Hallelujah Blackout

Author : Alex Lemon
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571314318
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hallelujah Blackout written by Alex Lemon and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Lemon's work defies categorization. Stark juxtaposition of images evokes the New York School, verbal collages suggest the associative method of the postmodernists, and his playful attention to sound recalls elements of Language School poetry. While these elements surface in Lemon's work, his poetry remains profoundly original, his voice remarkably distinct. Lemon is also, like Frank O'Hara, an autobiographical poet, using the materials of life for inspiration. At 29, he is already a survivor of brain surgery. Still coping with the surgery's effects, including a gradual loss of vision, he invokes, proclaims, decries, and serenades the world that results after the violation of identity. When the membranes that divide mind and body rupture, the result is not a void, but a strange sensory landscape where all stimuli exist on the same level. Avoiding the easy temptations of both despair and consolation, Hallelujah Blackout embraces the full range of the human experience.

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416579663
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2008 written by Charles Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular sensibility to this year's anthology, which contains an ecumenical slant that is unprecedented for the series. He has gathered an astonishing selection of work that includes new poems by Carolyn Forché, Jorie Graham, Louise Glück, Frank Bidart, Frederick Seidel, Patti Smith, and Kevin Young and showcases a dazzling array of rising stars like Joshua Beckman, Erica Dawson, and Alex Lemon. With captivating and revelatory notes from the poets on their works and sage and erudite introductory essays by Wright and series editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2008 will be read, discussed, debated, and prized for years to come.

Author : Wayne Miller
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571314350
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Props written by Wayne Miller and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrators in this mesmerizing collection often desire to hold time still -- in moments of love, yes, but also when feeling fully located in a particular place or experience. Yet they also acknowledge that to hold time still would mean the death of love, the death of experience. Thus, the grounding and locating sensory images that surround us -- and the eye that apprehends them -- become greatly important. At the heart of the book is "What Night Says to the Empty Boat," a sequence of lyric poems in which the three main characters -- Justine, Clarence, and Andy -- drift to and from, together and apart, viewed through the dispassionate lens of the unspoken fourth main character. An artistic and philosophical endeavor to place oneself in the world, this stunning collection is a wholehearted embrace of being, where technique and subject come together in a remarkable combination of personal lyric and formal innovation.

Author : Amanda Auchter, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1458363716
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pebble Lake Review written by Amanda Auchter, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Bartlett
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN 13 : 1935955055
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty is a Verb written by Jennifer Bartlett and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry. Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace. " BEAUTY IS A VERB] is going to be one of the defining collections of the 21st century...the discourse between ability, identity & poetry will never be the same." --Ron Silliman, author of In The American Tree "This powerful anthology succeeds at intimately showing...disability through the lenses of poetry. What emerges from the book as a whole is a stunningly diverse array of conceptions of self and other."--Publishers Weekly, starred review From "Beauty and Variations" by Kenny Fries: How else can I quench this thirst? My lips travel down your spine, drink the smoothness of your skin. I am searching for the core: What is beautiful? Who decides? Can the laws of nature be defied? Your body tells me: come close. But beauty distances even as it draws me near. What does my body want from yours? My twisted legs around your neck. You bend me back. Even though you can't give the bones at birth I wasn't given, I let you deep inside. You give me--what? Peeling back my skin, you expose my missing bones. And my heart, long before you came, just as broken. I don't know who to blame. So each night, naked on the bed, my body doesn't want repair, but longs for innocence. If innocent, despite the flaws I wear, I am beautiful. Sheila Black is a poet and children's book writer. In 2012, Poet Laureate Philip Levine chose her as a recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship. Disability activist Jennifer Bartlett is a poet and critic with roots in the Language school. Michael Northen is a poet and the editor of Wordgathering: A Journal of Poetics and Disability.

Author : Editors Of Writers Digest Books
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1582976686
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2009 Poet's Market written by Editors Of Writers Digest Books and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.

Author : Tim Slover
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627590
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyful Noise written by Tim Slover and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Frederick Handel is in trouble: his last opera flopped, he is no longer in favor with King George II and preachers are raging that his latest work is blasphemous. In this climate, he struggles to present "The Messiah." Handel's travails are linked with those of his leading soprano. Forced into retirement because of a scandal, she is slated to make her comeback in his new masterpiece and fears a nasty reception. A malicious, back stabbing alternate is waiting in the wings to replace her. A devious bishop and Handel's bulky librettist add to the conflict in this true story of the politics and passion that nearly prevented "The Messiah" from ever being performed.

Author : Editors Of Writers Digest Books
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1582976694
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2009 Poet's Market - Listings written by Editors Of Writers Digest Books and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.

Author : Robert Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1582976783
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2009 Writer's Market Listings written by Robert Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 88 years, Writer's Market has given fiction and nonfiction writers the information they need to sell their work–from completely up-to-date listings to exclusive interviews with successful writers. The 2009 edition provides all this and more with over 3,500 listings for book publishers, magazines and literary agents, in addition to a completely updated freelance rate chart. In addition to the thousands of market listings, you'll find up-to-date information on becoming a successful freelancer covering everything from writing query letters to launching a freelance business, and more.

Author : Alex Lemon
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458715892
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fancy Beasts written by Alex Lemon and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of raw energy, up-to-date in its slang and its jump cuts, effervescent with the playfulness and sometimes the angers of youth, the third collection from Lemon (Hallelujah Blackout) conveys a likable, outsized personality; it should also work well in tandem with the Texas-based poet's forthcoming memoir, Happy (Scribner, 2010), which describes his fast descent and striking recovery, as a young adult, from shocking and sudden brain injury. Saying yes to everything/ Does not mean you need// To grunt at each person/ Who says hello: so begins a poem called We Could Boom Boom, sounding at once a joke and a warning. Let me be your guiding fright, your/ Highway to the comfort zone, another poem requests; around that invitation Lemon arranges both a love poem and a depiction of suicide. Champions will praise the verve that lets the poet imagine himself In the presence/ Of dynamite./ Deserving of/ Everything. The strikingly terse sequence entitled only !! makes a welcome, if sometimes frightening, change of pace. It also alludes, apparently, to his brain injury: The fun park inside (that is, inside his skull) Is being/ Renovated.// Bellwether./ Blackened eyes. But such gravities are exceptions: delights, and shocks, are the rule. Like Tony Hoagland, Lemon is often self-conscious about the volatilities his poems convey, about their almost giddy tonalities, but he will not apologize for himself: adult life is a scary gift, a fast trip, a set of close encounters with this fizzing pier life.