Author: Jennifer Militello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936797752
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Award-winning poet Jennifer Militello's third full-length collection, A CAMOUFLAGE OF SPECIMENS AND GARMENTS, casts a smokescreen of selves. Fragmentary letters addressing illness and struggle are interspersed with ventriloquisms in the voices of mythological heroes and long-dead composers, ancient goddesses and murdered girls. Intricate dictionaries offer multi- layered definitions that, like layers of clothing or ancient amulets, are meant to provide shelter from a world that cannot be controlled. This captivating book stitches together a plethoric identity so as to examine the disguises we all wear.
A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments
Author: Jennifer Militello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936797752
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Award-winning poet Jennifer Militello's third full-length collection, A CAMOUFLAGE OF SPECIMENS AND GARMENTS, casts a smokescreen of selves. Fragmentary letters addressing illness and struggle are interspersed with ventriloquisms in the voices of mythological heroes and long-dead composers, ancient goddesses and murdered girls. Intricate dictionaries offer multi- layered definitions that, like layers of clothing or ancient amulets, are meant to provide shelter from a world that cannot be controlled. This captivating book stitches together a plethoric identity so as to examine the disguises we all wear.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936797752
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Award-winning poet Jennifer Militello's third full-length collection, A CAMOUFLAGE OF SPECIMENS AND GARMENTS, casts a smokescreen of selves. Fragmentary letters addressing illness and struggle are interspersed with ventriloquisms in the voices of mythological heroes and long-dead composers, ancient goddesses and murdered girls. Intricate dictionaries offer multi- layered definitions that, like layers of clothing or ancient amulets, are meant to provide shelter from a world that cannot be controlled. This captivating book stitches together a plethoric identity so as to examine the disguises we all wear.
Knock Wood
Author: Jennifer Militello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945814969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anchored by a wooden ring, an award-winning poet explores her life through the lens of three intertwined elements: the story of a mentally ill aunt in an abusive marriage; a high-school romance with a boy who eventually dies of a heroin overdose; and an extramarital affair characterized by an otherworldly connection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945814969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anchored by a wooden ring, an award-winning poet explores her life through the lens of three intertwined elements: the story of a mentally ill aunt in an abusive marriage; a high-school romance with a boy who eventually dies of a heroin overdose; and an extramarital affair characterized by an otherworldly connection.
If This Is the Age We End Discovery
Author: Rosebud Ben-Oni
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of “Efes” which is “zero” in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of “Efes” which is “zero” in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.
The Pact
Author: Jennifer Militello
Publisher: Tupelo Press
ISBN: 9781946482471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Poetry. In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, poems comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mother's role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, THE PACT offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book places pleasure alongside pain, even as it delivers Militello's trademark talent for innovation and ritualization of the strange.
Publisher: Tupelo Press
ISBN: 9781946482471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Poetry. In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, poems comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mother's role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, THE PACT offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book places pleasure alongside pain, even as it delivers Militello's trademark talent for innovation and ritualization of the strange.
Harmony
Author: Carolyn Parkhurst
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399562621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"[A] provocative page-turner." —People “In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post “Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally--a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly--whose condition is deemed undiagnosable--is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Alexandra and her younger daughter Iris (the book's Nick Carraway), this is a unputdownable story about the strength of love, the bonds of family, and how you survive the unthinkable.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399562621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"[A] provocative page-turner." —People “In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post “Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally--a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly--whose condition is deemed undiagnosable--is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Alexandra and her younger daughter Iris (the book's Nick Carraway), this is a unputdownable story about the strength of love, the bonds of family, and how you survive the unthinkable.
Night, Fish and Charlie Parker
Author: Nhiên Hạo Phan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : vi
Pages : 90
Book Description
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from Vietnamese by Linh Dinh, this collection of work from exiled poet Phan Nhien Hao chronicles the immigrant experience and vividly captures the trauma of the Vietnamese experience following the war. Barred from publishing in his native country, Phan Nhien Hao writes in a style both lucid and arresting. He is the author of two collections of poems and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : vi
Pages : 90
Book Description
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from Vietnamese by Linh Dinh, this collection of work from exiled poet Phan Nhien Hao chronicles the immigrant experience and vividly captures the trauma of the Vietnamese experience following the war. Barred from publishing in his native country, Phan Nhien Hao writes in a style both lucid and arresting. He is the author of two collections of poems and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Tension : Rupture
Author: Cutter Streeby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Ekphrasis has many faces. Re-enactments in one medium of a work in another can grow tedious. The true process involves touching base, understanding that base, then dancing down a course beginning in that understanding. That is the course followed by the collaboration between artist Michael Haight and poet Cutter Streeby. Here the artist's mostly water color suggestions of flesh and circumstance taken from a series titled Alcoholic Crepuscules prompt poems, prose, and adventures across various fields, essentially thematic but rushing off into associated imagery. It makes for an exciting set of collisions as much as collaborations. There are doors constantly opening onto potentially fierce landscapes the reader senses before being propelled onward."-George Szirtes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Ekphrasis has many faces. Re-enactments in one medium of a work in another can grow tedious. The true process involves touching base, understanding that base, then dancing down a course beginning in that understanding. That is the course followed by the collaboration between artist Michael Haight and poet Cutter Streeby. Here the artist's mostly water color suggestions of flesh and circumstance taken from a series titled Alcoholic Crepuscules prompt poems, prose, and adventures across various fields, essentially thematic but rushing off into associated imagery. It makes for an exciting set of collisions as much as collaborations. There are doors constantly opening onto potentially fierce landscapes the reader senses before being propelled onward."-George Szirtes
O Woolly City
Author: Priscilla Sneff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Priscilla Sneff is a brilliant new poet who writes poems of intensity, passion, visionary depth, and great musical and compositional feel, not just for a first book, but any book.-David Baker, editor of the The Kenyon Review Priscilla Sneff became a cause cA(c)lA]bre when, after winning the Kenyon Review / Zoo Press First Book Prize, her manuscript languished in the demise of Zoo Press. This long-anticipated work of powerful, accessible poetry is at last available and will confirm the praise of her award. Priscilla Sneff has published widely in journals and currently teaches poetry at Tufts University.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Priscilla Sneff is a brilliant new poet who writes poems of intensity, passion, visionary depth, and great musical and compositional feel, not just for a first book, but any book.-David Baker, editor of the The Kenyon Review Priscilla Sneff became a cause cA(c)lA]bre when, after winning the Kenyon Review / Zoo Press First Book Prize, her manuscript languished in the demise of Zoo Press. This long-anticipated work of powerful, accessible poetry is at last available and will confirm the praise of her award. Priscilla Sneff has published widely in journals and currently teaches poetry at Tufts University.
Duties of the Spirit
Author: Patricia Fargnoli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Readers will discover many facets of Fargnoli's voice, but two attributes that will most impress readers are, first, the almost shimmering gladness with which Ms. Fargnoli replies to the gifts of beauty and of human love; and, second, the compassion with which she addresses whatever is beyond her own intimate surroundings.-Mary Oliver Duties of the Spirit comprises deeply moving, lyrical and unforgettable explorations of the joys and fears that come with growing older in America. Patricia Fargnoli, a retired psychotherapist, is a Macdowell fellow and associate editor of The Worcester Review. Her first book, Necessary Light, was selected by Mary Oliver for the May Swenson Poetry Award, Utah State University Press, 1999.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Readers will discover many facets of Fargnoli's voice, but two attributes that will most impress readers are, first, the almost shimmering gladness with which Ms. Fargnoli replies to the gifts of beauty and of human love; and, second, the compassion with which she addresses whatever is beyond her own intimate surroundings.-Mary Oliver Duties of the Spirit comprises deeply moving, lyrical and unforgettable explorations of the joys and fears that come with growing older in America. Patricia Fargnoli, a retired psychotherapist, is a Macdowell fellow and associate editor of The Worcester Review. Her first book, Necessary Light, was selected by Mary Oliver for the May Swenson Poetry Award, Utah State University Press, 1999.
Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens
Author: Corey Van Landingham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482617
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"In a world where drones are named for the messenger god, who is also the god of thieves, where a wedding celebration can be shattered by a missile fired by no one at all, in a world of destruction-by-proxy and a fever dream of omniscience, Corey Van Landingham gives us a beautiful, penetrating book of poems. These pages fairly shimmer with intelligence. And with something more important too: with insight that restores us to our senses."--Linda Gregerson Poetry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482617
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"In a world where drones are named for the messenger god, who is also the god of thieves, where a wedding celebration can be shattered by a missile fired by no one at all, in a world of destruction-by-proxy and a fever dream of omniscience, Corey Van Landingham gives us a beautiful, penetrating book of poems. These pages fairly shimmer with intelligence. And with something more important too: with insight that restores us to our senses."--Linda Gregerson Poetry.