Perfect Black
Perfect Black

Author: Crystal Wilkinson

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0813151333

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2022 NAACP Image Award Winner Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia. In Perfect Black, the acclaimed writer muses on such topics as motherhood, the politics of her Black body, lost fathers, mental illness, sexual abuse, and religion. It is a captivating conversation about life, love, loss, and pain, interwoven with striking illustrations by her long-time partner, Ronald W. Davis.

The Next Crystal Text
The Next Crystal Text

Author: Melissa Mack

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781937421267

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Poetry. California Interest. THE NEXT CRYSTAL TEXT connects the glittering consumption of gems to the brutal exploitation of their production, undermining our cultural myths of beauty, wealth, and the feminine. These multiform poems accrete language from geology and political resistance into a faceted amalgam that's completely original. Dazzling and various, it both mimics and critiques the intricacy of global capitalist systems.

Crystal Flowers
Crystal Flowers

Author: Florine Stettheimer

Publisher: Department of Reissue

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897388723

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Poetry. Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist of German-Jewish heritage living in New York. She was a painter, designer, and poet. Together with her sisters Ettie and Carrie, Stettheimer hosted a legendary salon on the Upper West Side, where they entertained the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, Henri McBride, and Georgia O'Keeffe. In 1934 Stettheimer designed the set and costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts to much acclaim. In 1949, Ettie collected Florine's poems in CRYSTAL FLOWERS, a privately printed, elegant edition of 250. In addition to these rare poems, this new volume offers formerly unpublished material culled from archives, including three new poems and Stettheimer's libretto for her ballet "Orph e of the Quat-z-arts." Gammel and Zelazo have re-situated this overlooked poet among her modernist sisters, presenting her as an important practitioner of a modernism that integrates multiple art forms. Sixty years after it first appeared for a select few, her poetry shines for a new generation of readers ready to appreciate her irreverent camp aesthetic and her exuberant painterly style.

Rewilding
Rewilding

Author: Crystal Gibbins

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781733976343

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Rewilding: Poems for the Environment is an essential volume of contemporary poetry that encourages us to reevaluate and restore our relationship with the nonhuman world, featuring poems by Camille Dungy, Joy Harjo, Ted Kooser, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Craig Santos Perez, Karen Solie, and a 100 more renowned and emerging poets.

The Crystal Text
The Crystal Text

Author: Clark Coolidge

Publisher: Sun and Moon Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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The occasion for this poetic meditation is a colorless quartz crystal sitting upon the writer's desk. The crystal is as still and irreducible as a death's head in St. Jerome's study or Cezanne's studio. But what would the crystal reveal, if it could speak? How might the issue of its presence be brought into language? The poet of The Crystal Text, by means of a rare stamina of attention and listening vulnerability, seeks to become the medium of the crystal's transmissions. Like many other Coolidge works, The Crystal Text sounds the depths of a visionary excavation of present being. Faced daily, Coolidge's quest is to know anything, to write everything. And what is revealed here in the glancing light of his language's mineral beauty is the writing mind itself. Its precision, its weights and measures, its peerless word choice and shutter speed all combine in passages of inspired momentum to bring the reader cognitions of a unique and exemplary kind.

Poetry And Beyond
Poetry And Beyond

Author: Crystal Liandra

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781008918481

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The purpose of this book is to share some of my spiritual journey in the form of poetry, hoping that it inspires you to live and brings you closer to God who is love. Every word in this book is inspired by the love of God. I pray that it finds you well. May God bless and keep you, in the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Amen