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Author: Ellen Bass Publisher: Copper Canyon Press ISBN: 161932217X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 76
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“A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass’s lustrous poems.” —Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife’s return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch. In this book, joy meets regret, devotion meets dependence, and most importantly, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away.
Author: Ellen Bass Publisher: Copper Canyon Press ISBN: 161932217X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 76
Book Description
“A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass’s lustrous poems.” —Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife’s return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch. In this book, joy meets regret, devotion meets dependence, and most importantly, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away.
Author: Michael McClure Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520272730 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 340
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"Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, and with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."—Robert Creeley "Without McClure's roar there would have been no sixties."—Dennis Hopper "Michael McClure's poetry and prose is one of the more remarkable achievements in recent American literature."—Times Literary Supplement "McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy."—Allen Ginsberg
Author: Rj Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9781717987792 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 70
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A collection of 50 poems inspired by the first generation pokemon games by award-winning spoken word artist RJ Walker. There is a poem for every Trainer Class and City in the games. Each poem progresses like a journey through identity, mental illness, and growing up between the 20th and 21st centuries. "Trainers of Kanto is the instruction manual with which RJ Walker guides us through the Pokemon world, stripped of all that distinguishes it from our own. The world is a closet lined with too familiar costumes- the forlorn lover, the bishop's robe, the beach, the burglar mask, the heirloom, the witch's dress, the doctor, the medicated patient- and he deftly tunnels through them like video game levels. Inside each costume is another costume, then another, then another, and finally lands upon a rock or wedding ring or this heavy book that shifts between the two with uncomfortable ease. Trainers "is not a rock, it's a door", one that leads us back to ourselves by rehearsing all the roles we already know by heart. It is a memorable seminar in what video game lovers already know: to escape into the relief of another world, you have to learn the pain of this one. You have to navigate this new one, with this new body, with the old ones breathing down your neck." - 'Good Ghost' Bill Moran, author of Oh God, Get Out Get Out from Write Bloody Press.As a die-hard fan of Pokémon games, I expected to love Indigo League, but I didn't expect to find such an emotional gut-punch. In this collection, RJ provides a master class in the economy of words, crafting concise, brilliant, direct narratives that will inspire readers with their emotional weight, regardless of whether the reader has any familiarity with the source material. RJ creates worlds, lives, and stories that stand on their own as a cohesive, self-reflective collection that reminds me of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology in its adept poetic ability and its careful attention to character. RJ will take you through a journey of pain, humor, wit, love, loss, and humanity, and I will forever envy his ability to do so in such masterful strokes, setting up clear characters in just a few lines, and then leaving his reader reeling one line later. This is easily one of my favorite chapbooks I have read in some time, and I'm sure that feeling will be shared by anyone who comes across this collection.- Patrick Roche, Award Winning Poet and Author of An Exercise in Necromancy
Author: F. D. Soul Publisher: VI Verbis Press ISBN: 9780473411404 Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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Indigo is the long-awaited debut poetry collection by New Zealand writer and Instagram sensation, F. D. Soul. An Amazon bestseller in Poetry, this book is a mix of stunning prose and exquisite honesty. Indigo will both break and heal your heart both at once. A true must-read.
Author: Indigo Moor Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496225309 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 84
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Turning an unflinching spotlight on the American Dream, Indigo Moor plunges headfirst into national--and personal--laments and desires. From Emmett Till to the fall of the Twin Towers and through the wildfires of Paradise, California, Moor weaves a thread through the hopes, sacrifices, and Sisyphean yearnings that make this country the beautiful trap that it is. Everybody's Jonesin' for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perusing what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover.
Author: Trista Mateer Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing ISBN: 1771681756 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 193
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Voted one of the best poetry collections of 2019 by readers on Goodreads! Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer takes a magical approach to self-care with her new collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering and feminist retelling, Mateer transforms the mythology of the goddess into 224 pages of modern poetry and full-color artwork. Broken into sections alternating between the perspective of The Poet and Aphrodite herself, the work within tackles the timeless topic of love--romantic, platonic, and self-love. The collection addresses issues like heartbreak, sexuality, womanhood, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore, speaking your truths, and rewriting your origin story. If you let her, by the end of this book, Aphrodite will make you believe in the possibility of your own healing. "If you were only made to be beautiful, we wouldn't have put you down here in the dirt."Perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace, Nikita Gill, Rupi Kaur, Elizabeth Acevedo, Rick Riordan, and Madeline Miller; or anyone interested in Greek myths, tarot, and Instagram poetry. This is the first book in the Myth & Magick series, which also includes Artemis Made Me Do It and Persephone Made Me Do It.
Author: Brenda Marie Osbey Publisher: ISBN: 9781568091792 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Poetry. African American Studies. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS takes as its task nothing less than an examination and mapping of the never-ending evil of history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the still-palpable effects of European and American colonialism some seven centuries after the making of the New World. Making, breaking and rebuilding language and languages to suit the needs of her characters and the worlds they struggle to survive in and against, Brenda Marie Osbey has created a compelling study of human will and the determination to wrest life and liberty from destinies long ago written out of history as we know it. Aided by an extensive glossary and notes, this volume takes the reader on a series of gruesome journeys across the Americas, from Columbus's first encounter with the Guanahani Indians to the author's native New Orleans, trailing violence, destruction and oppression with every step, marking the geography of evil on the map of this New World. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS moves from present to past and back again to reveal the trauma of hearts and lives broken even as it underscores the heroic endurance, resilience and agency of the enslaved and their descendants.
Author: John Richard Smith Publisher: Hip Pocket Press ISBN: 9780917658389 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 108
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John Smith's words are stepping stones into the natural world, bridging it and drawing from it insights that resonate in the human mind and soul. His empathetic accord with the environment, coupled with his imagery and word play, make each and every one of his poems as enticing as April woodlands and as honest as December sunlight. Pete Dunne, VP of Natural History, New Jersey Audubon Society
Author: Ellen Bass
Author: Ellen Bass
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Author: Michael McClure
Author: Rj Walker
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Author: Trista Mateer
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Author: John Richard Smith