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No Thanks
by E. E. Cummings George James FirmageReissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage. E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love. No Thanks was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life--romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as "sonnet entitled how to run the world)," "may I feel said he," "Jehovah buried. Satan dead," "be of love (a little)," and the now-famous grasshopper poem.
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History
by Jeanette BradleyFans of We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices will love meeting fourteen young activists who have stepped up to make change in their community and the United States.Mari Copeny demanded clean water in Flint. Jazz Jennings insisted, as a transgirl, on playing soccer with the girls' team. From Viridiana Sanchez Santos's quinceañera demonstration against anti-immigrant policy to Zach Wahls's moving declaration that his two moms and he were a family like any other, No Voice Too Small celebrates the young people who know how to be the change they seek. Fourteen poems honor these young activists. Featuring poems by Lesléa Newman, Traci Sorell, and Nikki Grimes. Additional text goes into detail about each youth activist's life and how readers can get involved.
No Way: An American Tao Te Ching
by David RomtvedtDavid Romtvedt’s No Way: An American “Tao Te Ching” explores the art of living in the fast-paced, dangerous, unpredictable contemporary world. Lucid and wise in the spirit of its ancient Chinese predecessor, No Way functions as a kind of offbeat-yet-deadly-serious manual on the conduct of life. This slightly tongue-in-cheek take on the Tao’s advice acknowledges that nobody likes being told how to live, least of all the author himself. With an openness to complexity and mystery, in tones that range from cool to passionate, No Way brings the Tao into the social turmoil of a twenty-first-century United States beset by political strife, mass shootings, and financial greed. Romtvedt combats cynicism and malaise with wry verse that positions itself in the role of the trickster. The voice of these poems can be serious and contradictory yet also humorous and welcoming. By suggesting that the days of the ancient Tao are gone for good, No Way offers readers an invitation to guide themselves forward, free of sages and rulers.
No Witnesses: Poems
by Paul MonetteAn enthralling collection of poetry from National Book Award winner Paul Monette&“Come, / what can the body do but go on, when / the best of us are eaten from within?&” writes Paul Monette in the titular poem. This mixture of doom and determinedness is played out with humor and warmth in Monette&’s poetry. In this quicksilver collection, his words are in perpetual motion, traveling from the Parthenon to Ohio and everywhere in between. Meditating frequently on sex, nostalgia, and love, these poems are serious without ever becoming humorless. They include charming and funny monologues from Isadora Duncan and Noël Coward. Accompanied by original artwork by David Schorr, No Witnesses is an absorbing book of poetry from an acclaimed author.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol
by Liz WorthWhen Andy Warhol's a, A Novel was first published in 1968, The New York Times Book Review declared it "pornographic." Yet over four decades later, a continues to be an essential documentation of Warhol's seminal Factory scene. And though the book offers a pop art snapshot of 1960s Manhattan that only Warhol could capture, it remains a challenging read. Comprised entirely of unedited transcripts of recorded conversations taped in and around the Warhol Factory, the original book's tone varies from frenetic to fascinating, unintelligible to poetic.No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol by Liz Worth attempts to change that, by appropriating the original text and turning each page into a unique poem. In remixing a into poetry using only words and phrases from each piece's specified page, Worth sets the scene for the reader, not unlike eavesdropping in an all-night diner, with poetry full of voices competing to be heard, hoping for just a sliver of attention at the end of a long, desperate night. True to Worth's style, the poems in this collection hiss and pop with confessional whispers while maintaining the raw, distorted qualities originally captured on tape and documented in a, A Novel. Warhol fans, archivists, and academics, as well as readers of confessional and conceptual poetry and fiction, will jump at the chance to be a part of the Factory in-crowd in No Work Finished Here.
No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change
by Jeanette Bradley Lindsay H. Metcalf Keila V. DawsonFans of No Voice Too Small will be inspired by young climate activists who made an impact around climate change in their communities, countries, and beyond.Climate change impacts everyone, but the future belongs to young people. No World Too Big celebrates twelve young activists and three activist groups on front lines of the climate crisis who have planted trees in Uganda, protected water in Canada, reduced school-bus climate footprint in Indonesia, invented alternate power sources in Ohio, and more. Fourteen poems by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, David Bowles, Rajani LaRocca, Renée LaTulippe, Heidi E. Y. Stemple, and others honor activists from all over the world and the United States. Additional text goes into detail about each activist's life and how readers can get involved.
No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer
by Soph GalustianNo Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short stories, spoken word, illustrations, and space for the reader to reflect (or draw tits... whatever you prefer).This book is for anyone who was raised struggling, anyone who wrestled with coming out, who accidentally killed their childhood pet, who has lost the person closest to them...Filled with flashbacks to the 2000s/2010s, No Worries If Not is equally for the straights and the gays, the rich and disadvantaged. In this book Soph offers a space to reminisce and laugh at life's misfortunes.A comedy writing star of the future, Soph Galustian's debut book No Worries if Not is a must read!
No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer
by Soph GalustianNo Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short stories, spoken word, illustrations, and space for the reader to reflect (or draw tits... whatever you prefer).This book is for anyone who was raised struggling, anyone who wrestled with coming out, who accidentally killed their childhood pet, who has lost the person closest to them...Filled with flashbacks to the 2000s/2010s, No Worries If Not is equally for the straights and the gays, the rich and disadvantaged. In this book Soph offers a space to reminisce and laugh at life's misfortunes.A comedy writing star of the future, Soph Galustian's debut book No Worries if Not is a must read!
No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer
by Soph GalustianNo Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short stories, spoken word, illustrations, and space for the reader to reflect (or draw tits... whatever you prefer).This book is for anyone who was raised struggling, anyone who wrestled with coming out, who accidentally killed their childhood pet, who has lost the person closest to them...Filled with flashbacks to the 2000s/2010s, No Worries If Not is equally for the straights and the gays, the rich and disadvantaged. In this book Soph offers a space to reminisce and laugh at life's misfortunes.A comedy writing star of the future, Soph Galustian's debut book No Worries if Not is a must read!
No amarás
by Lorena PronskyNo amarás es un viaje de autodescubrimiento, sanación y transformación personal. Este libro es una esperanza para quien haya sobrevivido a una relación tóxica, así como también para cualquiera que esté transitando una ruptura o un duelo. Es momento de reparar viejas heridas y dejar que el amor regrese de manera saludable y segura. Relaciones dependientes, no correspondidas, patológicas o violentas. Vínculos que disparan contra nuestra autoestima o la del otro, y nos muestran que hay lugares donde amar resulta un acto imposible. Historias de las que nos resistimos a retirarnos, aunque quedarnos nos lastime. (Des)amores que nos golpean, que nos dañan, pero que por alguna potente y misteriosa razón permanecen en nuestra vida. Patrones que se repiten, con un mismo principio y un mismo final. En contra de nuestro propio deseo. ¿Cuáles son los motivos que nos llevan a habitar una y otra vez esos espacios de dolor, a encaminarnos al mismo inexorable destino de frustración y padecimiento? En estas páginas Lorena Pronsky nos propone una búsqueda, un camino. Nos invita a averiguar quiénes somos, qué nos lleva a incurrir reiteradamente en comportamientos y zonas que nos hacen daño. Indagar, tratar de entender; conocer nuestra propia verdad para hacer posible un ejercicio saludable del amor. Mientras que esto no suceda, el final de tu cuento, hagas lo que hagas, intentes lo que intentes, siempre será el mismo. Ahí, justo ahí, NO AMARÁS.
No bastó con querer
by Loreto SesmaEl nuevo poemario de Loreto Sesma, una de las autoras más conocidas y admiradas de la nueva generación de poetas. Un libro que transita por las penumbras del amanecer, en lo ambiguo de esa oscuridad que muta de repente en esperanza. No bastó con querer es un claroscuro de versos que hablan del poder que ejerce sobre nosotros el recuerdo, el olvido imposible, que nos destruye pero a la vez nos ha construido como lo que somos, en la resiliencia. Loreto Sesma dibuja con profundidad y alma el perfil de la dulce derrota del que ya sabe perder, de la victoria amarga del que conoce que será finita. Un conjunto de poemas sobre el dolor que llevamos en la maleta, el bagaje de las heridas del amor, pero también sobre la posibilidad de la luz. «Llega el día.Simplementerecoges todos tus pedazos del silencioy dices:esto es querer,pero ya no es amor».
No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos (Flash Poesía)
by SafoLa colección «Poesía portátil» nos brinda en No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos una traducción inédita de algunos de los escasos textos que se conservan de la poeta griega Safo, figura clave en la tradición poética femenina europea. Considerada la «Décima Musa» por Platón, los fragmentos conservados de la obra de Safo son escasos y constituyen una muestra fundamental de la primera poesía europea. Siendo ya en su época una autoridad, los siglos la han situado como un referente de la literatura femenina que ha inspirado por igual a hombres y mujeres. Los textos que nos quedan de su obra atestiguan una sensualidad intensa y delicada que canta los dolores y la alegría de la pasión amorosa.
No está todo perdido; todavía nos queda cerveza, poesía y sexo
by @bentodlcEl nuevo libro de uno de los poetas que más está dando que hablar en las redes. «Este libro está listo para ti, para que sientas, y seas capaz de coger la fuerza suficiente para comprender que no está todo perdido. Este libro reúne textos de amor, desamor, sociedad, pero todo desde las entrañas. No está todo perdido; todavía nos queda cerveza, poesía y sexo contiene los poemas de la primera versión, poemas de Mi corazón pecera y poemas completamente inéditos. Una edición especial, para que, te lo recuerdo y que no se te olvide, te tatúes a fuego en la piel que No está todo perdido.» Soy Rubén Chiquito, @Bentodlc si me conoces de redes sociales. Soy Trabajador Social y un poeta indie de mierda. Escribo por pasión y necesidad. Grito en versos todo lo que nunca me atreví a decir. No voy a escribir toda mi biografía; no tendría muchas cosas que contar, pero todo lo que soy, ya lo he sangrado en formato versos en este libro.
No lleves tu dragón a la biblioteca (Cuentos ilustrados de ficción)
by Julie GassmanYou might have the best intentions of bringing your dragon to the library, but don’t do it! The dragon will cause nothing but trouble.
No me cuentes cuentos si no terminan contigo
by Dani RiveraUn recopilatorio de poemas inéditos de Dani Rivera acompañados de las maravillosas ilustraciones de Sandra Cumplido. <P><P>#Nomecuentescuentos Con versos delicados y potentes a la vez, como: «Apaga y besémonos, que es como volver a encender la luz» o «Si lo nuestro es un error, no nos cansaremos de equivocarnos», Dani Rivera ha compuesto No me cuentes cuentos si no terminan contigo, un libro que recopila sus poemas inéditos acompañados por las bellas ilustraciones de Sandra Cumplido. <P>Un regalo que todos los amantes de la poesía desearán tener.
No sé si no en la herida: Antología de poetas líquidos
by Varios AutoresFrente a la altura poética, la altura física, frente a la abstracción de lo poético, la materialidad de la piel, de los músculos, de los huesos. Porque el cuerpo está impregnado de historia y siempre es posible leerlo como una gramática. <P><P> Enfermos, sanos, encerrados, censurados, domesticados, aniquilados, atravesados por las lanzas de miles de discursos, nuestros cuerpos, los vuestros, devienen aquí motivo taxonómico-poético. Traumática o catártica, la biopolítica a debate, como apuntando lo necesario de lo somático, como afirmando la existencia (sin)razón de tácticas anatómicas de control. Emergencia política, máquina orgánica, representación, química, poder. <P><P>La ordenación como contra-alegoría paradójica, como microsabotaje utópico del arte eurocéntrico de gobernar los cuerpos libres. Borgianamente, Cervantes decidió. Si sale cara de menor a mayor, si sale cruz de mayor a menor, Cervantes es la cara. Una vuelta, dos, tres, cuatro, quizás cinco o seis, no daba tiempo a contar. Cara. Al fin y al cabo, somos cuerpos por azar evolutivo.
No vine a ser carne
by Gata CattanaUn libro único e imprescindible: los poemas y textos inéditos de Gata Cattana, la mítica poeta y rapera que enamoró auna generación. «No vine a ser carne, vine a ser espuma», escribe Gata Cattana lúcidamente en uno de los textos inéditos que contiene este libro y que le da título. Una compilación de letras, poemas y textos en prosa de la Gata que todos conocemos -activista, feminista, reivindicativa, emocional-, pero también de aquella Ana más ingenua que comenzaba a escribir y a formarse una idea del mundo y de la realidad. La breve pero valiosa obra literaria de la politóloga, rapera y poeta fallecida en 2017 cuyas letras se han convertido en signo de la lucha feminista y de toda una generación se completa con este volumen. Un compendio único y preciado para cualquier seguidor de su música o de sus letras. La crítica ha dicho...«Ella escribía como desafiando al tendío, entre la rabia purísima y una sensibilidad nueva, medio transparente: iluminada como una médium que escrutaba al mundo desde esos ojos llenos de preguntas y eyeliner».Lorena G. Maldonado en El Español «Bajo su cabeza llevaba el cartel de promesa. Muchos la veían como la sucesora de La Mala Rodríguez, otros como la que vendría a salvar el rap femenino y feminista en nuestro país».Eldiario.es «Un año después de su muerte la gente no se ha olvidado de Gata Cattana. Su música sigue siendo referente para muchas jóvenes empoderadas y los designios musicales que transitó en su corta pero intensa carrera artística a buen seguro serán objeto de estudio en un futuro».AS «Una de las voces más potentes y lúcidas del rap español: capaz de invocar, en una misma canción, a la pensadora Silvia Federici, la Teoría King Kong de Virgine Despentes, o a la republicana Clara Campoamor».Playground Magazine «Gata comparte todo lo que le pasa por dentro con sinceridad y determinación. Porque, en ella, las ideas se hacen arte; se hacen inmortales».Vice «Inteligente y sensible, su trabajo estaba cambiando muchas cosas».Mala Rodríguez
No-Gate Gateway: The Original Wu-Men Kuan
by David HintonA new translation of one of the great koan collections--by the premier translator of the Chinese classics--that reveals it to be a literary and philosophical masterwork beyond its association with Chan/Zen.A monk asked: &“A dog too has Buddha-nature, no?&” And with the master&’s enigmatic one-word response begins the great No-Gate Gateway (Wu-Men Kuan), ancient China&’s classic foray into the inexpressible nature of mind and reality. For nearly eight hundred years, this text (also known by its Japanese name, Mumonkan) has been the most widely used koan collection in Zen Buddhism—and with its comic storytelling and wild poetry, it is also a remarkably compelling literary masterwork. In his radical new translation, David Hinton places this classic for the first time in the philosophical framework of its native China, in doing so revealing a new way of understanding Zen—in which generic &“Zen perplexity&” is transformed into a more approachable and earthy mystery. With the poetic abilities he has honed in his many translations, Hinton brilliantly conveys the book&’s literary power, making it an irresistible reading experience capable of surprising readers into a sudden awakening that is beyond logic and explanation.
Noble Gas, Penny Black
by David O'MearaWinner of the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region) and shortlisted for the 2009 ReLit Award Lucid accurate detail and music at every turn.Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David O’Meara’s work. Travel – being between places, in stations and airports and unfamiliar cities – creates a psychological, emotional space rife with reassessment, where the individual dwells simultaneously in the future and in the past. At the same time O’Meara imbues the domestic with a similar compelling transience, in poems on love and current events, where “History’s narrowed eye” roams landscapes “felt / but never held, like wind over water.” O’Meara give us lucid, accurate detail and music at every turn, and is entangled enough with the world to make us ache. "[There are] lines from Noble Gas, Penny Black, where the syllables are, let me incautiously say, near-perfect."-Don Coles
Nobody Owns the Sky
by Reeve LindberghAs a young black woman in the 1920s, Bessie Coleman's chances of becoming a pilot were slim. But she never let her dream die and became the first licensed African-American aviator.
Nobody: A Rhapsody To Homer
by Alice OswaldA collage of water-stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book- length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. Several voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize familiar characters and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves. one person has the character of dust another has an arrow for a soul but their stories all end somewhere in the sea
Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics
by Brian M. ReedSince the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial crisis? Much of this discussion has taken place in ephemeral venues such as blogs, e-zines, public lectures, and conferences. Nobody's Business is the first book to treat the emergence of Flarf and Conceptual Poetry in a serious way. In his engaging account, Brian M. Reed argues that these movements must be understood in relation to the proliferation of digital communications technologies and their integration into the corporate workplace.Writers such as Andrea Brady, Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith, Danny Snelson, and Rachel Zolf specifically target for criticism the institutions, skill sets, and values that make possible the smooth functioning of a postindustrial, globalized economy. Authorship comes in for particular scrutiny: how does writing a poem differ in any meaningful way from other forms of "content providing"? While often adept at using new technologies, these writers nonetheless choose to explore anachronism, ineptitude, and error as aesthetic and political strategies. The results can appear derivative, tedious, or vulgar; they can also be stirring, compelling, and even sublime. As Reed sees it, this new generation of writers is carrying on the Duchampian practice of generating antiart that both challenges prevalent definitions or art and calls into question the legitimacy of the institutions that define it.
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays
by Cole SwensenPraise for Cole Swensen: "One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry. " ---Library Journal "Engaging and delightful. " ---Publishers Weekly A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. Ezra Pound famously said that literature is "news that stays news," but recent experiments in poetry and the sciences allow us to enlarge the statement to bring information theory and biology to bear on the issue---in particular, how the information theory–based model of self-organization from noise offers a way to look at language as an art material as well as a mode of communication. This concept directs these essays on poetry by contemporary poet Cole Swensen. Noise That Stays Noisecovers a variety of subjects relevant to contemporary poetry and will give the general reader a broad notion of the issues that inform discourse around poetry today. Space---the conceptual geometry of poetry and its concrete mise-en-page---is an underlying theme of this collection, sometimes approached directly through the work of other twentieth-century poets, sometimes more obliquely through considerations of the role of the visual arts in contemporary poetry. This question of space and the shapes it includes and acquires offers a different way to look at some familiar writers, such as Mallarmé and Olson, and a way to introduce several more recent writers who may not yet be known to the general public.
Noisy Nora
by Rosemary WellsIt's tough being the middle mouse. Nora's baby brother and older sister require a lot of attention, and Nora always has to wait. Slamming doors, banging furniture, and even flying a kite on the staircase get no results. It isn't until Nora crashes out the door, and the house goes strangely silent, that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all!
Nomadness
by David WaterhouseAlways visions of other lands haunt my ravaged mind and the ghosts of old lovers swirl in the fog of my brain. Habits and routine are my captors, the jailers that speak to me of bounds, fences and walls, yet my soul flies on the wild wind, searching for a home. I long to burn across new terrain like a meteor crashing through the dull and nebulous layers of this tired earths’ atmosphere. When shall I walk among the foothills of the Old Gods and feel new breezes blow through this shattered mind? To set the senses reeling and lose myself in the swirling fog of new emotion. Everything is growing, bursting out of itself like an explosion and creatures mass and swarm at some silent command. Is this the hand of God stirring his pot of wonders? And then the storms and the wild winds, the constant rains although warm- still crazy and without reason. All of nature here spinning and weaving, screaming in the minds of men. Here is the torrent, the onrush of life, the lesson to be learned, easily given and so readily taken up by poets and dreamers. Wild living, careless exaggeration, wonders of creation, the Psalms of the fields and forests. Listen then, listen to the songs and hear their frantic message, for there is a force greater than any man can know that is flowing faster than an avalanche. Eye and limb, branch and spore- nature has gone mad and man is afraid because the spirits of old lives are whistling in the wind.