Vulnerability in Silhouette: Poems

Vulnerability in Silhouette: Poems PDF Author: T. L. Cooper
Publisher: The TLC Press
ISBN: 1943736014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
Vulnerability’s reputation often causes it to be maligned. Vulnerability creates insecurity and destroys confidence. Delve into the human experience of balancing vulnerability and strength while finding one’s place in the world. Explore the strength in vulnerability and the vulnerability in strength through soul-searching poems that travel the full spectrum o f vulnerability from weakness to silhouette.

Vulnerability in Silhouette: Poems

Vulnerability in Silhouette: Poems PDF Author: T. L. Cooper
Publisher: The TLC Press
ISBN: 1943736014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
Vulnerability’s reputation often causes it to be maligned. Vulnerability creates insecurity and destroys confidence. Delve into the human experience of balancing vulnerability and strength while finding one’s place in the world. Explore the strength in vulnerability and the vulnerability in strength through soul-searching poems that travel the full spectrum o f vulnerability from weakness to silhouette.

Strength in Silhouette

Strength in Silhouette PDF Author: T. L. Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984686261
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Book Description
We revere strength. We malign strength. We both fear and admire strength. When we reach inside during our weakest moments and find the strength to move forward, we discover the best thing about being human. Our humanity lies in both the strengths and the weaknesses that connect us and separate us. The poems within explore the many facets of strength in the hopes we never allow strength to become merely a silhouette.

Silhouette of a Songbird

Silhouette of a Songbird PDF Author: Elizabeth Shane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916387423
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Elizabeth is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. The traumatic effects of this left many emotional scars as well as complex PTSD, in a life often hidden by silence. Throughout different stages of her recovery, Silhouette of a Songbird witnesses Elizabeth's personal struggle on her journey to unlock the pain of reclaiming her voice through the power of poetry. By sharing her own experience, she hopes this will provide support and strength to others who have suffered similar childhood trauma, with the knowledge that they are understood and not walking through the storm alone.

Silhouette

Silhouette PDF Author: Nancy Viera
Publisher: Nancy Viera
ISBN: 9780578985718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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A powerful and inspirational collection of poems on a journey of identity, discovery, and what makes up the silhouette of life. Nancy takes takes you on a journey through womanhood with her hometown of San Francisco de Borja, Chihuahua as a backdrop.

Memory in Silhouette

Memory in Silhouette PDF Author: T. L. Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984686247
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
Every moment is a memory and every memory is a moment. Memories are moments that build on one another to create the foundation of who we are at any given point in life. Memories - good, bad, and neutral - meld within our minds and hearts housing love, hate, pleasure, fear, anger, and happiness. With each memory we make, we become more compassionate, and therefore more connected to the world around us. Our strengths and weaknesses live in our memories creating the complexity and simplicity that encompasses the full human experience. Come along to discover how moments blossom into growth or become merely a memory in silhouette...

Meet Me Here at Dawn

Meet Me Here at Dawn PDF Author: Sophie Klahr
Publisher: YesYes Books
ISBN: 9781936919420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. Eroticism tinged with elegy, gratitude knit with doubt; MEET ME HERE AT DAWN contains an unmistakably open voice. Sophie Klahr's debut poetry collection careens from hunger to hunger. With lyric energy and narrative determination, the poems are missives sent back from a threshold, chronicling disease, the unspoken pains of family, the fabric of an extra-marital affair. "What aperture makes a woman?" Klahr asks in "One Slaughter." In MEET ME HERE AT DAWN, even the unanswerable is unfaltering, every question brightly wrought and necessary. "Sophie Klahr moves through the chambers of the mind and heart like an expert escape artist, keys hidden in the body's coverts are revealed in a 'rush of knowing, ' the body's 'first breaking and entering' that feels both clandestine and disclosive. This is poetry of immense vulnerability and fierce mettle; determined, convincing and heroically alive with courage of every kind."--D.A. Powell

The Black Bear Inside Me

The Black Bear Inside Me PDF Author: Robin Becker
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983273
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places—never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family “sacrifices one member,/ as plants surrender leaves in times of drought.” Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time “mows” down our days, though we may never escape “original cruelties.” Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present.

The White Silhouette

The White Silhouette PDF Author: James Harpur
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 178410583X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
At the heart of James Harpur’s The White Silhouette is a meditative poem inspired by the Book of Kells – a poem that follows threads into themes such as the nature of the divine, the efficacy of sacred art, and the way of silence. The title poem – described in the TLS as a ‘compelling spiritual memoir’ – is a haunting journey of ‘missed encounters’ in the landscapes of Wiltshire, Tipperary, and Patmos. Elsewhere, Harpur writes about pilgrimage, the Perseids, mystical experiences, and icons and iconoclasm – from Rublev’s golden images to decapitated angels in Galway. He complements his explorations of the sacred with more directly personal poems, including elegies and elegiac translations from Homer and Horace. Harpur’s poetry is distinguished by its lyric grace and mythohistorical resonance. The musical texture of his lines conveys the warmth, clarity and intimacy of a voice exploring the mysteries of natural, human, and metaphysical worlds. The White Silhouette is the richest summation of his spiritual journey to date.

Take a Chance & Other Stories of Starting Over

Take a Chance & Other Stories of Starting Over PDF Author: T. L. Cooper
Publisher: T. L. Cooper
ISBN: 1943736022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
When past and present converge, the characters in these short stories must reexamine the future they planned. Myriad characters and situations populate these stories pushing the characters to decide whether to risk changing their lives as they face loss, love, and revelations. In these short stories of beginnings and endings, of recognizing moments of before and after, of choosing to stay or leave, of facing a future divergent from expectations, lives a thread of hope in life’s ability to transform.

Ooga-Booga

Ooga-Booga PDF Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879785
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, Despairing of art and of life, Seeking protection from death by seeking it On a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . . --from "The Death of the Shah" The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from Frederick Seidel, "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).