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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
by Mosab Abu TohaIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a child, and then as a young father. A survivor of four brutal military attacks, he bears witness to a grinding cycle of destruction and assault, and yet, his poetry is inspired by a profound humanity. These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land, and they are also suffused with the smell of tea, roses in bloom, and the view of the sea at sunset. Children are born, families continue traditions, students attend university, and libraries rise from the ruins as Palestinians go on about their lives, creating beauty and finding new ways to survive. Accompanied by an in-depth interview (conducted by Ammiel Alcalay) in which Abu Toha discusses life in Gaza, his family origins, and how he came to poetry.
Think of Lampedusa (African Poetry Book)
by Josué Guébo Todd Fredson John KeeneA collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combine elements of history and mythology. Guébo considers the Mediterranean not only as a literal space but also as a space of expectation, anxiety, hope, and anguish for migrants. He meditates on the long history of narratives and bodies trafficked across the Mediterranean Sea. What did it—and what does it—connect and separate? Whose sea is it? Ultimately he is searching for what motivates a person to become part of what he calls a “seasonal suicide epidemic.” This translation of Guébo’s Songe à Lampedusa, winner of the Tchicaya U Tam’si Prize for African Poetry, is a searing work from a major African poet.
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time
by Susan Naramore Maher Tom Lynch Drucilla Wall O. Alan WeltzienIn response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.
Thinking Design Through Literature (Routledge Research in Design Studies)
by Susan YelavichThis book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work of authors such as César Aires, Nicholson Baker, Lydia Davis, Orhan Pamuk, and Virginia Woolf, this book shows the enormous influence that places and things exert in the world.
Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
by Dorothy J. WangWhen will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets#151;Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Lu#151;the book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets.
Thinking Poetry: Philosophical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
by Joseph AcquistoThis volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.
Thinking Upside Down
by Byron Von RosenbergThe poems, fables, and sketches in this book will give you cause to think and a chance to laugh as well. They have been enjoyed by preteens and teenagers (!) and even given adults and retirees a smile or two. Read Thinking Upside Down to turn your heart right side up! Among its 160 pages and about 100 poems you'll find The Otter Oughter, Neanderthal Nell, and Super-Frog. Thinking Upside Down was written for children, but it will also entertain teens and adults
Thintharoo. Colección poética
by Jaili Ivinai Buelvas Diaz Kuzhur WilsonUna colección de 50 poemas vibrantes que harán arder tu mente con los incendios del infierno en la tierra y el cielo. Bellamente traducido del Malayalam al inglés y posteriormente traducido al español, contiene imágenes que harán volar al lector. Kuzhur Wilson es un poeta por excelencia que inhala y exhala poesía. Desde el momento en que abrió los ojos, ha visto un mundo diferente de los demás. Y continúa conversando con las plantas, los árboles, las flores, los peces, los animales, las personas, de la misma manera en que los cinco elementos le hablaron en ese momento decisivo. Aquí se muestra una imaginación en su mejor expresión, desde Thintharoo, un nombre que nunca llegó a ser el nombre de nadie, hasta un centenar de nombres extraños de los árboles que nos rodean. Kuzhur Wilson puede llamar a cada árbol por su nombre, como Dios nos llama en el día del Juicio Final. En su poesía, nuestro mundo parece estar al borde del colapso. Pero, Kuzhur Wilson convoca a sus mujeres para salvarnos ... 'Karingali que orina de pie, Kallavi suplicando ser llenada, Karanjili temblando de lujuria, Kaari que tararea mientras folla, Kaavalam que duerme después del trabajo, Thannimaram mostrando sus pétalos, Thambakam besando su vagina, Thellipayar saboreando un pinchazo, Neerkurunda en el languidez después de follar. Somos salvados.
Thirst
by Mary OliverThirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century
by Edward SandersA collection of selected poems 1961-1985 that won the America Book Award in 1988.
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons
by Joseph Bruchac Jonathan LondonCelebrates the seasons of the year through poems from the legends of such Native American tribes as the Cherokee, Cree, and Sioux.
Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: A Guide to Writing Poetry
by Wendy BishopThirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem is grounded in the belief that the best way to learn to write poetry - and improve one's writing in general - is through practice. The book's unique approach - teaching the elements of poetry through various poetic forms - encourages students to learn from existing models and to break free from pre-established constraints. In thirteen chapters centered on the sonnet, the haiku, and other traditional and not-so-traditional forms, the author demonstrates through numerous innovative exercises the many ways in which beginning poets can enrich their writing by studying and practicing poetic form.
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: Haibun
by Martin Willitts Katsushika HokusaiThe thirty-six woodblock prints that were the inspiration for this collection of writings were made by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The pieces show different views of Mount Fuji from various waystations where people would go to look at the beautiful mountain. The writings in this book are haibun, a literary form originating in Japan that combines prose-autobiography, diary entries, essay, or short story-and poetry-often haiku. Hokusai was in his seventies when he produced the Mount Fuji series; the author, Martin Willitts Jr., was seventy years old when he began studying the prints, attempting to merge himself with Hokusai.
Thirty-three Billion Songs on the Road of Reincarnations: The Santiniketan Sutra
by Chris MosdellA collection of poems by Chris Mosdell written in homage to Rabindranath Tagore and based on Tagore's Stray Birds collection of verse.
Thirukailaya Gyana Ula
by Seraman Perumal NayanarThis work is part of the 11th Thirumurai.'Ula' is one of the 96 types of 'Sitrillakiyam'. Also called 'Adhi Ula' as it is the first in the Ula genre.It talks in praise of Lord Shiva and how women of all ages are mesmerized by his charisma.
Thirukkural-Moolamum Angila Tamil Uraiyum
by ThiruvalluvarThirukkural by Thiruvalluvar is a collection of 1330 Tamil couplets organised into 133 chapters. The 133 chapters are grouped into three sections: Aram, porul ,inbam. Aram contains 380 verses, Porul with 700 and Inbam with 250 kurals. Each chapter has a specific subject. Thirukkural preaches simplicity and truth throughout its verses and has been translated to more than 35 languages across the world. This book has got meanings both in Tamil and English languages.
Thirukural
by ThiruvalluvarOrganized into three sections Thirukural is the one most ancients texts in Tamil that focuses on ethics. Known popularly as Ullaga Podhu Marai, Thirukural is made up of the three sections, viz, Arattu Paal, Porutpaal and Kaamattupaal
Thiruppavai
by AndalPart of Naalayira thivvya prabantham, Thriuppavai is a collection of 30 songs sung by Andal in praise of the Lord Mahavishnu. These songs are sung typically in the Tamil month of marghazhi culminating in the pongal festival in the month of Thai. It is said that Andal merged one with God at the end of these thirty days.
This Afterlife: Selected Poems
by A. E. StallingsA selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings’s four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint. The Underworld and the Afterlife, ancient history and the archaeology of the here and now, all slant rhyme with one another. Many of these poems unfold in the mytho-domestic sphere, through the eyes of Penelope or Pandora, Alice in Wonderland or the poet herself. Fulfilling the promise of the energy and sprezzatura of Stallings’s earliest collection, her later technical accomplishments rise to meet the richness of lived experience: of marriage and motherhood, of a life lived in another language and country, of aging and mortality. Her chosen home of Greece adds layers of urgency to her fascination with Greek mythology; living in an epicenter of contemporary crises means current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems.Expert at traditional received forms, Stallings is also a poet of restless experiment, in cat’s-cradle rhyme schemes, nonce stanzas, supple free verse, thematic variation, and metaphysical conceits. The pleasure of these poems, fierce and witty, melancholy and wise, lies in a timeless precision that will outlast the fickleness of fashion.
This Ancient Lyre: Selected Poems
by O. N. V. Kurup A. J. ThomasPoems edited by A. J. Thomas and translated from Malayalam by S. Velayudhan, et al.
This Art
by Michael WiegersThe centuries have changed little in this art, The subjects are still the same.--Kenneth RexrothWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"?Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.As Marvin Bell has written, "Writing is all and everything." This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry--which draws widely from Copper Canyon's 30-year backlist of poetry books--proves him right.Poets write out of love and longing:Lord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem --Cyrus CassellsPoets confront suffering:since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.--David BudbillAnd poets write in order to live fully: We all stumble into ourselves /like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters,/ while the page gallops out of our reach--Rebecca SeiferleOnly poetry lasts.--Ho Xuan HuongMichael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.CONTRIBUTORS Included: [box] Kay Boyle, Olga Broumas, Hayden Carruth, Norman Dubie, Han Shan, Jim Harrison, Carolyn Kizer, W.S. Merwin, Jane Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, Ruth Stone, Anna Swir
This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys
by Karen ConnellyIn her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home, continuing her pursuit of "living knowledge of the world." These poems enact journeys of the body and heart with candour and sensuous grace, catching the very texture of human experience in the lithe, muscular lines which have a cat-like metaphorical reach.
This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton
by Amanda GoldenOne of America's most influential women writers, Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell and is seldom featured in literary criticism. This volume reassesses Sexton and her poetry for the first time in two decades and offers directions for future Sexton scholarship. Mapping Sexton’s influence on twenty-first-century cultural contexts, these essays emphasize her continuing vitality. Contributors: Jeanne Marie Beaumont | Jeffery Conway | Jo Gill | Amanda Golden | Christopher Grobe | Anita Helle | Kamran Javadizadeh | Dorothea Lasky | Kathleen Ossip | David Trinidad | Victoria Van Hyning
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
by Juliana SpahrPart planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace --from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back again--touching everything in between. The book's focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between your sheets, under your skin.
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems
by Juliana SpahrThis Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought.