So Often The Pitcher Goes To Water Until It Breaks

Author : Rigoberto González
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067983
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until it Breaks written by Rigoberto González and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing new talent, Rigoberto González writes with a clarity of the senses that pulls the reader into a marvelous and unfamiliar world. The sidewalk preacher, the umbrella salesman, the nurse on the graveyard shift, the professional mourner-- all allow González a clandestine glimpse of their lives. Crackling with the dry electricity of the desert and flashing with the brilliant colors of Mexico, González's poems are rooted in the fertile soil beneath poverty's dust, the border's violence, and longing's desolation.

Author : G. E. Murray
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091957
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts of a Cold Sun written by G. E. Murray and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these poems, G. E. Murray blends the colors of the soul with those of the world it brushes up against, exploring the ways in which art, both as possession and possessor, informs perception. Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude, sometimes from the intimacy of a shared restaurant table, Murray crafts “true stories about color,” narratives of dislocation and belonging that invite readers to question their own relationship to art. Included in this volume is a long sequential poem titled “The Seconds,” which Murray composed across the second days of thirteen months. The rhythms of this diary-as-poem seize the tensions of shifting times and locales, capturing the essences of moments that are at once chosen and arbitrary. “Codes toward an Incidental City,” the sequence that closes the book, is a confederacy of forty poems that delve into the concrete familiarities and mythologies of urban landscapes, illuminating the ecstasies of city life.

Author : Miller Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067747
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Jazz a While written by Miller Williams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here one of our best-loved poets gathers his most representative work from twelve collections and adds some new pieces as well. An American original, Miller Williams involves the readers emotions and imagination with an effective illusion of plain talk, continually rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language we speak and imagine by.

Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252073037
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles & Lullabies written by Richard Michelson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant book of poetry, Michelson weaves together the past and present, seeing within his children his own difficult childhood, within current wars the burning memory of the Holocaust, and within himself, the ghost of his father.

Author : Len Roberts
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069529
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Singer written by Len Roberts and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Poetry Series awards, Len Roberts presents his best past work with a sizable collection of new poems.

Author : R. T. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092449
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollow Log Lounge written by R. T. Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is no fairy tale. / It's all fantastic and bizarre and true. / It's my life, a raspy song, that sounds better if you sing along." The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. In this collection of poems, R. T. Smith paints a vividly imagined portrait of the community in this small-town bar, capturing the chorus of the patrons' voices echoing off the knotted wood-paneled walls. Smith's stand-in, Sam Buckhannon, scribbles stories heard and overheard as tongues loosened by liquor spin out monologues in which southern idiom and vernacular seem perfectly at home within the constraints of measured verse.

Author : Michael Van Walleghen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071782
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Black Window written by Michael Van Walleghen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004-05-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.

Author : Thaddeus Rutkowski
Publisher : Behler Publications
ISBN 13 : 1933016167
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tetched written by Thaddeus Rutkowski and published by Behler Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edgy, minimalist style, Tetched presents a darkly comedic picture of difficult family life, quirky sexuality and urban dislocation.

Author : David Friedman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091302
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welcome written by David Friedman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fables for the modern age

Author : Victoria Chang
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071744
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian American Poetry written by Victoria Chang and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.