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No Need of Sympathy
by Fleda BrownNo Need of Sympathy is an exceptionally wide-ranging poetry collection, touching on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, and the natures of poetry and reality. These poems, the eighth collection by Fleda Brown, ask huge questions; they zero in like a microscope on what's here, at hand. They are spoken with humility, great humor, curiosity, and a deep love of living.
No Need of Sympathy (American Poets Continuum)
by Fleda BrownNo Need of Sympathy is an exceptionally wide-ranging poetry collection, touching on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, and the natures of poetry and reality. These poems, the eighth collection by Fleda Brown, ask huge questions; they zero in like a microscope on what’s here, at hand. They are spoken with humility, great humor, curiosity, and a deep love of living.
No Object
by Natalie Shapero"It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads,/what one writes,"writes Natalie Shapero in her mischievous debut collection. With sharp wit and relentless questioning, Shapero crafts poems a reader can, if not believe in, then trust--to level with us, to surprise us, and to stay with us long after we put the book down. No Object is a fast ride you will not easily forget. "Shapero fastens you in a roller coaster car that creeps up a rickety hill, zooms into an abyss, then flips upside down to deliver you safely, wanting to take the ride all over again." --Denise Duhamel
No Obvious Distress: A John Murray Original
by Amanda Quaid'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson'Deft, daring, devastating and delightful' Pádraig Ó Tuama'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah RuhlPatient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.
No Obvious Distress: A John Murray Original
by Amanda Quaid'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson'Deft, daring, devastating and delightful' Pádraig Ó Tuama'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah RuhlPatient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.
No One Knows Us There
by Jessica BebenekFrom wherever I am, I willsend word like a golden thread,rolling an unravelling ball through time?towards myself.In this stunning debut collection, Bronwen Wallace Award finalist Jessica Bebenek presents two distinct and moving portraits of early womanhood. The first is that of the devoted, caregiving granddaughter navigating hospital hallways and the painful realities of palliative care. The second is that of a woman a decade older, compassionately looking back on her younger self, honouring unimaginable loss and turning it into genuine healing.All at once sensual, visceral, and dreamlike, No One Knows Us There takes us from the sterility of the hospital into the sumptuous natural world. We face horror in a manicured garden and discover beauty in the untamed woods. A theoretical mathematician leads us to an elk encounter, the crooked bodies of birds are found in the spring thaw, and we become our own pet snail in a mason jar.Ultimately, grief is radically transformed through plainspoken yet lyrical language, and this keen examination of trauma evolves into a striking celebration of the inevitability of change.
No Sign (Phoenix Poets)
by Peter BalakianNew poetry collection from Peter Balakian, author of Ozone Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In these poems, Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture. At the collection’s heart is “No Sign,” another in Balakian’s series of long-form poems, following “A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy” and “Ozone Journal,” which appeared in his previous two collections. In this dialogical multi-sectioned poem, an estranged couple encounters each other, after years, on the cliffs of the New Jersey Palisades. The dialogue that ensues reveals the evolution of a kaleidoscopic memory spanning decades, reflecting on the geological history of Earth and the climate crisis, the film Hiroshima Mon Amour, the Vietnam War, a visionary encounter with the George Washington Bridge, and the enduring power of love.. Whether meditating on the sensuality of fruits and vegetables, the COVID-19 pandemic, the trauma and memory of the Armenian genocide, James Baldwin in France, or Arshile Gorky in New York City, Balakian’s layered, elliptical language, wired phrases, and shifting tempos engage both life’s harshness and beauty and define his inventive and distinctive style.
No Sign (Phoenix Poets)
by Peter BalakianNew poetry collection from Peter Balakian, author of Ozone Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In these poems, Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture. At the collection’s heart is “No Sign,” another in Balakian’s series of long-form poems, following “A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy” and “Ozone Journal,” which appeared in his previous two collections. In this dialogical multi-sectioned poem, an estranged couple encounters each other, after years, on the cliffs of the New Jersey Palisades. The dialogue that ensues reveals the evolution of a kaleidoscopic memory spanning decades, reflecting on the geological history of Earth and the climate crisis, the film Hiroshima Mon Amour, the Vietnam War, a visionary encounter with the George Washington Bridge, and the enduring power of love.. Whether meditating on the sensuality of fruits and vegetables, the COVID-19 pandemic, the trauma and memory of the Armenian genocide, James Baldwin in France, or Arshile Gorky in New York City, Balakian’s layered, elliptical language, wired phrases, and shifting tempos engage both life’s harshness and beauty and define his inventive and distinctive style.
No Sleep for the Sheep!
by Jackie Urbanovic Karen BeaumontOne tired sheep wants nothing more than a good night's sleep. All is peaceful until--QUACK! Is that a duck at the barn door? And now a goat? A pig? A cow? A horse? Each new unexpected guest is bigger and louder than the last! How will the sheep ever get this barnyard crowd to quiet down before--COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!
No Surrender: Poems
by Ai"Smart, funny, angry, political, and utterly poetic . . . both haunting and humorous." --The Rumpus
No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
by Cynthia ManickCynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories with an acrid aftertaste of deep thought. Satisfying moments are captured in odes to Idris Elba’s dulcet tones on a meditation app and the satisfaction of half-priced Entenmann’s poundcake; in childlike observations of parental Black love, the coveted female form on Jet Magazine covers, and the desire for Zamunda to be a real place full of Black joy. The sour taps into an analysis of reclusiveness, silencing catcalls from men on the street, and detailed recipes and advice to the Black girls forced to endow themselves with armor against the world.Cynthia Manick’s latest is a playlist of everyday life, introverted thoughts, familial bonds, and social commentary. In piercing language, she traces the circle of life for a narrator who dares to exist between youthful remembrances and adulthood realities. Each poem in No Sweet Without Brine is a reminder that a hint of sorrow makes the celebration and recognition of the glory of Blackness in all ways, and through all people, that much sweeter.
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.