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Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-06-06
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 0393080218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of poems on the contradictions experienced in the here and now, both political and metaphysical, and the essential human comedy of getting through the day.
Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 0393244555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post In his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls “the problems of the normal,” which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem “Don’t Do That” opens with the lines: “It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything / hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red / along with some resentment I’d held in / for a few weeks.” In other poems, Dunn contemplates his own mortality, echoing Yeats—“That is no country for old men / cadenced everything I said”—only to discover he’s joined their ranks. In “The Writer of Nudes” his speaker is in search of the body’s “grammar” but tells his models, “Don’t expect to see yourself as other / than I see you.” Full of grace, wit, humor, and masterful precision, the poems in Here and Now attest to the contradictions we live with in the here and now. Political and metaphysical, these astonishing poems remind us of the essential human comedy of getting through each day. from "The House on the Hill" . . . from out of the fog, a large, welcoming house would emerge made out of invention and surprise. No things without ideas! you'd shout, and the doors would open, and the echoes would cascade down to the valleys and the faraway towns.
Author: Sinéad Morrissey
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A trenchant search for beauty amidst a world ravaged by cruelty.
Author: Clint Smith
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2017-01-06
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1938912667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness. Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward. - Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards - 2017 'One Book One New Orleans' Book Selection
Author: Phyllis Cole-Dai
Publisher:
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780998258836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A celebrated and diverse group of poets have contributed the beautiful selections that make up Poetry of Presence. This book of mindfulness poems provides a refuge of quiet clarity that is much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.
Author: Colin McNaughton
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780763617202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated collection of poems about traveling and vacations, including "I'm Off to Treasure Island," "If You're Traveling in Transylvania," and "Are We Nearly There Yet?"
Author: Youngjoo Son
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1135491801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change. Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical, and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition, the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive interventions in the production of social space through their critical interaction with dominant spatial codes.
Author: Scott Woods
Publisher: Brick Cave Books
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781938190117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scott Woods' major collection of poetry and first book with Brick Cave Books. Tackling subjects from race to pop culture, religion, love and beyond, Scott's raw and tenured language immediately connects with the Reader's sense of the world and Readers find themselves gently nodding in understanding and awe as you explore this book.
Author: Elizabeth J. Coleman
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781556595417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →HERE is fierce poetic imagination that faces indifference and cynicism with a rallying call for individual activism and collective action.
