Author : Alvin Washington
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1329867769
My second collection of poems. Containing poems ranging from love, life, and erotica. Hope all readers and supporters enjoy every simile and metaphor I have in store.
Author : J Warren Welch
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781070627472
Social media sensation, J. Warren Welch brings his bold, unapologetic, and thought-provoking words to print. This compendium of rich, edgy, and profound poems reflects his eclectic blend of styles and influences. THAT'S NOT POETRY is sure to have something that speaks to everyone, whether viewed on social media or never before seen. Follow Welch on this journey through his mind, and your own.
Author : Jane Wong
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781948579216
"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"--
Author : John Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 9780199162291
An illustrated collection of children's poetry.
Author : Jo Ann Allen Boyce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681198533
In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one another. Uneasiness turned into anger, and even the Clinton Twelve themselves wondered if the easier thing to do would be to go back to their old school. Jo Ann--clear-eyed, practical, tolerant, and popular among both black and white students---found herself called on as the spokesperson of the group. But what about just being a regular teen? This is the heartbreaking and relatable story of her four months thrust into the national spotlight and as a trailblazer in history. Based on original research and interviews and featuring backmatter with archival materials and notes from the authors on the co-writing process.
Author : Omotara James
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579480
Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot “It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.” —Starred review by Library Journal The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.
Author : Stephanie Burt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0465094511
An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.
Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0062079417
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Author : Kyle Tran Myhre
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1638340102
OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.
Author : Jon Sands
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807002259
Snapshots of youth, displayed with verve and sparkling clarity, in a new collection of poems that “dazzles with its linguistic sleight of hand” (Richard Blanco). From jaunts through New York subways, to a Cincinnati Waffle House, to a chance encounter with one’s future life partner, Sands writes in turns autobiographically and imaginatively, drawing on voices from his private world and the public sphere to create an urgent portrait of youth that is almost rebellious in its sheer, persistent joy. Nostalgic and vivid, this collection of poems is written reverie. Selected by Richard Blanco, Jon Sands is the winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series.
