Solving the World's Problems

Solving the World's Problems PDF Author: Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935708902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something

Solving the World's Problems

Solving the World's Problems PDF Author: Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935708902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something

New and Collected Poems

New and Collected Poems PDF Author: Richard Wilbur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156654913
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Book Description
A collection including six earlier volumes of Wilbur's poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata.

Song of My Softening

Song of My Softening PDF Author: Omotara James
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579480
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot “It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.” —Starred review by Library Journal The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.

Directed by Desire

Directed by Desire PDF Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Book Description
Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."

A Book of Luminous Things

A Book of Luminous Things PDF Author: Czesław Miłosz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156005746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Book Description
Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde PDF Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393254402
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Book Description
A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one of our best contemporary poets. . . . Her poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving."—Chuckanut Reader Magazine "What a deep pleasure to encounter Audre Lorde's most potent genius . . . you will welcome the sheer accessibility and the force and beauty of this volume."—Out Magazine

Discovered

Discovered PDF Author: America Library of Poetry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977366286
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Collection of poetry from students across the United States, selected and arranged by author grade level from grade 3 through grade 12.

The Illustrated Emily Dickinson

The Illustrated Emily Dickinson PDF Author: Ryan G. Van Cleave
Publisher: Illustrated Poets Collecti
ISBN: 9781638191070
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
In this gorgeously illustrated collection of poems, readers are introduced to twenty-five of Emily Dickinson's most beloved poems, each illustrated with stunning, full-color collage artwork. Brief commentary and helpful definitions accompany each poem, making The Illustrated Emily Dickinson among the most accessible--and beautiful--introductions to the Belle of Amherst available. Poems include "Hope is the Thing with Feathers," "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", "A Bird came down the Walk," "Success is counted sweetest," and many more.

The Glass Constellation

The Glass Constellation PDF Author: Arthur Sze
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322366
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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Book Description
"This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet." —NPR National Book Award winner Arthur Sze is a master poet, and The Glass Constellation is a triumph spanning five decades, including ten poetry collections and twenty-six new poems. Sze began his career writing compressed, lyrical poems influenced by classical Chinese poetry; he later made a leap into powerful polysemous sequences, honing a distinct stylistic signature that harnesses luminous particulars, and is sharply focused, emotionally resonant, and structurally complex. Fusing elements of Chinese, Japanese, Native American, and various Western experimental traditions—employing startling juxtapositions that are always on target, deeply informed by concern for our endangered planet and troubled species—Arthur Sze presents experience in all its multiplicities, in singular book after book. This collection is an invitation to immerse in a visionary body of work, mapping the evolution of one of our finest American poets.

The Crazy Bunch

The Crazy Bunch PDF Author: Willie Perdomo
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525504621
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."