Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476712778
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476712778
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476712778
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
Comparative Religion
Author: Louis Henry Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Crying Book
Author: Heather Christle
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226456
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226456
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Cry of the People and Other Poems
Author: Chi-ha Kim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A Good Cry
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062399470
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062399470
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.
I Want to Laugh, I Want to Cry
Author: Susan Polis Schutz
Publisher: Blue Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780883960028
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Many people argue that reason should guide all that we do and think, and that feelings are a weakness. This book is based on the belief that we should show our feelings, for they are what make us unique and sensitive human beings. If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.
Publisher: Blue Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780883960028
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Many people argue that reason should guide all that we do and think, and that feelings are a weakness. This book is based on the belief that we should show our feelings, for they are what make us unique and sensitive human beings. If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.
I Cry Unto You, O Lord
Author: Sarah Suzanne Noble
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945099175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Organized into four categories: Pain, Beauty, Christ, and Wonder; these verses cover the spectrum of admiration, praise, confession, supplication, and lament. The text is interspersed with Sarah's paintings and photos. The result is a collection that breathes worship and offers comfort to others who find themselves in a difficult, painful place.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945099175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Organized into four categories: Pain, Beauty, Christ, and Wonder; these verses cover the spectrum of admiration, praise, confession, supplication, and lament. The text is interspersed with Sarah's paintings and photos. The result is a collection that breathes worship and offers comfort to others who find themselves in a difficult, painful place.
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501121855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Kaui Hart Hemmings, and Joan Baez to Nikki Giovanni, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501121855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Kaui Hart Hemmings, and Joan Baez to Nikki Giovanni, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world.
A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated)
Author: Michael Driscoll
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0762469668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This delightful, interactive journey through the history of the world's poetry includes a removable poster and access to downloadable audio, allowing kids to listen and learn as they experience the magic of the spoken word. Poetry is fun—especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history—from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou—and provides excellent examples of their work and commentary on what makes it so special and everlasting. The book covers every style of poem, from epics and odes, to nonsense verse and haikus, and is filled with examples of each one. This multimedia package encourages children to listen, read, and learn, and opens the door to a lifetime of appreciation of a rich literary tradition. Also included is a removable, fold-out poster of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, one of history's most iconic poems.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0762469668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This delightful, interactive journey through the history of the world's poetry includes a removable poster and access to downloadable audio, allowing kids to listen and learn as they experience the magic of the spoken word. Poetry is fun—especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history—from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou—and provides excellent examples of their work and commentary on what makes it so special and everlasting. The book covers every style of poem, from epics and odes, to nonsense verse and haikus, and is filled with examples of each one. This multimedia package encourages children to listen, read, and learn, and opens the door to a lifetime of appreciation of a rich literary tradition. Also included is a removable, fold-out poster of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, one of history's most iconic poems.
The Difficult Farm
Author: Heather Christle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poetry. Third Edition. Joyfully imaginative and emotionally rich, Heather Christle's debut collection of poetry expands the palette and intentions of contemporary surrealism. THE DIFFICULT FARM finds sincere emotion and passionately serious ideas in such surprising subjects as a so-called assassin who is, of course, a washerwoman; television interviews on hibernation; and enormous, vibrating birds. "This is serious. Heather Christle's poems in THE DIFFICULT FARM are dancing with the mysteries surrounding our condition and enlivening our language in the process. Christle's poems are magical but they're too busy to tell you that. These poems run and jump and float over an ever-evolving landscape where what's at work is the serious business of discovery. In this book you will make discoveries of all kinds. These poems will shoot you to the moon, but which moon?" James Tate"
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poetry. Third Edition. Joyfully imaginative and emotionally rich, Heather Christle's debut collection of poetry expands the palette and intentions of contemporary surrealism. THE DIFFICULT FARM finds sincere emotion and passionately serious ideas in such surprising subjects as a so-called assassin who is, of course, a washerwoman; television interviews on hibernation; and enormous, vibrating birds. "This is serious. Heather Christle's poems in THE DIFFICULT FARM are dancing with the mysteries surrounding our condition and enlivening our language in the process. Christle's poems are magical but they're too busy to tell you that. These poems run and jump and float over an ever-evolving landscape where what's at work is the serious business of discovery. In this book you will make discoveries of all kinds. These poems will shoot you to the moon, but which moon?" James Tate"