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Written in the Dirt: A Collection Of Short Stories, Poetry, Art and Photography
by Stephanie H. Meyer John MeyerAfter five successful books, Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt offers a startlingly different collection that presents teens' innermost thoughts. These teen-authored fictional stories are filled with incredible character development, gripping plots, imagination and, of course, insight into the human condition. Their poems sing, soar and capture the essence of teen life. Consistent throughout this smash series, teens who have written for Teen Ink magazine candidly share their real voices, while poignant photography and artwork also capture their extraordinary talents and thoughts.
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
by Kenneth Rexroth Eliot Weinberger"Rexroth's readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity."--The New York Times I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains. --Izumi Shikobu Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic Japanese poetry through the superb English versions by the great American poet Kenneth Rexroth. Mostly haiku, these poems range from the classical and medieval to modern poetry, with an emphasis on folk songs and love lyrics. Because women played such an outstanding role in Japanese literature, included here are selections from their work, including the contemporary, deeply sensuous Marichiko. This elegant, beautifully designed gift book of poems spanning many centuries presents the original texts in romanji, the transliteration into the Western alphabet.
The Wrong Cat
by Lorna CrozierLike the people and animals in her new collection, Lorna Crozier "defies / the anecdotal, / goes for the lyric, / music made from / bone and muscle and the grace notes" of life. The poems in The Wrong Cat are vintage Crozier: sly, sexy, irreverent, and sad, and populated by fully realized characters whose stories take place in a small lyrical space. We learn about a mother's last breath, the first dog in heaven, a man's fear that his wife no longer loves him, and the ways in which animals size up the humans around them and find them wanting. With Crozier's celebrated mix of vibrant imagery, piercing observations, and deeply felt human emotions, these poems provide an affirmation in the midst of the fluid, often challenging nature of experience.
Wrong Norma
by Anne CarsonAnne Carson’s first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016) Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them ‘wrong.’"
The Wug Test: Poems
by Jennifer KronovetA collection of language-driven, imaginative poetry from the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series Open Competition.Jennifer Kronovet's poetry is inflected by her fraught, ecstatic relationship with language--sentences, words, phonemes, punctuation--and how meaning is both gained and lost in the process of communicating. Having lived all over the world, both using her native tongue and finding it impossible to use, Kronovet approaches poems as tactile, foreign objects, as well as intimate, close utterances.In The Wug Test, named for a method by which a linguist discovered how deeply imprinted the cognitive instinct toward acquiring language is in children, Kronovet questions whether words are objects we should escape from or embrace. Dispatches of text from that researcher, Walt Whitman, Ferdinand de Saussure, and the poet herself, among other voices, are mined for their futility as well as their beauty, in poems that are technically revealing and purely pleasurable. Throughout, a boy learns how to name and ask for those things that makes up his world.
Wyndmere: Poems
by Carol Muske-DukesPoems on the power of memory and the shading of past into presentIn this enthralling collection, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California Carol Muske-Dukes composes a lyrical autobiography, tracing her family history from the Dakota prairie to her new life as a young mother in Los Angeles. In &“The Separator,&” Muske-Dukes writes of her grandfather, a wheat farmer, winnowing, threshing, planting a future in the deep black soil of Wyndmere, North Dakota. In &“Biglietto d&’Ingresso,&” she recalls a perfect day in Tuscany, spent with her future husband in a town overlooking a wine valley. &“August, Los Angeles, Lullaby&” is a lulling yet harrowing description of the wonder of a mother holding her newborn child—and her own fragility, encountering mortality—as a hummingbird touches the hourglass of the feeder outside the window . . . then is gone.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
by Eugene FieldThree fishermen embark on a magical dream as they climb aboard a wooden shoe. Up into the sky they sail to catch the stars in nets of silver and gold. And when it's time for the journey to end, the wooden shoe carries the tired fishermen home to the real world of a child ready for sleep.
X in the Tickseed: Poems
by Ed FalcoFrom discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco’s X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face of a baffling universe. Peppered between the X poems, artists as varied as Artemisia Gentileschi, Frank O’Connor, and Nick Cave surface, usually in poems posing as essays about their art. Other poems range from explorations of cultural perspective, as in “A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive,” where a war resister addresses a young man of his generation who died in Vietnam, to the often playful “An Alphabet of Things.” Throughout, Falco’s poems speculate on matters of life and faith, intensified by an awareness of death.
XAIPE
by E. E. CummingsXAIPE (Greek for "rejoice"), which first appeared in 1950, contains some of E. E. Cummings's finest work. Among many poems can be found "dying is fine)but Death," "so many selves(so many friends and gods," "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," "no time ago," "I thank You God for most this amazing," and "now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have."
Xanax Cowboy: Poems
by Hannah GreenThe Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.
Xicancuicatl: Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Alfred ArteagaXicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950–2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language." In his five published collections, Arteaga made crucial breakthroughs in the language of poetry, basing his linguistic experiments on the multilingual Xicanx culture of the US Southwest. His formal resources and finely tuned ear for sound patterns and language play remain astonishing. His poetical work, presented as a whole here for the first time, speaks more than ever to a moment in which border-crossing, cultural diversity, language-mixing and a multi-cultural vision of America are critical issuesCAMINO IMAGINADOBlue leaves, hojas rotas in the shape of stars.Ni un "no" en tu vocabulario but for others;blue in place of green in the shape of Spain.Ojos the color of dirt, chocolate, coffee, time,azules las horas, hojas de horas van y se van,ni una palabra, ni una queja, nor broken bita tu lado beside me andamos walking, sí walkingcaminamos caminos like these, such streets, whatcity.7/15/95 Paris.
XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century
by Campbell McGrathA poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets—a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath’s astonishing sequence of one hundred poems—one per year—written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin—its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, XX is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry, and his most ambitious book yet.
Y cosas que me callo
by Antonio CarreñoEl primer poemario de Antonio Carreño es una caja negra que guarda las respuestas que nos quedan después del accidente. Del de amar, del de creer, del de vivir. Respuestas que nos hacen preguntarnos de nuevo: ¿por qué no volver a intentarlo? Estos poemas hablan de aquellas noches que me mordí la lengua por no poder morder la tuya, de todos los espejos que rompí para dejar de verte, de las hojas que ningún otoño se atrevió a arrancar. Son grito sordo de amor y revolución, si acaso no fueran lo mismo.
Y.O.U. (Your Own Universe)
by The Editors at the Scott ForesmanThis book is a collection of non-fiction, poems, stories and essays etc from different authors.
...y también poemas
by Roberto Gómez BolañosReconocido en todo el mundo de habla hispana como actor, guionista, comediante y creador de personajes inolvidables, Roberto Gómez Bolaños ha escrito teatro... y también poemas. Con este libro, el autor descubre otra de sus facetas y nos ofrece poesía cálida, amorosa, a veces reflexiva, a veces humorística, y siempre cercana, íntima, disfrutable. Escribe "a la antigua", en versos con rima, ritmo y métrica, con profundo respeto por el quehacer poético, y en formas consideradas clásicas: décima, romance y soneto.
...y también poemas
by Roberto Gómez BolañosReconocido en todo el mundo de habla hispana como actor, guionista, comediante y creador de personajes inolvidables, Roberto Gómez Bolaños ha escrito teatro, television, cine... y también poemas. Con este libro, el autor descubre otra de sus facetas y nos ofrece poesía cálida, amorosa, a veces reflexiva, a veces humorística y siempre cercana, íntima, disfrutable. Escribe "a la antigua", en versos con rima, ritmo y métrica, con profundo respeto al quehacer poético, y en formas que se consideran clásicas: décima, romance y soneto.
Ya no sé qué hacer para triunfar
by Francisco Peña MayorUna mirada poética a través de lo cotidiano. Expansión del autor, estos pequeños poemas encierran mil situaciones y experiencias distintas. Siendo poesía, son perfectamente entendibles, sacrificando el autor subterfugios y recursos para que la idea llegue limpia al lector. <P><P>Se entremezclan, por tanto, metáforas y otras figuras retóricas con la realidad y clarividencia de la vida misma. Poseen las estrofas (si se les puede llamar así) un ritmo vivo, producido por una buena utilización de rimas, que sin ser un metrónomo, tienen una sonoridad y armonía hermosa. <P><P>Es un lenguaje moderno, de nuestro tiempo, con denominación de origen canario, donde el autor está en conflicto permanente con la sociedad. Un inconformista con numerosas razones para quejarse, en una lucha permanente que plasma mediante conclusiones certeras.
Ya no será
by Idea VilariñoSe incorporan a Poesía Portátil los versos de Idea Vilariño, una de las poetas latinoamericanas más destacadas del siglo XX. Directa y sin artificios, así es la poesía que desde muy joven cultivó Idea Vilariño. La muerte temprana de sus padres y su hermano mayor la sumieron en un estado de melancolía que atraviesa toda su obra poética y la dota de una sensibilidad especial. Algunos de los temas que plasmó en sus versos son el sinsentido de la vida, la naturaleza humana o el amor: esa fuerza incontrolable que todo lo anega y que le hizo dedicar algunos de sus poemas más descarnados a Juan Carlos Onetti, con quien mantuvo un vínculo pasional. Solitaria y reservada, reivindicó la figura de la mujer tanto en sus escritos poéticos como en sus otras producciones. Idea Vilariño formó parte de la generación del 45 uruguaya, junto con Mario Benedetti o Ida Vitale. «Es otraacaso es otrala que va recobrandosu pelo su vestido su manerala que ahora retomasu vertical su pesoy después de sesiones lujuriosas y tiernasse sale por la puerta entera y puray no busca saberno necesitay no quiere sabernada de nadie.»
Yahya Hassan
by Yahya Hassan"¡Estoy increíblemente cabreado con la generación de mis padres!" Yahya Hassan se ha convertido, con solo 19 años, en un gran fenómeno editorial con su extraordinario primer libro, a medio camino entre el rap y la poesía. El debut de Yahya Hassan es la historia de su vida convertida en poesía: la historia de un joven, hijo de emigrantes palestinos, frustrado y enfadado porque se siente abandonado por sus padres y extraño al mundo que le rodea. Los poemas de Hassan son una acusación contra sus mayores, contra la violencia de su padre, pero también contra toda una generación de inmigrantes a la que acusa de hipocresía, de aprovecharse de las ayudas sociales, de negarse a integrarse en la cultura del país y de criar a sus hijos en el abandono más absoluto. Su original y provocadora escritura ha avivado el debates en torno al tema de la inmigración, tanto en Dinamarca como por toda Europa. Pero este libro no es solo un valioso testimonio para la reflexión sino también una potente obra literaria que le ha valido a su autor el reconocimiento internacional. www.sumadeletras.com
Yard Show
by Janice N. HarringtonBlack history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.Harrington’s speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, using the events of the past to center and advocate for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities.
The Year Comes Round
by Sid Farrar Ilse PlumeBrown bear politelyoffers to surrender hisden to nosy skunkTwelve nature-themed haiku accompanied by lush illustrations take the reader from January to December. A great way to introduce children to the traditional Japanese poetry form.
A Year in Story and Song: A Celebration of the Seasons
by Lia LeendertzA Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around us. The seasons, in all their ever-changing variety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons and their names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick's Day in March, May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They feature mischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rose queens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range from shanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carols and rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, often at particular moments in the calendar.This is a book to treasure all year, every year.
A Year in Story and Song: A Celebration of the Seasons
by Lia LeendertzA Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around us. The seasons, in all their ever-changing variety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons and their names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick's Day in March, May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They feature mischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rose queens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range from shanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carols and rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, often at particular moments in the calendar.This is a book to treasure all year, every year.
The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
by Victor Carl FriesenHenry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented. A man of many parts, including social critic, he is known to have had an influence on such internationally recognized leaders as Gandhi and Martin Luther King. "Victor Carl Friesen, author of The Spirit of the Huckleberry, an astute analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s prose, again demonstrates his affinity for the Walden sage with this unique volume of poems and photographs. Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreau’s sensuousness, he writes a poem for each and then illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs. The poems, mostly written in the blank verse form, have sturdy strength and remarkable insight into both Thoreau and nature."- Walter Harding, Founding Secretary, The Thoreau Society Inc., State University of New York, Genesco "Friesen is particularly qualified as a Thoreau scholar, for his personal interests extend well beyond literature to include natural history, a subject very much at the centre of Thoreau’s writings."- Canadian Book Review Annual
The Year Of Goodbyes: A True Story Of Friendship, Family And Farewells
by Debbie LevyThis book tells the true story of what happened to a 12-year-old girl named Jutta (Debbie Levy's mother) in 1938. Actual entries in a posie album (autograph book) serve as stepping stones in a crucial year in history, when people of Jewish ancestry in Germany and Austria were systematically stripped of their rights, subjected to violence, and arrested without cause Jutta was one of the lucky ones who escaped to America before the rising tide of violence erupted into World War II and the tragedy of the Holocaust Remembrances from Jutta's friends and relatives introduce chapters, written in verse form, that describe her experiences. Many of them typical of any teenager anywhere and report some of the history of the era. Debbie wrote these verses in consultation with her mother to reflect her voice, feelings, and thoughts as she was living through this memorable year. The book also includes excerpts from Jutta's diary. Together the poesie writings, verses and diary entries reflect a year of change and chance, confusion and cruelty Most of all, they describe a year of goodbyes.