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Tap Out: Poems
by Edgar Kunz"Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity."―New York Times New & Noteworthy &“Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.&”—The Millions, &“Must Read Poetry&” "[A] gritty, insightful debut." —Washington PostWinner of the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award for Poetry Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Tap Out, Edgar Kunz&’s debut collection, reckons with his working‑poor heritage. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of blue‑collar lives, mental health in contemporary America, and what is conveyed and passed on through touch and words―violent, or simply absent. Yet Kunz&’s verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by class mobility. They pull the reader close, alternating fierce whispers and proud shouts about what working hands are capable of and the different ways a mind and body can leave a life they can no longer endure. This hungry new voice asks: after you make the choice to leave, what is left behind, what can you make of it, and at what cost?
Tape for the Turn of the Year
by A. R. Ammons“This is the most surprising formal invention of a major innovator, is the fullest vision Ammons gives us of his enormous creative enterprise. Among the major descendents of Whitman’s Song of Myself, Tape occupies an essential imaginative space, showing us much about what is essential in the American poetic imagination.” —Harold Bloom In the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons’s long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding-machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious experiment in making a poem adapt to something outside itself. The tape determined both the length of the poem’s lines and when it ends. Tape for the Turn of the Year is a poem of infinite variety, blessed by the rich resources of one of this century’s greatest poets. By turns witty, serious, lyrical, and meditative, it is at once a superbly entertaining book and a significant literary achievement.
Tardes de otoño y café | Desperté en tu piel
by Montserrat García PinoEl otoño es época de nostalgia, siéntelo en tu piel. El amor es un tren de doble vía, en una tarde de otoño. Comienza el frío y la lluvia moja tu alma. Siéntate frente a una roca junto al mar y lee... <P><P>Disfruta del dolor, del placer, de la suavidad de las palabras, con las que la poetisa Montserrat García, relata esos pequeños fragmentos impregnados de historias reales. <P>Historias que creerás haber vivido en determinados momentos y de otras que sentirás que te quedan aún por vivir. Ponte por un momento en su piel y siente el escalofrío que producen sus palabras y que seguro no te dejarán indiferente. <P>Tardes de otoño y café, es un poemario escrito desde el alma de una mujer, que contiene una segunda parte, Desperté en tu piel, donde adopta el rol de un hombre enamorado, escribiendo hacia el sueño de una mujer.
Tarta Americana (Penguin Poets)
by J. Michael MartinezA suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desireRagged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography. Valens, the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs, interrogating memory, gender, and race, traversing pain in search of compassion and joy. Tarta Americana, tarred and glittering, melodic in its screams, overdrives text and space in chase of American politics that could, at last, harmonize love with redemption.
Te he vuelto a escribir
by Benji VerdesLos nuevos versos de Benji Verdes llegan a Montena después de Todo lo que fuimos ahora es polvo. Benji Verdes conoce las esquinas de las palabras y el poder de las frases para hacernos temblar. Sus textos son una onda expansiva capaz de tocar el epicentro más íntimo de nuestro ser, descubriendo los secretos que esconden las miradas. En las páginas de este nuevo libro encontrarás frases inéditas, versos extraordinarios y sensaciones desconocidas en pieles por conocer. Miles de personas ya se han dejado sacudir por su voz. Y tú, ¿estás preparado para un escalofrío de alta intensidad?
Tea, Tisane and a Load of Old Tosh: Observations of Modern Life
by John DixonHave you ever stood in an endless queue in a coffee shop, waiting for your lukewarm cup of decorated froth and asked yourself why? Have you ever wandered through the aisles of a home and design store asking yourself why? Why do they want me to decorate my house like a beach hut or Parisian Boudoir; or want me to put up plaques of house rules or toilet rules? Ever been inspired to bake an inevitably awful cake after watching one of the many cooking-made-easy TV shows...and failed horribly? This book is a journey through the maze of modern life, told by someone trying to answer life’s great questions including: what can Mindfulness do for me, and what exactly is the attraction of a Chai Latte? To be honest, it’s all Tea, Tisane and a Load of Old Tosh!
Teach This Poem, Volume I: The Natural World
by Madeleine Fuchs Holzer The Academy of American PoetsInstill a love of poetry in your classroom with the illuminating and inviting lessons from Teach This Poem classroom activities. Co-published with the Academy of American Poets, the leading champion of poets and poetry in the US, this book is an accessible entry-point to teaching poetry and fostering a poetic sensibility in the classroom.Each lesson follows a consistent format, with a warm-up activity to introduce the chosen poem, pair-shares, whole class synthesis, related resources, oral readings, and extension activities. Curated by the AAP, the poems are chosen with an eye toward fostering compassion and representing diverse experiences. Understanding that poetry is a powerful way of seeing the world, the volumes are organized thematically: Volume I is centered on the natural world and Volume II on equality and justice.Aligned with current standards and pedagogy, the lessons in this poem will inspire English teachers and their students alike.
Teacher/Pizza Guy (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
by Jeff KassTeacher/Pizza Guy is a collection of autobiographical poems from the 2016–17 school year in which Jeff Kass worked as a full-time English teacher and a part-time director for a literary arts organization and still had to supplement his income by delivering pizzas a few nights a week. In the collection, Kass is unapologetically political without distracting from the poems themselves but rather adds layers and nuances to the fight for the middle class and for educators as a profession. The timing of this book is beyond relevant. As a public high school teacher in America, Kass’s situation is not uncommon. In September 2018, Time published an article detailing how many public school teachers across the country and in a variety of environments work multiple jobs to help make ends meet. Teacher/Pizza Guy chronicles Kass’s experience of teaching, directing, feeding people, and treading the delicate balance of holding himself accountable to his wife and kids, his students, his customers, and his own mental and physical health while working three jobs in contemporary America. The journey of that year was draining, at times daunting, at times satisfying, but always surprising. Many of the ideas for these poems were initially scribbled onto the backs of pizza receipts or scratched out during precious free moments amidst the chaos of the school day. A driving force behind the book is Philip Levine’s poem "What Work Is," which Kass believes attempts to examine not only the dignity and complexity of what we think physical, tangible work is but also the exhausting, albeit sometimes fulfilling nature of emotional work. Teacher/Pizza Guy is a funny and relatable collection for readers, thinkers, educators, and pizza lovers everywhere.
Teaching World Epics (Options for Teaching)
by Jo Ann CavalloCultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history, chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel, epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations.Useful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics, national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war.This volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giulia Bigolina's Urania, The Book of Dede Korkut, Luís Vaz de Camões's Os Lusíadas, David of Sassoun, The Epic of Askia Mohammed, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the epic of Sun-Jata, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's La Araucana, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Kalevala, Kebra Nagast, Kudrun, The Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu, the Mahabharata, Manas, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mwindo, the Nibelungenlied, Poema de mio Cid, Popol Wuj, the Ramayana, the Shahnameh, Sirat Bani Hilal, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Statius's Thebaid, The Tale of the Heike, Three Kingdoms, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, and Virgil's Aeneid.
Teachings of Rumi
by Andrew HarveyJelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) led the quiet life of an Islamic teacher in the central Anatolia (modern Turkey) until the age of thirty-seven, when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabriz--through whom he encountered the Divine Presence in a way that utterly transformed him. The result of this epiphany was the greatest body of mystical poetry the world has ever seen, and the establishment of a spiritual movement that would eventually stretch from Africa to China, enduring to our own day. This collection of versions of Rumi by Andrew Harvey contains some of the master's most luminous verse, along with selections from his lesser-read prose works, with the aim of presenting a balanced view of his teaching that includes both the high-flying love of God and the rigorous path of discipline essential for those who seek it.
Teahouse of the Almighty
by Patricia SmithA National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders."What power. Smith's poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster."--Marvin Bell"I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem."--Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judgeFrom Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation's premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade--a National Poetry Series winner weaving passionate, bluesy narratives into an empowering, finely tuned cele-bration of poetry's liberating power.
Tears Of Silence
by Jean Vanier Jonathan Boulet-Groulx Parker PalmerAcclaimed as a man ?who inspires the world” (Maclean's) and a ?nation builder” (Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier has made a difference in the lives of countless people ? including those with disabilities and the many people who have been moved by his life's work. Rereleased to commemorate the 50th anniversary of L'Arche Internationale, an international network of communities for people with developmental disabilities, Tears of Silence is an inspiring book of poems on the topics of alienation and belonging, featuring intimate, never-before-published black and white photographs from L'Arche communities around the world. This edition includes a new introduction by Jean Vanier and a foreword by author and education activist Parker Palmer.
Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
by Feliciano CastroA bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived for decades in the southernmost city of the United States, Castro worked as a lector reading to cigar factory employees, a newspaper editor, a printer, and a writer. He published Lágrimas y flores, a collection of his poetry, in 1918. Translated here by Rhi Johnson, Castro’s poems provide a window into an overlooked literary culture.Johnson and Joy Castro open this bilingual edition with an introduction detailing the writer’s biography, literary context, and cultural milieu. Tears and Flowers highlights questions of national identity, migration, belonging, and courtship in Cuban émigré society, connects Florida to the Spanish-speaking communities of the Caribbean and Spain, and recovers the literary archive of a rich moment in US and Latinx history for a contemporary audience. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor (Minoritarian Aesthetics)
by Sandra RuizHow minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective griefTears for Tears documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass death through the work of contemporary minoritarian artists. These artists interrogate the cultural, social, and political enmeshment of death by questioning the interior and exterior conditions of loss Charting communal, singular, ongoing, and impending loss due to state-sanctioned violence, colonial racial capitalism, natural disaster, and social and personal circumstances, Sandra Ruiz underscores the affective entanglements across death that reshape the topography of grief into portals of possibility.Drawing from original interviews, familial artifacts, images, and personal archival notes of artists—much of which have never been written about before—the project centers the minoritarian artist as living with and against death in everyday life and art practice. In doing so, the manuscript stages an archival and ideological intervention into the life of grief for minoritarian subjects and artists.Moving across performance and video art, sculpture, dance, music, theatre, and poetry, Ruiz highlights the relationship between everyday life and staged events as a critical lens to rethink structures of colonial and imperial spatial temporalities of grief. Offering invaluable insights into the production of these works and performances, Ruiz reveals how these artists move across social, corporeal, and psychic constructions of sorrow in their art practices—often working from parental loss into the domain of communal death—and see grieving, however painful, as an act of empowerment, transformation, growth, and communal building.
Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics
by Alicia KeysFrom acclaimed musician Alicia Keys comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her growth as a person, a woman, and an artist.&“All my life, I&’ve written these words with no thought or intention of sharing them. Not even with my confidants. These are my most delicate thoughts. The ones that I wrote down just so I could understand what in the world these things I was thinking meant...&” When she burst onto the music scene with her multi-million bestselling, Grammy® Award-winning first album, Songs in A Minor, Alicia Keys became a superstar. Two decades later, her career has expanded into producing, acting, and passionate activism—winning her worldwide acclaim, numerous awards, and a spot on Time&’s list of &“The 100 Most Influential People.&”Though Alicia has been very vocal through her career, there were always &“delicate thoughts&” that she never before imagined she&’d share with anyone else—until now. In Tears for Water, Alicia Keys opens the journals and notebooks that she has kept throughout her life and reveals her heart to her fans in return for all the love they have shown to her and her music.Hello morningnow I see youcause I am awakeWhat was once so sweet and securehas turned out to be fakeGirl, you can&’t be scaredgotta stand up tall and let &’em see what shines in youPush aside the partlying in your heartlike the ocean is deep, dark and blue—from Golden Child
Technologies / Installations
by Kim MaltmanThis extraordinary sequence of prose and free verse poems explores the postures, styles, and rhetorics of our culture and its history -- not with the predictable aim of criticism and rejection, or the fashionable aim of recombinant word-play, but in the service of an unflinching, and thereby real, passion. This is humane vision of great breadth, depth, and particularity.
Tecnomuse: Technologie et poésie : un mariage incroyablement mathématique...
by Danilo TacchinoTecnomuse de Danilo Tacchino Technologie et poésie : un mariage incroyablement mathématique... Tecnomuse L'expérience des jeunes est renforcée par le moment du développement technologique dans lequel les technologies électroniques et de l'information se développent de manière exponentielle et la société mondiale s'interroge sur le développement en cours et où il peut conduire l'ensemble de la société humaine. Le nouveau défi de l'homme vers de nouveaux objectifs de connaissance et de bien-être pour l'ensemble de l'humanité est grand et plein d'illusions. De nombreuses questions, doutes et sentiments liés à ce développement de la vie sociale sont le point de départ d'un discours poétique qu'il faut affronter et sur lequel il faut se confronter.
Tecnomuse: Technologie und Poesie: eine unglaublich mathematische Ehe ...
by Danilo TacchinoTecnomuse von Danilo Tacchino Technologie und Poesie: eine unglaublich mathematische Ehe ... Tecnomuse Die Jugenderfahrung wird durch den Moment der technologischen Entwicklung verbessert, in dem die Elektronik- und Informationstechnologie exponentiell wächst und sich die Weltgesellschaft über die Entwicklung wundert, die stattfindet und wohin sie die gesamte menschliche Gesellschaft führen kann. Die neue Herausforderung des Menschen hin zu neuen Erkenntnis- und Wohlstandszielen für die gesamte Menschheit ist groß und voller Illusionen. Viele Fragen, Zweifel und Gefühle im Zusammenhang mit dieser Entwicklung des gesellschaftlichen Lebens sind Ausgangspunkt für einen poetischen Diskurs, dem man sich stellen muss und dem man sich konfrontieren muss.
Tecnomuse: Technology and Poetry: an incredibly mathematical marriage ...
by Danilo TacchinoTecnomuse by Danilo Tacchino Technology and Poetry: an incredibly mathematical marriage ... Tecnomuse The youth experience is enhanced by the moment of technological development in which electronic and information technology is growing exponentially and world society is wondering about the development that is taking place and where it can lead the entire human society. The new challenge of man towards new goals of knowledge and well-being for the whole of humanity is great and full of illusions. Many questions, doubts and feelings related to this development of social life are the starting point for a poetic discourse that must be faced and on which one must confront.
Tecnomuse: Tecnología y poesía: un matrimonio increíblemente matemático ...
by Danilo TacchinoTecnomuse de Danilo Tacchino Tecnología y poesía: un matrimonio increíblemente matemático ... Tecnomuse La experiencia de los jóvenes se ve reforzada por el momento del desarrollo tecnológico en el que la tecnología electrónica y de la información está creciendo exponencialmente y la sociedad mundial se pregunta sobre el desarrollo que está teniendo lugar y hacia dónde puede conducir a toda la sociedad humana. El nuevo desafío del hombre hacia nuevas metas de conocimiento y bienestar para toda la humanidad es grande y está lleno de ilusiones. Numerosas preguntas, dudas y sentimientos relacionados con este desarrollo de la vida social son el punto de partida de un discurso poético que hay que afrontar y sobre el que hay que confrontar.
Ted Hughes (Routledge Guides to Literature)
by Terry GiffordFor the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This accessible guide to Hughes’ writing provides a rich exploration of the complete range of his works. In this volume, Terry Gifford: offers clear and detailed discussions of Hughes’ poetry, stories, plays, translations, essays and letters includes new biographical information, and previously unpublished archive material, especially on Hughes’ environmentalism provides a comprehensive account of Hughes’ critical reception, separated into the major themes that have interested readers and critics offers useful suggestions for further reading, and incorporates helpful cross-references between sections of the guide. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, Ted Hughes presents an accessible, fresh, and fascinating introduction to a major British writer whose work continues to be of crucial importance today.
Ted Hughes (Routledge Revivals)
by Thomas WestOriginally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. The author presents the main works in a broadly chronological order and brings together the most interesting of Hughes’ own critical remarks from interviews, recordings, letters and articles. Throughout the book West emphasizes the drama and the gestures behind the ‘verbal surface’ of Hughes’ work and at the same time raises questions of value not just for Hughes’ work but for all poetry, such as, what is myth and what is the purpose of poetry? Many well-known poems are used to illustrate his argument and a small number are examined in depth, making this an indispensable guide to Ted Hughes’ work.
Ted Hughes and Trauma: Burning the Foxes
by Danny O'ConnorThis book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody handprint on his essay, warning him of the dangers of literary criticism. Hereafter, criticism became ‘burning the foxes’. This book offers a defence of literary criticism, drawing Hughes’ poetry and prose into the network of theoretical work he dismissed as ‘the tyrant’s whisper’ by demonstrating a shared concern with trauma. Covering a wide range of Hughes’ work, it explores the various traumas that define his writing. Whether it is comparing his idea of man as split from nature with that of Jacques Lacan, considering his challenging relationship with language in light of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, seeing him in the art gallery and at the movies with Gilles Deleuze, or considering his troubled relationship with femininity in regard to Teresa Brennan and Slavoj Žižek, Burning the Foxes offers a fresh look at a familiar poet.
Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture
by Mark Wormald Terry Gifford Neil RobertsThe fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, ‘the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live’.
Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons
by Joanny MoulinThis is the first collection of essays to be published since the poet's death. Continuing a tradition of more than thirty years of Ted Hughes studies, it gathers contributions by most of the major international Hughes scholars, voicing their critical preoccupations at the turn of the century.Over the years, academic criticism on the poetry of Ted Hughes has established some well-trodden paths, which this collection still strongly reflects, however, the productions of the latter Hughes, in poetry as well as in criticism, demand a revisiting of the critical discourse on his work. The biographical dimension, for instance, has gradually gathered momentum, and it is no longer possible to study the work of Ted Hughes without due reference to the life and work of Sylvia Plath. This book is, nonetheless, also motivated by the wish to bring some fresh blood to the Hughes studies by politely rocking the boat of a rather comfortably established critical reception that has prided itself on being the mouthpiece of the poet's own ideological discourse. For this reason, some of the chapters in this collection belong to a continental European tradition that is resolutely foreign to the former partisanships. For all that, Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons suggests that steering clear of the polemical ruts dug by fans and detractors alike can only benefit the future of scholarly studies devoted to a great poet.