Discover information, advice, and prices for Luck Is Poems Kingsley Tufts sold for 22.18 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
From the snowy egret to a womans floating rib nudism in America to Holy Communion Simone de Beauvoir to Nathans hot dogsthe subjects in Lucia Perillos fourth collection of poetry lift off from surprising places and touch down on new ground Hers is a vision like no other In To My Big Nose she muses hard to imagine what the world would have looked like if not seen through your pink shadow You who are built from random parts like a mythical creaturea gryphon or sphinxFearless focused ironic irreverent truly and deeply felt the poems in Luck Is Luck draw upon the circumstances of being a woman the harsh realities of nature the comfort of familiar things and universally recognizable anxieties about faith and grief love and desire In Languedoc she writes Long ago I might have been attracted by your tights and pantaloons but now they just look silly ditto for your instrument that looks like a gourd with strings attached the problem is always the strings attachedPerillos versions of nature are always unflinching Most days back then I would walk by the shrike tree a dead hawthorn at the base of a hill The shrike had pinned smaller birds on the trees black thorns and the sun had stripped them of their feathers well hard luck is luck nonetheless With a chunk of sky in each eye socket And the pierced heart strung up like a pearlDowntoearth full of playful twists of language and woven from grand themes in an accessible appealing way these poems pierce the heart and delight the mind Not one word is wasted
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Rodney Jones has been called the supreme example of the southern human person speaking in American poetry Southern Review and one of the nations best most generous and most brilliantly readable poets Poetry Salvation Blues traces the career of this popular narrative poet through one hundred choice poems including twentyfour bold new pieces
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Chronic Poems Kingsley Tufts Poetry sold for 64.8 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The first poetry collection by D A Powell since his remarkable trilogy of Tea Lunch and Cocktails a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awardso many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness that easily falls among the dropseed a rind a leftbehind from no picnic In these brilliant new poems from one of contemporary poetrys most intriguing singular voices D A Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with loss with flowers faded blossom blast and dieback Chronic describes the flutter and cruelty of erotic encounter temptation and bitter heartsickness but with Powells deep lyric beauty and his own brand of dark wit
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Winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award From the author of Blood at the Root A Racial Cleansing in America and the National Book Award finalistnbspElegy for a Broken Machine Poems here is the first collection from awardwinning poet Patrick Phillips A river runs through Patrick Phillipss collection Chattahoochee and through a family saga as powerful and poignant as the landscape in which it unfolds Here are tales of a vanished South elegies for the lost and glimpses of what Flannery OConnor called the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil In language delicate and muscular tender and rawboned Phillips writes of family place and that mythic conjunction of the two we call home
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Poetry LGBT Studies African American Studies Winner Lambda Literary Award Gay Poetry 2015 Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globes Best Poetry Books 2014 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist Norma Farber First Book Award Poetry Society of America The poems of INSERT BOY have need of the bodydesire it and lament its mortalitybut over and again they assert Smiths seemingly religious belief that every sound the body makes every word and wail is only possible through connection to some other plane of existence This is a lovely voicedriven book singing high notes sharp as a switchbladeJericho Brown Danez Smith lays down the gauntlet for all of us to speak our deepest truths with more elegance more ferocity and almost more beauty than a reader can bearGabrielle Calvocoressi
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Manhattan Luck sold at 64.5 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Poetry Drama Afterword by Frances Richard MANHATTAN LUCK includes four previously uncollected texts from the 70s and early 80s the poems For My Sister Meeting in Air and Manhattan Luck the short collection of poems Jimmy Valentine and the play Annes White Glove Alice Notleys book is the first title of Hearts Desire Press the publishing wing of the Bay Area Public School MANHATTAN LUCK is published on the occasion of and as a fundraiser for Alette in Oakland A Symposium on the Work of Alice Notley
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Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center
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Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center
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This chime is tuned to a traditional Balinese scale from the ensemble of instruments of the Indonesian gamelan orchestra A touching tribute to a beloved pet this chime houses a cast metal urn on the underside of the wooden chime top to hold ashes a tuft of fur a poem or other sentimental keepsake placed safely out of sight The watertight urn is easy to remove and fill and is suitable for hanging outdoors The chimes enchanting peaceful tone is a wonderful way to celebrate the special relationship we share with our family pets Every time the wind blows the chime rings in fond remembrance Removable windcatcher for easy customization This chime carries a lifetime tuning guarantee
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Imaginary Logic sold for 101.17 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
A new collection from a Kingsley Tufts Awardwinning poet Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive deeply meditative and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Joness distinctive storytelling ability sharp social intelligence and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful satiric audacious and remorseless The Art of Heaven opens with a parody of Dante and a downhome twisted humor that Joness readers have come to rely on In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood the smell of barbecue kids running in the yards Not deep depression This nice hell of suburbs Speed bumps The way things arent quite paradiseRodney Jones winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award is one of Americas best most generous and most brilliantly readable poets Poetry Imaginary Logic is the most eloquent expression yet of his rigorous mind scrupulous eye and capacious heart
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Parole Field Poetry sold at 25.87 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Angie Estes is one of the most accomplished poets of her generation Her previous book Enchantée won the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the 2014 Audre Lorde Prize and Tryst was one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Her sixth book Parole builds brilliantly on her earlier work reconstructing and elaborating the world in all its artful heartbreaking beauty
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Angie Estes is one of the most accomplished poets of her generation Her previous book Enchantée won the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the 2014 Audre Lorde Prize and Tryst was one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Her sixth book Parole builds brilliantly on her earlier work reconstructing and elaborating the world in all its artful heartbreaking beauty
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Photographs of modern British poets including Ted Hughes Kingsley Amis Lawrence Durrell Stephen Spender and John Betjeman are accompanied by one of each writers poems
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Includes the following stories and poems Winken Blynken and Nod Eugene Field The Wee Kitten Who Sucked Her Thumb Mary LT Tufts We Wont Tell William D Robertson Animal Crackers Christopher Morely Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers AA Milne The Easter Rabbit Carolyn Sherwin Bailey The Jolly Jingle of Numbers Jo McMahon A Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear The Cupboard Walter De La Mare The Tug that Lost Her Temper Anne Elizabeth Allen The Weeks Calendar Frances Heilprin The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson The Lame Squirrels Thanksgiving Carolyn Sherwin Bailey The Rich Goose Leora Robinson The Owl and the Pussy Cat Edward Lear Grandfathers Penny Carolyn Sherwin Bailey The Garden Year Sara Coleridge The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat Eugene Field The World Matthew Browne
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Building onnbspthe impressive debutnbspof Good Luck this new collection from Anna Livesey contains poems that capture the eerie and exhilarating aspects of daily life All the poems combine a crisp and shapely style with breathtaking openness and urgency in addressing personal material particularly innbspthe poetsnbspresponses to her mothers illness andnbspher thoughts aboutnbspliving in the United States
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PVG Composer Collection Settings of 17 poems by Langston Hughes Contents Angel Wings Daybreak in Alabama Delinquent Demand Dream Dream Variations Drum Harlem Night Song In Time of Silver Rain Late Last Night Litany Luck Night Four Songs Port Town Song for a Dark Girl Stars When Sue Wears Red
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Poetry KILLING THE MURNION DOGS Joe Wilkinss first fulllength collection is a series of elegies Herein we grieve years and fathers highways and memories rivers shotgun shacks and myths These poems sing us down the twolane highways and backroads of the vast American interior from the hardluck plains of eastern Montana to the cypress swamps of the Mississippi Delta yet KILLING THE MURNION DOGS refuses the easy answers of nostalgia or cynicism Rather these poems insist that we remember the good pain that despite it all this dust here is home And so we searchalways insistentlyfor a place to abide inside the loss It is time to grieve Wilkins tells us to believe in the world again The most striking component of it is its awareness of the whole world What is ordinary becomes transcendent In places derelict and seemingly unexceptional Wilkins compels us to recognize what is worth salvage worth praiseDeborah Kim Indiana Review
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Mike Allens newest collection THE JOURNEY TO KAILASH gathers 57 poems that explore regions sometimes whimsical sometimes terrifying always off the beaten trail From the title poem in which the downtoearth teenage narrator discovers his mothers new husband is Ganesh the elephantheaded Hindu god of luck to Manifest Density a tongueincheek celebration of materialism that dares Mankind to play a game of chicken with the Universe to The Strip Search in which the gate of Hell functions like an airport metal detector sounding off when a damned soul hasnt yet abandoned all Hope to an entire cycle of surreal poems in which the paintings of such artists as Chagall and OKeeffe become reality Allen uses a wide range of strange subjects and skewed perspectives to examine the hopes and fears that shape our times Sometimes drawing from mythology sometimes extrapolating bizarre futures and not at all afraid to blend the two Allens poetry still addresses universal themes of love loss and longing with candor and even humor Mike Allen pours everything hes got onto his poemcanvases Mythologies sciencefiction scenarios private memories and desires and untestable ideas crowd and overlay one another upon the pages as if flung from an overloaded brush Here is a vividly vertiginous collection of poems all fun and mindgames Fred Chappell Mike Allen is a poetic Shiva whirling his thousand limbs to snatch gold from thin air and create these epicsinminiature each with its own metallic sheen Catherynne M Valente
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