Author: Nina Mingya Powles
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1953534279
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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A SPIN, Electric Literature, Book Riot, and The Catholic Post Best Poetry Collection of 2022 Finalist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize & Forward Prize for Best First Collection A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Month Magnolia, Nina Mingya Powles’ exquisite debut poetry collection, pushes the borders of languages and poetic forms to examine memories, myths, and the experiences of a mixed-race girlhood. From Aotearoa to London, from Shanghai to New York City, these poems journey across shifting, luminescent cities in search of connection: through pop culture, through food, through vivid colors. Scenes from Mulan, Blade Runner, and In the Mood for Love braid together with silken tofu and freshly steamed baozi. At the heart of the collection is “Field notes on a downpour,” a lyrical sequence that questions the limits of translation and our ability to understand one another. Alone, the speaker recognizes that “certain languages contain more kinds of rain than others, and I have eaten them all." Full of hunger and longing for a home that can embrace a person’s complexities, Magnolia draws on every sense to arrive at profound, yet intimate insights, and introduces readers to a brilliant new voice in poetry.
Author: A. Van Jordan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393059076
Category : African American teenage girls
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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MacNolia Cox won the Akron District Spelling Bee, and at the age of 13 she became the first African American to reach the final round of the national competition. The Southern judges, it is thought, kept her from winning by presenting a word not on the official list. The word that tripped MacNolia, ironically, was "nemesis." When she died 40 years later, the girl who "was almost/ The national spelling champ" had become a cleaning woman, a grandmother, and "the best damn maid in town." Cox's ambition and her later frustration find incisive shape in this remarkably varied meditation on ambition, racism, discouragement and ennui, where successive pages can bring to mind a handbook of poetic forms (a double sestina, Japanese-inspired syllabics, a blues ghazal and prose poems based on definitions of prepositions), Ann Carson's "TV Men" poems, Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and the documentary film Spellbound. Jordan (Rise) begins in Cox's later life, giving voice to her husband, John Montiere, at "The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date," then to MacNolia herself when in 1970 her son dies just after his return from Vietnam. As counterpoints, Jordan intersperses poems about African-Americans who won more lasting public acclaim, among them Richard Pryor, Josephine Baker and the great labor organizer and orator A. Philip Randolph. Jordan's most quotable poems, however, return to the voice of the 13-year-old speller, who "learned the word chiaroscuro/ By rolling it on my tongue// Like cotton candy the color/ Of day and night." (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library Journal.
Author: Ellen Sergeant Rude
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: Mary Weston Fordham
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Author: Mary Lou Taylor
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Says Patricia J. Machmiller, Artist and Poet, "At 93 Mary Lou Taylor, body frail, eyesight blurred-in her opening poem she says "I live in sfumato"-is nonetheless able to summon her unrelenting creative power. In this book, Still, the Magnolia, she examines with clarity the child that she was, the man that she married, the children she bore, the house that became a home, the friends she made, the life that she lived. She shines a light into her past with unsparing truthfulness, yet her touch is tender. It heals. It says I've known love and pain and loss and wonder and it's all good."
Author: Magnolia McCombs Pickens
Publisher: CB Publishing & Design
ISBN: 9781564114631
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Erin Carlyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949065084
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Erin Carlyle's Magnolia Canopy Otherworld is a stark collection of poems examining female autonomy and hardship within the American South. Included inside is a featured interview with the poet.
Author: Maya Ashvil
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1647023505
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Falling Petals of Magnolia By: Maya Ashvil The Falling Petals of Magnolia is a collection of poetry that helps us through whatever challenges or ordeals we are going through in our own daily lives. We can find an exit portal to a bit of joyful, sincerely transparent, and happy escape, to remind us that no matter how hard life can get, beauty still exists in the world and it is worth moving past life’s hard and dark moments to witness it more and more. There is always a better day waiting in the future in everyone’s life, one filled with peace and genuine happiness and security, and reading this collection will help remind us of this small, yet incredibly crucial, fact.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 067972818X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.
