Country Love and City Life, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
Country Love and City Life, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Author: Charles Henry St. John

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781331021186

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Excerpt from Country Love and City Life, and Other Poems Corporal Day; or, Country Love and City Life. In a beautiful region of valleys and hills, Of broad-bosom'd meadows and murmuring rills, Is a fair little village, whose principal street Is shaded with elms, whose branches meet Like a gothic aisle, where the heavens are seen In glimpses of azure through hangings of green. A spire or two lift their fingers above, And silently point to the mansions of Love; Two or three stores are enough to supply The people with all they desire to buy; While up from the stream, at the foot of the hill Comes ever the rumbling roll of the mill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

How to Love a Country
How to Love a Country

Author: Richard Blanco

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0807025917

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A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people—immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and where we can all truly thrive. The poems form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; a lynching in Alabama; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet’s abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed as a gay man. But despite each poem’s unique concern or occasion, all are fundamentally struggling with the overwhelming question of how to love this country.

Life in a Country Album
Life in a Country Album

Author: Nathalie Handal

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0822986957

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From migrations to pop culture, loss to la dérive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape—borders and citizenship, hybrid identities and home, freedom and pleasure. It’s a vast and moving look at the world, at what home means, and the ways we coexist in an increasingly divided world. These poems are about the dialects of the heart—those we are incapable of parting from, and those that are largely forgotten. Life in a Country Album is a vital book for our times. With this beautiful, epic collection, Nathalie Handal affirms herself as one of our most diverse and important contemporary poets.