Year of Blue Water

Author: Yanyi
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300242646
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for self‑knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life. These poems constitute an artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work reflects a long journey self‑guided through tarot, therapy, and the arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, Yanyi’s poems converse with friends as much as with artists both living and dead, from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This instructive collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through art-making and community.

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Author: Michael Dorris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312421854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by kinship.

White Pine and Blue Water

Author: Henry Beston
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374289662
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts

Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400034582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.

Blue Water Patriots

Author: James M. Volo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742561205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
"The purpose of this book is to document the naval operations that took place during the American Revolution. These can be divided into two parts: those that took place before the French intervention of 1778, and those that took place thereafter"--Introduction

Dream of the Divided Field

Author: Yanyi
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 059323099X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & Writers The poems in Yanyi’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us: the beloved we believe we know, the beloved who is never the person we imagine, and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. How can we carry our homes with us? Informed by Yanyi’s experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another. In tender, serene, and ethereal poems, Dream of the Divided Field examines a body breaking down and a body that rebuilds in limitless and boundary-shifting ways. These are homes in memory—homes of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder.

Blue Water, Green Skipper

Author: Stuart Woods
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101599286
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the true story of his journey sailing alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey—not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.

Water Sings Blue

Author: Kate Coombs
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 081187284X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.

Ogallala Blue

Author: William Ashworth
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0881507369
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the High Plains. The Ogallala Aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains from Texas to Colorado contains enough water to fill Lake Erie nine times! Every year five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrigation, and if (or when) the aquifer goes dry, $20 billion worth of food and fiber grown with that irrigation will disappear. William Ashforth tells the fascinating history of the Ogallala from its formation millions of years ago to glimpses of the future when the Great Plains could return to their Sahara Desert-like past.

BLUE WATER, a Year in the Ocean.

Author: Julianna Lembeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736395202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An award winner of the 89th Annual Writer's Digest Competition, this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir peels away superficial labels pertaining to mental health, substance abuse, and trauma cycles.