24 Pages and Other Poems

24 Pages and Other Poems

Author: Lisa Fishman

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781940696102

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Elegiac, brimming with beauty, and grounded in daily life on a farm. An accessible and sweet document of human experience.


I Am the World

I Am the World

Author: Charles R. Smith Jr.

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1442423021

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Photographs and rhyming text celebrate the diversity of cultures, languages, countries, and people of the world.


World Between Poems Short Stories and Essays By Iranian Americans

World Between Poems Short Stories and Essays By Iranian Americans

Author: Persis M Karim

Publisher: George Braziller Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780807614457

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This collection is the first published anthology of writings by Iranian immigrants and first generation Iranian Americans. This collection is the first published anthology of writings by Iranian immigrants and first generation Iranian Americans. Wide ranging and deeply personal, these pieces explore the Iranian community's continuing struggle to understand what it means to be Iranian in America. The selections come together to present a rich, humanizing portrait of a growing community Americans tend to view negatively. Many are intimate reflections on the pain of being alienated from the language, history, and geography of one's childhood. Others grapple with the complexities of cultural and personal identity. Iranian Americans, like any other immigrant community, must face the ongoing negotiation between past and present, their native home and their adopted home. A World Between gives voice to their unique and moving stories.


The King's Touch

The King's Touch

Author: Tom Sleigh

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2022-02-01

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1644451670

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A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic. Tom Sleigh’s poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. The King’s Touch collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, “isn’t it true that no matter how long you / wear them, masks don’t grieve, only faces do?” In this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about the fate of the planet.


World Poetry

World Poetry

Author: Katharine Washburn

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1338

ISBN-13: 9780393041309

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An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century


The King's Question

The King's Question

Author: Brian Culhane

Publisher:

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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"In The King's Question, poet Brian Culhane gathers the sometimes broken monuments of the long dead to describe how the ancient world impinges on the modern. So the Elgin Marbles prefigure the trench warfare of World War I; the lost Library of Alexandria mirrors the loss of the poet's father's library; and the Delphic oracle summons the murmur of a psychotherapist. With skilled formal craft and a daring intelligence, Culhane's poems show the mind profoundly grappling to articulate the right questions, while the gods, as always, deny any certitude."--BOOK JACKET.