In the Western Night

In the Western Night PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374522711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today.

In the Western Night

In the Western Night PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374522711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today.

Half-light

Half-light PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715181
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 737

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The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.” Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 PDF Author: Lucille Clifton
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683006
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 747

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Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly "All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly "If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."—NPR "The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post "The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry—is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."—Toni Morrison, from the Foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965–1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.

New and Selected Poems, 1965-1990

New and Selected Poems, 1965-1990 PDF Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Music Like Dirt

Music Like Dirt PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 9781889330785
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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A single poem in sequence. Daring new work by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee.

Against Silence

Against Silence PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374603529
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR) Words, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Words—there is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world— slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. • Set up a situation,— . . . then reveal an abyss. For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and old cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls reality forth—with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak.

Selected Poems 1965-1990

Selected Poems 1965-1990 PDF Author: Duncan Glen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engelse digkuns
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Pluriverse

Pluriverse PDF Author: Ernesto Cardenal
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The most comprehensive selection of poems in English by Latin America's legendary poet-activist, Ernesto Cardenal.

Garbage

Garbage PDF Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393324112
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Winner of the National Book Award.

Golden State

Golden State PDF Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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