Trophy Girl and Other Poems
Trophy Girl and Other Poems

Author: Carmel McCarthy

Publisher: Pneuma Springs Publishing

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1907728309

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

There are various poems and themes in this collection. 'Trophy Girl' explores the superficiality of fashion. On the other hand 'Reply from an Agony Aunt' is a cry for help from a young woman with low self-esteem. It is back to childhood days in 'Pinkeens' and a beautiful description of the garden in 'A Summer's Day.' There is sadness in 'Stopping Bye' the house of her birth and the feelings of a child is described in 'Lost Child.'Then there are several poems about birds and animals and their antics - the greedy jackdaw, and the terns on Sandymount strand getting ready for their annual trip south. The caring diligent cat in 'Mother Cat', the huge alligator with enormous jaws looking for food-which could be you, because that is what you are to him. No smiles there, he is what he is with no apologies.'Be Here Now' the guru advises the reader to be in the moment or it is gone forever. Then there is 'Needen' the playful donkey who surely lives in the moment.

Trophy Girl
Trophy Girl

Author: Marlis Manley

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781685131258

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Preparing for a career-defining championship, a charismatic car-racing legend gets stuck with a 14-year-old runaway claiming she's his daughter, until her aunt comes to rescue her--and maybe him.

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing
Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing

Author: Topaz Winters

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2024-08-27

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1638341141

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters’ Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe Baird. An examination of desire as religion, food as compulsion, & illness as a gut reflex in the face of girlhood’s little violences, Portrait haunts the landscape of self-mythology & cuts straight into its own marrow. This book is a howl in the night, a fracture through the dark, as omnivorous & revelatory today as it was five years ago. “Must I say it to survive?” asks its speaker, balanced on the knife’s edge between confessional & manifesto. “Then I will.”

Four-Legged Girl
Four-Legged Girl

Author: Diane Seuss

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1555979114

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Diane Seuss writes with the intensity of a soothsayer." —Laura Kasischke For, having imagined your body one way I found it to be another way, it was yielding, but only as the Destroying Angel mushroom yields, its softness allied with its poison, and your legs were not petals or tendrils as I'd believed, but brazen, the deviant tentacles beneath the underskirt of a secret queen —from "Oh four-legged girl, it's either you or the ossuary" In Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl, her audacious, hothouse language swerves into pain and rapture, as she recounts a life lived at the edges of containment. Ghostly, sexy, and plaintive, these poems skip to the tune of a jump rope, fill a wishing well with desire and other trinkets, and they remember past lush lives in New York City, in rural Michigan, and in love. In the final poem, she sings of the four-legged girl, the body made strange to itself and to others. This collection establishes Seuss's poetic voice, as rich and emotional as any in contemporary poetry.

Records of Woman, with Other Poems
Records of Woman, with Other Poems

Author: Felicia Hemans

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0813149061

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman in 1828 at the height of her long career. In the series, which includes nineteen poems about exemplary lives, Hemans explores what it means to be a woman, challenging traditional beliefs while at the same time reinforcing persistent stereotypes. Her work celebrates the lives, events, and imagined thoughts of unremembered women from different cultures and time periods whose deeds show nobility of spirit and inner strength. In her introduction, Paula Feldman examines how Hemans's poetry shaped and was shaped by nineteenth-century literary tastes, and she reconsiders the aesthetic value of Hemans's work and the current understanding of the nature of Romanticism.

Letters to Yesenin
Letters to Yesenin

Author: Jim Harrison

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 1556592655

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sergei Yesenin was a Russian poet who, in 1925, hanged himself after writing his farewell poem in blood. Jim Harrison's "correspondence" with Yesenin is an American masterwork. In the early 1970s, Harrison was living in poverty on a hard-scrabble farm, suffering from depression and suicidal urges. He began to write daily prose-poem letters to Yesenin, confiding to his unlikely friend about sex, drunkenness, family, politics - about living for another day. Although "the rope" remained ever present, Harrison listened to his poems: "My year-old daughter's red robe hangs from the doorknob shouting Stop."