Author: Clarence MajorPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591799
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The follow-up to Clarence Major's National Book Award finalist volume, "Configurations."
Waiting for Sweet Betty
Author: Clarence MajorPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591799
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The follow-up to Clarence Major's National Book Award finalist volume, "Configurations."
From Now on
Author: Clarence MajorPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347965
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A retrospective of poems written during the 1950s to the present, including selections from each of Major's previous books. This collection maintains Major's intimate, conversational poetry while simultaneously becoming more eclectic, multicultural, and cosmopolitan.
soulscript
Author: June JordanPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767918460
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan. First published in 1970, soulscript is a poignant, panoramic collection of poetry from some of the most eloquent voices in the art. Selected for their literary excellence and by the dictates of Jordan’s heart, these works tell the story of both collective and personal experiences, in Jordan’s words, “in tears, in rage, in hope, in sonnet, in blank/free verse, in overwhelming rhetorical scream.” Soulscript features works by Jordan and other luminaries like Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Gayl Jines, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Claude McKay, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Richard Wright, as well as the fresh voices of a turbulent era’s younger writers. Celebrated spoken-word poet Staceyann Chin, an original cast member of Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, has also added an introduction that speaks to Jordan’s legacy, helping to further cement soulscript as a visionary compilation that has already become a modern classic.
This Art
Author: Michael WiegersPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619321165
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The centuries have changed little in this art, The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth Rexroth Why poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"? Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement. As Marvin Bell has written, "Writing is all and everything." This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry—which draws widely from Copper Canyon’s 30-year backlist of poetry books—proves him right. Poets write out of love and longing: Lord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem —Cyrus Cassells Poets confront suffering: since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.—David Budbill And poets write in order to live fully: We all stumble into ourselves /like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters,/ while the page gallops out of our reach—Rebecca Seiferle Only poetry lasts.—Ho Xuan Huong Michael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press. CONTRIBUTORS Included: [box] Kay Boyle, Olga Broumas, Hayden Carruth, Norman Dubie, Han Shan, Jim Harrison, Carolyn Kizer, W.S. Merwin, Jane Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, Ruth Stone, Anna Swir
Betty Foy
Author: Jaich EmenThe Art and Life of Clarence Major
Author: Keith Eldon ByermanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The author traces Major's life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.
This Is the Honey
Author: Kwame AlexanderPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316417785
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy, “each incantation,” as Mahogany L. Browne puts it in her titular poem, is “a jubilee of a people dreaming wildly.” This essential collection, in the tradition of Dudley Randall’s The Black Poets and E. Ethelbert Miller’s In Search of Color Everywhere, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise. Jacqueline A.Trimble likens “Black woman joy” to indigo, tassels, foxes, and peacock plumes. Tyree Daye, Nate Marshall, and Elizabeth Acevedo reflect on the meaning of “home” through food, from Cuban rice and beans to fried chicken gizzards. Clint Smith and Cameron Awkward-Rich enfold us in their intimate musings on love and devotion. From a “jewel in the hand” (Patricia Spears Jones) to “butter melting in small pools” (Elizabeth Alexander), This Is the Honey drips with poignant and delightful imagery, music, and raised fists. Fresh, memorable, and deeply moving, this definitive collection a must-have for any lover of language and a gift for our time.
The Universal Songster, Or, Museum of Mirth
Author: The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete ... Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language, with a ... Classified Index. ... Embellished with a ... Frontispiece and ... Wood-cuts, Designed by George and Robert Cruikshank, Etc
Author: Who We Are
Author: Sara MaddenPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665539941
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
After being raised by her grandparents for 12 years, everything changes for Missy Lou Button the day she turns thirteen. It is her first birthday without her beloved grandpa. Now, Missy Lou and her grandma Sweet Betty Sue struggle to live without him. But Missy Lou’s thirteenth year brings unexpected adventures with her best friend, C.E. Zog, who secretly wishes he was Superman. All Missy Lou wants to do is protect him from the bullies at school, read comics, fish at the creek, find out more about her mother, and try to forget that her father abandoned her when she was a little girl. While she struggles to come to terms with the information she finds out about her life, she saves a puppy from a storm, realizes what it truly means to be a hero, and finally understands that she will always have her grandpa in her heart.