New PDF release: What Work Is

By Philip Levine

ISBN-10: 0679401660

ISBN-13: 9780679401667

ISBN-10: 0679740589

ISBN-13: 9780679740582

Winner of the nationwide e-book Award in 1991
 
“This assortment quantities to a hymn of compliment for all of the employees of the USA. those proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, bathroom toilet, candy Pea, and Packy, paintings the furnaces, forges, slag tons, meeting strains, and loading docks at locations with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s nice Plumbing and Plating. simply Studs Terkel’s Working techniques the pathos and wonder of this ebook. yet Levine’s characters also are major for his or her internal lives, now not in simple terms their jobs. they're strangely inventive, dwelling ‘at the borders of dreams.’ One reads The Tempest ‘slowly to himself’; one other ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn through his instructor to indicate a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of ‘the darkish from the dark.’ What paintings Is ranks as an incredible paintings via a massive poet . . . very available and totally American in tone and language.”
—Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal

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Download PDF by Arda Collins,Louise Glück: It Is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By Arda Collins,Louise Glück

ISBN-10: 0300148887

ISBN-13: 9780300148886

Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the yearly Yale sequence of more youthful Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems appear to be articulated in the privateness of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and but metaphysically demanding, either witty and despairing. Collins’ emotional complexity and unusual variety make this debut either thrillingly resourceful and moral in its uncompromising awareness to detail. In her Foreword, contest pass judgement on Louise Glück observes, “I understand no poet whose feel of fraud, the inflated vacancy that substitutes for feeling, is extra acute.” Glück calls Collins’ quantity “savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a booklet of spectacular originality and depth, unheard of, unrepeatable.”

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Read e-book online The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010 PDF

By Marge Piercy

ISBN-10: 0307594106

ISBN-13: 9780307594105

ISBN-10: 037571202X

ISBN-13: 9780375712029

This new amassing of Marge Piercy’s poems—energetic, humorous, political, choked with vitality—brings us the center of her mature paintings, the 1st chosen due to the fact Circles at the Water in 1982.

Here are poems that chart the milestone occasions and fierce passions of her center years: the loss of life of her mom, whom we meet first as a tender girl, “awkwardly stunning, her face / natural as a unmarried trill completely / lengthy on a violin,” and back as an older girl musing on what the afterlife may perhaps carry for her. there's a new marriage which she celebrates not just for romantic beginnings but in addition for the extra intimate information that emerge over the years: “love cherishes too the backpockets, / the pencil ends of early life fears.”

Some poems exhibit her long-held, never-wavering political convictions, which she proclaims in language unmistakably and colorfully her personal, as whilst she encourages her feminist readers to visit the opera rather than the flicks simply because not less than there the heroine is actual, “fifty and weighs up to a ’65 Chevy with fins.”

Living out to sea on Cape Cod settles her into the rhythm of seasons and offers poems of planting and harvests, odes to tomatoes and roses, tributes to the facility and freedom of whales. And in those years she rediscovers her Jewish history, celebrating vacations and making of them anything new and unique.

She starts off to ascertain her personal legacy:
I have worn the faces, the masks
of hieroglyphs, gods and demons,
bat confronted ghosts, sibyls and thieves,
lover, loser, pink rose and ragweed,
these are the tracks i've got left
on the white crust of time.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Read e-book online The Beekeeper's Wife PDF

By Shanda Hansma Blue

ISBN-10: 1770670688

ISBN-13: 9781770670686

ISBN-10: 1770670696

ISBN-13: 9781770670693

The Beekeeper’s spouse is electrified by way of Herbert Scott’s poem of an analogous identify. it's an try and think the lifetime of the lady in the back of the poem.

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Shanda Hansma Blue’s The Beekeeper’s spouse is an excellent poetic argument among nature and the reader, among the beekeeper’s spouse and the beekeeper, among the place a lady exists in her small and massive areas and the girl. it's a robust rendition of the woman’s global, an international the place in simple terms we will be able to exist. we're the keeper of the day, emerging at sunrise, sooner than the sunrises, as though the sun’s upward push exclusively trusted us or as though nature itself have been within the related advanced courting the girl has with the beekeeper. i've got continuously believed that the poet is a thinker, and Shanda proves this good in her clean use of language, the place the beekeeper’s spouse “lives within the 5 percentage area/ of northern lighting visibility. /” back, Hansma Blue indicates us that the beekeeper’s spouse “thinks of this as her numerical info/ her place at the statistical/ halo of Earth’s aurora latitudes.” in a single of her strong poems, “Bargain,” Shanda tells us, “My grandfather regularly stated of loud women/ A whistling lady is sort of a crowing hen/. certainly, Shanda Hansma Blue is “a crowing hen,” the place she juxtapositions the area of her speaker, the beekeeper’s spouse and that of the beekeeper. this isn't a ebook of poetry approximately nature regardless of its awareness to the numerous brilliant info of the character round the speaker; it's a tale approximately womanhood along that of manhood. the following nature and lady collide, co-exist, argue, and live on, all in a courting to the fellow within the tale. right here, “the the following and the now” come jointly or collide every now and then, and but the fidelity of nature retains the beekeeper’s spouse grounded although it is she who retains the area of either her and the beekeeper grounded. Shanda Hansma Blue’s debut ebook of poetry brings to us an enthralling tale that's proper in our new global the place nature and humankind are at warfare. This metaphoric telling of the tale of the beekeeper’s spouse who retains the beekeeper who retains the bees will make you ask yourself and chortle while. Hansma Blue’s picturesque use of language will hang-out you lengthy after interpreting this book.

-Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, writer of the place the line Turns-

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Download PDF by James Fenton: Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968–2011

By James Fenton

ISBN-10: 0571273823

ISBN-13: 9780571273829

ISBN-10: 0571273831

ISBN-13: 9780571273836

Winner of either the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers one of the most memorable lyric verse of the prior many years, from the formal ability that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and political monologues of The reminiscence of struggle and Children in Exile, via to the unforgettable love poems of Out of chance and his most up-to-date paintings: Poems is an important choice by means of, as Stephen Spender placed it, 'a extraordinary poet of technical virtuosity'.

Don't seek advice from me of affection. i have had an earful
And i am getting tearful while i have downed a drink or two.
I'm one in all your conversing wounded.
I'm a hostage. i am maroonded.
But i am in Paris with you.

From 'In Paris With You' through James Fenton

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Feel Happier in Nine Seconds by Linda Besner PDF

By Linda Besner

ISBN-10: 155245343X

ISBN-13: 9781552453438

Featuring a chain of colour poems sparked by way of a role writing nonfiction journal articles approximately synaesthesia and Fisher rate fridge magnets, the poems during this assortment are as alive because the international from which they borrow. Besner plumbs the depths of other physics, glamour, economics, and digital truth with nice cognizance to prosody and a bleak experience of humor.

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Read e-book online Do Pantyhose Lie? PDF

By Vincent Ivory

ISBN-10: 1419673610

ISBN-13: 9781419673610

ISBN-10: 1419687786

ISBN-13: 9781419687785

Do Pantyhose Lie? is an intimate choice of poetry approximately lifestyles, love, feelings, creativity, sensuality and spirituality. With an unorthodox but modern variety, Vincent Ivory engages the undying questions of goal and keenness whereas admiring the tangible and intangible fantastic thing about mature girls in items like ladies & Wine. each reader will locate themselves in at the least one of many creations as they find a number of poetry that definitively makes you pass … hmmm?

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Get Village Prodigies PDF

By Rodney Jones

ISBN-10: 0544960106

ISBN-13: 9780544960107

“A novel in language as dense and plush and lovely as poetry . . . [or] a booklet of poetry with the brilliant characters and the narrative strength of a singular? no matter what you care to name it, it’s a outstanding achievement.” — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer of Empire Falls
 
Village Prodigies imagines town of chilly Springs, Alabama, from 1950 to 2015 and unfurls its narrative achieve as six boys—prodigies and swains—grow up and depart the familiarity of domestic and the agricultural South.

but all prodigies, all thoughts, all tales necessarily loop again. via a multiplicity of issues of view and leading edge types, Rodney Jones performs with the contradictions in our event of time, developing portals wherein we shuttle among moments and characters, from the internal brain to the main external speech, from delusions to rational notion. We event Alzheimer’s and its influence on kin, take heed to relatives lore and skim family members fb posts, relive conflict, and revive half-forgotten folktales and games. during this deep exam of private and communal reminiscence, Jones blurs the traces among analog and electronic, poetry and prose.

 

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