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Now and Then: The Poems Of Gil Scott-heron (Canons #101)
by Gil Scott-HeronA wide-ranging collection of poetry by the iconic &“poet and polemicist whose lyrics have inspired and galvanized generations&” (GQ). Musician, poet, and spoken-word artist Gil Scott-Heron influenced generations of artists with his highly original, disarmingly witty, politically provocative song-poems. Coming into prominence in the early 1970s, the self-proclaimed &“bluesologist&” has earned, among many other accolades, the title of Godfather of Rap. Now and Then presents a collection of poems from across Scott-Heron long career—including some of his most iconic recorded pieces, as well as lesser-known works that have never been recorded. With an introduction by Kate Tempest, this collection carries the reader from the global topics of political hypocrisy and the dangers posed by capitalist culture to painfully personal themes and the realities of everyday life. Through it all, Scott-Heron&’s message is both steeped in history and as urgent as ever.&“Scott-Heron is such a fine writer…the least likely pop star ever, one with a truly brilliant mind&”—Sunday Times, UK &“Some of the funniest and most literate lyrics in all music . . . From deadpan attacks on racism to withering sarcasm about the Great Society; from Chomskian rants to parodies of media shallowness—every line comes coated in a sardonically witty turn of phrase.&”—Time Out
Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000 (Poetry Ser.)
by Robert HassDuring his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th–century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice" went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives. This collection contains well–known poets such as Wallace Stevens, Rita Dove, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost, as well as emerging and translated poets such as Jaime Sabines and Czeslaw Milosz. Also included are Hass's essays that accompanied the poems. Encapsulating a world before 9/11, this collection serves as both remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, and as a celebration of the poets whose works transcend time.
Now and for a Time
by John FullerThroughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art. They take us from birth to death: from a baby's first delightful babblings, to the dignified, measured words of a man surveying his life and marriage, and looking forward into the unknown. There are moments of great joie de vivre, of pleasure in the earthy things of life; and yet, beyond, there is always a sense of a vaster, more elusive universe. The snorting of the horses in a field in 'Dreams', the egret on the rock in 'Sentinel': these are nature's mysteries. To make sense of these, we have language and music. Celebratory, playful, reconciled to the questions that will not be answered, these poems exude a miraculous kind of peace and understanding: 'A point of closure that allows the next/Inevitable sentence to begin'.
Now that the audience is assembled
by David GrubbsFollowing his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of a series of invented instruments before an audience that is alternately contemplative, participatory, disputatious, and asleep. Over the course of this phantasmagorical all-night concert, repeated interruptions take the form of in-depth discussions and musical demonstrations. Both a work of literature and a study of music, Now that the audience is assembled explores the categories of improvised music, solo performance, text scores, instrument building, aesthetic deskilling and reskilling, and the odd fate of the composer in experimental music.
Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems
by Elizabeth Spires"Spires is a jewel of a poet, never self-conscious or self-indulgent."--Los Angeles Times Opening with a powerful sequence of poems about her mother's death, Elizabeth Spires writes about the life-and-death matters of midlife: the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest friendships. These poems find hope in the seasonal and spiritual moment when "the green blade rises."
Nowhere Fast
by William KulikNowhere Fast offers a view of a world where fools rush in only to be baffled by ordinary dramas--of sexuality and gender, of family, of death and dying. By turns rueful, sardonic and tender, these narratives are overseen by a joyous mockery which reveals to us what Allen Ginsberg once called our quintessential "jerkhood"--to be living in a realm where satisfaction is denied and expectations are frustrated--the heart and soul of the absurd. In sixty exquisite prose poems, memory, dream and fantasy take turns animating the many identities of the "I" in a dark comedy of manners where the surreal underscores our eternal condition. In turns jocular and menacing, masculine and vulnerable, bawdy and rueful, Nowhere Fast marks the debut collection of a poet it seems we've always been waiting for.
Nowhere: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Katie SchmidA book of wild imagination and linguistic play, Nowhere begins by chronicling the pain that the speaker and her absent father endure during the years they are separated while he is in prison. The alternative universe the speaker builds in order to survive this complex loss and its aftermath sees her experimenting with her body to try to build connection, giving it away to careless and indifferent lovers as she dreams of consuming them in the search for a coherent self. But can the speaker voice her trauma and disjunction? Can anyone, or is suffering something that cannot be said, but only hinted at? Ultimately the book argues that the barest hour of suffering can be the source of immense creative power and energy, which is the speaker&’s highest form of consolation.This brilliant debut collection offers cohesive trauma narratives and essential counter-narratives to addiction stories, and it consistently complicates the stories told by the world about so-called fatherless girls and the bodies of women.
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)
by Pramod K. NayarNuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual materials, including fiction, poetry, biographies, comics, paintings, documentary and photography, this volume will illuminate the cultural, ecological and social impact of nuclearization narratives. Furthermore, this text explores themes such as the cultures of atomic scientists, the making of the bomb, nuclear bombings and disasters, nuclear aesthetics and art, and the global mobilization against nuclearization. Nuclear Cultures breaks new ground in the debates on "the nuclear" to foster the development of nuclear humanities, its vocabulary and methodology.
Nuclear Family (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)
by Jean Van LoonIn the night her whitened toes / cold sole on his calf / between his palms he warms / a slender foot – / twig bones, taut skin.Jean Van Loon’s father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed to the Manhattan Project. The Geiger counter he brought home exposed her mother’s dinner plate as radioactive. Her childhood friend’s father sold cobalt bombs to the Soviet Union. Unbeknownst even to the family, her mother worked for Canada’s Cold War intelligence service.Rooted in memory and history, Nuclear Family carries the reader into the sense of impending nuclear doom and the explosions of material wealth that shaped Van Loon’s childhood. Poems come alive with image, sound, and texture, portraying the innocence of childhood games, the worldwide effects of prolonged nuclear testing, and the long-lasting legacy of her father’s suicide – a fallout of radioactive silences.In Nuclear Family violent events, both global and familial, permeate a girl’s coming of age in a story of cataclysm and, ultimately, recovery.
Null Set
by Ted MathysNull Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the space--odd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets.From "Hypotenuse":HYPOTENUSEI write three, erase it, blow rubbershavings from the desk. Write its notation,erase it, blow shavings. Then three 3serased, shavings blown, persistfor the nonce, three of nothing, nowhereattending to discrete objects for counting,themselves objects at any rate. To kiss,sleep, and focus we know to closeour eyes, imagine. I do, see nothing.
Nunca dejes de creer en el amor
by Alejandro OrdóñezEl amor es un camino que se nos revela sin esperarlo. En este libro, Alejandro Ordóñez nos muestra las profundidades de cada una de las fases de una relación: desde el primer destello de posibilidad hasta la estabilidad romántica, explorando también qué sucede cuando una relación no puede dar más de sí y se decide separar los caminos, sin perder la fe en que llegará la persona correcta. En Nunca dejes de creer en el amor descubriremos, a través del característico estilo de prosa poética del autor, cómo este sentimiento, tan persistente, se abre paso a través de la reticencia y el dolor de cicatrices viejas para encontrar un nuevo corazón donde anidar y, quizá, madurar… y nos permite saber que si ese corazón no se logra convertir en un buen puerto, hay paz en dejarlo ir para seguir esa búsqueda en otro lugar. Lleno de optimismo y confianza, Alejandro Ordóñez nos muestra que, lo estemos buscando o no, el amor siempre encuentra la manera de entrar en nuestras vidas, ya sea en una mirada pasajera o en un encuentro fortuito. Estar abiertos a él es siempre el primer paso.
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios
by Helen HumphreysAlcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada. Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the happiness. Otherwise you could train for life, you could actually learn from grandmothers, mothers; poems -- those bodies of lines and spaces -- would not appear unbidden bearing news you hold your breath to hear. Helen Humphreys comes through the rich reproach of the past into the present, a bruise, a beautiful bloom.
Nursery Rhymes
by Random HouseA book that contains a collection of many favorite nursery rhymes for children of all ages.
Nurturing Paws
by Whispering Angel BooksJohnston presents more than 80 uplifting and inspirational short stories and poems demonstrating the amazing physical, emotional, and spiritual healing effects of animals in people's lives. 196 pp.
Não basta amor
by Maki StarfieldA poetisa turca Yesim Agaogle e a poetisa japonesa Maki Starfield apresentam um belo diálogo poético em "Não basta amor". As ilustração e imagens são de Yesim Agaogle e Bill Wolak.
O (Penguin Poets)
by Zeina Hashem Beck&“O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck&’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.&” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic From a "brilliant, absolutely essential voice" whose "poems feel like whole worlds" (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacredZeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying—from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each other—O explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.
O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
by Robert BurleighThis beautifully illustrated children’s book explores how Walt Whitman was affected by the Civil War and inspired by President Lincoln.O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America’s greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America’s greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln’s carriage on the road. The president was never far from the poet’s mind, and Lincoln’s “grace under pressure” was something Whitman returned to again and again in his poetry. Whitman witnessed Lincoln’s second inauguration and mourned along with America as Lincoln’s funeral train wound its way across the landscape to his final resting place. The book includes the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” and an excerpt from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” as well as brief bios of Lincoln and Whitman, a timeline of Civil War events, endnotes, and a bibliography.
O Frabjous Day! (Penguin Little Black Classics)
by Lewis Carroll'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!"And thumped him on the head.'Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carroll's fantastical verse gave new words to the English language.
O Livro de Cesário Verde e Outros Poemas
by Cesário VerdeUM POETA REVOLUCIONÁRIO DA POESIA EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA. NOS PENGUIN CLÁSSICOS, O LIVRO DE CESÁRIO VERDE, AQUELE A QUEM FERNANDO PESSOA CHAMOU «MESTRE». COM PREFÁCIO DE PAULA MORÃO. «Se eu não morresse, nunca! E eternamente Buscasse e conseguisse a perfeição das cousas!» É de 1887 a publicação de um dos mais belos e importantes livros de poesia em língua portuguesa. No ano anterior, 1886, morria, aos 31 anos, o seu autor, vítima de tuberculose e da maior incompreensão e desdém dos seus pares. Cesário Verde, o homem que viu poesia na sujidade das ruas, no corpo doente da engomadeira, na azáfama dos trabalhadores, revolucionou o cânone e impôs uma nova forma de olhar o real, de o descrever e sentir. Entre a cidadee o campo, o caos e a liberdade, o idílio e a realidade, emerge em Cesário uma nova sensibilidade, transgressora, que privilegia os sentidos e as impressões do quotidiano em detrimento de um sentimentalismo exacerbado que sentia já distante, imposição de uma consciência social preconizadora de um final de século turbulento. Chegaria tarde demais para Cesário o reconhecimento do seu génio e do seu papel determinante na história da poesia portuguesa. Mas não seria tarde demais para quem, graças ao trabalho e dedicação do seu amigo Sousa Pinto, pôde ler os inigualáveis poemas de um dos maiores poetas de língua portuguesa e compreender o alcance da modernidade e inventividade dos versos daquele a quem Fernando Pessoa chamaria «mestre».
O Pardal no Espelho
by Kunal Narayan UniyalDesde o episódio da desobediência, o homem tem travado uma luta constante contra seu maior adversário: seu EGO. Quanto mais se entrega a seu ego, mais recebe do seu Eu divino. Suas motivações materialistas, sua busca por poder e sua brutal indiferença o alienam e isolam. Escravizado pelo ego, o homem se regozija por falso orgulho, por mais falsa glória e por uma segurança mais falsa ainda. A busca é infinda. A sede não é nunca saciada. A mente se mantém pré-ocupada. O coração fervilha em turbulência. A frieza da razão obscurece a sabedoria e a gênese humana anseia por justificativas. Contudo, o benevolente Senhor possui um plano maior. Somos todos agraciados por um reino interior. A partir do momento em que iniciamos nossa jornada interior, a névoa começa a se dissipar. A sabedoria infinita desperta. Todo barulho cessa e a calmaria se infiltra. A alegria verdadeira salta do coração rumo à paz, à harmonia e ao equilíbrio. Basta apenas uma pausa e uma espiadela para dentro.
O Pardal no Espelho
by Kunal Narayan UniyalDesde o ato de desobediência, o homem debateu-se desde sempre com o seu maior adversário, o seu ego. Quanto mais cede ao ego, mais obtém do seu eu divino.As suas motivações materialistas, a sua avidez pelo poder e a indiferença alienam-no e isolam-no.Reduzido à escravatura pelo ego, o homem compraz-se no falso orgulho, na falsa glória e na falsa segurança.A avidez nunca termina.A sede nunca está saciada.O espírito permanece inquieto.O coração fervilha na tempestade.As nuvens dissipam a sabedoria e a sede humana é ávida de jsutificações.Contudo, o Senhor benevolente tem um plano magistral.Possuímos todos um reino interior.No momento em que iniciamos a viagem rumo ao interior, a névoa começa a dissipar-se rumo à alvorada da sabedoria infinita.Todos os barulhos cessam e a calma invade o ser.A verdadeira alegria que jorra do caração conduz à paz, harmonia e equilíbrio.
O Westport In The Light Of Asia Minor
by Paul DurcanO Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975. It was Paul Durcan's first fully-fledged collection, and already displays an astonishingly mature, visionary power, shot through with the surrealism and heart-breaking comedy that have since become his hallmark. It won him the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Now Durcan's readers can discover what they have been missing. The poems are printed in the order he originally intended, and the volume concluded with six poems from his very first collaborative collection, Endsville (1967), with Brian Lynch.
O'Keeffe: Days in a Life
by C. S. Merrill&“Carol Merrill&’s tribute to Georgia O&’Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O&’Keeffe&’s final years in New Mexico.&”—Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses&“When I got O&’Keeffe mss I sat down after midnite at kitchen table when I should&’ve been in bed & read it thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary & understandable. The details are all, sacramentalizing everyday life in a world of genius—a woman, vast space, chewy intelligence, almost selfless observation.&”—Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl
O'Nights
by Cecily Parks"In Cecily Parks' beautiful poems, the natural world teeters between being and seeming--the seeming a simulacrum projected onto the world by a mind's yearning, taxonomy and dread. Deeply metaphysical, and deeply attentive to our spiritual as well as physical uses and abuses of nature, O'Nights implicates language's --indeed, lyric poetry's--sad role in this endeavor."--Susan WheelerIn O'Nights, Cecily Parks constructs stunning manifestations of a modern Thoreauvian wilderness, investigating how the natural world gives shape to the self, body, and emotions. These lyrical, transcendental poems study the duality of nature's feminine and masculine identities, and in its simplicity, offers a space where humankind truly belongs.From "Bell":This progress, as in the wind-scalloped snowmeadowpretending to be moon. This love that sets us scramblingover the map's last ridge, our red hoods brightin shrunken sky. This metallic weather in which weare the ore. This alder. These crimson-tipped willowsreverberating next to a river of turquoise ice. Thisfollowing the deep tracks of one coyote steppingwhere another has stepped. This wildernessthat we trespass, burning like berries in the juniperand becoming the air in the belfry.Cecily Parks is the author of the chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Orion, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound
by Garrison KeillorO What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound is the first poetry collection written by Garrison Keillor, the celebrated radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. Although he has edited several anthologies of his favorite poems, this volume forges a new path for him, as a poet of light verse. He writes with his characteristic combination of humor and insight on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily life. Keillor’s verses are charming and playful, locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human.