Author: Heidi Klotzman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781711327587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This is a collection of poetry by Heidi L. Klotzman, an award-winning CEO based in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, she founded HeidnSeek Entertainment, a company recognized for its excellence in marketing businesses and special events and booking live music and DJ talent. Raised in a musical household, Klotzman's first love was music, but writing was a close second. Her mom read to her frequently, and she learned to express her thoughts, feelings, and creativity through poetry. She accumulated hundreds of poems over the years. Her biggest writing influences were song lyrics from various genres, hip-hop, and poets: Carl Hancock Rux and Paul Beatty. She has performed her poetry at her alma maters, Roland Park Country School (RPCS), Eugene Lang Writing Seminar College, and Goucher College, as well as at special events in Baltimore and New York. When she graduated RPCS, she was named "The Poetic Soul of the School," by the then head of school. Klotzman thanks God, her parents, grandparents, teachers, classmates, editors, and friends for encouraging her to express herself in writing. This book is her journey across love, loss, growth, and acceptance through poetry. She hopes that she can reach others the way that poets have reached her.
Circadian Rhythm
Author: Heidi Klotzman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781711327587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This is a collection of poetry by Heidi L. Klotzman, an award-winning CEO based in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, she founded HeidnSeek Entertainment, a company recognized for its excellence in marketing businesses and special events and booking live music and DJ talent. Raised in a musical household, Klotzman's first love was music, but writing was a close second. Her mom read to her frequently, and she learned to express her thoughts, feelings, and creativity through poetry. She accumulated hundreds of poems over the years. Her biggest writing influences were song lyrics from various genres, hip-hop, and poets: Carl Hancock Rux and Paul Beatty. She has performed her poetry at her alma maters, Roland Park Country School (RPCS), Eugene Lang Writing Seminar College, and Goucher College, as well as at special events in Baltimore and New York. When she graduated RPCS, she was named "The Poetic Soul of the School," by the then head of school. Klotzman thanks God, her parents, grandparents, teachers, classmates, editors, and friends for encouraging her to express herself in writing. This book is her journey across love, loss, growth, and acceptance through poetry. She hopes that she can reach others the way that poets have reached her.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781711327587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This is a collection of poetry by Heidi L. Klotzman, an award-winning CEO based in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, she founded HeidnSeek Entertainment, a company recognized for its excellence in marketing businesses and special events and booking live music and DJ talent. Raised in a musical household, Klotzman's first love was music, but writing was a close second. Her mom read to her frequently, and she learned to express her thoughts, feelings, and creativity through poetry. She accumulated hundreds of poems over the years. Her biggest writing influences were song lyrics from various genres, hip-hop, and poets: Carl Hancock Rux and Paul Beatty. She has performed her poetry at her alma maters, Roland Park Country School (RPCS), Eugene Lang Writing Seminar College, and Goucher College, as well as at special events in Baltimore and New York. When she graduated RPCS, she was named "The Poetic Soul of the School," by the then head of school. Klotzman thanks God, her parents, grandparents, teachers, classmates, editors, and friends for encouraging her to express herself in writing. This book is her journey across love, loss, growth, and acceptance through poetry. She hopes that she can reach others the way that poets have reached her.
Circadian
Author: Joanna Klink
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143038849
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink’s new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143038849
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink’s new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.
Madness
Author: Sam Sax
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131702
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131702
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
Box
Author: Robert Wrigley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130560
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A powerful new collection from an acclaimed, award-winning poet With nine previously published collections of poetry, Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Wrigley's tenth collection, Box, is a book of poems obsessed with human containment, with the way people are contained or confined—by time, mortality, technology, identity, culture, and history—in almost everything they are and everything they do. Even the body, even the poem itself, is in this regard a kind of self-containing crate, in which the human being, perhaps the human spirit, is shipped into the world at large. But Box is also a book obsessed with escape from containment, and escape comes from dreams, from deep awareness, from contemplation, from love, and above all, as Wallace Stevens insisted, from "the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality." The poems in Box aim to do nothing less than "help people live their lives," as Stevens put it.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130560
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A powerful new collection from an acclaimed, award-winning poet With nine previously published collections of poetry, Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Wrigley's tenth collection, Box, is a book of poems obsessed with human containment, with the way people are contained or confined—by time, mortality, technology, identity, culture, and history—in almost everything they are and everything they do. Even the body, even the poem itself, is in this regard a kind of self-containing crate, in which the human being, perhaps the human spirit, is shipped into the world at large. But Box is also a book obsessed with escape from containment, and escape comes from dreams, from deep awareness, from contemplation, from love, and above all, as Wallace Stevens insisted, from "the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality." The poems in Box aim to do nothing less than "help people live their lives," as Stevens put it.
Rift of Light
Author: William Logan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524705675
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
New work from a poet who "seems to be getting stronger with each collection" (David Yezzi, The New Criterion) William Logan is widely admired as one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry; his classical verve conjures up the past within the present and the foreshadowings of the present within the past. In their sculptural turns, their pleasure in the glimmerings of the sublime while rummaging around in the particular, the poems in Rift of Light, Logan's eleventh collection, are a master class of powerful feeling embedded in language. Ranging from Martin Luther to an abandoned crow, from a midwife toad to a small-town janitor, from actress Louise Brooks to Dürer's stag beetle, Logan shows an encyclopedic attention to the passing world. Dry, witty, skeptical, these dark and acidic poems prove a constant and informing delight.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524705675
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
New work from a poet who "seems to be getting stronger with each collection" (David Yezzi, The New Criterion) William Logan is widely admired as one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry; his classical verve conjures up the past within the present and the foreshadowings of the present within the past. In their sculptural turns, their pleasure in the glimmerings of the sublime while rummaging around in the particular, the poems in Rift of Light, Logan's eleventh collection, are a master class of powerful feeling embedded in language. Ranging from Martin Luther to an abandoned crow, from a midwife toad to a small-town janitor, from actress Louise Brooks to Dürer's stag beetle, Logan shows an encyclopedic attention to the passing world. Dry, witty, skeptical, these dark and acidic poems prove a constant and informing delight.
Blue Rose
Author: Carol Muske-Dukes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131257
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A new collection of emotionally rich, issue-oriented poems from an award-winning poet whose work “has long been essential reading” (Jorie Graham) Carol Muske-Dukes has won acclaim for poetry that marries sophisticated intelligence, emotional resonance, and lyrical intensity. The poems in her new collection, Blue Rose, navigate around the idea of the unattainable – the elusive nature of poetry, of knowledge, of the fact that we know so little of the lives of others, of the world in which we live. Some poems respond to matters of women, birth, and the struggle for reproductive rights, or to issues like gun control and climate change, while others draw inspiration from the lives of women who persisted outside of convention, in poetry, art, science: the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, the scientist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, and the Californian poet and writer Ina Coolbrith, the first poet laureate ever appointed in America.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131257
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A new collection of emotionally rich, issue-oriented poems from an award-winning poet whose work “has long been essential reading” (Jorie Graham) Carol Muske-Dukes has won acclaim for poetry that marries sophisticated intelligence, emotional resonance, and lyrical intensity. The poems in her new collection, Blue Rose, navigate around the idea of the unattainable – the elusive nature of poetry, of knowledge, of the fact that we know so little of the lives of others, of the world in which we live. Some poems respond to matters of women, birth, and the struggle for reproductive rights, or to issues like gun control and climate change, while others draw inspiration from the lives of women who persisted outside of convention, in poetry, art, science: the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, the scientist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, and the Californian poet and writer Ina Coolbrith, the first poet laureate ever appointed in America.
Spell
Author: Ann Lauterbach
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A new collection of provocative work from the author of Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous, and intellectually charged work. In her tenth collection, Spell, Lauterbach activates the many meanings of "spell": her sense that the world is under a spell from which it must awaken, to spells of passing weather, to her desire to spell out life's difficulties and wonders, and how sin-gle words (and their etymologies) might inform and enlighten our contemporary condition. In short poems, poem sequences, and a series of "Conversations with Evening," Lauterbach calls upon all her imaginative resources to locate a new hybrid poetics of reality, with wit, urgency, and candor.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A new collection of provocative work from the author of Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous, and intellectually charged work. In her tenth collection, Spell, Lauterbach activates the many meanings of "spell": her sense that the world is under a spell from which it must awaken, to spells of passing weather, to her desire to spell out life's difficulties and wonders, and how sin-gle words (and their etymologies) might inform and enlighten our contemporary condition. In short poems, poem sequences, and a series of "Conversations with Evening," Lauterbach calls upon all her imaginative resources to locate a new hybrid poetics of reality, with wit, urgency, and candor.
Map to the Stars
Author: Adrian Matejka
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524704148
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Map to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between race, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era. In the time of space shuttles and the Strategic Defense Initiative, outer space is the only place equality seems possible, even as the stars serve to both guide and obscure the earthly complexities of masculinity and migration. In Matejka's poems, hope is the link between the convoluted realities of being poor and the inspiring possibilities of transcendence and escape—whether it comes from Star Trek, the dream of being one of the first black astronauts, or Sun Ra's cosmic jazz.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524704148
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Map to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between race, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era. In the time of space shuttles and the Strategic Defense Initiative, outer space is the only place equality seems possible, even as the stars serve to both guide and obscure the earthly complexities of masculinity and migration. In Matejka's poems, hope is the link between the convoluted realities of being poor and the inspiring possibilities of transcendence and escape—whether it comes from Star Trek, the dream of being one of the first black astronauts, or Sun Ra's cosmic jazz.
Museum of the Americas
Author: J. Michael Martinez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505237
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505237
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
Night School
Author: Carl Dennis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525504338
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A masterful new collection of poetry from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize The poems in Carl Dennis’s thirteenth collection, Night School, are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our present selves, Dennis suggests, can we begin to grasp who we are. Only if we imagine what is hidden from us about the lives of others can those lives begin to seem whole. Only if we can conceive of a social world different from the one we seem to inhabit can we begin to make sense of the country we call our own. To read these poems is to find ourselves invited into a dialogue between what is present and what is absent that proves surprising and enlarging.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525504338
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A masterful new collection of poetry from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize The poems in Carl Dennis’s thirteenth collection, Night School, are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our present selves, Dennis suggests, can we begin to grasp who we are. Only if we imagine what is hidden from us about the lives of others can those lives begin to seem whole. Only if we can conceive of a social world different from the one we seem to inhabit can we begin to make sense of the country we call our own. To read these poems is to find ourselves invited into a dialogue between what is present and what is absent that proves surprising and enlarging.