The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology PDF Author: George Bowering
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
ISBN: 9780887847899
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This book gathers the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize and introduces us to some of the finest poems of their collections."--BOOK JACKET.

The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology PDF Author: George Bowering
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
ISBN: 9780887847899
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"This book gathers the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize and introduces us to some of the finest poems of their collections."--BOOK JACKET.

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Anthology

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Anthology PDF Author: George Bowering
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770891439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the Griffin Poetry Prize. The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes poems from the exceptional books shortlisted by judges George Bowering, James Lasdun, and Pura Lopez Colome. The poems in the 2008 anthology are selected and introduced by Bowering, the Canadian member of the jury. Royalties from the sales of the anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

Pomegranate Seeds

Pomegranate Seeds PDF Author: Dean Kostos
Publisher:
ISBN: 0977461041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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From the Publisher: This volume is the first-ever collection of poems in English by 49 prominent Greek-American poets from throughout the United States. The poems cover a variety of topics and styles.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel PDF Author: Albert Frank Moritz
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887847900
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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John Ashbery's esteem for A. F. Moritz has been seconded repeatedly by critics and readers. Starting in 1975 with Here and continuing through the years to Moritz's latest, The Sentinel, this poet has carved an important career in poetry. This new collection has already begun garnering praise and awards: the title poem was honored by the prestigious Poetry magazine. These poems, exploring everything from vanishing civilizations to nature's mysteries, display Moritz’s intelligence and insight blended with a supple craft and wordplay that have made his work unique in the field.

Negative Space

Negative Space PDF Author: Luljeta Lleshanaku
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811227537
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Lleshanaku’s poems are “full of objects and souls, transformed and given wings in Chagall-like metaphor” (Sasha Dugdale, Poetry Nation Review) *Shortlist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize* “Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war,” writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title poem to her powerful new collection Negative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive dictatorship of the poet’s native Albania. For Lleshanaku, the “unsaid, gestures” make up the negative space that “gives form to the woods / and to the mad woman—the silhouette of goddess Athena / wearing a pair of flip-flops / and an owl on top of a shoulder.” It is the negative space “that sketched my onomatopoeic profile / of body and shadow in an accidental encounter.” Lleshanaku instills ordinary objects and places—gloves, used books, acupuncture needles, small-town train stations—with subtle humor and profound insight, as a child discovering a world in a grain of sand.

Payback

Payback PDF Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887848001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.

Violet Energy Ingots

Violet Energy Ingots PDF Author: Hoa Nguyen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696348
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poems of loss, rage, love, and what endures.

40 Sonnets

40 Sonnets PDF Author: Don Paterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374100187
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Originally published in 2015 by Faber and Faber in Great Britain.

King Me

King Me PDF Author: Roger Reeves
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 161932136X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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On the “Best Poetry Books of the Year” list from Library Journal “A sophisticated and breathtaking writer, Reeves takes the reader on a harrowing journey: each poem comes packed with arresting imagery, relentless in its examination of how tragedy and trauma become internalized — cleaning out the wounds to understand the pain.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Roger Reeves' King Me stitches together many worlds into one startling and visceral book. His ranging, encyclopedic knowledge crosses history, medicine, biology, metapoetics and more, but he tackles it all with a bold and sonorous surrealist flow.”—American Microreviews From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, King Me examines the erotics of care and the place of song, elegy, and praise as testaments to those moments. As Roger Reeves said in an interview, "While writing King Me, I became very interested in the mythology of king, the one who is sacrificed at the end of the harvest season. . . . For me, the myth manifests in the killing of young black men, Emmett Till, and in the ways America deems young, black male bodies as expendable—Jean Michel Basquiat, Mike Tyson, Jack Johnson. These are the young kings whom we love to kill—over and over again." From "Some Young Kings": The hummingbirds inside my chest,with their needle-nosed pliers for tonguesand hammer-heavy wings, have left a messof ticks in my lungs and a punctured lullabyin my throat. Little boy blue come blowyour horn. The cow's in the meadow. And Dorothy's alone in the corn with Jack, his black fingers, the brass of his lips, the half-moons of his fingernails clickingalong her legs until she howls—Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker . . . Roger Reeves earned his MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing and his PhD from the University of Texas. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Eunoia

Eunoia PDF Author: Christian Bök
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847674003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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‘Eunoia’, which means ‘beautiful thinking’, is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, but never at the same time. Each of Eunoia’s five chapters is univocalic: that is, each chapter uses only one vowel. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, this uncanny work of avant-garde literature is one of the most surprising and awe-inspiring books of the year. A challenging feat of composition and technical skill, Bök has worked this into a series of compelling narratives and rhythms.