The Revolution Will Rhyme
The Revolution Will Rhyme

Author: Cornel West

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-10-07

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13:

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The revolution will be led by Black women who are just tired enough to do it ourselves Welcome to the revolution! In her second collection, Jillian Hanesworth explores the idea of revolutionary change through a personal and community lens. The internal revolution details some of her most personal thoughts, insecurities, pains, and triumphs, while the external revolution displays her work and love for her community by speaking truth to power, calling for change, recounting history, and empowering people to walk in their own light. This book also features a transcribed conversation with Dr. Cornel West about using the arts to build political power. The revolution starts now.

Buffalo Dance
Buffalo Dance

Author: Frank X Walker

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2022-11-08

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0813196477

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When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form a narrative of York's inner journey before, during, and after the expedition—a journey from slavery to freedom, from the plantation to the great Northwest, from servant to soul yearning to be free. In this expanded edition, Walker utilizes extensive historical research, interviews, transcribed oral histories from the Nez Perce Reservation, art, and empathy to breathe new life into an important but overlooked historical figure. Featuring a new historical essay, preface, and sixteen additional poems, this powerful work speaks to such themes as racism, the power of literacy, the inhumanity of slavery, and the crimes against Native Americans, while reawakening and reclaiming the lost "voice" of York.

Buffalo Yoga
Buffalo Yoga

Author: Charles Wright

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-07-29

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1466877472

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The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge, And evening with its blotting paper lifts off the light. Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines --"Landscape with Missing Overtones" Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence where the reader says to himself, if this is not wisdom, I don't know what is" (The New York Review of Books). The poems in Buffalo Yoga are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch--"crows in a caterwaul" are "scored like black notes in the bare oak"--and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties."

Exclusions
Exclusions

Author: Noah Falck

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781946482334

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Poems about the absence of things, revealing what remains or is left behind.

The Peacock and the Buffalo
The Peacock and the Buffalo

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1441118608

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The first complete English translation of Nietzsche's poetry.

That Ex
That Ex

Author: Rachelle Toarmino

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781941985106

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Poetry. Rachelle Toarmino's debut collection of poems is "The Glass Essay" for the Tinder generation, a fiery and playful exploration of the tropes, stereotypes, and all-too-real experiences that come with being an ex. While the title suggests a meditation on leaving and being left--on absence, even on woundedness--there are no ghosts in this book. Instead, the reader finds Britney Spears and other archetypal exes and troubled lovers, from Carmela Soprano and Lorde to Anne Carson and Molly Bloom. They don't haunt the rooms of these poems: they party in them, fill them with their laughter, rage, and tender longing. Unbroken and big-hearted, they sing together of magic and pain, of old fights and new gambles, of getting over a breakup and getting over yourself.

Post-Jazz Poetics
Post-Jazz Poetics

Author: J. Ryan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0230109098

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African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women have created literature, music, and political statements signifying some of the most incisive and complex elements of modern American culture. Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. These writers engagements with jazz-based compositional devices represent a new strand of radical black poetics, while their renditions of local-to-global social critique sketch the outlines of a transnational feminism.

Feeling as a Foreign Language
Feeling as a Foreign Language

Author: Alice Fulton

Publisher:

Published: 1999-03

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she falls in love with an outrageous 17th century poet, argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters, and calls for a courageous poetics of inconvenient knowledge.

Search Party
Search Party

Author: William Matthews

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2005-04-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0547348606

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From the prize-winning poet: “A stunning volume . . . A master of the understatement, Matthews is wryly philosophical and self-deprecating.” —Booklist When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and including twenty-three previously unpublished poems, Search Party is the essential compilation of this beloved poet's work. Edited by his son, Sebastian Matthews, and William Matthews's friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly (who also introduces the book), Search Party is an excellent introduction to the poet and his glistening riffs on twentieth-century topics from basketball to food to jazz.

The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems

Author: Robert Frost

Publisher: Arrow

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780099583097

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No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. This is a comprehensive volume of his verse, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, meticulously edited by Edward Connery Lathem.