Sunday Poems

Sunday Poems PDF Author: Raph Koster
Publisher: Altered Tuning Press
ISBN: 9780996793704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Starting in 2005, game designer Raph Koster decided to post a poem to his popular blog every Sunday. Ten years later, this is a selection of eighty of those poems, accompanied by gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations and illuminating endnotes. These are verses written to an audience that didn't necessarily care about poetry; verses about whatever was happening that week. They comment on the news, on his children's homework, on books he was reading or music he heard. In them we voyage across the world, or deep inside apples; we see a toddler become a pterodactyl, and clouds become mundane water vapor. We see sonnets written in computer code. These are poems for everyday people about ordinary things made extraordinary. " In these engaging poems, which tease the conventions of formal verse, Raph Koster shines a curiosity laser on topics ranging from the building of the Globe Theatre to the BASIC programming language. Koster memorializes far-flung journeys through such locales as mountainous Afghanistan, exurban China, Las Vegas casinos, and a very real-seeming Seoni jungle visited not IRL but through Kipling and gaming. -Tarin Towers, author of Sorry, We're Close On a stormy night in Tuscaloosa, reading Raph Koster's collection of poems: I congratulate you on the sustained and sustaining enthusiasm, joy, play, and wit at work in these poems. In your poems - as in the gaming world - you've created a richly varied world saturated with myth and stories. -Hank Lazer, poet, author of The New Spirit and N18 (complete) "

Sunday Poems

Sunday Poems PDF Author: Raph Koster
Publisher: Altered Tuning Press
ISBN: 9780996793704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Book Description
Starting in 2005, game designer Raph Koster decided to post a poem to his popular blog every Sunday. Ten years later, this is a selection of eighty of those poems, accompanied by gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations and illuminating endnotes. These are verses written to an audience that didn't necessarily care about poetry; verses about whatever was happening that week. They comment on the news, on his children's homework, on books he was reading or music he heard. In them we voyage across the world, or deep inside apples; we see a toddler become a pterodactyl, and clouds become mundane water vapor. We see sonnets written in computer code. These are poems for everyday people about ordinary things made extraordinary. " In these engaging poems, which tease the conventions of formal verse, Raph Koster shines a curiosity laser on topics ranging from the building of the Globe Theatre to the BASIC programming language. Koster memorializes far-flung journeys through such locales as mountainous Afghanistan, exurban China, Las Vegas casinos, and a very real-seeming Seoni jungle visited not IRL but through Kipling and gaming. -Tarin Towers, author of Sorry, We're Close On a stormy night in Tuscaloosa, reading Raph Koster's collection of poems: I congratulate you on the sustained and sustaining enthusiasm, joy, play, and wit at work in these poems. In your poems - as in the gaming world - you've created a richly varied world saturated with myth and stories. -Hank Lazer, poet, author of The New Spirit and N18 (complete) "

A Sunday in God-Years

A Sunday in God-Years PDF Author: Michelle Boisseau
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754088
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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DivMichelle Boisseau is professor of English at the University of Missouri- Kansas City where she also serves as associate editor of BkMk Press. She is the author of three books of poetry, No Private Life; Understory, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize; and Trembling Air (University of Arkansas Press), a PEN USA finalist. She is coauthor of the popular book Writing Poems, now in its seventh edition./div

Glory in the Margins

Glory in the Margins PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN: 9781640606777
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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"A thirteen month cycle of poems distilled from chosen scriptures, viewed from her perspective as Black, as woman, as poet, and looking for the glory found in the margins of life"--

One with Others

One with Others PDF Author: C. D. Wright
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556593880
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Originally published in hardcover in 2010.

Waiting on the Word

Waiting on the Word PDF Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848258003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.

The New Spirit

The New Spirit PDF Author: Hank Lazer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Book Description
Poetry. Renewing and drawing upon a spiritual legacy in innovative poetry an American poetic lineage that includes Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, that continues in the writing of Robert Duncan, Ronald Johnson, John Taggart Hank Lazer explores the possibilities for a newly articulated spiritual poetry. Jerome Rothenberg describes THE NEW SPIRIT as "something like a book-length prayer: a crisis in search of a resolution through language." Harryette Mullen writes that "Lazer returns the soul and its song to their highest aspiration."

Come Sunday

Come Sunday PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802851347
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Book Description
A little girl describes a typical Sunday from the moment her mother wakes her up through the different elements of the worship service in church.

When My Brother Was an Aztec

When My Brother Was an Aztec PDF Author: Natalie Diaz
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320339
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Book Description
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it— He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

People on Sunday

People on Sunday PDF Author: Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517727
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
Exuberantly referential poems of personal and political struggle inhabit this highly acclaimed poet's fourth collection.

N18 (complete)

N18 (complete) PDF Author: Hank Lazer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935162479
Category : Visual poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Poetry. Hank Lazer's N18 (COMPLETE), the eighteenth of twenty handwritten notebook projects, is an extended exploration of the relations between shape and meaning. These handwritten poems enact an improvisational "reading" of Immanuel Levinas's Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence. "If angels could sing we would not understand them. But angels do understand our songs and Hank Lazer's N18 is the pure product of such listening. Philosophical notations, lyric utterances, journal entries, and aphoristic gleanings are set in a holographic space of the imaginary's shapes. Human readers, hearken to these calls as they echo into silence." Charles Bernstein"