The Collected Poems of Ai
Title | The Collected Poems of Ai PDF eBook |
Author | Ai |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2013-02-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393089207 |
“Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy Harjo Before her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume. from “The Cockfighter’s Daughter” I found my father, face down, in his homemade chili and had to hit the bowl with a hammer to get it off, then scrape the pinto beans and chunks of ground beef off his face with a knife.
Selected Poems
Title | Selected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Ai Qing |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0593240723 |
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as “Little Siberia” with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei. In his work, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader.
The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
Title | The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Raine |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0571352049 |
In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine drew from six decades of poetry to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. The result was this definitive edition, now published by Faber & Faber, which on first release in 2001 was welcomed both by Raine's admirers and by those newly discovering a poet who has unfailingly given voice to a vision of life in which the temporal, in all its modes and places, is imbued with the numinous and the eternal.
Directed by Desire
Title | Directed by Desire PDF eBook |
Author | June Jordan |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 2012-12-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1619320800 |
Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Title | Collected Poems, 1948-1984 PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Walcott |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374520259 |
Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Title | The Poems of Wilfred Owen PDF eBook |
Author | Wilfred Owen |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781853264238 |
This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
Ruth Bell Graham's Collected Poems
Title | Ruth Bell Graham's Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Bell Graham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780801063909 |
This inspiring comprehensive collection traces Ruth Bell Graham's life of faith from the time she was a teenager through her roles as wife and mother.