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Ultima Thule
by Davis Mccombs W. S. Merwin"The poems are set above and below the cave country of south central Kentucky, where McCombs lives. The book is framed by two sonnet sequences, the first about a slave guide and explorer at Mammoth Cave in the mid-1800s and the second about McCombs's experiences as a guide and park ranger there in the 1990s. Other poems deal with Mammoth Cave's four thousand year human history and the thrills of crawling into tight, rarely visited passageways to see what lies beyond. Often the poems search for oblique angles into personal experience, and the caves and the landscape they create form a personal geology.
Las últimas páginas
by Zoe Fuentes<P>Poemario de amor de una joven voz de hoy en día. <P>Amor en todas sus formas: ése ha sido el tema elegido por Zoe Fuentes para los versos recogidos en este libro. <P>Desde los enamoramientos más apasionados hasta los limbos entre el amor y el odio o las luchas interminables por olvidar a alguien, la autora logra plasmar todos esos sentimientos en esta colección de poemas que promete hacer revivir al lector sus viejos amores o bien, encontrar desahogo para los actuales. <P> Tiene en sus manos no sólo la obra de una autora joven, sino un escrito lleno de pasión que lo llevará a preguntarse por la profundidad y complejidad de las emociones humanas.
Ultimátum
by Ruenda M.Ruenda M. ha llegado a Montena y con él los versos más intensos y delicados. Ruenda hace una declaración de intenciones con cada uno de sus versos, su frases y sus fotografías. Sus textos tienen garra pero a la vez son delicados y generan la sensación de querer más. «Lo que tienes entre las manos, tan llenas de grietas como las mías, es un grito violeta; una revolución vestida de etiqueta, pero que sigue pidiendo limosna por las calles del querer. Esto es la capa más visible de un alma acostumbrada a huir del ruido para hacer eco en el papel.»
Ultimatum from Paradise: Poems
by Jacqueline OsherowIn this collection, Jacqueline Osherow gives us perfectly formed, musical poems that glide between the worlds of art, architecture, literature, and religion. Traveling through Europe, Tel Aviv, and New York, Osherow observes with a keen eye the details of objects -- beautiful buildings and ancient artifacts -- and of the conversations and interactions she has with others. Finely constructed and always engaging, her poems uncover the startling truths of memory and coax our own forgotten moments from the recesses of the mind.
Ultramarine: Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Raymond CarverOne of Raymond Carver&’s final collections of poetry, moving from the beauty of the natural world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. Throughout, Carver &“has the astonished, chastened voice of a person who has survived a wreck, as surprised that he had a life before it as that he has one afterward, willing to remember both sides&” (The New York Times Book Review).
Ultramarine: Poems
by Raymond Carver"Mr. Carver is heir to that most appealing American poetic voice, the lyricism of Theodore Roethke and James Wright.... this book is a treasure, one to return to. No one's brevity is as rich, as complete, as Raymond Carver's." --New York Times Book Review. "Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry.... Sometimes a Carver poem also works as a short story, with all its elements--character, diction, place, event--compressed intact into the brevity of verse. And sometimes Carver delivers the goods in pure lyrical form, in words as full of yearning and sensibility as those of a very young man, but poems possessing the hard-won qualities of focus, stillness and irony only rewarded by experience." --Los Angeles Times.
Um Anjo na Minha Porta
by Miguel D'AddarioEste livro de poesia nasce a partir de um caso estranho, porque surge logo depois de contatar uma seguidora das redes sociais, e sem sequer me conhecer me conta uma história pessoal e profunda. Um relato secreto e doloroso, uma história de morte a amor. Eu interpretei este encontro como se fosse um anjo que veio me contar algo, me dizer verdades e me deixar uma mensagem final. Simplesmente cheguei a uma conclusão e lhe disse: - É através da dor por onde entra a luz ou a escuridão; Ela me respondeu rapidamente algo e nunca mais soube dela. E foi por isso que decidi chamar este livro de: “Um anjo no meu portal” Um livro que só planta posições frente a situações da vida. Filosóficas, existenciais e inclusive de busca interior; mas com reflexões no final.
Um urso ali
by François KeyserRick encontra um urso em sua casa depois de escurecer e fica aterrorizado. Seus pais não conseguem encontrar o urso e pensam que ele está tendo pesadelos. Mas o urso é real. A questão é, porém, o urso é amigo ou inimigo? “Um urso ali” é a história que as crianças vivem todas as noites. É sobre o medo das crianças do escuro e monstros no escuro. Propõe-se mostrar às crianças que elas não têm nada a temer e que os brinquedos que às vezes acham que se tornam assustadores depois de escurecer, não são realmente assustadoras. Todos podemos nos relacionar com nossos medos infantis da escuridão como filhos ou pais. Esta história lê bem ensinando as crianças a não ter medo do escuro.
Uma vida de poesia
by Luciana Duarte Sondra HicksEscrevo com meu coração sobre coisas na minha vida que me inspiram. Então, eu quero me expressar de muitas maneiras para os outros, mas eu sempre temi estar emocionalmente fechado. Como uma jovem mulher, eu era conhecida por escrever mais do que falar. Muitos dos meus poemas foram perdidos ou destruídos ao longo da minha vida. Então eu coloquei o melhor do que eu ainda tinha na minha coleção. Espero compartilhar meus altos e baixos ea perspectiva única que estou dando algo para os outros se relacionarem.
Umbilical Cord
by Hasan NamirDear Child, Once upon a time, Your dads wanted to have a baby. It was a life-long dream of ours. We were always hopeful.Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process and the first year as a family of three. Umbilical Cord is a heartfelt book for parents or would be parents, with a universal message of hope.
Un-American (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Hafizah GeterDancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes—linguistic, cultural, racial, familial—of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you. Through her mother's death and her father's illnesses, Geter weaves the natural world into the discourse of grief, human interactions, and socio-political discord. This collection thrums with authenticity and heart.SAMPLE POEMTestimony for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014Mr. President, After they shot me they tackled my sister.The sound of her knees hitting the sidewalk made my stomach ache. It was a bad pain. Like when you love someone and they lie to you. Or that time Mikaela cried all through science class and wouldn't tell anyone why. This isn't even my first letter to you,in the first one I told you about my room and my favorite basketball team and asked you to come visit me in Clevelandor send your autograph. In the second one I thanked you for your responsible citizenship. I hope you are proud of me too.Mom said you made being black beautiful againbut that was before someone killed Trayvon. After that came a sadness so big it made everyonelook the same. It was a long time before we couldgo outside again. Mr. President it took one whole dayfor me to die and even though I'm twelve and not afraid of the darkI didn't know there could be so much of itor so many other boys here.
Un Ange à mon Portail: Poésie
by Miguel D'AddarioCe petit chef d’œuvre, réunissant près de quatre-vingts poèmes, est à ce jour le livre le plus traduit de Miguel D’Addario. Écrit en espagnol à l’origine, il est désormais traduit en italien, anglais, portugais, grec et français. Nous sommes plongés dans un voyage intérieur à travers des thèmes universels comme l’amour, la vie, la mort, les obstacles, les bonheurs, Dieu, notre existence à travers notre recherche intérieure, notre réveil, notre évolution... Parfois l’auteur nous interpelle, nous secoue, souhaitant nous faire prendre conscience qu’il est temps de s’éveiller. L’aspect social est un thème de prédilection, car inconsciemment, nous sommes sous l’influence de la société. Mais sans le moindre questionnement, ne risquons-nous pas de passer à côté de l’essentiel ? L’adversité pourrait-elle être perçue de manière positive, comme une expérience nécessaire permettant le réveil puis l’évolution ? Les éléments perturbateurs apparaitraient alors comme des médiateurs entre le monde tangible et intangible. Et finalement l’amour apparait aussi comme une réponse, poème Limites : « (…) Embrasse comme si tu perdais ton corps demain et aime comme si c’était le dernier jour de ta vie. » Un recueil de poésie qui permet de faire face aux déboires de la vie de manière positive et de croître en se recentrant sur notre essentialité.
Un ours, là-bas !
by Francois KeyserRick est terrorisé lorsqu’il aperçoit un ours dans sa maison à la tombée de la nuit. Les parents du garçonnet pensent que leur fils fait des cauchemars puisqu’ils ne trouvent aucun ours. Ce dernier est pourtant bel et bien réel. La véritable question est : l’ours est-il un ami ou un ennemi ? « Un ours, là-bas ! » raconte l’histoire que les enfants vivent chaque nuit. Ce récit parle des enfants qui redoutent l’obscurité et les monstres qui peuvent en surgir. Il espère montrer aux enfants qu’il n’y a pas de raison d’avoir peur et que les jouets qui les effraient lorsqu’ils sont plongés dans le noir ne font en réalité pas peur du tout. Que nous soyons enfants ou parents, ce sujet nous évoque à tous un sentiment familier. Écrite en vers, cette histoire se lit facilement et se prête au jeu théâtral ainsi qu'à l’apprentissage de récitations, tout en aidant les enfants à se souvenir qu’il ne faut pas céder à la peur.
The Unaccompanied: Poems
by Simon ArmitageA powerful new collection of poetry from the National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize In The Unaccompanied, Armitage gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite "like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, / nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones." In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its "Songs about mills and mines and a great war, / lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, / songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films"--in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.From the Hardcover edition.
Unaccompanied
by Javier ZamoraNew York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."--Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." –Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, doesn't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again--like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
The Unappeasable Shadow: Shelley's Influence on Yeats (Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats #3)
by Adele M. DalsimerYeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the entity by which he was constantly pursued and with which he held frequent colloquy have been held under the critical microscope, and the shadow has emerged alternately as the course of human history, the poet’s alter-ego, his inner self, the natural man, or as anything that Yeats wanted but believed himself not to be. This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence that Shelley had on Yeats and this ‘shadow’. The study concentrates primarily on the complex influence of Shelley’s Alastor on Yeats, tracing the problems it suggests and the questions it raises from Yeats’s early, highly imitative poems through the austere, unromantic middle poems to the late poems where Yeats sees himself as the "last of the romantics". This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Unattainable Earth
by Czeslaw Milosz Robert HassMilosz writes poems about the inadequacy and despondency of modern life interjected with hope for the future.
Unbearable Splendor
by Sun Yung Shin"To graph the immigrant, the exile and 'pseudo-exile,' as 'a kind of star.' To perform childhood. 'Descent upon descent.' To write on '[p]aper soaked in milk.' Unbearable Splendor is a book like this, that is this: the opposite or near-far of home. What is the difference between a guest and a ghost? What will you feed them in turn? I was profoundly moved by the questions and deep bits of feeling in this gorgeous, sensing work, and am honored to write in support of its extraordinary and brilliant writer, Sun Yung Shin."-Bhanu Kapil"In Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin sticks a pin directly into the heart of who we are to reveal that a person is a mystery without beginning or end, borders or documents, complicated by robotics and astrophysics, arrivals and departures, myth and rewriting. A person is divided into multiple, complicated selves, as various and complex as the forms and approaches she employs in these poetic essays. To read Shin's work is to marvel at a rosebud's concealed and silent core and to slowly witness its elegant blooming. It is a delicate and majestic show."-Jenny Boully"Unbearable Splendor is a dazzling collage of biophysical metamorphoses, wherein the 'I' atomizes into multiple and self-replicating new mythologies of what constitutes an authentic being. 'I didn't know I wasn't human. My past was invented, implanted, and accepted. I'm more real than you are because I know I'm not real.' In our vast expanse, where 'every species is transitional,' Shin's lyricism, erudition, and tonal command of loss and indignation harmonize into a singular nucleus that hums and pulsates through each of these wondrous poetic meditations."-Ed Bok Lee
The Unbeatable Bread
by Lyn Littlefield HoopesThe aroma of a special bread subdues the effects of a harsh winter and draws people and animals to unite in a fabulous feast.
Unbecoming (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #65)
by Neil SurkanSubtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz.Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.Yet, in the face of such despair, responsibility and optimism bolster one another – exuberance, amazement, and compassion persist despite the worsening of the wounded Earth. Multifaceted and inventive, this collection of poems vaults from intimation to excoriation, where grief, desire, bewilderment, and protest all crackle and meld. As the world "appears, exceeds, and un- / becomes too quickly for certainty, / just enough for love," the poems in Unbecoming face the horizon with wary eyes and refuse to turn away.
UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings
by Douglas FlorianThis book is a collection of poems and fabulous paintings describing the anatomy, the habits and the life of bees.
Unbound (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #59)
by Gabrielle McIntireinside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spoolInspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment.Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's creatures and landscapes while it offers both mournful and humorous treatments of love and loss. McIntire's finely tuned musical voice – with its incantatory rhythms, rhymes, sound play, and entrancing double meanings – invites us to be courageously open to the unexpected.Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst the astonishing beauty and wisdom of an Earth facing the early stages of climate change.
Uncanny Magazine Issue Eight
by Uncanny MagazineFeaturing all–new short fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Nghi Vo, Christopher Barzak, Brit Mandelo, and Rose Lemberg, classic fiction by Sarah Rees Brennan, nonfiction by Chris Kluwe, Max Gladstone, Isabel Schechter and L.M. Myles, poems by Kayla Whaley, Leslie J. Anderson, and Bryan Thao Worra, interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley and Christopher Barzak, and Priscilla H. Kim’s “Round Three” on the cover.
Uncanny Magazine Issue Five
by Uncanny MagazineFeaturing all–new short fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal, E. Lily Yu, Shveta Thakrar, Charlie Jane Anders, Sarah Monette, and Delilah S. Dawson, classic fiction by Scott Lynch, nonfiction by Natalie Luhrs, Sofia Samatar, Michael R. Underwood, and Caitlín Rosberg, poems by C. S. E. Cooney, Bryan Thao Worra, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with E. Lily Yu and Delilah S. Dawson, and Antonio Caparo’s Companion Devices on the cover.
Uncanny Magazine Issue Four
by Uncanny MagazineFeaturing all–new short fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, A.C. Wise, John Chu, Elizabeth Bear, Lisa Bolekaja, classic fiction by Delia Sherman, nonfiction by Mike Glyer, Julia Rios, Kameron Hurley, Christopher J Garcia, and Steven H Silver, poems by Alyssa Wong, Ali Trotta, and Isabel Yap, interviews with John Chu and Delia Sherman, and Tran Nguyen’s Traveling to a Distant Day on the cover.