The Undressing: Poems
Title | The Undressing: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Li-Young Lee |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2018-02-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393635015 |
“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPR A breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu-Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.
The Undressing
Title | The Undressing PDF eBook |
Author | Li-Young Lee |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-02-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 039306543X |
Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love. The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.
A Long Undressing
Title | A Long Undressing PDF eBook |
Author | James Broughton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
In the sensibilities of a discerning few James Broughton has for years occupied a special place comparable of Cocteau or Keaton, Satie or Sitwell. As poet, film-maker, and playwright he has graced the San Francisco scene through its various Renaissances since 1946.
A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters
Title | A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Sax |
Publisher | Button Poetry |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2017-03-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1943735085 |
"Forgive my bluntness, but...Goddamn, Sam Sax can write some poems. Devastating, comic, inventive, weird, dangerous, smart as hell. I could talk about the diction sometimes glass and sometimes bouquet. Or the syntax jagged here, balletic there. Or the metaphors, good lord. But the bottom line is that when reading the poems in A GUIDE TO UNDRESSING YOUR MONSTERS, one after the next, I kept saying to myself, probably twisting my face a little bit or squirming in my seat, "Goddamn, Sam Sax can write some poems." Ross Gay
How to Undress a Cop
Title | How to Undress a Cop PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Cortez |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2000-09-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781611921786 |
ItÍs not every book of poetry that includes an ñOde to Body Armor.î But then, itÍs not every poet whose experience in academia includes a stint at the police academy. The poems of Sarah Cortez are tough-minded, verbally supple, and often deeply (even explicitly) erotic: You want me to come/ to you each night, drop my gun belt,/ lie along your muscled length . . . And each of these fifty lyric poems (with titles such as ñRosie Working Plain Clothes,î ñLas TÕas,î and ñAttempt to Locateî) displays CortezÍs many facets: the street smarts of a law-enforcement officer (deputy constable in HoustonÍs Harris County); the bilingual vocabulary of a proud Mexican American; the coolly analytic eye of a corporate accountant (as she once was); the linguistic dexterity of a Latin teacher (another former occupation); and the frank sensuality of a strong and spirited woman. Surveying fellow officers, friends, criminals, lovers, strangers, and family members, Sarah Cortez has learned that a bullet-proof vest may, with luck, protect the body, but keeping the heart from harm is a chancier and more mysterious affair. Long after the pages of How to Undress a Cop have been turned, her unique and distinctive voice will stir the blood and haunt the memory.
From Blossoms
Title | From Blossoms PDF eBook |
Author | Li-Young Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.
The City in Which I Love You
Title | The City in Which I Love You PDF eBook |
Author | Li-Young Lee |
Publisher | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2013-12-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 193816055X |
Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must Sing Here I Am A Final Thing V. The Cleaving