Capture the Experience Through Poetry
Capture the Experience Through Poetry

Author: Juliet Wilson

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1608443450

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Capture the Experience Through Poetry Today will certainly reassure, warm, console, enlighten, and uplift the heart of those who read them. The poems in Capture... Today not only reveal the writer's passion as a caring person but possess as well the potential to bring caring others together... They are replete with possibilities... Margaret R. Poole, MSN, ARNP Relevant, reflective, resounding, insightful, inspirational, timely and timeless are but few of the words that can be used to describe these poems. I say this is not only a "must read"; it is also a resource tool for each of us as we journey through this life, and prepare for the next one. Keep writing Juliet, God's hands are upon you. Bishop Dr. John M.R. Gordon What a wonderfully witty collection of poems As a physician I personally enjoyed Juliet's whimsical multi-faceted views of life within the hospital walls. It is truly a special talent to review and revamp our daily experiences into such comedic storytelling. I look forward to hearing her funny take on future events with much anticipation. Kitonga Kiminyo, M.D. "Capture The Experience Through Poetry" was an idea birthed into my spirit by God's Holy Spirit. I work in a hospital in Boynton Beach Florida, where I care for people from all different backgrounds with myriads of illnesses. On November 4th 2008, I wrote a poem about Election Day, and over the months that followed, I started to write for coworkers and patients alike. I decided to put these poems together in a book and divide them into different sections that would speak to various life experiences. Whether you are living and enjoying your life or going through a trying time and dealing with death and dying, this book can walk you through the experience with a poem that speaks to your situation. You will end up singing, praying, sharing your life experience with others and adding a bit of humor and encouragement to your life. There are poems in the book that can help you with different situations: If you are dealing with the loss of a loved one. If you are a patient or a hospital worker. If you want to add some humor to your stressful day. If you are happy, sad or just struggling in life. If you have failed or want a deeper relationship with your God. If you are discouraged and need to find hope and encouragement. You can capture your various experiences in this one poetry book. Capture The Experience Through Poetry today. There is a poem inside waiting just for you."

WHEREAS
WHEREAS

Author: Layli Long Soldier

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1555979610

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The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Nobody Told Me
Nobody Told Me

Author: Hollie McNish

Publisher: Blackfriars

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0349134340

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Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 'This book should be required reading for anyone thinking of having a baby, or even anyone who knows someone who is thinking of having a baby' Scotland on Sunday 'Fascinating and honest' Mumsnet 'Like talking to a friend' Observer There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These were on top of the many other things she didn't know about babies: how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby as an audience member; how drum'n'bass can make a great lullaby. And that's before you even start on toddlers. But Hollie learned. And she's still learning, slowly. Nobody Told Me is a collection of poems and stories; Hollie's thoughts on raising a child in modern Britain, of trying to become a parent in modern Britain, of sex, commercialism, feeding, gender and of finding secret places to scream once in a while.

Can You Catch My Flow?
Can You Catch My Flow?

Author: Lidy Wilks

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-02-25

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781508479673

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We wake and sleep every day. Growing up, as we must. Debut poetry chapbook Can You Catch My Flow? captures the everyday ordinary events of the human condition in poetic snapshots. No matter the walks of life, the reader is sure to find themselves within the lines. Lidy's poetry reveals an understanding that deep meaning can be felt in the details. Her poetry portrays a range of topics from the pressures to conform to societal expectations, friendship, monarch butterflies, partying, insomnia, and the quest for peace...just to name a few. Enjoy!- Shelah L. Maul From emerging from our cocoons, everything we have become is forever ingrained upon us. And hopeful for the next destination, we flap our wings and await the storm. -excerpt, Arrival of the Monarch

Why Poetry
Why Poetry

Author: Matthew Zapruder

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0062343092

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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

Author: Pádraig Ó. Tuama

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 132403548X

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“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.

Strange Big Moon
Strange Big Moon

Author: Joanne Kyger

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9781556433375

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Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether she is studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.

Origins of the Dream
Origins of the Dream

Author: W. Jason Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813062006

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"Majestic. Grounded in astute interpretations of how speech acts function in history, this book is an exemplary model for future inquiries about the confluence of thought, poetry, and social action."--Jerry Ward Jr., coeditor of The Cambridge History of African American Literature "A vade mecum for those interested in the cultural ingredients, the political values, and the artistic sensibilities that united Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. in spirit, thought, and outlook. Masterfully conceived, meticulously researched, and gracefully written, this book breaks new ground."--Lewis V. Baldwin, author of There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. "Archival material is spotlighted in Miller's exploration of the ways Martin Luther King Jr. enlarged the appeal of his rhetoric by using poetry in his speeches. Readers will emerge with a greater appreciation of both King and Langston Hughes."--Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, editor of The Later Simple Stories (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 8) "Miller's study provides an original, engaging and provocative thesis that explores the hitherto unexplored links between two twentieth century African American icons."--John A. Kirk, editor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations. In Origins of the Dream, W. Jason Miller lifts that veil to demonstrate how Hughes's revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King's voice, and that the influence can be found in more than just the one famous speech. Miller contends that by employing Hughes's metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet's subversive voice. He argues that by using allusion rather than quotation, King avoided intensifying the threats and accusations against him, while allowing the nation to unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind Hughes's poetry.

Years Spent
Years Spent

Author: Lalit Kumar

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2022-01-03

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1684946271

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A journey of 10,000 miles Across India and USA, A few milestones of Success, failure and hope. Countless moments of Adventure, passion and desires. Encapsulated in this book – ‘Years Spent: Exploring Poetry in Adventure, Life and Love’

Here, Bullet
Here, Bullet

Author: Brian Turner

Publisher: Alice James Books

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1938584147

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A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.