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Tough Luck: Poems
by Todd Boss“[Todd Boss]’s poems generate their own rambunctious music and remind us ‘yes, / miracles happen.’ ”—Minneapolis Star Tribune At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home—all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and “a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life” (Tony Hoagland). From “In the End a Gardener”: is what we want in our corner of paradise. Someone alert to the slant of one hour of afternoon sunlight or other, who knows what to plant there, knows what will thrive.
The Trailhead (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Kerri Webster“I'm learning to allow for visions,” the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that place. A “conversion narrative” of sorts, the book examines the self as a “burned-over district,” individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book’s sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. "Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when vertebrae fuse," the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered calling—a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice—and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.
Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
by Ranjan GhoshCritiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of creativity that are rarely studied side by side. Ghosh carves out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. The book demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the relatively staid and historicist categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far, since they rarely dare stray beyond issues of influence and schools, or new 'world literature' approaches that affirm cosmopolitanism and transnationalism as overarching themes. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, this bold book introduces new methodologies of reading literature to configure the concept of the poet from Philip Sidney to T. S Eliot, reading the notion of the poet through completely new theoretical and epistemic triggers. Commonly known texts and sometimes well-circulated ideas are subjected to refreshing reading in what the author calls the ‘transcultural now’ and (in)fusionised transpoetical matrices. By moving between theories of poetry and literature that come from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.
The Trembling Answers (American Poets Continuum)
by Craig Morgan TeicherWINNER OF THE 2018 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZEAn extension of and a departure from previous explorations of family and art, these poems delve boldly into tangled realities of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life—including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with cerebral palsy—these personal narratives illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived.
Trick or Treat on My Street
by J. L. CoppageCome with me and trick-or-treat from house to house along my street!Head down the block with a group of kids as they get ready to go trick-or-treating on Halloween night! With bright, fun illustrations and bouncy, rhyming text, Trick or Treat on My Street is perfect for little monsters everywhere!
Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan Poetry Ser.)
by Camille T. DungyIn this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of power, a world in which we all must survive, these poems resonate within and beyond the scope of the human realms, delicately balancing between conflicting loci of attention. Dwelling between vibrancy and its opposite, Dungy writes in a single poem about a mother, a daughter, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, brittle stars, giant boulders, and a dead blue whale. These poems are written in the face of despair to hold an impossible love and a commitment to hope. A readers companion will be availabe at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.
The True Book of Animal Homes
by Allison TitusAllison Titus reveals the animal in the human, and the human in the animal. Allison Titus’s newest poetry collection, The True Book of Animal Homes, is obsessed with animal and human alike, and how each one of us makes our home in the stations we hold—from the wilds of southern brambles to a desk in an office cubicle. This book ponders the question: how much wildness are we allowed in this life, and how do we claim that wildness? The poems of The True Book of Animal Homes leap and scurry after the truth on all fours, devouring us with sharp language and brave new forms.
The Truth Is Told Better This Way
by Liz WorthPulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its secrets one line at a time. The result is oracular and surreal, as each piece could be read as a magic spell that mesmerizes as much as a poem that tantalizes the senses.
Tsima ra Vutlhokovetseri: UEB uncontracted
by Dr Baloyi M. J. Chauke H. T. Khosa M. A. Mahuntsi M. T. Makhubele H. G. Mhinga M. E. Ngobeni K. J. Phakula N. W.Vutlhokovetseri exikarhi ka rixaka ra Vatsonga a hi mhaka leyintshwa. Vutlhokovetseri byi sungurile ku va kona hi xivumbeko xa tinsimu leti ni Vatsonga va davukeke va ri na tona hi ku hambanahambana ka swiyimo evuton'wini. Ku hambananyana lo ku nga kona mayelana ni vutlhokovetseri exikarhi ka Vatsonga i ku xaxamerisa vutlhokovetseri byo karhi ku ya hi tinxaka ta kona. Swin'wana swa swidyondzeki swa laha kaya swi seswi vile ni matshalatshala ya ku longoloxa switlhokovetselo swa rixaka ra ka vona ku ya hi tinxaka to karhi hi ku kuceteriwa hi matshulelo ya vatlhokovetseri na swidyondzeki swa le Yuropa. Tanihi matshalatshala ya muxaka lowu, ni buku leyi yi kongomisa eka ku vumba nkoxometo mayelana ni swihlawulekisi swa vutlhokovetseri hi ndlela leyi havaxerisaka vadyondzi ku kota ku: • paluxa no hluvukisa matitwelo yo karhi eka matirhiselo ya ririmi hi ndlela leyi nyanyulaka no koka rinoko ra vaamukeri; • va hlohletela ku valanga, va hlavutela no twisisa matirhiselo ya ririmi hi ndlela ya ku ehleketelela kunene; • khomanisa timhaka to ehleketelela kunene ni mahanyelo ya ntiyiso lama tokotiwaka masiku hinkwawo; • kombisa ntsakelo na rirhandzu eka xitlhokovetselo hinkwaxo kutani va paluxa leswi mutlhokovetseri a vulavulaka haswona; • tokotisisa vuxaka lebyi vumbiwaka exikarhi ka nhlamuselonene na nhlamuselo yo gega ya marito lama tirhisiweke hi mutlhokovetseri ku humelerisa nkongomelo wa xitlhokovetselo; • va vatshuri va vutlhokovetseri bya matimba na nsusumeto.
Tú y yo nunca fuimos nosotros
by Selam WearingSelam Wearing se revela con su primer poemario como uno de los grandes talentos literarios de su generación. Su poética está llena de ternura, sensualidad, humor, imágenes muy certeras y comunicativas que rozan la anécdota y que hacen evidente la influencia de la poesía de la experiencia, el realismo sucio o el neorrealismo en su imaginario. Esto no es otro libro de poemas, soy yo pidiendo auxilio, pero nadie me socorre. He asumido que nunca nos olvidaremos. Cada vez que nos cruzamos sus ojos se revelan ante mí, nostálgicos de todo aquello que no hemos sido, preguntándose acaso si aún no es demasiado tarde. Pero ninguno hace nada. Ella se muerde el labio y mira a cualquier otra parte con los pensamientos clavados en mí. Yo acelero el paso, como si llegara tarde a donde nadie me está esperando. Prologado por Roger Wolfe.
Twang
by Laressa DickeyTwang offers readers the increasing power of the voice and the danger of one's words being used against them. What can save you can also make you wretch. Repentance, in Twang, is a great idea but something far off. What is the speaker offered in its place? You can leave. You can find some way out.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: A Light-Up Bedtime Book
by Florence WeiserReal twinkle lights make this bedtime board book of a classic lullaby the perfect read for any sleepy child. Adapted from the classic lullaby, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star captures the gentle magic of bedtime. With a brand new ending, the song encourages children to fall asleep peacefully beneath the stars. Florence Weiser's soft, soothing illustrations depict an array of animal babies at their bedtimes, inspiring a calming nighttime atmosphere. This board book is complete with twinkling lights that make each page glow while parents and children settle in for their nightly routine. Families will delight in this adorable new take on a familiar lullaby and enjoy the tranquility of its sleepy, rhyming verse.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: A baby sing-along book (Peek and Play Rhymes #4)
by Pat-a-CakeTwinkle Twinkle Little Star combines lively pictures with a classic nursery rhyme that's easy for parents and carers to recognise and recite. Young children will adore singing along. The spotting game at the end is a great incentive to go through the pages once again until each tiny thing is found! Nursery Rhymes are important stepping stones to language development. The rhymes usually tell a story, too, with a beginning, a middle and an end. This teaches children that events happen in sequence, and they begin to follow along. Nursery rhymes are also full of repetition, making them easy to remember, and often become some of a child's first sentences. Also available: The Wheels on the Bus, Hey Diddle Diddle, Old Macdonald had a Farm
Two-Countries: US Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents: Flash Memoir, Personal Essays and Poetry
by Tina SchumannThe IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—&“accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance&” (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons). This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United States. Winner of a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Multicultural Nonfiction &“When you hold in your DNA two countries—the cultures, the languages, the delicious foods and stories—you embody richness. These writers know on the cellular level many-layered ways to live, to struggle, to love. Here are voices we need to hear, writers we need to read. This is a brilliant, timely book, an antidote to divisiveness.&” —Peggy Shumaker, former Alaska State Writer Laureate &“The poets and writers in Two-Countries show that one result of our ongoing national experiment is a rich deepening in our literature. We may be in perilous times as a country, but our writers have never been in more ferocious health.&” —Rick Barot, author of The Galleons
Tyrannosaurus Rex (Step into Reading)
by StorybotsThe wacky robots from the award-winning apps, videos, and Netflix show, Ask the Storybots, now star in their own early readers. This one is about everyone&’s favorite dinosaur!Fans of the StoryBots will recognize the colorful art from the hugely popular dinosaur video &“Tyrannosaurus Rex&” on YouTube. A gigantic body and super-sharp teeth make the Tyrannosaurus rex the most fearsome of the dinosaurs. Just don&’t make fun of those tiny arms! This rhyming Step 1 Science Reader will entertain while imparting simple facts about the most popular carnivorous dinosaur of all. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. Accolades for the StoryBots digital media: Appy Award for Best Book AppTeacher's Choice Award Editor&’s Choice—Children&’s Technology Review Family Choice Award Parents&’ Choice AwardCynopsis Kids !magination Award for best educational mobile app
Uma vida de poesia
by Luciana Duarte Sondra HicksEscrevo com meu coração sobre coisas na minha vida que me inspiram. Então, eu quero me expressar de muitas maneiras para os outros, mas eu sempre temi estar emocionalmente fechado. Como uma jovem mulher, eu era conhecida por escrever mais do que falar. Muitos dos meus poemas foram perdidos ou destruídos ao longo da minha vida. Então eu coloquei o melhor do que eu ainda tinha na minha coleção. Espero compartilhar meus altos e baixos ea perspectiva única que estou dando algo para os outros se relacionarem.
The Unaccompanied: Poems
by Simon ArmitageA powerful new collection of poetry from the National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize In The Unaccompanied, Armitage gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite "like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, / nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones." In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its "Songs about mills and mines and a great war, / lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, / songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films"--in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.From the Hardcover edition.
Unaccompanied
by Javier ZamoraNew York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."--Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." –Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, doesn't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again--like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Under the Silver Moon: Lullabies, Night Songs & Poems
by Pamela DaltonCut-paper artist Pamela Dalton's magically intricate illustrations illuminate a generous collection of lullabies and goodnight poems. Recalling traditional favorites from childhood and embracing a wide range of sources and cultures, this timeless collection makes a lovely addition to any e-bookshelf or bedtime read-aloud ritual. Sure to enchant both children and their parents, Dalton's exquisite detail and sophisticated aesthetic—always informed by warmth and a deep humanity—will speak to anyone looking for the perfect book for a newborn.
Unlikely Designs (Phoenix Poets Ser.)
by Katie WillinghamA collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, Unlikely Designs draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge-making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charles Darwin, the love advice doled out by chatbots, and the eclectic inclusions on the Golden Record time capsule. It is here we discover the allure of the index, what pleasure there is in bending it to our own devices. At the same time, these poems also remind us that logic is often reckless, held together by nothing more than syntactical short circuits—well, I mean, sorry, yes—prone to cracking under closer scrutiny. Returning us again and again to these gaps, Katie Willingham reveals how any act of preservation is inevitably an act of curation, an outcry against the arbitrary, by attempting to make what is precious also what survives.
Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013; A Bilingual Edition
by Michel Houellebecq Gavin BowdSelected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary ParticlesA shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.Divided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe, dedication, and—ultimately—redemption. In a world of supermarkets and public transportation, indifferent landscapes and lonely nights, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos.Told through forms and rhythms that are both ancient and new, with language steeped in the everyday, Unreconciled stands in the tradition of Baudelaire while making a bold new claim on contemporary verse. It reveals that in addition to his work as an incisive novelist, Houellebecq is one of our most perceptive poets with a vision of our era that brims with tensions that cannot—and will not—be reconciled.
Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism #117)
by Stephen TedeschiThrough an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Tedeschi explores the notion that the Romantic poets criticized the historical form that the process of urbanization had taken, rather than urbanization itself. The works of the Romantic poets are popularly considered in a rural context and often understood as hostile to urbanization - one of the most profound social transformations of the era. By focusing on the urban aspects of such writing Tedeschi re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry to deliver a study that discovers how the Romantic poets examined not only the influence of urbanization on poetry but also how poetry might help to reshape the form that urbanization could take.
Vanilla
by Billy MerrellA bold, groundbreaking novel about coming out, coming into your own, and coming apart.Vanilla and Hunter have been dating since seventh grade. They came out together, navigated middle school together, and became that couple in high school that everyone always sees as a couple. There are complications and confusions, for sure. But most of all, they love each other.As high school goes, though, and as their relationship deepens, some cracks begin to show. Hunter thinks they should be having sex.Vanilla isn't so sure. Hunter doesn't mind hanging out with loud, obnoxious friends.Vanilla would rather avoid them. If they're becoming different people, can they be the same couple?Falling in love is hard.Staying in love is harder.
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
by Gareth FarmerThis study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson's relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F. R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson's work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson's published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson's writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.
Verses Sertanejos
by Aldivan Teixeira Torres Luís CostaSertão of the northeast, arid and barren land, Cradle of the greatest droughts, In cycles she delights herself. When they come it causes great damage, For the earth, fauna, flora and the man himself. Everything she consumes. And what to do? Before tremendous tragedy? There are two possibilities: Stay and fight to survive Or get out. Although the second option is more plausible The sertanejo insists for the first one For the love of her land, her own origins. Your attitud is admirable and praiseworthy. I feel proud of this noble character Which is coarse, thick, strong And at the same time simple. Her example shows us where the true force is. A powerful force that is able to fight against the impossible This is something that politicians do not even think about. And so the sertão of the northeast lies/dies forgotten.