Hybrida: Poems

Hybrida: Poems PDF Author: Tina Chang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324002492
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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“One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In an agile blend of zuihitsu, ghazal, mosaic poems, and lyric essays, Tina Chang “evokes the bottomless love and terror of motherhood as she describes raising her mixed-race son” (New York Times). Ambitious and revelatory, Hybrida establishes Chang as one of the most vital voices of her generation.

Hybrida: Poems

Hybrida: Poems PDF Author: Tina Chang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324002492
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
“One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In an agile blend of zuihitsu, ghazal, mosaic poems, and lyric essays, Tina Chang “evokes the bottomless love and terror of motherhood as she describes raising her mixed-race son” (New York Times). Ambitious and revelatory, Hybrida establishes Chang as one of the most vital voices of her generation.

For the Hope of Spring

For the Hope of Spring PDF Author: Shamayita Sen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788194853862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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The collection, titled For the Hope of Spring: hybrid poems, published by Hawakal Publishers, Kolkata, India, is Shamayita Sen's first collection of poems. Like all memories, it smells of old life, chipped wallpaper and burnt wood. The poems have been neatly compartmentalized into: On Dissent; Grief and Other People; Love, Healing, etc., each section adhering to a particular dominant emotion and theme. The collection speaks of daily life, longings and idle musings on human existence, the lives we come across everyday, their personal sorrows and political sufferings. Some poems are inspired by real life experiences and Shamayita says she shall be ever appreciative of her friends and colleagues for allowing her to commemorate those as universal human emotions. The collection also houses a generous amount of such deeper emotions as love, hope and belonging. One's cultural and gender identities are crucial to living their busy urban lives-the poems could be a relief read or a shock therapy aiding one's realization of the same. The images are painstakingly collected through cold Delhi metro rides and Kolkata's warmth to classroom discussions and newspaper clippings. Dream images and the human subconscious also play a pertinent role in the collection.

Half-lit Houses

Half-lit Houses PDF Author: Tina Chang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Tina Chang’s poems address the problems of family and heritage, initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds that are her subject, and then opening into free(-er) verse as the collection progresses and tries to break out of what has been imposed--both narratively and technically. These are passionate and accessible poems, simple in diction and declaration, elegant in image and syntax.

Orbit

Orbit PDF Author: Cynthia Zarin
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0451494733
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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With Orbit, prize-winning author Cynthia Zarin confirms her place as an indispensable American poet of our time. In this, her fifth collection, Zarin turns her lyric lens on the worlds within worlds we inhabit and how we navigate our shared predicament—the tables of our lives on which the news of the day is strewn: the president speaking to parishioners in Charleston, the ricochet of violence, near and far. Whether writing about hairpin turns in the stair of childhood, about the cat’s claw of anxiety, on the impending loss of a young friend, or how “love endures, give or take,” here is the poet who, in the title poem, “bartered forty summers for black pearls” and whose work is full of such wagers, embodied in playing cards, treble notes, snow globes, and balancing acts. Zarin reminds us that the atmosphere created by our experiences shapes and defines the orbit we move through. Along the way, she is both witness and, often indirectly, subject—“I do not know how to hold the beauty and sorrow of my life,” she writes. This book is an attempt at an answer.

Moon

Moon PDF Author: Jennifer S. Cheng
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939460158
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Mixing fable and fact, extraordinary and ordinary, Jennifer S. Cheng's hybrid collection Moon: letters, maps, poems draws on various Chinese mythologies about women, particularly that of Chang'E (the Lady in the Moon), uncovering the shadow stories of our myths--with the belief that there is always an underbelly. Moon explores bewilderment and shelter, destruction and construction, unthreading as it rethreads, shedding as it collects."--Page [4] of cover.

Of Gods & Strangers

Of Gods & Strangers PDF Author: Tina Chang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935536178
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A dangerous thunder, living is."

Karmic Traces, 1993-1999

Karmic Traces, 1993-1999 PDF Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214568
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
A collection of twenty-four essays by American author Eliot Weinberger, in which he discusses his personal travels around the world, and other topics.

Virgin

Virgin PDF Author: Analicia Sotelo
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319778
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo’s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity—of naiveté, of careless abandon—before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how “far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go.” A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. “A Mexican American fascinator.” At every step, Sotelo’s poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail—grilled meat, golden habañeros, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self. Blistering and gorgeous, Virgin is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.

Language for a New Century

Language for a New Century PDF Author: Tina Chang
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Book Description
An extensive collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry includes the work of four hundred contributors from a variety of backgrounds, in a thematically organized anthology that is complemented by personal essays.

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts PDF Author: Jorie Graham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691064215
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as (simply to cite three appearing in a row) "Mother's Sewing Box," "For My Father Looking for My Uncle," and "The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria." Finally, the poet's words again: ". . . you get / just what you want" and (just before that), "Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires."--Marvin Bell