THE WORLD FAR AWAY is a refi ned collection of heartrending profound poems about love, nature, hope, human relations, living in poverty, politics, betrayal, provoking refl ections on everyday occurrences among other topics. Th e author takes a view into these subjects and presents them in a uniquely fresh poetic style that touches the heart and in the same breath is laced with humour. Th e collection also includes refl ections on growing up in the third world and in an insightful way takes a peek into how politics generally turns around the lives of the populace in these parts of the world.
The words of Robert Louis Stevenson make the child in “The Land of Counterpane” seem both modern and timeless. Rhyme, rhythm, and imagery help readers experience a day sick in bed with new perspective. This volume introduces readers to other great poets, too, including Lewis Carroll, John Keats, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Colorful drawings help readers imagine the goings-on in each piece of writing as they encounter surprising word choices, interesting scenes, and lively characters. From “The Masque of Oberon” to “The Elves’ Goodbye,” these poems help readers learn more about writing poetry by reading it.
Ramachandran is an extra ordinary individual who lived an ordinary life (1924-2008) His poems speak about his life, dreams, disappointments, anger, pain, joys, and sorrows. Poignant, evocative, relatable, and haunting. Kept scribbled in his notebook and not shared with any during his lifetime. His Epitaph is best said in his own words: “You lived a life full of strife, To be an example of what is life, Death descended to stop this strife, Rest is a must after such a life.” An extra ordinary reading experience penned by an ordinary man, relatable to all poetry lovers. This compilation includes four poems written by his son and daughter about late Ramachandran.
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.
This antiquarian volume contains a wonderful collection of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, including 'The Skylark' and 'The Adonis'. This seminal volume by one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century would make for a great addition to any collection, and is highly recommended for all lovers of poetry. The poems contained herein include: 'The Skylark'; 'Intellectual Beauty'; 'The Cloud'; 'Stanzas Written in Dejection', 'Near Naples'; 'Arethusa'; 'Hymn of Apollo'; 'Ode to the West Wind'; 'The Question'; 'A Song'; 'The Poet's World'; 'To Wordsworth', and 'Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats'. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) was one of the most influential Romantic poets, and is regarded as one of the finest poets in the English language. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
"A marvelous book of generous, giving poems." —Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth Far District, the transporting debut by the author of House of Lords and Commons, charts the spiritual path of a poet-speaker caught between two spheres: the culture of bush people and a luminous, dangerous sea of myth. Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology. The speaker fears the land of myth because he is loyal to the bush people, but he also desires to transcend his physical and intellectual poverty. Little by little, the two cultures come together as the speaker begins grafting childhood memories onto the realm of imagination, shaped by art, music, literature, and new glimpses of the world. Written in both traditional and formless verse, as well as in English and Jamaican patois, Far District is an indelible, urgent collection. As the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award committee said of its 2011 winner, “Far District is a classic, which is to say a rare and exemplary first book.”
Poetry. Edited by Andrew Peart. In 2015, while, in his words, "dismantling my house in New Jersey and preparing it for sale," Ed Roberson discovered in some envelopes in his attic a manuscript he thought lost, drawn from the experiences of the summer of 1970, when the poet, along with two friends, rode cross-country from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and back on two BMW motorcycles. The recovery of this manuscript,--over forty years later--alerted Roberson to the fact that he had been relating to its material ever since, yielding for him work that "calls across the span of a lifetime." MPH is Roberson's epic, serial road poem, decades in the making, stamped with and guided by the talisman of its title. "one thing visible every day / any time 24/7 / for 3 months 8000 miles / was mph // on the speedometer. / a small petty thing. / a pin. / down of a larger / limiting. // a sighting an ideograph / even more than a picture beyond word."
