Nebraska

Nebraska PDF Author: Kwame Dawes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496221230
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska. In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall. With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant. Purchase the audio edition.

Nebraska

Nebraska PDF Author: Kwame Dawes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496221230
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska. In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall. With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant. Purchase the audio edition.

Nebraska Poetry

Nebraska Poetry PDF Author: Daniel Simon
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN: 9781622881451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A legacy project of the Nebraska 150 celebration"--Page facing title page.

Nebraska Presence

Nebraska Presence PDF Author: Greg Kosmicki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979393433
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, several poets who have had their poems read on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac including Greg Kuzma, Marjorie Saiser, Twyla Hansen, Grace Bauer, and Greg Kosmicki, as well as widely noted poets Hilda Raz, Roy Scheele, Steve Langan, and many others.

Delights & Shadows

Delights & Shadows PDF Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?

A Man with a Rake

A Man with a Rake PDF Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: Pulley Press
ISBN: 9781734979176
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ted Kooser lives and writes on 62 acres of wooded hills and pasture in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, a retired editor of the Lincoln Journal Star. None of their property is farmed and is instead left to an abundance of wildlife. For many years Kooser worked at a desk in the life insurance business, retired at 60, and for fifteen years taught poetry writing in the graduate program of the University of Nebraska. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, five volumes of nonfiction, five children's picture books, and seventeen chapbooks and special editions. He served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and his 2004 collection of poems, Delights & Shadows, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Prior to the publication of A Man with a Rake, his most recent collection of poems is Red Stilts, from Copper Canyon Press. More about his life, his work, and his many honors can be found at www.tedkooser.net.

I Have a Poem the Size of the Moon

I Have a Poem the Size of the Moon PDF Author: Matt Mason
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN: 9781622889020
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Book Description
I Have A Poem The Size Of The Moon is a book of poems about Nebraska. Not cornfields, not cows: Cities, highways, long drives and the political conversations simmering. Between Meteors and Fireflies In a drought year, corn stubble bends into Headlines: "Farmers pray for rain." Tumbleweeds take time to harmonize and choreograph, somewhere between meteors and fireflies. The grocery sells blueberries all year round, but the charge card feels heavy as a refrigerator once you slip it from the wallet. You don't end up buying the magazines, just browse. It's a tow truck, doorbell button, garbage disposal broke summer: no real difference between a silo and a paper sack, it seems. And in the hallway, light glows from under the bathroom door.

Your Crib, My Qibla

Your Crib, My Qibla PDF Author: Saddiq M. Dzukogi
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496225783
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.

Local Wonders

Local Wonders PDF Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803278110
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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In the "quietest magnificent book IUve ever read" (Jim Harrison, author of "Legends of the Fall") Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska--an area known as the Bohemian Alps--where nothing is too big or too small for his attention.

Exodus

Exodus PDF Author: 'Gbenga Adeoba
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622180X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic opportunities. Using the sea as a source of language and metaphor, Adeoba explores themes of memory, transition, and the intersections between the historic and the imagined. With great tenderness and power his poetry of empathy searches for meaning in sharply constructed images, creating scenes of making and unmaking while he investigates experiences of exile and displacement across time and place.

Modern Sudanese Poetry

Modern Sudanese Poetry PDF Author: Adil Babikir
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149621563X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection addresses a wide range of themes—identity, love, politics, Sufism, patriotism, war, and philosophy—capturing the evolution of Sudan’s modern history and cultural intersections. Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country’s ethnic, cultural, and natural composition. By bringing these voices together, Babikir provides a glimpse of Sudan’s poetry scene as well as the country’s modern history and post-independence trajectory.