How I Discovered Poetry
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How I Discovered Poetry
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-01-14
How I Discovered Poetry written by Marilyn Nelson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement. A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.
Faster Than Light
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Faster Than Light written by Marilyn Nelson and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Poetry categories.
Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities. Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. "Bivouac in a Storm" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, "marching in summer heat / thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees / haunted by whippings." Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, "Adventure-Monk!" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.
The Fields Of Praise
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1997-05-01
The Fields Of Praise written by Marilyn Nelson and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-01 with Poetry categories.
American Ace
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-01-12
American Ace written by Marilyn Nelson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot’s wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate—a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.
Discovered
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Author : America Library of Poetry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11
Discovered written by America Library of Poetry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with American poetry categories.
Collection of poetry from students across the United States, selected and arranged by author grade level from grade 3 through grade 12.
A Wreath For Emmett Till
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2009-01-12
A Wreath For Emmett Till written by Marilyn Nelson and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin. In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. In a profound and chilling poem, award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.
The Fever Poems
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Author : Kylie Gellatly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-16
The Fever Poems written by Kylie Gellatly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-16 with categories.
"These poems know a great deal about beauty and violence: 'twenty years / was about as much good as / circling / a black eye'. Kylie Gellatly shows us what vividness is, how it lives in our shapes, our pain, our imaginary (and real) selves: 'man taken / to be a trench / that might have been a cannon ball'. This poetry composes musics with silences. It is both a song and whisper, an erasure and exhalation. It is both a journey across us, and inward: 'the ship was the rib of reason / [...] the ship was beginning to be an alarm / the ship was right there on the floor while this book was written.' Herein history is envious of a dreamscape. And yet: the dream aspires to be dailiness, and fears it. Which is to say: this is a book of fevers the likes of which you feel most familiar with, yet have not seen before. Recognize yourself in them." -Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic "Musical and deeply felt, these poems-untitled and running wild-chase down the heart. No tangible space is without the immaterial here. The Elements are resilient, and I feel pushed and pulled by them. Gellatly's debut book is beautiful, haunted and mystical. Her poems are like 'the strange contrast between death and dawn, ' and 'the fool's divine spark / forever coming loose' in the reader's hands." -Bianca Stone, author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief "In Kylie Gellatly's The Fever Poems, water is silk that rubs against the night. Events are figments of the speaker's imagination and graves shape time. Extremely contemporary in their fixation on illness, isolation, and anxiety, these poems spill down and across the page like slate off a cliffside. There is an unwavering generosity to the introspection of this speaker: through her eyes, floating ash becomes 'hundreds of baled papers, bent up like two bears dancing.' This is a collection that understands and beautifully, painfully relays that what we have-with each other, with the land-is 'the last of the last.'" -Taneum Bambrick, author of Vantage "'I was sore at heart, ' writes Kylie Gellatly in The Fever Poems, and the reader is invited into a sprawling, curious, visionary, deeply empathetic, epic debut. Her poems shine goldly in the space between elemental earth-salt, rock, wind, weather-and the human, conscious choice of living. With echoes of Jorie Graham and W. S. Merwin, Gellatly navigates the complexities of language, 'a pledge made / into paper / weathered / in our hands, ' 'choked with the monsters of parentheses'. This is a collection for our time of pandemic, uncertainty, and an urgent need for a revision of our relationship with the natural world-Gellatly recognizes the swinging pendulum of power between the earth's force and human interference, and, without castigation, illuminates us." -Jenny Molberg, author of Refusal "Kylie Gellatly's The Fever works like a ship, navigating the tempests of our fragile moment. The poems enact a wandering/wondering through fire and fog, investigating meaning through a naturalist's lens, balancing an elemental pull with the fierce heat of being human. This collection is an invitation to a sensorial meditation, one where fever is less a symptom of sickness than a door to discovery." -Erin Adair-Hodges, author of Let's All Die Happy
Maps And Transcripts Of The Ordinary World
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Author : Kathryn Cowles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Maps And Transcripts Of The Ordinary World written by Kathryn Cowles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Poetry categories.
"Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection of poems about memory, place, and distance between reality and its transcriptions"--
How To Read A Poem
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Author : Edward Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1999-03-22
How To Read A Poem written by Edward Hirsch and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. "The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."—Boston Book Review
Little Kisses
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Author : Lloyd Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-04-03
Little Kisses written by Lloyd Schwartz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-03 with Poetry categories.
Called “the master of the poetic one-liner” by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignant and comic poems about personal loss—the mysterious disappearance of his oldest friend, his mother’s failing memory, a precious gold ring gone missing—along with uneasy love poems and poems about family, identity, travel, and art with all of its potentially recuperative power. Humane, deeply moving, and curiously hopeful, these poems are distinguished by their unsentimental but heartbreaking tenderness, pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, formal surprises, and exuberant sense of humor.