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Par Shane Book. 2014
"Congotronic" takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems…
have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism. Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. In fusing disparate texts, each poem in this collection attempts to create a community in language. Thus, at its core, the project is utopic - or more precisely, to borrow from Duke Ellington - “blutopic.” 2014.Par Sarah Lang. 2014
Par Mary Di Michele. 2017
Referencing the post-war neo-realist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele's "Bicycle Thieves" commemorates her Italian past and her…
life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal - an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet "envisioning the passage of time under the 'full and waning' moon of Mount Royal's beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron." It is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture. 2017.Par Laura Clarke. 2015
A wild deer wanders into the downtown core; the Galapagos and the ethics of conservation invade our Xbox; a mule…
grows weary of his unrewarding office job and unfulfilling relationships. Exploring the victories and defeats of an urban existence complete with 9-to-5 office angst, the claustrophobia of domestic partnerships in bachelor apartments, and party-and-pick-up culture, this is Clarke’s love letter to the city of Toronto, and to extinct animals and office misfits alike. 2015.Par Brian McGackin. 2011
Collection of poems that laud and reflect on the experiences of the younger man. Topics include high school and college…
life, girlfriends, finances, and the quarter-life crisis. "O Captain! My Captain America!" is a paean to the popular comic book hero. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2011.Par Richard Wright, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Robert L Tener. 1998
Collection of Richard Wright's eight hundred and seventeen short poems composed in the late 1950s. In his snail haiku, he…
depicts mankind's relationship with nature and observes the unity and harmony among things. In "Lines of winter rain," the author explains that beauty can be savoured. 1998.Par Ted Kooser. 2004
Kooser, American poet laureate, is a poet of place, that being eastern Nebraska. Seasons rotate and weather matters, natural disasters…
are real. The visible world informs the verbal one, yet there are also spiritual presences. In his poetry, every described delight is shadowed by darkness in poems of small wonders and hard dualisms. Pulitzer Prize winer 2005. 2004.Par Jan Zwicky. 2011
Par Vivek Shraya. 2016
Vivek's debut collection of poetry is a bold, timely, and personal interrogation of skin - its origins, functions, and limitations.…
Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible, and undeniable. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Par Laura Ritland. 2018
These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds…
our senses ("Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.") Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegiac without being maudlin, "East and West" explores what Ritland calls the "middle ground" of childhood, family, diaspora, and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. "My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars." Ritland takes the measure of herself--"I'm an integer of my own society"--in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry. 2018.Par Elizabeth Philips. 1995
Par Stephen Mitchell. 2017
Written one thousand years ago, Beowulf is the oldest surviving work in Old English, and the first of its kind…
to make the transition from the oral tradition to written form. Filled with vivid battle scenes, it is named for a young warrior in fifth-century Scandinavia who achieves glory by fighting and killing various monsters and governing his land wisely for 50 years. 2017.Par Mary Lyn Ray. 2015
Nighttime blankets a little farm. An owl who-hoots. A bear curls up in a log. A mother fox calls her…
pups home to the den. But animals aren't the only ones preparing to rest. Now is the time for dreams. Grades P-2. 2015.Par Lucille Clifton. 1987
Par Tongo Eisen-Martin. 2017
From the corner store to the dilapidated school, from the alleys between downtown office buildings to the prison, voices that…
have been through too much to care and yet still struggle on, relate the post-industrial U.S. Black experience. A vortex of images, observations, inspired leaps and free associations spill forth from a choir living in oppression and transience, invisible to and dismissive of the mainstream bourgeoisie. Moments of political and spiritual convergence, gangsterism and revolution, surrealism and blunt materiality are captured in the music of metaphor and pure intention. A modern-day Mystic, a true Seer, the depth of the poet's own humanity is rooted in every line, creating a liberated space for pain and beauty through a healing love for his people. 2017. Uniform title: Poems.Par Eric L Ormsby. 1997
New and previous works presented together. In the earlier material, the poet delights in celebrating the hidden life in everyday…
objects: a twisted nail, a seashell, a roadside weed, the human body itself. This is a poet whose verse rewards both the head and the heart, who can discover entire galaxies in a scrap of lichen, who can locate an entire lifetime of submerged emotion in the touch of an old woman's hand. 1997.Par Michael Ondaatje. 1998
Par Alice Walker. 1996
Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965. This is her first complete volume, containing many previously…
unpublished poems, plus new introductions to those previously collected. Some strong language. 1996.Par Anne Carson. 2016
In individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, poet Carson conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and…
structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in liminal space. One can begin with Carson puzzling through Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain; in the art-saturated enclaves of downtown New York City; atop Mount Olympus as Zeus ponders his afterlife. There is a three-woman chorus of Gertrude Steins embodying an essay about "falling." And an investigation of monogamy and marriage as Carson anticipates the perfect egg her husband is cooking for breakfast. Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of boundaries. 2016.Par Randy Bear Lacey. 2013
This book of poems deals with the trials of losing your vision as an adult and having to learn how…
to live a new lifestyle. It also illustrates how the writer’s faith in God keeps him grounded and gives him hope to carry on. 2013.