Poems Of Humanity

Author : Maggie Smith
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482420
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466855673
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Chain written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present—the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems that stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other "hermit songs" that weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled "Route 101" plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s childhood to the birth of a first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead—friends, neighbors, family—that is yet wholly and movingly vernacular. Human Chain also includes a poetic "herbal" adapted from the Breton poet Guillevic—lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things and landscapes that exclude human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included.

Author : Nikita Singh
Publisher : Writersgram
ISBN 13 : 9390503833
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Humanity written by Nikita Singh and published by Writersgram. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shades of Humanity, a collection of 40 poems will take you back to look into every face of life and humans. Each poem will reach back to your heart and mind, leading to a reflecting back to ones own journey .It will be a process of diving deep into the world and word 'humanity' reading life through poetic senses.

Author : Catherine Barnett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978665
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Hours written by Catherine Barnett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Believer Book Award The triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award Catherine Barnett’s tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are “accursed,” that are limited—and unanswered—by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow—or at least measure—time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover’s breaths; by remembering a father’s space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.

Author : Nadia Joynson
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504371917
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In All Our Humanity written by Nadia Joynson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are entering a new era where individual sovereignty and collective harmony need to find balance. These are exciting yet challenging times which ask us to look deeply at who we are and how we would like to express that with love. This is the path of courage, to recognize where we are today versus where we desire to be. This books shares inspiration but also words of comfort for those times when all may seem lost but which then transform into new feelings, perspectives and connections that we may never have imagined possible. Humanity is both amazingly resilient and capable of the most beautiful demonstrations of compassion for one another when we transcend fear. Feeling the emotion of all that comes our way and using that as our guide is where the magic of our humanity liesa true celebration of what it means to be alive.

Author : Gpt- Ai
Publisher : Kertojan Aani
ISBN 13 : 9789527397237
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aum Golly: Poems on Humanity by an Artificial Intelligence written by Gpt- Ai and published by Kertojan Aani. This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does AI know about love, happiness and making a difference? Aum Golly is a book of poems written in 24 hours. It was made possible by GPT-3 - an advanced autoregressive language model published in 2020 by OpenAI. "... a collection that surprises with humor and delicateness..." - Goodreads review "... I have to say reading it was a pleasure..." - Finnish radio host Ruben Stiller on Yle "... a beautiful dialogue between man and machine..." - a review of the Finnish audiobook The deep learning model can generate text that is virtually indistinguishable from text written by humans: poems, recipes, summaries, legal text and even pieces of code. GPT-3 is autofill on steroids. Good poetry makes us feel something and see the world differently. Despite the gut reaction some of us may have towards AI-enhanced creativity, Aum Golly is a book like any other. You will love some of the poems. You will hate others. Some will make you wonder, but all of them will make you think. Award-winning writer and TEDx speaker Jukka Aalho has guided the AI and chosen the poems for the collection.

Author : Toby Olson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214407
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Nature written by Toby Olson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Nature, Olson joins the novelist's art to the poet's through remembrances of friends and events in times gone by."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lorenzo Sosso
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484022255
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Humanity and Abelard to Heloise (Classic Reprint) written by Lorenzo Sosso and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems of Humanity and Abelard to Heloise A weed upon the ocean, I have thrown it: Was it mine? I care not if it was, for I disown it; Go, let it steep in brine! Perchance it yet may twine Around the brow of some sad poet perished Full twenty fathoms down. Or by a nymph be taken up and cherished, And woven for her crown. O glory! O renown! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345807
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.

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Publisher : Institute of Commonwealth Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780957521032
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Protest written by and published by Institute of Commonwealth Studies. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights is an anthology of new poetry exploring human rights and social justice themes. This collection, a collaboration between the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Keats House Poets, brings together writing that is often very moving, frequenly touching, and occasionally humorous. The 150 poems included here come from over 16 countries, and provide a rare insight into experiences of oppression, discrimination, and dispossession - and yet they also offer strong messages of hope and solidarity. This anthology brings you contemporary works that are truly outstanding for both their human rights and poetic content. Arranged across thirteen themes - Expression, History, Land, Exile, War, Children, Sentenced, Slavery, Women, Regimes, Workers, Unequal, and Protest - you will fi nd within this collection a poem that inspires and engages you.