Dead Dog Poems: Winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry PDF Download

Author: Lynne Schmidt
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
ISBN: 9781646626274
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Dead Dog Poems is a collection about pet love and pet loss. It is the small joys each pet parent goes through, from naptime, to walks around the block, to the horrific moment of being at the emergency vet and hearing that your beloved companion may have cancer. This collection brings you front and center for a terminal diagnosis, and the aftermath of such a substantial loss. If you have ever loved a pet, this collection is for you. The poem, Baxter, was awarded the Editor's Choice Award from Frost Meadow Review, and was nominated for a 2019 Best of the Net, while Road Maps was nominated for Best of the Net, and Blood Pleas and Library Books was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association (PNWA) Poetry Contest.

Author: A. New Yorker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511648448
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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This book was written to share a personal collection with those going through dark times; those close to them that want to understand better what that struggle is like and those who share an interest in the issues that potentially affect us all. These poems represent those who are different; those who are sensitive, imaginative and compassionate; inclined towards tears (though not publicly); so patient that they can survive in even the most unbearable of circumstances; those who are poetic, mystic, fatalistic, introspective and mistrusting of rational thought - choosing instead to trust intuition; who are able to feel a wide array of human emotions (from absolute joy to despair); who are submissive and, yet, stubborn and who enjoy a penchant for walking the dark. Why the name, "The Black Dog?" Winston Churchill coined the term to reflect the situation of those suffering dark times. It is a term associated with being different and with depression; things that I and so many have felt. Also, dogs have a reputation as being man's best friend. To that end, I wish this book can be a best friend to someone; to let them know they are not alone and to let them know there is hope.

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143125834
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems offer a special window into her world. Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver's relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. To be illustrated with images of the dogs themselves, the subjects will come to colorful life here. These are poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver's well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Dog Songs is a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, from an observer of extraordinary vision

Author: Danez Smith
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451093
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.

Author: Deborah Paredez
Publisher: American Poets Continuum
ISBN: 9781950774012
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlight the voices of women relegated to the margins of history.

Author: Jennifer Givhan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819580988
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Belly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violence passed down from generation to generation. This poetry edges into the borderlands, touching the realm of chora—humming, screaming, rhythm—transporting the words outside of patriarchal and racist constructs. Drawing from curanderisma and a revived wave of feminist brujería, Jennifer Givhan creates a healing space for Brown women and mothers. Each poem finds its own form, interweaving beauty and devastation to create a pathway out of the systems that have for too long oppressed women. The poems dwell in the thick language of "motherfear," "where love grows too / in the shining center of the wound." This poetry of invocation moves toward a transformation of violence that is ultimately redemptive. Today I Learned the Word Mondegreen Which means to misinterpret from mishearing the lyrics in a way that gives new meaning as I have long misheard the homophony of my heart. I take it to mean the first flush of life after winter, that deep need to keep growing after all your once-bright blossoms have seeded or wilted away. Have you ever needed to lie flat as if dead against the rockmarked earth & listen to the voices licking against the sky your past shuffling through the leaves like a remix till you finally realize what your life has meant— & it aches? When the truth comes, let it come like jewelweed wilding beside the poison ivy. The antidote within our reach.

Author: Kinitra Dechaun Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941958445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 565

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A 2018 Bram Stoker Award Finalist Thought-provoking, powerful, and revealing, this anthology is composed of 28 dark stories and 14 poems written by African-American women writers. The tales of what scares, threatens, and shocks them will enlighten and entertain readers. The works delve into demons and shape-shifters from "How to Speak to the Bogeyman" and "Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight" to far future offerings such as "The Malady of Need". These pieces cover vampires, ghosts, and mermaids, as well as the unexpected price paid by women struggling for freedom and validation in the past. Contributors include: Tiffany Austin, Tracey Baptiste, Regina N. Bradley, Patricia E. Canterbury, Crystal Connor, Joy M. Copeland, Amber Doe, Tish Jackson, Valjeanne Jeffers, Tenea D. Johnson, R. J. Joseph, A. D. Koboah Nicole Givens Kurtz, Kai Leakes, A. J. Locke, Carole McDonnell, Dana T. McKnight , LH Moore, L. Penelope, Zin E. Rocklyn , Eden Royce, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Andrea Vocab Sanderson, Nicole D. Sconiers, Cherene Sherrard, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Sheree Renée Thomas, Lori Titus, Tanesha Nicole Tyler, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, L. Marie Wood, K. Ceres Wright, and Deana Zhollis.

Author: Victoria Chang
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472157478
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize PEN Voelcker Award Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize New York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books NPR's Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist National Book Critics Circle, Finalist Griffin Poetry Prize, Shortlist Frank Sanchez Book Award After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ('civility,' 'language,' 'the future,' 'Mother's blue dress') and the cultural impact of death on the living. Loss, and the love for the dead, becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living. 'Chang's new collection explores her father's illness and her mother's death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief' New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2020" 'Exceptional... Chang's poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore' Publishers Weekly

Author: Steve Bellin-Oka
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574417983
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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This poetry collection is the record of an American’s return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin-Oka’s poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty. “Steve Bellin-Oka’s poems hold in balance an intensified language and a passionate voice that bring together the struggles of the inner life with stark realities. This is a book of arresting authenticity.”—Peter Balakian, Pulitzer-Prize winner and judge

Author: Meghan Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578598284
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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An anthology of poetry, essays, and visual art on the climate crisis by Maine writers and artists with a foreword by Governor Janet Mills.