Poems From Heaven

Author : Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393324648
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow of Heaven written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the author's highly acclaimed Kyrie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers an intimate exploration of the obstacles and joys of modern life.

Author : Tomas Transtromer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1555977839
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Half-Finished Heaven written by Tomas Transtromer and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has a prestigious worldwide reputation-- many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer’s, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Tranströmer’s poems to create this collection.

Author : Kemi Alabi
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451727
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Heaven written by Kemi Alabi and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Claudia Rankine. Kemi Alabi’s transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country’s central and ordained fictions—those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has been forced upon them, Alabi turns to the body and the earth as sites of paradise defined by the pleasure and possibility of Black, queer fugitivity. Through tender love poems, righteous prayers, and vital provocations, we see the colonizers we carry within ourselves being laid to rest. Against Heaven is a praise song made for the flames of a burning empire—a freedom dream that shapeshifts into boundless multiplicities for the wounds made in the name of White supremacy and its gods. Alabi has written an astonishing collection of magnificent range, commanding the full spectrum of the Black, queer spirit’s capacity for magic, love, and ferocity in service of healing—the highest power there is.

Author : Jack Gilbert
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307543943
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refusing Heaven written by Jack Gilbert and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: “The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life.” Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and wonder at the fact of existence itself. Despite powerful intermittent griefs–over the women he has parted from or the one lost to cancer (an experience he captures with intimate precision)–Gilbert’s choice in this volume is to “refuse heaven.” He prefers this life, with its struggle and alienation and delight, to any paradise. His work is both a rebellious assertion of the call to clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in all its aspects. It braces the reader in its humanity and heart.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780912516318
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven & Other Poems written by Jack Kerouac and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Jack Kerouac's poems, plus his statements on poetics and letters to an editor.

Author : Barbara Minney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732128255
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If There's No Heaven written by Barbara Minney and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Marie Minney writes personal and emotional poetry that describes her feelings, thoughts, and passions while struggling to live her truth as a transgender woman. She began her transition to living authentically as the woman that she now knows she was meant to be a little over two years ago at the age of 63 after repressing her true gender identity for over 60 years.

Author : Barbara Ras
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988216
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blues of Heaven written by Barbara Ras and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother’s death; doors to an idiosyncratic working-class childhood among Polish immigrants; laments for nature and politics out of kilter. Ras portrays the climate crisis, guns out of control, the reckless injustice and ignorance of the United States government. At the same time, her poems nimbly focus on particulars—these facts, these consequences—bringing the wreckage of unfathomable harm home with immediacy and integrity. Though her subjects may be dire, Ras also weaves her wise humor throughout, moving deftly from sardonic to whimsical to create an expansive, ardent, and memorable book. Survival Strategies To dig for quahogs, to feel their edges like smiles and pull against their suck to toss them in a bucket. To feel the wind as a friend, to feel its current as luck. To ignore Capricorn and Cancer presuming to slice the globe. To know the lie in “names can never hurt you.” To be a gull breezing the blue, eating nothing but clouds. To measure your ties to the past by the strength of cobwebs. To haunt the widow’s walk, its twelve narrow windows each the size of a child’s coffin. To watch the harbor where the Acushnet runs into Buzzards Bay before it was named a Superfund site full of PCBs. To wonder if that water you swam summer after aimless summer could get you the way something got your brother, too fast, too soon. To bury or burn the whole family you were born to and talk to them only through the smoke of letters you torch at their graves. To see a snake with a ladybug on its back and still refuse to pray.

Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786222647
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven in Ordinary written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet's Corner is Malcolm Guite's delectable column that appears on the back page of the Church Times each week. This second collection brings together more than seventy columns created from little glimpses and reflections from all corners of the country, the musings of a poet's mind, and the corners and alleyways of our literary heritage. Malcolm's lucid, perceptive and imaginative columns follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned, with a sense of development, of a turn or volta part way through, and a sense that the end revisits and re-reads the opening.

Author : Alison Hawthorne Deming
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143108859
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stairway to Heaven written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection from a poet who “writes with scrupulous and merciful passion about every kind of relatedness—family, place, politics, and wildlife” (W. S. Piero) In her fifth book of poems, Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming explores dimensions of grief and renewal after losing her brother and mother. Grounded in her communion with nature and place, she finds even in Death Valley, that most stark of landscapes, a spirit of inventiveness that animates the ground we walk on. From the cave art of Chauvet to the futuristic habitat of Biosphere 2, that inventiveness becomes consolation for losses in family and nature, a means to build again a sense of self and world in the face of devastating loss.

Author : José Olivarez
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608469557
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen Illegal written by José Olivarez and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today