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Night Vision: Poems
by John FoyIn John Foy's Night Vision, wars go on in the Middle East, violence is never far away, and the creatures of the field are much the worse / for having been beneath the rotor blades. Written in an uncluttered idiom, these poems, technically adept, play across a range of forms in a voice that stands out for its bitter clarity and directness.
Night Watch: Poems
by Kevin YoungFrom the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewalFollowing on his exquisite Stones, Kevin Young&’s new collection, written over the span of sixteen years, shapes stories of loss and legacy, inspired in part by other lives. After starting in the bayous of his family's Louisiana, Young journeys to further states of mind in &“All Souls,&” evoking &“The whale / who finds the shore / & our poor prayers.&” Another central sequence, &“The Two-Headed Nightingale,&” is spoken by Millie-Christine McCoy, the famous conjoined African American &“Carolina Twins.&” Born into enslavement, stolen, and then displayed by P. T. Barnum and others, the twins later toured the world as free women, their alto and soprano voices harmonizing their own way. Young&’s poem explores their evolving philosophical selfhood and pluralities: &“As one we sang, /we spake— / She was the body / I the soul / Without one / Perishes the whole.&” In &“Darkling,&” a cycle of poems inspired by Dante&’s Divine Comedy, Young expands and embroiders the circles of Hell, drawing a cosmology of both loneliness and accompaniment, where &“the dead don&’t know / what to do / with themselves.&” Young writes of grief and hope as familiar yet surprising states: &“It&’s like a language, / loss—,&” he writes, &“learnt only / by living—there—.&” Evoking the history of poetry, from the darkling thrush to the darkling plain, Young is defiant and playful on the way through purgatory to a kind of paradise. When he goes, he warns, &“don't dare sing Amazing Grace&”—that &“National / Anthem of Suffering.&” Instead, he suggests, &“When I Fly Away, / Don't dare hold no vigil . . . Just burn the whole / Town on down.&” This collection will stand as one of Young&’s best—his voice shaping sorrow with music, wisdom, heartache, and wit.
Night Wishes
by Jen CoraceHow would a clock, nightlight, or teddy bear say good night? In this enchanting poetry collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and thirteen other poets imagine the wishes whispering through a young girl&’s bedroom as she falls asleep. The bookshelf&’s stories curl through her head; the pillow transforms into a hot air balloon; the rocking horse waits expectantly for tomorrow&’s adventures. Stunning gouache illustrations by Jen Corace offer new details to discover with every reading. Perfect for bedtime reading and re-reading, Night Wishes will transport young readers into a wonderful, whimsical world of dreams. Includes poems by…Rebecca Kai DotlichMatt Forrest EsenwineJude MandellPrince RedcloudAlice SchertleJoyce SidmanEileen SpinelliIrene LathamLee Bennett HopkinsNikki GrimesDeborah RuddellDarren SardelliRenee LaTulippe
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
by Randall MaggsWinner of the 2008 Winterset Award and the 2009 E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize Winner of the Kobzar Literary Award 2010 A hockey saga, wrapping the game’s story in the “intense, moody, contradictory” character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. In compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs’s poems. They range from meditations on ancient/modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony.
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems - 10th Anniversary Edition
by Randall MaggsA new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. Denied the leap and dash up the ice, what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk and cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhere as they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing, which brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apart in bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities. But it's their saving sense of irony that further isolates them as it saves. - from "One of You" In compact, conversational poems, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs's poems. They range from meditations on ancient/modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony. This 10th anniversary edition of the book marks both the 50th anniversary of the last time the Leafs won the Stanley Cup and the 100th anniversary of the Leafs as a team. With rich reflections on the book by novelist Angie Abdou and Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean, as well as excerpts from scores of reviews by the likes of Gord Downie and Dave Bidini, this new edition of Night Work is a must-have for lovers of hockey and poetry alike.
Night of the Hawk: Poems
by Lauren MartinWhen I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to?Ifá. Nature. Illness. Love. Loss. Misogyny. Aging. Africa. Our wounded planet. In this sweeping yet intensely personal collection, Lauren Martin tells the untold stories of the marginalized, the abused, the ill, the disabled—the different. Inspired by her life’s experiences, including the isolation she has suffered as a result both of living with chronic illness and having devoted herself to a religion outside the mainstream, these poems explore with raw vulnerability and unflinching honesty what it is to live apart—even as one yearns for connection.But Night of the Hawk is no lament; it is powerful, reverential, sometimes humorous, often defiant—“Oh heat me and fill me / I rise above lines”—and full of wisdom. Visceral and stirring, the poems in this collection touch on vastly disparate subjects but are ultimately unified in a singular quest: to inspire those who read them toward kindness, compassion, and questioning.
Night of the Republic: Poems
by Alan ShapiroPoetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who &“seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart&” (Chicago Tribune). In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America&’s public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track, among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals the surreal and dreamlike features of these familiar but empty night spaces. Shapiro finds in them not the expected alienation but rather an odd, companionable solitude rising up from the quiet emptiness. In other poems, Shapiro writes movingly of his 1950s and &’60s childhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, with special focus on the house he grew up in. These meditations, always inflected with Shapiro&’s quick wit and humor, lead to recollections of tragic and haunting events such as the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of JFK. While Night of the Republic is Shapiro&’s most ambitious work to date, it is also his most timely and urgent for the acute way it illuminates the mingling of private obsessions with public space. &“His poems are both artful and unpretentious.&” —Boston Review
Nihar
by Mahadevi VermaA collection of poems by one of the great poetesses of Hindi literature, Mahadevi Verma.
Nikki Giovanni: A Special Poet (Leveled Readers 2.6.3)
by Jacqueline ChurchillA grade 2 level children's book about the poet Nikki Giovanni
Nine Coins/Nueve monedas
by Carlos PintadoThe winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series; published in both English and Spanish.—The winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series; published in both English and Spanish.—Carlos Pintado is a finalist for the 2015–2016 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing —Named a Notable Translation of 2015 by World Literature Today—The Moon has been selected as one of Vancouver Poetry House’s 10 Best Poems of 2015Translated by Hilary Vaughn Dobel.Nine Coins/Nueve monedas is a palimpsest of love, fears, dreams, and the intimate landscapes where the author seeks refuge. These poems appear like small islands of salvation, covered with the brief splendor of the coins people sometimes grab hold of, taking the form of a very personal and often devastating map. Each poem is a song at the edge of an abyss; an illusory gold coin obtained as a revelation; a song of hope and understanding. The volume’s dreamlike geography prompts the reader to revisit the thread, the labyrinth, and the Minotaur’s legends. The night streets of South Beach, Alexandria, and many other cities, lit by the fading torches, seem to guide us in conversation with characters who are long dead. The Paz Prize for Poetry is presented by the National Poetry Series and The Center at Miami Dade College. This annual award—named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize–winning poet, Octavio Paz—honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish by an American resident. An open competition is held each May, when an esteemed Spanish-speaking poet selects a winning manuscript. The book will be published in a bilingual edition by Akashic Books. The winning poet will also receive a $2,000 cash prize.
Nine Horses: Poems
by Billy CollinsNine Horses, Billy Collins's first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet's career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001-2002, and reappointed for 2002-2003. What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.From the Hardcover edition.
Nine Irish Plays for Voices
by Eamon GrennanA vibrant collection of short plays bringing Irish history and culture alive through an extraordinary collage of documents, songs, poems, and texts.In Nine Irish Plays for Voices, award-winning poet Eamon Grennan delves deep into key Irish subjects—big, small, literary, historical, political, biographical—and illuminates them for today’s audiences and readers. These short plays draw from original material centering on important moments in Irish history and the formation of the Irish Republic, such as the Great Famine and the Easter Rising; the lives of Irish literary figures like Yeats, Joyce, and Lady Gregory; and the crucial and life-changing condition of emigration.The rhythmic, musical, and vivid language of Grennan’s plays incorporates traditional song lyrics, lines of Irish poetry, and letters and speeches of the time. The result is a dramatic collage that tells a story through the voices of characters contemporary to the period of the play’s subject. By presenting subjects through the dramatic rendering of the human voice, the plays facilitate a close, intimate relationship between players and the audience, creating an incredibly powerful connection to the past. Historical moments and literary figures that might seem remote to the present-day reader or audience become immediate and emotionally compelling.One of the plays, Ferry, is drawn entirely from the author’s imagination. It puts unnamed characters who come from the world of twentieth-century Ireland on a boat to the underworld with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. On their journey the five strangers, played by two voices, tell stories about their lives, raising the question of how language both captures and transforms lived experience. Addressing the Great Famine, Hunger uses documentary evidence to give audiences a dramatic feel for what has been a silent and traumatic element in Irish history. Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mr. Joyce is a one-woman piece that depicts James Joyce’s wife as an older woman sharing her memories and snippets from the works of her husband. Also included in this rich volume is the author’s adaptation of Synge’s Aran Islands, as well as Emigration Road, History! Reading the Easter Rising, The Muse and Mr. Yeats, The Loves of Lady Gregory, and Peig: An Ordinary Life.
Nine Lessons From The Dark
by Adam ThorpeAdam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments of war memories - petroglyphs that function as both memorials and re-awakenings, traceable with the finger of the imagination. And here, too, are images of the stilled, the stopped life: a snowed-up village, the paralysed victim of motor-neurone disease, a soft drink fermented in an old village cafe. From this rueful equilibrium of mid-life, Thorpe circles his own personal history, allowing regret and anticipation their Janus-like say. These are erudite, generous poems, formally versatile yet rich in startlingly original observation and a natural lyric grace. Performing his unique archaeology on lives lived, Adam Thorpe once again displays the range of his imagination and the depth of his humanity.
Nine Medieval Romances of Magic: Re-Rhymed in Modern English
by Marijane OsbornIn this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic- shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees- that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor.
Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems
by Irene LathamFans of clever poetry and numbers rejoice! Nine is a book of nine-line poems called nonets, all about the number nine!Hey!Hi there!Love nonets?I'm sure you do.What are they, you ask?You don't know a nonet?Not even one little one?Actually, they're all the same size!They're poems, of course--and here's your first!Each poem in this clever collection is a nonet: a nine-line poem that starts with nine syllables in the first line and ends with one syllable in the ninth line (or the reverse). But these nonets go even further! Every one is also written with the number nine at its heart. There's plenty to love and learn: topics include the nine months it takes a baby to be born, cats' nine lives, baseball's nine players, and the nine-banded armadillo. Some feature history, such as the Little Rock Nine, the spacecraft Apollo 9, the ninth president; others explain idioms, like "dressed to the nines," "cloud nine," and "the whole nine yards." Explore these and more with nonets galore!
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)
by Octavio Paz Eliot WeinbergerA new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
by Various William SpengemannWhitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier.
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)
by Jennifer McFarlane-HarrisThis collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Belinda Marden Pratt, and others wrote to have a voice in the moral debates that were consuming churches and national politics. These texts are expressions of the lives and dynamic minds of women who developed sophisticated, systematic spiritual and textual approaches to the divine, to their denominations or religious traditions, and to the mainstream culture around them. Women do not simply live out theologies authored by men. Rather, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven is grounded in the radical notion that the theological principles crafted by women and derived from women’s experiences, intellectual habits, and organizational capabilities are foundational to American literature itself.
Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets Vol 2
by John GoodridgeOver 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century.
Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought
by Anna BartonThis book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Charles Swinburne responds to and participates in urgent philosophical, social and political debates about liberty and the rule of law. It provides an account of poetry's intervention into four different sites where liberalism has a stake: the self, the university, married life and the nation state and it seeks to assert the peculiar capacity of poetry to articulate liberal concerns, proposing poetic language as a means of liberal enquiry.
Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences: Poetical Matter (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
by Gregory TatePoetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues that poets such as William Wordsworth, Mathilde Blind, and Thomas Hardy identified poetry as an experimental investigation of nature’s materiality. It also explores how science writers such as Humphry Davy, Mary Somerville, and John Tyndall used poetry to formulate their theories, to bestow cultural legitimacy on the emerging disciplines of chemistry and physics, and to communicate technical knowledge to non-specialist audiences. The book’s chapters show how poets and science writers relied on a set of shared terms (“form,” “experiment,” “rhythm,” “sound,” “measure”) and how the meaning of those terms was debated and reimagined in a range of different texts.“A stimulating analysis of nineteenth-century poetry and physics. In this groundbreakingstudy, Tate turns to sound to tease out fascinating continuities acrossscientific inquiry and verse. Reflecting that ‘the processes of the universe’ werethemselves ‘rhythmic,’ he shows that a wide range of poets and scientists werethinking through undulatory motion as a space where the material and the immaterialmet. ‘The motion of waves,’ Tate demonstrates, was ‘the exemplary form inthe physical sciences.’ Sound waves, light, energy, and poetic meter were eachcharacterized by a ‘process of undulation,’ that could be understood as both aphysical and a formal property. Drawing on work in new materialism and newformalism, Tate illuminates a nineteenth-century preoccupation with dynamic patterningthat characterizes the undulatory as (in John Herschel’s words) not ‘things,but forms.’”—Anna Henchman, Associate Professor of English at Boston University, USA“This impressive study consolidates and considerably advances the field of physicsand poetry studies. Moving easily and authoritatively between canonical and scientistpoets, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences draws scientificthought and poetic form into telling relation, disclosing how they were understoodvariously across the nineteenth century as both comparable and competingways of knowing the physical world. Clearly written and beautifully structured,Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences is both scholarly and accessible,a fascinating and indispensable contribution to its field.”—Daniel Brown, Professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK“Essential reading for Victorianists. Tate’s study of nineteenth-century poetry andscience reconfi gures debate by insisting on the equivalence of accounts ofempirical fact and speculative theory rather than their antagonism. Theundulatory rhythms of the universe and of poetry, the language of science and ofverse, come into new relations. Tate brilliantly re-reads Coleridge, Tennyson,Mathilde Blind and Hardy through their explorations of matter and ontologicalreality. He also addresses contemporary theory from Latour to Jane Bennett.” — Isobel Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology
by Jason David HallThis book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices, pedagogical procedures, scientific experiments, and technological innovations. By offering an exploded definition of meter—one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion—this book explicates the conceptual and, at times, material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture. The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing; a deeply influential, though rarely credited, system of metrical manufacture; verse produced by a Victorian automaton; the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them; and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and for all.
Ninety-fifth Street
by John KoetheIn his eighth book of poems, John Koethe offers readers the reflections of a poet in midlife, an "aging child of sixty-two," passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory, time, and the mysteries of human existence. In Ninety-fifth Street, Koethe retraces narratives from his life and moves across various landscapes he once inhabited; in his hands these stories and places become poems of beauty, feeling, and poignant candor. Disarmingly conversational and always accessible, these new poems offer the pleasures of a lucid intelligence and a distinctive poetic voice, by turns contemplative and worldly, lyrical, witty, and elegiac.
Ninety-five Nights of Listening
by Malinda MarkhamMalinda Markham's peoms are inspired in part by her fascination with Japanese language, art, and literature. Her reactions to and interpretations of that country's history, culture, and people are in these verses, echoing with the voices and silences of women across time. Markham imagines the experiences of many women: a geisha laments her past in "Geisha Considered as Making," as a mother laments for her daughter's future in "Yield to This." Markham is intrigued with how language tries but ultimately fails to hold memory in place. She grapples with the translation of words and feeling and shows how this failure also brings a searching for belief - a word that repeats throughout these poems - in a world that cannot allow it. Writes Cole Swenson, "Markham's language has the delicacy of the fine bones of the inner ear; it is, itself, a form of listening - to insects, birds, traffic, to the world. Her listening brings things into being, catching the nuances of change, from season to season, culture to culture, impression to language. This is a radiant collection."
Nishshabdha Visphotana: ನಿಶ್ಶಬ್ದ ವಿಸ್ಫೋಟನ
by Subramanya M. Aಈ ಪುಸ್ತಕವು ಬಲವಾದ ಭಾವನೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಯಥಾರ್ಥಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿಬಿಂಬಿಸುವ ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನವಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕವಿ ಆಂತರಿಕ ತಳಮಳ, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಅನ್ಯಾಯ ಮತ್ತು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ನಿಶಬ್ದ ಹೋರಾಟವನ್ನು ಆಳವಾಗಿ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.