Author : Alvin Washington
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,61 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 : 29,56 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.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780199171248
Wideranging poetry collection for later primary children.
Author : Jo Ann Allen Boyce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 11,45 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 : Jane Wong
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 31,68 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 : 44,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 9780199162291
An illustrated collection of children's poetry.
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 9780199162284
These beautifully illustrated books, now reissued with all new 4-color covers, present the best of what's new in poetry, carefully chosen for children between the ages of 8 and 13. Many of the poems were written especially for these volumes, and among the poets included are Roald Dahl, Grace Nichols, Judith Viorst, Jack Prelutsky, David McCord. Foster provides a variety of themes with strong associations for children: from the fun and light-hearted (Vampires, Pets, and Holidays) to the provocative (One-Parent Families, Technology, and War). Drawings, cartoons and photographs--most in color--draw attention to every page.
Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 12,91 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 : Stephanie Burt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,24 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 : Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0810144220
In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.
