Nature Poem
Title | Nature Poem PDF eBook |
Author | Tommy Pico |
Publisher | Tin House Books |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2017-05-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1941040640 |
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.
A Year of Nature Poems
Title | A Year of Nature Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Coelho |
Publisher | Wide Eyed Editions |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1786035820 |
See how animals behave through the seasons, and the cycle of trees and plants, from the first blossoms of spring through to the stark winter wonderland in December. 12 inspiring poems from Joe Coelho, paired with folk art from Kelly Louise Judd give this book year-round appeal.
A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature
Title | A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Gyaneshwari Dave |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2019-05-05 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 0359635849 |
With the author's self-portrait sketch on the cover, ""A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature? is a collection of soulful nature poems accompanied by her elegant and delightful hand-drawn sketches. The gifted poet's subtle yet innocent, and often spiritual way of looking at nature's wonders makes her poetry a joy for any true nature lover - in America or any other part of the world. NOTE: This paperback edition has BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR featuring the illustrations in classic monochrome style. The preview may show color. Gyaneshwari Dave is a writer/poet, illustrator, nature photographer and the founder of www.pineconedream.com.
Poems on Nature
Title | Poems on Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Gaby Morgan |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1529022975 |
The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. This edition features an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk. Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it’s a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Brontë have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it. There is also a rich tradition of songs and rhymes, such as ’Scarborough Fair’, that hark back to a rural way of life which may now be lost, but is brought back to life in the lyrical verses included in this collection.
Birds, Beasts, and Seas
Title | Birds, Beasts, and Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Yang |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780811219198 |
An anthology of poetry that traces the history of poetry's changing relationship to nature, featuring the work of over 140 poets.
Junk
Title | Junk PDF eBook |
Author | Tommy Pico |
Publisher | Tin House Books |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1941040985 |
An NPR Best Book of the Year From 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length break-up poem that explores the experience of loss and erasure, both personal and cultural. The third book in Tommy Pico’s Teebs trilogy, Junk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing political landscape? In part taking its cue from A.R. Ammons’s Garbage, Teebs names this liminal space “Junk,” in the sense that a junk shop is full of old things waiting for their next use; different items that collectively become indistinct. But can there be a comfort outside the anxiety of utility? An appreciation of “being” for the sake of being? And will there be Chili Cheese Fritos?
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry
Title | National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
Publisher | National Geographic Kids |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781426320958 |
"When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens ... Lewis curates [a] ... poetic celebration of the natural world in this ... collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thrunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover ... photography ... paired with contemporary (such as Billy Collins), classics (such as Robert Frost), and never-before-published works"--