Author: Daniel Simon
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN: 9781622881451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A legacy project of the Nebraska 150 celebration"--Page facing title page.

Author: Z Publishing
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781987698305
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Located in the very heart of America is the fascinating state of Nebraska. Across endless cornfields, its picturesque charm is evident. Nebraska is also known as the birthplace of such disparate people as Marlon Brando and Warren Buffett. With such a bountiful existence, Nebraska is the inspiration for much poetry. In Nebraska's Best Emerging Poets, 25 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 1-3 poems per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.

Author: Z. Publishing House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691956241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Located in the very heart of America is the fascinating state of Nebraska. Across endless cornfields, its picturesque charm is evident. Nebraska is also known as the birthplace of such disparate people as Marlon Brando and Warren Buffett. With such a bountiful existence, Nebraska is the inspiration for much poetry. In Nebraska's Best Emerging Poets 2019, 12 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: Hilda Raz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496226828
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her poems explore the complexities that come with being alive in the world today.

Author: Janel Pineda
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642595284
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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In this spellbinding debut, Los Angeles–born poet Janel Pineda sings of communal love and the diaspora and dreams for a liberated future. Lineage of Rain traces histories of Salvadoran migration and the US-sponsored civil war to reimagine trauma as a site for transformation and healing. With a scholar’s caliber, Pineda archives family memory, crafting a collection that centers intergenerational narratives through poems filled with a yearning to crystallize a new world—one unmarked by patriarchal violence. At their heart, many of these poems are an homage to women: love letters to mothers, sisters, and daughters. Lineage of Rain moves from los campos de El Salvador to the firework-laden streets of South Gate to the riverbanks of England. Pineda’s masterful stroke weaves together these seemingly disparate worlds, illustrating the complicated reality of living as a first-generation student. As the speaker navigates elitism and the violence of the English language, she lays bare their ties to power. And yet, these poems rebel through revel, asking: how do we hold each other tenderly in a world replete with pain and many forms of violence? With dreams made possible through collective struggle, Pineda returns us to the seeds from which we bloom: family, history, and community. All the while, this collection never fails to capture often overlooked moments of joy—the mundane yet monumental—showing the reader that the world we dream is already ours. Through Lineage of Rain, Pineda emerges as a seminal contributor to the canon of Central American diasporic writing.

Author: Jessica Poli
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496227948
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Kwame Dawes
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134632
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.

Author: John Frost
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881470567
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: John G. Neihardt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803283938
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. This complete edition features a new introduction by historian Philip J. Deloria and annotations of Black Elk’s story by renowned Lakota scholar Raymond J. DeMallie. Three essays by John G. Neihardt provide background on this landmark work along with pieces by Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond J. DeMallie, Alexis Petri, and Lori Utecht. Maps, original illustrations by Standing Bear, and a set of appendixes rounds out the edition.

Author: Kara Candito
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803226276
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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In Kara Candito's prize-winning debut collection a "garish/human theatre" comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the "glitzy chain-link of Chanel scarves" and Puccini's Tosca meets the din of the Times Square subway station. Ferociously witty and intensely lyrical, Taste of Cherry speaks to us in a language that is simultaneously private and public, sensual and cerebral.