This Body Is An Empty Vessel Poetry

Author : Beaton Galafa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 177927260X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry written by Beaton Galafa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is poetry that is personal yet spreading to have its tentacles struggling to grip into other equally slippery facets of life. In brief, Beaton writes his poetry to assuage his personal feelings yet in so doing he ends up massaging our shared experience - as Malawians, Africans and just as humans. Beaton has observed, learnt, and is growing in the Malawian poetry space. Thus, he also comes to the stage bearing the Malawian influence on his poetry.

Author : Paisley Rekdal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556594977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Vessels written by Paisley Rekdal and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating photography and rigorous research, Imaginary Vessels makes history personal and the personal historical.

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0394729455
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother's Body written by Marge Piercy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1985-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification. "The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume. Readers of Piercy's previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about children's fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father. Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily women's tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother. In all, My Mother's Body is one of Piercy's most powerful and balanced collections.

Author : Pádraig Ó. Tuama
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132403548X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World written by Pádraig Ó. Tuama and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empty Vessel written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tendai R Mwanaka
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779272529
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems written by Tendai R Mwanaka and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems in Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems deal with, among other issues, the North African uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and intersects into the Middle East conflicts in Syria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the never ending conflict between Israel and Palestine. These poems previously came out under Revolution: Struggle Poems, published in 2015, and the rest of the poems are from my latest poetry collection I am currently working on entitled Disobedience Poems. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, mentor, thinker, literary artist, visual artist and musical artist with over 40 books published. He writes in English and Shona.

Author : Patina V. Waters
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1468505378
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems from the Heart written by Patina V. Waters and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Waters has had various poems from her collections published in various anthologies and has now decided to have a book published of her poems. One of her poems has been published in Eternal Heartland: Route 70 by Eber and Wein Publishing. Poems From the Heart is an inspirational view of poems conceived from the authors sights, sounds and emotional views. For example the poem Cycles, how one little leaf has changed over a season or Through A Childs Eye, how children perceive things as opposed to adults. Patina Waters is an original Washingtonian. She was educated here in Washington, D.C. from elementary school all the way through college. She has one son Robert. She likes writing poetry, reading, movies and music. She says her inspirations come to her like lightning in a bottle.

Author : Marlon Lieber
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839463467
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Race Relationally written by Marlon Lieber and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first six novels, Marlon Lieber argues that this question has permeated the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's writing since his 1999 debut The Intuitionist. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational sociology and Marxist critical theory, Lieber shows that Whitehead's oeuvre articulates the tension between the persistent presence of racism and transformations in the United States' class structure, which reveals new modes of abjection. At the same time, Whitehead imagines forms of writing that strive to transcend the histories of domination objectified in social structures and embodied in the form of habitus.

Author : Jacob Edmond
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548672
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make It the Same written by Jacob Edmond and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Make It the Same explores how poetry—an art form associated with the singular, inimitable utterance—is increasingly made from other texts through sampling, appropriation, translation, remediation, performance, and other forms of repetition. Edmond tracks the rise of copy poetry across media from the tape recorder to the computer and through various cultures and languages, reading across aesthetic, linguistic, geopolitical, and technological divides. He illuminates the common form that unites a diverse range of writers from dub poets in the Caribbean to digital parodists in China, samizdat wordsmiths in Russia to Twitter-trolling provocateurs in the United States, analyzing the works of such writers as Kamau Brathwaite, Dmitri Prigov, Yang Lian, John Cayley, Caroline Bergvall, M. NourbeSe Philip, Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Christian Bök, Yi Sha, Hsia Yü, and Tan Lin. Edmond develops an alternative account of modernist and contemporary literature as defined not by innovation—as in Ezra Pound’s oft-repeated slogan “make it new”—but by a system of continuous copying. Make It the Same transforms global literary history, showing how the old hierarchies of original and derivative, center and periphery are overturned when we recognize copying as the engine of literary change.

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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Dealer written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: