God's Optimism

God's Optimism PDF Author: Yehoshua November
Publisher: Main Street Rag
ISBN: 9781599482644
Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Winner of the 2010 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award."

God's Optimism

God's Optimism PDF Author: Yehoshua November
Publisher: Main Street Rag
ISBN: 9781599482644
Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Winner of the 2010 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award."

Poems of Optimism

Poems of Optimism PDF Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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The Optimist

The Optimist PDF Author: Joshua Mehigan
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821441329
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73

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In Joshua Mehigan’s award-winning poetry, one encounters a lucid, resolute vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line. Most of the poems in The Optimist unapologetically employ traditional poetic technique, and, in each of these, Mehigan stretches the fabric of living language over a framework of regular meter to produce a compelling sonic counterpoint. The Optimist stares at contemporary darkness visible, a darkly lit tableau that erases the boundary between the world and the perceiving self. Whether narrative or lyric, dramatic or satirical, Mehigan’s poems explore death, desire, and change with a mixture of reason and compassion. In choosing The Optimist for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, final judge James Cummins, wrote: “The world is given its due in these poems, but its due is the subjective voice making ‘objective’ reality into the reality of art. To do this Mehigan accesses a tradition of voices—the echoes in The Optimist are, to name a few, of Frost, Robinson, Kees, and Justice; and more in terms of point of view, Bishop and Jarrell—to form with great integrity his own. It isn’t that Mehigan is concerned more with what’s outside himself than inside; nor merely that he travels the highway between the two with such humility and grace. It’s also that these voices, this great tradition, infuses his line with what the best verse, metrical or free, must have: wonder.”

Objects of Hunger

Objects of Hunger PDF Author: E. C. Belli
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809337266
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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By turns stoic and ravaged, but always with gutting honesty, E. C. Belli invites readers to consider the smallest rooms of the intimate in this first collection. With each poem pared down to an elemental language both slight and clear, Belli’s work exhibits a surprising muscularity in its poise. Objects of Hunger explores in reflective, raw lyrics the dread and beauty of our inner worlds as expressed through our struggles against the self and the other. Each poem is a slender organism that speaks its own mind, unafraid of pathos; the emotions here have been tried on and lived in, and the work accrues, lyric after lyric, page after page. In the second section, World War I poems are broken down and dismantled, as the voices of that era’s poets meld with that of a postpartum mother, exposing a shared vernacular among these disparate experiences. Other poems in the collection explore the unraveling and entrapments of the domestic, but with tenacity in place of softness, using a lexicon gathered from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood, among others. What emerges is a finely chiseled portrait of intimacy, one that takes seriously love and all discord, the fracas of reticence and familiarity. Belli gives this world to us by way of a throbbing asceticism, in an exploration of resignation, concession, persistence, and monstrosity. This collection tells what it is to need with abandon.

Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living

Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living PDF Author: Wayne Visser
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1908875372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Given Sugar, Given Salt

Given Sugar, Given Salt PDF Author: Jane Hirshfield
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060959010
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor." In poems complex in meaning yet clear in statement and depiction, Hirshfield explores questions of identity, aging, death, and of time and the variegated gifts brought by its relentless passage. Whether meditating upon a button, the role of habit in our lives, or the elusive nature of our relationship to sleep, Hirshfield brings each subject into a surprising and magnified existence.

Pessimism is for Lightweights

Pessimism is for Lightweights PDF Author: Salena Godden
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
ISBN: 1912722461
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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A collection of 13 pieces of courage and resistance, this is work inspired by protests and rallies. Poems written for the women's march, for women's empowerment and amplification, poems that salute people fighting for justice, poems on sexism and racism, class discrimination, period poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. This work reminds us that Courage is a Muscle, it also contains a letter from the spirit of Hope herself, because as the title suggests, Pessimism is for Lightweights.

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Don't Let Me Be Lonely PDF Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644452561
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.

Each Happiness Ringed by Lions

Each Happiness Ringed by Lions PDF Author: Jane Hirshfield
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her poems celebrate and elucidate a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. Born of a rigorous questioning of heart, spirit and mind, they have become indispensible to many American readers in navigating their own lives. Hers is a poetry of clarity and hybrid vigour, drawing deeply on English and American traditions but also those of world poetry. The poetries of modern and classical Greece, of Horace and Catullus, of classical China and Japan and Eastern Europe all resonate in Jane Hirshfield's structures of thought and in her sensibilities. Indelibly of our time yet seated in the lineage of poetic discovery, these poems are meant to endure.

Two Worlds Exist

Two Worlds Exist PDF Author: Yehoshua November
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990691792
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, ''Two Worlds Exist,'' movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America. November's beautiful and profound meditations on work and family life, and the intersections of the sacred and the secular, invite the reader--regardless of background--to imaginatively inhabit a life of religious devotion in the midst of our society's commotion.