Author: Luise PutcampPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Sonnets for the Survivors & Other Poems
Author: Luise PutcampSonnet's Shakespeare
Author: Sonnet L'AbbePublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771073097
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbé returns with her third collection, in which a mixed-race woman decomposes her inheritance of Shakespeare by breaking open the sonnet and inventing an entirely new poetic form. DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE FINALIST RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD FINALIST How can poetry grapple with how some cultures assume the place of others? How can English-speaking writers use the English language to challenge the legacy of colonial literary values? In Sonnet's Shakespeare, one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use "the master's tools" on the Bard's "house," attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her pysche and in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labour, Sonnet L'Abbé works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as a space she will inhabit, as a place of power she will occupy. Letter by letter, she sits her own language down into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by subsuming his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems of Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one "aggrocultured" Shakespearean sonnet--displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced. L'Abbé invented the process of Sonnet's Shakespeare to find a way to sing from a body that knows both oppression and privilege. She uses the procedural techniques of Oulipian constraint and erasure poetries to harness the raw energies of her hyperconfessional, trauma-forged lyric voice. This is an artist's magnum opus and mixed-race girlboy's diary; the voice of a settler on stolen Indigenous territories, a sexual assault survivor, a lover of Sylvia Plath and Public Enemy. Touching on such themes as gender identity, pop music, nationhood, video games, and the search for interracial love, this book is a poetic achievement of undeniable scope and significance.
Poetry: A Survivor's Guide
Author: Mark YakichPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501309501
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"A provocative and practical guide, written for students of creative writing as well as literary studies, to an art form that is both loved and feared"--
Big Feelings
Author: Gigi BellaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732498662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Film. Music. BIG FEELINGS is a grand tour of love and loss, femininity, and the nuances inherent in the simple messiness of being alive. Bella masterfully works within the ambiguity of feelings that do not ever truly end, of what it feels like to be a ghost within those feelings, and she guides the reader through the origin point of every haunting. She navigates the tragedies of heartbreak, the experience of brown girlhood, the loneliness ingrained within artists, and the courage it takes to get back up again even when it feels like you have already died many times before. With compassion and much needed humor, BIG FEELINGS allows us the necessary space to be alone with one another. At once a time capsule of love and loss, and a hymnal book of protest songs against the current political regime, the reader becomes a lucky passenger in bella's car, driving the scenic route through her brilliant and expansive mind. The book reads as a memoir in verse. The poems travel both physical and emotional landscapes, journeying through vibrant New Mexico and through the often lonely road of living as someone with 'big feelings.' We get to meet bodega cats, Ariana Grande, her family and her loves, but most importantly we get to meet gigi; wholly human and wholly herself. This book is as tender as it is fierce, and will be opened like a gift by the hearts of so many.-Andrea Gibson
Poetry by American Women, 1900-1975
Author: Joan ReardonPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
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Sonnets from Captivity
Author: Eleanor T. M. HarveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
All the Flowers Kneeling
Author: Paul TranPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525508341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
“Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “This powerful debut marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political violence.” —New York Times Book Review A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both “tender and unflinching” (Khadijah Queen) Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.
30 Poems to Memorize (Before It's Too Late)
Author: David KernPublisher:
ISBN: 9781734785319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An anthology of poems with accompanying essays to help poetry lovers memorize some of the greatest verse ever written.
The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
Author: Devoney LooserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.
Author: John Keats