Open the Door
Author: Dorothea Lasky
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938073298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute 'Poets in the world' series editor Ilya Kaminsky."
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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
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.
Open Gate
Author: Paul Laraque
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bilingual collection of modern Haitian Creole poetry.
The Open Door Book of Poetry
Author: Niall MacMonagle
Publisher: New Island Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781904301707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has been said that poetry is a language in itself. But for many of us, the language of poetry can be difficult. In this text Niall MacMonagle has selected 52 easy-to-read poems from the most popular poets including Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Patrick Kavanagh.
Songs for the Open Road
Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 048611029X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.
Poetry for the Planet
Author: Julia Kaylock
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-13
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780645114577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Time in the palm of our hands.' -Peter Ramm What role might poetry have in saving our planet? It is becoming increasingly clear that we all need to contribute to ensure the survival of our planet; new narratives are urgently called for. Ecopoetry has become a genre within which poets put up a searching and at times brutally honest lens through which to consider climate change, loss of biodiversity, the pollution of our air and water, and environmentally damaging industries such as mining and deforestation. Poetry for the Planet showcases the work of one hundred poets from Australia and New Zealand. Despite an astonishing variety in style, poems are united in their plea to all of us to forge a new relationship with our fractured world, and move from an attitude of short-term exploitation to one of nourishment and sustainability. All proceeds from the sale of this book to be directed to the Australian Conservation Foundation.
Push Open the Window
Author: Qingping Wang
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556593307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetic and powerful cultural exchange between the world's superpowers.
Pass the Poems Please
Author: Baskwill, Jane
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Wildthings Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780929065007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001
Author: Carolyn Forché
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 0393347664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
Toward the Open Field
Author: Melissa Kwasny
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2004-06-24
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0819566071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe historical writings that helped shape our current understandings of poetry. Toward the Open Field brings together many of the great prose pieces—essays, letters, declarations, defenses, manifestos, and apologia—by the most influential European and American poets from the Romantics to the Symbolists, Surrealists, and Moderns. Hitherto uncollected and all in English, the work in this anthology follows the changing notions of what a poem is, what a poet is, and why we read a poem, tracing the development of stylistic and ideological strategies that have spawned our current, conflicting understandings of verse. The book begins with Wordsworth's 1802 "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads and proceeds through 150 years of English language tradition, including the European poetries which greatly influenced it. These prose works allow the reader to share one of the great extended conversations by poets about poetry during a dynamic period of literary experimentation. Includes work by Charles Baudelaire, André Breton, Aimé Césaire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Mina Loy, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Paul Valéry, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.
