The Poem I Turn To
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The Poem I Turn To
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Author : Jason Shinder
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2008
The Poem I Turn To written by Jason Shinder and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Poetry categories.
This anthology of classic and modern poetry features works selected and read by celebrated American movie actors and directors.
Sho
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Author : Douglas Kearney
language : en
Publisher: Wave Books
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Sho written by Douglas Kearney and has been published by Wave Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Poetry categories.
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
Wheels Turning Inward
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Author : Ron Starbuck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Wheels Turning Inward written by Ron Starbuck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Poetry categories.
Wheels Turning Inward is a rich collection of over fifty poems, following a poet's mythic and spiritual journey that begins and ends in Christ, but crosses easily onto the paths of many other contemplative traditions. Ultimately, this is a journey of discovering a keen sense of spiritual community through a meditative dialog with the Divine. Each poem is a reflection and a remembrance of this dialog, arising out of a conversation that is deep and true, a conversation grounded in a sacramental practice of stillness, silence, peace, and unity celebrating the holiness of all creation.Through the poet's voice and eyes, we catch sight of the clear longing of God for all humankind, and the true value of relationships through which we come to know and become known by this mystery. Every poem will gently guide the reader on a journeythat leads to an awareness of the sacred calling out to life. Celebrating life in the first breath of an infant, in the bright smile of a little girl, and in the light of creation reflected within the innocent eyes of a small boy. It may also appear in the complex song of a mockingbird mending together the deepest sorrows of the world, or in the angels we give birth to every day.These poems touch and awaken the compassion inherent in every human heart, andremind us that God's presence, however, we may imagine God, may be found withinour own breath. In each single breath we take. Breathe Deeply. Turn Inward.
A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year
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Author : Jane McMorland Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Batsford Books
Release Date : 2020-11-27
A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year written by Jane McMorland Hunter and has been published by Batsford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-27 with Poetry categories.
365 poems celebrating nature and the changing seasons. This is the perfect bedside companion for any nature or poetry fan, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from less-well-known writers. Each poem is chosen to chime with the natural world through the seasons. Spring is a time of hope, a season of new life with William Wordsworth's daffodils, John Clare's lambs and Christina Rossetti's birdsong. Summer shifts into a time of leisure with long idyllic holidays in the countryside. According to Henry James, the two most beautiful words in the English language were 'summer afternoon', a sentiment echoed by Edward Thomas and Emily Dickinson. John Keats, William Blake and W. H. Auden are the poets we associate with autumn and this is possibly the most poetic season. The natural world, and the human one, hold onto the last lingering memories of summer before they turn to face the oncoming hardships of winter. Amy Lowell and George Meredith perfectly frame this time of year with their silver-fringed leaves and crimson berries. Winter can be savoured in poetry, rather than endured; bleak grey days are transformed into a world of glittering frost and snow-blanketed landscapes. Even in the darkest days life continues and soon we can turn our attention to the rebirth of spring. A wonderful collection of poems that help mark the daily turn of the seasons and all the rituals marking the significant moments of the year, from Candlemas to Christmas.
Poetry Turning Thoughts And Feelings Into Words
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Author : William J. Maki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-05
Poetry Turning Thoughts And Feelings Into Words written by William J. Maki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05 with Poetry categories.
What is the matter with matter? And what's this stuff called Polyisopropene? In his new book "Creative Experimenting Using Rubber Bands" Author David Tracy helps the reader to identify, confront, and overcome their preconceived notions, and misconceptions, about matter and energy by using ordinary rubber bands to perform and series of surprising experiments. Presented in a creative, intuitive, hands-on style, the book introduces the reader to a short history of science, and the search for a "primordial stuff," before delving into the life of Galileo and the first experiments into the nature of motion. Many of the projects and experiments are simple, inexpensive, and produce interesting results for anyone with a sincere interest in the physics and chemistry of polymers and their many modern uses. The book is intended for creative thinkers and those who are in search of creative new ways of looking at old problems, but can also be used by students of science in search of new understanding.
Ten Windows
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Author : Jane Hirshfield
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Ten Windows written by Jane Hirshfield and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Literary Collections categories.
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist “Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language’s own acts of discovery; by the powers of image, statement, music, and feeling to enlarge in every direction. The lucid understandings presented here are gripping and transformative in themselves. Investigating the power of poetry to move and change us becomes in these pages an equal investigation into the inhabitance and navigation of our human lives. Closely reading poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, among many others, Hirshfield reveals how poetry’s world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable, Hirshfield proposes, poems expand what is possible. Ten Windows restores us at every turn to a more precise, sensuous, and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged.
My Words A Book Of Poems To Awaken And Inspire
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Author : Grant Martin Waldman
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-05-11
My Words A Book Of Poems To Awaken And Inspire written by Grant Martin Waldman and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-11 with Poetry categories.
I have been writing prose for well over 35 years. I can first remember writing prose in public school. If my memory serves me correctly, the first poem of any significance for me was one that I wrote about Anne Frank in grade 7 or 8 for my teacher, Ms. Asher. I remember that the poem started off as follows: Anne Frank was one of a kind; she always had a one track mind. Love, friendship, obedience too - This is all that I can remember. It must have had a very positive impact on me because I have been writing prose ever since. A number of my poems have turned into songs. As it turned out, Ms. Asher was not only my grade school teacher; she was also my private guitar/music teacher. She is one of many people in my life who truly inspired me. She reinforced my writing, guitar playing and my singing. She even invited me to accompany my primary school choir on the guitar when we recorded our own album. Thanks Barb! For me, my poems and songs have all been about inspiration. What was inspiring me at the moment that invited me to express myself through writing? Many of us turn to the written word as a means of expression and/or release. Many of us turn to many other forms of expression: drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, playing an instrument, climbing mountains, paddling, golfing, walking, etc. We are all so very fortunate to live in a world that is so very inspiring. I also do one on one and peer group facilitation in my role at The West Coast Men's Support Society. I like to invite my clients to imagine and to remember positive memories in their lives to awaken that part of themselves. It is very satisfying to witness someone going from a very deep dark place to smiling while they remember a moment in time with a special person who made a difference to them. I often invite my clients to take these sorts of memories and spread them out in front of them in order to draw them forth in their lives, rather than let other darker harsher moments to drag them down and backwards. I truly hope that the poems on the following pages support you in moving forward in your life rather than back; that they help you to dream and to hope. Life can be very dark and dreary. Life can be very hard. I hope and pray that one or more of my poems bring you comfort and joy during the moments when the sun is not shining in your life. In Community, G. (Grant) Martin Waldman The Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada April 2014
Too Black Too Strong
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Author : Benjamin Zephaniah
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date : 2001
Too Black Too Strong written by Benjamin Zephaniah and has been published by Bloodaxe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Poetry categories.
Addresses the problems of Black Britain. This work includes poems written, while the author was working with Michael Mansfield QC on the Stephen Lawrence case and other high profile political trails. It is hard hitting and blackly funny.
The Turn Of The Mind To That Shaded Place
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Author : A. G. Mampel
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-25
The Turn Of The Mind To That Shaded Place written by A. G. Mampel and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-25 with categories.
The poems in this book are about ordinary life; things we see every day. Whether they are ants crossing our kitchen counter like the military, or the sound of water over rocks, an unannounced cry from the nursery, the hummingbird sucking up sugar water, my antique car with top and windows down. Sometimes it can be a mere trif≤ a bird with a twig in its mouth, a flower rising from the underside of the large rock I sit upon; it can be the sudden rustle of wings from a cornfield. The subjects for poetry are everywhere among the living walkways of animated life, even in the solitude of the stones lying at my feet. One of my first published poems was about a high school girl that someone referred to as "common." In the sense it was spoken there is no such word as "common!" Nor for that matter is anything in life "common."To me life is uncommon. It is lyrical and full of surprise. This became clear to me when I heard Dylan Thomas read "A Child's Christmas in Wales." I loved the rhythmic flow of his words and the emotions they evoked. When writing my own poems, I fell into his cadence and rhythmic patterns to such a degree that I had to stop listening to the musical allurement of his words and begin to search for my own voice. I moved on to other poets whose meter and cadence also influenced the forms I chose. Among these were Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, W. B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson. These poets and others helped me to see that poems flow more freely when unencumbered by needless limitations i.e., fear of punishing criticism, a single way to look at the poem, punctuation and forms that may inhibit both reader and poet. There were also other poets who influenced me. William Butler Yeats taught me about the sound in poetry. For Yeats it was not enough to simply choose the right words in their best order, but the right sounding words. Robert Frost referred to sound as the "gold in the ore."I am convinced that I never felt more alive or had more enthusiasm for the things around me, than when my eyes actually - looked out - and - listened to - the natural and human world - and heard what it had to say. In the Hebrew story of creation, Adam and Eve were asked by God to care for the earth. God said, "till it and keep it." It fascinates me that the word in the Hebrew, "Shamar" means not only "to keep," it also means "to observe." Suddenly I became aware that I am put on this planet to observe both the human and natural world. I am here to look at life as I really see it. How else could life teach me about being truly human? Observe - Look - See! These three words influence my poetry. I put them on my refrigerator to remind me that all of life is to be observed - looked at - listened to. I am convinced that looking closely at the human and natural world makes me more alive. I find that poetry is only true for me when I am fully present in the moment. It is in that moment when the "commonplace" is looked at and observed that I can feel what it is to be a living creature.
Good Bones
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Author : Maggie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and has been published by Tupelo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Poetry categories.
Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu