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The True Book of Animal Homes
by Allison TitusAllison Titus reveals the animal in the human, and the human in the animal. Allison Titus’s newest poetry collection, The True Book of Animal Homes, is obsessed with animal and human alike, and how each one of us makes our home in the stations we hold—from the wilds of southern brambles to a desk in an office cubicle. This book ponders the question: how much wildness are we allowed in this life, and how do we claim that wildness? The poems of The True Book of Animal Homes leap and scurry after the truth on all fours, devouring us with sharp language and brave new forms.
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
by Christopher RicksTrue Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century--Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell--through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers, as is borne out not only by their critical prose but (best of all) by their acts of new creation, those poems of theirs that are thanks to Eliot and Pound. "Opposition is true Friendship." So William Blake believed, or at any rate hoped. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell demonstrate many kinds of friendship with Eliot and Pound: adversarial, artistic, personal. In their creative assent and dissent, the imaginative literary allusions--like other, wider forms of influence--are shown to constitute the most magnanimous of welcomes and of tributes.
True Life: Poems
by Adam ZagajewskiA stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sought wisdom(without resignation) in poemsand also a certain calm madness.I found, much later, a moment’s joyand melancholy’s dark contentment.In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world’s most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it (“Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity”) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (“We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal”). Mary Oliver called Zagajewski “the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,” and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems “pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.” True Life, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski’s insight and artistry
The True Names of Birds
by Sue GoyetteNominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry, the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and Globe 100 book for 1999 The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a voice that has captured the attention of Canadian poetry readers for the last half-dozen years. Deeply centred in domestic life, Goyette's work is informed by a muscular lyricism. These are poems that push the limits, always true to their roots.
Trumbull Ave. (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
by Michael LauchlanThe well-crafted lines in Michael Lauchlan's Trumbull Ave. are peopled by welders, bricklayers, gas meter readers, nurses, teachers, cement masons, and street kids. Taken together, they evoke a place--Detroit--in its bustling working-class past and changeable present moment. Lauchlan works in the narrative tradition of Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson but takes more recent influence from Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, and Ellen Voigt in presenting first- and third-person meditations on work, mortality, romance, childish exuberance, and the realities of time. Lauchlan presents snapshots from the past--a widowed mother bakes bread during the Depression, a welder sends his son to war in the 1940s, a bounding dog runs into a chaotic street in 1981, and a narrator visits a decaying Victorian house in 1993--with an impressive raw simplicity of language and a regular, unrhymed meter. Lauchlan pays close attention to work in many settings, including his own classroom, a plumber's damp cellar, a nurse's hospital ward, and a waitress's Chinese restaurant dining room. He also astutely observes the natural world alongside the built environment, bringing city pheasants, elm trees, buzzing cicadas, starry skies, and long grass into conversation with his narrators' interior and exterior landscapes. Lauchlan's poems reveal the layered complexity of human experiences in vivid, relatable characters and recurrent themes that feel both familiar and serious. All readers of poetry will enjoy the musical and vivid verse in Trumbull Ave.
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age
by John LithgowFollowing the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump.Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproarious poems and illustrations encompass Trump's impeachment, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and much more. Lithgow targets Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, Bill Barr, Jared Kushner, Elaine Chao, and many others, but also includes a few heroes of the moment, including Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and even Barack Obama.The book arrives at a time when it's needed most. With all-new poems and never-before-seen line drawings, Lithgow will once again make readers laugh and pause to remember some of the most defining moments in recent history—skewering the reign of King Dumpty one stanza at a time.Digital audio edition read by the author.
Trunk-or-Treat
by Chris Ayala-KronosA festive Halloween picture book inspired by the abundantly decorated cars and trucks, snazzy costumes, and sweet treats of community-centric Trunk-or-Treat events!Snazzy costumes, spooky decorations, and sticky candy…all on WHEELS! This rhyming Halloween picture book appeals to car and vehicle lovers with an ode to the growing Trunk-or-Treat trend. Trunk-or-Treats have been gaining in popularity the last few years as a safer alternative or addition to classic door-to-door trick-or-treating. Follow a family as they attend a community Trunk-or-Treat during the Halloween season!
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
by null Mary OliverThe Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved but disobedient little dog, Percy.
Trust in Mind
by Jan Chozen Bays Mu Soeng"The Great Way is not difficult / for those who have no preferences. / When love and hate are both absent / everything becomes clear and undisguised. / Make the smallest distinction, however / and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart." So begins "Trust in Mind," the beloved poem that has again and again welcomed generations to their practice of Zen Buddhism. Traditionally attributed to the third Chinese ancestor of Zen (Sengcan, d. 606), it is often considered the first historical "Zen" document and remains an anchor of Zen Buddhist practice to this day. Here, scholar and commentator Mu Soeng explores the poem's importance and impact in three sections: The Dharma of Trust in Mind, The Tao of Trust in Mind, and The Chan of Trust in Mind. Finally, a brilliant line-by-line commentary brings the elements of this ancient work completely to life for the modern reader. Trust in Mind is the first book of its kind, looking at this very important Zen text from historical and cultural contexts, as well as from the practitioner's point of view. It is sure to interest readers of Mu Soeng and his fellow Buddhist contemporaries, as well as those with an interest in meditation and Eastern religions--most especially Zen practitioners, academics, philosophers, and scholars of Mind.
The Truth about Romanticism
by Tim MilnesHow have our conceptions of truth been shaped by romantic literature? This question lies at the heart of this examination of the concept of truth both in romantic writing and in modern criticism. The romantic idea of truth has long been depicted as aesthetic, imaginative, and ideal. Tim Milnes challenges this picture, demonstrating a pragmatic strain in the writing of Keats, Shelley and Coleridge in particular, that bears a close resemblance to the theories of modern pragmatist thinkers such as Donald Davidson and J8rgen Habermas. Romantic pragmatism, Milnes argues, was in turn influenced by recent developments within linguistic empiricism. This book will be of interest to readers of romantic literature, but also to philosophers, literary theorists, and intellectual historians.
The Truth Is Told Better This Way
by Liz WorthPulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its secrets one line at a time. The result is oracular and surreal, as each piece could be read as a magic spell that mesmerizes as much as a poem that tantalizes the senses.
The Truth of Houses
by Ann ScowcroftWinner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards Poems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship to that word. At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's The Truth of Houses is an elegant debut collection. While very intimate -- even startlingly intimate at times -- the voices of these poems are constantly taking a step backward, wrestling for a measure of distance and perspective. Reading them, we eavesdrop on the uncovering of a personal vernacular that might allow the present to be better lived; we have the sense of overhearing a particular yet eerily familiar inner struggle -- a struggle for insight, for an equanimity with which both narrator and fortunate reader might re-enter life anew.
The Truth of Poetry: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s (Routledge Revivals)
by Michael HamburgerFirst published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times? Michael Hamburger’s answer to this question ranges over the last century of European and American poetry, and the result is a phenomenology of modern poetry rather than a history of appreciations of individual poets. Stressing the tensions and conflicts in and behind the work of every major poet of the period, he considers the many different possibilities open to poets since Baudelaire. This expansive work of analysis will be of interest to students of English literature, poetry enthusiasts and literary historians.
Tryst
by Angie EstesAngie Estes' Tryst was named one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The citation called it "a collection of poems remarkable for its variety of subjects, array of genres and nimble use of language. "
Tsim Tsum
by Sabrina Orah MarkSabrina Orah Mark follows up her critically acclaimed debut, The Babies, winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize in 2004 chosen by Jane Miller, with a second collection of prose, Tsim Tsum, centered on two characters, Walter B. and Beatrice, first introduced in The Babies. Unbeknownst to them they have come into being under the laws of Tsim Tsum, a Kabbalistic claim that a being cannot become, or come into existence, unless the creator of that being departs from that being. Along their journey they encounter many beguiling characters including The Healer, The Collector, Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin, and the Oldest Animal. These figures bewilder and dislodge what is at the heart of the immigrant experience: survival, testimony, and belonging. "Sabrina Orah Mark's Tsim Tsum is like a collection of episodes from a lost, slightly sinister children's book on the nature of love and time, in which wry parables move us further and further down unknown hallways, beyond instruction, into corridors of dream-sense, far into the strange, cool territory of the fabulous."--Mark Doty "You'll remember what Mark has done with the prose poem: you'll wonder how on Earth she does it, too."--Stephen Burt
Tsima ra Vutlhokovetseri: UEB uncontracted
by Dr Baloyi M. J. Chauke H. T. Khosa M. A. Mahuntsi M. T. Makhubele H. G. Mhinga M. E. Ngobeni K. J. Phakula N. W.Vutlhokovetseri exikarhi ka rixaka ra Vatsonga a hi mhaka leyintshwa. Vutlhokovetseri byi sungurile ku va kona hi xivumbeko xa tinsimu leti ni Vatsonga va davukeke va ri na tona hi ku hambanahambana ka swiyimo evuton'wini. Ku hambananyana lo ku nga kona mayelana ni vutlhokovetseri exikarhi ka Vatsonga i ku xaxamerisa vutlhokovetseri byo karhi ku ya hi tinxaka ta kona. Swin'wana swa swidyondzeki swa laha kaya swi seswi vile ni matshalatshala ya ku longoloxa switlhokovetselo swa rixaka ra ka vona ku ya hi tinxaka to karhi hi ku kuceteriwa hi matshulelo ya vatlhokovetseri na swidyondzeki swa le Yuropa. Tanihi matshalatshala ya muxaka lowu, ni buku leyi yi kongomisa eka ku vumba nkoxometo mayelana ni swihlawulekisi swa vutlhokovetseri hi ndlela leyi havaxerisaka vadyondzi ku kota ku: • paluxa no hluvukisa matitwelo yo karhi eka matirhiselo ya ririmi hi ndlela leyi nyanyulaka no koka rinoko ra vaamukeri; • va hlohletela ku valanga, va hlavutela no twisisa matirhiselo ya ririmi hi ndlela ya ku ehleketelela kunene; • khomanisa timhaka to ehleketelela kunene ni mahanyelo ya ntiyiso lama tokotiwaka masiku hinkwawo; • kombisa ntsakelo na rirhandzu eka xitlhokovetselo hinkwaxo kutani va paluxa leswi mutlhokovetseri a vulavulaka haswona; • tokotisisa vuxaka lebyi vumbiwaka exikarhi ka nhlamuselonene na nhlamuselo yo gega ya marito lama tirhisiweke hi mutlhokovetseri ku humelerisa nkongomelo wa xitlhokovetselo; • va vatshuri va vutlhokovetseri bya matimba na nsusumeto.
Tsum Tsum Book of Haiku-Scholastic special market edition
by Disney Book GroupThe cutest toys in the world now have a companion eBook! Disney's runaway hit Tsum Tsum toys feature stackable plush versions of your favorite Disney characters from Mickey to Elsa and everyone in between. This eBook is the perfect thing for collectors of the toys, and a quick, sweet read for kids who love these adorable toys.
Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50: Poems
by Lee Ann RoripaughIn March 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake collided with nearby power plant Fukushima Daiichi, causing the only nuclear disaster in history to rival Chernobyl in scope. Those who stayed at the plant to stabilize the reactors, willing to sacrifice their lives, became known internationally as the Fukushima 50. In tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, Lee Ann Roripaugh takes a piercing, witty, and ferocious look into the heart of the disaster. Here we meet its survivors and victims, from a pearl-catcher to a mild-mannered father to a drove of mindless pink robots. And then there is Roripaugh’s unforgettable Tsunami: a force of nature, femme fatale, and “annihilatrix.” Tsunami is part hero and part supervillain—angry, loud, forcefully defending her rights as a living being in contemporary industrialized society. As humanity rebuilds in disaster’s wake, Tsunami continues to wreak her own havoc, battling humans’ self-appointed role as colonizer of Earth and its life-forms. “She’s an unsubtle thief / a giver of gifts,” Roripaugh writes of Tsunami, who spits garbage from the Pacific back into now-pulverized Fukushima. As Tsunami makes visible her suffering, the wrath of nature scorned, humanity has the opportunity to reconsider the trauma they cause Earth and each other. But will they look?
Tu ausencia que no se apaga
by EstévezVersos escritos con la soledad, sangrando en la punta de los dedos. Libro de poemas de amor y desamor.
Tu lado del sofá
by Patricia BenitoDespués del éxito de Primero de poeta, Patricia Benito vuelve con su segundo poemario. Un canto a la magia de lo cotidiano, al pequeño lugar que ocupamos en el mundo. Tu lado del sofá es una despedida. Son los pedazos que no me atreví a rescatar del naufragio. Es un duelo a vida contra el espejo. Un sentirme nosotras. Es ser casa, canción de domingo y paz. Es un cuarto creciente a medio tempo. Es aprender a echar de menos sin que duela. Son todas esas veces que dejé de hacer por miedo a perder. Tu lado del sofá es recuperar -por fin- el metro sesenta desde el que partí.
Tu lado del sofá
by Patricia BenitoDespués del éxito de Primero de poeta, Patricia Benito vuelve con su segundo poemario. Un canto a la magia de lo cotidiano, al pequeño lugar que ocupamos en el mundo. Tu lado del sofá es una despedida. Son los pedazos que no me atreví a rescatar del naufragio. Es un duelo a vida contra el espejo. Un sentirme nosotras. Es ser casa, canción de domingo y paz. Es un cuarto creciente a medio tempo. Es aprender a echar de menos sin que duela. Son todas esas veces que dejé de hacer por miedo a perder. Tu lado del sofá es recuperar -por fin- el metro sesenta desde el que partí.
Tú y yo nunca fuimos nosotros
by Selam WearingSelam Wearing se revela con su primer poemario como uno de los grandes talentos literarios de su generación. Su poética está llena de ternura, sensualidad, humor, imágenes muy certeras y comunicativas que rozan la anécdota y que hacen evidente la influencia de la poesía de la experiencia, el realismo sucio o el neorrealismo en su imaginario. Esto no es otro libro de poemas, soy yo pidiendo auxilio, pero nadie me socorre. He asumido que nunca nos olvidaremos. Cada vez que nos cruzamos sus ojos se revelan ante mí, nostálgicos de todo aquello que no hemos sido, preguntándose acaso si aún no es demasiado tarde. Pero ninguno hace nada. Ella se muerde el labio y mira a cualquier otra parte con los pensamientos clavados en mí. Yo acelero el paso, como si llegara tarde a donde nadie me está esperando. Prologado por Roger Wolfe.
Tub Toys
by Timothy M. Warner Terry Miller ShannonWhen his father calls out "Bath time," a young boy starts gathering all of the toys that will make his bathing fun.
Tuft
by Kim MinkusTuft: "A bunch (natural or artificial) of small things, usually soft and flexible, ...fixed or attached at the base." - OED With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we "observe the green elite" and "iceplants bloom in the monotony of paved paths." We tangle and climb into language and are swept into the lives of the animals that haunt the shores of our city's waterways. This is a world where worker, lover, animal and poet unite. Minkus brings Venus and Satan into one sentence and in doing so unleashes the "bitter-broken-fallen" of our world. This is a gathering that calls out to the reader to pay attention and look closely. Tuft reminds us that without words our bodies would not exist and that only time makes us secret. We are all attached to something.
Tula: Poems
by Chris SantiagoA debut poetry collection exploring themes of family and identity while examining the experiences of a second-generation Filipino immigrant in America.Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for “poem.”Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago’s debut collection of poems—selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—begins with one word and transforms it, in a dazzling sleight of hand, into a multivalent symbol for the immigrant experience. Tula: Santiago reveals to readers a distant land devastated by war. Tula: its music beckons in rhythms, time signatures, and lullabies. Tula: can the poem, he seems to ask, build an imaginative bridge back to a family lost to geography, history, and a forgotten language?Inspired by the experiences of the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents, Tula paints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise. Language splinters. Impossible islands form an archipelago across its landscape. A mother sings lullabies and a father works the graveyard shift in Saint Paul—while in the Philippines, two dissident uncles and a grandfather send messages and telegrams from the afterlife.Deeply ambitious, a collection that examines the shortcomings and possibilities of both language and poetry themselves, Tula introduces a major new literary talent.Praise for Tula“A book that both transports us and transforms us.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen“A debut collection that is a spare, elegant engagement with language. . . . Santiago’s struggles with identity are well-explored, but his linguistic savvy and precision truly stand out.” —Publishers Weekly“Santiago seems to recognize that words will always hold power, even as their meanings evolve. Through everything, Tula delves into these nuances of language: how it is suppressed, how it is weaponized, how it loves, how it informs, and how it is often as fleeting as a birdsong. Tula is therefore a celebration of the ephemeral and the permanent, a lovely testament to the beauty of contradiction.” —Chicago Review of Books