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Tin House: Summer Reading 2018
by Rob Spillman Win McCormack Holly MacArthurThrow on your sunglasses and prop up the parasol, Tin House is back with another Summer Reading edition. Enjoy the hottest new fiction, shine some light with uniquely personal nonfiction, and then cool off in the shade with the poets.
Tin House 77: Poison
by Win McCormackAn award-winning quarterly, Tin House started in 1999, the singular love child of an eclectic literary journal and a beautiful glossy magazine. Our fall issue will be packing stories, essays, and poems inspired by poison pens, poison pills, and general-use poisons. But don't worry, reading is the antidote, too. Featuring Elisa Albert, Melissa Febos, Ethan Rutherford, Shane McCrae, Deb Olin Unferth, and more.
Tin House 79: 20thanniversary
by Holly MacArthur Rob Spillman Win McCormackStop to admire the roses, thorns and all, with new fiction from the likes of Jo Ann Beard and Aleksandar Hemon; poets including Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Jericho Brown; essays by Amy Lam and John Freeman; and much more.
A Tinderbox in Three Acts (American Poets Continuum Series #195)
by Cynthia Dewi OkaSelected by Aracelis Girmay, A Tinderbox in Three Acts is at once elegy and exegesis, fact and invention. In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian military and with American assistance, erased and devastated millions of lives in Indonesia. Under the New Order dictatorship that ruled by terror for over three decades in the aftermath, perpetrators of the killings were celebrated as national heroes while survivors were systemically silenced. Drawing on US state documents that were only declassified in recent years, Oka gives form and voice to the ghosts that continue to haunt subsequent generations despite decades of state-produced amnesia and disinformation.In service of recovering what must not be remembered, A Tinderbox in Three Acts repurposes the sanitized lexicon of official discourse, imagines an emotional syntax for the unthinkable, and employs synesthetic modes of perception to convey that which exceeds language. Here, the boundary between singular and collective consciousness is blurred. Here, history as an artifact of the powerful is trumped by the halting memory of the people whom power sought to destroy. Where memory fails, here is poetry to honor the dishonored, the betrayed, the lost and still-awaited.
Tinke Tinke
by Elsa BornemannTinke-Tinke es un maravilloso libro de poemas que, gracias a su métrica breve y su rima sencilla y pegadiza resultan ideales para chicos que comienzan la escolaridad. La mayoría de sus poemas son muy conocidos por el medio docente y tienen la virtud de desarrollar personajes y situaciones sumamente representativos de la vida cotidiana infantil.
The Tiny Journalist (American Poets Continuum Series #170)
by Naomi Shihab Nye“A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation.” —Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019 Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Jihad Ayyad, the "Youngest Journalist in Palestine," who at age 7 began capturing videos of anti-occupation protests using her mother's smartphone. Nye draws upon her own family's roots in a West Bank village near Janna's hometown to offer empathy and insight to the young girl's reporting. Long an advocate for peaceful communication across all boundaries, Nye’s poems in The Tiny Journalist put a human face on war and the violence that divides us from each other.
The Tip Of My Tongue
by Robert CrawfordRobert Crawford's new collection is an exhilarating celebration of the world he lives in: his family, his fellow Scots, his country and his country's languages. Beginning with a group of moving, renewing love poems to his wife, the book builds into a polyphonic hymn to life in all its aspects. There is a powerful sense of communion and connection in The Tip of My Tongue: while singing the Scottish part of the planet, Crawford also embraces the rhythms of the whole circumference - from Perth, Scotland, to Perth, Australia - catching 'how Kincardineshire's sky's/Transvaalish, Budapesty, Santa Barbaran,/Zurich on a perfect day'. These are poems that are convincingly earthed in the land and the language yet unafraid of spiritual, even religious notes; richly lyrical and passionate yet shot through with a humour and a vitality that is utterly engaging. As Liam McIlvanney wrote in the Sunday Herald, 'for intellectual range, emotional depth, and lexical shimmer, Crawford is unsurpassed among recent Scottish poets'.
Tirukkovaiyar (aka Tiruchitrambalakkovaiyar)
by ManikkavachakarAs a staunch devotee of Lord Shiva, Manikkavachakar in 25 chapters containing 400 verses visualize the state of happiness of life in 25 stages and emphasizes that the life attains complete happiness in mixing and mingling with Lord Shiva.
To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story
by Sonya SonesCan honesty lead to heartbreak if the truth is subjective? A compelling novel in verse from Sonya Sones. <p><p>Fifteen-year-old Colette is addicted to lying. Her shrink says this is because she’s got a very bad case of Daughter-of-a-famous-movie-star Disorder—so she lies to escape out from under her mother’s massive shadow. But Colette doesn’t see it that way. She says she lies because it’s the most fun she can have with her clothes on. Not that she’s had that much fun with her clothes off. At least not yet, anyway… <p><p>When her mother drags her away from Hollywood to spend the entire summer on location in a boring little town in the middle of nowhere, Colette is less than thrilled. But then she meets a sexy biker named Connor. He’s older, gorgeous, funny, and totally into her. So what if she lies to him about her age, and about who her mother is? I mean, she has to keep her mother’s identity a secret from him. If he finds out who she really is, he’ll forget all about Colette, and start panting and drooling and asking her for her mother’s autograph. Just like everyone always does.
To Bedlam and Part Way Back
by Anne SextonThis book of poems has the cumulative impact of a good novel. It has the richness variety and compactness of true poetry. It is a book to read and remembered. Sexton is an accomplished lyricist. She can combine the straightforwardness of playing on his speech with the saddle with the control, tight formal structure, and brilliantly effective imagery. But she makes her singular claim on our attention by the fact that she has important things to tell us and tells them dramatically.
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays
by Czeslaw Milosz Madeline Levine Bogdana CarpenterThe selection of essays in this book was guided by a desire to represent Milosz's extraordinary thematic breadth as well as the diversity of the genres and styles he commands. The essays are grouped into three sections. Part I, "These Guests of Mine," introduces Milosz through autobiographical accounts and biographical sketches of people who were representative of the historical currents that shaped his life. Part II, "On the Side of Man," presents Milosz as the profoundly serious religious thinker he has always been. Part III, "Against Incomprehensible Poetry," gathers together Milosz's most significant writings on the obligations of poetry and concludes with his assessments of four major poets of the twentieth century.
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss: William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams
by Michelle Weinroth Paul Leduc BrowneTo Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies. Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris’s concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the institutions and epistemologies of our time. Though the political significance of Morris’s creative work is often underestimated, the essays in this volume showcase its subtlety and sophistication. Each chapter discerns the power and novelty of Morris’s radicalism within his aesthetic creations and demonstrates how his most compelling political ideas bloomed wherever his dexterous hand had been at work - in wallpapers, floral borders, medievalist romances, and verse. Morris's theory and practice of aesthetic creation can be seen as the crucible of his entire philosophy of social change. In situating Morris's radicalism at the heart of his creative legacy, and in reanimating debates about nineteenth-century art and politics, To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss challenges and expands received notions of the radical, the aesthetic, and the political.
to drink coffee with a ghost
by Amanda LovelaceFrom the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In the first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explored the memory of being in a toxic romantic relationship. In to drink coffee with a ghost, lovelace unravels the memory of the complicated relationship she had with her now-deceased mother.
To Embroider the Ground with Prayer
by Teresa J. ScollonA beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life.
To Go Into the Words (Poets On Poetry)
by Norman FinkelsteinTo Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen Adam, and Nathaniel Mackey, the book engages the contemporary poetic fascination with transcendence through the radical delight with language. By opening up a given poem, Finkelstein seeks the “gnosis” or insight of what it contains so that other readers can understand and appreciate the works even more. Pulling from Finkelstein’s experience of writing thirteen books of poetry and six books of literary criticism, To Go Into the Words consistently rewards the reader with insights as transformative as they are well-considered and deftly mapped out. This volume opens the world of poetry to poets, scholars, and readers by showcasing “the gnosis that is to be found in modern poetry.”
"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
by Andrew MarvellOne of the greatest of the metaphysical poets, Andrew Marvell (1621–78) was also among the most eclectic. His lyrics, love poems, satires, and religious and political verse display a remarkable range of styles and ideas that make him one of the most interesting and rewarding poets to study. In addition to their complexity and intellectual rigor, Marvell's poems abound in captivating language and imagery.This collection includes such masterpieces as "To His Coy Mistress," "The Definition of Love," "The Garden," "The Coronet," "A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body," "On a Drop of Dew," "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland," "Upon Appleton House," and many others. Ideal for use in English literature courses, high school to college, this volume will appeal to poetry lovers everywhere.
To Keep Love Blurry (American Poets Continuum #135.00)
by Craig Morgan TeicherTo Keep Love Blurry is about the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and children, writers and readers. These poems include sonnets, villanelles, and long poems, as well as two poetic prose pieces, tracing how a son becomes a husband and then a father. Robert Lowell is a constant figure throughout the book, which borrows its four-part structure from that poet's seminal Life Studies. Craig Morgan Teicher won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He is poetry reviews editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
To Keep Love Blurry
by Craig Morgan TeicherTo Keep Love Blurry is about the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and children, writers and readers. These poems include sonnets, villanelles, and long poems, as well as two poetic prose pieces, tracing how a son becomes a husband and then a father. Robert Lowell is a constant figure throughout the book, which borrows its four-part structure from that poet's seminal Life Studies. Craig Morgan Teicher won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He is poetry reviews editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
To Kill a White Dog
by John B. LeeA long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.
To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry)
by Zeina Hashem Beck"Zeina Hashem Beck crafts a multifaceted portrait of the people and the streets of Beirut. Part love-letter, part elegy, Hashem Beck's debut collection keeps the city from becoming 'a shadow of a memory, / the memory of a shadow' for poet and reader both, offering us instead 'labyrinths / in which we get lost on purpose.' This collection is as vibrant and sensitive as its subject—the city that 'understands / not being tired of being.' Join me in an enthusiastic welcome for a compelling new voice in Anglophone poetry."—John Hennessy
To Love The Coming End
by Leanne DunicIn To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11' reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, this debut from Leanne Dunic captures what it's like to be united while simultaneously separated from the global experience of trauma, history, and loss that colour our everyday lives.
to make monsters out of girls
by Amanda LovelaceWinner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, &“things that h(a)unt.&” In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you&’ve been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?
To Make Room for the Sea: Poems
by Adam Clay&“The more I sit with these poems, the more they resonate with me and with universal patterns and themes—existential inquiries, loneliness, spiritual doubts.&” —Green Mountains ReviewTo Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that &“it&’s easier to love what we don&’t know.&” &“I hold this leaf I think / you should see, but I can&’t quite / say why,&” Adam Clay writes, as he navigates a variety of both personal and ecological fixations: disembodied bullfrog croaks, the growth of his child, a computer&’s dreaded blue screen of death. The observations in To Make Room for the Sea convey both grief for the Anthropocene and hope for the future. The poems read like field notes from someone who knows the world and hopes to know it differently. On the precipice of great change and restructured perspective, Clay&’s poems linger in &“the second between taking in a vision and processing it,&” in the moment when the world is less a familiar system and more a palette of colors and potential.To Make Room for the Sea delights as much as it mourns. It looks forward as much as it reflects. Deft and hopeful, the poems in this collection gently encourage us to take another look at a world &“only some strange god might have thought up / in a drunken stumble.&” &“That&’s the magic of this book—the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page.&” —Maggie Smith &“Draws from an impressive repertoire of forms to tease out complex questions regarding time, epistemology, and memory.&” —Publishers Weekly
To My Husband and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
by Robert Hutchinson Anne BradstreetFrom America's first poet -- a splendid selection of poems encompassing everything from lyric verses addressed to her husband and children to somber epitaphs on the deaths of her mother, father, and grandchildren. Poems grouped according to category (love, home life, religious meditations, dialogues, and lamentations). Of great literary value, these works also shed light on the cares, concerns and roles of colonial women.