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The Lucia Poems
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2013-10-12
The Lucia Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-12 with Poetry categories.
American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. An essential voice in world poetry, Baca chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the birth of his children, Lucia and Esai. Recalling the works of other poets who passed through the horrors of extreme experience–Nazim Hikmet, Paul Celan, Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Wat, Otto René Castillo, and more–The Lucia Poems and The Esai Poems give poignant acknowledgement to one generation’s failings and pass on humane advice to the next. Taken together as Breaking Bread with the Darkness, these two collections offer a poetic primer for paternity, and a model for teaching history, politics, spirituality, and survival. Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet, internationally known for his lyrical, politically charged verse. Of Apache and Chicano ancestry, at the age of twenty-one he was convicted on drug charges and spent over six years in prison, where he found his voice as a poet through correspondence with Denise Levertov of Mother Jones. His books include the poetry collections C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, Set This Book on Fire, Black Mesa Poems, Poems Taken from My Yard, and What's Happening; a memoir, A Place to Stand; a play, Los tres hijos de Julia; a screenplay for the film Blood In Blood Out; and the novel A Glass of Water. He has published three eBooks with Restless Books: The Face and two Breaking Bread with the Darkness poetry volumes. Baca is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for A Place to Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca has devoted his post-prison life to writing and teaching others who are overcoming hardship. His themes include American Southwest barrios, addiction, injustice, education, and cultural difference. He regularly conducts writing workshops in prisons, community centers, and universities throughout the country.
Lucia Navigating The Night
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Author : Lucia Blinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Lucia Navigating The Night written by Lucia Blinn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Poetry categories.
On The Spectrum Of Possible Deaths
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Author : Lucia Perillo
language : en
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date : 2012-11-06
On The Spectrum Of Possible Deaths written by Lucia Perillo and has been published by Copper Canyon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Poetry categories.
"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."—Booklist "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane."—Time Out New York The poetry of Lucia Perillo is fierce, tragicomic, and contrarian, with subjects ranging from coyotes and Scotch broom to local elections and family history. Formally braided, Perillo gathers strands of the mythic and mundane, of media and daily life, as she faces the treachery of illness and draws readers into poems rich in image and story. When you spend many hours alone in a room you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself— this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal but that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us do not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab? Today I bit a thick hangnail and thought of Schneebaum, who walked four days into the jungle and stayed for the kindness of the tribe— who would have thought that cannibals would be so tender? Lucia Perillo's Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Bobbitt award from the Library of Congress. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
The Body Mutinies
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Author : Lucia Perillo
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 1996
The Body Mutinies written by Lucia Perillo and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Poetry categories.
The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and certainly sex. Her textual landscape includes rock climbers and the ill, female killers who take to the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they're forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language's highest pitch.
Inseminating The Elephant
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Author : Lucia Perillo
language : en
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date : 2012-12-18
Inseminating The Elephant written by Lucia Perillo and has been published by Copper Canyon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-18 with Poetry categories.
"Inseminating the Elephant [is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience."—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation "These poems are tough and witty."—The New Yorker "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo."—Time Out New York A 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Inseminating the Elephant delivers hard-edged yet vulnerable poems that reconcile the comic impulse with the complications and tragedies of living in the eating and breathing body—what Lucia Perillo calls the "meat cage." Perillo dissects human failings and sexuality, as well as collisions between nature and the manufactured world, to create an unforgettable poetic vision. How the zoologists start is by facing the mirror of her flanks, that foreboding luscious place where the gray hide gives way to a zeroing-in of skin as vulnerable as an orchid. Which is the place to enter, provided you are brave, brave enough to insert your laser-guided camera to avoid the two false openings of her "vestibule," much like the way of entering death, of giving birth to death, calling it forth as described in the Tibetan Book. Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal and worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and has published five books of poetry. She was a MacArthur Fellow in 2000 and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. She lives in Olympia, Washington.
Time Will Clean The Carcass Bones
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Author : Lucia Perillo
language : en
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
Time Will Clean The Carcass Bones written by Lucia Perillo and has been published by Copper Canyon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Poetry categories.
"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."—Booklist "The poems [are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—The New York Times Book Review MacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a fearless poet who, with characteristic humor and incisive irony, confronts the failings and wonder of nature, particularly the frail and resilient human body. This generous collection draws upon five previous volumes, including books selected as a New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" and as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From "Again, the Body": When you spend many hours alone in a room you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself— this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal but that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us do not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab?... Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and has published eight books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She was a MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Olympia, Washington.
Immigrant Prodigal Daughter
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Author : Lucia Cherciu
language : en
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Release Date : 2023-06
Immigrant Prodigal Daughter written by Lucia Cherciu and has been published by Kelsay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06 with categories.
Lucia Cherciu's Immigrant Prodigal Daughter knows how to "grapple / with the gravity of grammar," weaving together the author's roots in Romania and her life in New York. It is not easy work, yet there's abundance here, too-from the orchards where a grandfather grafted three types of apple on a single trunk, to the fruit trees the poet later plants during lockdown. The gifts of these poems aren't flashy but bone-deep, like the pillow from a grandmother's wake. We're reminded that home is both ache and welcome, distance and forgiveness. What a gift, then, to arrive at the table of these poems, rich with "wedding soups, roasted roosters, cherry preserves, // juices and sauces that splatter an arduous cook's kitchen." -Laura Donnelly, author of Midwest Gothic Lucia Cherciu's Immigrant Prodigal Daughter vividly conjures her Romanian past. Her poems explore homesickness and loss, exemplified by the Romanian custom of giving away a dead one's belongings. Giving becomes the mirror-image of loss ("We Only Get to Keep What We Give Away"), and language becomes the mirror in which the beloved past can still be seen. The "longing for home, dorul" is counterbalanced and finally outweighed by the speaker's redemptive generosity. Her joy in giving, tending her garden, writing these poems, heals the rift between worlds: "If my grandmothers can see me / they recognize the flowers of their youth" ("The Privilege of Water"). -Barbara Ungar, author of Save Our Ship Immigrant Prodigal Daughter is a tender lament for a country left behind, but what is a country? It is dirges sung, apricots, and lavender. It is capoate, the black housedresses worn by old Romanian women. Amid the rich sensuality of memory, the poet takes herself to task. Has she praised enough? Done too much? Not enough? "I have taken my child / away from my mother" writes Cherciu, and yet what the reader overwhelmingly feels beside the vulnerable self-questioning is a love song to family and an ode to ancestry. -Jessica Cuello, author of Liar
The Esai Poems
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2013-10-12
The Esai Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-12 with Poetry categories.
American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. An essential voice in world poetry, Baca chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the birth of his children, Lucia and Esai. Recalling the works of other poets who passed through the horrors of extreme experience–Nazim Hikmet, Paul Celan, Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Wat, Otto René Castillo, and more–The Lucia Poems and The Esai Poems give poignant acknowledgement to one generation’s failings and pass on humane advice to the next. Taken together as Breaking Bread with the Darkness, these two collections offer a poetic primer for paternity, and a model for teaching history, politics, spirituality, and survival. Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet, internationally known for his lyrical, politically charged verse. Of Apache and Chicano ancestry, at the age of twenty-one he was convicted on drug charges and spent over six years in prison, where he found his voice as a poet through correspondence with Denise Levertov of Mother Jones. His books include the poetry collections C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, Set This Book on Fire, Black Mesa Poems, Poems Taken from My Yard, and What's Happening; a memoir, A Place to Stand; a play, Los tres hijos de Julia; a screenplay for the film Blood In Blood Out; and the novel A Glass of Water. He has published three eBooks with Restless Books: The Face and two Breaking Bread with the Darkness poetry volumes. Baca is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for A Place to Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca has devoted his post-prison life to writing and teaching others who are overcoming hardship. His themes include American Southwest barrios, addiction, injustice, education, and cultural difference. He regularly conducts writing workshops in prisons, community centers, and universities throughout the country.
Collected Poems
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Author : John Robert Lee
language : en
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Release Date : 2017
Collected Poems written by John Robert Lee and has been published by Peepal Tree Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Poetry categories.
John Robert Lee's Collected Poems tell both of a continuing journey and a subtly changing voice but also of an underlying, consistent attempt to hold together in one space the things that matter. This is seeking first the kingdom of God; maintaining the community of men and women who incarnate that kingdom and make life meaningful; the beauties of St Lucia's natural world and its rich traditions of folk-culture; and the challenges and demands of poetry.
A Note Of Consolation For Lucia Joyce
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Author : Martin Golan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-27
A Note Of Consolation For Lucia Joyce written by Martin Golan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with categories.