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American Poets Project: Poems from the Women's Movement
by Honor MooreTHE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s, 70s, AND 80s generated an extraordinary outpouring of poetry that captured an age of expectancy, of defiant purpose, and exuberant exploration. Here, brought together for the first time, are the poems that gave voice to a revolution, including works by Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Sexton, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, May Swenson, Alice Walker, Anne Waldman, Sharon Olds, and many others.
American Primitive
by Mary OliverA collection of poems by Mary Oliver, an American poet that won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984.
American Radiance (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
by Luisa MuradyanWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author’s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn’t try to provide an answer. Instead, the poems in American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language, and Prince’s outstretched hand. Colliding with the grand figures of late ’80s and early ’90s pop culture, Muradyan’s imagination pushes the reader forward, confronting the painful loss of identity that assimilation brings.
American Rendering: New and Selected Poems
by Andrew HudginsAmerican Rendering showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from Andrew Hudgins’s six previous volumes, spanning a distinguished career of more than twenty-five years. Hudgins, who was born in Texas and spent most of his childhood in the South, is a lively and prolific poet who draws on his vivid Southern and,more specifically, Southern Baptist, childhood. Influenced by writers such as John Crowe Ransom,William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and James Dickey, Hudgins has developed a distinctively descriptive form of the Southern Gothic imagination. His poems are rich with religious allusions, irreverent humor, and at times are inflected with a dark and violent eroticism.Of Hudgins’s most recent collection, Ecstatic in the Poison, Mark Strand wrote: “[It] is full of intelligence, vitality, and grace. And there is a beautiful oddness about it.Dark moments seem charged with an eerie luminosity and the most humdrum events assume a startling lyric intensity. A deep resonant humor is everywhere, and everywhere amazing.”
American Rhapsody
by Carol StoneThe author's romanticizing and grieving for her lost parents and America extends from the Prohibition era, its glamour and notoriety, with figures like Warren Harding and Josephine Baker to Enron, urban decay, and illegal immigration.
American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation
by Jonah RaskinBiography of Allen Ginsberg, best known for his poem Howl, the emblem of the Beat Generation.
American Sea Literature: Seascapes, Beach Narratives, and Underwater Explorations
by Shin YamashiroImplementing a never-before-seen approach to sea literature, American Sea Literature: Seascapes, Beach Narratives, and Underwater Explorations explores the role of American maritime activities and their cultural representations in literature. Differentiating between the 'terrestrial' and 'oceanic' as concepts, Shin Yamashiro divides sea literature into three categories: literature on the sea, by the sea, and beneath the sea. Discussing both canonical works and new books on scuba diving, deep-sea explorations, and surfing, this fascinating study recognizes sea literature's unique influence on American history.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
by Terrance HayesA powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead <P><P>"The right poetry collection for right now." - The Los Angeles Times <P><P>In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. <P><P>Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. <P>Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
American Stories: A collection of illustrated poems
by Jon FieldingAmerican Stories is a series of short poems about life in a changing America. Melancholic stories, sketched out over wandering feelings of despair and longing, meandering through a deep changing political and social landscape.Capturing themes from key moments in contemporary American culture, alongside stories of frustration and despair, inspired by more recent events. The selection of poems within explores feelings drawn out in everyday America, from a nation at times left in despair, let down by so-called leaders, and left uncertain about its future, with many questioning its place in the world today.We hope and we pray in the American way. It&’s only poetry they say…
An American Sunrise: Poems
by Joy HarjoA nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.
American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry
by Perry MillerA compilation of American transcendental poetry and prose--Emerson, Thoreau, and others.
American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language
by Claudia Rankine Juliana SpahrA thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.
Americana
by John UpdikeJohn Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long "Song of Myself," daily life, its furniture and consolations. There is little of the light verse with which Mr. Updike began his writing career nearly fifty years ago, but a light touch can be felt in his nimble manipulation of the ghosts of metric order, in his caressing of the living textures of things, and in his reluctance to wave goodbye to it all.From the Hardcover edition.
American's Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
by Robert Pinsky Maggie DietzThis anthology of 200 poems embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discovering America's beloved poetry, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States.
Amid Thirsty Vines: Poems
by AlfaThemes of self-discovery, tending the garden of the soul, and nurturing yourself into blossom, Amid Thirsty Vines by Instagram poetry star Alfa is the collection you need to feel the power of the beautiful flowers within you, and to find the love you deserve. This volume belongs in the collection of every modern poetry fan.
Amiri and Odette
by Walter Dean MyersPresents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.
Among Angels
by Jane Yolen Nancy WillardA magical, whimsical, and heart-soaring collection of angelic poetry from two award-winning literary masters Acclaimed novelist Nancy Willard and World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Jane Yolen collaborate on this magnificent anthology of their original poetry. For years the 2 friends and literary colleagues have shared a mutual fascination with God's winged messengers and exchanged angel poems--some reverent, some witty, some sweet, some biting, and each one a miraculous invention. Now these wondrous flights of angelic fancy are gathered together in a singular collection of breathtaking verse. Rooted in the Christian and Hebrew traditions, these brief, lyrical masterworks celebrate the heavenly beings that have flown through our collective imagination for centuries: Gabriel and the archangel Michael, the fallen Lucifer and the Angel of Death. In rich and sumptuous poetry, the authors muse on angels' flight, feathers, faith, writing on pinheads, and the glory and inconvenience of having wings. To luxuriate in Yolen and Willard's poetic words, ideas, and unforgettable images is to truly fly among angels.
Among A Thousand Fireflies
by Helen Frost Rick Lieder<P>On a summer evening, just as the stars blink on, a firefly lands on a flower. Lights start to flash all around her -- first one, then three, seven. Hundreds. Thousands. How will she find just one flash among them? And will he see her flash in return? <P>In evocative photographs and lyrical language, Rick Lieder and Helen Frost, creators of the critically acclaimed Step Gently Out and Sweep Up the Sun, offer a true story of how two fireflies come together after finding each other's light among thousands of others.
Amor em 59 poemas
by Vários AutoresAMOR - Sentimento que induz a aproximar, a proteger ou a conservar a pessoa pela qual se sente afeição ou atracção; grande afeição ou afinidade forte por outra pessoa. Descubra o único sentimento que faz girar o mundo através das palavras de poetas de diferentes tempos e lugares. Meu coração tardou. Meu coração Talvez se houvesse amor nunca tardasse; Mas, visto que, se o houve, o houve em vão, Tanto faz que o amor houvesse ou não. Tardou. <P><P>Antes, de inútil, acabasse. Meu coração postiço e contrafeito Finge-se meu. Se o amor o houvesse tido, Talvez, num rasgo natural de eleito, Seu próprio ser do nada houvesse feito, E a sua própria essência conseguido. Mas não. Nunca nem eu nem coração Fomos mais que um vestígio de passagem Entre um anseio vão e um sonho vão. Parceiros em prestidigitação, Caímos ambos pelo alçapão. Foi esta a nossa vida e a nossa viagem. Fernando Pessoa
El amor es chulo
by Stephaniè AndugarLa poesía y la reflexión feminista se unen en estas páginas para gritar alto y claro «NO» al machismo disfrazado de amor: los mitos del amor romántico. Mitos que solo sirven para perpetuar la desigualdad y naturalizar la violencia: Amor-sufrimiento, Amor-dependencia, Amor-fusión, Amor-posesión... ¿¿Amor?? No es amor cuando te dice que te quiere solo para él. No es amor cuando hay celos. No es amor si te tiene que completar. No es amor si te aparta de las personas que quieres y de lo que te hace sentir bien. No es amor si es sacrificio o renuncia. No es amor si pierdes tu esencia. No es amor si duele. El amor, el de verdad, no entiende de sexos ni peldaños ni jaulas, no tiene que ser difícil ni tampoco lo único, no te hace sentir pequeña. Para conjugar el verbo amar en plural, primero hay que saber hacerlo en singular y desprenderse de todo aquello que nos encadena. Que el amor valga toda tu alegría y no tu pena,porque el amor es chulo. El amor es chulo, el proyecto que une la nueva poesía y el feminismo y que pretende derribar los falsos mitos del amor romántico. Han cedido sus textos e ilustraciones para este libro:Ane Santiago, Marga Cordero, Irene G Punto, Davile Matellán, Mina Ilustraciones, Miguel Gane, Grace Klimt, Antonio Carreño, Silenzio, Carlos Salem, Teresa Mateo, Victoria Ash, Diego Ojeda, Sourires, Nekane González, Pablo Arribas, Ana Pérez Cañamares, Patricia Benito, Selam Wearing, Nerea Delgado, Acto Paulson, Luiso García, Pedro Andreu, Ulises Kaufman, María Vera, Señorita Bebi, Tres Voltes Rebel, Martaeme, Ana Elena Pena, Titxu Vélez, Lae Sánchez, Juana La Coja y Versales.
El Amor, las Mujeres y la Vida
by Mario BenedettiEl amor, las mujeres y la vida reúne los mejores poemas de tema amoroso escritos por Mario Benedetti: tanto como decir uno de los poetas latinoamericanos más innovadores, frescos, divertidos, ambiciosos y modernos de la literatura en lengua española. De hecho, Mario Benedetti es uno de los escasos poetas actuales que han establecido contacto con el público lector. Sus libros se venden por miles de ejemplares y sus poemas se convierten en canciones o se quedan prendidos en la memoria de todos. La popularidad de Benedetti está en un nivel altísimo, sólo comparable a la de otros grandes poetas amados de todo el mundo: Alberti, Lorca, Machado, Neruda. Los jóvenes hacen cola para comprar sus libros, los mayores lo tienen por modelo admirable. Estos poemas demuestran, sobre todas las cosas, la fuerza de las mujeres y de ese antídoto de la muerte que ellas solas poseen: el amor. El CD que acompaña la publicación en papel de este ejemplar de El amor, las mujeres y la vida contiene una selección de los poemas efectuada por el propio autor. Es también Mario Benedetti quien los lee, dándoles el tono y la significación que nadie más podría darles.
El amor, las mujeres y la vida (Colección Visor De Poesía Ser. #Vol. 341)
by Mario BenedettiEste libro reúne los mejores poemas de amor escritos por Mario Benedetti, uno de los poetas más innovadores, divertidos, ambiciosos y modernos de la literatura en español. El amor, las mujeres y la vida recoge una selección de poemas aclamados por varias generaciones, aquellos en los que Benedetti vuelca su concepción de la vida: el amor como compensación de la muerte se levanta en sus versos lleno de fe, como fuerza principal que mueve al ser humano, como una proclama de la existencia, que va de la erótica del amante hasta la esperanza del revolucionario o la gratitud del amigo. «El amor es uno de los elementos emblemáticos de la vida. Breve o extendido, espontáneo o minuciosamente construido, es de cualquier manera un apogeo en las relaciones humanas.»Mario Benedetti
El amor no lo es todo
by Edna St. Vincent MillayLa poeta Luna Miguel selecciona en este Poesía Portátil los mejores versos de Edna St. Vincent Millay, considerada la mejor poeta mujer desde Safo según la revista Poetry. Piénsalo, mi antiguo amado, mi ya no adorado, ¿hay que negar que fue amor solo porque se ha agotado?Edna St. Vincent Millay es una de las poetas norteamericanas más fascinantes y menos conocidas del siglo XX. Perteneciente a la generación de T.S. Eliot y Wallace Stevens, su militancia feminista y su radical independencia provocaron que su obra tardara en difundirse, a pesar de haber ganado el Premio Pulitzer (1923). Su personalidad arrolladora congregó a multitudes en sus lecturas y polémicas apariciones públicas, que hicieron de ella una precursora de una nueva forma de ser mujer, liberada y bohemia, sin miedo a proclamar sus ideas políticas y proponer innovadoras vías de expresión de la experiencia femenina. La crítica ha dicho:«Consiguió que la poesía pareciera algo sencillo que cualquiera podía hacer, pero naturalmente no era así».Dorothy Parker
Amores e desamores: Poemas de amor y desamor, Emociones Sentimientos Amor Desamor
by Fernando Pérez Rodríguez"Amores e desamores" é um livro de poesia que, como seu nome indica são poesias de amor e desamor, poesias en rima livre, escritas com o coração e que pretendem que ol leitor se sinta identificado com elas y sinta os mesmos sentimentos y emoções que ol autor ao escrevê-las.
Los amores sucios
by Juan José TéllezEl poeta y periodista Juan José Téllez nos cuenta en su nuevo poemario el tiempo muerto del amor, lo emocionante y también lo difícil de la tan difamada rutina de la pasión. Los amores sucios es una colección de fotogramas desordenados que, superpuestos, dan lugar a una imagen de imágenes que cuenta la historia de cómo nos enteramos, poco a poco y a golpe de experiencia, de que el amor es menos noches de boda y besos desarmados y más labios urgentes y días después. Y de cómo pasa el tiempo y uno concluye que, aunque de segunda mano, ese amor sigue valiendo la pena. «A menudo, nosotros hablamos por los ojos. Tú me dices: 'Pupila'. Yo respondo: 'Pestaña'. Veo lo que viste cuando no te conocía y tú miras mis recuerdos como un paisaje futuro».