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Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840 (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
by T. WhelanThis volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility.
The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce
by Angie Manfredi“This outstanding anthology of essays, illustrations, poems, and letters . . . is a celebration of every body and presents a revolutionary message” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and many others in a relatable, revelatory and inspiring exploration of body image and fat acceptance. This dazzling collection of art, poetry, essays, and fashion tips is meant for people of all sizes who desire to be seen and heard in a culture consumed by a narrow definition of beauty. By combining the talents of renowned fat YA and middle-grade authors, as well as fat influencers and creators, The (Other) F Word offers teen readers and activists of all ages a tool for navigating our world with confidence and courage.
Other Goose
by J. Otto SeiboldIt's Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Jack Be Nimble, Miss Muffet, Little Boy Blue, and more, like you've never seen them before! Renowned artist J.otto Seibold re-nursuries and re-rhymes over the Mother Goose classics in this must-have collection. Featuring recurring characters and an ending that brings everyone back for a showstopping finale, this book is the most fun dear old Mother Goose has ever had!
Other Houses
by Kate CayleyFrom acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar. In Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence of the people who have handled them. Myths and legends are interwoven with daily life. Visionaries, mystics, charlatans, artists, and the dead speak to us like chatty neighbours. An imaginary library catalogues missing people. Reading becomes a way of remembering the dead. Home is an elsewhere we are “called to,” a mystery that impels children to wander off, and adults to grow in unexpected directions. Cayley couples a rich, meaty lyricism with the intimacy of direct address, creating a poetry that is at once embodied and spectral. She directs us to wonder, “Did light and dark have a taste and texture, like food?” At the same time, her command of voice and narrative is masterful—each of these poems unfolds with the sweep and precision of a compressed novel. …Walking alone, you come upon a single glove, or shoe, pressed into the light snow. Or find a handprint on the wrong side of a windowpane. Or find a collection of marbles, still grouped carefully together in the backyard. Messages.(from “The Library of the Missing”) Praise for Other Houses: "Beware of Kate Cayley. With an agility stolen from some other world she flicks this one open and invites us to watch our certainties scuttling away. Predatory and unsettling, these exquisitely crafted poems suggest that we are at our most human when yearning to reach beyond the visible.” —Martha Baillie
The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Merrill ColeFirst published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
by Morgan ParkerFrom the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award Named a Best Book of the Month by Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Ms. Magazine, Nylon, ALTA and a Best Book of the Summer by Publishers Weekly “Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music.” —Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the Water Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night—the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets—is back in print. The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work.
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night: With a new introduction by Danez Smith
by Morgan ParkerFrom the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the WaterOther People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets - is back in print, featuring a new introduction from Danez Smith.The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she's become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the 'high' and the 'low'. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker's work.
Other People's Lives: The History of a London Lot
by Chris HutchinsonExciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, bringing skeptical intelligence and radical imagination-those supposedly incompatible room-mates-into electrical connection. The result is a poetry of daring honesty, close observation, and humanity, executed with exhilarating verve and humour.
The Other Side: Shorter Poems
by Angela JohnsonSeries of poems about the author's memories of Shorter, Alabama, a small Southern town that was torn down after the author had grown and moved away. But her memories of the town linger. The poems are poignant, vivid snapshots of a Southern, simple, rural, hard, and hard-loving way of life with topics from race relations to remembering Grandmama.
The Other Side of the Door
by Jeff MossA wise and whimsical collection of poems by Jeff Moss about a variety of subjects both real and imaginary.NOTE: This version does not include illustrations.
The Other Side of the Poet
by Gilberto Santos J. Félix H. F.Who has never allowed themselves to think good and bad, be beautiful and ugly, even if everything costs a price, this book comes to show that we have both sides, even when we don’t want to, the thoughts of the other side of the poet, an anthology of life, the life in the book.
Other Traditions: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
by John AshberyThe author explores and with great ease reveals the lives and work of six writers: John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert.
Other Voices, Other Lives: A Grace Cavalieri Collection
by Grace CavalieriOther Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices. The book also includes interview excerpts from her public radio series, The Poet & the Poem. Her incisive interviews with Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Josephine Jacobsen offer profound insights into the writing life. This series is devoted to career-spanning collections from writers who meet the following three criteria: The majority of their books have been published by independent presses; they are active in more than one literary genre; and they are consistent and influential champions of the work of other writers, whether through publishing, reviewing, teaching, mentoring, or some combination of these. Modeled after the "readers" popular in academia in the mid-20th centuries, our Legacy Series allows readers to trace the arc of a significant writer's literary development in a single, representative volume.
Other Words for Home
by Jasmine WargaA gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. <P><P>Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. <P><P>But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. <P><P>At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US—and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before. <P><P>But this life also brings unexpected surprises—there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. <P><P>This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself. <P><P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
An Otherwise Healthy Woman (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention)
by Amy HaddadThe poems in An Otherwise Healthy Woman delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, offering an alternative narrative to heroics and miracles. Drawing on Amy Haddad&’s firsthand experiences as a nurse and patient, the poems in this collection teach us to take a moment to stop and acknowledge the longing for compassion in each of us, what ought to be the immediate human response to suffering. The poet isn&’t afraid to explore her own fears and failures or to find joy and humor in the many roles women play. An Otherwise Healthy Woman presents the intimate experiences of a nurse, the vulnerable perspective of a patient, and the lessons of caring for family.
Otherwise Poems
by Oscar MandelThe collected English-language poems of Oscar Mandel, the acclaimed Belgian-born poet, playwright, fabulist, and author.
Otherwise Unseeable
by Betsy Sholl"Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize" What if ruin is a good thing? What if each day is built on the ruin of the one before? What if all our attempts to avoid ruin only make us bitter or closed off from what's around us? What if only by exploring our ruins do we become human? The poems in "Otherwise Unseeable" examine such questions. It is a poetry full of music and surprise, in voices that are personal, invented, and historical, sometimes belonging to the poet and sometimes to others. Betsy Sholl probes what there is still to learn from the devastations of the twentieth century, and she explores the roots of human envy, greed, and generosity in lively, unexpected ways, enacting the kinds of arguments we have with ourselves: between control and relinquishment, grief and ecstasy, regret and acceptance, faith and skepticism. The end result is a book of verbal wrestling, a girl-Jacob mixing it up with one kind of angel or another, limping for sure, but still blessed. "
La otra bestia
by Ana RujasLa otra bestia es el alter ego de Ana Rujas, la actriz y cocreadora de la serie Cardo. Textos desnudos y salvajes, con zonas profundas y peligrosas, que que golpean entre el plexo y el vientre. Ana Rujas lo ve todo, lo padece todo, la verdad le rebosa; afortunadamente puede convertirlo todo en palabras. La otra bestia es la criatura que habita dentro de Ana Rujas, la que te mira detrás de sus ojos, con voz ronca y cuchillo en los dientes. Una bestia imperfecta que porta la piel de un toro y no pierde el aliento por gustarte, un laberinto de setos del que nunca te apetece encontrar la salida. Firma de fuego, plataforma creativa, marca personal, hidra de siete cabezas: la Otra Bestia es su alter ego, su letra escarlata, su sello propio. Nadie puede escapar de uno mismo. La feria de las catástrofes y de los milagros ha llegado a la ciudad. Pasen y vean.Ana Rujas Guerrero (Madrid, 1989) es actriz y autora de teatro, cine y televisión. Como guionista y creadora de la idea original, ha escrito la serie Cardo con Claudia Costafreda (producida por Suma Content, dos temporadas, 2021-23), recibiendo un doble galardón en los Premios Feroz '22 (premio a la Mejor Actriz Protagonista y a la Mejor Serie Dramática, categoría en la que también obtuvo el Premio Ondas). Como dramaturga, ha escrito junto a Bárbara Mestanza la obra La mujer más fea del mundo (estrenada en el Pavón Teatro Kamikaze, 2019), y es también co-autora de la pieza ¿Qué sabes tú de mis tristezas? (2018). En contexto editorial, ha escrito para Lucía Carballal el epílogo de Los pálidos (La Uña Rota, 2023). Este es su primer libro.
El otro lado del poeta
by Gilberto Santos Prof.Me.Gilmar da Silva PaivaEste es un libro de poesías que camina por diversas vías de entre ella la que más me impresionó fue la vía espiritual en que el autor descontent con la falta de amor en la tierra y sabiendo que este amor parte de ambos enamorados sufre más pronto después de regocijarse on la paz y en otros va más erotizado a romper con este sentimiento que une amante para solamente disfrutar de las carencias de su amada y un libro vasto de asuntos liricos que a veces la maoíria aparece con un verso libre donde el autor pudo disfrutar de más Libertad en su poesía y expresar sus sentimientos y sus percepciones del mundo.
Otter
by Ben LadouceurMoving from the absurdity of the First World War to the chaos of today's cities, where men share beds, bottles of ouzo and shade from willow trees, these poems ask questions: If your lover speaks in his sleep, how do you know 'you' is you? What good is it to decorate a headstone? What if you think of the perfect comeback to a six-year-old argument? Otter fails, with style, to find answers.
Our Andromeda
by Brenda Shaughnessy"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects-trauma, childbirth, loss of faith-and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda.From "Our Andromeda":Cal, faster than the lightest light,so much faster than love,and our Andromeda, that dream,I can feel it living in us like weare its home. Like it remembers usfrom its own childhood.Oh, maybe, Cal, we are home,if God will let us live here,with Andromeda inside us,doesn't it seem we belong?Now and then, will you help me belonghere, in this place where you becamemy child, and I your motherout of some instant of mysteryof crash and matter . . . Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). Shaughnessy's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.
Our Beautiful Colors (Little Golden Book)
by Nikki Shannon SmithThis Little Golden Book features beautiful illustrations and rhyming text about colors, plus a social justice theme that encourages Black children to celebrate themselves.Beautiful colors—look up and look down.Beautiful babies in all shades of brown. This delightful concept book doesn't just teach colors—it does so with a focus on brown as a celebration and a validation of Black children. As beautiful Black babies play together in a park, they discover yellow flowers, red berries, green grass, and more. This Little Golden Book offers a way for families with very young children to begin addressing themes of diversity and equality.
Our Corner Store
by Robert HeidbrederThis delightful novel in verse follows the adventures of a brother and sister around the neighborhood, and especially at the corner grocery store! Race you to our corner grocery store!Stanstones’ corner store is the heart of the neighborhood for the brother and sister in this story. They help to close the store every Saturday and save their pennies to buy candy. The store is the source of many adventures, where they spend a memorably spooky Halloween, play tricks on Mr. and Mrs. Stanstones, and form a search party to find Toby the store cat when he goes missing. What will happen to their beloved corner store when a brand-new supermarket opens up in town? Full of humor and playful language, this novel in verse is a sweetly nostalgic celebration of a time when children had more freedom and a mom-and-pop corner store might be the center of a kid’s world. Based on Robert Heidbreder’s childhood, this follow-up to Rooster Summer can be read as a sequel or a stand-alone story. Chelsea O’Byrne’s vibrant illustrations bring the corner store and its colorful cast of characters to life. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Our Creative World: Stories, Poems, Documents, Art, and Architecture from World History
by Notgrass CompanyOur Creative World is part of the Notgrass "From Adam to Us" one-year world history and literature curriculum for students in grades 5-8. It features primary documents that accompany the curriculum, including stories, poems, documents, and pictures of art, artifacts, and architecture. Entries include a short contextual introduction.
Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire
by Christopher HennessyFrom Walt Whitman forward, a century and a half of radical experimentation and bold speech by gay and lesbian poets has deeply influenced the American poetic voice. In "Our Deep Gossip," Christopher Hennessy interviews eight gay men who are celebrated American poets and writers: Edward Field, John Ashbery, Richard Howard, Aaron Shurin, Dennis Cooper, Cyrus Cassells, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Kazim Ali. The interviews showcase the complex ways art and life intertwine, as the poets speak about their early lives, the friends and communities that shaped their work, the histories of gay writers before them, how sex and desire connect with artistic production, what coming out means to a writer, and much more. While the conversations here cover almost every conceivable topic of interest to readers of poetry and poets themselves, the book is an especially important, poignant, far-reaching, and enduring document of what it means to be a gay artist in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.