Author: Caitlin JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN: 9780645022100
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Select poems by journalist, essayist and digital street philosopher Caitlin Johnstone.
Poet, Pilgrim, Rebel
Author: Katie Munday WilliamsPublisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1506463061
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This charming picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Anne Bradstreet, a gifted Puritan writer who overcame barriers to become America's first published poet.
Outsiders
Author: Laure-Anne BosselaarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Written from beyond the pale by those who don't belong to a majority or dominant group, these poems enter the world of the homeless man on the street, the body of Joan of Arc, the mind of a man who lives between two countries. They sing of loneliness, celebrate the stranger.
Deaf Republic
Author: Ilya KaminskyPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award • Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize • Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
No More Poems!
Author: Rhett MillerPublisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316416495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rhett Miller teams up with Caldecott Medalist and bestselling artist Dan Santat in a riotous collection of irreverent poems for modern families. In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags--and toilet humor to spare--these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal read-aloud experience. Taking on the subjects of a bullying baseball coach and annoying little brothers with equally sly humor, renowned lyricist Rhett Miller's clever verses will have the whole family cackling.
Bright Bursts of Colour
Author: Matt GoodfellowPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472963539
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
_______________ A brilliant, prize-winning collection of poems by Matt Goodfellow Winner of the 2020 North Somerset Teachers' Book Award for best children's poetry book _______________ What if cats had flavoured fur, or you swallowed the sun? What if you were a special kind of badger, or you found a map to the stars? And what if your home was split during the week: one half at Mum's, the other half at Dad's? Packed with brilliant poems that explore a whole range of themes from the downright silly to the sensitive, this collection will delight, enthuse and resonate with children and adults alike. _______________ 'Those who love poetry should snap up Matt Goodfellow's rich and vivid new collection' - The Guardian 'Matt Goodfellow is a fresh voice on the children's poetry scene' - Pie Corbett _______________ Book Band: Brown Ideal for ages 7+
Author: Shakti Chattopadhyay
Author: Skila BrownBook of Hours
Author: Kevin YoungPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375711880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing “her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom,/ crocused into air.” Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking “What good/are wishes if they aren’t / used up?” while understanding “How to listen / to what’s gone.” Young’s frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life’s mysteries.
Ardency
Author: Kevin YoungPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307267644
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A poetic epic chronicles the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave ship Amistad through different voices, from an interpreter for the rebels to inmates in a New Haven jail who appealed to John Quincy Adams.
