Author: Henry B. Tierney
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Father Tierney's Poems
Author: Henry B. Tierney
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Rise and Float
Author: Brian Tierney
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317724
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317724
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.
Poetry
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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A History of Northwest Missouri
Author: Walter Williams
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The Luyceumite and Talent
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The Lyceum Magazine
Author: Ralph Albert Parlette
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Fatherland
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Morning in the Burned House
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395825211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems -- by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate -- make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word. Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395825211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems -- by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate -- make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word. Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Catholic World
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Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Pages : 1090
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-