Through the Eyes of a Poet

Through the Eyes of a Poet

Author: Sjk

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1512723657

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This book is about life, love, hurt, pain, life, and death, all of the many phases that affect us as human beings. Through poetic artistry, Through the Eyes of a Poet speaks from the heart several glimpses of who we are and how to overcome. Over the course of several years, writing poetry and this collection have captured the voice of God through the heart of a woman, a sister, a daughter, a friend. Because of her ability to hear the Spirits voice, she survived and was made even stronger. I want to share with you what helped me. Poetry is what poetry gives.


The Poet X

The Poet X

Author: Elizabeth Acevedo

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0062662821

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Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent. “Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation “An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost “Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street This young adult novel, a selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List, is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 6 to 8. Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land!


The Eye of the Poet

The Eye of the Poet

Author: David Baker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9780195132557

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Featuring contributions from widely published and practicing poets who are also experienced teachers and presenters of poetry, The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of the Art and Craft of Poetry provides students and other readers with invaluable practical advice. Ideal for courses in poetry writing and creative writing, it includes six sections written by Billy Collins, Carol Muske, David Baker and Ann Townsend, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, and David Citino. These poets speak their minds about their relationship with their art and craft, offering guidance to writers at all levels of experience from the beginner to the veteran. In his section, Billy Collins looks at the ways reading and writing poetry give readers pleasure, while Carol Muske's essay examines the question, "What is a poem?" David Baker and Ann Townsend discuss the formal and musical aspects of composing and reading poems; they include many engaging exercises and directions to further reading. Yusef Komunyakaa enrolls readers in a virtual poetry workshop, Maxine Kumin considers the necessities and demands of audience, and David Citino talks about the roles that poets play as they conceive and execute their work. In their essays, the contributors include examples of poems--written by themselves or others--to illustrate key points. While the chapters are meant to be self-contained explorations, they are also interrelated parts of the volume as a whole. The Eye of the Poet is a stimulating conversation in which successful poets share with readers their enthusiasm, knowledge, and vision, as well as their estimation of the possibilities of the poem. In this book, students of poetry will discover the wide variety of options available to them when they sit down to create their own works.


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Author: Whitney Hanson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780578327105

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A Poet's Haggadah

A Poet's Haggadah

Author: Rick Lupert

Publisher: Ain't Got No Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780972755580

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36 Poets reinterpret the traditional themes and text of the Passover Haggadah through their own unique lenses. Edited by Los Angeles Poet Rick Lupert (Creator of the Poetry Super Highway) Includes work from Helen Bar-Lev, Lynne Bronstein, Salvatore Buttaci, Howard Camner, Larry Colker, devin davis, Barbara Elovic, Robert Klein Engler, David Gershator, Leslie Halpern, Claudia Handler, Daniel Y. Harris, Elizabeth Iannaci, Marc Jampole, Rachel Kann, Beth Kanter, Peggy Landsman, Michael Levy, Jake Marmer, Ellyn Maybe, Heather McNaugher, Daniel Olivas, Judith Pacht, Jaimes Palacio, Jonathan Penton, Joan Pond, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Richard Schiffman, G. David Schwartz, Adam Shechter, Diana Sher, Scott Alixander Sonders, Julia Stein, S. Thomas Summers, Pam Ward and Misha Weidman.


The Eye of the Poet

The Eye of the Poet

Author: Amy Golahny

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"The ten essays in The Eye of the Poet examine poetic texts on real or imaginary painting and sculpture. Written by both art historians and literary historians, this collection is truly interdisciplinary between the sister arts of painting and poetry, or image and word. Methodologically diverse, the essays combine current critical approaches with historical ones. Unifying the essays is a prime emphasis of the analyses of viewer and reader, artist and audience, meaning in text and image, and criticism and its history. All of these concerns relate to ekphrasis as an interpretive strategy." "Providing a variety of case studies involving poetic texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection responds to the need for intensive analysis of critical instances of poetic interpretation of imagery, and offers significant advances in the growing field of text/image study."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


The Chinese Dark Poet: Huang Xiang and His Colorful World

The Chinese Dark Poet: Huang Xiang and His Colorful World

Author: Zhengming Fu (Sweden)

Publisher: KunLun Press

Published:

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13:

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Huang Xiang 黄翔, the protagonist of this book, was born on 26th December 1941 in Guidong county, Hunan province of central China. After the Communists came to power in 1949, he was imprisoned six times and severely persecuted for his free-spirited writing and his campaigns for human rights. For more than thirty years, this self-educated poet and writer, wrote secretly against the bondage of totalitarian ideology to safe-guard the freedom of speech. According to the author of the book, Huang is a great dark poet who has expressed the painful memories, fears and struggles that haunted his life creating wonderful poetic beauty in the darkness. His poetic creation is a miracle in the history of Chinese contemporary literature. We may say that Huang's identity as an unknown dark poet is conditioned by his personal, emotional and tragic experiences of struggles while facing historical events such as the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the April 5th Movement in 1976, the Democracy Wall Movement in 1978 and the Pro-Democracy Movement in 1989 in China.


A Poet's Heart - Anthology

A Poet's Heart - Anthology

Author: LeArthur Antonio Lee

Publisher: LeArthur Antonio Lee

Published: 2016-06-04

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1533608458

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This is a collection of poetry from previous works compiled into one book for all to enjoy. Topics/emotions range from love, anger, depression, healing, intimacy, and random thoughts.