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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In The Exchange, poet Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront with stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world-the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion- intrudes. Hers is a look behind the curtain...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe's four previous collections-including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry that collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Everybody has a poem inside them! Writing one is not as hard as you think, you just need to know how to get started. Discover all sorts of ways to write and perform your very own poems, from found poems, to haikus, to tanka poems, to tongue-twisters!" --
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Rhymes About Nature, Mostly" explores the traits of dozens of animals, from the smallest monkey, a pygym marmoset, to the biggest creature in the world, a blue whale. Young readers and their grown-ups can use the book's rhymes and illustragions to discover something new about the natural world on every page.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Asking opens with new and urgent poems by Jane Hirshfield, in which she faces again the contradictions that have shaped her work: "Some take/ in witnessed suffering, pleasure," she writes. "Some make, of witnessed suffering, beauty." The volume then returns to the beginning, carrying us from her earliest volumes (including Of Gravity and Angels; Given Sugar, Given Salt; and After), up through the important recent work (Come, Thief; The Beauty;...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Das Komponisten-Paar Schönherz & Fleer ist der Schöpfer des mehrfach preisgekrönten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sänger interpretieren ausgewählte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik - eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEIßE NÄCHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schönheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Hörbuch verströmt...
13) Sonette
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Wer Shakespeare in heutiger Zeit neu kennen lernen möchte, sollte sich dieses Hörbuch zu Gemüte führen. Ein Mann der Bühne, Martin Flörchinger, hat die 154 Sonette neu übertragen, eine verständliche, bodenständige, kraftvolle Dichtung geschaffen. Der unmittelbare Zugang zum Werk des Klassikers führte den Schauspieler zwangsläufig zu den Sonetten, hinter denen die Persönlichkeit, der Künstler und Mensch Shakespeare, deutlicher hervortritt...
14) Moonshadows
Author
Language
English
Description
In Moonshadows, the poems beckon to the elusive whispers of inner dreams, akin to tender 'moonbeams' lighting the dark corners of the soul. Each piece oscillates between delicate tenderness and a raw, abrasive spirit, offering a spiritual balm one moment, and presenting a playful or challenging muse the next. As you traverse through the pages, you'll encounter a tapestry of characters – elusive, amusing, spiritual, or grim – each adding a unique...
15) Lady Moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Living abroad, travelling the world, dreaming, exploring, discovering,
Learning and seizing life,
Too independent, too much of a dreamer,
A hopeless wanderer.
Closing my eyes, I feel anything is possible,
I feel powerful I can do anything,
I can be anyone.
But I am just a wandering soul,
A dim moon in a bright world.
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection by the author of twenty one, "easy to read" pieces of poetry for all ages, although aimed primarily at the younger reader.While the majority of the work is written in a simple and traditional style, ie. there is rhyme and rhythm in each stanza, while a few only embody other recognised formats but are, none-the-less, still very easy to read. It is the author's intention that his work is found to be entertaining, so please read on and enjoy....
Author
Language
English
Description
I Turned a Corner Once is a collection of poems that explore the experiences and relationships of the author over the course of fifty years. From their youth in a small coastal town in Cornwall in the 1950s, to hippy collectives and their career as an airline pilot, the poems in this book cover a wide range of themes including romance, humor, and the unknown consequences of our actions. Through it all, the author learns to embrace change and instinctively...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Cuando el alma me inspira es un conmovedor viaje a través de las emociones humanas, un libro de poesía que teje palabras con la delicadeza de un pincel sobre un lienzo en blanco. Las páginas de esta obra nos invitan a explorar los múltiples matices de la experiencia humana, ofreciendo un vistazo a la diversidad de sensibilidades y respuestas que surgen en el enfrentamiento de la vida.
La autora, con una sensibilidad palpable en cada verso, se...
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of verse inspired by the style of John Cooper Clarke, the 'Godfather of Punk Poetry.' The verse is mostly commentary on current social issues, attitudes and mores addressed in a sardonic and hopefully amusing manner.
Ideally, the verse should be read to a club or pub audience in a rapid manner and in a Manchester accent. The author has a bash at establishment figures, 'celebrities,' and 'political correctness,' and other current topics....
Author
Language
Español
Description
Memorias del silencio, a decir de las palabras de su autora, es un pedazo de su vida, de aquellos días donde escribir fue su única satisfacción.
A veces, la gente decide callar y dejar en el cajón sus letras tristes, pero la autora tomó la decisión de poder llegar a muchos corazones que, como ella hacía, viven esa tristeza en silencio. Edith Velázquez Vargas grita esa desolación en su propio lenguaje; así nace la poesía, y así, la poesía...
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