Choose Your Own Adventure And Other Poems

Author : Caroline N. Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781635346893
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choose Your Own Adventure and Other Poems written by Caroline N. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose Your Own Adventure and other poems invites you to take a journey through the many dimensions of womanhood as you explore-- along with a few animal friends-- ancient rituals of partnership, parenting, love, and separation. In the title piece, a long form poem written in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, the protagonist is a single American female on a vacation cruise in the Galápagos Islands. In each chapter, she tries on the mating rituals of a different animal as she looks for the "perfect partnership pattern." Accompanied by Simpson's original watercolor illustrations, this poem first appeared in Rattle's Summer 2018 issue. The collection culminates with five shorter poems. In "The Scent of a Man," nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Third Wednesday, the speaker goes out for a night of dancing tango and one-by-one, acquires the smells of each man she dances with while simultaneously losing her own scents. This collection will have you laughing out loud and pondering your own animalistic journey on this earth, only to discover that we all still have some evolving left to do.

Author : Amy Bornman
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1640606149
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There is a Future written by Amy Bornman and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash – an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition – grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readings—to honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the author’s own life—emerging at year’s end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the text’s enduring questions continue to ring.

Author : Emmy Marucci
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524858986
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Me Another Story written by Emmy Marucci and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tell Me Another Story, Marucci examines those closest to her—her grandfather, nephew, and husband—as well as those she hardly knows—the women sitting at the next table in the diner; the roofer she meets on the train. Part 1: Me, is comprised of Emmy's own story—raw and personal—while Part 2: You tells the stories of others. With genuine curiosity and tenderness, Marucci asks of herself, her loved ones, and perfect strangers the child's perennial question: "Will you tell me a story?"

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134349
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incendiary Art written by Patricia Smith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today’s literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers of the "dark magicians," and revisits the devastating murder of Emmett Till. These dynamic sequences serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. Smith embraces elaborate and eloquent language— "her gorgeous fallen son a horrid hidden / rot. Her tiny hand starts crushing roses—one by one / by one she wrecks the casket’s spray. It’s how she / mourns—a mother, still, despite the roar of thorns"— as she sharpens her unerring focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning. Smith envisions, reenvisions, and ultimately reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems, ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. With poems impossible to turn away from, one of America’s most electrifying writers reveals what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history.

Author : Dan Chiasson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593317742
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Math Campers written by Dan Chiasson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet. The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say," a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from a stranger. Who made up whom? Chiasson, an acclaimed poetry critic, has invented a remarkable structure where the reader and a poet speak to one another, across the void of silence and mystery. He is also the father of teenaged sons, and this volume continues the autobiographical arc of his prior, celebrated volumes. One long section is about the age of thirteen and the dawning of desire, while the title poem looks at the crucial age of fifteen and the existential threat of climate change and gun violence, which alters the calculus of adolescence. Though the outlook is bleak, these poems register the glories of our moment: that there are places where boys can kiss each other and not be afraid; that small communities are rousing and taking care of each other; that teenagers have mobilized for a better world. All of these works emerge from the secretive imagination of a father as he measures his own adolescence against that of his sons and explores the complex bedrock of marriage. Chiasson sees a perilous world both navigated and enriched by the passionate young and by the parents--and poets--who care for them.

Author : Frederick Seidel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466817909
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems 1959-2009 written by Frederick Seidel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today."

Author : Jim Razzi
Publisher : Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780553054057
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice's Wonderland Adventure written by Jim Razzi and published by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader joins Alice for some adventures in Wonderland, the outcomes of which are self-determining.

Author : Jerome Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781805071907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Write Your Own Poems written by Jerome Martin and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to dash off a limerick, ponder a sonnet or plot an epic poem, this write-in activity book is here to help. Each page is bursting with tips and inspiration for writing all kinds of poems - and inventing brand new styles too. With links to websites where you can listen to many of the poems in this book, and find more helpful writing tips.

Author : Diane Lindsey Reeves
Publisher : Bright Futures Press: Choose a
ISBN 13 : 9781634719629
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choose Your Own Career Adventure White House written by Diane Lindsey Reeves and published by Bright Futures Press: Choose a. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What do people do at the White House? Readers pick from eight different scenarios and experience 'next best thing to being there yourself' opportunities for interactive career exploration. Sidebars promote additional learning activities and independent research"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Maggie Smith
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482420
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu