Sisyphusina

Sisyphusina
Author: Shira Dentz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-04-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948587099

Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Music. SISYPHUSINA is a cross-genre collection of prose, poetry, visual art, and improvisatory music, centered on female aging. Faced with linguistic and literary traditions that lack rich vocabularies to describe female aging, Shira Dentz uses the hybrid form as an attempt to suture new language that reflects internal and physical processes that constitute a shifting identity. By deviating from formal classical construction, and using the recurring image of a rose, SISYPHUSINA circles around conventions of beauty, questioning traditional aesthetic values of continuity, coherence, and symmetry. Some of the book's images are drawn from separate multimedia collaborations between the author and composer Pauline Oliveros, artist Kathy High, and artist Kathline Carr. A musical composition improvised by Pauline Oliveros, based on one of her text scores, titled "Aging Music," is the book's coda, and readers can listen to it online by scanning a QR code inside the book. The interweaving of these collaborations with the author's voice and voices from other sources imbue this book with a porous texture, and reimagines the boundary of the book as a membrane.

Letters to the Home

Letters to the Home
Author: Michael Gray Bulla
Publisher: Southern Songbird
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781486717996

LETTERS TO THE HOME is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore family, memory, mental health, sexuality, grief, and trauma. The poems, ranging from four lines to one hundred, sliced in parts or told as one, written stream-of-conscious or slowly shaped, tell a story of grief and reconciliation. In these poems, cars almost crash, letters are never sent, odes are composed, and memories are unearthed. Achingly personal and stripped bare, LETTERS TO THE HOME is a raw examination of what it means to grow up mentally ill; to be "other" in a world that values sameness; to reconcile memory with fact; and, at the center of everything, what it means to lose a sibling.

Love and Other Poems

Love and Other Poems
Author: Alex Dimitrov
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 161932234X

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

One Big Rain

One Big Rain
Author:
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN: 9781570917165

Revel in rain throughout the seasons in this collection of poems about rain.

Incarnadine

Incarnadine
Author: Mary Szybist
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1555976352

The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from "The Troubadours etc." In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist.

Philip Larkin Poems

Philip Larkin Poems
Author: Philip Larkin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0571271766

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom?... Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin Amis

Lighthead

Lighthead
Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1101222883

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.

The Art of Love Poetry

The Art of Love Poetry
Author: Erik Irving Gray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198752970

The first study to offer an integral theory of love poetry, examining why it is that poetry, even more than other arts, is so consistently associated with romantic love.

The Essential Rumi

The Essential Rumi
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: Persian poetry
ISBN: 9780140195798

Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.