Apple

Apple

Author: Eric Gansworth

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1646140141

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National Book Award Longlist TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 NPR's Best Book of 2020 Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon's Best Book of the Month AICL Best YA Books of 2020 CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of 2020 PRAISE "Stirring.... Raw and moving." —TIME "Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald." —The Buffalo News "Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives." —LitHub "A powerful narrative about identity and belonging." —Paste Magazine FOUR STARRED REVIEWS ★ "Timely and important." —Booklist, starred review ★ "Searing yet dryly funny." —The Bulletin, starred review ★ "Exceptional." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review ★ "Captivating." —School Library Journal, starred review The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In APPLE (SKIN TO THE CORE), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family—of Onondaga among Tuscaroras—of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.


A Wall of Two

A Wall of Two

Author: Henia Karmel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-10-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780520940741

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Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Kraków ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they worked by day and hid them in their clothing. During what she thought were the last days of her life, Henia entrusted the poems to a cousin who happened to pass her in the forced march at the end of the war. The cousin gave them to Henia's husband in Kraków, who would not locate and reunite with his wife for another six months. This is the first English publication of these extraordinary poems. Fanny Howe's deft adaptations preserve their freshness and innocence while making them entirely compelling. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946.


52 Poems for Men

52 Poems for Men

Author: Jay Amberg

Publisher:

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780970841605

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Every poem in this collection speaks deeply and directly to men, capturing precious moments, powerful insights, and honest glimpses of life. The themes are universal: birth, death, love, loss, war, beauty, and family. Both classic and contemporary poetic masters are represented, including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Langston Hughes, and Dylan Thomas. Each poet speaks to men in voices and language they trust and understand, without using contrived poetic forms, avant-garde imagery, or esoteric references. This powerful anthology will leave no reader unmoved.


The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems

Author: William Stanley Merwin

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 155659139X

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Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.


Two Menus

Two Menus

Author: Rachel DeWoskin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-04-17

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 022668220X

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There are two menus in a Beijing restaurant, Rachel DeWoskin writes in the title poem, “the first of excess, / second, scarcity.” DeWoskin invites us into moments shaped by dualities, into spaces bordered by the language of her family (English) and that of her new country (Chinese), as well as the liminal spaces between youth and adulthood, safety and danger, humor and sorrow. This collection works by building and demolishing boundaries and binaries, sliding between their edges in movements that take us from the familiar to the strange and put us face-to-face with our assumptions and confusions. Through these complex and interwoven poems, we see how a self is never singular. Rather, it is made up of shifting—and sometimes colliding—parts. DeWoskin crosses back and forth, across languages and nations, between the divided parts in each of us, tracing overlaps and divergences. The limits and triumphs of translation, the slipperiness of relationships, and movements through land and language rise and fall together. The poems in Two Menus offer insights into the layers of what it means to be human, to reconcile living as multiple selves. DeWoskin dives into the uncertain spaces, showing us how a life lived between walls is murky, strange, and immensely human. These poems ask us how to communicate across the boundaries that threaten to divide us, to measure and close the distance between who we are, were, and want to be.


Black Book of Poems

Black Book of Poems

Author: Vincent Hunanyan

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1524862991

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Titled from lyrics of the song “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd, this well-thought poetry collection touches on the subjects of loss, love, pain, happiness, depression, abandonment, war, good vs. evil, alcoholism, religion, and complicated family relationships. Written mostly in metered, rhyming stanzas, Black Book of Poems provides a non-threatening platform for reflection and meditation on life’s most difficult challenges. This collection offers a refreshingly honest approach to life and love that feels realistic and relatable to everyone.


Don't Touch the Bones

Don't Touch the Bones

Author: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781733340021

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"Don't Touch the Bones, this remarkable second collection by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, shows its author hard at work to transform the experience of cultural losses-of lands, language, and legacy-into a poetry of remembrance, homage, and power. . . . Her poems rake the oracle bones of her family's flight from persecution, reading in their fissures a dialogic language both of sorrow and determination. -Garrett Hongo, author of Coral Road"--