Dread Poems

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393326195
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dread: Poems written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "one of the most singular voices of her generation" by the New York Times Book Review, Ai is America's foremost poet of dramatic monologue. In this new collection, she adopts the anguished voices of adults remembering traumatic events from their childhoods-terrorism, war, sexual abuse, parental violence. Dread is a collection of ferocious bravery, conjuring purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night." Book jacket.

Author : Ai
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244903
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dread: Poems written by Ai and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing collection of poems about America's loss of innocence from the National Book Award-winning author of Vice. In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night." "An undoubtedly powerful personae."—Publishers Weekly "Ai's cleansing soliloquies give voice to pain both personal and communal....[Dread] presents her most masterfully unnerving works to date."—Booklist "Dread has the characteristic moral strength that makes Ai a necessary poet."—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Rachel Hadas
Publisher : Measure Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781939574329
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Dread written by Rachel Hadas and published by Measure Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original collection of poetry by Rachel Hadas.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322056
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father's Day written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As seen in the The New York Times Book Review ""In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation."" —The New York Times “[Zapruder] presents powerfully nuanced and vivid verse about the limitations of poetry to enact meaningful change in a world spiraling into callousness; yet despite poetry’s supposed constraints, Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review “Zapruder’s new book, Father’s Day, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post The poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court, watching a child grow off into a distance, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. "

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062343092
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.

Author : Rodrigo Toscano
Publisher : Fence Books
ISBN 13 : 9781944380229
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charm and the Dread written by Rodrigo Toscano and published by Fence Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A somatized, personified trajectory as synaesthetically rich as that of tarot or any other hallowed divinatory tool of the ages, The Charm and the Dread brings a naturalized, dreaming body into an awake state in the traumascope of virtualized pandemic humanscape, the place in which we can again breathe, and speak.

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140885130X
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed written by Michael Rosen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ridiculously talented Michael Rosen and Neal Layton have paired up to bring young readers the most uproarious comic fiction we've ever published!

Author : David Austin
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 177113402X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dread Poetry and Freedom written by David Austin and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has been putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that “poetry makes nothing happen.” For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been “a political act” and poetry “a cultural weapon.” In Dread Poetry and Freedom David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness, and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible, reggae and Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism, and feminism, and in dialogue with Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study.

Author : Kwame Dawes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134632
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Bones written by Kwame Dawes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.

Author : irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980822547
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Will Be a Reckoning written by irving and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end is nigh! Or has it already happened?Welcome to a world of ghosts and vampires, of serial apocalypses and terrifying visions. The world is cracked, burning, lost. Yet, there may be glimpses of something beyond. There may be hope for some kind of survival, possibly even love!Count on nothing, though. These poems come from a strange, fevered place, where humor masks tragedy and angels and demons keep score.