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Pólvora en las alas
by Federico Moreno Fernández«Tanto invento del corazón, tanto descubrimiento en su herrumbre...»Federico Moreno Con Pólvora en las alas, Federico Moreno mantiene una honda mirada hacia el ser humano y a su quebradiza naturaleza, a sus equívocos, a las cloacas a las que conducen sus barros. Las biografías sin homenaje de la gente oculta, la fugacidad del amor y la orfandad ante el abismo que nos presenta la vida son las tres partes que estructuran este intenso libro, construyendo un personaly estilizado espacio lingüístico donde se alojan, con algo de luz, familiares desencuentros.
Q & A
by Adrienne GruberAdrienne Gruber's third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology
by Raymond LuczakQDA: A Queer Disability Anthology features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by 48 writers from around the world.
Qorbanot: Offerings (SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Alisha KaplanA dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.Winner of the 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award presented by the League of Canadian Poets A collaboration between poet Alisha Kaplan and artist Tobi Aaron Kahn, Qorbanot-the Hebrew word for "sacrificial offerings"-explores the concept of sacrifice, offering a new vision of an ancient practice. A dynamic dialogue of text and image, the book is a poetic and visual exegesis on Leviticus, a visceral and psychological exploration of ritual offerings, and a conversation about how notions of sacrifice continue to resonate in the twenty-first century.Both from Holocaust survivor families, Kaplan and Kahn deal extensively with the Holocaust in their work. Here, the modes of poetry and art express the complexity of belief, the reverberations of trauma, and the significance of ritual. In the poems, the speaker, offspring of burnt offerings, searches for meaning in her grandparents' experiences and in the long tradition of Orthodox Judaism in which she was raised. Kahn's paintings on handmade paper, drawn from decades of his career as an artist, have not previously been exhibited or published. They reflect his quest to distill a legacy of trauma and loss into enduring memory.With a foreword by James E. Young and essays by Ezra Cappell, Lori Hope Lefkovitz, and Sasha Pimentel, the book presents new directions for thinking about what sacrifice means in religious, social, and personal contexts, and harkens back to foundational traditions, challenging them in reimagined and artistic ways.
Quando o Amor é uma má palavra
by Piereh Antoni Rita Isabel Ribeiro da Costa> - Rita Costa << "Quando o amor é uma má palavra" é uma antologia poética que reune setenta e cinco expressões de sentimento escritas por mim desde o ínicio do ano de 2008. Em "Quando o Amor é uma má palavra" personifiquei diversas situações, reais ou imaginárias. Minha única intenção é que o leitor seja transportado para um mundo de muitas histórias, no qual terá toda a liberdade para interpretá-las. As palavras incluídas em cada uma desta "folhas" não pretendem discriminar. Estão ordenadas da mesma forma que o amor, com picos e abismos, quando começa, quando se cruza com a desilusão e dor, quando termina com o desejo de renascer e tentar uma vez mais. Então, o melhor é deixar que elas mesmas se apresentem com a sua histórias.>> - Piereh Antoni
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
by A. Van JordanThis provocative, ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition. Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, A. Van Jordan re-creates the lives of his subjects: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, comic-book superheroes (The Green Lantern, The Atom), along with aspects of himself revealed in poems of recollection and loss. With lyric intensity he suggests that contemporary physicists are also metaphysical poets.
Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem
by Kelly Cherry“Robert Oppenheimer was a complex human being. No biography yet written comes even close to this elegant skein of poems in capturing his life and character.”—Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer records in poetry the life and times of one of America’s best-known scientists, the father of the atomic bomb who later lobbied for containment of nuclear weaponry. In brief, elegant stanzas, Kelly Cherry examines Oppenheimer’s inspirations, dreams, and values, visiting the events, places, and people that inspired him or led him to despair. She finds his place among scientists of his own time, such as Alan Turing and Albert Einstein, as well as his connections with historical and mythological figures from John Donne to Persephone. “Of course he had blood on his hands. Who did not?” says Cherry, in “The Nature of War.” Again and again in the course of this remarkable poem, Cherry’s narration of Oppenheimer’s life compels her readers to contemplate the vagaries of science, guilt, and our responsibilities to each other. “Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer is a book length poem in which the architect of the atom bomb comes to embody America and the West’s Faustian control of nature and the paradoxical helplessness and guilt which that control entailed. Oppenheim is marvelous, complicated, flawed and admirable character, and these poems read like chapters in a novel without in any way abandoning the intensities of feeling and image or delight in language we associate with lyric poetry. A terrific achievement and a compelling read.”—Alan Shapiro, author of Life Pig and Reel to Reel
Que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves (Flash Poesía #Volumen)
by Julio Cortázar<P>Que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves, de la colección «Poesía portátil» constituye una ventana a la poesía de uno de los escritores argentinos más relevantes del siglo XX. <P>La obra de Julio Cortázar es uno de los pilares de la literatura de habla hispana del siglo XX. <P>Conocido especialmente por sus cuentos y novelas, el autor argentino era un poeta hasta cuando escribía en prosa y supo imprimir en sus versos la misma emoción que conmocionó en obras como Rayuela. ------- <P><P> «No me des tregua, no me perdones nunca.Hostígame en la sangre, que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves. ¡No me dejes dormir, no me des paz!Entonces ganaré mi reino,naceré lentamente.No me pierdas como una música fácil, no seas caricia ni guante;tállame como un sílex, desespérame.» -------
Que de amor seja a forja
by Tony RuanoVersos de amor, exílio e vida Este livro de poemas de Tony Ruano, "Que de amor seja a forja", busca a vida em seu tom maior, como um passo a mais na recordação dos anos passados. Purifica seu próprio credo ante os seres e as coisas que amou, e com isso eleva-se em sua transparência de ser. -oOo- «Por uma especial coincidência, em um momento em que a transição do tempo vai do dia para a noite, o rosto amado suplanta a luz, e há como um instante ascendente do espírito, uma ascensão da alma (…). Consolo ou cautela na adversidade ou na amargura, pode o amor ser fogueira ou forja que funda, em consoladora amálgama, consolo e dor: “Para tempos de pranto / que de amor seja a forja”». Ángel Cuadra (sobre os poemas de Tony Ruano)
Queen Esther's Garden
by Vera Basch MoreenThis anthology represents a variety of writings produced by the Jewish community of Iran between the eighth and nineteenth centuries. Most of the translations were prepared specifically for this anthology from unpublished manuscripts. Extensive notes accompany each selection to clarify its meaning in jewish and islamic history and legend.
Queen of the Ebony Isles
by Colleen J. McelroyAn award-winning poetry collection depicting the world of the African American woman.
Queers Like Me
by Michael V. SmithConfessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life, while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences; the becoming that emanates from exploring one’ s sexuality. Teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, daydreams of confronting your childhood bully: here is a broad tapestry of a contemporary life. Queers Like Me is an enveloping book— a meditation on family complexity and a celebration of personal insight.
Questions About Angels: Poems
by Billy CollinsBilly Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful. " Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours. " The "New York Times calls him simply "the real thing. " Over the past decade, Collins has garnered critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. To celebrate his years as U. S. Poet Laureate, the three books that helped establish and secure his reputation during the 1990s--"Questions About Angels; The Art Drowning; and "Picnic, Lightning--are now available in special, limited edition hardcovers as well as in paperback.
Questions of Travel: Poems
by Elizabeth BishopThe publication of this book is a literary event. It is Miss Bishop's first volume of verse since Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955. This new collection consists of two parts. Under the general heading "Brazil" are grouped eleven poems including "Manuelzinho," "The Armadillo," "Twelfth Morning, or What You Will," "The Riverman," "Brazil, January 1, 1502" and the title poem. The second section, entitled "Elsewhere," includes others "First Death in Nova Scotia," "Manners," "Sandpiper," "From Trollope's Journal," and "Visits to St. Elizabeths." In addition to the poems there is an extraordinary story of a Nova Scotia childhood, "In the Village."Robert Lowell has recently written, "I am sure no living poet is as curious and observant as Miss Bishop. What cuts so deep is that each poem is inspired by her own tone, a tone of large, grave tenderness and sorrowing amusement. She is too sure of herself for empty mastery and breezy plagiarism, too interested for confession and musical monotony, too powerful for mismanaged fire, and too civilized for idiosyncratic incoherence. She has a humorous, commanding genius for picking up the unnoticed, now making something sprightly and right, and now a great monument. Once her poems, each shining, were too few. Now they are many. When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country."
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland
by Lavinia GreenlawPoet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's poetic reflections on William Morris's Icelandic Journal, one of the overlooked masterpieces of travel literatureThe great Victorian designer and decorative artist William Morris was fascinated by Iceland and wrote a book documenting his travels there. He gets caught up with questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you’ve never been to or to encounter the actuality of a long-held vision. He is sensitive to the emotional landscape of his band of travelers and, above all, continuously analyzing and fixing this “most romantic of all deserts.”Lavinia Greenlaw follows in his footsteps, and interposes his prose with her own “questions of travel.” The result is a new and composite work that brilliantly explores our conflicted reasons for not staying at home.
Quick
by Anne SimpsonThe human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada's most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a meditation on the body as one world within other, larger worlds, the book becomes an anatomy in itself.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Quick as a Cricket
by Audrey WoodA joyful celebration of self-awareness and acceptance known and loved by millions of children around the world, now with art remastered by the illustrator. In this classic children&’s book by celebrated author-illustrator team Don and Audrey Wood, a young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb." Readers will delight in the variety of animal expressions as they discover many different emotions, and learn to accept that all feelings are valid.
Quick as a Cricket (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Blue #Level D)
by Audrey Wood Don WoodA young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb" <P><P>Lexile Measure: 240
Quickening Fields
by Pattiann RogersA new collection by an award-winning poet who “presents her apprehensions of the natural world with striking accuracy and emotional impact” (Orion Magazine)Denise Levertov has called Pattiann Rogers a “visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed.” Quickening Fields gathers fifty-three poems that focus on the wide variety of life forms present on earth and their unceasing zeal to exist, their constant “push against the beyond” and the human experience among these lives. Whether a glassy filament of flying insect, a spiny spider crab, a swath of switch grass, barking short-eared owls, screeching coyotes, or racing rat-tailed sperm, all are testifying to their complete devotion to being. Many of the poems also address celestial phenomena, the vision of the earth immersed in a dynamic cosmic milieu and the effects of this vision on the human spirit. While primarily lyrical and celebratory in tone, these poems acknowledge, as well, the terror, suffering, and unpredictability of the human condition.
Quiet Down, Loud Town!
by Alastair HeimIn this funny, rhyming read-aloud for very young readers, a grumpy Mr. Elephant just wants some peace and quiet—that is, until he gets it.Packed with hilarious rhymes, fun-to-shout-out sounds, and the frenetic energy of a happy, busy town, this raucous read-aloud follows an exasperated elephant through the course of his day. From barking dogs to clattering dishes at the coffee shop to a boisterous marching band, the noise is just too much. Mr. Elephant wants nothing more than for his loud town to PLEASE QUIET DOWN!!! But what happens when he ends up getting exactly what he wishes for? Snuck into the fun is an important message about seeing things from the perspective of others. Share this story with anyone who loves to make noise and anyone who loves to hate it!
Quiet Fire: Emily Dickinson's Life and Poetry
by Carol Dommermuth-Costa Anna LandsverkWhen Emily Dickinson died at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1886, she left a locked chest with hand-sewn notebooks and papers filled with nearly 1,800 unpublished poems. Four years later, her first collection was published and became a singular success. Today Dickinson is revered as one of America’s greatest and most original poets. Using primary source materials, including the poet’s own letters and poems, Quiet Fire presents the life and art of Emily Dickinson to a new generation.
Quiet Is Strength
by Mary Rand HessA comforting ode to the gentle potency of quiet, this lyrical picture book will captivate introverts and nature lovers alike.Quiet is strength. It&’s as strong as a monarch in migration. As important as a whisper and a promise. As deep as a listener, still . . . and sincere. This evocative text combines with warmly glowing images of people enjoying a day at the park, spending peaceful moments together and alone, experiencing the nourishment of quiet. It&’s a reminder that you don&’t have to be loud to make a positive impact on others, and that when you are still, you&’re more able to experience the magnificence of the world around you.Quiet is powerful like you.
Quiet: Poem
by Victoria Adukwei BulleyA black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of &“quiet&” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.&“Bulley&’s stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they] perfectly embody the political through the personal.&”—Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isn&’t silence? Where does quiet exist—and what liberating potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language, Quiet navigates the tension between the impulse to guard one&’s inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, "your silence will not protect you."
Quietly Wild: Poems, Photographs, and Rituals to Mark the Seasons
by Alix KlingenbergThis transcendent poetry collection celebrates the intricate dance between nature&’s changing seasons and the human spirit, guiding you through the seasons of your own life.Featuring inspirational poetry, gorgeous photography, and earth-centered rituals, Quietly Wild is a yearly guide to flowing with nature&’s cycles and rhythms. Poet Alix Klingenberg combines her inspirational verse and evocative photographs with suggestions for thoughtful seasonal practices and rituals, inviting you to embrace nature&’s cycles with reverence and joy. In every lyrical poem, Klingenberg captures the distinctive essence of a new season, holiday, or celebration, highlighting the connections between the changing landscape and our inner lives. When you connect with the earth through trees and wild wanderings, by planting seeds or putting your feet in the ocean, you connect with the infinite parts of yourself, the parts you cannot lose. 100+ INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: More than 100 thought-provoking poems reflect what it means to be spiritually grounded in your natural environment and how to connect to your own internal rhythms to prevent burnout and promote self-love. A POEM FOR EVERY OCCASION: From holidays, births, graduations, seasonal changes, engagements, and weddings to divorce, death, and loss, Quietly Wild gently ushers you through all the significant events throughout your year. ACCESSIBLE AND INVITING: Touching on universal themes and feelings, the soulful poems in Quietly Wild will resonate with readers of all ages and backgrounds. RITUAL AS SELF-CARE: Klingenberg encourages you to understand and embrace your internal seasons in order to create your own unique rhythm for the year, helping you develop family rituals and seasonal practices to mark special occasions and celebrate the beauty of the natural world.
Quilt: A Collection of Prose
by Finola MoorheadAward-winning author, Finola Moorhead stitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make an incisive comment of the process of writing.