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June Jordan's Poetry for the People

Author : Lauren Muller

Publisher : Burns & Oates

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 41,84 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Education

ISBN :

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This lively "blueprint" (guidebook) represents collaborative efforts of the Poetry for the People, 60 or more multicultural students under the leadership of June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. Describing how-tos of grassroots poetry programs and staunchly pledged to current politically correct tenets of diversity, in addition to printing student poems, this anthology reviews how to take readings and workshops into the community and cultivate "empowerment by affirming that everybody has something to offer." Chapters discuss these "cultural literacies": African American; Asian American; Caribbean; Chicana/o, Latina/o American; children's; deaf; gay and lesbian; Irish and Irish American; Native American; and women's. This celebration of "explorative" poetry as a communal, oral art form is an easy-to-use, timely reference for community college, public libraries, and writers' centers. Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.



The Others

Author : Matthew Rohrer

Publisher : Wave Books

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 28,86 MB

Release : 2017-04-10

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1940696623

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A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. this night they all seemed asleep for a while the stark shadows held me only my mind moved wildly behind my eyes until I heard a tiny song coming from the driver song of a bandit’s broken heart, song of his betrayal I slept and dreamed I was awake Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.



The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems

Author : Olena Kalytiak Davis

Publisher : Copper Canyon Press

Page : 118 pages

File Size : 45,70 MB

Release : 2015-07-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1619321211

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The Poem She Didn’t Write is a whirlwind of sound, syntax, and form, working together to amplify everyday experience.



Passion

Author : June Jordan

Publisher : Copper Canyon Press

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 41,75 MB

Release : 2021-10-19

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1619322420

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After decades out of print, Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights,” “Poem About Police Violence,” “Free Flight,” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people—and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.



Love and Other Poems

Author : Alex Dimitrov

Publisher : Copper Canyon Press

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 29,36 MB

Release : 2021-02-18

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 161932234X

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Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.



Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems

Author : Jimmy Carter

Publisher : Crown Archetype

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 41,65 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0812924347

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A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter's private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.



Directed by Desire

Author : June Jordan

Publisher : Copper Canyon Press

Page : 690 pages

File Size : 38,72 MB

Release : 2012-12-28

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1619320800

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Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."



Beautiful & Pointless

Author : David Orr

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 39,64 MB

Release : 2011-04-12

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0062079417

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"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.



The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Author : Hazel Felleman

Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.

Page : 708 pages

File Size : 36,41 MB

Release : 1936

Category : American poetry

ISBN : 0385000197

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Book Description

Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.



Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night

Author : Morgan Parker

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,34 MB

Release : 2021-07-13

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 195114256X

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Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night—the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets—is back in print. The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work.