Made To Explode Poems

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393531619
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made to Explode: Poems written by Sandra Beasley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times. In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson’s shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires prose poems documenting and critiquing our capital’s institutions and monuments. In these poems, Ruth Bader Ginsberg shows up at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s show of Kiss Me Kate; Albert Einstein is memorialized on Constitution Avenue, yet was denied clearance for the Manhattan Project; as temperatures cool, a rain of spiders drops from the dome of the Jefferson Memorial. A stirring suite explores Beasley’s affiliation with the disability community and her frustration with the ways society codes disability as inferiority. Quintessentially American and painfully timely, these poems examine legacies of racism and whiteness, the shadow of monuments to a world we are unmaking, and the privileges the poet is working to untangle. Made to Explode boldly reckons with Beasley’s roots and seeks out resonance in society writ large.

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339661
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Was the Jukebox written by Sandra Beasley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandra Beasley eschews the poet-as-speaker convention and unleashes a collection teeming with the inanimate, the anachronistic, and the animal kingdom. In these poems Beasley approaches the world with all of its wild music, Wednesday compromises, migrating battlefields, and lovelorn minotaurs with clarity, humor, and compassion."--

Author : Kamilah Aisha Moon
Publisher : Stahlecker Selections
ISBN 13 : 9781935536956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starshine & Clay written by Kamilah Aisha Moon and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems run the gamut between human striving and suffering, ultimately imbued with a tenacious hope

Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573706816
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pipeline written by Dominique Morisseau and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Author : Andrea Gibson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1638340161
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Better Be Lightning written by Andrea Gibson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

Author : Michelle Monet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535470735
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word Explosion written by Michelle Monet and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and most diverse poetry book, from the mind of Michelle Monet. It is a compilation of subjects, themes, and styles from silly to serious. Just as life is dark and light, this book has both extremes. Chapters include Beauty and Nature, My Writing Life, Alive with Alliteration, My Personal Stories (my life as a musician and visual artist), Uplifting thoughts and Deep Contemplations. From Michelle: 'I had such a BLAST writing this, my 3rd poetry book. I let my mind explode in all directions which is what makes writing so much fun to me. Hope you enjoy it!'- Michelle Here are just a few customer comments from my first two poetry books 'Catch a Poem by the Tale' and 'Limerick Explosion'. ________________________________________ 'Reading her book of poems is life changing! It's like allowing yourself to be reborn! Into the Light and Love of Joy, Happiness, and Sadness! It was my pot of gold at the beginning of my rainbow today! I haven't read anything life changing since Penny Marshall! Can't wait to read her next one! So happy she could share her life with the world! Get inspired, be inspiring!' - Vicci, Reader ________________________________________ 'Not just a book AN EXPERIENCE! Her humor, her precision, was equally matched by her sensitivity in each and every word she chose.' Anne Peterson ________________________________________ ' 5 stars! Get this book NOW!! Creativity requires a certain madness, as evidenced in this first published book by Michelle Monet.'- Barbara S. ________________________________________ '5.0 out of 5 stars. AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ BOOK!!!!!!! I highly recommend this book....it was a very insightful, entertaining, and sometimes poignant look into the life and thoughts of Michelle Monet, clearly a highly creative and talented woman. I think most of us can relate to some of the topics and ponderings that Michelle so generously shared with her readers. This book should definitely put on your TO BUY list....you won't be sorry!!! AWESOME!!!!'- Anne, Amazon Reader _______________________________________ 'Personal, yet universal. Lighthearted, yet solid and insightful. And sometimes ... the author brings it all together in a poem that attacks the sorrow of life, illuminating it from the darkness where it hides. A story in poems you don't want to miss.' D.A. Hickman, Author of 'Silence of Morning' _______________________________________ '5 stars! I simply opened it thinking I would read a chapter or two, and couldn't put the book down, and it's not easy to keep my attention. It was ABSOLUTELY ENGAGING...' Sherry, Amazon Reader ________________________________________ 'Each one unfolded like the petals of a rose exposing raw emotion. I was taken away by the poetry between these pages.'- Frances Milton ________________________________________ 'I literally could not put this book down! I lost all sense of my surroundings and danced in the world of this creative author with elation. ' - 'Helen Beth Sicignanoon, Amazon reader ________________________________________ 'BRAVE and honest, reflective and healing' - Moya Morris ________________________________________ ' POETRY PEARLS! 5 stars. I've never been moved to write a review.. But this one had to be written. Michelle Monet has developed the most accessible poetry book I have ever read' - Hillary Langford ________________________________________ 'Loved this book!!!!! !Brilliant, bold, brazen, and sublime. Powerful, poignant and personal! Inspiring, insightful and intriguing!! Amazing writer.' - Maggie Ervin ________________________________________ 'A EUPHORIC JOURNEY! By the time I delved into the third chapter of the book, I became completely mesmerized with each passage...' - Kiki Stamatiou, Author

Author : Allan Wolf
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763680257
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day the Universe Exploded My Head written by Allan Wolf and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hang on tight for a raucous bounce through the solar system and back — propelled by funny, fanciful, factually sound poems and exuberant illustrations. The universe poured into me. My brain was overloaded. It smoked and glowed red-hot. And then it actually exploded. Ever wonder what the sun has to say about being the closest star to Earth? Or what Pluto has gotten up to since being demoted to a dwarf planet? Or where rocket ships go when they retire? Listen closely, because maybe, just maybe, your head will explode, too. With poetry that is equal parts accurate and entertaining — and illustrations that are positively out of this world — this book will enthrall amateur stargazers and budding astrophysicists as it reveals many of the wonders our universe holds. Space travelers in search of more information will find notes about the poems, a glossary, and a list of resources at the end.

Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321564
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Sky with Exit Wounds written by Ocean Vuong and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" “Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”—The New Yorker "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence."—Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016" "This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level...A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.”—2016 Whiting Award citation "Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power."—LitHub "Vuong’s powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identity—all with a tremendous humanity."—Slate “In his impressive debut collection, Vuong, a 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, writes beauty into—and culls from—individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity. Managing this balance becomes the crux of the collection, as when he writes, ‘Your father is only your father/ until one of you forgets. Like how the spine/ won’t remember its wings/ no matter how many times our knees/ kiss the pavement.’”—Publishers Weekly "What a treasure [Ocean Vuong] is to us. What a perfume he's crushed and rendered of his heart and soul. What a gift this book is."—Li-Young Lee Torso of Air Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of night—sealed with bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve & carve until a coin of light appears & you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side— waiting. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City, New York.

Author : Emily Pérez
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820368679
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Devotion written by Emily Pérez and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of Falling written by Sandra Beasley and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. THEORIES OF FALLING is the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Judge Marie Howe said of THEORIES OF FALLING, "I kept coming back to these poems--the tough lyric voice that got under my skin. Clear, intent, this poet doesn't want to fool herself or anybody else. Desire pushes defeat against the wall, and the spirit climbs up from underground." "Sandra Beasley slices her way down the page with precision and punch. Her haunting 'Allergy Girl' series will set off such an itch, I doubt you'll ever fully recover...This poet leaves us to smolder and ache in small kingdoms where 'even the tame dogs dream of biting clear to the bone.'"--Aimee Nezhukumatathil.