This is Not Your Final Form

This is Not Your Final Form PDF Author: Hannah Silva
Publisher: Emma Press Anthologies
ISBN: 9781910139608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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This is Not Your Final Form

This is Not Your Final Form PDF Author: Hannah Silva
Publisher: Emma Press Anthologies
ISBN: 9781910139608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Black Country

Black Country PDF Author: Liz Berry
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448182891
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014 *PBS Recommendation 2014* ‘When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...’ In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic of childhood – bostin fittle at Nanny’s, summers before school – into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. In Berry’s hands, the ordinary is transformed: her characters shift shapes, her eye is unusual, her ear attuned to the sounds of the Black Country, with ‘vowels ferrous as nails, consonants / you could lick the coal from.’ Ablaze with energy and full of the rich dialect of the West Midlands, this is an incandescent debut from a poet of dazzling talent and verve.

Cities Burning

Cities Burning PDF Author: Dudley Randall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Incendiary Art

Incendiary Art PDF Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134349
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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Winner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, 2018 BCALA Best Poetry Award Winner, Abel Meeropol Award for Social Justice Finalist, Neustadt International Prize for Literature Winner, 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today’s literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers of the "dark magicians," and revisits the devastating murder of Emmett Till. These dynamic sequences serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. Smith embraces elaborate and eloquent language— "her gorgeous fallen son a horrid hidden / rot. Her tiny hand starts crushing roses—one by one / by one she wrecks the casket’s spray. It’s how she / mourns—a mother, still, despite the roar of thorns"— as she sharpens her unerring focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning. Smith envisions, reenvisions, and ultimately reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems, ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. With poems impossible to turn away from, one of America’s most electrifying writers reveals what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history.

Sketches of Alabama

Sketches of Alabama PDF Author: Mary Gordon Duffee
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081735011X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.

I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling

I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling PDF Author: Amanda Holmes
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1783333227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Opening in 1969 in New England, I KNOW WHERE I AM WHEN I'M FALLING is as rich in relationships as the colours and textures of the time. Ruby Lambert, is the eldest daughter in the eccentric Lambert family who get caught up in the life of Angus Aleshire, a charming, smart and athletic boy who they try to help and who shares Ruby's unconventional bent and love of the piano. Ruby and Angus fall in love but Angus has a dark side. His boyish charms start to wear thin losing him family and friends along the way and when his clever schemes and misbehavior get him in trouble, culminating with an art heist, he tries even Ruby’s love for him. The story spans thirteen years, and poses uncomfortable questions about the blindness of love, nurture versus nature and life through rose tinted glasses. Ruby struggles to square her vision of Angus’s potential with the unsettling and mounting reality.

The Poetry and Music of Science

The Poetry and Music of Science PDF Author: Tom McLeish
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198797990
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The Poetry and Music of Science examines aspects of science and art that bear close comparison - for example the art of the novel and the art of scientific experimentation. The book eavesdrops on conversations between scientists on how new theories arise, and listens to artists' and composers' witness of their own creative processes.

Birmingham River

Birmingham River PDF Author: Roy Fisher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Roy Fisher, a well-established poet, occupies a unique position in the tradition of British post-war poetry. Although his subject matter often focuses on "Englishness," his poetic techniques have strong affinities with European and American traditions. Birmingham River, Fisher's first book of poems since Poems 1955-1987, contains a wide range of works that continue this style, including a sequence of "Six Texts for a Film," which provided the basis for an Arts Council film made by Tom Pickard. This volume shows how far Fisher's range has grown over the years, as he introduces a warmer, more relaxed tone than in his previous collections.

Magic City Gospel

Magic City Gospel PDF Author: Ashley M. Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938235269
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A love song to Birmingham, the Magic City of the South. In traditional forms and free verse poems ... [the author] takes readers on a historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey through her life and the life of her home state [of Alabama]"--

Damned Ugly Children

Damned Ugly Children PDF Author: Andrew Glaze
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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