True Simple Poems of Life, Faith and Survival

True Simple Poems of Life, Faith and Survival
Author: Karen Rice
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781448926497

This book chronicles an individualas true life experiences during her journey of many trials and tribulations. With the words and phrases of each poem of statements, she wishes to make a positive impact on someone whoas ill or otherwise, where they can proceed life in a whole new way.

Survival Is a Style

Survival Is a Style
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374721416

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet’s father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.

Ambition and Survival

Ambition and Survival
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1619320932

An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.

Library of Small Catastrophes

Library of Small Catastrophes
Author: Alison C. Rollins
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1619321998

Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins’ ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies. Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges’ fascination with the library, Rollins uses the concept of the archive to offer a lyric history of the ways in which we process loss. “Memory is about the future, not the past,” she writes, and rather than shying away from the anger, anxiety, and mourning of her narrators, Rollins’ poetry seeks to challenge the status quo, engaging in a diverse, boundary-defying dialogue with an ever-present reminder of the ways race, sexuality, spirituality, violence, and American culture collide.

My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374216789

A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

The Brontës

The Brontës
Author: Juliet Barker
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1453265260

A “brilliant” biography of the Brontë family, dispelling popular myths and revealing the true story of Emily, Anne, Charlotte, and their father (The Independent on Sunday). The tragic story of the Brontë family has been told many times: the half-mad, repressive father; the drunken, drug-addicted brother; wildly romantic Emily; unrequited Anne; and “poor Charlotte.” But is any of it true? These caricatures of the popular imagination were created by amateur biographers like Elizabeth Gaskell who were more interested in lurid tales than genuine scholarship. Juliet Barker’s landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontës. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling—but true. Based on firsthand research among all the Brontë manuscripts and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world’s favorite literary family.

A Thousand Mornings

A Thousand Mornings
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1101595973

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing

S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing
Author: Luci Tapahonso
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0816513619

A cycle of poetry and stories by the Navajo writer explores her memories of home in Shiprock, New Mexico; of significant events such as birth, partings, and reunions; and of life with her family. By the author of Seasonal Woman. Simultaneous.

Faith, Hope and Poetry

Faith, Hope and Poetry
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781409449362

Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do Theology'. Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.