Author: Ellen Doré Watson Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1938584732 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 121
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"These are wonderful, witty, wise poems in love with language and singing the music of the world with all its pleasures and piquancies, its oddities and tragedies. Ellen Doré Watson's vision is agile with quick shifts in direction and vivid juxtapositions. The poems in pray me stay eager contain multitudes!" —Ellen Bass A dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as Ellen Doré Watson interrogates personal purpose in the face of looming mortality. Poems sway comfortably, fluidly through associative discourse, radiating and championing love and adoration, indulging in simple pleasures with high magnitude and deep resonance. These poems are musical and sing in a different register for Watson in her fifth collection. Ellen Doré Watson is the author of four full-length collections of poems, most recently Dogged Hearts from Tupelo Press. Watson's journal appearances include APR, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares and The New Yorker. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Watson serves as poetry and translation editor of The Massachusetts Review and core faculty at Drew University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. She is the director of the Poetry Center and the Poetry Concentration at Smith College.
Author: Al Robertson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476762287 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 400
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With the Robertson clan’s flair for down-home wisdom and wit, this special edition pink 365-day devotional reveals the heart and faith of this much-loved family from the A&E® hit show Duck Dynasty®. Loyal fans of the Duck Dynasty family will relish this collection of inspirational messages for each day of the year. From patriarch Phil and matriarch Kay to their four sons (Willie, Jase, Jep, and Alan) and their beautiful wives and children (and Uncle Si, of course), the entire Robertson clan contributes to this encouraging guide. You’ll also hear from Martin and Godwin, the only two non-family members who are regulars on the show. Each devotional contains a brief message, a passage from Scripture, and a prayer. Not only are the messages motivational, but they are also laced with the characters’ trademark wit and humor. An ideal companion for Duck Dynasty fans, hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, and anyone who wants to grow in their faith, The Duck Commander Devotional will both entertain and inspire.
Author: Deborah Gerrish Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666742775 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 86
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Indeed Jasmine is a collection of poems that are verbal paintings, art of the particular, in which visualized thought and sensory language are born out of nothing—the place where the luminous intersects the obscure. Each poem experienced carries the reader through a journey of emotions and draws one in again and again in a fraternal embrace. These painterly poems celebrate life through the lens of family, the natural world, the spiritual world, and express how it feels to be human through the gamut of joy, suffering, and longing. Whether it be haiku, ode, elegy, lyric, or narrative, the poet invites the reader into a world of poetic conversations that vacillate between epiphany, mystery, despair, and exaltation. Each vignette is chock-full of personal witnessing. As the poet confronts grief and human relationships, lauds beauty and the enigma of the natural world, and raises philosophical questions, these poetic songs delight, enlighten, and draw the reader into a deeper understanding of the wonderment of being alive.
Author: Shara McCallum Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 194857943X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 89
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No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
Author: Donald Revell Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1948579413 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 51
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White Campion attempts a libretto to the music of aphasia and forgetting. The disappearance of memory can break hearts, but may open into something wonderful, on the clean far side of memory. Poems explore the idea that identity proves to be simply flashpoints of intervals, and at the end of all, humanity hopes to find a hymn to oblivion
Author: Kazim Ali Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1948579685 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 64
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Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.
Author: Amy Woolard Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1948579634 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 77
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The shifting balance of one’s past, present, and future self is at the heart of this collection. Poems contemplate human darkness, femininity, grief, innocence, finding how they coexist and intersect while confronting their origins. Intimacy, memory, and navigating adulthood in the mythos of the South pull together nostalgia and seeks the affirmation of how to move forward after life-altering moments
Author: Shimon Adaf Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1948579618 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 160
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In the original text alongside the English translation, Adaf blends contemporary colloquial Hebrew, Arabic, and old Aramaic with biblical, Talmudic, and Rabbinic intertextualities. The collection is a powerful lamentation for Adaf’s sister, Aviva, who died at 43. Written from a witness of Israeli society, the daily violence taking place makes the grief reverberating through the poems both personal and palpable.
Author: Andrés Cerpa Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1948579421 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 67
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The Vault is a quiet and vulnerable sequence of ethereal fragments, letters, and poems that trace a narrative of love and healing in the afterlife of a parent’s death. Seasons turn and a life is built despite the ruin. Each poem is a music box of prayer, of the decisions made and yet to be made.
Author: Ilyse Kusnetz Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1948579561 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 71
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Angel Bones has an introspective voice that maintains a bright understanding of the temporal. As we read, we are painfully aware the speaker is dying from cancer and death is imminent. The attempt to not only explain, but understand how to welcome and embrace death is a bittersweet calm. How can one leave willingly when there is so much left behind?
Author: Ellen Doré Watson
Author: Al Robertson
Author: Deborah Gerrish
Author: Shara McCallum
Author: Donald Revell
Author: Kazim Ali
Author: Amy Woolard
Author: Shimon Adaf
Author: Andrés Cerpa
Author: Ilyse Kusnetz