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| Author | : Kat Giordano |
| Publisher | : Philosophical Idiot |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2018-06-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781732292208 |
On the night that I open my first MFA rejection letter, Charles Bukowski appears in the corner of my college apartment in stained khakis and a yellowed white undershirt, swirling Jim Beam in a lowball glass... The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost is Kat Giordano's debut full-length poetry collection. "This book is full of cutting truths and visceral honesty, softened by the same hand that sharpened it. It's rare to find a poet who is able to so effortlessly infuse comedy and humor into serious, heart-breaking poetry, but you find that in The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost. Kat's vulnerability and openness feels almost effortless, and will make everyone who reads this collection want to be braver." -- Caitlyn Siehl, author of Crybaby "Kat Giordano's work reads like the human body after a crime of passion. And you look up and realize what you have done and the poems are over and you are sitting in a pool of blood. Or is it your own tears? You will feel a wetness and a hurt, like you did not want it to be over and then it was." -- Heather Bell, author of A Horse Made of Fire "Kat Giordano is a fearless poet of and for our troubled times. The voices in her poems struggle a lot. There's anxiety and self-doubt. There's Poet Man and MeToo and the lie of Bob Ross's fluffy evergreens - fake beauty that can lull a person into believing the world is prettier and more promising than it is. These are poems filled with speakers who know the fight for their artistic and literal survival -- however impossible it seems -- is their only option. . . What a fresh and edged voice this is. A fierce debut." -- Lori Jakiela, author of Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
| Author | : Kat Giordano |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-11-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781734515831 |
In the aftermath of her first serious long-term relationship, the book's protagonist, a 22-year-old woman caught in the loop of a dead-end data entry job, takes a trip out of the city to collect her thoughts and visit her friend, Sidney, at her hometown. Every year, Sidney throws a loosely-defined "festival" in which she invites her wide and widely-varied circle of friends to stay in her family's empty house for a long weekend of debauchery. This time, however, she's looking for a distraction, and she finds it in the form of Jay, a 40-something manual laborer who wastes no time in prying into her various emotional and existential burdens.
| Author | : Tom Sleigh |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 135 |
| Release | : 2022-02-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1644451670 |
A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic. Tom Sleigh’s poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. The King’s Touch collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, “isn’t it true that no matter how long you / wear them, masks don’t grieve, only faces do?” In this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about the fate of the planet.
| Author | : Joy Harjo |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2004-01-17 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0393345807 |
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.
| Author | : Eloisa Amezcua |
| Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2022-04-12 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1566896428 |
In Fighting is Like a Wife, Eloisa Amezcua uses striking visual poems to reconstruct the love story—and the tragedy—of two-time world boxing champion “Schoolboy” Bobby Chacon and his first wife, Valorie Ginn. Bobby took to fighBobby took to fighting the way a surfer takes to water: the waves and crests, the highs and the pummeling lows. Valorie, as girlfriend, then wife, then mother of their children, was proud of Bobby and how he found a way out of the harsh world they were born into. But the brain-sloshing blows, the women, and the alcohol began to take their toll, and soon Bobby couldn’t hear her anymore. With her fate affixed to Bobby’s, and Bobby’s to the ring, Valorie sought her own way out of this dilemma. Using haunting, visceral language to evoke the emotion of the fight, and incorporating direct quotations from sports commentators and Bobby himself, Fighting Is Like a Wife reveals how boxing, like love and poetry, can be brutal, vulnerable, and surprising.
| Author | : Natalie Shapero |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781556595097 |
Natalie Shapero spars with apathy, nihilism, and mortality, while engaging the rich territory of the 30s and new motherhood
| Author | : Neeli Cherkovski |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2020-09 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781946583192 |
Poetry. A new collection from Neeli Cherkovski who has spent a lifetime in service to Poetry. More closely than ever the poet explores his life of exhausting hyperactivity. These poems embody the rewards and difficulties of the unfettered energy of a person living with ADD, as in the poem, "Hyper Me...," "I do not wish to sit still folding the menu, / I need to jump up and head south / onto the fast lane / listening to Country & Western / shutting my eyes // sit still! / learn to listen! / finish what you started! / meditate! / pet a weasel! / the engine purrs..." The book's title comes from a line in the poem, "Elegy For Steve Dalachinsky," a good friend who died as this manuscript was being compiled. Forever climbing on Poetry mountain, Cherkovski contemplates the looming abyss and, as the airy summit beckons, he goes on celebrating this existence, every exuberant moment.
| Author | : Rin Chupeco |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2014-08-05 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1402292198 |
"[A] Stephen Kinglike horror story...A chilling, bloody ghost story that resonates."— Kirkus From the highly acclaimed author of the Bone Witch trilogy comes a chilling story of a Japanese ghost looking for vengeance and the boy who has no choice but to trust her, lauded as a "a fantastically creepy story sure to keep readers up at night" (RT Book Reviews) I am where dead children go. Okiku is a lonely soul. She has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the spirits of the murdered-dead. Once a victim herself, she now takes the lives of killers with the vengeance they're due. But releasing innocent ghosts from their ethereal tethers does not bring Okiku peace. Still she drifts on. Such is her existence, until she meets Tark. Evil writhes beneath the moody teen's skin, trapped by a series of intricate tattoos. While his neighbors fear him, Okiku knows the boy is not a monster. Tark needs to be freed from the malevolence that clings to him. There's just one problem: if the demon dies, so does its host. Suspenseful and creepy, The Girl from the Well is perfect for readers looking for Spooky books for young adults Japanese horror novels Ghost stories for teens East Asian folklore Praise for The Girl from the Well "There's a superior creep factor that is pervasive in every lyrical word of Chupeco's debut, and it's perfect for teens who enjoy traditional horror movies...the story is solidly scary and well worth the read." — Booklist "Chupeco makes a powerful debut with this unsettling ghost story...told in a marvelously disjointed fashion from Okiku's numbers-obsessed point of view, this story unfolds with creepy imagery and an intimate appreciation for Japanese horror, myth, and legend." — Publishers Weekly STARRED review "It hit all the right horror notes with me, and I absolutely recommend it to fans looking for a good scare. " — The Book Smugglers
| Author | : Jackson Dean Chase |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2015-11-26 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781519546067 |
Poems inspired by (and many about) Charles Bukowski. A touching tribute to Buk that captures the self-inflicted madness of the poet in all of us. Topics include loss and pain, hope and struggle, from childhood to beyond the grave. Includes 120 sad, funny, shocking poems like "Death March to the Food Bank," "This Dusty Soul," and "Bukowski's Ghost." SAMPLE POEM: "ANOTHER WASTED NIGHT" I am drunk on regret, on knowing I'll never be good enough. This diner is old, comforting, like my mother's hands. I slide into a booth and order fries wanting to taste love, wanting to taste anything but what I feel right now.
| Author | : Eric Erlandson |
| Publisher | : Akashic Books |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2012-03-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1617750832 |
"an anguished, angry, and tender meditation on the octane and ether of rock and roll and its many moons: sex, drugs, suicide, fame, and rage."--Jacket.
