The Beauty
Title | The Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Hirshfield |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2015-03-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0385351089 |
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long ago—to avoid the word “or”—she concludes, “Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life.” Hirshfield’s lines cut, as always, directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability, her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists, her abiding contemplation of our moral, societal, and biological intertwinings, sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet, “Zero Plus Anything Is a World.” Hirshfield’s riddling recipes for that world (“add salt to hunger”; “add time to trees”) offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives’ losses and additions, and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss.
She Walks in Beauty
Title | She Walks in Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Kennedy |
Publisher | Hachette Books |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2011-04-05 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1401325955 |
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it's falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old, She Walks in Beauty is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.
Wild Beauty
Title | Wild Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Ntozake Shange |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1501169955 |
NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems. In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one of the most iconic literary figures of our time. With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection; it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author’s footsteps in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As The New York Times raves, “Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message.”
Everything and Other Poems
Title | Everything and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Charles North |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9781734035100 |
"Everything and Other Poems" is a new collection of poetry by Charles North. North has published eleven books of poems, three books of critical prose, and collaborations with artists and other poets. With James Schuyler, he edited the poet/painter anthologies "Broadway" and "Broadway 2." His "New and Selected: What It Is Like" headed NPR's Best Poetry Books of 2011, and he has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, two NEA grants, four Fund For Poetry Awards, and a Poets Foundation Award. He lives with his wife, the painter Paula North, in New York City. More info at charles-north.com"--
Peacock and Other Poems
Title | Peacock and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Worth |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2002-03-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
A collection of twenty-six poems includes works about pandas, steam engines, and icicles.
Dying for Beauty
Title | Dying for Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Friemuth Wronsky |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1556591357 |
A talented young poet's celebratory dance despite the melancholy of personal and global degradation.
Love and Other Poems
Title | Love and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Dimitrov |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2021-02-18 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 161932234X |
Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.