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The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry)
By Hanif Abdurraqib, Michael Mlekoday. 2016
The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in…
the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us. Terrance Hayes writes that Abdurraqib "bridges the bravado and bling of praise with the blood and tears of elegy." The poems in this collection are challenging and accessible at once, as they seek to render real human voices in moments of tragedy and celebration.An Incomplete List of Names: Poems
By Michael Torres. 2020
An astonishing debut collection looking back on a community of Mexican American boys as they grapple with assimilation versus the…
impulse to create a world of their own.Who do we belong to? This is the question Michael Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names, hometown, language, and others' perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story, this collection illuminates the artist's struggle to make sense of the disparate identities others have forced upon him.His description of his childhood is both idyllic and nightmarish, sometimes veering between the two extremes, sometimes a surreal combination of both at once. He calls himself "the Pachuco's grandson" or REMEK or Michael, depending on the context, and others follow his lead. He worries about losing his identification card, lest someone mistake his brown skin for evidence of a crime he never committed. He wonders what his students--imprisoned men who remind him of his high school friends and his own brother--make of him. He wonders how often his neighbors think about where he came from, if they ever do imagine where he came from.When Torres returns to his hometown to find the layers of spray-painted evidence he and his boyhood friends left behind to prove their existence have been washed away by well-meaning municipal workers, he wonders how to collect a list of names that could match the eloquent truths those bubbled letters once secured.Alligator Pie and Other Poems: A Dennis Lee Treasury
By Dennis Lee, Juan Wijngaard. 1991
Three classic Dennis Lee titles in one beautiful book This giftable and shareable volume brings together three of Dennis Lee’s…
best-loved collections of poetry—Alligator Pie, Jelly Belly and The Ice Cream Store—spanning three decades of his warm and whimsical rhymes. “You can almost hear the skipping rope slapping the sidewalk,” wrote Margaret Laurence of Dennis Lee’s timeless poetry collection Alligator Pie. One of the first published illustrated books about Canadian children, and featuring Frank Newfeld’s instantly recognizable original illustrations, Alligator Pie has sold more than half a million copies since its publication in 1974. Originally published in 1983, Jelly Belly tickles readers with a mix of humour and traditional Mother Goose charm. The vivid illustrations by Juan Wijngaard (winner of the 1981 Mother Goose Award) reveal wonders as readers follow the characters throughout the book and stumble upon new and fascinating visual treasures. In the kid-pleasing collection The Ice Cream Store, originally published in 1991, Dennis Lee delves into the special and imaginative world of children. David McPhail’s gorgeous and appealing watercolour paintings of children and animals portray both the familiar and the fantastic, extending the meaning of the poems and providing a colourful feast for the eye.Field Music: Poems
By Alexandria Hall. 2020
A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren In her remarkable…
and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger, intimacy and isolation, playfulness and seriousness, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience.Incisive and tender, Field Music is a thoughtful and alert collection from a major emerging voice.Allegria
By Giuseppe Ungaretti. 1969
Geoffrey Brock, whose translations have won him Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, finally does…
justice to these slim, concentrated verses in his English translation, alongside Ungaretti's Italian originals.Famed for his brevity, Giuseppe Ungaretti's early poems swing nimbly from the coarse matter of tram wires, alleyways, quails in bushes, and hotel landladies to the mystic shiver of pure abstraction. These are the kinds of poems that, through their numinous clarity and shifting intimations, can make a poetry-lover of the most stone-faced non-believer. Ungaretti won multiple prizes for his poetry, including the 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was a major proponent of the Hermetic style, which proposed a poetry in which the sounds of words were of equal import to their meanings. This auditory awareness echoes through Brock's hair-raising translations, where a man holding vigil with his dead, open-mouthed comrade, says, "I have never felt / so fastened / to life."You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
By Naomi Long Madgett. 2020
You Are My Joy and Pain is Naomi Long Madgett’s latest and possibly most endearing poetry collection. Bill Harris, a…
2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist, said of the book, "Even with the evidence of over a half-century or more of first-rate poetic artistry by Madgett, this collection is a breath-arresting surprise and delight. Poem-by-poem and section-by-section amaze. Each poem in the collection is a master class in technique and in her ability to transpose an idea into a tightly composed example of the craft of poetry." You Are My Joy and Pain receives its name from the Billie Holiday song "Don’t Explain" and is divided into three parts. The first part, "A Promise of Sun," contains fourteen poems relating to the hopeful and joyful beginning of a new relationship. The second part, "Trinity: A Dream Sequence," consists of twenty poems with religious imagery and encompasses both the beginning and the end of a relationship. The third part, "Stormy Weather," includes thirty-two poems that relate to the heartbreaking experience of a love gone wrong. These are not love poems in the abstract—the richness with which Madgett writes hints at the firsthand experience of a lifetime of loving. While several anthologies of love poems exist in the world, it is rare to find a single-author collection that so closely examines love in all of its messy and beautiful layers. Readers will identify with the hope and disappointment that Madgett presents in these poems.A Fine Canopy (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
By Alison Swan. 2020
Alison Swan’s collection of poems, A Fine Canopy, illustrates how the natural world envelops and encloses us with so many…
beautiful things: crowns of leaves, the ubiquitous blue sky, our luminous moon, and snow. So much snow. An ecopoet whose writing shows her advocacy for natural resources, in this collection Swan calls the reader to witness, appreciate, and sustain this world before it becomes too late. These poems were written out of an impulse to track down wisdom in the open air, outside of the noisy world of cars and commerce. Swan seeks insight on shores and in scraps of woods and fields—especially on four particular peninsulas: Michigan’s upper and lower, Florida, and Washington state’s Olympic—and also inside motherhood, which might be the wildest place of all. These are poems about the interconnection of all things, and "knowing things we cannot see." A journey through seasons with a soundtrack of birdsong, Swan’s words are incredibly sensory. The reader is made to feel the weight of muddy jeans, the jolt at the tug of a dog’s leash, and to see the bright flash of a cardinal’s red plumage. Swan’s poems remind us that although we all want to make a mark on our world, the smaller the better: stepping into fresh snow, dashing through forests atop dry leaves, laying wet bodies on warm concrete. These quiet interactions with places are as hopeful as they are harmless. Without necessarily tackling the topics head-on, A Fine Canopy evokes the devastation of climate change and the destruction of natural resources. This book engages deeply with the other-than-human to express and investigate alarm, dismay, anger, admiration, adoration in what feels like the end of the world unless we begin to think outside the box. These poems will carry weight with all readers of poetry, especially those who are interested in ecopoetry and connecting with the world around them.Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #160)
By Robert Pinsky. 1976
From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky ? Against weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance,…
the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a renownedPedant, the emperor's man of worth,Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one's life is one's enemy.As the small children learn, what happensTakes over, and what you were goes away.They learn it in sardonic softComments of the weather, when it sharpensThe hard surfaces of daylight: lightWinds, vague in direction, like blades Lavishing their brilliant strokesAll over a wrecked house,The nude wallpaper and the bruteIntelligence of the torn pipes.Therefore when you marry or buildPray to be untrue to the plainDominance of your own weather, how it keeps Going even in the woods when notA soul is there, and how it impliesAlways that separate, coldSplendidness, uncouth and unkind--On chilly, unclouded mornings,Torrential sunlight and moist air,Leafage and solid bark breathing the mist.Before Recollection (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #161)
By Ann Lauterbach. 1987
From Before Recollection:TRANSCENDENTAL POSTCARD Ann Lauterbach ? The outlook such that time is told on waking,Without aid of cock or…
clock's crow.In fact all the birds are elsewhere,Poised on glossy page or in some fallMigration. Sun up over mountain is precision,Then mist travels, exhaling day.All else, all change, is air,Dew relenting on the bladesAnd mirror rhymesWhere water bears resemblance:A strut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and,In the center of its glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry
By Sayd Majrouh. 2003
The authors of oral literature in the Pashtun language create their work at a far remove from any books. Generally…
deprived of the support of schools and universities, their compositions are inseparable from song. Their poetry is never declaimed; rather, their rhyme and rhythm have melodic value.These popular improvisations do not exalt mystic love. In them there is no aspiration whatsoever to an unfathomable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary, they are songs of the earth. They celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dawn and night&’s magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, beauty and death. The repression of Afghan women has caused untold suffering, particularly through moral subjugation. Infant daughters and their mothers are received with scorn and shame, and lead lives of subordination and humiliation. Their rebellion against these tribal codes comes only through suicide and song. Translated from the Pashtun into French by the eminent Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, the greatest Afghan poet of the twentieth century, his text has been rendered into English in the expert hands of Marjolijn de Jager of the Translation Department at NYU.Little Big Bully (Penguin Poets)
By Heid E. Erdrich. 2020
In a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her…
rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression.Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic object lessons. What is truth now? Who are we now? How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness? The past for Indigenous people, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. Here, survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well.Apple: (Skin to the Core)
By Eric Gansworth. 2020
How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That…
you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside."Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds.Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.Mother Country (American Poets Continuum Series #183)
By Elana Bell. 2020
Mother Country examines the intricacies of mother–daughter relationships: what we inherit from our mothers, what we let go, what we…
hold, and what we pass on to our own children, both the visible and invisible. As the speaker gradually loses the mother she has always known and upon whom she has always depended to early onset Parkinson’s disease and mental illness, she asks herself: “How do you deal with the grief of losing someone who is still living?” The caregiving of a child to her parent is further compounded by anxiety and depression, as well as the pain of a miscarriage and the struggle to conceive once more. Her journey comes full circle when the speaker gives birth to a son and discovers the gap between the myths of motherhood and a far more nuanced reality.Mercy (American Poets Continuum Ser. #Vol. 86)
By Lucille Clifton. 2004
Letters to a Young Brown Girl (American Poets Continuum Series #182)
By Barbara Jane Reyes. 2020
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems Of Lucille Clifton (American Poets Continuum Series #180)
By Lucille Clifton. 2020
The Folding Star: and Other Poems (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
By Jacek Gutorow. 2012
"We are fortunate to now have them in English so that we who don't read Polish can now read these,…
and enjoy their insight and wry wit."--Mary Jo BangIn his triumphant collection The Folding Star and Other Poems, poet of the imagination Jacek Gutorow offers thirty-one gems that that will help change our understanding of Polish poetry.Jacek Gutorow has been nominated for the Nike Award, the Cogito Award, and the Gdynia Award. He teaches at the University of Opole.Piotr Florczyk has taught at the University of Delaware, Antioch University Los Angeles, and University of California-Riverside. He lives in Los Angeles, California.Lifetime Visions
By Mac Fleming. 1919
Mac Fleming has been a photographer all his life. In his senior years, he broadened his range of self-expression from…
the concrete reality of photographs to the realm of critical thoughts and feelings expressed in poetry. In this book, he uses poetry to trace his maturing ideas and feelings from youthful years in Oregon and middle years in the Midwest to senior years on the coast of California. Along this journey, he occasionally adds a touch of the concrete through related color photos. Weaving years of experience with youthful turns of phrase, Lifetime Visions is an exploration of a life well-lived, spanning over a century.Meteoro
By Julián López. 2020
Una lectura lírica, contemporánea y tierna sobre del amor, la infancia, el ser hijo y encontrarle un sentido a la…
vida en una época de desaliento y soledad. «Julián López es un autor exquisito.»Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Poemas urbanos, melancólicos, amorosos. En ellos transcurren los días del ser hijo y se despliegan los aprendizajes trascendentes de la infancia, intuyéndolos en el susurro sensual entre el padre y la madre o arrancándolos de sus discusiones. Siguiendo los pasos de quien sale a trabajar, de quien cocina y lava y tiende la ropa al sol. Siguiendo los pasos de quien se apura a sacarla antes de que caigan las gotas de una tormenta intempestiva. Pero también, en estos poemas, juegan tiernas las horas con la persona amada, cuando la ciudad se entrega a la armonía natural de las plantas o se irrita con la disonancia del tránsito. Entonces, el estado de ánimo transforma la mirada sobre los objetos de la casa y del cielo que la abarca. Meteoro, como cada libro de Julián López, es una máquina expresiva, una aventura lírica que se abraza a la realidad como si se arrojara sobre una bomba. Para que le estalle en el pecho. La crítica ha dicho... «Una morosidad de detalles propia de la letanía pero también del poeta.»María Moreno «Julián López es un gran arquitecto de la literatura argentina.»Flavia Pittella «Con preciosismo en el manejo del lenguaje, Julián López propone al lector una experiencia inmersiva en la memoria sensible; un viaje que es al mismo tiempo vibrante, melancólico y sexual.»Verónica Abdala «Una masa, una masa poética y narrativa.»Silvina GiagantiThe Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period
By Herbert Batt, Sheldon Zitner. 2016
The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on…
the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society. The Republican period (1919–49) witnessed an outpouring of poetry in a form and style new to China, written in the common people’s language, baihua ("plain speech"). The New Poetry broke with the centuries-old tradition of classical poetry and its intricate forms, and the rise of China’s modern poetry reflects the rise of modern China. The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry presents English translations of over 250 poems by fifty poets, including a rich selection of poetry by women writers, to provide a nuanced picture of the rapid development of vernacular verse in China from its emergence during the May Fourth Movement, through the years of the Japanese invasion, to the Communist victory in the Civil War in 1949. Michel Hockx introduces the historical and literary contexts of the various schools of vernacular poetry that developed throughout the period – the pioneers, formalists, symbolists, "peasants and soldiers" poets, and Shanghai poets of the late 1940s. Each selection of verse begins with a biographical sketch of the author’s life and literary career, including their roles in the Civil War and Japanese occupation. Introducing English readers to master poets who are virtually unknown to Western audiences, this anthology presents a collection of verse written in an age of struggle that attests to the courage, sensitivity, and imagination of the Chinese people.