Author: Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805082319
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of poems in which a daughter reflects on the death of her beloved mother.
Mother Poems
Author: Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805082319
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of poems in which a daughter reflects on the death of her beloved mother.
Mother Tongues
Author: Tsitsi Ella JajiPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810141361
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the beginnings and the present; they capture and claim the losses, the ironies, and a poet’s human evolution. Mother Tongues is a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.
Mother to Son
Author: Latorial FaisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781543025118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Hip Hop artist, Nas, penned the lyrics, "If I ruled the world, I'd free all my sons." Poet and author, Latorial Faison, attempts to do just that in this passionately resounding collection of her most prolific poems to date. With Mother to Son, Faison reminds all, especially her own sons to whom the book is dedicated, why we must rise above our greatest tragedies, our deepest pains. We can't give up this fight that is so increasingly laced with inner conflict, foundational challenges, systemic racism, social injustice, and inequality; we must stand up, rise up, and realize every possibility. Faison paints a lyrical picture that the urgency is still now. These 40 poems render a glimpse into the tumultuous life experiences that have caused this poet to evolve. Readers will gain a sense of those primary, yet pivotal moments that often become the very foundations on which we stand. Recalling the words, ideas, and the spirits of literary icons, such as Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, and Amiri Baraka, Faison rhythmically galvanizes readers to hope, to resilience, to faith, to achievement, to sankofa. Every now and then a book comes along that changes the way we see our world and helps to fuel social change. Mother to Son is a march on humanity, a poetic protest, a profoundly lyrical plea, a storytelling that draws us all to the intersection of race, gender, and politics in America. Mothers, sons, and daring readers the world over-- all will find the boldness and passion with which Faison pens this analysis of life as she's experienced it both moving and stirring. This book is complete with wisdom and a very rich heritage of the contributions and the legacy Africans have created in America. It sings freedom song after freedom song to a tune that readers are sure to both embrace and lift their voices. Mother to Son is a must-read; it's uplifting and ushers readers into a renewed or continued sense of purpose, responsibility, and self-worth. Faison has penned a collection that is stunning, valuable, and profoundly necessary. This book is a mother to son, woman to mankind "call to action."
Selected Poems
Author: Gwendolyn BrooksPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780060882969
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.
The Mother's Victory, and Other Poems
Author: George Abbott (Writer of Verse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Without You Is the Moon
Author: Mrs. Colleen CupidoPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796016497
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
I never got tired of telling my mother how much I loved her. This book of poems attempts to show the intense love of a daughter for her mother. I hope to give the reader words he or she might feel belongs to them to describe their love for their own mother. The greatest aim of this book is as a memorial to a unique, wonderful woman. My mother had moved to San Francisco in the 1950s when she was in her twenties. She wanted art, music, and theater. When these poems were written, I wasn’t consciously trying to be a great poet. I just wanted to make my mother smile.
My Mother's Body
Author: Marge PiercyPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0394729455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification. "The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume. Readers of Piercy's previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about children's fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father. Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily women's tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother. In all, My Mother's Body is one of Piercy's most powerful and balanced collections.
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Author: Pádraig Ó. TuamaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 132403548X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
“Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.
Poems, Prose, and Prayers
Author: Julia Frazier White PhDPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664161767
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Dr. White is a mother, grandmother, Sunday school teacher, Information Systems consultant, editor for technical and scholarly writing projects, and is retired from IBM Corporation as a Senior Systems Engineer. Other books by Dr. White include Forgiving: Learning How to Forgive, and she is co-author and Senior Editor of the anthology George Liele’s Life and Legacy: An Unsung Hero. She is currently working on One Woman’s Journey to Wellness, and Ordinary People: Extraordinary Parents. Dr. White delivers workshops, speeches, and courses on forgiveness, and teaches computer software classes. Dr. White holds a BA in mathematics with minors in chemistry and German from Murray State University, an MS in Management (concentration Project Management) from Colorado Technical University, and Ph.D. in Christian Counseling from Newburgh Theological Seminary.
Don't You Turn Back
Author: Langston HughesPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Forty-five poems chosen from the work of the black poet, Langston Hughes, by Harlem fourth graders.