw My Brother Out written by Ted Scheu and published by Young Poets' Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all right here-the tricks and tips, the giggles and pains, the victories and the 'almosts'-in 56 of the smartest and funniest sports poems anywhere, all from the Hall-of-Fame brain of children's poet Ted Scheu. No one in the galaxy captures kids' wins and losses better in verse than Ted. And, once again, Peter Lourie's stunning photographs are all home runs!

Download or read book Cheap Yellow written by Shy Watson and published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shy's poems are abruptly smart, a little violent, devious and ongoing, legendary, mythic, not prosey though a little like the voice of god if god decided to speak more collectively for a while. Shy's poems to me are so so worth it. And they are crafty - also like god." --Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow

Download or read book The Work Shy written by Blunt Research Group and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic "colonies" and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison in California and from asylums for the chronically insane (preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection in Germany and the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City). Painful facts emerge about "sterilization mills" in California, where thousands of individuals became subject to compulsory procedures (policies that shaped eugenics practice in the Third Reich). In addition, the poems "translate" asylum texts—the writing of the insane—into a wider field of social conflict and utopian fragments of not-yet-being. Activating what Susan Howe calls "the telepathy of the archive" (and Peter Gizzi dubs "archeophonics" in the title of his latest collection), the poems of The Work-Shy become part of a "book of listening," occupying identities rooted in the demimonde and in places of confinement. Voices echo to form a ragged chain of soliloquies, kenning and keening, riddles and rants. Published under the collective, anonymous signature of the BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, the book operates at the crossroads of lyric and documentary poetries, of singularity and collectivism. An online readers companion will be available at bluntresearchgroup.site.wesleyan.edu.

Download or read book Poetree written by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl writes a poem to a tree, but then is surprised when the tree writes back in this wondrous and warm picture book about friendship, nature, and the power of poetry. The snow has melted, the buttercups are blooming, and Sylvia celebrates winter's end by writing a poem. She ties her poem to a birch tree, hoping that it doesn't count as littering if it makes the world more beautiful. But when she returns, a new poem is waiting for her. Could the tree really be writing back? Sylvia decides to test her theory, and so begins a heartwarming poetic correspondence...as well as an unexpected new friendship. Lyrical and sweetly satisfying, Poetree is about finding beauty in the world around you, and new friends in unlikely places.

Download or read book Poetry 180 written by Billy Collins and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.

Download or read book Shy Green Fields written by Hugh Behm-Steinberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Behm-Steinberg's Shy Green Fields is in company with books by poets who wrote about glorious ordinary days in extraordinary times. In a pillowbook of a hundred seven-line poems, this life, as it is written, has the shadow of Robert Creeley's A Day Book behind it, and the shadow of Federico Lorca in his famous, reiterated line, "Green, I love you, green, ..." a specific, and pacific, emotional response in difficult political times. Behm-Steinberg's book is, likewise, carnal, primal, and intellectual. Shy Green Fields exults in experience, "Such versions!"--Jane Miller

Download or read book Shy written by Theresa Hickey and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and learn to trust your inner voice as you read the poetry of the SHY collection.

Download or read book Poet s Pub written by Eric Linklater and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary Cheers—filled with British charm and wit Comprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, England, Poet's Pub is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of the original titles commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane—and again available to American readers. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes control of the Pelican Pub, what he desires most is the peace and freedom to craft his poems without being disturbed. This is the least of what happens, for the local watering hole soon becomes an out-and-out attraction for various eccentric characters ranging from uncouth rogues to members of academia. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Download or read book The Song Poet written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

Download or read book I m Just No Good at Rhyming written by Chris Harris and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be." Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, Harris's hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight-of-hand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully upside-down way. With enthusiastic endorsements from bestselling luminaries such as Lemony Snicket, Judith Viorst, Andrea Beaty, and many others, this entirely unique collection offers a surprise around every corner. Adding to the fun: Lane Smith, bestselling creator of beloved hits like It's a Book and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has spectacularly illustrated this extraordinary collection with nearly one hundred pieces of appropriately absurd art. It's a mischievous match made in heaven! "Ridiculous, nonsensical, peculiar, outrageous, possibly deranged--and utterly, totally, absolutely delicious. Read it! Immediately!" --Judith Viorst, bestselling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day