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Spore or Seed
by Caitlin MalingIn this powerful fifth collection of poetry, Caitlin Maling explores the transformative experience of motherhood, from gestation to birth and beyond. With an ever-keen eye for the natural world, she delves into the beauty and complexity of the maternal experience, weaving in elements of eco-poetry to explore the interconnectedness of all life. In the spirit of Judith Wright and Gwen Harwood, this collection of poetry explores the transformative power of motherhood and the discovery of a new, expanded self. Through evocative and intimate verse, and some stunning poem sequences, the poet delves into the complex experience of losing one's identity as one assumes the role of motherhood. This beautifully written and moving book is a must-read for any mother or anyone interested in the nuances and ambivalences of the maternal experience.
Spreeuw in de spiegel
by Kunal Narayan Uniyal L. N.Sinds de daad van ongehoorzaamheid is de mens voortdurend in oorlog geweest met zijn grootste tegenstander, zijn EGO. Hoe meer hij toegeeft aan zijn ego, hoe verder hij van zijn goddelijke zelf komt. Zijn materialistische motieven, zijn zoektocht naar macht en grove onverschilligheid vervreemden hem en isoleerden hem. In slavernij door het ego geniet de man van valse trots, valsheid van de valsheid en valsste beveiliging. De zoektocht eindigt nooit. De dorst is nooit uitgeblust. De geest blijft pre-occupied. Het hart ziet in beroering. Koude rede betrekt wijsheid en de menselijke geboorte hunkeren naar rechtvaardiging. Toch heeft de welwillende heer een masterplan. We zijn allemaal begiftigd met zijn koninkrijk binnenin. Op het moment dat we onze reis naar binnen beginnen, begint de mist te verdwijnen. Oneindige wijsheid komt tot leven. Alle ruis houdt op en kalmte dringt binnen. Echte vreugde komt voort uit het hart en leidt naar vrede, harmonie en evenwicht. Het enige wat je nodig hebt is slechts een pauze en een kijkje binnenin
Spring
by Oni Buchanan2009 Massachusetts Book Awards Winner Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanan's Spring encompasses radically contrasting work. Ecstatic, visually intricate rhapsodies are juxtaposed with tight, sonnet-like poems, and wispy columns of verse brush up against large-scale epics and kinetic text. This collection's point of departure is the paradox of existence as an individual in a political and violent world. All of the formal innovations in this book have in common an urgent need for texture and polyphony, and the poems attempt to discover how to fulfill the individual human responsibility of surviving as a resiliently loving and hopeful living creature. An accompanying multimedia compact disc offers a full Flash-animated version of the printed kinetic work, "The Mandrake Vehicles."
Spring Is Here
by Taro GomiA winsome calf provides the backdrop--literally--for this charming story. With each turn of the page, the young animal is imaginatively transformed to reflect some activity of the four seasons: snow melting, seedlings springing up, harvest, all the way to the snow melting again and revealing that--the calf has grown. The story line follows the cycle of the seasons from one spring to the next, and its spare, fluid text--wedded to the vigorous graphics--vividly conveys the underlying themes of renewal and growth. The colors are joyful and fresh, and the artist's playful approach to perspective makes this a lovely picture book.
Spring Is Here/Llego La Primavera
by Taro GomiUn ternero bonito proporciona el fondo - literalmente - para este cuento encantador. Con cada doblada de pàgina, el animal joven se transforme imaginativamente para reflejar un cambio de las cuatro temporadas: nieve derritiendose, semillas brotando, la cosecha, regresando a la nieve derritiendose de nuevo, y revelando que el ternero ha crecido. El cuento sigue el ciclo de las temporadas de una primavera a la proxima, y su texto fluido y minimo - en combinacion con las ilustraciones vigorosos - trasmite vividamente los temas subyacentes de la renovación y el crecimiento. Los colores son alegres y juguetónes, y el enfoque lucido del artista con la perspectiva resulta en un libro lindisimo.
Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande
by Jimmy Santiago BacaIn Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and the natural world are revealed. In Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and the natural world are revealed--"the river and I see through each other's skins / behind the eyes into the tunnels of water-bone and rushing marrow." These poems expand upon those in Baca's recent Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande -- his visions of love and loss, poverty and renewal, redemption and war are reflected in the rocks, trees and animals of his beloved New Mexico. In Spring Poems the words of the river "rise around thorny thickets / then descend again into the burbling stubble," and the poet surrenders himself to this place where his own words are woven by "a thumbnail-sized yellow spider/ with poppy seed eyes." Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother, but was later sent with his brother to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a Federal prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry. His memoir A Place To Stand won the prestigious International Award. He is Champion of the International Poetry Slam and winner of The Before Columbus American Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.
Spring Surprises (Step into Reading)
by Anna Jane Hays Hala Swearingen WittwerSay goodbye to winter and celebrate all the fun and exciting surprises springtime offers—like flying kites, making mud pies, watching new baby animals take their first steps, and dancing among the raindrops! This joyful ode to all things spring is filled with easy-to-decode rhymed text and bright, inviting art. Spring Surprises includes two sheets of stickers.
Spring and All (Facsimile Edition)
by C. D. Wright William Carlos WilliamsA beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times) Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination -- a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams's best-known poetry, including Section I, which opens, "By the road to the contagious hospital," and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow." Now, almost 90 years since its first publiction, New Directions publishes this facsimile of the original 1923 Contact Press edition, featuring a new introduction by C. D. Wright.
Spring and All: Kora In Hell / Spring And All / The Descent Of Winter / The Great American Novel / A Novelette And Other Prose (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William Carlos WilliamsHeavily influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," the poems of Spring and All express the author's beliefs about the role and form of art in a modern context. William Carlos Williams offers an intensely stylized set of exercises in reduction that capture, in his words, "the immediacy of experiences." Sections of vivid, sensuous prose — described by the poet as "a mixture of philosophy and nonsense"—alternate with straightforward free verse that explores the creative uses of imagination and the power of language. "Spring and All," the title work of this 1923 collection, represents Williams's first major achievement as a poet, and was praised by The New York Times as one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century. This groundbreaking compilation also features some of the poet's best-known verse, including the modernist masterpieces: "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To Elsie."
Springing
by Marie PonsotFrom the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including "What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?"--a question that has kept Ponsot's work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a "lost haven in a springing world." Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges.From the Hardcover edition.
Square Inch Hours: Poems
by Sherod SantosA vividly rendered collection tracing the aftermath of a breakdown and the struggle to reconnect with the realities of daily life. In the manner of a poetic meditation, Square Inch Hours draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook, and reverie, piecing together moments that follow in the aftermath of a breakdown. Writing from an area outside psychology or personal history, the intensely solitary speaker relates the experience of reengaging with the world. With an adamant attentiveness, he turns his focus to observing reality in its minutest particulars: the expression on the face of a random passerby; the palsied hand of a grocery clerk; copulating flies on a windowsill; a deep gouge, like a bullet hole, in his apartment door. How he perceives is how he reconnects. The title, Square Inch Hours, expresses that impulse to capture each moment, as in the square of a photograph.
Squirrels on Skis (Beginner Books(R))
by Pascal Lemaitre J. Hamilton RayThis new Beginner Book about manic skiing squirrels--by J. Hamilton Ray with illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre--has the feeling of an old classic read-aloud. "Nobody knew how the mania grew. First there was one, and then there were two. Three more came gliding from under the trees. LOOK! On the hill. Those are squirrels on skis! Below lay the town, snow-covered and still. Not a sound could be heard. All was silent, until . . . Swwwishhhh swooped the skiers, all dressed for play. Eighty-five squirrels and more on the way!" As you can imagine, the townsfolk are NOT amused. Can intrepid reporter Sally Sue Breeze find out where the squirrels are getting their skis-and make them stop skiing long enough to eat lunch-before pest-control guy Stanley Powers sucks them up in his vacuum device? (Don't worry--Sally triumphs in a most unexpected way.) With delightfully understated, funny illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre, this is the perfect book for beginning readers to curl up and chill out with on a snow day--or any day!
Squirrels on Skis: Read & Listen Edition (Beginner Books(R))
by J. Hamilton RayThis new Beginner Book about manic skiing squirrels—by J. Hamilton Ray with illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre—has the feeling of an old classic read-aloud. "Nobody knew how the mania grew. First there was one, and then there were two. Three more came gliding from under the trees. LOOK! On the hill. Those are squirrels on skis! Below lay the town, snow-covered and still. Not a sound could be heard. All was silent, until . . . Swwwishhhh swooped the skiers, all dressed for play. Eighty-five squirrels and more on the way!" As you can imagine, the townsfolk are NOT amused. Can intrepid reporter Sally Sue Breeze find out where the squirrels are getting their skis-and make them stop skiing long enough to eat lunch-before pest-control guy Stanley Powers sucks them up in his vacuum device? (Don't worry—Sally triumphs in a most unexpected way.) With delightfully understated, funny illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre, this is the perfect book for beginning readers to curl up and chill out with on a snow day—or any day!Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Srngarapadyavali: Verse Translation in Sanskrit and English of the Sangam Classic Kuruntokai
by A. V. SubramanianSrngarapadyavali presents a Sanskrit verse translation of two hundred selected Tamil poems on the subject of love; it also presents English verse translation of the same verses and a brief account of the many conventions governing Tamil love poetry. Some of them relate the sentiment to the physical background.
Stadtzeiten und andere Gedichte
by Vihang A. Naik FlorianVihang A. Naik beleuchtet in Stadtzeiten und andere Gedichte das Stadtleben mit all seinen Farben, seinem Glanz und seinem Elend. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung seiner intuitiven und philosophischen Poesie. Sie ist in insgesamt sechs Abschnitte unterteilt: „Liebeslied eines Wandergesellen“ stellt eine Art inneren Reisebericht dar. „Menschen im Spiegel“ zeigt die Trugbilder der Stadt: Die Menschen darin sind wandelbar wie der Gang eines Krebses oder die Farben eines Chamäleons. „Der Pfad der Weisheit“ dagegen widmet sich dem Beginn der Meditation und dem Wissen. „An der Küste“ dokumentiert das Gefühl von Sinnlosigkeit, Erinnerung, Schmerz, Exil und Entfremdung am Ufer des Lebens. Im für diese Sammlung titelgebenden Abschnitt „Stadtzeiten“ wird die Stadt als Marktplatz charakterisiert, als Himmel für Außenseiter, als Saatbeet des Wandels, und am Abend, um Mitternacht, bei Mondlicht und durch Nebelschleier hindurch betrachtet. „Selbstporträt“ schließlich beginnt mit einer schematischen Wortskizze, auf die fünf leere Seiten folgen, nach welchen der Leser am Seitenende lediglich wenige karge Worte findet. Hier zeichnet der Dichter in einem Moment der Offenbarung die wahre Natur seines eigenen Ichs nach, wenn er schreibt, er erwache „und sehe [s]ein Selbst über alle Gedanken hinaus entblößt“. Zwischen „Selbst“ und „über alle Gedanken hinaus entblößt“ liegen die besagten fünf leeren Seiten. Sie deuten auf eine unbeschreibliche, vieldeutige Epiphanie hin und mögen sowohl die Entdeckung eines transzendentalen Selbst jenseits des Denkens und der Sprache anzeigen als auch die Abwesenheit eines solchen. "Diese gekonnten Verse zielen auf philosophische, ja existenzielle Dinge, indem sie vieles ungesagt lassen.“ - Kirkus Reviews "Stadtzeiten und andere Gedichte zu lesen, ist eine berauschende und erhellende Erfahrung. Es ist im höchsten Maße lesenswert.“ - Readers' Favorite
Stag's Leap
by Sharon OldsIn this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband's smile to the set of his hip; the radical change in her sense of place in the world. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now loves another woman. As she writes in the remarkable "Stag's Leap," "When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver." Olds's propulsive poetic line and the magic of her imagery are as lively as ever, and there is a new range to the music--sometimes headlong, sometimes contemplative and deep. Her unsparing approach to both pain and love makes this one of the finest, most powerful books of poetry she has yet given us.
Stage a Poetry Slam
by Marc Kelly Smith Joe KraynakFor groups large and small, from single events to recurring programs, Stage a Poetry Slam explains the easy way to make your slams a success. Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters -- people in charge of organizing and promoting poetry slams and spoken word events. Marc Kelly Smith, grand founder of the Slam movement and host of the original Uptown Poetry Slam, the one that started them all, takes you back stage to reveal the techniques and strategies he's crafted over his 20 years plus of developing world-class Slam shows. In Stage a Poetry Slam, Marc leads you through the process of shaping your own Slam from vision to opening night, as you discover how to... * Fashion a crystal clear vision that drives the development of your first show * Plan a detailed itinerary for a Slam extravaganza * Scope out a venue that fits your vision * Choose the right stage type for maximum impact * Deal with the technical stuff -- lights, mics, props, & drops * Recruit and organize emcees, volunteers, and other support * Discover talented performance poets and spoken word artists * Publicize and promote your show to attract an eager audience * Stage special shows for corporate and community events * Take ownership of your show, so it doesn't get hijacked * Negotiate fair compensation with club owners and other patrons of the arts Stage a Poetry Slam is packed with practical, world-tested advice on how to craft a compelling spoken word poetry event and promote in such a way to pack the seats and leave a line out to the streets. You'll also find a brief history of slam, the rules and regulations that govern official slam competitions, and a list of PSI (Poetry Slam, Inc.) Certified Slams, so you always have a place to visit to pick up ideas and talk shop with other Slammasters!
Staging Modern American Life
by Thomas FahyThe theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theatre that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies.
Stairway to Heaven: Poems
by Alison DemingA new collection from a poet who "writes with scrupulous and merciful passion about every kind of relatedness--family, place, politics, and wildlife" (W. S. Piero)In her fifth book of poems, Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming explores dimensions of grief and renewal after losing her brother and mother. Grounded in her communion with nature and place, she finds even in Death Valley, that most stark of landscapes, a spirit of inventiveness that animates the ground we walk on. From the cave art of Chauvet to the futuristic habitat of Biosphere 2, that inventiveness becomes consolation for losses in family and nature, a means to build again a sense of self and world in the face of devastating loss.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Stampede!
by Laura Purdie SalasAn inventive poetry collection that shows the wild side of first- and second-graders at school. These 18 funny and imaginative poems observe students in their natural habitat and reveal their unusual behavior, crazy communication, and very healthy appetites. Whether they’re in the classroom, on the playground, or in the cafeteria, school brings out the animal in all of them. And if you look carefully as you turn the pages, you may even glimpse some of the wild side in yourself!
Stand By Me RP
by Dave SteeleRetinitis Pigmentosa can be a blessing and a curse. Since losing the majority of my sight in the last 2 years I have and still continue to battle everyday with anxiety, fears for my future and the future of my children, acceptance from a world full of misconceptions and constantly having to adjust as my tunnel of sight continues to shrink. Although RP has also blessed me with the ability to realise the important things in life. I know I am never alone with this and have met the most amazing people within the RP and Usher community. Through my blindness I have discovered a new found gift for talking about the things that a lot of us go through when faced with going blind. I have always believed that music and poetry can make an impact, touch the heart and heal the soul in a way like nothing else. I hope this collection of poems can reach those who struggle sometimes with going blind. Help friends and family understand how it can be for us. I hope my poems can help raise awareness so one day the world understands that there are many different shades of blind.
Standing in the Flock of Connections
by Heather CadsbyBy turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heather Cadsby’s fifth collection of poetry, is one hundred proof associative thought. These poems testify to the human mind’s capacity to “do”—taking into account all of the performative, causal, athletic, and sexual connotations of that verb. Many of them come in on an overheard conversation or monologue—mid-fight, mid-stride—and the absent details and specifics often function to open up a space for things to become other things, for the flock of connections to swarm.
Standoff: Poems
by David RivardI often feel as though I've entered a standoff between whathappens around me & what's going on inside--& this lifethat goes on & on inside my head goes on & on & on it seemsalmost without me, as it has since childhood . . . --from "Standoff"For three decades, David Rivard has written from deep within the skin of our times. With Standoff, he asks an essential question: In a world of noise, of global anxiety and media distraction, how can we speak to each other with honesty? These poems scan the shifting horizons of our world, all the while swerving elastically through the multitude of selves that live inside our memories and longings--"all those me's that wish to be set free at dawn." The work of these poems is a counterweight to the work of the world. It wants to deepen the mystery we are to ourselves, stretching toward acceptance and tenderness in ways that are hard-won and true, even if fleeting.
Stanley’s Girl: Poems
by Susan EisenbergThe fiercely lyrical poetry of Stanley’s Girl is rooted in Susan Eisenberg’s experience as one of the first women to enter the construction industry and from her decades gathering accounts of others to give scaffolding to that history. Eisenberg charts her own induction into the construction workplace culture and how tradeswomen from across the country grappled with what was required to become a team player and succeed in a dangerous workplace where women were unwelcome. The specifics of construction become metaphor as she explores resonances in other spheres—from family to other social and political issues—where violence, or its threat, maintains order. Prying open memory, her poems investigate how systems of discrimination, domination, and exclusion are maintained and how individuals and institutions accommodate to injustice and its agreed-on lies, including her own collusion. Poems in this collection probe workplace-linked suicide, sexual assault, and sometimes-fatal intentional accidents, as well as the role of bystander silence and the responsibility of witness.
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories
by Agatha Christie MallowanThis collection contains six short stories and five poems of a religious nature: A Greeting, Star Over Bethlehem, A Wreath for Christmas, The Naughty Donkey, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, The Water Bus, In the Cool of the Evening, Jenny by the Sky, Promotion in the Highest, The Saints of God and The Island.