Alcohol and Poetry
Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13:
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Portrait of the Alcoholic
Author: Kaveh Akbar
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9781943977277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPortrait of the Alcoholic is the first chapbook of poems from Ruth Lilly-winner and founding editor of Divedapper, Kaveh Akbar.
On Drinking
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0062857959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed “dirty old man,” Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired. In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer’s most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff—a topic that allowed Bukowski to explore some of life’s most pressing questions. Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “Drinking,”: “for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.” On Drinking is a powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers.
Poetic Alcoholic
Author: Hasan J. Syed
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-17
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780692119396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of some of my finest work and random thoughts that I had laid on this blank canvas. Notions of such creations that I have brought you from my travels across this globe; poems about sadness, happiness and all those emotions that bring you to the depths of your mind. Words of those people who were just pit stops for those who created and destroyed each other while I stood and painted these beautiful literatures. From all that, I give you my perspective of all those beautiful moments where I sat intoxicated in all your auras and discovered that beauty exists in all the madness and sorrows that concern how we exist with one another. Here are all the stories of all those who broke and gave me the most beautiful flowers.
Last Call
Author: Sarah Gorham
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780964115187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGroundbreaking anthology of poetry on substance abuse and recovery.
Blood Ties and Brown Liquor
Author: Sean Hill
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0820330930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poems in this collection transform the author's hometown into a poetic
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Author: torrin a. greathouse
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1571317155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.
Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery
Author: Jack McCarthy
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2013-07-06
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1938912152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForty years sober when he neared the end of his life, Jack McCarthy gives the world something special in his final collection of poetry and true stories. This is his legacy to the people who saved his life. Jack McCarthy's poem "Drunks” has gone around the world on recovery websites and is one of the most popular poems on the harsh climb out of alcoholism to date.
Baudelaire ; & Athena's Screech Owl
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalling a Wolf a Wolf
Author: Kaveh Akbar
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1938584724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny Howe This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight. From "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before" Sometimes you just have to leave whatever's real to you, you have to clomp through fields and kick the caps off all the toadstools. Sometimes you have to march all the way to Galilee or the literal foot of God himself before you realize you've already passed the place where you were supposed to die. I can no longer remember the being afraid, only that it came to an end. Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.
