Author: Sam Hammill
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1981 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1981 My Rating: 0
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Author: Suzanne S. Rancourt
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jul 2004 My Rating: 0
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In this remarkable debut book of poems, winner of the Native Writers First Book Award, Suzanne S. Rancourt, presents her experience as a mixed-raced person seeking understanding through relationship with the natural world and dominant culture. Her family portraits are reminiscent of E. A. Robinson; her sensuous nature poems are imbued with love of earth as a "blessing."
Dance
my legs are explosions
expressions
of lustful wind
i converse through cracks in the walls
slipping in my true intention like a snow drift
on the inside
side of a door i pound
your chest
has become my wailing wall
i crave your tongue dusted
with words and implications
i have something you need
Born and raised in West Central Maine, Suzanne Rancourt is Abenaki, Bear Clan. She is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. Ms. Rancourt holds a master of fine arts in poetry from Vermont College and a master of science degree in educational psychology from SUNY, Albany, NY. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including "The Albany Review", "Callaloo" and "Cimarron Review".
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jul 2004 My Rating: 0
Summary:
In this remarkable debut book of poems, winner of the Native Writers First Book Award, Suzanne S. Rancourt, presents her experience as a mixed-raced person seeking understanding through relationship with the natural world and dominant culture. Her family portraits are reminiscent of E. A. Robinson; her sensuous nature poems are imbued with love of earth as a "blessing."
Dance
my legs are explosions
expressions
of lustful wind
i converse through cracks in the walls
slipping in my true intention like a snow drift
on the inside
side of a door i pound
your chest
has become my wailing wall
i crave your tongue dusted
with words and implications
i have something you need
Born and raised in West Central Maine, Suzanne Rancourt is Abenaki, Bear Clan. She is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. Ms. Rancourt holds a master of fine arts in poetry from Vermont College and a master of science degree in educational psychology from SUNY, Albany, NY. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including "The Albany Review", "Callaloo" and "Cimarron Review".
Author: William Harmon
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: In this age of sight and sound, one might hope for a renewed interest in poetry read aloud. After all, your average Ipod can store all the world's great poetry. Any such prospect will quickly be extinguished if there are many productions as bad as this one. At first I thought the readers had been chosen in accordance with some manic diversity template, without the slightest concern for whether they could actually read poetry with even minimal competence. In fact, this project was not ruined by political correctness (though that would be typical these days). Instead, the readers are poets themselves. This is a perennially tempting, and invariably bad, idea. The gift of writing poetry is utterly distinct from the gift of reading it. (Perhaps this is the one arena where the deconstructionists are right: here, the "reader" is as important as the writer.) The truths, and the feelings embodied in these poems would be far better conveyed by professional actors or readers; o for a Derek Jacoby, or a Kenneth Branagh, or a Michael York, to substitute for these awful readers. Give these discs to your child in high school if you want to ensure that he or she will never, ever want to read, or hear, another poem.
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: In this age of sight and sound, one might hope for a renewed interest in poetry read aloud. After all, your average Ipod can store all the world's great poetry. Any such prospect will quickly be extinguished if there are many productions as bad as this one. At first I thought the readers had been chosen in accordance with some manic diversity template, without the slightest concern for whether they could actually read poetry with even minimal competence. In fact, this project was not ruined by political correctness (though that would be typical these days). Instead, the readers are poets themselves. This is a perennially tempting, and invariably bad, idea. The gift of writing poetry is utterly distinct from the gift of reading it. (Perhaps this is the one arena where the deconstructionists are right: here, the "reader" is as important as the writer.) The truths, and the feelings embodied in these poems would be far better conveyed by professional actors or readers; o for a Derek Jacoby, or a Kenneth Branagh, or a Michael York, to substitute for these awful readers. Give these discs to your child in high school if you want to ensure that he or she will never, ever want to read, or hear, another poem.
Author: Julia Vinograd
Publisher: Zeitgeist Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1998 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: Zeitgeist Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1998 My Rating: 0
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Author: James Tracy, Dani Montgomery, Raw Knowledge, Leroy Moore, George Tirado, Luis Rodriguez, Josiah Luis Alderete
Publisher: Manic D Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 2003 My Rating: 0
Summary: The Molotov Mouths Outspoken Word Troupe has a simple mission: to jump-start creative works of the political imagination in these turbulent times. No slogans, no dogma, just powerful writing that fights for social justice, as demonstrated in Josiah Luis Alderete's mournful portrait of neighborhood gentrification in "Valencia Street Blues"; Dani Montgomery's forthright take on transgender transformation in "My Last Answer"; Leroy Moore's brutally honest "Brown Broken Bodies," and more. Issues of race, disability, immigration, discrimination, incarceration, and poverty are also tackled in this brilliant debut print collection.
Publisher: Manic D Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 2003 My Rating: 0
Summary: The Molotov Mouths Outspoken Word Troupe has a simple mission: to jump-start creative works of the political imagination in these turbulent times. No slogans, no dogma, just powerful writing that fights for social justice, as demonstrated in Josiah Luis Alderete's mournful portrait of neighborhood gentrification in "Valencia Street Blues"; Dani Montgomery's forthright take on transgender transformation in "My Last Answer"; Leroy Moore's brutally honest "Brown Broken Bodies," and more. Issues of race, disability, immigration, discrimination, incarceration, and poverty are also tackled in this brilliant debut print collection.
Author: Daniel Jones
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 2003 My Rating: 0
Summary: The most complete edition of the works of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.
This new, revised edition of "The Poems of Dylan Thomas" is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971. Jones started with the ninety poems Thomas selected for his "Collected Poems" in 1952 (at a time when the poet expected that many years of work still lay ahead of him) and, after exhaustive research and consideration, added one hundred previously finished, though uncollected, poems (including twenty-six juvenile works), and two unfinished poems, and arranged them all in chronological order of composition, creating the most complete edition of Thomas's poems ever published.
This revised edition contains all the original material and incorporates textual corrections. Also included are an Introduction and concise notes by Daniel Jones, a brief chronology of the poet's life, and a compact disc containing vintage recordings of Thomas reading eight of his poems in his famous "Welsh-singing" style, making this edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas a truly remarkable collection.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 2003 My Rating: 0
Summary: The most complete edition of the works of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.
This new, revised edition of "The Poems of Dylan Thomas" is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971. Jones started with the ninety poems Thomas selected for his "Collected Poems" in 1952 (at a time when the poet expected that many years of work still lay ahead of him) and, after exhaustive research and consideration, added one hundred previously finished, though uncollected, poems (including twenty-six juvenile works), and two unfinished poems, and arranged them all in chronological order of composition, creating the most complete edition of Thomas's poems ever published.
This revised edition contains all the original material and incorporates textual corrections. Also included are an Introduction and concise notes by Daniel Jones, a brief chronology of the poet's life, and a compact disc containing vintage recordings of Thomas reading eight of his poems in his famous "Welsh-singing" style, making this edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas a truly remarkable collection.
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House Of Anansi
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jun 1996 My Rating: 0
Summary: Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting -Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.
Publisher: House Of Anansi
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jun 1996 My Rating: 0
Summary: Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting -Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.
Author: Sam Hamill
Publisher: Shambhala
Genre: Poetry
Release: Feb 2000 My Rating: 0
Summary: Here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America's premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
Publisher: Shambhala
Genre: Poetry
Release: Feb 2000 My Rating: 0
Summary: Here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America's premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
Author: Tom Parson
Publisher: Wood Works
Genre: Poetry
Release: My Rating: 4
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Publisher: Wood Works
Genre: Poetry
Release: My Rating: 4
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Author: Laurence Perrine
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1973 My Rating: 5
Summary: Where has this book been all my life? Perrine's Sound and Sense is not just about poetry, it's a thorough yet concise discussion of the English language and writing. Some reviewers have panned it for offering insight to poetry--they feel that poems should not be explained but should be experienced individually. For the uninitiated though, some direction is often desired. At times Perrine's does not offer enough explanation for me. Many of the notes on the poems offer only a smidgen of insight but do proffer several questions to generate thought and discussion. These questions do often provide clues to a poem's meaning. I'm still guessing about many of the poems, but at least now, I think I'm on the right track.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Genre: Poetry
Release: Jan 1973 My Rating: 5
Summary: Where has this book been all my life? Perrine's Sound and Sense is not just about poetry, it's a thorough yet concise discussion of the English language and writing. Some reviewers have panned it for offering insight to poetry--they feel that poems should not be explained but should be experienced individually. For the uninitiated though, some direction is often desired. At times Perrine's does not offer enough explanation for me. Many of the notes on the poems offer only a smidgen of insight but do proffer several questions to generate thought and discussion. These questions do often provide clues to a poem's meaning. I'm still guessing about many of the poems, but at least now, I think I'm on the right track.
Author: Jenny Joseph
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: May 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary: Voted Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's Bookworm, this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: 'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells." Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Genre: Poetry
Release: May 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary: Voted Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's Bookworm, this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: 'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells." Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Poetry
Release: Nov 1974 My Rating: 5
Summary: Shel Silverstein shook the staid world of children's poetry in 1974 with the publication of this collection, and things haven't been the same since. More than four and a half million copies of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" have been sold, making it the bestselling children's poetry book ever. With this and his other poetry collections ("A Light in the Attic" and "Falling Up"), Silverstein reveals his genius for reaching kids with silly words and simple pen-and-ink drawings. What child can resist a poem called "Dancing Pants" or "The Dirtiest Man in the World"? Each of the 130 poems is funny in a different way, or touching ... or both. Some approach naughtiness or are a bit disgusting to squeamish grown-ups, but that's exactly what kids like best about Silverstein's work. Jim Trelease, author of "The New Read-Aloud Handbook," calls this book "without question, the best-loved collection of poetry for children." "(Ages 4 to 10)"
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Poetry
Release: Nov 1974 My Rating: 5
Summary: Shel Silverstein shook the staid world of children's poetry in 1974 with the publication of this collection, and things haven't been the same since. More than four and a half million copies of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" have been sold, making it the bestselling children's poetry book ever. With this and his other poetry collections ("A Light in the Attic" and "Falling Up"), Silverstein reveals his genius for reaching kids with silly words and simple pen-and-ink drawings. What child can resist a poem called "Dancing Pants" or "The Dirtiest Man in the World"? Each of the 130 poems is funny in a different way, or touching ... or both. Some approach naughtiness or are a bit disgusting to squeamish grown-ups, but that's exactly what kids like best about Silverstein's work. Jim Trelease, author of "The New Read-Aloud Handbook," calls this book "without question, the best-loved collection of poetry for children." "(Ages 4 to 10)"