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Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry
by Ross HairUsing a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies, especially the discontinuities commonly seen to exist between nineteenth-century Romantic and twentieth-century modernist literary forms.
Room on the Broom
by Julia DonaldsonThe witch and her cat couldn't be happier, flying through the sky on their broomstick-until the witch drops her hat, then her bow, then her wand! Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items and all they want in return is a ride on the broomstick. But is there room on the broom for so many new friends? And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from the clutches of a hungry dragon?
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Colección Visor De Poesía Ser. #Vol. 417)
by Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly.
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
by Agha Shahid Ali"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."--Anthony Hecht In this stunningly inventive collection--a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry--Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.
Rooms of the Mind: Poems
by Makenzie CampbellFrom the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen comes Rooms of the Mind — a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak, and wonder at what the world might bring us next.
The Rooster Crows
by Maud Petersham Miska PetershamIncludes well-known nursery rhymes, counting-out games, skipping-rope songs, finger games, and other jingles, such as: "The rooster crows and away he goes", "Mother, may I go out to swim", "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear", and "Roses are red, violets are blue". An American Mother Goose for every child's library, it contains verses from collections all over America, beloved by children for generations and beautifully and charmingly illustrated by famous artists.
The Rooster's Wife (American Poets Continuum #Vol. 90)
by Russell EdsonFor the past 40 years, Russell Edson has been producing a body of work unique in its perspective and singular in its approach. He is, arguably, America’s most distinguished writer of prose poems. Here are contorted Darwinian narratives of apes and monkeys exhibiting absurdly human behavior, along with his usual menagerie of elephants, horses, chickens, roosters, dogs, mermaids and mice. Along with his trademark humor, The Rooster’s Wife finds Edson contemplating age, mortality and immortality as well.Of Memory and DistanceIt’s a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance will grow smaller as he proceeds. Eventually becoming so small he might only be found with a microscope, if indeed he is found at all. But there is a vanishing point, where anyone having entered the distance must disappear entirely without hope of his ever returning, leaving only the memory of his ever having been. But then there is fiction, so that one can never really be sure if one is remembering someone who vanished into the distance, or simply who had been made of paper and ink . . .Russell Edson has been called a surrealist comic genius, a magician of metaphor and imagination. He is all of these, and a philosophical poet whose zany expeditions into the twisted labyrinths of logic resemble Lewis Carroll’s adventures through the wonderlands of paradox and illusion. Perhaps that is why even people who do not read significant amounts of contemporary poetry can immediately appreciate the playful accessibility of Russell Edson’s writing. What he pulls out of the hat of the subconscious is always unpredictable, immediate and surprising.Russell Edson’s books include The Very Thing That Happens (1964); The Childhood of an Equestrian (1973); The Tunnel: Selected Poems (1994); and The House of Sara Loo (Rain Taxi Chapbook Series, 2002). He lives in Darien, Connecticut.
Root Fractures: Poems
by Diana Khoi Nguyen*One of LitHub&’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024* *One of The Millions&’s Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024* National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen&’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family&’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. And as new generations of the family come of age, opportunities to begin anew blend with visitations from the past. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives. As Terrance Hayes writes, &“&‘There is nothing that is not music&’ for this poet. Poetry is found in the gaps, silences, and ruptures of history.&” This astonishing second collection renders poetry into an act of kintsugi, embellishing what is broken in a family&’s legacy so that it can be seen in a new light.
Roots to the Earth: Poems And A Story
by Wendell Berry Wesley BatesIn 1995, Wendell Berry's Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings of celebrated artist and wood engraver, Wesley Bates, were printed from the original wood blocks on handmade Japanese paper.In 2014, this work was reprinted along with additional poems. Together with Bates' original wood engravings, and designed by Gray Zeitz, Larkspur Press printed just one hundred copies of this book in a stunning limited edition.Now it is with great pleasure that Counterpoint is reproducing this collaborative work for trade publication, as well as expanding it with the inclusion of a short story, "The Branch Way of Doing," with additional engravings by Bates.In his introduction to the 2014 collection, Bates wrote: "As our society moves toward urbanization, the majority of the population views agriculture from an increasingly detached position... In his poetry [Berry] reveals tenderness and love as well as anger and uncertainty... The wood engravings in this collection are intended to be companion pieces to... the way he expresses what it is to be a farmer."
Rope
by Alison DemingNew from a poet renowned for her lyricism, wisdom, and originalityAlison Hawthorne Deming 's fourth collection of poems follows the paths of imagination into meditations on salt, love, Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life, all linked by the poet's faith in art as an instrument for creating meaning, beauty, and continuity--virtues diminished by the velocity and violence of our historical moment. The final long poem "The Flight," inspired by the works of A. R. Ammons, is a twenty-first century epic poised on the verge of our discovering life beyond Earth.
Rose (New Poets of America)
by Li-Young LeeTable of ContentsI.EpistleThe GiftPersimmonsThe Weight Of SweetnessFrom BlossomsDreaming Of HairEarly In The MorningWaterFalling: The CodeNocturneMy IndigoIrisesEating AloneII.Always A RoseIII.Eating TogetherI Ask My Mother To SingAsh, Snow, Or MoonlightThe LifeThe WeepersBraidingRain DiaryMy Sleeping Loved OnesMnemonicBetween SeasonsVisions And Interpretations
Rose
by Li-Young Lee Gerald SternTable of ContentsI.EpistleThe GiftPersimmonsThe Weight Of SweetnessFrom BlossomsDreaming Of HairEarly In The MorningWaterFalling: The CodeNocturneMy IndigoIrisesEating AloneII.Always A RoseIII.Eating TogetherI Ask My Mother To SingAsh, Snow, Or MoonlightThe LifeThe WeepersBraidingRain DiaryMy Sleeping Loved OnesMnemonicBetween SeasonsVisions And Interpretations
The Rose In December
by Charlene BaldridgePoem by magical poem, Charlene Baldridge's The Rose in December (plucked from the James Barrie quote "God gave us memory so we might have roses in December") is as elegantly illuminating a ride through how life really is as it is entertainingly irreverent. (from the back cover) The poems in this book are: Art, White Nights, Inside the Hothouse, The Hammer and How It Works, What to Do About the Hammer, Gloves, Hearts of Onyx, A Poet's Love, Bereft, Ebony, Instructions, Stonehenge, Another Mountain, The Structure of Time, The Amaryllis, Make No Mistake, During the Power Outage, Guardian, Unprepared, Glitter, Mission Old Age, The Tender Gap, Out of Tune, Privilege. A Warrior's Stance, mentioned in this book and written by the author's deceased daughter, is available in this library.
Rose Quartz: Poems
by Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointeA wild, seductive debut poetry collection by the author of Red Paint evoking pain, healing, and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.“Draw me encircled / in something / other than gasoline.” The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwš?blu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of peril—a car accident, an unwelcome advance at a party, a miscarriage—to the salvific, exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish ancestors. Along the way, she peers into the darker corners of her own search for belonging, and finds there glittering stones dense with meaning and the power to move forward.As game to follow a beckoning Laura Palmer into the burning woods as she is to step into the shoes of Little Red Riding Hood as she lays waste to her wolf, LaPointe explores the sublime space between beauty and danger through lush, almost baroque, use of folktale and color. Red, white, blue, and an amalgam that is none of the above—rose—vie for the speaker’s embrace as a mixed-race woman. Here, poems become offerings, rituals, incantations conjured in the name of healing and power.Like the stones and cards laid on an altar, Rose Quartz offers a reading at the intersection of identity and myth, trauma and truth, telling the story of past, present, and future.“LaPointe conveys with dazzling intensity that while our healing is in our own hands, we need not be alone.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
by Tupac ShakurTupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energy -- and his ultimate message of hope.
Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink
by Diane deGroatThis Valentine's Day favorite read-aloud will prompt lots of giggles, as well as discussions on kindness and forgiveness.Gilbert is all set to write fifteen friendly valentine cards to his classmates. But how can he write a nice poem for the boy who tweaked his nose, or the girl who made fun of his glasses? Instead, Gilbert writes two not-so-nice valentines...and signs the wrong name on both!When his classmates read his poems, their feelings are hurt, and Gilbert's prank quickly turns into pandemonium. But with the help of a friend and an honest apology, there's always time for a change of heart on Valentine's Day.
Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink
by Diane DegroatWhen Gilbert writes two not-so-nice valentines to his classmates, his prank quickly turns into pandemonium. But there's always time for a change of heart on Valentine's Day.
Rossetti: Poems
by Christina RossettiThese Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Rossetti contains a full selection of Rossetti's work, including her lyric poems, dramatic and narrative poems, rhymes and riddles, sonnet sequences, prayers and meditations, and an index of first lines.
Rota se camina igual
by Lorena PronskyLorena Pronsky impuso un nuevo lenguaje en este libro, que lo convirtió clásico entre sus lectores. Rota se camina igual tiene un discurso fiel y contundente que nombra de forma precisa y lacerante las vivencias que todos, en algún momento de nuestra vida, atravesamos. Rota se camina igual es un libro no solo fue un éxito de ventas sino que también se instaló rápidamente como un clásico. Difícil de catalogar dentro de un género literario, Lorena Pronsky logra conmover al lector a través de un lenguaje disruptivo pero sencillo, a través de relatos que nos invitan a conectarnos con nuestras emociones. Apoyada en la herida como parte inevitable de la vida, nos muestra de qué manera podemos darles un nuevo destino a esos dolores que se nos imponen. En este viaje de reencuentro con nosotros mismos nos iremos identificando con las heridas de la pérdida, del abandono, del desamor, y así entender que siempre tendremos dos caminos para elegir: aferrarnos a ese dolor que nos deja en pausa, o bien comprender que asumir la realidad es el primer escalón para reinventarnos e iniciar una nueva etapa. Aceptar que estamos atravesados por tormentas que han dejado una marca indeleble nos enseña que "continuar" es una palabra que encierra todas las posibilidades aún desconocidas. Solo tenemos que tomar ese envión interior para darnos cuenta de que, a pesar de nuestras fisuras personales, rota se camina igual.
Rotten Days in Late Summer
by Ralf WebbA TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender, unflinching' Guardian'This is poetry in the grand tradition of annihiliation by desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget' Anne Boyer, author of The Undying'Brilliant . . . heralds the arrival of a frank and vital poetic voice' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'Frank and alert . . . an important voice in British poetry' Eley Williams, author of The Liar's Dictionary'Direct and heart-breaking' Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other Poems'A rare thing . . . razor-sharp' Julia Copus, author of This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte MewIn Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an examination of the textures of class, youth, adulthood and death in the working communities of the West Country, from mobile home parks, boyish factory workers and saleswomen kept on the road for days at a time, to the yearnings of young love and the complexities of masculinity.Alongside individual poems, three sequences predominate: a series of 'Love Stories', charting a course through the dreams, lies and salt-baked limbs of multiple relationships; 'Diagnostics', which tells the story of the death from cancer of the poet's father; and 'Treetops', a virtuosic long poem weaving together grief and mental health struggles in an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming data of a life.The world of these poems is close, dangerous, lustrous and difficult: a world in which whole existences are lived in the spin of almost-inescapable fates. In searching for the light within it, this prodigious debut collection announces the arrival of a major new voice in British poetry.
Rouge Memoire: Poesie
by Huguette BertrandENTRE NOUS<P> C'est entre vous et moi que ça se passe<P> entre nos apparences<P> qui ont l'air de dire que nous ne sommes pas là<P> corps défaits par l'haleine chaude de la nuit<P> et les jeux bêtes<P> dormeurs éveillés par un baiser de cheval<P> le hasard prend forme<P> Les jeunes lampes<P> sont des fontaines domptéees<P> par les yeux qui passent
Rough Day
by Ed SkoogComposed during long walks throughout Washington, DC, and careful to err on the side of recklessness, Rough Day finds its essential unity in a fixation on American events and landscapes-from Yellowstone and New Orleans to Kansas and the Pacific Northwest. Throughout, Ed Skoog maintains an openness to discovery that unveils rare and prismatic views into his country.A native of Topeka, Kansas, Ed Skoog's first book of poetry, Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon Press), was published in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and The Paris Review. He teaches at the University of Montana and lives in Missoula, Montana
Rough Fugue: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
by Betty AdcockBetty Adcock brings fierce insight to her seventh poetry collection, Rough Fugue. Her elegant stanzas evoke bygone moments of beauty, reflection, and rage. “Let things be spare,” she writes, “and words for things be thin / as the slice of moon / the loon’s cry snips.” Adcock’s poems are often spare but never thin, shifting effortlessly from the eerie red of brake lights on a Texas highway to the fluorescents of an office building where a tired worker imagines a holiday in Spain.Adcock reflects upon her poetic forebears, chronicling the desire to write that led them to create cuneiform tablets, scrolls of papyrus, and ultimately vellum and parchment. She also recounts memories about the life with her late husband and tries to define herself in the bewildering new role of “widow.” In poems ranging in tone from playful to reverential, Rough Fugue showcases the work of a veteran poet at her masterful best.