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X in the Tickseed: Poems
by Ed FalcoFrom discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco’s X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face of a baffling universe. Peppered between the X poems, artists as varied as Artemisia Gentileschi, Frank O’Connor, and Nick Cave surface, usually in poems posing as essays about their art. Other poems range from explorations of cultural perspective, as in “A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive,” where a war resister addresses a young man of his generation who died in Vietnam, to the often playful “An Alphabet of Things.” Throughout, Falco’s poems speculate on matters of life and faith, intensified by an awareness of death.
XAIPE
by E. E. CummingsXAIPE (Greek for "rejoice"), which first appeared in 1950, contains some of E. E. Cummings's finest work. Among many poems can be found "dying is fine)but Death," "so many selves(so many friends and gods," "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," "no time ago," "I thank You God for most this amazing," and "now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have."
XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century
by Campbell McGrathA poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets—a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath’s astonishing sequence of one hundred poems—one per year—written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin—its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, XX is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry, and his most ambitious book yet.
Xanax Cowboy: Poems
by Hannah GreenThe Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.
Xicancuicatl: Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Alfred ArteagaXicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950–2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language." In his five published collections, Arteaga made crucial breakthroughs in the language of poetry, basing his linguistic experiments on the multilingual Xicanx culture of the US Southwest. His formal resources and finely tuned ear for sound patterns and language play remain astonishing. His poetical work, presented as a whole here for the first time, speaks more than ever to a moment in which border-crossing, cultural diversity, language-mixing and a multi-cultural vision of America are critical issuesCAMINO IMAGINADOBlue leaves, hojas rotas in the shape of stars.Ni un "no" en tu vocabulario but for others;blue in place of green in the shape of Spain.Ojos the color of dirt, chocolate, coffee, time,azules las horas, hojas de horas van y se van,ni una palabra, ni una queja, nor broken bita tu lado beside me andamos walking, sí walkingcaminamos caminos like these, such streets, whatcity.7/15/95 Paris.
Y cosas que me callo
by Antonio CarreñoEl primer poemario de Antonio Carreño es una caja negra que guarda las respuestas que nos quedan después del accidente. Del de amar, del de creer, del de vivir. Respuestas que nos hacen preguntarnos de nuevo: ¿por qué no volver a intentarlo? Estos poemas hablan de aquellas noches que me mordí la lengua por no poder morder la tuya, de todos los espejos que rompí para dejar de verte, de las hojas que ningún otoño se atrevió a arrancar. Son grito sordo de amor y revolución, si acaso no fueran lo mismo.
Y.O.U. (Your Own Universe)
by The Editors at the Scott ForesmanThis book is a collection of non-fiction, poems, stories and essays etc from different authors.
Ya no será
by Idea VilariñoSe incorporan a Poesía Portátil los versos de Idea Vilariño, una de las poetas latinoamericanas más destacadas del siglo XX. Directa y sin artificios, así es la poesía que desde muy joven cultivó Idea Vilariño. La muerte temprana de sus padres y su hermano mayor la sumieron en un estado de melancolía que atraviesa toda su obra poética y la dota de una sensibilidad especial. Algunos de los temas que plasmó en sus versos son el sinsentido de la vida, la naturaleza humana o el amor: esa fuerza incontrolable que todo lo anega y que le hizo dedicar algunos de sus poemas más descarnados a Juan Carlos Onetti, con quien mantuvo un vínculo pasional. Solitaria y reservada, reivindicó la figura de la mujer tanto en sus escritos poéticos como en sus otras producciones. Idea Vilariño formó parte de la generación del 45 uruguaya, junto con Mario Benedetti o Ida Vitale. «Es otraacaso es otrala que va recobrandosu pelo su vestido su manerala que ahora retomasu vertical su pesoy después de sesiones lujuriosas y tiernasse sale por la puerta entera y puray no busca saberno necesitay no quiere sabernada de nadie.»
Ya no sé qué hacer para triunfar
by Francisco Peña MayorUna mirada poética a través de lo cotidiano. Expansión del autor, estos pequeños poemas encierran mil situaciones y experiencias distintas. Siendo poesía, son perfectamente entendibles, sacrificando el autor subterfugios y recursos para que la idea llegue limpia al lector. <P><P>Se entremezclan, por tanto, metáforas y otras figuras retóricas con la realidad y clarividencia de la vida misma. Poseen las estrofas (si se les puede llamar así) un ritmo vivo, producido por una buena utilización de rimas, que sin ser un metrónomo, tienen una sonoridad y armonía hermosa. <P><P>Es un lenguaje moderno, de nuestro tiempo, con denominación de origen canario, donde el autor está en conflicto permanente con la sociedad. Un inconformista con numerosas razones para quejarse, en una lucha permanente que plasma mediante conclusiones certeras.
Yahya Hassan
by Yahya Hassan"¡Estoy increíblemente cabreado con la generación de mis padres!" Yahya Hassan se ha convertido, con solo 19 años, en un gran fenómeno editorial con su extraordinario primer libro, a medio camino entre el rap y la poesía. El debut de Yahya Hassan es la historia de su vida convertida en poesía: la historia de un joven, hijo de emigrantes palestinos, frustrado y enfadado porque se siente abandonado por sus padres y extraño al mundo que le rodea. Los poemas de Hassan son una acusación contra sus mayores, contra la violencia de su padre, pero también contra toda una generación de inmigrantes a la que acusa de hipocresía, de aprovecharse de las ayudas sociales, de negarse a integrarse en la cultura del país y de criar a sus hijos en el abandono más absoluto. Su original y provocadora escritura ha avivado el debates en torno al tema de la inmigración, tanto en Dinamarca como por toda Europa. Pero este libro no es solo un valioso testimonio para la reflexión sino también una potente obra literaria que le ha valido a su autor el reconocimiento internacional. www.sumadeletras.com
Yard Show
by Janice N. HarringtonBlack history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.Harrington’s speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, using the events of the past to center and advocate for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities.
Year Zero
by Brian HendersonYear Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson's poetry, poised and listening on this hinge of creativity, ontological wonder is informed by awareness of the paradoxes at the heart of language, that language wants you for itself, and that what is named, falls. Whether focusing on the dying of a parent or fellow poet, or on the coming-to-be of a child, this poetry is alive with the truth that "The dead burn through us/ the not yet born."
Year of the Dog (American Poets Continuum #178)
by Deborah ParedezIn the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War. The title refers to the year 1970—the “year of the Metal Dog” in the lunar calendar—which was the year of the author’s birth, the year of her father’s deployment to Vietnam with a troop of Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images from iconic photographs and her father’s snapshots are incorporated, fragmented, scrutinized, and reconstructed throughout the collection as Paredez recalls untold stories from a war that changed her family and the nation. In poems and lamentations that evoke Hecuba, the mythic figure so consumed by grief over the atrocities of war that she was transformed into a howling dog, and La Llorona, the weeping woman in Mexican folklore who haunts the riverbanks in mourning and threatens to disturb the complicity of those living in the present, Paredez recontextualizes the historical moments of the Vietnam era, from the arrest of Angela Davis to the haunting image of Mary Ann Vecchio at the Kent State Massacre, never forgetting the outcry and outrage that women’s voices have carried across time.
Yearling
by Lo Kwa Mei-en"Defiant and uncategorizable, Lo Kwa Mei-en's Yearling, with its teeming species, battles, and passions, read like an illuminated manuscript: mysterious, visceral, awe-full. Hers are some of the most enviable poems I have ever read, and herald Mei-en as the new standard bearer for innovative structure, terrifying acknowledgment, ecstatic statement, and, I daresay, beauty."--Kathy FaganLo Kwa Mei-en's Yearling explores adolescence through a deeply moving and poignantly raw lens. As the speaker ages, so too does the poetry, creating laments for the loss of friendship, the loss of species, and sometimes the loss of humanity itself. Harsh, forlorn and yet effervescent, Mei-en's lyricism perfectly captures the ethos of youth in an unsure world.From "Rara Avis Decoy":Wild diamond rocking on the floorof a predatory boat. Point & say sweet traitorto the wood & water for wanting to be madeof both. My name is I know not what I amas a country of mothers & fathers comes down.They call me sleeping beauty. I dream I amin flight, body unfolding, folding, a bulletwounding water again & again--the mysteriouslove of a father & mother a two-barreledgaze. The gun in my dream speaks my name& sees a beating vein. Takes aim--Lo Kwa Mei-en is from Singapore and Ohio. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, West Branch, and other journals, and won the Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize and the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize.
Years I Walked at Your Side: Selected Poems (Excelsior Editions)
by Mordechai GeldmanFinalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry presented by the Jewish Book Councilfrom "At Your Side"Years I walked at your sidelike our prophet Isaiahbarefoot naked and bareI will put on no coveruntil you see meuntil you recognize an otherone personat leastand so know yourself as wellMordechai Geldman came of age as a poet in the seventies, an auspicious and transformative time in the development of modern Hebrew literature, as poets and writers rejected the flowery, the hyperbolic, and the sentimental and opted instead for a more direct and intimate speech. While his early poems tended to rely on linguistic exploration, his vision soon turned inward, as he came to favor the simple, the true, the authentic. Geldman's poems are direct and accessible, touching on and revealing the divine and the sacred in the so-called mundane.
Yeat's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
by William Butler Yeats James PethicaCriticism includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford, Paul de Man, Richard Ellman, R. F. Foster, Stephen Gwynn, Seamus Heaney, Marjorie Howes, John Kelly, Declan Kiberd, Lucy McDiarmid, Michael North, Thomas Parkinson, Marjorie Perloff, James Pethica, Jahan Ramazani, Ronald Schuchard, Michael J. Sidnell, Anita Sokolsky, and Helen Vendler. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
Yeats The Poet: The Measures of Difference
by Edward LarrissyThis work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. It then explores how this relates to freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism and looks at the Blakean esoteric language of contrariety and outline which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.
Yeats and Modern Poetry
by Edna LongleyScholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats's presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland shaped both his criticism and his poetry. Close readings of particular poems focus on structure, demonstrating how radically Yeats's approach to poetic form differs from that of Pound and Eliot. Longley discusses other twentieth-century poets in relation to Yeats's insistence on tradition, and offers valuable insights into the work of Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Wilfred Owen, Hugh MacDiarmid, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Her postscript addresses key issues in contemporary poetry by taking a fresh look at Yeats's enduring legacy.
Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry: Richest to the Richest (Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot #2)
by Cairns Prof. CraigIt has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s. Concentrating on their writings in the period up to the 1930s, this study, first published in 1982, helps to resolve the paradox and also provides a much needed reappraisal of the factors influencing their poetic and political development. The work of these poets has usually been seen as deriving from the tradition of continental symbolist poetics. Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry will be of interest to students of literature.
Yellow Crane
by Susan GillisInviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
Yellow Elephant
by Julie Larios Julie PaschkisHave you ever seen a yellow elephant, glowing in the jungle sun?Have you seen a green frog--splash!--turn blue?Or a red donkey throw a red-hot tantrum?In this bright bestiary, poet Julie Larios and painter Julie Paschkis cast a menagerie of animals in brilliantly unexpected hues--encouraging us to see the familiar in surprising new ways.
Yellow Rain: Poems
by Mai Der VangWINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTIONFINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRYA reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam WarIn this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as “yellow rain,” caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties. A Cold War scandal erupted, wrapped in partisan debate around chemical arms development versus control. And then, to the world’s astonishment, American scientists argued that yellow rain was the feces of honeybees defecating en masse—still held as the widely accepted explanation. The truth of what happened to the Hmong, to those who experienced and suffered yellow rain, has been ignored and discredited.Integrating archival research and declassified documents, Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament, that contend and question, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access.
Yellow Stars and Ice (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #157)
by Susan StewartFrom a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden":Gihon, that compasseth the whole land <P><P>At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love; cows would no longer let go of their calves, hiding them deep in the birch groves. Everywhere the roads gave off their wild animal cries, running toward the edge of what we had thought was the world. And the names of things as we knew them would no longer bring them to us.
Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline: Love and Conflict (Routledge Studies in Arabic Linguistics)
by James Dickins Roberta Morano Watson, Janet C.E.Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline investigates popular literary responses to conflict in the different regions of Yemen, comparing responses to, and expressions of, traditional conflict with those to the new externally fuelled conflict.In its engagement with diasporic Yemeni communities in the UK, the book explores how storytelling and poetry might heighten and enhance both political and public awareness of the situation in Yemen, and lead to wider cultural understanding of diasporic and refugee communities in the UK. The novelty lies in the focus on literary expressions of conflict and conflict resolution, and the bringing together of projects dealing with the diverse regions of Yemen.This book will primarily appeal to scholars in Yemeni poetry, Arabic literature, Arabic dialectology, and anthropological linguistics.
Yer Ezhupathu and Tirukkai Vazakkam of Kambar
by KambarIn Yer Ezhupathu: (Plough Seventy) Poet Kambar is all praising the profession of agriculture right from ploughing the land till harvesting in seventy verses. In Tirukkai Vazhakkam, he praises the qualities of benovalence of Velalar community in sixty verses.