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Be Thou My Song: Grace and Faith in Christian Poetry in the Seventeenth Century
by Kerri L Tom"Be Thou my Song" is a line from seventeenth-century poet Edward Taylor. In his meditation on Philippians 2:9, Taylor finds that his ability to compose poetry falls short of his desire to glorify God, so he prays, “ That I thy glorious Praise may Trumpet right, / Be thou my Song, and make Lord, mee thy Pipe.” In one way or another, all of the poets included in the chapters of Be Thou My Song strive to convey their wonder for God' s unending grace and mercy in their own limited ways; He provides the content, the song, while the writers are merely the conduits, the pipe. By reading these poems carefully, we can share in their gratitude for how God cares for us, both here on earth and in our final heavenly home.In each chapter, you will find a poem, presented in its entirety, followed by an exploration of that poem and some questions to contemplate afterwards. The goal of these explorations is to provide readers with a deeper appreciation, a deeper understanding, and a deeper love of what each poet has given to us.
Be With
by Forrest GanderForrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy <P><P> Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. <P><P>The poems of the third section—a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s—rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.”
Be the Light: Words to Inspire Gratitude, Hope and Happiness
by Cailin HargreavesIf you do not release yourself from what has gone how will you hold onto what is coming?Let go of the things that let you go.An inspirational contemporary collection of words, prose and illustrations providing short, thought-provoking daily prompts for positivity, hope, happiness, and encouragement. Be the Light honours the beauty of our scars and celebrates the strength that lives inside us all.Broken into six themes: Believe in Your Power, Let Yourself Be Seen, You Deserve Happiness, Healing Old Wounds, You Are Enough and Never Underestimate Your Strength, each chapter starts with a short commentary on the theme and is followed by reflective words to encourage the reader to examine their own personal story.Each chapter features short prose and poems alongside Cay's uplifting illustrations.
Be the Light: Words to Inspire Gratitude, Hope and Happiness
by Cailin HargreavesIf you do not release yourself from what has gone how will you hold onto what is coming?Let go of the things that let you go.An inspirational contemporary collection of words, prose and illustrations providing short, thought-provoking daily prompts for positivity, hope, happiness, and encouragement. Be the Light honours the beauty of our scars and celebrates the strength that lives inside us all.Broken into six themes: Believe in Your Power, Let Yourself Be Seen, You Deserve Happiness, Healing Old Wounds, You Are Enough and Never Underestimate Your Strength, each chapter starts with a short commentary on the theme and is followed by reflective words to encourage the reader to examine their own personal story.Each chapter features short prose and poems alongside Cay's uplifting illustrations.
Be-Hooved (The Alaska Literary Series)
by Mar KaMar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. Be-Hooved, her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings—structured along the seasons and the migration patterns of the Porcupine Caribou Herd—and are wrought with a fine and luminous language. Entrancing, profound, and startling, this book is a testament to hope before change, persistence before confusion, and empathy before difference: all the world’s light and all the world’s dark / can fit into an eye into a heart.
Beach Day
by Karen RoosaIn this charming picture book, a cheerful family tumbles out of the car and onto the beach, ready for a perfect day. Buoyant verse just right for reading aloud and bright, playful illustrations capture the singular feeling of a hazy, lazy day by the ocean, complete with a ball game with new friends, water-skiers and sailboats, and a picnic lunch of fried chicken and deviled eggs. This book is a captivating introduction to the beach for young children and an irresistible gift for beach lovers of any age.
Beach Day! (Step into Reading)
by Candice RansomSummer sun and fun in this Step 1 reader featuring the family from Pumpkin Day!, Apple Picking Day!, Garden Day, and Snow Day!Family time means it's time to pack up the car and head to the beach! The brother and sister from Pumpkin Day! and its many companion books return for a fabulous day at the shore. Collecting seashells, building a sand castle, visiting the seaside attractions--enjoy all the indelible memories of childhood summers! Easy-to-follow rhyme ensures a successful reading experience, while bright, lively art brings the story to life.Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.
Beans on the Roof
by Betsy ByarsAnna Bean goes to the roof in search of inspiration, and soon her family will follow her into a new world just a few floors above their homeThe Bean children are not allowed to play on the roof of their apartment building. One evening Anna Bean goes up to the roof—not to play, but to be alone so she can write a poem for school. Her poetry writing fever is contagious; one by one, the rest of the Bean family visits the roof to write amongst pigeons and tall buildings—all except George, who can&’t think of anything to write about. Beans on the Roof is a wonderful, inspiring story for young readers with a passion for creative writing. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author&’s personal collection.Images from previously published versions of this content have been removed to avoid copyright infringement.
Bear Bones & Feathers
by Louise B. HalfeIn this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers offers moving portraits of Halfe’s grandmother (a medicine woman whose life straddled old and new worlds), her parents (both trapped in a cycle of jealousy and abuse), and the people whose pain she witnessed on the reserve and at residential school. Originally published by Coteau Books in 1994, Bear Bones and Feathers won the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award, and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award.
Bear Feels Scared
by Karma Wilson Jane ChapmanBear is big, but the forest is bigger. A storm is brewing and he can't find his way home. The star of "Bear Feels Sick" and "Bear Snores On" returns in this delightful story about friendship and loyalty.
Bear Picks a Pumpkin
by ZondervanSnuggle up in the cool fall weather with a cozy blanket, a pumpkin spice latte, and your little one as you follow the whimsical, rhyming quest of Bear on his way to find the perfect pumpkin.Will he choose a tall one? A tiny one? One with stripes? Or perhaps a pumpkin white as snow?Read along and find out which pumpkin Bear (and his friends) will choose!Here&’s a silly pumpkin! It&’s bumpy and unique. But there are still more pumpkins, So let&’s go and take a peek. Here&’s another pumpkin, Bear! It&’s perfect, don&’t you say? It&’s round and smooth and not too big— Just right for you! Hooray!Bear Picks a Pumpkin:Is perfect for little readersBlends the warmth and joy of autumn with a powerful message of friendshipIs written in soothing, rhyming text, fun to read for parents and kids alike
Bear Snores On (Elementary Core Reading Ser.)
by Karma Wilson Jane ChapmanNIMAC-sourced textbook <P><P>On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.
Bear Wants More
by Karma WilsonWhen springtime comes, in his warm winter den a bear wakes up very hungry and thin!. . . Bear finds some roots to eat, but that's not enough. He wants more! With his friends' help, he finds some berries, clover, and fish to eat, but that's not enough. Bear wants more! How Bear's friends help him to finally satisfy his HUGE hunger in a most surprising way will enchant young readers. Karma Wilson's rhythmic text and Jane Chapman's vibrant illustrations make Bear Wants More a perfect springtime read-aloud. Other books about Bear are available from Bookshare.
Bearful Bear and His New Moves
by Anna Lee EverhartWhile Bearful Bear goes about another day in the forest, he wonders whether he can learn to move like all of the animals around him. Every creature he encounters shares how they move, and then Bearful has the opportunity to practice his new skill. Children will learn how to fly, gallop, hop, and more with this rhythmic, rhyming tale about an inquisitive bear whose animal friends teach him to move in many new ways. These catchy how-to's not only encourage movement by the reader, but also encourage language development and outright fun!
Bearings
by Rhonda BatchelorThe poems in Bearings are arranged in the stressful rhythm of alternation between the intense states of being in love and/or with someone or being alone. Loss refines the vision. For Rhonda Batchelor's poetry that means a gain which shows, for example, in occasional tender lyrics about experiences not governed by love and in the tang of the west coast in her poems, though setting is never the central thing. The centre is love, particularized with an art that revitalizes the ancient subject.
Beast Feast
by Douglas FlorianIn this hilarious collection of twenty-one original animal poems and paintings, the animals are out in all their finned, furry, and feathered glory. From lobsters to rheas to fireflies, kiwis to camels to chameleons, there’s a beast for everyone to love!
Beast Meridian
by Vanessa VillarrealBEAST MERIDIAN narrates the first- generation Mexican American girl, tracking the experiences of cultural displacement, the inheritance of generational trauma, sexist and racist violence, sexual assault, economic struggle, and institutional racism and sexism that disproportionately punishes brown girls in crisis. <p><p> Narrated by a speaker in mourning marked as an at- risk juvenile, psychologically troubled, an offender, expelled and sent to alternative school for adolescents with behavioral issues, and eventually, a psychiatric hospital, it survives the school to prison pipeline, the immigrant working class condition, grueling low- pay service jobs, conservative classism against Latinxs in Texas, queerness, assimilation, and life wrapped up in frivolous citations, fines, and penalties. The traumatic catalyst for the long line of trouble begins with the death of a beloved young grandmother from preventable cervical cancer—another violence of systemic racism and sexism that prevents regular reproductive and sexual health care to poor immigrant communities—and the subsequent deaths of other immigrant family members who are mourned in the dissociative states amidst the depressive trauma that opens the book. <p> The dissociative states that mark the middle—a surreal kind of shadowland where the narrator encounters her animal self and ancestors imagined as animals faces brutal surreal challenges on the way back to life beyond trauma—is a kind of mictlan, reimagined as a state of constant mourning that challenges American notions of "healing" from trauma, and rather acknowledges sadness, mourning, and memory as a necessary state of constant awareness to forge a "way back" toward a broader healing of earth, time, body, history.
Beastly Blake (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
by Tristanne Connolly Helen P. BruderBlake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the utter otherness of animal subjectivity and the meaningful relationships between humans and other creatures. ‘Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day’, Blake fathomed how much they have to teach us about creation and eternity. This collection ranges from real animals in Blake’s surroundings, to symbolic creatures in his mythology, to animal presences in his illustrations of Virgil, Dante, Hayley, and Stedman. It makes a third to follow Queer Blake and Sexy Blake in irreverently illuminating blind spots in Blake criticism. Beastly Blake will reward lovers of Blake’s writing and visual art, as well as those interested in Romanticism and animal studies.
Beat Poets
by Carmela CiuraruThis rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range. The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones's plaintive "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" and Bob Kaufman's stirring "Abomunist Manifesto" appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers. Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.
Beat the Drum: Independence Day has Come Poems for the Fourth of July
by Lee Bennett HopkinsA collection of twenty poems about The Fourth of July from morning until bed time. Don't miss a single parade, picnic and firecracker. Pictures are described.
Beating the Graves (African Poetry Book)
by Tsitsi Ella JajiThe poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled in the multiple meanings of poetic metaphor. Many poems explore the genre of praise poetry, which in Shona culture is a form of social currency for greeting elders and peers with a recitation of the characteristics of one’s clan. Others reflect on how diasporic life shapes family relations. The praise songs in this volume pay particular homage to the powerful women and gender-queer ancestors of the poet’s lineage and thought. Honoring influences ranging from Caribbean literature to classical music and engaging metaphors from rural Zimbabwe to the post-steel economy of Youngstown, Ohio, Jaji articulates her own ars poetica. These words revel in the utter ordinariness of living globally, of writing in the presence of all the languages of the world, at home everywhere, and never at rest.
Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
by David Orr"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Beautiful And Damned
by Robert M. DrakeOn the heels of three internationally bestselling books of poetry, Robert M. Drake takes his readers to a deeper level of his consciousness with this collection of stories.
Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love
by Jessica UrlichsThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'The words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary' - Giovanna Fletcher'Beautifully heartfelt, inspiringly poignant and therapeutically validating' - Anna Mathur Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to school age. Upon becoming a mother, poet Jessica Urlichs was reminded that the everyday ordinary is extraordinary. Beautiful Chaos is a collection that chronicles it all - the highs, the lows, the confusion, the loss of identity, the becoming, and the brutal but beautiful ways our children hold up a mirrors to ourselves. This collection inspires vulnerability and will be a cathartic, healing read for anyone who needs it. These poems will remind you of a time gone by or ground you in the current moment. Either way, they will make you feel seen and comforted amid the beautiful chaos that is motherhood.
Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love
by Jessica UrlichsINSTANT SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLERFrom Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs, an inspiringly vulnerable collection of poems exploring the sacred, tender, and beautifully chaotic moments of motherhood.You are a motherbut never, justWhen poet Jessica Urlichs became a mother, she learned that the everyday ordinary is extraordinary. In Beautiful Chaos, Jess chronicles it all—the highs, the lows, the confusion, the loss of identity, the becoming, and the brutal but beautiful ways our children hold up a mirror to ourselves. Through her relatable and cathartic poems that poignantly capture motherhood from pregnancy to school age, Jess offers healing to those who need it, a reminder of a cherished time gone by, or even a grounding in your current moment.Wherever you are in your parenting journey, Jess&’s poems will make you feel seen and comforted amid the beautiful chaos that is motherhood.