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Tin House: Summer Reading 2018
By Rob Spillman, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur. 2018
Throw on your sunglasses and prop up the parasol, Tin House is back with another Summer Reading edition. Enjoy the…
hottest new fiction, shine some light with uniquely personal nonfiction, and then cool off in the shade with the poets.No Confession, No Mass (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By Jennifer Perrine. 2015
Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the…
human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion.Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide—in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in Juárez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own complicity in violence, “not confessing, but unearthing” former selves who were brutal and brutalized—and treating them with compassion. As the poems work through these seeming paradoxes, they also find joy, celebrating transformations and second chances, whether after the failure of a marriage, the return of a reluctant soldier from war, or the everyday passage of time.Through the play of language in received forms—abecedarian, sonnet, ballad, ghazal, villanelle, ballade—and in free verse buzzing with assonance, alliteration, and rhyme, these poems sing their resistance to violence in all its forms.Leopold's Maneuvers (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By Cortney Davis. 2004
In the venerable tradition of caregivers writing about the healing arts—a tradition peopled by the likes of Anton Chekhov, Walt…
Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, and Denise Levertov—Cortney Davis brings to poetry the experience, insight, and compassion of a nurse practitioner who daily confronts the unexpected frailties, passions, and power of the flesh. Taking the body as her text, Davis crafts her poetry from the pains of labor and the joys of birth, the depredations of disease and the sustaining hope of recovery. She trains her clear, unflinching gaze on the unfolding scene—a woman shipwrecked with a stranger; an adult reinventing childhood; an ill woman rediscovering pleasure in her body; a nurse realizing, in one harrowing instant, that she is as vulnerable as her patients—unerringly finding the particular image, the human detail, that connects reader, writer, and subject with the world. Primal, compelling, intelligent, these poems show us how to see as clearly as the poet does, with empathy and grace.Dark Matter: New Poems
By Robin Morgan. 2018
I ve had me up my sleeve I ve pulled me from my hat I ve…
planted myself in the audience as the patsy I dare to decipher my tricks safe I can never see through me The Magician and The Magician s Assistant-- I ve been both for so long from here on in all that s left is the magic In this major new book of poems her seventh Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we ve come to expect from her poetry Her gaze is unflinching her craft sharp her mature voice rich with wry wit survived pain and her signature chord an indomitable celebration of life This powerful collection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk--viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages Dark Matter is an unforgettable bookBeowulf (Bilingual Edition)
By Seamus Heaney. 2000
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is…
the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf? and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (African Poetry Book)
By Kwame Dawes, Ladan Osman. 2015
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony…
is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
By Nikki Giovanni. 2017
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.The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and gender, that touch our national consciousness. 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.Paradiso
By Stanley Lombardo, Alison Cornish, Dante. 2017
Like his groundbreaking Inferno Hackett 2009 and Purgatorio Hackett 2016 Stanley Lombardo s…
Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse translation innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness and a facing-page Italian text It also offers an extraordinarily helpful set of notes and headnotes as well as Introduction all designed for first-time readers of the canticle by Alison CornishTin House: Winter Reading (2015) (Tin House Magazine)
By Rob Spillman, Win Mccormack, Holly Macarthur. 2015
Tin House brings you all the things you've come to expect from the acclaimed literary journal. Packed with wintery fiction,…
introspective essays, and artful poetry, this issue is perfect company for an afternoon in the shade. The best company on a cold night is hot new fiction, poems, essays, and interviews. Warm up with Tin House this winter. Fiction by Dorothy Allison, Patrick deWitt, Helen Phillips, Martha McPhee, Drew Ciccolo, James Scudamore, and Andrea Barrett Poetry by Sharon Olds, Caroline Knox, Adam Fitzgerald, Cornelius Eady, Caroline O'Connor Thomas, and Timmy Straw Features by Claire Vaye Watkins, Evie Wyld & Joe Sumner, Rachel Jamison Webster, CJ Hauser, and John Fischer Lost & Founds by Carrie Brown, James Guida, Pamela Erens, Scott F. Parker, and Carol KeeleyTin House: Summer 2016 (Tin House Magazine)
By John Ashbery, Rob Spillman, Win Mccormack, Holly Macarthur, Dorthe Nors, Josh Weil. 2014
Whether on a picnic blanket or a porch swing, the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Tin House will help you…
while away the hours. Tin House is your literary companion for the dog days of Summer. Whether on a picnic blanket or a porch swing, the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Tin House will help you while away the hours. Featuring new work from Miller Oberman, Michael Dickman, and Malerie Willens.Last Sext
By Melissa Broder. 2016
In her electric fourth collection, Melissa Broder penetrates the itch of existence and explores numberless deaths: the annihilation of self,…
the bereavement of love, the destruction of fantasy, the transmutation, even, of our ideas of dying. What emerges is an infinite series of false endings--each a trap door containing the possibility for alchemy, rebirth, and renewal. Part elegy, part confessional, part battle cry, Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark, as Broder's fans have come to love.Poesía completa
By Idea Vilari o. 2016
Presentamos por primera vez en Espa a la poes a completa de la uruguaya Idea Vilari…
o Aunque la autora ha mantenido a lo largo de su vida una actitud casi monacal con respecto a la difusi n de su obra hoy d a est considerada como uno de los cl sicos vivos de las letras hispanoamericanas Su poes a -escasa y sobria lentamente madurada- transita siempre por los extremos tensa como acorralada por una ntima urgencia Quiz el asunto que con mayor frecuencia aparece en esta poes a sea la muerte pero una muerte que late y se experimenta en el esplendor de la vida en los golpes del amor en los embates del sexo en la dial ctica entre ausencia y recuerdo La lectura de estos poemas conforma una experiencia intensa y perdurable y supone el descubrimiento de una de las voces m s contundentes y secretamente bellas de la poes a contempor neaAlternative Medicine
By Rafael Campo. 2014
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing.…
As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.Metamorfosis: Bodegones y otras naturalezas vivas
By Elena Rozas. 2018
Un cuerpo es un bodeg n lleno de frutas tentadoras La voz po tica aspira aqu …
a que lo quieran m s mientras busca desasirse del encierro del propio cuerpo desahogo que no tiene por qu llegar a buen puerto P P Portador de toda una historia de oquedades en las que encuentra su raz n de ser el hueco llena el interior de su cuerpo y rezuma vida y quiere llenarse Orificios pero recuerda el paisaje de su infancia y la inminencia del paso del tiempo se cierne en un reloj de arena Cuerpo de bodeg n sin embargo la naturaleza brutal y ambivalente se erige frente al espacio artificial construido por el hombre Naturaleza viva y el colof n pone a cada uno en su lugar con una vuelta de tuerca en un estilo muy actual Ella respondeSun in Days: Poems
By Meghan O Rourke. 2017
A groundbreaking new collection by a celebrated writer of “ambitious and dynamic poems” (New York Times). From the acclaimed poet…
and critic Meghan O’Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. In formally ambitious poems and lyric essays, Sun in Days gives voice to the experience of illness, the permanence of loss, and invigorating moments of grace. Wresting a recuperative beauty from one’s days, O’Rourke traces an arc from loss and illness to the life force of pregnancy and motherhood. Along the way, she investigates a newfound existential awareness of all that vanishes. This is O’Rourke’s most ambitious book to date: unsentimental yet deeply felt, and characterized by the lyric precision and force of observation for which her work is known. From “Idiopathic Illness” What can be said? I came w/o a warranty, Stripped of me—or me-ish-ness— I was a will in a subpar body. I waxed toward all that waned inside.She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems
By Caroline Kennedy. 2011
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a…
very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey.The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it's falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old, She Walks in Beauty is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.Versatilidad de la emoción, Ars adivinatoria, Trizas y trazos
By Elena Rozas. 2018
P P Emoci nate y adiv nate en todos estos trazos Escribir poes a puede…
ser una forma de llorar sin l grimas las penas que nos atenazan pero tambi n de sonre r ir nicamente haci ndole un corte de mangas a la muerte a la vida y a nuestra propia solemnidad P P El sortilegio de esta comunicaci n ancestral y m gica compendia como un or culo un manual de supervivencia sirve de catarsis explica los entresijos de la psicolog a humana aleja del ostracismo y de la incomprensi n P P La poes a no es una simple gragea capaz de aliviar al otro adormecer su angustia avivar sus compromisos comprometer su docilidad aclarar sus dudas o hacerle dudar de sus certezas sino un mirador desde el que vernos reflejados con la concisi n de unos trazos caligr ficos en lo que cabalga en el nimo o vive soterrado en el inconsciente de cualquiera de nosotrosWhen September Comes: And Other Poems
By Peter Jailall. 2003
Peter Jailall continues his search for the place called home in his third volume of poetry, exploring the "open, dangerous"…
landscape of a post-September 11th world. In this climate of globalization, none are untouched by the threats of terrorism or the spoils of modernization and its effect on our environment. As poet, teacher and storyteller, Peter’s unique gift for the blending of language – from Caribbean-accented English to Hindi – allows him to paint beautiful dichotomies between the Guyana of his birth, and the Canada that is his current home. "To those of us in the worldwide Guyanese diaspora, Peter’s poetry is cultural regeneration and joy. It generates the anchorage of identity and self respect in a sea of uncertainty and adjustment. To our host communities it provides insights into who we are as persons. It encourages the realization that hopes, fears, and aspirations are common across cultures and all are worthy of understanding and respect. To all who read Peter’s work come challenges to thought and imagination, glowing pride, and prolonged pleasure." – Judaman Seecoomar, PhD, Author "Peter Jailall speaks poignantly to problems of identity and the painful feelings associated with movement and change in this fine new collection. He examines past and present and points to our need to find out and accept who we really are before cultural identity can be recognized."– Bob Barton, Storyteller, writer, educator (OISE, University of Toronto)The Business
By Stephanie Lenox. 2015
Winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry. What does it mean to work in the age of the cubicle?…
The Business takes on the modern workplace with sharp-witted poems that sting like a paper cut. A former secretary, Stephanie Lenox positions herself as a poetic note-taker of the mundane. Organized by the classical components of Greek tragedy, these poems enact the relationships, heartbreaks, and small heroic efforts that make up our working lives. Think there's nothing poetic about annoying coworkers, endless meetings, and stained coffee mugs? Think again. While tragedy provides the organizational structure for this collection, humor plays a central role. This collection transforms office politics and paper clips into a funny and critical examination of the mortal rat race. If you've ever been fired, let go, unemployed, underemployed, or overlooked, these poems are for you. Begun on stolen reams of printer paper, this book reclaims the hours of our lives we give, out of necessity, to others in order to survive.Copper Woman: And Other Poems
By Afua Cooper. 2006
Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as…
rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics and flights of fancy. The contents move back and forth between the past and the present, and project into the future, envisioning a new world/a new creation. The message that we are our brothers and our sisters keepers and that the earth is our home – a home that we must protect and keep safe if we are to survive – resonates throughout. Copper Woman is a call to arms against apathy and all forms of tyranny. It is liberatory dub poetics that say equality and equity are possible and within reach. It invites its readers to cast off their chains and shackles and proclaim their freedom. It invites us all to grasp a greater vision of our world. Jamaican-born Dr. Afua Cooper has achieved considerable success as a dub poet and as the author of a children’s book, a collection of poetry and as co-author of The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! Dr. Cooper is a recent recipient of the Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence.