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Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry PrizeInside the dodo bird is a forest Inside the forest a peach analog Inside the peach analog a woman Inside the woman a lake of funeralsThis layering of bird woman place technology and ceremony which begins this first fulllength collection by Zaina Alsous mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory historical record critical theory alternative geographies and sharp observation In them birdsparticularly extinct speciesbecome metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gazePutting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation state vernacular with the chatter of birds Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment domination and erasure Stretching their wings toward deerasure these poemstheir subjects and their logicsrefuse to stay put within a single category This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind
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Birds Beasts and Flowers 1923 was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry Composed in various locations during his exilein Italy France Germany and the United Statesthis long collection occupies a crucial place in the development of his poetry and is that most unusual of creations a masterpiece of modernist nature writing This version offers the full text of the first British edition which included the poems from the short Tortoises volume unlike the US edition
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A stirring collection of recent work by a leading poet of the Arab world superbly translated for Englishlanguage readers In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Ghassan Zaqtans tenth and most recent poetry collectionalong with selected earlier poems Fady Joudah brings to Englishlanguage readers the best worknbspby one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time With these poems Zaqtan enters new terrain illuminating the vision of what Arabic poetry in general and Palestinian poetry in particular are capable of Departing from the lush aesthetics of such celebrated predecessors as Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis Zaqtans daily delicate narrative whirling cataloguesnbspand at times austere aesthetics represent a new trajectory a significant leap for young Arabic poets todayIn his preface to the volume Joudah analyzes and explores the poets body of work Ghassan Zaqtans poems in their constant unfolding Joudah writes invite us to enter them exit them map and unmap them code and decode them fill them up and empty them with the living and nonliving the animate and inanimate toward a true freedom
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Red bird came all winter firing up the landscape as nothing else could So begins Mary Olivers twelfth book of poetry and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader appearing in unexpected forms and guises until in a postscript he explains himself For truly the body needs a song a spirit a soul And no less to make this work the soul has need of a body and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable beauty of heaven where I fly so easily so welcome yes and this is why I have been sent to teach this to your heartThis collection of sixtyone new poems the most ever in a single volume of Olivers work includes an entirely new direction in the poets work a cycle of eleven linked love poemsa dazzling achievement As in all of Mary Olivers work the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts for the many people she has loved in her seventy years as well as for her disobedient
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A collection of the song lyrics of Brown Bird
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Li Po and Tu Fu who lived in the 8th century are considered Chinas greatest poets When their paths crossed for less than two years in the 740s a friendship was formed that has lasted in the hearts of lovers of Chinese poetry for over twelve hundred years These poets and the poems in this book express two sides of humankind two kinds of longing and two kinds of life The real Li Po was more like Tu Fu than the legend and the real Tu Fu was enough like Li Po to idolize and perhaps love him They are presented here together separate but side by side because as twelve centuries of Chinese readers and nearly a century of Western readers already know they belong together they show the qualities of humankind expressed as purely as men of the greatest genius can express them Each poem is presented with the original and the translation side by side in the original Chinese with an appropriate style of calligraphy on the right side and its English translation on the left side of the page Notes and suggestions for further reading appear at the end of the book
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A nuthatch walking perpendicular down a tree dressed to kill the hydraulic lift of the sand hill cranes legs at takeoff the song of the vireo Perhaps birders are a special species but they also include many of us who if not trained to binoculars are still stopped in our tracks at a flickering wing in our peripheral vision In this latest collection of poems Tom Crawford lends his keen sense of observation and resonant language to the wonder and evocative nature of birds in all their multiplicity Here are a hundred pages of remarkable poetry poems which in their accessibility and lyrical celebration establish mans essential connection with birds and the natural world As he says in his prologue We are spiritual animals When we forget this essential truth we invite calamity These poems are offered like prayersas if by naming the thing like Shackleton planting a flag at the north pole the poet stakes a claim for birds and by extension the planet His poems sing an ancient truth to lose our sense of wonder is to lose ourselves What makes THE NAMES OF BIRDS unique is the balance the poet strikes between fear and hope mystery and wonder This he achieves by telling us a story in poetry of his own beginnings as a boy discovering birds and their magical place in his young life a story readers of all ages can relate to Through his evolution to maturity his journey from Michigan to southern California the Pacific northwest Manhattan New Mexico and Asia China Korea his writing becomes infused with Eastern thought and a sense of mysticism A book for birders and serious readers of poetry alike
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The most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James WrightMarilyn Hacker Part map part travelogue part chronicle part autobiography NeverEnding Birds explores a variety of landscapes from Midwestern villages to the boroughs of big cities Steeped in storydivorce loss raising a child uncovering old worlds and new lovesthese poems are gracefully lived in lived through with mystery and beauty from NeverEnding BirdsThats us pointing to the clouds Those are clouds of birds now we see one whole cloud of birds There we are pointing out the car windows October Graybluewhite olio of birds Neverending birds you called the first time years we say it the three of us any two of us one of those just endearments Apt clarities Kiss on the lips of hope
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A new collection by the major American poet presents more than a hundred works exhibiting the authors trademark skeptical edge learning and depth of spirit By the author of And the Stars Were Shining
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Ashbery fans will welcome this collection of one hundred and twelve poems where the signature qualities of Ashberys greatest work are on every page with a new intensity and power
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In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings Billy Collins former US poet laureate joins with David Allen Sibley Americas foremost bird illustrator to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty escape transcendence and divine expression Here in this substantial anthology more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original ornithologically precise illustrations Part poetry collection part field guide part art book Bright Wings presents verbal and visual interpretations of the natural world and reminds us of our intimate connection to the bright wings around us Each in their own way these poems and pictures honor the enchanting creatures that have been and continue to be longtime collaborators with the poets and painters artPoet and bird pairings include Wallace Stevens and the Blackbird Emily Dickinson and the Robin Marianne Moore and the Frigate Pelican Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch Sylvia Plath and the Pheasant John Updike and the Seagull Walt Whitman and the Eagle Billy Collins and the Sparrow
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Saiz first full length poetry collection Gathering short and long poems fragments epigrams all rendered with an intense lyricism The Bird of Nothing amp Other Poems presents an absolutely unique poetry of stunning power and complexity The collection includes the poem malinche destined to become a classic the moving Knell for Miguel Hernandez the 100page tour de forcethe bird of nothing as well as the book of pronouns five haunting poems of the desert
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Enchanting stories lyrical poems stunning photography and fascinating science fill the pages of this treasury celebrating the amazing world of birdsThis thoughtful and beautifully curated collection of our flying feathery friends highlights the role birds play in human life from centuries ago to present day While its beautiful its also full of valuable real science about these wondrous creatures From history and behavior to spotting and photographing theres sure to be something for every bird fan in your flock Young birders will learn all about migration and the importance of habitat conservation Theyll find stories about bird rescues and fun facts about the fastest strongest and tiniest fliers Theyll also discover the best bird nests sweet songs to sing ways to listen for and identify the birds around them and more Paired with stunning art and photography and beautiful design this treasury is sure to become a classic for bird enthusiasts of all ages Fly with Me was created to help celebrate Year of the Bird National Geographics 2018 initiative to bring awareness to the plight of birds around the world
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Book by Barnstone Willis Garrison David Aleixandre Vicente
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Stories within stories provide an allegory of the souls search for union with God
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A stirring collection of recent work by a leading poet of the Arab world superbly translated for Englishlanguage readers In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me Ghassan Zaqtans tenth and most recent poetry collectionalong with selected earlier poems Fady Joudah brings to Englishlanguage readers the best worknbspby one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time With these poems Zaqtan enters new terrain illuminating the vision of what Arabic poetry in general and Palestinian poetry in particular are capable of Departing from the lush aesthetics of such celebrated predecessors as Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis Zaqtans daily delicate narrative whirling cataloguesnbspand at times austere aesthetics represent a new trajectory a significant leap for young Arabic poets todayIn his preface to the volume Joudah analyzes and explores the poets body of work Ghassan Zaqtans poems in their constant unfolding Joudah writes invite us to enter them exit them map and unmap them code and decode them fill them up and empty them with the living and nonliving the animate and inanimate toward a true freedom
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Book by Barnstone Willis Garrison David Aleixandre Vicente
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Norma Cole born May 12 1945 is a contemporary American poet visual artist and frequent translator from the French She received her MA in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto A Canadian by birth Norma Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977 For nearly twenty years Norma Coles work has received great acclaim for her openness to traditions and practices artists and writings radically divergent from her own Recently she collaborated with The Poetry Center amp American Poetry Archives at SFSU in honor of their fiftieth anniversary There she helped to create a sitespecific gallery installation titled Collective Memory which opened on December 11 2004 and ran through April 16 2005 The project was described as Among other awards she is the recipient of the Gerbode Poetry Prize and a grant from the Fund for Poetry In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award The Poetics of Vertigodelivered as the 1998 George Oppen Memorial Lecturewon the Robert D Richardson NonFiction Award With Boston photographer Ben E Watkins she won the Purchase Award for the phototext collaboration They Flatter Almost Recognize
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This 12th century Persian poets work tells of the journey of the birds to visit King Simorgh Their journey is an allegory of the souls search for unity with the divine Sufic belief is that in such unity the distinctions between self and the divine fall away
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