Author : J. Jones
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780999613221
Free verse poetry with original photos covering topics from loss, surviving, urban life, age, youth, love, and violence.
Author : Carol Grever
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781432789398
This poetry collection is archaeology of the soul, exploring events and feelings to discern deeper truths. In gathering and refining poems written over many years, distinct lifetime stages emerged, each with particular interests and longings. Individual poems depict slices of time that illuminate vivid moments or mundane experiences to distill their insight. Crisis strikes, bliss surprises, humor heartens. Mistakes chasten and love heals. Forgiveness brings recovery, meditation serenity. The poems reveal deepened understanding with age, and readers may find echoes of their own discoveries. Together, these poetic glimpses suggest the essence of a full life edging toward conclusion with acceptance and peace.
Author : Ed Skoog
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619322234
Travelers Leaving for the City is a long song of arrivals and departures, centered around the murder of the poet’s grandfather in 1955 in a Pittsburgh hotel, exploring how such events frame memory, history and language for those they touch. The poems probe the anonymity of cities, and the crucible of travel. The historical impact of arousal, rage, regret, and forgiveness is seen in visions of interrogations and hotels. These poems explore how family bonds, and disruptions shape, the mind and language, all the while urging the reader to listen for traces of ancestors in one’s own mind and body.
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1269 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141919833
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric' to the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Whitman's art fuses oratory, journalism and song in a vivid celebration of humanity.
Author : SADHGURU.
Publisher : Penguin/Anand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Indic poetry (English)
ISBN : 9780670096466
Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307421759
Great poetry calls into question everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace. Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his own reflections, the author of Sacred America shows how poetry illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the awakening of wonder, the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, and the courage required to live an authentic life. In thoughtful commentary on each work, Housden offers glimpses into his personal spiritual journey and invites readers to contemplate the significance of the poet's message in their own lives. In Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Roger Housden shows how these astonishing poems can inspire you to live what you always knew in your bones but never had the words for. "The Journey" by Mary Oliver "Last Night as I Was Sleeping" by Antonio Machado "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman "Zero Circle" by Rumi "The Time Before Death" by Kabir "Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda "Last Gods" by Galway Kinnell "For the Anniversary of My Death" by W. S. Merwin "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott "The Dark Night" by St. John of the Cross
Author : Maggie Dwyer
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 152552870X
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
Author : Edward W Houston
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0595468853
Poems In The Key Of Life: Glimpses From The Underbelly is a raw, grab life by the horns, tell it like it is look at life through the eyes of a reformed faker. The author, who found freedom after being in bondage to heroin for twenty-five years shares a unique perspective of life through poetry. Ordinary everyday life events viewed through the eyes of a wolf in sheep's clothing. Poetry that may be hard to swallow for some, but is the every day manna for many. Glimpses From The Underbelly gives the reader a penetrating, yet safe, glance, through poetry, at a parallel existence growing right below the surface of our societal norm.
Author : Natalie S. Bober
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805094075
Papa Is a Poet: is a picture book about the famous American poet Robert Frost, imagined through the eyes of his daughter Lesley. When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.
Author : John Glowney
Publisher : Broadstone Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781956782028
John Glowney's debut poetry collection constitutes a report on the trials of contemporary life, a document of "visitation" in both senses. "Honesty is what we demand," John Glowney declares in the poem"Proof of Life," and throughout his debut collection Visitation it is honesty that he delivers, hard truths about contemporary life that arrive in burning, burnished words. At the outset he defines visitation as "a special dispensation of divine favor or wrath / a severe trial / an official visit for inspection or supervision", and his poems indeed constitute an inspection and document of wrath and trials (and even some moments of favor), of a universe broken from the beginning that nevertheless gives us life, the "total stranger" to which we owe everything. In the title poem that closes the volume, Glowney observes his neighbor taking out the garbage at night, a "working-class / Santa" in underwear and flip-flops who is a "great and unknowable and terrible" god for the creatures who depend on his trash for sustenance, who has "risen anyway / from his tv and his bag of potato chips / as if he understood the role of a god / is to atone for his long absences." There are glimpse of such atonement throughout these poems, and they are sustenance indeed. Poetry.
