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Tell Me
by Kim AddonizioIn this new collection by the author of the award-winning The Philosopher's Club, Kim Addonizio takes the grist of the world and transforms it into poems of transcendent beauty. The dual themes of love and loss are pervasive in Addonizio's poems, made poignant by her keen eye and wise observations.
Tell Me (American Poets Continuum)
by Kim AddonizioIn this new collection by the author of the award-winning The Philosopher's Club, Kim Addonizio takes the grist of the world and transforms it into poems of transcendent beauty. The dual themes of love and loss are pervasive in Addonizio's poems, made poignant by her keen eye and wise observations.
Tell Them It Was Mozart
by Angeline SchellenbergLinked poems that uncover the ache and whimsy of raising children on the autism spectrum. Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenberg’s debut collection, traces both a slow bonding and the emergence of a defiant humour. This is a book that keens and cherishes, a work full of the earthiness and transcendence of mother-love. One of the pleasures of this collection is its playful range of forms: there are erasure poems, prose poems, lists, found poems, laments, odes, monologues and dialogues in the voices of the children, even an oulipo that deconstructs the DSM definition of autism. From a newborn "glossed and quivering" to a child conquering the fear of strange toilets, Tell Them It Was Mozart is bracing in its honesty, healing in its jubilance.
Tell the World
by WriterscorpsThrough poetry we tell the world who we are, where we're from, what we love, what we think, how we feel, and why we hope. Tell the World is a stunning collection of poems by teens who have taken part in workshops run by WritersCorps, a national alliance of literary arts programs for youth. Their words represent the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of teens everywhere, offering both insight and empathy.
Tempestad en víspera de viernes
by Lara MorenoToda la poesía (incluidos poemas inéditos) de la autora ganadora del Premio Cosecha Eñe y elegida por FNAC como Nuevo Talento «Una escritura compleja, vigorosa, rigurosa. [...] No hay nada gratuito. Un hallazgo.»José María Guelbenzu Que un rayo parta el tiempo y no sea mía toda la consecuencia. Tempestad en víspera de viernes reúne la obra hasta el momento de una de las grandes poetas españolas de la actualidad, Lara Moreno, desde su debut con La herida costumbre y los poemas incluidos en Después de la apnea hasta los de su último poemario, Tuve una jaula, así como varias piezas inéditas, algunas compuestas durante la pandemia de 2020. El conjunto es una impactante muestra de una poesía personal, pegada a lo doméstico y descarnadamente visceral, en la que Lara Moreno desnuda con ironía, ternura y calado su intimidad, sensual y dolorosamente perturbadora, la realidad cotidiana que la circunda y su condición de mujer. En este sentido, quizá no sea exagerado afirmar que Lara Moreno es a la poesía lo que Lucia Berlin al relato. La crítica ha dicho...«Una escritura compleja, vigorosa, rigurosa. [...] No hay nada gratuito. Un hallazgo.»José María Guelbenzu «Desde la opresión y en busca de la libertad: así trota Lara Moreno sobre el lenguaje. [...] Una bola de fuego emocional que atraviesa los espacios de intimidad de una mujer que aspira a serlo todo.»Zenda «Una de las más destacadas escritoras de su generación.»Fernando Valls, El País «Lara Moreno escribe con austeridad de relojero.»Care Santos, El Cultural de El Mundo «Una escritora digna de atención.»Alejandro Gándara, El Escorpión «Un talento áureo.»Xurxo Fernández, El Correo Gallego «Lara Moreno, todo un hallazgo.»J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC «Una voz propia, un estilo punzante que no concede espacio a sentimentalismos.»María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros, Mercurio Sobre Piel de lobo«Una voz propia, un estilo punzante que no concede espacio a sentimentalismos.»María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros, Mercurio «Uno de esos libros capaces de transfigurar a una persona. Una obra maestra intensa, dolorosa, necesaria. [...] Un talento áureoXurxo Fernández, El Correo Gallego «Una historia de infrecuente vigor [...]. Un retrato sin concesiones, violento y lúcido, turbador, de la familia.»Santos Sanz Villanueva «Escritura afilada y silenciosa que contiene mucho más de lo que muestra [...]. Una voz propia, un estilo punzante que no concede espacio a sentimentalismos, una medición exacta de la tensión narrativa.»María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros, Mercurio Sobre Por si se va la luz«Sin rodeos: una de las apariciones más satisfactorias de la temporada. Una primera persona deslumbrante, enemiga del sentimentalismo y obligada a las esperanzas.»Peio H. Riaño, El Confidencial «La característica más obvia de la prosa de Lara Moreno, y que impresiona enseguida al lector, es su capacidad de inquietar. Y no solo por la extrañeza de la realidad que se describe, sino por las elipsis, las lagunas y los agujeros que completan el discurso.»Sonia Hernández, Cultura/s de La Vanguardia «Un intenso viaje intimista [...] en una narración llena de reflexiones y conceptos, tejidas de manera inolvidable por la mano de una poeta.»Carmen Sigüenza, EFE
Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
by Brontez Purnell"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I've Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along for the intimate ride, and paused only once to write down a part I’d been looking for my whole life." —Miranda JulyFrom the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.In Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, Brontez Purnell—the bard of the underloved and overlooked—turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Here, in his first collection of genre-defying verse, Purnell reflects on his peripatetic life, whose ups and downs have nothing on the turmoil within. “The most high-risk homosexual behavior I engage in,” Purnell writes, “is simply existing.”The thirty-eight autobiographical pieces pulsing in Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt find Purnell at his no-holds-barred best. He remembers a vicious brawl he participated in at a poetry conference and reckons with packaging his trauma for TV writers’ rooms; wrestles with the curses, and gifts, passed down from generations of family members; and chronicles, with breathless verve, a list of hell-raising misadventures and sexcapades. Through it all, he muses on everything from love and loneliness to capitalism and Blackness to jogging and the ethics of art, always with unpredictable clarity and movement. With the same balance of wit and wisdom that made 100 Boyfriends a sensation, Purnell unleashes another collection of boundary-pushing writing with Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, a book as original and thrilling as the author himself.
Ten Commandments
by J. D. McClatchyTen Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers betrayal, adultery, murder, or greed. J. D. McClatchy draws on intimate autobiographical details, and on a range of historical incidents that includes an eerie account of Proust in a brothel and a chilling glimpse of Eichmann in Argentina. Sideshow freaks, snipers in Vietnam, Auden's dictionary, whirling dervishes, motel and mammogram, slave and saint--this book is a cabinet of moral curiosities, a collage of emotional astonishments. When McClatchy's previous book,The Rest of the Way, was published in 1990, he was given an Award in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, whose citation concluded, "it may be that no more eloquent poet will emerge in his American generation." With Ten Commandments, there can be no question of his mastery. Here is that rare eloquence indeed, charged with passion and raised to a remarkable new power.
Ten Fat Sausages
by Michelle RobinsonCount along in this hilarious rhyming picture book as ten sizzling sausages attempt a daring escape from the frying pan! But with a kitchen full of dangers, will they make it out alive?Ten fat sausages sizzle in a pan... a place, they realize, where they do not want to be. So they decide to do something daring. Try something new. They're going to make a run for it. Come on a great escape through the kitchen as we follow each sausage on their journey. Will they succeed? Or will the cat, blender, or fan prove their downfall? Hilarious and merciless, this is a story of underdogs who dare to dream of freedom, and find out along the way... it may not be so easy.
Ten Indian Classics (Murty Classical Library of India)
by Murty Classical India2,500 years of India’s dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet.Romantic ghazals and devotional quatrains, medieval battles and separated lovers, Buddhist women on their journeys toward nirvana and Ram’s battle against a demon army to rescue Sita—all this and more can be found in the Murty Classical Library of India’s Ten Indian Classics.Beginning in the sixth century B.C.E. and coming up to the eighteenth century, spanning the Indian subcontinent, the selections in this anthology include some of the oldest women’s writing in the world, exquisite Sanskrit court poems, verses from the Sikh sacred tradition recited by millions around the world, the renowned chronicle of the Mughal emperor Akbar, and Tulsidas’s retelling of the epic Ramayana that is cherished in north India to this day. Here, too, are the poems of Surdas, Mir Taqi Mir, and Bullhe Shah, which continue to inspire artists today and live on in contemporary music.The anthology showcases original translations by leading experts from a vast array of India’s literary traditions: Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. With a foreword by the award-winning poet and translator Ranjit Hoskote, Ten Indian Classics is an invitation to readers worldwide to immerse themselves in a literary tradition that continues to shape modern South Asian culture and aesthetics in all its stunning diversity.
Ten Letters
by Colleen ThibaudeauA sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.
Ten Little Fairies (Ten Little #14)
by Mike BrownlowTEN LITTLE: now a major TV series on Sky Kids!Join ten magical fairies for plenty of flying fun in this charming rhyming counting adventure!The Fairy Queen has lost her precious magic wand! Can ten little fairies search the land and find it for her?Follow the fairies as they swoop and soar their way through a magical world, packed with favourite fairytale creatures and nursery rhyme characters. Read the bouncy rhyming story and count from ten to one and back again, as the little fairies disappear then reappear. Spot and count the details on each pages, and join in with the magical read-aloud sounds.Part traditional counting rhyme, part fun-filled story, this latest instalment of the bestselling Ten Little series is perfect for sharing.
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem FoxAs everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes...And here, from two of the most gifted picture-book creators of our time, is a celebration of baby fingers, baby toes, and the joy the and the babies they belong to, bring to everyone, everywhere, all over the world! This is a gorgeously simple picture book for very young children, and once you finish the rhythmic, rhyming text, all you'll want to do is go back to the beginning...and read it again!
Ten Little Pumpkins (Ten Little #13)
by Mike BrownlowJoin ten playful pumpkins for Halloween fun in this charming rhyming counting adventure!Ten little pumpkins are brought to life by magic dust on Halloween. Can they make their way past ghosts, ghouls and monsters to the Halloween party?Follow the pumpkins as they screech and squelch their way through a weird and wonderful world, packed with sweet and spooky friends.Read the bouncy rhyming story and count from ten to one and back again, as the little pumpkins disappear then reappear. Spot and count the details on each pages, and join in with the magical read-aloud sounds.Part traditional counting rhyme, part fun-filled story, Ten Little Pumpkins is perfect for sharing.
Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book
by Stephen Savage"Spooktacular" -- Daily Candy"Savage’s spirited rhymes (no pun intended) make this an ideal readaloud for younger Halloween celebrants." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The landscapes Savage creates… have a softness and gentle humor that will capture the imaginations of young children and add to their anticipation." --Kirkus ReviewsFrom a sneaky spider to a ghostly chef to a sly mummy and crafty witch, join your favorite spooky creatures as ten orange pumpkins disappear in a countdown to a Halloween surprise. Bright, bold, and fun, Ten Orange Pumpkins is a perfect read-aloud and is sure to capture the imagination of the littlest trick-or-treaters.
Ten Poems for Difficult Times
by Roger HousdenIn his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers’ concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden’s incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our personal challenges and to our cultural and collective malaise. Ten Poems for Difficult Times is the perfect gift for oneself or for anyone in need of solace and inspiration. Ten Poems for Difficult Times “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass “The Quarrel” by Conrad Aiken “Cutting Loose” by William Stafford “Rain Light” by W. S. Merwin “How the Light Comes” by Jan Richardson “Now You Know the Worst” by Wendell Berry “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert “It’s This Way” by Nazim Hikmet “Annunciation” by Marie Howe
Ten Poems to Change Your Life
by Roger HousdenIn this powerful book, Roger Housden harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the reader's inner-most feelings. For everyone who knows there is more to life than they are currently experiencing, it aims to bring an awakening. . . Through the voices of ten very individual poets, Housden directs each of us to examine the universal themes that pursue us through life: those that stir our eternal emotions and desires. The ten poems presented are timeless; affecting us with a powerful sense of reality, and moving us to alter the way we view ourselves and the world. With a penetrating commentary on each of the poems, Housden provides an insight into his own spiritual journey, and invites us to contemplate the significance of the poet's message in our own lives.
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again
by Roger HousdenEvery great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and each new phase of our journey. That’s why poetry is dangerous. It gives voice to our unspoken dreams; it is a mirror to our own deepest joys, desires, and sorrows. It can tip us over into a new life, into a new way of seeing and being, that a moment ago we might even have had no words for. In this new volume of his Ten Poems series, Roger Housden takes ten great poems and in personal, intimate essays shows how they led him, and can also lead us, into a more deeply lived and examined life. Housden says, “Every one of the poems in this book has struck me a blow, a direct hit, each of them, into the heart of hearts. Every one of them, in its own way, has opened a door for me to go deeper into my own experience, my own longings, my own sorrows and joys, and into the silence that surrounds all of this, all of us, always. ”
Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime
by Roger HousdenThe fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and, of course, the ineffable—the things that really matter when the chips are down. He describes these passionate poems as “bread for the soul and fire for the spirit.” The poets Housden has chosen are Billy Collins, Hayden Carruth, Dorianne Laux, James Wright, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Mary Oliver from the United States, D. H. Lawrence and John Keats from England, Rainer Maria Rilke from Germany, Fleur Adcock from New Zealand, and Seng-Ts’an from sixth-century China. And yes, that adds up to eleven, not ten. Housden decided to include a bonus poem for his faithful readers in this, the final volume of the series. As before, Housden’s luminous essays provide an elegant and easy passage into the sometimes daunting world of poetry, enabling readers to feel that in him they have found a trusted guide and mentor.From the Hardcover edition.
Ten Poems to Say Goodbye
by Roger HousdenIn Ten Poems to Say Goodbye, the newest addition to the celebrated Ten Poems series, Roger Housden continues to highlight the magic of poetry, this time as it relates to personal loss. But while the selected poems in this volume may focus upon loss and grief, they also reflect solace, respite, and joy. A goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is rather than what it was. Goodbyes can be poignant, sorrowful, sometimes a relief, and--now and then--even an occasion for joy. They are always transitions that, when embraced, can be the door to a new life both for ourselves and for others. In this inspiring and consoling volume, Housden encourages readers to embrace poetry as a way of enabling us to better see and appreciate the beauty of the world around and within us.
Ten Poems to Set You Free
by Roger HousdenTen Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. These ten poems, and Roger Housden’s reflections on them, urge us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.This volume brings together the voices of Thomas Merton, David Whyte, the Basque poet Miguel de Unamuno, Anna Swir from Poland, Stanley Kunitz, the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, and Jane Hirshfield, as well as three of Housden’s favorites, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Naomi Shihab Nye. His luminous essays on the poems show us how to integrate the poets’ truth into our own lives.Roger Housden’s love of poetry and life leaps from every page—so much so that his readers feel they have found a guide and mentor through the extraordinary Ten Poems series. He has opened the eyes and hearts of many, not just to the power of poetry, but to the truth and beauty of the life of the soul. What more can one ask?
Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story In Reverse (a Tale Of Wickedness - And Worse!)
by William WiseA school of ten sly piranhas gradually dwindles as they waylay and eat each other.
Ten Thousand Lives
by Ko UnKo Un grew up in a formerly Japanese-controlled territory that was very much the center of the Korean War. Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began during his imprisonment, when he determined to describe every person he had ever met. The selection in this volume—from the first 10 volumes—represents one of the major classics of twentieth-century Korean literature, published for the first time in English.
Ten Windows
by Jane HirshfieldA dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist "Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done--by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language's own acts of discovery; by the powers of image, statement, music, and feeling to enlarge in every direction. The lucid understandings presented here are gripping and transformative in themselves. Investigating the power of poetry to move and change us becomes in these pages an equal investigation into the inhabitance and navigation of our human lives. Closely reading poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, among many others, Hirshfield reveals how poetry's world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable, Hirshfield proposes, poems expand what is possible. Ten Windows restores us at every turn to a more precise, sensuous, and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged.From the Hardcover edition.
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
by Jane HirshfieldA dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist “Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language’s own acts of discovery; by the powers of image, statement, music, and feeling to enlarge in every direction. The lucid understandings presented here are gripping and transformative in themselves. Investigating the power of poetry to move and change us becomes in these pages an equal investigation into the inhabitance and navigation of our human lives. Closely reading poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, among many others, Hirshfield reveals how poetry’s world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable, Hirshfield proposes, poems expand what is possible. Ten Windows restores us at every turn to a more precise, sensuous, and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged.From the Hardcover edition.
Tender Buttons
by Gertrude Stein Lisa CongdonFirst published in 1914, Gertrude Stein's revolutionary poetic work Tender Buttons is a must-read for every serious lover of literature. Delighting in the rhythm of words, its first section, "Objects," runs playful linguistic circles around teacups, ribbons, umbrellas, and other quotidian artifacts. Presented here in an exquisite small package, this new edition of "Objects" pairs Stein's avant-garde verse with colorful contemporary illustrations by indie art star Lisa Congdon, who illuminates and interrogates the classic Cubist text with visuals as capricious as Stein's own prose. A celebration of independent thinking old and new, this captivating marriage of image and text is a treasure of arts and letters.