The Task, and Other Poems
The Task, and Other Poems

Author: William Cowper

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13:

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By William Cowper is a collection of profound and introspective poetry from one of the 18th century's most celebrated poets. Cowper's verses touch upon themes of nature, spirituality, and the human condition. His lyrical prowess and deep reflections make this collection a timeless classic, resonating with readers across generations.

Angel's Task
Angel's Task

Author: Laurie L. Patton

Publisher: Station Hill Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781581771442

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Laurie Patton's Poems in Biblical Time give contemplative voice to the reading cycle of the Jewish year. Replete with ancient imagery coming alive in the language of the present, each poem weaves scripture into everyday life while refocusing a single Biblical moment. In her vision here, angels are also messengers sent to earth with a single piece of work to accomplish. Although we are of so many minds burdened with so many tasks, as readers we again receive messengers and the messages they bring. Recognition may come in the angelic voice, and we can meet angels and ourselves at the tent door in the heat of the day. Angel's Task urges continuous awe-or trembling.

History and Other Poems
History and Other Poems

Author: Brenda Marie Osbey

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781568091792

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Poetry. African American Studies. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS takes as its task nothing less than an examination and mapping of the never-ending evil of history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the still-palpable effects of European and American colonialism some seven centuries after the making of the New World. Making, breaking and rebuilding language and languages to suit the needs of her characters and the worlds they struggle to survive in and against, Brenda Marie Osbey has created a compelling study of human will and the determination to wrest life and liberty from destinies long ago written out of history as we know it. Aided by an extensive glossary and notes, this volume takes the reader on a series of gruesome journeys across the Americas, from Columbus's first encounter with the Guanahani Indians to the author's native New Orleans, trailing violence, destruction and oppression with every step, marking the geography of evil on the map of this New World. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS moves from present to past and back again to reveal the trauma of hearts and lives broken even as it underscores the heroic endurance, resilience and agency of the enslaved and their descendants.

Wild Gratitude
Wild Gratitude

Author: Edward Hirsch

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 0307761983

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An excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude: "Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey, And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth, And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens, And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air, And listened to her solemn little squeals of delight, I was thinking about the poet, Christopher Smart, Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing In everyone of the splintered London streets, And was locked away in the madhouse at St. Luke's With his sad religious mania, and his wild gratitude, And his grave prayers for the other lunatics, And his great love for his speckled cat, Jeoffry. All day today—August 13, 1983—I remembered how Christopher Smart blessed this same day in August, 1759, For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience."