The Nightgown & Other Poems
The Nightgown & Other Poems

Author: Taisia Kitaiskaia

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1646050282

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The Nightgown is a mythic, mystic, and hungry collection of poems, a roiling landscape wandered over by wild swerves of language, creatures of all sorts, and mysterious beings such as The Folklore, The Hurt Opera, The Eunuch, and the titular angry Nightgown. Haunted by the magic and transformations of Slavic and Western European fairy tales, the symbolism of the Tarot, the medieval world, feminism, and a mythology all its own, The Nightgown bears an immigrant’s fascination with the black, alien syrup of the English language’s first stratum, that merciless Anglo-Saxon word-hoard preserving an ancient consciousness of human, beast, and earth. Funny and loud, the poems are strangely accessible in their animal awareness of mortality and urgency for contact with the unknown. The Nightgown is the debut book of poetry from renowned writer Taisia Kitaiskaia (Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers).

Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda

Author: Monica Brown

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 080509198X

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Describes the life and times of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet.

The First Free Women
The First Free Women

Author: Matty Weingast

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0834842688

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An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The original authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.

The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon
The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon

Author: Nancy Willard

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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On the billionth birthnight of the full moon, the moon finally gets what she's really wanted--a nightgown such as people on Earth wear.

Grief Sequence
Grief Sequence

Author: Prageeta Sharma

Publisher: Wave Books

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 1950268225

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Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in trauma. In doing so she shows that grief, frustrating to logic and yet as real as any experience we might know, is ripe for the sort of intellectual and emotional processing of which poetry is most capable.

A Sleepwalk on the Severn
A Sleepwalk on the Severn

Author: Alice Oswald

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 0393355985

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An early work from the acclaimed poet of Memorial and Falling Awake, appearing for the first time in the United States. A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald’s signature sensitivity to nature, the poem chronicles a night on the Severn Estuary as the moonrise travels through its five stages: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon, and moon reborn.

Dress Made of Mice
Dress Made of Mice

Author: Sarah Messer

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781625579249

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Poetry. "A long time ago, when I was real, I tried on A DRESS MADE OF MICE. It is a dress covered in a thin layer of fur so ancient and alive, slipping into it casts a spell on dear reader, turned my one heart into three: gave me a ghost heart, an animal heart, and kept my own heart true. Erotic, and dangerous, and strange, this dress leaves behind the scent of fossil and fable, 'its thousands skins fluttering ghost gray.' When I slipped it off, I swear I heard it say: 'Come back from the dead and write one more thing.' Its 'teeth left a perfect circle on my thigh.' I don't know where Messer gets her golden needles, or how she has stitched such a cloak of kindness and weep and tremble. I dare you to find out. I dare you to try it on." Sabrina Orah Mark"