Author: Brando Quin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411691997
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Chelsea Girls
Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062394673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles’ 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed “lesbianity,” and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist’s life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer’s education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062394673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles’ 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed “lesbianity,” and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist’s life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer’s education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.
Still Life with Mother and Knife
Author: Chelsea Rathburn
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169757
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
In this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and predators to the realities of postpartum depression. Still Life with Mother and Knife considers the female body, “mute and posable,” as object of both art and violence. Once an artist’s model, now a mother, Rathburn knows “how hard / it is to be held in the eyes of another.” Intimate and fearless, her poems move in interlocking sections between the pleasures and dangers of childhood, between masterpieces of art and magazine centerfolds, and—in a gripping sequence in dialogue with Delacroix’s paintings and sketches of Medea—between the twinned ferocities of maternal love and rage. With singular vision and potent poetic form, Rathburn crafts a complex portrait of girlhood and motherhood from which it is impossible to look away.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169757
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
In this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and predators to the realities of postpartum depression. Still Life with Mother and Knife considers the female body, “mute and posable,” as object of both art and violence. Once an artist’s model, now a mother, Rathburn knows “how hard / it is to be held in the eyes of another.” Intimate and fearless, her poems move in interlocking sections between the pleasures and dangers of childhood, between masterpieces of art and magazine centerfolds, and—in a gripping sequence in dialogue with Delacroix’s paintings and sketches of Medea—between the twinned ferocities of maternal love and rage. With singular vision and potent poetic form, Rathburn crafts a complex portrait of girlhood and motherhood from which it is impossible to look away.
Through a Small Ghost
Author: Chelsea Dingman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356565
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned with how both parents deal with this trauma without letting it tear them or their relationship apart. There are threads beneath the surface of the poems that speak to the inequality in these relationships and in the male-female dynamic, whether this inequality is perceived or real. Dingman also questions the perception of reality itself when dealing with the traumatized mind. Dingman asks the difficult questions that surround child-rearing. Are the children themselves everything the parents had hoped for? Is there still something missing? She explores the invisibility of the mother after she has children, as well as what a woman is willing to sacrifice in terms of body, country, and relationship. Set against changing political climates in Florida, Canada, and Denmark, these poems navigate the geopolitical differences that influence the experience of parenting.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356565
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned with how both parents deal with this trauma without letting it tear them or their relationship apart. There are threads beneath the surface of the poems that speak to the inequality in these relationships and in the male-female dynamic, whether this inequality is perceived or real. Dingman also questions the perception of reality itself when dealing with the traumatized mind. Dingman asks the difficult questions that surround child-rearing. Are the children themselves everything the parents had hoped for? Is there still something missing? She explores the invisibility of the mother after she has children, as well as what a woman is willing to sacrifice in terms of body, country, and relationship. Set against changing political climates in Florida, Canada, and Denmark, these poems navigate the geopolitical differences that influence the experience of parenting.
Bright Shade
Author: Chelsea Harlan
Publisher: Apr/Honickman First Book Prize
ISBN: 9780986093852
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown. Bright Shade is an appreciation of the wild woods, the rolling hills, the Appalachian air, and the little rivers that were the setting of Chelsea Harlan's upbringing. The poems speak through the liminal space between the body and its relationships to other bodies, and the human relationship with nature--and so climate change is, inevitably, part of this book's undercurrent of grief. As the author navigates the high highs and the low lows of manic depression, Bright Shade articulates the wonder that accompanies sadness and the sadness that accompanies joy. Chelsea Harlan's work is humorous, indeed bittersweet (bright / shade), and a little strange in exactly the right way.
Publisher: Apr/Honickman First Book Prize
ISBN: 9780986093852
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown. Bright Shade is an appreciation of the wild woods, the rolling hills, the Appalachian air, and the little rivers that were the setting of Chelsea Harlan's upbringing. The poems speak through the liminal space between the body and its relationships to other bodies, and the human relationship with nature--and so climate change is, inevitably, part of this book's undercurrent of grief. As the author navigates the high highs and the low lows of manic depression, Bright Shade articulates the wonder that accompanies sadness and the sadness that accompanies joy. Chelsea Harlan's work is humorous, indeed bittersweet (bright / shade), and a little strange in exactly the right way.
The Shifting Line
Author: Chelsea Rathburn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780930982607
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A collection of poems by a single author (American).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780930982607
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A collection of poems by a single author (American).
Solitary Bee
Author: Chelsea Woodard
Publisher: Measure Press Incorporated
ISBN: 9781939574183
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A collection of original poetry by Chelsea Woodard.
Publisher: Measure Press Incorporated
ISBN: 9781939574183
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A collection of original poetry by Chelsea Woodard.
Vellum
Author: Chelsea Woodard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927409350
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Chelsea Woodard's VELLUM, a finalist for the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, propels the reader along new paths of discovery in the quotidian as in the mythical. Its scope is far-ranging: a flower press received as a gift in childhood, Tarot reading with a favorite aunt, unexpected reflections at a tattoo parlor, reminiscing about an old flame, the discovery of rare volumes at the local library, or auctioning off old toys on eBay. Woodward's insights and sensibilities in the visual and performing arts are deftly realized in fine or broad strokes as in "Coppelia," "The Painter and the Color-blind," "Degas's Nudes," or as in "Still Life," which muses that "It's difficult/ to give back life/ to what's been cut off from the living." Stories and scenes represented in popular artwork are reimagined in ekphrastics such as "Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting." With excursions into the surreal, myth is made, lived or remade, as in "Philomela," "Pegasus" and "The Feral Child." This is an exquisite debut collection that rewards the mind and senses with its formal impetus and deft musicality, its precise and lively language, its emotional compass. "In her stunning first collection, VELLUM, Chelsea Woodard offers us poems whose lucidity of attention grounds an imaginative realism where narrative becomes speculation, witness becomes mystery, and the body a space where desire and dread complicate compassion's summons to the social order. The honed music here thus reveals a deeper vulnerability. Such is its gift, the way in which poems might be rooted to the difficulty and heartbreak of the physical and yet apart, 'their keel and gristle finally set/ into some deathless, disembodied flight.' An astonishing book." Bruce Bond "In addition to her emotional maturity, part of what makes these poems memorable is Woodard's obvious mastery of language, her flawless sentences, the surprising way those sentences function and 'mean' within the lines, the lines within the forms." Claudia Emerson, from the Foreword "Not the least of the attractions of this gifted young poet's first book is the exquisite, searing precision of her language the obsessively exact diction; the tropes that map with such stunning accuracy the emotional contours of her narratives; the gestural, almost tactile quality of her syntax all of these talents focused sharply on what Howard Nemerov said was the singular, most difficult achievement of poetry: 'getting something right in language.' I predict for Chelsea Woodard a long and enviable career." B.H. Fairchild"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927409350
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Chelsea Woodard's VELLUM, a finalist for the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, propels the reader along new paths of discovery in the quotidian as in the mythical. Its scope is far-ranging: a flower press received as a gift in childhood, Tarot reading with a favorite aunt, unexpected reflections at a tattoo parlor, reminiscing about an old flame, the discovery of rare volumes at the local library, or auctioning off old toys on eBay. Woodward's insights and sensibilities in the visual and performing arts are deftly realized in fine or broad strokes as in "Coppelia," "The Painter and the Color-blind," "Degas's Nudes," or as in "Still Life," which muses that "It's difficult/ to give back life/ to what's been cut off from the living." Stories and scenes represented in popular artwork are reimagined in ekphrastics such as "Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting." With excursions into the surreal, myth is made, lived or remade, as in "Philomela," "Pegasus" and "The Feral Child." This is an exquisite debut collection that rewards the mind and senses with its formal impetus and deft musicality, its precise and lively language, its emotional compass. "In her stunning first collection, VELLUM, Chelsea Woodard offers us poems whose lucidity of attention grounds an imaginative realism where narrative becomes speculation, witness becomes mystery, and the body a space where desire and dread complicate compassion's summons to the social order. The honed music here thus reveals a deeper vulnerability. Such is its gift, the way in which poems might be rooted to the difficulty and heartbreak of the physical and yet apart, 'their keel and gristle finally set/ into some deathless, disembodied flight.' An astonishing book." Bruce Bond "In addition to her emotional maturity, part of what makes these poems memorable is Woodard's obvious mastery of language, her flawless sentences, the surprising way those sentences function and 'mean' within the lines, the lines within the forms." Claudia Emerson, from the Foreword "Not the least of the attractions of this gifted young poet's first book is the exquisite, searing precision of her language the obsessively exact diction; the tropes that map with such stunning accuracy the emotional contours of her narratives; the gestural, almost tactile quality of her syntax all of these talents focused sharply on what Howard Nemerov said was the singular, most difficult achievement of poetry: 'getting something right in language.' I predict for Chelsea Woodard a long and enviable career." B.H. Fairchild"
All the Lies I Tell Myself
Author: Chelsea True
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646491063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646491063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Home Named Walter
Author: Chelsea Lin Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 1250316413
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walter was a happy home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1250316413
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walter was a happy home.
Yellow
Author: Chelsea Hui
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987634023
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Yellow is a raw exploration of femininity and takes you on a journey through love, trauma, survival and healing. 'A love letter to her culture', as Chelsea likes to call it, Yellow encapsulates her struggles as a woman of colour and brings to life the experience of living between two cultures and what it means to call two countries home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987634023
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Yellow is a raw exploration of femininity and takes you on a journey through love, trauma, survival and healing. 'A love letter to her culture', as Chelsea likes to call it, Yellow encapsulates her struggles as a woman of colour and brings to life the experience of living between two cultures and what it means to call two countries home.