Dead Dog Poems: Winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry

Dead Dog Poems: Winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry PDF Author: Lynne Schmidt
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
ISBN: 9781646626267
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Dead Dog Poems is a collection about pet love and pet loss. It is the small joys each pet parent goes through, from naptime, to walks around the block, to the horrific moment of being at the emergency vet and hearing that your beloved companion may have cancer. This collection brings you front and center for a terminal diagnosis, and the aftermath of such a substantial loss. If you have ever loved a pet, this collection is for you. The poem, Baxter, was awarded the Editor's Choice Award from Frost Meadow Review, and was nominated for a 2019 Best of the Net, while Road Maps was nominated for Best of the Net, and Blood Pleas and Library Books was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association (PNWA) Poetry Contest.

Year of the Dog

Year of the Dog PDF Author: Deborah Paredez
Publisher: American Poets Continuum
ISBN: 9781950774012
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlight the voices of women relegated to the margins of history.

Sycorax's Daughters

Sycorax's Daughters PDF Author: Kinitra Dechaun Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941958445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 565

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A 2018 Bram Stoker Award Finalist Thought-provoking, powerful, and revealing, this anthology is composed of 28 dark stories and 14 poems written by African-American women writers. The tales of what scares, threatens, and shocks them will enlighten and entertain readers. The works delve into demons and shape-shifters from "How to Speak to the Bogeyman" and "Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight" to far future offerings such as "The Malady of Need". These pieces cover vampires, ghosts, and mermaids, as well as the unexpected price paid by women struggling for freedom and validation in the past. Contributors include: Tiffany Austin, Tracey Baptiste, Regina N. Bradley, Patricia E. Canterbury, Crystal Connor, Joy M. Copeland, Amber Doe, Tish Jackson, Valjeanne Jeffers, Tenea D. Johnson, R. J. Joseph, A. D. Koboah Nicole Givens Kurtz, Kai Leakes, A. J. Locke, Carole McDonnell, Dana T. McKnight , LH Moore, L. Penelope, Zin E. Rocklyn , Eden Royce, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Andrea Vocab Sanderson, Nicole D. Sconiers, Cherene Sherrard, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Sheree Renée Thomas, Lori Titus, Tanesha Nicole Tyler, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, L. Marie Wood, K. Ceres Wright, and Deana Zhollis.

A Dangerous New World

A Dangerous New World PDF Author: Meghan Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578598284
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Book Description
An anthology of poetry, essays, and visual art on the climate crisis by Maine writers and artists with a foreword by Governor Janet Mills.

Homie

Homie PDF Author: Danez Smith
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451093
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Book Description
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.

Poems 1962-2012

Poems 1962-2012 PDF Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374126089
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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Book Description
Glck's poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems.

Instructions for Seeing a Ghost

Instructions for Seeing a Ghost PDF Author: Steve Bellin-Oka
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574417983
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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This poetry collection is the record of an American’s return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin-Oka’s poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty. “Steve Bellin-Oka’s poems hold in balance an intensified language and a passionate voice that bring together the struggles of the inner life with stark realities. This is a book of arresting authenticity.”—Peter Balakian, Pulitzer-Prize winner and judge

Our Lady of the Ruins

Our Lady of the Ruins PDF Author: Traci Brimhall
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Book Description
"Poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radiant with lyric intelligence." --Carolyn Forché

Vantage

Vantage PDF Author: Taneum Bambrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983300885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Book Description
Vantage was chosen by Sharon Olds from nearly 1000 manuscripts as the winner of the 2019 APR/Honickman First Book Prize.

The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon

The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon PDF Author: Jane Kenyon
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781644450192
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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“Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry.” —Wendell Berry Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America’s most cherished poets—celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon’s poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. As a crucial aspect of these beloved poems of companionship, she confronts her struggle with severe depression on its own stark terms. Selected by Kenyon’s husband, Donald Hall, just before his death in 2018, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon collects work from across a life and career that will be, as she writes in one poem, “simply lasting.”