Heaven & Other Poems

Heaven & Other Poems PDF Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780912516318
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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A selection of Jack Kerouac's poems, plus his statements on poetics and letters to an editor.

Heaven & Other Poems

Heaven & Other Poems PDF Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780912516318
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Book Description
A selection of Jack Kerouac's poems, plus his statements on poetics and letters to an editor.

To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems

To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems PDF Author: Graham W. Foust
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983889359
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. Graham Foust has written a gorgeously subversive field guide to the inner life, the poet's life--an anthem, if you will, to a borderless country, unbound from assumption. Brace yourself for the shock of recognition.--Dawn Raffel On A Mouth in California: Since so much of Foust's work is a declaration of what he likes, embraces, and wants to incorporate into his corpus--that is, his body--these poems instruct the reader to become what you like so you can like what you are. And they mark Foust as one of the best erotic poets writing now.--Ange Mlinko in The Nation

Refusing Heaven

Refusing Heaven PDF Author: Jack Gilbert
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307543943
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: “The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life.” Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and wonder at the fact of existence itself. Despite powerful intermittent griefs–over the women he has parted from or the one lost to cancer (an experience he captures with intimate precision)–Gilbert’s choice in this volume is to “refuse heaven.” He prefers this life, with its struggle and alienation and delight, to any paradise. His work is both a rebellious assertion of the call to clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in all its aspects. It braces the reader in its humanity and heart.

Shadow of Heaven

Shadow of Heaven PDF Author: Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393324648
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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A follow-up to the author's highly acclaimed Kyrie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers an intimate exploration of the obstacles and joys of modern life.

Stairway to Heaven

Stairway to Heaven PDF Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143108859
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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A new collection from a poet who “writes with scrupulous and merciful passion about every kind of relatedness—family, place, politics, and wildlife” (W. S. Piero) In her fifth book of poems, Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming explores dimensions of grief and renewal after losing her brother and mother. Grounded in her communion with nature and place, she finds even in Death Valley, that most stark of landscapes, a spirit of inventiveness that animates the ground we walk on. From the cave art of Chauvet to the futuristic habitat of Biosphere 2, that inventiveness becomes consolation for losses in family and nature, a means to build again a sense of self and world in the face of devastating loss.

If There's No Heaven

If There's No Heaven PDF Author: Barbara Minney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732128255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Barbara Marie Minney writes personal and emotional poetry that describes her feelings, thoughts, and passions while struggling to live her truth as a transgender woman. She began her transition to living authentically as the woman that she now knows she was meant to be a little over two years ago at the age of 63 after repressing her true gender identity for over 60 years.

Home Here and Home in Heaven

Home Here and Home in Heaven PDF Author: Annie Rebekah Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Citizen Illegal

Citizen Illegal PDF Author: José Olivarez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608469557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today

Heaven on Earth and Other Poems

Heaven on Earth and Other Poems PDF Author: Thomas Ostenson Stine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry of places
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Heaven's Evangel, and Other Poems

Heaven's Evangel, and Other Poems PDF Author: Henry Williamson (of Huddersfield.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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