Author: Z Publishing Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781984172846 Category : Languages : en Pages : 170
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A picturesque land surrounded by thousands of sparkling lakes, Minnesota can make anyone appreciate its natural beauty. Along with its friendly residents who define the term "Minnesota Nice," Minnesota also proudly claims both Prince and Bob Dylan as its native sons. And just like those genius wordsmiths, Minnesotan poets are inspired by their amazing state. In Minnesota's Best Emerging Poets, 99 up-and-coming poets have the chance to share their words, vision, and inspiration. 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: Z Publishing House Publisher: ISBN: 9781713312604 Category : Languages : en Pages : 92
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A picturesque land surrounded by thousands of sparkling lakes, Minnesota can make anyone appreciate its natural beauty. Along with its friendly residents who define the term "Minnesota Nice," Minnesota also proudly claims both Prince and Bob Dylan as its native sons. And just like those genius wordsmiths, Minnesotan poets are inspired by their amazing state. In Minnesota's Best Emerging Poets 2019, 28 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 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: Hieu Nguyen Publisher: Coffee House Press ISBN: 1566895197 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 116
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Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen’s poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved.
Author: Heid E. Erdrich Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555979998 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 304
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A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth—long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics—and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now. Poets included are Tacey M. Atsitty, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Laura Da’, Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Eric Gansworth, Gordon Henry, Jr., Sy Hoahwah, LeAnne Howe, Layli Long Soldier, Janet McAdams, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Margaret Noodin, dg okpik, Craig Santos Perez, Tommy Pico, Cedar Sigo, M. L. Smoker, Gwen Westerman, and Karenne Wood.
Author: torrin a. greathouse Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 1571317155 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 77
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A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.
Author: Adrian S Potter Publisher: ISBN: 9781095190616 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
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Adrian S. Potter's first full-length book of poetry, Everything Wrong Feels Right, is a work full of passion and infatuation. The book outlines moments of brokenness, despair, and desire juxtaposed with peaceful portraitures of Midwestern landscapes. By using serene backgrounds as settings for violence, drunkenness, and an overarching sense of hopelessness, Potter exposes the dual nature of the Midwest and paints a realistic picture of what it means to live. Everything Wrong Feels Right is published by PortagePress and supported by Portage Magazine.
Author: Michael Torres Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807046787 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 130
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An astonishing debut collection looking back on a community of Mexican American boys as they grapple with assimilation versus the impulse to create a world of their own. Who do we belong to? This is the question Michael Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names, hometown, language, and others’ perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story, this collection illuminates the artist’s struggle to make sense of the disparate identities others have forced upon him. His description of his childhood is both idyllic and nightmarish, sometimes veering between the two extremes, sometimes a surreal combination of both at once. He calls himself “the Pachuco’s grandson” or REMEK or Michael, depending on the context, and others follow his lead. He worries about losing his identification card, lest someone mistake his brown skin for evidence of a crime he never committed. He wonders what his students—imprisoned men who remind him of his high school friends and his own brother—make of him. He wonders how often his neighbors think about where he came from, if they ever do imagine where he came from. When Torres returns to his hometown to find the layers of spray-painted evidence he and his boyhood friends left behind to prove their existence have been washed away by well-meaning municipal workers, he wonders how to collect a list of names that could match the eloquent truths those bubbled letters once secured.
Author: Lara Mimosa Montes Publisher: Coffee House Press ISBN: 1566895871 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 85
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Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family’s past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there. What is the threshold between now and then, and how can the poet be the bridge between the two?