To Scorch Or Freeze
To Scorch Or Freeze

Author: Donald Davie

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-09-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9780226137551

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Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity. "Few modern poets have managed to achieve Donald Davie's sense of human worth."—Times Higher Educational Supplement

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Author: Patricia Lockwood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0698156781

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The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire “A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn’t anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of Lockwood’s lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems’ subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Author: Phillis Wheatley

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0486115291

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At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.