Homes

Homes PDF Author: Moheb Soliman
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ISBN: 9781566896092
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coasts of the Great Lakes region with poems, exploring the nature of belonging in relation to land and the formation of identity along borders. Moheb Soliman's HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky cliffs of Duluth, Minnesota, to the spray of Niagara Falls and back again. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experience as Soliman drives his Corolla past exquisite vistas and abandoned mines, through tourist towns and midwestern suburbs, searching for a place to claim as home. Against the backdrop of environmental destruction and a history of colonial oppression, the vitality of Soliman's language brings a bold ecopoetic lens to bear on the relationship between transience and belonging in the world's largest, most porous borderland.

Homes

Homes PDF Author: Moheb Soliman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566896092
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coasts of the Great Lakes region with poems, exploring the nature of belonging in relation to land and the formation of identity along borders. Moheb Soliman's HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky cliffs of Duluth, Minnesota, to the spray of Niagara Falls and back again. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experience as Soliman drives his Corolla past exquisite vistas and abandoned mines, through tourist towns and midwestern suburbs, searching for a place to claim as home. Against the backdrop of environmental destruction and a history of colonial oppression, the vitality of Soliman's language brings a bold ecopoetic lens to bear on the relationship between transience and belonging in the world's largest, most porous borderland.

Coffee House Confessions

Coffee House Confessions PDF Author: Ellaraine Lockie
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ISBN: 9780615727677
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Coffee House Confessions is a collection of poems written in and about coffee houses throughout the world. "I know no one else who manages to combine quantity of poems with quality the way Ellaraine Lockie does. She is a font of creative ideas and brings the ultimate in craft and experience to the realizing of those products of inspiration, observation, and research. I admire her work immensely." GERALD LOCKLIN, Professor Emiritus of English at California State University, Long Beach "This collection deserves a wide audience...once coffee houses were locales for galvanizing live poetry readings, now we can achieve almost the same nirvana by reading this witty book." Christine Pacosz, FutureCycle Press "...a very well done collection of poems... there's something for everyone in this collection. If you love contemporary poetry, you are sure to find some gems here that speak to you. If you don't know if you love contemporary poetry, this might be a good place to start finding out." Marcia Meara, Bookin' It "...a really great read." Jessie Carty, Review Wrap-Up, jessiecarty.com

Not Here

Not Here PDF Author: Hieu Nguyen
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895197
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen’s poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved.

Look at This Blue

Look at This Blue PDF Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896290
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry! Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives—human, plant, and animal—in a century marked by climate emergency. Look at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples, as Hedge Coke’s cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.

You Never Know

You Never Know PDF Author: Ron Padgett
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ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Ron Padgett's playful, nonchalant poetry is all delightful circumstance without the pomp.

Coffee House Poet

Coffee House Poet PDF Author: Robert A. Bofman
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449082335
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Book Description
This is a book about life written in the form of poetry and song. It is all about our every day thoughts, emotions, desires, and struggles as seen through the eyes of one man who struggles to find the meaning of his own existence. Each experience is a true and real life experience. Your heart will be touched and your mind will be intrigued as you will be able to relate these experiences to your own life.

Thresholes

Thresholes PDF Author: Lara Mimosa Montes
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895871
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family’s past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there. What is the threshold between now and then, and how can the poet be the bridge between the two?

The Body Ghost

The Body Ghost PDF Author: Joseph Lease
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ISBN: 9781566895118
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their strident leftist politics.

Dark. Sweet.

Dark. Sweet. PDF Author: Linda Hogan
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893526
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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Dark. Sweet. offers readers the sweep of LindaHogan's work—environmental and spiritual concerns, her Chickasaw heritage—in spare, elemental, visionary language. From "Those Who Thunder": Those who thunder have dark hair and red throw rugs. They burn paper in bathroom sinks. Their voices refuse to suffer and their silences know the way straight to the heart; it's bus route number eight. Linda Hogan is the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award. She is also a recipient of the 2016 PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Prize. Her poetry has received an American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination.

Spectra

Spectra PDF Author: Ashley Toliver
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895340
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Precise, taut, minimalist poems are Toliver’s Yellow Wallpaper, using the thud and drone of language to evoke the suffocation of a marriage gone sour, sound bouncing back, and creating patterns that are an inhibiting force in themselves. There’s a pulse to her work, one that harnesses the energy on the page to transcend binaries and boundaries of the self.