When the World Didn't End: Poems
When the World Didn't End: Poems

Author: Caroline Kaufman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0062910396

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Teen Instagram sensation and author of Light Filters In @poeticpoison returns with a second collection of short, powerful poems about love, forgiveness, self-discovery, and what it’s like living after a hard-fought battle with depression, in the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and the princess saves herself in this one. In her second book of poetry, Instagram sensation Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—explores the shock, wonder, and beauty of an uncertain future. When the World Didn’t End is a vivid account of trying to find a path forward while reckoning with the pain of the past, embracing imperfection, and unlearning the language of self-criticism. It’s an ode to the awkward silence between goodbye and hanging up, to hearts that continue to beat after they’re broken, to the empty spaces that depression leaves behind. With vulnerability and insight, this powerful collection of short poems holds up a mirror to the doubt and longing inside us all. This collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline’s account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, When the World Didn’t End will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike. so, what now? how will you make the most of it? how will you live the life you never thought you’d get the chance to see?

Light Filters In: Poems
Light Filters In: Poems

Author: Caroline Kaufman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0062844695

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In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are. This collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, Light Filters In will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike. it’s okay if some things are always out of reach. if you could carry all the stars in the palm of your hand, they wouldn’t be half as breathtaking

Without End
Without End

Author: Adam Zagajewski

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-03-18

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0374528616

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I love to swim in the sea, which keeps talking to itself in the monotone of a vagabond who no longer recalls exactly how long he's been on the road. Swimming is like prayer: palms join and part, join and part, almost without end. --from "On Swimming" Without End draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print--Tremor, Canvas, and Mysticism for Beginners--and features new work that is among his most refreshing and rewarding. These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Author: Franny Choi

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0063240106

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Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022" A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what togetherness--between Black and Asian and other marginalized communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity and conquest--could look like. Bringing together Choi's signature speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On ultimately charts new paths toward hope in the aftermaths, and visions for our collective survival.

When the World Didn't End
When the World Didn't End

Author: Rose McCoy

Publisher:

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781088088746

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Rose McCoy (she/her) is a poet and writer from West Virginia. She often writes on themes of love, loss, and other things that hit her in the heart. She has been published by The Passionfruit Review, Moonbow Magazine, Bottlecap Press, Ghost Girls Zine, Bullshit Lit, and more. She can be found online @24hrmccoy and in person on rare occasions. WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is her second chapbook. "To read WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is to spy a cactus wren trying to take forgotten holiday tinsel through a barbed wire in order to build the perfect nest for their mate-terrifying, but so mesmerizing you can't turn away. Rose McCoy weaves words through these pages like silk prophecies from another nebula-the teeth of paper dragons, laughter at an old joke, God as a teenage girl trying her best to fix the mess we made of all that she gave. WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is the petals falling on your head when you walk outside after a hard rain. It's the sweet song your grandma never got to teach you but always wanted to. It's the bit of endorphin bliss after an anxiety attack. WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is a must read." - Clem Flowers, author of New Flowers For The Blue Dogs & LUSH EYED//BLEED MOONSHINE "Contemporary and raw yet still tender, WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is a love letter to surrender. McCoy gives herself over to her faith, her guilt, her body, and her unflinching desire to exist as her truest self. Not only does the world go on, but so does her spirit, her fire, her will." -Emily Perkovich, EIC of Querencia Press & author of baby, sweetheart, honey

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

Author: J. D. McClatchy

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1996-06-25

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 0679741151

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This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

World Without End
World Without End

Author: Claude Wilkinson

Publisher: Slant

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1532699573

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World Without End, Claude Wilkinson's fourth poetry collection, takes its title from the last words of the Gloria Patri. But the preceding words--"as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be"-- also echo the book's overarching theme: the seemingly infinite spiritual implications woven throughout our experience in the natural world. The poems are organized into meditations on family and community, spiritual worldviews, art and its insights, and nature's endless source of ever-relevant metaphor. The poems also speak to each other across these sections--and even with poems in Wilkinson's earlier collections. World Without End opens with "Among Other Things, My Father Teaches Me How to Mow Grass," exploring the relationship of father and son, something that is revisited later on in "Salvia." Both poems long for conciliation between father and son through yard work--restoring order in the garden, a lost Eden. Wilkinson's gift for ekphrastic poetry remains strong in World Without End, though here it is more referential and allusive. Rather than engaging specific works of art, the poet strives to understand the broader aesthetic visions of figures like Theodore Dreiser, Vincent Van Gogh, and Walter Anderson. In the title poem, a reference to Edward Hicks's The Peaceable Kingdom suggests art's ephemeral yet sustaining power--and an irrepressible yearning for a return to paradise.

Crazy Brave
Crazy Brave

Author: Joy Harjo

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-07-09

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0393073467

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A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.

Light-Gathering Poems
Light-Gathering Poems

Author: Liz Rosenberg

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-04

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780805062236

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... poems, gathered from all peoples and traditions, that blaze, inspire, and bring forth light.

I Don't Want This Poem to End
I Don't Want This Poem to End

Author: Mahmoud Darwish

Publisher: Interlink Books

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781566560009

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When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some of which are gathered together in this volume, translated into English for the first time. They include three collections from different phases in Darwish’s writing career, as well as reminiscences by friends drawn from the poet’s final years, and a moving account of the discovery of the new poems in this collection.