First Light, Last Light
A new book of poetry from Glen Sorestad, one of Canada's elder literary icons, is cause for celebration. First Light, Last Light is the first book in six years by Sorestad, who was Saskatchewan's first poet laureate, serving two terms. As might be expected from a poet now in his 80s, the work in this volume is a mix of reflections on family, memories of youth and friends, and the not-always-pleasant aging process, all viewed with compassion, wisdom and, often, humour.Sorestad is also a keen observer of the wildlife around him, from the birds who come to the feeder outside his window - damn those bully crows! - to the foxes and other wildlife he and his wife sometimes encounter on their morning walks. First Light, Last Light is a book to read again and again, and treasure.
Gifts
In this posthumously published collection of narrative poems, Marjorie Agos穩n's intention was to share the culmination of a lifetime of gifts-to be given, received, shared, appreciated, and contemplated-that bring beauty, delight, and wonder to our lives.Marjorie's many beautiful poems explore words: their organic nature, how they can be strung together, and how they can be used to create a plethora of meanings for different contexts. When you read Gifts, you will see the magic of words in action as her poems evoke different feelings and lead to different interpretations with each subsequent reading.Marjorie Agos穩n was an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, and activist, as well as Professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. The United Nations honored her work on human rights, notably for women's rights in Chile. Professor Agos穩n won many important literary awards.En esta colecci籀n de poemas narrativos publicada p籀stumamente, Marjorie Agos穩n pretend穩a compartir la culminaci籀n de toda una vida de regalos para dar, recibir, compartir, apreciar y contemplar; regalos que Marjorie esperaba que aportaran belleza, alegr穩a y asombro a nuestras vidas. Los numerosos y bellos poemas de Marjorie exploran las palabras: su naturaleza org獺nica, c籀mo se pueden enhebrar y c籀mo se pueden utilizar para crear una gran variedad de significados en diferentes contextos. Al leer Ofrendas, se ve la magia de las palabras en plena acci籀n puesto que los poemas de Marjorie evocan diferentes sentimientos y dan lugar a diferentes interpretaciones con cada lectura. Marjorie Agos穩n fue una galardonada poeta, ensayista, escritora de ficci籀n y activista. Tambi矇n fue profesora de espa簽ol y literatura latinoamericana en Wellesley College. Las Naciones Unidas honraron su labor en defensa de los derechos humanos, en particular los derechos de las mujeres en Chile. La profesora Agos穩n gan籀 numerosos premios literarios prestigiosos.
Bits And Pieces
Bits and Pieces is an upfront, personal and intimate exploration of one woman's journey through pain, survival and self discovery. Told through a blend of poetry, quotes and reflections, Janice Traylor lays bare the pieces of a life shaped by childhood trauma, family dysfunction, complicated relationships and the road toward healing.With raw honesty and poetic grace, Traylor gathers the broken pieces of her experience, abuse, shame, resilience, and love and assembles them into a worth that is as heartbreaking as it is healing. Each page offers a look into the emotional landscape of a black woman navigating the weight of her past while reclaiming her voice and power.
Snapshots
This book, similar to how a photograph freezes a fleeting instant, is a snapshot of Joseph Olsen's perspective, thoughts and observations of his past and present through Free-Verse and Haiku against the backdrop of images taken during outings and hikes with his family.
Mysterious Workings of the Teenage Brain
Grimy, dramatic, relatable and full of doom.Starting from the lakes of North Western Ontario to the oceanic escape of British Columbia, these are poems and journal entries written from the naive ages of 15-19.Welcome to the Mysterious Workings of the Teenage Brain.This is not a science book.This is a raw poetry book.
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively exact and allusive, engaging nature and art as well as family and friendship.For the two years before his death in 2019, Plumly worked with David Baker and Michael Collier, this book's two editors, to make preparations for the present volume. This Collected Poems contains nearly three hundred of his poems--including nine new, previously unpublished ones--and stands as a permanent archive of Plumly's achievement in verse.As Plumly wished, Collected Poems does not categorize the poems by individual volume but presents a continuum of his lyric accomplishments. This book bears his gifts and his specific blessing, embodying his wish to offer his poems in reverse chronology, tracing back from the present to the very origins of his aesthetic. In every way, it is the book Stanley Plumly wanted to be remembered by. Collected Poems gathers the full range of Plumly's talent as it charts the development of his unique and enduring contribution to the American lyric. The volume stands as a tribute to Plumly's artistic vision and will be welcomed by his many readers now and in the generations to come.
Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams
Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006, is the author of five books: Language for the Living and the Dead; Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air (Winner of the Colorado Book Award); A Return to Emptiness: Stories (Colorado Book Award finalist); Lost Songs & Last Chances; and Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams.
Active Gods
In Active Gods, Michael J. Henry examines what it means to be both the parent and the son, and his poems reveal threads between these dual identities in small, specific moments: the shared experience of growing up, losing out, escaping, and then resolving to try again.
All These Ghosts
A timely and whole-hearted poetry collection by acclaimed author and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear's 2023 inauguration and an interview by Barbara Kingsolver.Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters--a novelist, music journalist, environmental activist, and columnist--and now Poet Laureate of Kentucky. His first full-length collection of poetry blends his Appalachian upbringing with his ongoing relation to the natural world. Poems of praise for community and the collective appear alongside others tinged with nostalgia and grief when House keenly observes the loss of rural America as he once knew it. Returning to his touchstone subjects, Silas recalls wild places, echoes stories from a lingering and living past, and explores an abiding connection to family, friends, and fellow artists.
Unraveled and Rewritten
This collection of heartfelt poems captures the raw emotions of navigating the ups and downs of loving someone with addiction, divorce, and healing. From the pain of an unraveling marriage to the courage it takes to leave, and the guilt of breaking up a family, and the journey toward rediscovering oneself, these words reflect the struggles that so many endure in silence. Written with honesty and vulnerability, these poems offer connection and reassurance, reminding readers they are never alone. Wherever you are on your path, this book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the hope for healing, growth, and brighter days ahead.
Moments My Guts Spilled Out
Moments My Guts Spilled Out is a reminder that even the messiest moments are worth remembering and that spilling your guts might just be the start of new.
A Gaslit Life
This book is a collection of poetry chronicling the arduous journey of healing from narcissistic abuse. Through raw, honest verse, it navigates the murky waters of self-doubt, betrayal, and the lingering echoes of a distorted past. Each poem acts as a stepping stone, moving from the initial shock and confusion to the gradual rediscovery of self-worth and genuine connection. It's a testament to resilience, a guide through the internal landscape of recovery, offering solace and understanding to those who have walked a similar, painful path.
Blood Moon
Blood Moon explores twentieth and twenty-first century history through the stories of women who acted heroically under the most extreme circumstances, at great personal danger, during wartime and times of political oppression. It also focuses on the lives of women artists who documented the violence of their times through their art. The author drew on many memoirs in the writing of this collection, and the poems are both powerful and redemptive.Edited by Jennifer Barber, Linda Cutting, Tehila Lieberman
Southernmost: Sonnets
'Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration ... dazzling' Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of Top Doll 'It all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this storylet me tell you how it all happened, how we turned unholy.' In Southernmost, Leo Boix takes us on a spellbinding voyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - 'the end of the world, the antipode' - to a new life in England. Unearthing an old grief, the poet embarks on a glittering, encyclopaedic exploration of his own past and the Latin America he left behind: a continent haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores. Southernmost reveals truths hidden in plain sight: colonialism's violent legacies; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a young mother's mysterious decline; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can't bear to acknowledge it. At the same time, it tells a story - as sonnets have often done - about love, through Boix's intimate and original evocation of gay marriage. Restlessly intelligent, intoxicated by Latin America's landscapes and rich folklore, this virtuosic net of sonnets offers a glimpse of our world's interconnecting threads. 'In this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New' Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters 'As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us' Urayo獺n Noel, author of Transversal
Chosen ground
Christopher M James, a dual British/French citizen and global traveller, finds poetry the vehicle 'par excellence' for finding out - often through re-editing - what he truly thinks/feels that is worth saying. He finds writing poetry the purest form of living in the moment. In his first collection are found poems that span space and time, evoking many different places: Britain, Ireland, France, Thailand and Japan and many different moments in life, from childhood to maturity, Readers will find striking metaphors that explore the complex weave of existence in poetry that is at once dynamic, vivid and contemplative.
Paper, Ink and Words
Paper, Ink and Words: Meaning to Musings invites you into a world where everyday emotions find their voice in verse. This collection explores the space between thought and feeling-where ink meets paper and musings become meaning. With gentle reflections on what it means to be human, these poems touch on a range of themes. For anyone who's ever paused to feel deeply or wished to give words to their emotions, this book offers quiet companionship-whether you read one poem or journey through them all.
Moonlight Apocrypha
In Moonlight Apocrypha, Kurt Newton guides us through a surreal and haunting landscape shaped by plague, isolation, and the slow, unraveling of civilization. These poems chronicle a world slipping into myth, where memory and madness blur. This collection captures the intimate absurdities and communal grief of an era defined by a virus and humanity's response to crisis, offering grim beauty, bitter humor, and unexpected tenderness for the summer we figuratively died. Delve into these verses to commiserate with your past self and glimpse the future you.
Light Through a Cat's Ear
In Light Through a Cat's Ear, prize-winning poet Victoria Garton's sharp images reveal startling, yet apt connections between animal and human worlds, then leap beyond. In "Natura," a "calico" positions "herself so the sun comes pink through her ear," and a "downed cicada" and "black vultures" hint at humanity's foibles. In section two, "Important Arguments," note poems, "Red Sports Car" and "Loneliness/Aloneness." Poems rise to the sublime in the final section, "The Changing of the Gods." Garton's humor and perceptions not only evoke our smiles - but ? la Emily Dickinson - raise the hairs on the napes of our necks.-Lindsey Martin-Bowen, author, CASHING CHECKS with Jim MorrisonTake your time. These are not poems to hurry through. Garton brings a lifetime of experience as rancher, teacher, traveler, and stroke survivor. In poem after poem, she accomplishes what she proposes in "Minuscule Disruption of the Universe: " "Beauty writ large / for those / who do not blink / or fail to see / what they see." Garton sees and evokes meaning through details, like "jellyfish like flying saucers / in a dimly lit ocean," and "I'd never had a coat whose satin lining could have decorated a casket," and "Have you noticed that the moon is not photogenic?" In three choreographed sections, Garton nails her keen observations, reflects on memories, and reveals her sassiness. You'll be glad to see things her way.-Barbara Loots, author, Road TripCome immerse yourself in the art gallery of Light Through a Cat's Ear. Themed sections offer vivid images, evocative narratives, and startling insights. And the range of Garton's work! From offering redemption in "Twirling the Plunger," "where did I learn to dig deep and toss away what would gag," to making a childhood memory loom ominously in "Pool of Mercury," to pastoral grace in "Blackberry Blessing," "may you go ripe with stained fingertips, berries and dreams still to pick," to unflinching reflections on relationships, stroke recovery, and aging, Garton's compact linguistic portraits linger long after reading.-Mary Silwance, author, We Remember Ourselves, editor, Of Our Own Accord: Women's Embodied Poetry
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Root of the Matter
《事之根》是诗人巢圣历时数载精心打磨的双语经典。它以圣经解开的智慧，这一全球性的精神财富，深刻探讨了人类存在的本质状态及其深层根源。诗集中那些充满语言张力的诗句、令人耳目一新的意象群、高度凝练的象征表达与超现实的艺术想象，共同构建了一个短暂与永恒、属世与属灵、属地与属天的多维诗意空间。巢圣以其非凡的才华，在双语转换中实现了原诗与译诗、内容与形式的完美统一，使每一页诗都是一次形神兼备的视觉审美体验，一场穿越时空的精神漫游。这种独特的艺术成就，使诗集当之无愧地成为当代汉语诗歌艺术的瑰宝。阅读这部诗集的过程，恰似一场生命的顿悟之旅。读者在字里行间的呼吸吐纳中，得以重新审视生命的本质；在诗韵的浸润中，不自觉地追寻着永恒的奥秘；更在跨文化的诗情对话里，获得人类情感的深层共鸣。这不仅是一部双语诗集，更是一把打开生命奥秘的钥匙。
Rhymes of the Road, Written for the Entertainment of Brother Knights of the Grip Sack and Other Friends
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Poems Written for a Child Child, by Two Friends [M.B. Smedley and E.a. Hart]
