Author: Z Publishing House Publisher: ISBN: 9781712548004 Category : Languages : en Pages : 114
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Connecticut is a state known for its pioneering ways. As one of the original 13 colonies, its place in American history is well-assured. But Connecticut is just like America, refusing to stop in its long march towards progress to create a better world. Among the state's many inventions, the Polaroid camera and color television were born here. And with its combination of small-town charm and big-city innovation, it's no wonder so many poets are inspired by Connecticut's unmistakable appeal. In Connecticut's Best Emerging Poets 2019, 37 up-and-coming poets have their own chance to shine. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these young talents will amaze you. Containing one poem per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.
Author: Victoria Laflamme Publisher: ISBN: 9780578834344 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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Victoria, Torrye, Toria, LaFlamme is a strange human who lives in the woods somewhere in Connecticut. She likes to play with earthworms, go for hikes and listen to music. When she grows up, she wants to be an entomologist. Her first published poem, "I am a Child" was featured in America's Emerging Poets 2018: Northeast Region. A year later, "Centuries without Peonies" was featured in Connecticut's Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology. And in late 2019, her first collection of nonsense was published, I Think I've Been Here Before.
Author: Z Publishing House Publisher: ISBN: 9781670809926 Category : Languages : en Pages : 140
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Words fly freely in Massachusetts, a distinctly American state. Freedom was sparked in Boston, where colonists stood up against the British and launched the American Revolution. But a love of independence is only one part of the state's charm. As home to Harvard and MIT, Massachusetts is a beacon of higher education and a thriving start-up culture. And to this day, countless words express its ideals. And in Massachusetts' Best Emerging Poets 2019, 55 up-and-coming poets share their own ideals. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these previously unknown young talents will amaze you. Containing one poem per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.
Author: Z Publishing House Publisher: ISBN: 9781671729834 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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In New Hampshire's Best Emerging Poets 2019, 15 up-and-coming poets have the chance to share their own words. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these young talents will amaze you. Containing 1-5 poems per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.
Author: David Lehman Publisher: Scribner ISBN: 1982106565 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 272
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The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today…While readers may question some of the selections—an annual sport with this series—most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.” The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it—to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, “makes poems that rumble and rock” (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year’s most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
Author: Ocean Vuong Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525562044 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
Author: Keith S. Wilson Publisher: Copper Canyon Press ISBN: 1619322005 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 67
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"“Wilson’s collection is romantic yet world-weary, bereaved yet fortified―a kindred reflection of the heart in the modern world.” ―Publishers Weekly Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration. There is the sense of the speaker as a cartographer of familiar spaces, of land he has never left or relationships that have stayed with him for years, and always with the newness of an alien or stranger. Acutely attuned to the heritage of Greco-Roman myth, Wilson writes through characters such as the Basilisk and the Minotaur, emphasizing the intense loneliness these characters experience from their uniqueness. For the racially ambiguous speaker of these poems, who is both black and not black, who has lived between the American South and the Midwest, there are no easy answers. From the fields of Kentucky to the pigeon coops of Chicago, identities and locations blur—the pastoral bleeds into the Afrofuturist, black into white and back again."