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The Throne of Labdacus
by Gjertrud SchnackenbergThe Throne of Labdacus is Gjertrud Schnackenberg's lyric telling of Oedipus' story, and of "what happens outside the play", through the experience of the god who is its presiding oracle: Apollo. The god of poetry, music, and healing is given the task of setting the Sophocles text to music and is woven reluctantly into its world of riddles, unanswered questions, partially disclosed oracles, and hearsay -- a world where the gods, as much as humans, are bound by fate and necessity.
Through Many Windows
by Arthur GordonShort stories. Don't be afraid to feel love, joy, romance, sorrow, fear. Arthur Gordon uniquely ties these emotional stories together with autobiographical sketches that reveal his own thoughts about each episode. These stories will enchant, entertain, and enlighten you because they bring new insights and new interpretations to everyday situations. Every member of your family will want to return to these tales again and again. Take a long look "Through Many Windows." You'll discover that your life will be brightened by the light of hope.
Throw Yourself into the Prairie
by Francesca ChabrierFrancesca Chabrier's poems hold on to the possibility that the sorrowing parts of our lives may be transformed. The collection offers loose, sensuous, gentle associations, combined the interplay of comic and coy images. A debut of remarkable freshness and delight, through which syntactic innovation yields new meaning. Chabrier's poems entertain, startle, cast a spell, and bless.
Thrown in the Throat
by Benjamin Garcia&“An unabashed celebration of complexity in queerness and gender, an arresting snapshot of survival and a triumphant reclamation of language.&” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) &“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.&” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship, family, and Adam Rippon&’s butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented, one speaker recalls nights when &“because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes.&” Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country&’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. With language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. &“Sometimes even a diamond was once alive&” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says &“has deadly superpowers.&” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex, unabashed, and needed as survival. Garcia&’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive. &“Angry, tender, and resounding with the speech of flowers, birds, and diamonds, every syllable carries a glorious charge.&” —The Boston Globe, &“Best Books of 2020&” &“Electrifying . . . explores unrepentant sexual desire, interrogates fraught familial relationships, and examines our troubled cultural moment.&” —Lambda Literary
Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace
by Luci Shaw"The thumbprint . . . is for me a singular clue to human identity. . . . Just as each human thumbprint is unique, its pattern inscribed on the work of our hands and minds, the Creator's is even more so—the original thumbprints on the universe," declares poet Luci Shaw. We worship an endlessly creative God whose thumbprints are reflected everywhere we look—in sunsets, mountains, ocean waves—and in the invisible rhythms that shape our lives, such as the movement of planets around the sun. And this creative and ever-creating God has also left indelible thumbprints on us. We reflect God's imprint most clearly, perhaps, in our own creating and appreciation for beauty. A longing for beauty is inherent to being human. We don't create things that are purely practical; we desire them to be aesthetically pleasing as well. Beauty is also powerful, in its redemptiveness, generosity, inspiration. In reflecting on the role of beauty in our lives, Luci Shaw writes, "Beauty is Love taking form in human lives and the works of their hands." So come, join Luci Shaw as she ponders through the beauty of poetry and prose the places, sometimes unexpected, where she encounters God's fingerprints, and let it help you learn to see them in your life as well.
Thunder Underground
by Jane YolenIn this collection of poems, noted children's poet Jane Yolen takes readers on an expedition underground, exploring everything from animal burrows and human creations, like subways, near the surface—to ancient cities and fossils, lower down—to caves, magma, and Earth's tectonic plates, deeper still below our feet. At the same time, in Josée Masse's rich art, a girl and boy, accompanied by several animals, go on a fantastic underground journey. This book contains science, poetry, and an adventure story all rolled into one. But it's also more than that: In these poems we see that beneath us are the past, present, future—history, truth, and story. This thought-provoking collection will evoke a sense of wonder and awe in readers, as they discover the mysterious world underneath us.
Thunderbird
by Dorothea Lasky"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."-Julia Bloch, Bitch"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret."-InDigest Magazine, InDigest PicksGo, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the "purple motel / where the bird lives." Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. Thunderbird's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way.Baby of airYou rose into the mysticalSide of thingsYou could no longer live with usWe put you in a little homeWhere they shut and locked the doorAnd at nightYou blew outAnd went wandering . . . Dorothea Lasky is also the author of Black Life and AWE, both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.
Thunderbird
by Jane MillerOur childhood such a large cellar with no bulb.Jane Miller brings a painterly eye to the elegiac in an ambitiously linked sequence that explores ecstasy and desire, memory and loss, the ancient and the ultramodern. Suggesting the thunderbird of Native American lore as readily as modern American warfare, Thunderbird is a book of mourning and loss redeemed by the body and the mind.Jane Miller is the author of nine books of poetry, including A Palace of Pearls (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), which won the Audre Lorde Prize. Miller teaches at the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
The Thunderbird Poems
by Armand Garnet RuffoNorval Morrisseau's revered work has been honoured, copied and recognized throughout the art world and beyond. Less widely known but equally captivating is the artist's personal life story, which poet and biographer Armand Garnet Ruffo related in his powerful narrative biography, Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird (Douglas & McIntyre, 2014). Ruffo immersed himself in the life and work of the artist, gaining insight into the struggles and sources of inspiration underlying Morrisseau's greatest works through research and interviews with the artist himself-a connection further strengthened by their shared Ojibway heritage. His lengthy study of Morrisseau inspired Ruffo to write poems reflecting on both the works of art and the emotional context in which Morrisseau painted them. Thunderbird Poems complements the highly evocative and poetic biography, delving into Morrisseau's creative life through compressed, imagistic language, while untangling the complex and powerful threads of meaning, tradition and emotional power that resonate throughout Morrisseau's strong lines and vibrant colours. Significant themes in Morrisseau's work are mirrored in Thunderbird Poems: Ojibway legends, Morrisseau's conflicted religious beliefs, political tensions between white and aboriginal Canadians. Significant moments in Morrisseau's life are also traced along with the development of his artistic career. Deeply immersed in Morrisseau's life story, and possessing thorough knowledge of the Ojibway storytelling traditions which grounded so much of the artist's beliefs and creativity, Ruffo provides fresh poetic interpretations of the most renowned and striking works of one of Canada's most celebrated painters.
Ticket to Exile: A Memoir
by Adam David MillerAt age nineteen, A.D. Miller sat in a jail cell. His crime? He passed a white girl a note that read, ''I would like to get to know you better.'' For this he was accused of attempted rape. Ticket to Exile recounts Miller's coming-of-age in Depression-era Orangeburg, South Carolina. Miller reconstructs the sights, sounds and social complexities of the pre-civil rights South, and his youth as a closet rebel who successfully evaded the worst strictures of a racially segregated small town. By the time he is forced into exile, we realize that this fate was inevitable for a young man too intelligent and aware of the limitations of his society to remain there without disastrous consequences.
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
by Annie DillardCelebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book of poems.
The Tickle Book (Little Golden Book)
by Heidi KilgrasThis Little Golden Book about tots and tickles makes a perfect gift for all ages!Whether it&’s a tummy tickle from Mom, an armpit tickle from Dad, or a whisker tickle from a pet, gigglers of all ages will be endlessly entertained and eager to spend quality tickle time with this book.
Tidal Pools and Other Small Infinities
by Kristen Costello"You'll walk away with more gratitude for the slow burn of the healing process." — Alicia Cook, author of Sorry I Haven&’t Texted You BackTidal Pools and Other Small Infinities blurs the lines between endings and beginnings. The love story starts in the usual way: a whirlwind of confessions, late night conversations, and promises that seem sturdy. The years pass by, and novelty is replaced by a comforting routine – one that&’s difficult to walk away from when things take a toxic turn. This is a collection about bravery and evolution. It takes courage to leave behind the familiar. To question all the things that once seemed undeniably true. To learn to stand on your own and, in doing so, become who you were really meant to be. Endings can be the best beginnings…once you realize you have the power to create them.
El tiempo de la cotidianidad
by Jolanta GębkaLibro de poemas rozpoznaje loargo de los años 1995-2017. Son obras poéticas de carácter satírico.
El tiempo de nuestros días
by José Francisco VidalPoemas de toda una vida. De vez en cuando las musas hacen un aquelarre en mi cabeza. El resultado son los versos de este poemario. <P><P>Desde muy joven he sentido la necesidad de escribir como forma de exteriorizar mis sentimientos y sensaciones. Así empezó este poemario, que, a la postre, he dado en llamar El tiempo de nuestros días ya que describe el paso del tiempo en mi vida. <P><P>Como subtítulo Cocinando palabras, como mi blog de poesía, por mi afición, posterior, a la cocina. Se ha ido completando a lo largo de toda una vida, y gracias a las mujeres que la han compartido. Son poemas de toda una vida.
El tiempo, el azar y las mujeres
by Ismar EscobarDespués y hoy, solo será lo imposible empezado a realizarse, sin ataduras ni esclavitud, seamos libres para amarnos, amor mío, para amarnos, sin principios ni finales, solos, con la voracidad de amarnos. El tiempo, el azar y las mujeres no es una manera de mostrar el espejo de lo incomprensible. <P><P>Se abre paso por la vida de todos. En él habitan historias que cobran identidad entre sus páginas. Escribir es una forma de liberar y ser libre. Es dejar de ser uno para convertirse en todos. Este libro de poemas es solo un viaje a través del tiempo, el azar y las mujeres.
TIEMPOS DE CIUDAD Y OTROS POEMAS
by Vihang A. Naik Alejandro Camacho GonzálezVihang A. Naik arroja luz sobre la vida de una ciudad inmersa en sombras, gloria y miseria en Tiempos de ciudad y otros poemas. Se trata de una antología con sus poemas más intuitivos y filosóficos, dividida en seis partes: Canción de amor de un viajero es casi un cuaderno de bitácora; Hombres reflejados transciende las quimeras de la ciudad, en la que las gentes son volubles como el caminar de un cangrejo o los colores de un camaleón; El sendero de la sabiduría comprende los inicios de la meditación y el conocimiento; En la orilla recoge las sensaciones de futilidad, recuerdos, dolor, exilio y alienación del poeta en la orilla de la vida. El título de esta colección alude también a la última sección del poemario, en el que la ciudad se despliega como un mercado, como un cielo para los desalmados, como aljófares de cambio, y es observada en la penumbra, a medianoche, bajo la luz de la luna y a través del vaho y la niebla El poema "Autorretrato" comienza con un bosquejo esquemático, incluyendo siete páginas en blanco, donde el lector encuentra unas palabras sobre el final del poema. Aquí, el poeta visualiza, en un momento de epifanía, la verdadera naturaleza del yo cuando despierta y ve su "yo/ revelado más allá del pensamiento". Entre "Yo¨" y "revelado más allá del pensamiento" hay 5 páginas en blanco. La inefable epifanía de lo ambiguo. Puede sugerir el descubrimiento de un yo transcendental allende todo pensamiento y lenguaje, o quizás el descubrimiento de una Ausencia lejos del habla y pensamiento humanos. Reseñas: "La lectura de Tiempos de ciudad y otros poemas es una experiencia embriagadora y reveladora" - Readers' Favorite "Apuntando hacia la filosofía, incluso aspectos existenciales, estos versos amigos de lo ajeno dejan demasiado en lo no dicho." - Kirkus Reviews "Una obra recomendable y única." - Cate Baum
La tierra al vuelo (Soaring Earth): Una continuación de Aire encantado, su libro de memorias
by Margarita EngleNow available in Spanish! In this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Newbery Honor–winning author Margarita Engle recounts her teenage years during the turbulent 1960s.Margarita Engle&’s childhood straddled two worlds: the lush, welcoming island of Cuba and the lonely, dream-soaked reality of Los Angeles. But the revolution has transformed Cuba into a mystery of impossibility, no longer reachable in real life. Margarita longs to travel the world, yet before she can become independent, she&’ll have to start high school. Then the shock waves of war reach America, rippling Margarita&’s plans in their wake. Cast into uncertainty, she must grapple with the philosophies of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection. Despite overwhelming circumstances, she finds solace and empowerment through her education. Amid the challenges of adolescence and a world steeped in conflict, Margarita finds hope beyond the struggle, and love in the most unexpected places.
La tierra baldía (y Prufrock y otras observaciones): Edición y traducción de Andreu Jaume
by T. S. EliotEl mayor poema del siglo XX «La temible Tierra baldía de T. S. Eliot vuelve a vivir en la versión de Andreu Jaume.»Félix de Azúa, El País Además de ser el gran poema del siglo XX, La tierra baldía es una obra esencial para entender nuestro tiempo. Con una dicción y unas imágenes rompedoras, T.S. Eliot sabe cantar la devastación de la primera guerra mundial, la adecuación del hombre a la ciudad como nuevo y definitivo exilio de la naturaleza, el deseo difícil entre mujeres y hombres, y convocar a la vez las voces del pasado literario de Occidente. Pero más allá del intimidante virtuosismo técnico y de la intensidad estética que el poema desata, en estos versos emociona sobre todo la desnuda humanidad que estalla en silencio. Editado, prologado y traducido por Andreu Jaume, que también nos da su versión de Prufrock, el primer poemario de Eliot y referente indispensable para entender el resto de su poesía, este libro viene a recordarnos, cuando se cumplen cincuenta años de su muerte, la vigencia, la ambición y el ejemplo de un poeta, un crítico y un editor que consiguió crear una nueva visión del mundo contemporáneo.
La tierra de las grullas (Land of the Cranes)
by Aida SalazarFrom the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees.Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa "tierra de las grullas", y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que su gente regresaría un día a vivir entre las grullas en la tierra prometida. Papi le dice a Betita que ellos son grullas que han regresado a su hogar.Un día, el querido padre de Betita es arrestado por el Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas y deportado a México. Betita y su mamá ingrávida se quedan solas, pero finalmente son también detenidas y deben aprender a sobrevivir en un campamento de detención de familias en las afueras de Los Ángeles. Incluso en estas condiciones crueles e inhumanas, Betita encuentra amparo en su propia poesía y en la comunidad que ella y su madre encuentran en el campamento. Las voces de sus compañeros en busca de asilo vuelan por encima del odio que los mantiene enjaulados y que amenaza cada día con hacerlos caer más bajo de lo que jamás imaginaron. ¿Podrán Betita y su familia volver a ser una sola?Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe -- Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the cranes in their promised land. Papi tells Betita that they are cranes that have come home.Then one day, Betita's beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp outside of Los Angeles. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. The voices of her fellow asylum seekers fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?
Tierra escondida
by Juan García CallejasUn canto ante el asombro de la vida y una reflexión lírica de los recuerdos de la infancia, la experiencia, los viajes, los lugares, las despedidas. <P><P>Tierra escondida es un conjunto de poemas organizado en etapas distintas, como una especie de recorrido con trazas de diario donde el autor nos desvela, a través de los flecos sueltos de la memoria, y la experiencia, la senda del autoconocimiento y el conocimiento de la realidad que nos vive. <P><P>Este poemario es un canto ante el asombro de la vida, y una reflexión lírica de los recuerdos de la infancia, la experiencia, los viajes, los lugares, las despedidas.
Tierras de Cuéllar
by Jesús Bayón de la FuenteConoce la villa de Cuéllar, una isla de arte mudéjar en un Mar de pinares. En la provincia de Segovia, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León. Las páginas de este libro de poemas, como su mismo título indica, discurren sobre unas tierras castellanas, que llenaron mi infancia, parte de mi juventud, mi madurez y mi senectud. Comienza con un poema sobre el río Cega que surca la tierra de pinares y los campos que pertenecen a la villa de Cuéllar. Continúa hablando, en términos poéticos, de lugares y vistas singulares de Cuéllar, sus torres, campanarios, castillo, arcos defensivos o de entrada, tanto a la ciudad como a la ciudadela, cubos defensivos, e iglesias o conventos; sin olvidar sus charcas, lomas, montes, alamedas, pinares y dehesas. Igualmente se componen poemas sobre sus más famosas fiestas -los encierros de toros- más antiguos de España; fiestas que ningún natural de Cuéllar desea faltar a ellas ni una sola vez ensu vida. Finaliza la obra con un poema sobre la muy insigne poetisa cuellarana doña Alfonsa de la Torre y Rojas. Entre las páginas de poesía se encuentran colocadas un sinfín de fotografías sobre monumentos, campos, árboles y otros lugares de estas tierras de Cuéllar.
Tiger Work: Poems, Stories and Essays About Climate Change
by Ben OkriIn this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize–winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our environment.Twenty thousand years after a catastrophe wiped out the human race, visitors uncover their final messages scattered across the planet, in flooded cities and disintegrating books. These writings reveal the tragedies of people who continued to live as they always did—fearfully, selfishly—even as the end of their world loomed. These haunting stories within a story, together with a powerful selection of poems, fables, and essays, are a necessary reminder of the beauty of the earth and the importance of addressing the climate crisis with clarity, artistry, and passion.
The Tighty Whitey Spider
by Kenn NesbittIt's Official: Kids want more of Kenn Nesbitt's sidesplitting poetry. They can't get enough of his clever wordplay, wonderful imagery, and zany rhymes. In this brand-new collection, Kenn has totally made up over fifty poems involving Acrobatic Cats, Kung Fu Pets, and Chickens on Computers.