Author: Paige Lewis
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1946448451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. The speaker writes, “...the universe/is an arrow/without end/and it asks only one question;/How dare you?” Zig-zagging through the realms of nature, science, and religion, one finds St. Francis sighing in the corner of a studio apartment, tides that are caused by millions of oysters “gasping in unison,” an ark filled with women in its stables, and prayers that reach God fastest by balloon. There’s pathos: “When my new lover tells me I’m correct to love him, I/realize the sound isn’t metal at all. It’s not the coins rattling/ on concrete, but the fingers scraping to pick them up.” And humor, too: “...even the sun’s been sighing Not you again/when it sees me.” After reading this far-reaching, inventive collection, we too are startled, space struck, our pockets gloriously “filled with space dust.”
Author: Alisa Paige Artrip-Drane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578640396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A collection of over 100 heartfelt poems I wrote to help soothe, inspire and celebrate all that we, as living beings, go through, can relate to, and that pertain to all aspects and emotional feelings in life. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy writing them, expressing within them and sharing them. Peace and love and let things flow.
Author: Paige Quiñones
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717548X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Paige Quiñones’s incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Quiñones’s lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression. A hunter pursues an ill-fated fox through the woods; heaven is paved with girls who would rather drown than be born; a couple returns from their honeymoon to find a stagnant pond in their marriage bed. Through navigating these duplicities, Quiñones arrives at a version of femininity that is at once fierce and crystalline, and unmistakably her own. She writes, “My reflection can only growl back, in water or oil-slick or silver. This is an exercise in forgiveness. I dip my feet in.” The Best Prey charts the complexity of hunger in vivid, visceral terms, and ultimately arrives at a sense of self that encompasses the contradictions of sensuality, violence, and power.
Author: Connie Voisine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022661378X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? The Bower engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker’s year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with her young daughter. The speaker immerses herself in the history of Irish politics—including the sectarian conflict known as The Troubles—and gathers stories of a painful, divisive past from museum exhibits, newspapers, neighbors, friends, local musicians, and cabbies. Quietly meditative, brooding, and heart-wrenching, these poems place intimate moments between mother and daughter alongside images of nationalistic violence and the angers that underlie our daily interactions. A deep dive into sectarianism and forgiveness, this timely and nuanced book examines the many ways we are all implicated in the impulse to “protect our own” and asks how we manage the histories that divide us.
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416538232
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of 50 love poems by the icon of the feminist movement and most famous among public intellectuals. In beautiful, profoundly poetic terms, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the link between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. Whether towards family, friends, or oneself, hooks's creative genius makes love both magical and beautiful.
Author: F. S. Yousaf
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
ISBN: 1771681934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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“Sincerely is passionate. Honest. Charming. F. S. Yousaf has beautifully encapsulated in a book what it feels like to fall in love.”—Madisen Kuhn, author of Almost Home Fans of top-selling Sincerely are saying "unexpected perfection", "not your basic poetry book", "breathtaking", "helped me appreciate my marriage". Searching for a profound way to propose to his love, F.S Yousaf reread the letters she had written him. In them he found his proposal, and inspiration to write his own prose and poetry. This is a compilation of letters and love poems that exemplifies the spirituality and the magnitude of how much one person can mean to another. It carries messages of positivity, hope, and most of all, true love.
Author: Alisa Paige
Publisher: Alisa Paige Artrip-Drane
ISBN: 9780578601496
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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A collection of over 100 heartfelt poems I wrote to help soothe, inspire and celebrate all that we, as living beings, go through, can relate to, and that pertain to all aspects and emotional feelings in life. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy writing them, expressing within them and sharing them. Peace and love and let things flow.
Author: Paige Dubin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438979908
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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I'm Paige Dubin, an outspoken seventeen year old, and I would like to share my world of words with you. Embark with me on a journey through a literary land where metaphors blossom and every trail has a surprise in store. Let luminary diction light your path as we walk hand in hand towards the greater meaning.
Author: Alisa Paige
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578646251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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This is my second collection of over 100 heartfelt poems, and even more than in my first book "Poems by Paige", that I wrote to help bring calm, peace and love, to emotions that we all can relate to, and help with many types of feelings that we all deal with in life. Also, I hope to help inspire and uplift us all, as well as help to overcome many different obstacles we're given, which resonate within us all. I hope you enjoy them and that they touch you in some way. I love writing them, expressing myself and sharing them with the world. As always, peace and love and let things flow.
Author: Kaveh Akbar
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451522
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body’s question, “what now shall I repair?” Here, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence, the indulgence of austerity, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. Richly crafted and generous, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant, revelatory, and holy.
