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By Donald Everett Axinn, Jay Parini. 2011
For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his…
introduction, "the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page." A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world from above as he lovingly, though often wryly, surveys the scene around him here below. Whether in his charming love poems, his delight in the evolving seasons, or his search to understand people and places - and indeed himself - Axinn offers a fresh look at the world through the eyes of a constantly questing, and questioning, poet. "Here is a man," writes Parini, "who has looked at the world from many angles . . . with a sense of gathering wisdom."By Tina D Eliopulos, Todd Scott Moffett. 2005
Giving voice to ''what gets lost in translation'' is the challenge every poet faces. With The Everything Writing Poetry Book,…
that challenge just got easier. Featuring examples from works of celebrated poets and instruction on communicating your ideas, this clear and accessible reference helps you gain confidence as you find your own voice. Written by a team who each hold a master’s degree and teach creative writing and literature, this easy-to-follow guide has all you need to take your work to the next level. - With this handy guide, you will learn to:Create meter and rhyme - Express your innermost thoughts - Use imagery and metaphor - Polish your word play - Find your own rhythm - Work with other writersand more - The Everything Writing Poetry Book helps you make the most of this rewarding craft - whether you’re a fledgling poet or a seasoned wordsmith.By Elizabeth Alexander, Pauli Murray. 1970
With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli…
Murray’s sole book of poems finally returns to print. There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940—fifteen years before Rosa Parks—for refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, Dark Testament and Other Poems attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murray’s poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.By J Michael Martinez. 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius…
Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identityThe poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.By Paula Yeste. 2019
Resulta fácil leer poesía y recordarte, entre versos. En una realidad llena de máscaras, los ojos más sinceros son aquellos…
que se atreven a liberar su alma. Si susurrarte al oído no fue suficiente, creo que será mejor que espere. Estaré sentada hasta que se aclaren las estrellas, tú, mientras tanto, vérsame.By Don Iwana, Gata Cattana. 2019
El único poemario de una artista polifacética que es todo un referente para varias generaciones: feminista, música y poeta; comprometida…
y talentosa. Gata Cattana. La escala de Mohs es una tabla de diez minerales ordenados por su dureza que se usa para medir la maleabilidad de cualquier otro. Y eso son también estos poemas, una unidad de medida de nuestros principios, como personas y como sociedad, un libro que nos pregunta salvajemente por lo que creemos y nos creemos. "Todo el mundo se vende. Yo me vendí por tres milímetros de iris azul tanzanita en cada ojo" escribe Gata. "Todo el mundo tiene un precio". La identidad, la crítica a una sociedad grotesca, el feminismo, el amor, la torpe historia que se repite agónicamente... Todo eso es este libro. Pero ante todo, es el legado de un talento magnífico, el de la politóloga, rapera y poeta Gata Cattana, un mito y una voz imprescindible para nuestras generaciones. El libro contiene dos poemas inéditos de Gata, uno de ellos en su versión manuscrita. Críticas:«Bajo su cabeza llevaba el cartel de promesa. Muchos la veían como la sucesora de La Mala Rodríguez, otros como la que vendría a salvar el rap femenino y feminista en nuestro país.»Eldiario.es «Un año después de su muerte la gente no se ha olvidado de Gata Cattana. Su música sigue siendo referente para muchas jóvenes empoderadas y los designios musicales que transitó en su corta pero intensa carrera artística a buen seguro serán objeto de estudio en un futuro.»AS «Una de las voces más potentes y lúcidas del rap español: capaz de invocar, en una misma canción, a la pensadora Silvia Federici, la Teoría King Kong de Virgine Despentes, o a la republicana Clara Campoamor.»Playground Magazine «Gata comparte todo lo que le pasa por dentro con sinceridad y determinación. Porque, en ella, las ideas se hacen arte; se haceninmortales.»Vice «Inteligente y sensible, su trabajo estaba cambiando muchas cosas.»Mala RodríguezBy Francisco Mu oz Soler. 2019
Sus poemas intentan despertar la conciencia social de una sociedad plagada de apatía, crueldad, intolerancia y falta de humanidad. Francisco…
Muñoz Soler es un poeta inusualmente dotado de Málaga (España), que tiene el coraje de sus convicciones. Sus poemas intentan despertar la conciencia social de una sociedad plagada de apatía, crueldad, intolerancia y falta de humanidad. Los poemas profundizan en temas pertinentes como la tragedia del desplazamiento masivo, el terror institucionalizado y la violación de los derechos humanos. En muchos poemas lo vemos inspirándose en los pensamientos de almas valientes del pasado, cuya intrépida sabiduría formó la conciencia humana. Los lectores encontrarán sus reflexiones de búsqueda de alma muy convincentes y sus versos dejarán una marca indeleble en su psique.By Carlos Blanco Fadol. 2019
Una sutil ofrenda a la mujer, especialmente a aquellas que alumbraron mi camino de sendas entrecruzadas. Caracola de los vientos…
es un poemario centrado en la mujer, en ese amor de mujer que el autor guarda como camafeo en las soledades de los caminos, y constituye el incentivo principal de su viaje, en esa búsqueda ancestral que no tiene bien definida, pero que compensa ir por la vida intentando encontrarla.By Antonio Caralps. 2019
By Gary Beckman. 2019
"A comprehensive Introduction with a light touch (Beckman), a poetic rendering with verve and moxie (Lombardo): This edition of the…
colossal Babylonian GilgameshEpic should satisfy all readers who seek to plumb its wealth and depth without stumbling over its many inconvenient gaps and cruxes. A fine gift to all lovers of great literature." —Jack M. Sasson, Emeritus Professor, Vanderbilt University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBy Kahlil Gibran. 2015
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is considered one of the greatest classics of our time. The collection of twenty-six beautiful and…
intriguing essays cover a comprehensive variety of subjects including: Love and relationshipsFamily and marriageCrime and punishmentJoy and sorrowFreedomPleasureReligion and prayerAnd many, many more! These poetic essays delve into the workings and passions of the human mind, exploring what makes us human and what controls our most basic instincts of the mind and deepest impulses of the heart. For the past century, the lines and verses from these captivating essays have inspired musicians, politicians, and influential figures from across the globe, including The Beatles, Ronald Reagan, and Indira Gandhi. Audiences of all beliefs and mindsets can find pleasure and inspiration from the dogma-free essay collection. With the original text and illustrations by Gibran himself, let yourself be inspired by the new edition of The Prophet.By Fernando Pessoa. 2019
La colección «Poesía Portátil» reúne en Suave es vivir solo una muestra de los versos más rompedores de Fernando Pessoa,…
creador de una obra dominada por el vanguardismo y las identidades múltiples. Fernando Pessoa es considerado, junto con Luis de Camões, el poeta más importante en lengua portuguesa y uno de los más reconocidos de la literatura universal. Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis y Alberto Caeiro son algunos de sus heterónimos, verdaderas personalidades poéticas con estilo propio, personajes completos, con biografías propias y estilos literarios dispares. Se convirtieron así en máscaras del propio escritor, en las que se despersonalizó para dar forma, a través de sus múltiples voces, a la amplitud y complejidad de sus pensamientos, conocimientos, y percepciones de la vida y el mundo. -------«El poeta es un fingidor.Finge tan completamenteque hasta finge que es dolorel dolor que en verdad siente.»-------By Amber Tamblyn. 2015
Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged.In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and…
actress Amber Tamblyn contemplates the interior lives of women who glimmered on-screen and crashed in life--figures as diverse as Frances Farmer and Brittany Murphy, Jayne Mansfield and Dana Plato, Jean Harlow and Sharon Tate, Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne and Marilyn Monroe. Their stories invite us behind the eyes of a century's worth of women, the adored and the disappeared.tonishing candor and poetic command.By Bruce Smith. 2018
“There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries…
and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil . . . It ruins everything you have ever saved.” Spill is a book in contradictions, embodying helplessness in the face of our dual citizenship in the realms of trauma and gratitude, artistic aspiration and political reality. The centerpiece of this collection is a lyrical essay that recalls the poet’s time working at the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg in the 1960s. Mentored by the insouciant inmate S, the speaker receives a schooling in race, class, and culture, as well as the beginning of an apprenticeship in poetry. As he and S consult the I Ching, the Book of Changes, the speaker becomes cognizant of other frequencies, other identities; poetry, divination, and a synchronous, alternative reading of life come into focus. On either side of this prose poem are related poems of excess and witness, of the ransacked places and of new territories that emerge from the monstrous. Throughout, these poems inhabit rather than resolve their contradictions, their utterances held in tension “between the hemispheres of songbirds and the hemispheres of men.”By Michael Collier. 2018
Think of a time when you’ve feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference…
to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when we need them most? The poems of this collection explore such everyday dualities—how the human need for attachment is as much a source of pain as of vitality and how our longing for transcendence often leads to sinister complicities. The title poem tells the conflicted and devastating story of the poet’s friendship with the now-disgraced Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, interweaving fragments of his parents’ funerals, which the Bishop concelebrated, with memories of his childhood spiritual leanings and how they were disrupted by a pedophilic priest the Bishop failed to protect him from. This meditation on spiritual life, physical death, and betrayal is joined by an array of poised, short lyrics and expansive prose poems exploring how the terror and unpredictability of our era intrudes on our most intimate moments. Whether Michael Collier is writing about an airline disaster, Huey Newton’s trial, Thomas Jefferson’s bees, a piano in the woods, or his own fraught friendship with the disgraced Catholic Bishop, his syntactic verve, scrupulously observed detail, and flawless ear bring the felt—and sometimes frightening—dimensions of the mundane to life. Throughout, this collection pursues a quiet but ferocious need to get to the bottom of things.By Carmen Avila. 2019
Esta obra foi escrita com o apoio da bolsa “Jovens Criadores” do Fundo Estadual para a Cultura e as Artes…
de 2005 do estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza. Foi finalista do XIII Concurso de Poesia María del Villar (Navarra, Espanha) e obteve menção honrosa no Prêmio Nacional de Poesia Jovem Francisco Cervantes Vidal de 2008, em Querétaro, México.By Carmen Avila. 2019
Immagini poetiche che descrivono la sua permanenza in città straniere, un’opera permeata di emozioni come il rimpianto e il desiderio…
di trovarsi in due posti al tempo stesso. Nostalgia di un esilio volontario, in cui mette in discussione le città, ponendole dinanzi al loro lato oscuro, alla bellezza e alla meraviglia, a partire dalla solitudine che provoca l'essere straniera in un’altra terra.By Carmen Avila. 2019
Libro di poesie sul corpo umano, i sensi e le emozioni. Il lavoro intraprende una grande sensibilità e sonoritá che…
è intitolato a una poesia di Paul Valéry. Questo lavoro è stato finalista nel XIII Concorso di poesia della Maria del Villar de Navarra in Spagna e ha anche ricevuto una menzione d'onore nel Premio della poesia nazionale Francisco Cervantes Vidal 2008 a Querétaro México.By Mois Benarroch. 2019
Un libro scritto in rete, nei minimi messaggi di internet, come un campione del grande poeta ebreo, Mois Benarroch, che…
mostra che è possibile fare un'altra poesia. In questo caso, è quello che scorre attraverso i social network, con piccoli spazi in cui è possibile scrivere, caratteri limitati, vincolati da nuove forme tecnologiche. Ma la libertà creativa scorre, da Israele al resto del mondo, con versi brevi e potenti che risvegliano la vita di tutti i giorni con nuove sorprese. Mois, neoepicúreo del verso, si diverte a fumare vicino alla spiaggia di lettere di lingue, gettandole in nuvole che si fondono con il cielo mediterraneo e volano.By Gennaro Carrano. 2019
A Imolada, A Gentil, Sensibilidade, Delicado, Eros, Pálida. Uma jornada poética para descobrir as várias facetas da alma humana, onde…
o bem é confundido com o mal, o amor se funde com ódio, o perdão se torna culpa. Qual o limite entre o certo e o errado? A consciência será realmente um juiz imparcial? Será a moralidade apenas um condicionamento social? Uma eterna luta entre o instinto e a razão... A Creatura Nova pretende, através do estilo e da temática, representar uma nova maneira de fazer poesia. Um estilo antigo que se fundiu com temas atuais e métodos modernos. Mais do qu com uma antologia, deparamo-nos com uma narrativa poética real. Pela primeira vez, um tema difícil, como o estupro incestuoso, é tratado na poesia. As principais temáticas são as facetas da alma humana, vistas sob vários pontos de vista. E 'dividido em 'capítulos': "A Imolada" e "A Gentil" são o âmago da narrativa poética, onde é narrada a história de Adelfo (do grego = adelphos irmão) que estupra a irmã Verginia. Esta vai encontrar forças para perdoá-lo mas também o perdão se pode tornar uma grande culpa, e serão essa, de fato, que elouquecerá o protagonista Adelfo. Outra peculiaridade são os narradores. Em "A Imolada", os dois primeiros poemas são narradas por um narrador externo e os dois últimos do ponto de vista interno, ou seja, o de Adelfo. A mesma coisa acontece no capítulo "A Gentil", onde nos dois primeiros poemas o narrador é externo e nos dois últimos é interno, isto é, temos o ponto de vista da irmã Verginia. Isso possibilita olhar para a história, para o carrasco e a vítima de diferrentes perpectivas. No momento em que os seus papéis se misturam, a vítima torna-se carrasco e o carrasco, vítima. Nos oito poemas está presente um elemento commum: o lírio, um símbolo de pureza. Os restantes, sempre divididas por tema, tratam de temas como o amor a Deus, erotismo, autoflagelação, feminicídio e abandono.