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Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1476712778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501121855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Kaui Hart Hemmings, and Joan Baez to Nikki Giovanni, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world.
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0062399470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.
Author: Heather Christle
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1948226456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Author: Susan Polis Schutz
Publisher: Blue Mountain Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9780883960028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany people argue that reason should guide all that we do and think, and that feelings are a weakness. This book is based on the belief that we should show our feelings, for they are what make us unique and sensitive human beings. If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999-09-17
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0684873826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey What is the lesson in abuse, neglect, abandonment, rejection? What is the lesson when you lose someone you really love? Just what are the lessons of life's hard times? Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life—one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to wisdom gained. In this simple book, she uses her own personal experiences to show how life's hardships can be re-languaged and revisioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow, heal, and learn to love. The pain of the past does not have to be today's reality. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how yesterday's tears become the seeds of today's hope, renewal, and strength.
Author: Avanti Maluste
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2008-01-09
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780670049981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe Live Not Only By Our Own Thoughts Formulated In Isolation, But Also By The Ideas And Phrases Of Others That Resonate And Move Us' Amartya Sen In The Foreword A Poem For Cry Is A Collection Of The Favourite Poems Of Ninety-One Famous Indians From Around The Globe. The Sweep Of Contributors Politicians, Writers, Sportspersons, Actors, Industrialists And Musicians And The Range Of Poems They Have Selected, Some Perennial Favourites, Others Not-So-Well-Known, Most In English, A Few From Indian Languages, Make This An Eclectic And Stimulating Collection. The Poems Are Also A Reflection Of The Commitments And Priorities' Of The People Who Have Chosen Them. Cry (Child Rights And You) Has Always Championed The Cause Of Disadvantaged Children In India. Avanti Maluste And Sudeep Doshi, Inspired By Their Love For Poetry And The Need To Make A Positive Difference In The Lives Of These Children, Worked For Over Two Years To Put This Book Together. Buying It, For Yourself Or To Gift, Allows You To Support Cry And Its Important Work For The Underprivileged Children Of India.
Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-08-07
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0307761347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHer seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions
Author: Kyle Tran Myhre
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1943735379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne part mixtape, one part disorientation guide, and one part career retrospective, Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre's debut looks you directly in the eye and doesn't let you flinch. Ranging from justice to love, community action to personal reflection, A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry is a dedication to craft. Clocking in before the rest of us are even awake, the book wastes no time. It does the work and beckons you to follow. A compilation of poems, lyrics and essays from the UN presenter, MC, and two-time National Poetry Slam champion, this book is a love song tucked into a grenade, a necessary call that demands a response.
Author: David Sarnacki
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781985724297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Cry, Smile, Wonder, David Sarnacki lays bare meaningful moments from our collective struggles and joys of being human. There are poems that will make you cry, poems to make you smile, poems about wonder and whimsy, and poems that might even touch your heart. Written in a plain conversational style, these poems are highly accessible to nontraditional readers, with an eclectic mix of inspirational topics and styles. You will find poems touching on such subject matters as: relationships, things Thrivers tell Survivors, friendships, love and divorce, family, parents and children, adoption, death, grief and loss, suicide, hope, peace and joy, days to cry and the only time to die, and goodness. You will meet a Madam, the fat boy, Olivia and her counselor, the uncelebrated beauty, peach friend, Grampa Joe, a werewolf, aging basketball players, and many others. And hopefully you will find your mind and heart open to some of the unfolding mysteries of life. From the simple to the extraordinary, from the common to the personal, there is something special in this collection for everyone. Poems include: Whispering, Fabric Store, Madam Mei, Things Thrivers Tell Survivors, Rain, Fat Boy, A Night, Coming Back To The Normal, While You're Drinking Coffee, Men Are Gathering, Fool, First A Dream, Warmest Winter Day, Baby Names, Clean Your Room, Canyon, Snowflake, Esprit, A Time To Die, Poet, Olivia's Session, Another Step, Black & White, Maya & Mama, Gabrielle's Adoption, Crayons, Sky Goddess, Looking, The Uncelebrated Beauty, The Night After The Last Day Of School, Swirls, Peach Friend, Grampa Joe's Thanksgiving Blessing, Your Challenge, D.C. On A Monday Night, Another Day, The Dream, A Son's Prayer, A Father's Day, Baby Meggie, Chaos, The Wanderer, See The Child, Thank Love, The Wind, Emma, My Love, Carly's Birthday, Presence, Dwelling, The Cracks Around, Examination, The Gift Within Us, Mystery, Ava's Letter, Moment #694,137,600, Gifts From Irish Eyes, Peace, Today I Cry, Morning Love, Hope, From The Pilgrim In The Last Pew, Letters, Regan, Solstices, No Catch, Night Woman, and The Joy Of Living
