Dead Dog Poems Winner Of The 2020 New Womens Voices Prize In Poetry

Author : Lynne Schmidt
Publisher : Finishing Line Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646626267
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Dog Poems: Winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry written by Lynne Schmidt and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Dog Poems is a collection about pet love and pet loss. It is the small joys each pet parent goes through, from naptime, to walks around the block, to the horrific moment of being at the emergency vet and hearing that your beloved companion may have cancer. This collection brings you front and center for a terminal diagnosis, and the aftermath of such a substantial loss. If you have ever loved a pet, this collection is for you. The poem, Baxter, was awarded the Editor's Choice Award from Frost Meadow Review, and was nominated for a 2019 Best of the Net, while Road Maps was nominated for Best of the Net, and Blood Pleas and Library Books was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association (PNWA) Poetry Contest.

Author : K. E. Ogden
Publisher : New Women's Voices
ISBN 13 : 9781646629565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Body Already Knows: 2021 New Women's Voices Series Winner written by K. E. Ogden and published by New Women's Voices. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning, debut poetry collection, K.E. Ogden turns our gaze to mapping grief as a transformative journey of resilience. Five poems in the collection have been honored, including "Mapping the Route," a winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Henri Coulette Memorial Prize and featured on the Academy of American Poets website. This first poem in the book explores the tension between our past nostalgia and longings and our present homes. In the midst of a father's love for his daughter, there are directions given. These poems are songs of devotion to "all the chaos and misery and hope that simmers . . . in the minds of people," as poet Jimmy Baca shared. There is mud and bird shit, there are bones and dead bodies, there are hot biscuits and a cat's torn ear, and shovels, and sawdust. These poems do offer comfort during tough times, a map for transcending grief and turning tragedy into gateways for metamorphosis. Ogden's poems invite you to make new worlds in changed landscapes, to see beauty in dark, shark-infested waters, and to find elation and joy in being alive.

Author : Linda Pastan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651312
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dog Runs Through It: Poems written by Linda Pastan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving selection of poems for dog lovers, accompanied by charismatic line drawings, from a poet with an "unfailing mastery of her medium" (New York Times Book Review). Reflecting on her long and celebrated career in poetry, two-time National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was struck by the number of dogs that have appeared in her poems—whether as the primary subject or in the briefest of allusions. Dogs run through these poems, so to speak. The poems span the lighthearted to the serious, from the antics of training a recalcitrant dog to the grief at a beloved dog’s death. With warmth, dignity, and quiet power, Pastan explores the many roles of these devoted animals, from household pet to Argos, Pluto, and the Dog Star. "Envoi" We’re signing up for heartbreak, We know one day we’ll rue it. But oh the way our life lights up The years a dog runs through it.

Author : Danez Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451093
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homie written by Danez Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.

Author : R. D. Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698141229
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Throw the Damn Ball written by R. D. Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious collection of poetry by dogs—the perfect gift for lovers of literature and pups alike. “Dogs seldom make passes At dogs passing gasses.” Are these the words of Dorothy Parker? Ogden Nash? Nope, the author is Sparky from Milton, Pennsylvania. Sparky, Snowy, Tucker, Louie, these canine laureates have written a volume of poetry displaying the brilliance and wit we've always suspected our dogs were hiding from us. They also, it turns out, revere the human geniuses who came before them, as you’ll see with “There Is No Frigate Like A Pavement”—an homage to Emily Dickinson—and “Do Not Go Gentle.” Yes, Dylan Thomas would love it.

Author : Jake Adam York
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809333287
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abide written by Jake Adam York and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2015 Colorado Book Award Finalist, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama poet Jake Adam York set out on a journey to elegize the 126 martyrs of the civil rights movement, murdered in the years between 1954 and 1968. Abide is the stunning follow-up to York’s earlier volumes, a memorial in verse for those fallen. From Birmingham to Okemah, Memphis to Houston, York’s poems both mourn and inspire in their quest for justice, ownership, and understanding. Within are anthems to John Earl Reese, a sixteen-year-old shot by Klansmen through the window of a café in Mayflower, Texas, where he was dancing in 1955; to victims lynched on the Oklahoma prairies; to the four children who perished in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963; and to families who saw the white hoods of the Klan illuminated by burning crosses. Juxtaposed with these horrors are more loving images of the South: the aroma of greens simmering on the stove, “tornado-strong” houses built by loved ones long gone, and the power of rivers “dark as roux.” Throughout these lush narratives, York resurrects the ghosts of Orpheus, Sun Ra, Howlin’ Wolf, Thelonious Monk, Woody Guthrie, and more, summoning blues, jazz, hip-hop, and folk musicians for performances of their “liberation music” that give special meaning to the tales of the dead. In the same moment that Abide memorializes the fallen, it also raises the ethical questions faced by York during this, his life’s work: What does it mean to elegize? What does it mean to elegize martyrs? What does it mean to disturb the symmetries of the South’s racial politics or its racial poetics? A bittersweet elegy for the poet himself, Abide is as subtle and inviting as the whisper of a record sleeve, the gasp of the record needle, beckoning us to heed our history.

Author : Angela Sucich
Publisher : New Women's Voices Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illuminated Creatures written by Angela Sucich and published by New Women's Voices Series. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We keep our animals locked / in pages." Through Illuminated Creatures, the award-winning chapbook and modern interpretation of a medieval bestiary, Angela Sucich explores personal and human experiences using the frame of animal lore, taking inspiration from but also interrogating the dubious stories and illustrations that brought the creatures to life in old manuscripts. Poems play with the structures and constraints of poetic forms, especially syllabic verse, as well as more thematic boundaries and the questions they raise. What is in our nature and what can change? Who do our bodies belong to? What is on the other side of loss? What stories are our lives telling us, and how do we write new ones? Especially when "[a] myth is a danger, too, kept warm and intact by the telling." Winner of the 2022 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition. Finalist for the 2022 Saguaro Poetry Prize and the 2022 Cutbank Chapbook Contest.

Author : A. New Yorker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511648448
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Dog written by A. New Yorker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to share a personal collection with those going through dark times; those close to them that want to understand better what that struggle is like and those who share an interest in the issues that potentially affect us all. These poems represent those who are different; those who are sensitive, imaginative and compassionate; inclined towards tears (though not publicly); so patient that they can survive in even the most unbearable of circumstances; those who are poetic, mystic, fatalistic, introspective and mistrusting of rational thought - choosing instead to trust intuition; who are able to feel a wide array of human emotions (from absolute joy to despair); who are submissive and, yet, stubborn and who enjoy a penchant for walking the dark. Why the name, "The Black Dog?" Winston Churchill coined the term to reflect the situation of those suffering dark times. It is a term associated with being different and with depression; things that I and so many have felt. Also, dogs have a reputation as being man's best friend. To that end, I wish this book can be a best friend to someone; to let them know they are not alone and to let them know there is hope.

Author : Deborah Paredez
Publisher : American Poets Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9781950774012
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year of the Dog written by Deborah Paredez and published by American Poets Continuum. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlight the voices of women relegated to the margins of history.

Author : Toi Derricotte
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986779
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I written by Toi Derricotte and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toi Derricotte’s story is a hero’s journey—a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. “I”: New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy.It is a record of one woman’s response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, color, gender, and sexuality. Each poem is an act of victory as the author finds her way through repressive forces to speak with beauty and truth. This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five previous collections.