Here and Now: Poems

Here and Now: Poems
Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393244555

“A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post In his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls “the problems of the normal,” which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem “Don’t Do That” opens with the lines: “It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything / hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red / along with some resentment I’d held in / for a few weeks.” In other poems, Dunn contemplates his own mortality, echoing Yeats—“That is no country for old men / cadenced everything I said”—only to discover he’s joined their ranks. In “The Writer of Nudes” his speaker is in search of the body’s “grammar” but tells his models, “Don’t expect to see yourself as other / than I see you.” Full of grace, wit, humor, and masterful precision, the poems in Here and Now attest to the contradictions we live with in the here and now. Political and metaphysical, these astonishing poems remind us of the essential human comedy of getting through each day. from "The House on the Hill" . . . from out of the fog, a large, welcoming house would emerge made out of invention and surprise. No things without ideas! you'd shout, and the doors would open, and the echoes would cascade down to the valleys and the faraway towns.

いまここ

いまここ
Author: 相田みつを
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1996
Genre: Calligraphy, Japanese
ISBN: 9784478701195

Nowhere Now Here

Nowhere Now Here
Author: Charles Springer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780998414690

Prose poems.

Here and Now

Here and Now
Author: Youngjoo Son
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135491801

Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change. Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical, and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition, the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive interventions in the production of social space through their critical interaction with dominant spatial codes.

Wish You Were Here (and I Wasn't)

Wish You Were Here (and I Wasn't)
Author: Colin McNaughton
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Children's poetry, English
ISBN: 9780763617202

An illustrated collection of poems about traveling and vacations, including "I'm Off to Treasure Island," "If You're Traveling in Transylvania," and "Are We Nearly There Yet?"

Poetry of Presence

Poetry of Presence
Author: Phyllis Cole-Dai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Mindfulness (Psychology)
ISBN: 9780998258836

A celebrated and diverse group of poets have contributed the beautiful selections that make up Poetry of Presence. This book of mindfulness poems provides a refuge of quiet clarity that is much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.

Here and Now Story Book

Here and Now Story Book
Author: Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1921
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN:

The stories in the book are grouped for expected developmental levels for children between the ages of two and seven, reflecting the growing world of the child from self-centric to an understanding of facts far removed from the child's immediate world.

To Emit Teal

To Emit Teal
Author: upfromsumdirt
Publisher: Broadstone Books
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781937968724

Poetry. African & African Ameican Studies. The title of this new volume of poetry by upfromsumdirt packs a lot of meaning and intention into a mere three words. It is dedicated to Emmett Till, and more recent Black victims of violence, and is entirely an urgent demand for social justice. But don't be fooled by the play on words, for upfromsumdirt isn't playing around here. This isn't a poet merely having fun with language (well, there are points where he clearly is enjoying himself), but rather a reclaiming and reinvention of language in order to engage it in the serious work at hand. In "Tea with Bojangles" he proclaims "reinvisionism is a freedom / if not a luxury, the tongues of your / indignant gods in my painted mouth like / a mud dauber in pink cotton candy..." He knows that words have power to sting, and one word that he uses repeatedly is "Africadabra," an act of conjuring, invoked to break "connection to the God of Chains... / His shackles left you spouting slave-words / from your spirit..." He knows the very language in which he writes is a legacy of slavery, and he shatters and reforges it, breaking the chain, making it a new thing. Freeing it, and with it himself, and us. There is also a ring of science to the title, suggesting light emanating from excitation, which is no accident, for upfromsumdirt often employs the language of science, and science fiction, in his work, connecting it to Afrofuturism and the projection of a future embracing Blackness. In "Black Wholeness: A Theorem," he hypothesizes that "thick = dark thighs x 40 thieves to the power of mules," and enjoins us to "please discount all that you believe about gravity // in the romanticism of such lightless / reality a poem for love is born... [S]hit happens when we raise accountants / instead of wizards," he laments in "Playdates for Zombied Heads of State," anxious over the world awaiting his six-year-old son. "[I]t's as I always say: // a people without the science / to contort their skin into myth / abort the realities they want..." As a talisman against "walking rigor mortis" he places his "solemn black word" beneath the boy's pillow. And in this volume, upfromsumdirt, wizard and poet (for are they not the same thing?) has placed many solemn black words in our ears, in hope that we might hear, and heed.

Here and Somewhere Else

Here and Somewhere Else
Author: Grace Paley
Publisher: Feminist Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Two married writers express their shared activism in a surprising range of styles and voices.