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Grieving is very much a part of the human condition and has to happen before you can emotionally heal. Grieving…
is like having to cross a glacier and scrabble up the rocky cliff on the other side. Grieving absolutely has to happen or it becomes an emotional prison. Grieving: Hope: Joy documents my journey across so I could seek and find Joy again—and I did exactly that!Taking the Arrow out of the Heart
Par Alice Walker. 2017
Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic, The Color Purple, returns with a poetry collection that is both…
playfully imaginative and intensely moving. In Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart, Alice Walker examines our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of everyday life, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold exploring the necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker demonstrates that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans.Moon USA National Parks: The Complete Guide to All 59 Parks (Travel Guide)
Par Becky Lomax. 2018
They've been dubbed America's best idea for a reason: get inspired, get outdoors, and discover the wild beauty of the…
United States with Moon USA National Parks. Inside you'll find:Coverage of all 59 national parks, from the misty mountains of the east and the redwoods of the west, to the glaciers of Alaska and volcanoes of Hawaii, organized by regionStrategic lists and itineraries: Choose from lists of the best parks for hiking, wildlife, families, and scenic drives, or make your way down the list of the top ten national parks experiences across the countryThe best outdoor adventures in every park, including backpacking, biking, mountain climbing, kayaking, rafting, and more, plus detailed hike descriptions and trail maps marked with distance, duration, effort level, and trailheadsNational parks road trips with driving times and advice for linking multiple parks, interesting stops between them, and nearby attractions and state parksComprehensive planning resources: With detailed maps and transportation tips, you'll have the tools to explore each park or region individually, or visit multiple for an epic national parks tripExpert advice from former park guide Becky Lomax on how to avoid crowds, what time of year to visit, and where to stay inside and outside the parks, from campgrounds to hotelsKnow before you go: Find essential background on climate, terrain, wildlife, history, and safety precautions, plus practical information on park fees, passes, and reservations, including how to obtain and use a National Parks PassGorgeous, full-color photos throughout, plus a handy keepsake section for your national parks stamps and a detachable fold-out poster mapWhether you're trekking to striking vistas, rafting a wild river, or camping under the stars, find your park adventure with Moon USA National Parks.For more in-depth information on a specific park, check out Moon's national parks travel guides.The River in the Sky: A Poem
Par Clive James. 2018
In this deracinated age appears a miraculous epic that pays homage to Dante and Camus. “Few people read Poetry any…
more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time,” writes Clive James in his epic poem, The River in the Sky. What emerges from this lamentation is a soaring epic of exceptional depth and overwhelming feeling, all the more extraordinary given its appearance in an age when the heroic poem seems to have disappeared from contemporary literature. Among James’s many talents is his uncanny ability to juxtapose references to early twentieth-century poets with “offbeat humor and flyaway cultural observations” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), or allusions to the adagio of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony contrasted with references to “YouTube’s vast cosmopolis.” Whether recalling his Australian childhood or his father’s “clean white headstone” in a Hong Kong cemetery, James’s autobiographical epic ultimately helps us define the meaning of life.A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New And Selected Poems
Par Marilyn Chin. 2018
A rich, illuminating compilation of selected and new poems from Marilyn Chin, "a poet of contradictions, poignant sentiment, beat-your-ass toughness,…
and unexpected humor" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin’s passionate, polyphonic poetry travels freely from the personal to the mythic, from the political to the spiritual. Deeply engaged with the complexities of cultural assimilation, feminism, and the Asian American experience, she spins precise, beautiful metaphors as she illuminates hard-hitting truths. A Portrait of the Self as Nation celebrates Chin’s innovative activist poetry: her fearless and often confrontational early collections, Dwarf Bamboo and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty; the rebellious, vivid language of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow; and the erotic elegies of Hard Love Province. Also included are excerpts from Chin’s daring novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, and a vibrant chapter of new poems and translations. In poems that are direct and passionately charged, Marilyn Chin raises her voice against systems of oppression even as her language shines with devastating power and beauty. Image after image, line by line, Chin’s masterfully reinvented quatrains, sonnets, allegories, and elegies are unforgettable.For Hunger
Par Margaret Ronda. 2018
For Hunger, the follow-up to Margaret Ronda’s award-winning first book, Personification, offers a fierce look at the interiors of motherhood,…
examining what it means to become a mother and lose a mother. Centering on hunger, these vivid and crushing poems explore the mourning process and its relationship to time and nature. From its intimate lyric meditations on birth, motherhood, and parenting to poems that measure the affective patterns of mourning against seasons, constellations, tides, and reproductive gestation, these intimate poems dwell in the drifts, uncanny repetitions, and shocks that characterize the strange temporality of loss.The Identity Thief
Par Derek Mong. 2018
Derek Mong’s highly anticipated new poetry collection, The Identity Thief, is a gathering of voices borrowed and voices lost. These…
illuminating poems explore how one learns—in an effort to cope, escape, survive, or atone—about the possibilities of becoming someone else. In this collection of poems full of movement and wonder, saints, thieves, environmentalists, new parents, and glaciers all speak. The Identity Thief imagines the pleasures of being an other, using the contemporary dramatic monologue to dazzling effect. The result is a poetry collection full of vision and insight.By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
Par Judith Tannenbaum, Spoon Jackson. 2010
"A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be…
free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart-- a book that will anger you, give you hope, and break your heart."--Gloria SteinemFor most of their adult lives, since meeting as teacher and pupil at San Quentin State Prison, Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson have conferred, corresponded, and sometimes collaborated, producing very different bodies of work resting on the same understanding: that human beings have one foot in darkness, another in light. Moving stories of their childhoods and adult creative lives reveal both tragedy and beauty.In alternating chapters--part memoir, part essay--By Heart reveals painful truths about prison, education, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At its core are two stories that speak for human imagination, spirit, and expression.Judith Tannenbaum is a nationally respected poet, educator, lecturer, and the author of Disguised as a Poem, among other works, including poetry, anthologies, and guidebooks for teaching arts in prison. She coordinates training at WritersCorps.Born into an impoverished family of fifteen boys, Spoon Jackson was sentenced to life without possibility of parole by age twenty. He discovered himself as a writer for the first time in prison, eventually becoming an award-winning, internationally-known poet and essayist, as well as a facilitator of creative writing classes for other prisoners.Ledi
Par Kim Trainor. 2018
Ledi, the second book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her…
ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman's carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods were also discovered—rosehips and wild garlic, translucent vessels carved from horn, snow-white felt stockings and coriander seeds for burning at death. The archaeologist who discovered her, Natalya Polosmak, called her 'Ledi'—'the Lady'—and it was speculated that she may have held a ceremonial position such as story teller or shaman within her tribe.Trainor uses this burial site to undertake the emotional excavation of the death of a former lover by suicide. This book-length poem presents a compelling story in the form of an archaeologist's notebook, a collage of journal entries, spare lyric poems, inventories, and images. As the poem relates the discovery of Ledi's gravesite, the narrator attempts simultaneously to reconstruct her own past relationship and the body of her lover.In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of…
the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II.More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation's capital to learn the top secret art of code breaking. Through their work, the "code girls" helped save countless lives and were vital in ending the war. But due to the top secret nature of their accomplishments, these women have never been able to talk about their story--until now. Through dazzling research and countless interviews with the surviving code girls, Liza Mundy brings their story to life with zeal, grace, and passion. Abridged and adapted for a middle grade audience, Code Girls brings this important story to young readers for the first time, showcasing this vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.Rubén Darío, del símbolo a la realidad (Edición conmemorativa de la RAE y la ASALE)
Par Rub n Dar o. 2016
Nueva edición conmemorativa de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española para celebrar el…
centenario del fallecimiento de Rubén Darío, uno de los escritores hispanohablantes más importantes del siglo XX. Publicada con ocasión de la celebración del VII Congreso de la Lengua Española en Puerto Rico. Rubén Darío es uno de los escritores en lengua española más populares a ambos lados del océano Atlántico. Su poesía y su narrativa constituyen uno de los principales exponentes del movimiento modernista. Sin embargo, la dimensión literaria de Rubén Darío desborda el ámbito de la ficción. Su labor como corresponsal, llevada a cabo durante gran parte de su vida, propició la escritura de interesantes crónicas en las que el autor ofrece una inteligente visión de su realidad. La presente antología incluye los textos íntegros de los poemarios Prosas profanas y otros poemas y Cantos de vida y esperanza. Los cisnes y otros poemas, y el libro de crónicas Tierras solares, que recoge las publicadas para el diario argentino La Nación sobre su tercera visita a España (1904) y las escritas durante su viaje por Bélgica, Alemania, Austria-Hungría e Italia en el mismo año. La edición presenta estudios complementarios escritos por algunos de los principales críticos, escritores y académicos españoles e hispanoamericanos, además de un glosario, un índice de nombres propios y una bibliografía selecta sobre la obra de Darío. ------------ Ediciones conmemorativas de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española En 2004 y coincidiendo con la celebración del IV Centenario de la publicación de la primera parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha, la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de laLengua Española dieron inicio a un proyecto de edición de grandes obras de la literatura en español. Concebida como una línea de ediciones conmemorativas ocasionales y de circulación limitada de los grandes clásicos hispanos de todos los tiempos, dichas obras son publicadas y distribuidas en todo el mundo de habla hispana. Rubén Darío. Del símbolo a la realidad se une ahora a esta colección de la que ya forman parte Don Quijote de la Macha, de Miguel de Cervantes, reeditada en 2015 con ocasión del IV centenario de Cervantes; Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez; La región más transparente, de Carlos Fuentes; Antología general , de Pablo Neruda; Gabriela Mistral en verso y prosa, una antología de la autora; La ciudad y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa y La colmena, de Camilo José Cela. ------------De la finitud
Par Günter Grass. 2016
De la finitud es el libro póstumo, la despedida del Premio Nobel de Literatura y Premio Príncipe de Asturias, Günter…
Grass. «Günter Grass nos ha dejado un conmovedor regalo de despedida. Creo que una vez más consiguió algo grande. Ha creado con su última obra de arte un impresionante juego de poesía, prosa e ilustración.»Gerhard Steidl (editor de Günter Grass) Entre diario, ensayo y poesía, y profusamente ilustrado por él mismo, De la finitud es el libro que Günter Grass escribió durante sus últimos años. En él hallamos la lúcida mirada, alejada de toda melancolía, de un hombre que se enfrenta a la muerte con ironía, en poemas como «Autorretrato» o «Adiós a la carne», al tiempo que sigue analizando el mundo que le rodea. Desfilan bajo su pluma llena de sabiduría, lirismo y humor los hechos y personajes más diversos, desde la crisis griega («La luz al final del túnel») ala canciller Angela Merkel («Mamá»). Un delicado regalo de despedida, un libro imprescindible. Reseñas:«Es un libro para la reflexión serena y el placer por las cosas profundas y bien hechas [...]. No todo el mundo sabe irse de la vida sin amargura, dejando a sus congéneres, a modo de propina literaria, un obsequio como este De la finitud.»Fernando Aramburu, El Mundo «Günter Grass escribió un último libro poético y conmovedor, íntimo y político, necesario. Uno de sus mejores libros.»Patricio Pron, Babelia «Un texto póstumo a modo de despedida preparado con mimo por el autor hasta sus últimos detalles... La constatación de la decadencia física se da la mano con una fuerte dosis de humor negro.»Elena Hevia, El Periódico de Catalunya «De la finitud es la última expresión viva de uno de los magos de un idioma mágico, el alemán.»Luis Meana, ABC Cultural «De la finitud es el mejor libro de Grass en años. Su muerte deja una obra distinta a todas las demás.»Jens Dirksen, Hamburger Abendblatt «Es una obra conmovedora y por momentos encantadora.»Heinrich Detering, Presidente de la Academia Alemana de Lengua y Literatura «De la finitud es una sólida obra póstuma de poesía, prosa y dibujos. Melancólico pero nunca sentimental. La franqueza de Günter Grass es admirable.»Friedmar Apel, Frankfurter Allgemeine «Una despedida llena de humor. El libro como una obra de arte, el libro como un libro, el último de Grass. Se ve el rastro de un hombre viejo que ha luchado ya sus batallas.»Volker Weidermann, Spiegel «Su último libro es francamente conciliador. De la finitud no es moralizador, es inusualmente autocrítico.»Burkhard Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung «De la finitud es íntimo, melancólico, fanfarrón y alegre.»Matthias Hoening, Stern «Una obra de arte. De la finitud está lleno de una sensibilidad inusual y de una sana dosis de ironía y humor.»Jochen Kürten, DW. comWithout: Poems
Par Donald Hall. 1998
You might expect the fact of dying--the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet--to make for a bleak and…
lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her; the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her; the husband who sat by her while she lived and afterward sat in their house alone with his pain, self-pity, and fury; and those of us who till now had nothing to do with it. As Donald Hall writes, "Remembered happiness is agony; so is remembered agony." Without will touch every feeling reader, for everyone has suffered loss and requires the fellowship of elegy. In the earth's oldest poem, when Gilgamesh howls of the death of Enkidu, a grieving reader of our own time may feel a kinship, across the abyss of four thousand years, with a Sumerian king. In Without Donald Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a husband mourning the loss of a wife. Without is Hall's greatest and most honorable achievement -- his give and testimony, his lament and his celebration of loss and of love.For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems Of The Christian Mystics
Par Roger Housden. 2009
Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with…
this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and Kabir) have reached a wide audience in recent years, the poetry of the Christian mystics has yet to be discovered by a general audience. For Lovers of God Everywhere, a collection of nearly 100 poems from both historic and contemporary writers, heralds the reemergence of the great spiritual voices of the Christian tradition-a tradition with its own love songs to God, cries of longing, and bliss of union. In this collection, Roger introduces us to some of the foremost poets of both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. He takes us from the wisdom of the Desert Fathers to the passion of St. Augustine, through the medieval ecstasies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena, to the subtleties of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila; and on to contemporary voices such as Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, and Mary Oliver. Roger's insightful commentary on each poem inspires us to take its words more deeply into our souls and shows how the mystical tradition transcends sectarian divides and speaks to the heart of humanity.Muerto de sueños
Par Holden Centeno. 2018
Muerto de sueños es el grito de una generación: sus ilusiones, su visión de la vida, el amor, la literatura…
y la música convertidos en poesía. «Catarsis es entender de alguien algo que nadie entendería.» Este libro habla de encontrar la esperanza y el amor en medio del caos, de los sueños que nos atenazan por las ganas o la imposibilidad de cumplirlos, de una generación que cuando ama lo hace con todas sus fuerzas, que utiliza el arte para comunicarse, que ha convertido la música en su lenguaje, el mundo en su casa, viajar en su raza y lo cotidiano en su escudo. Este libro es vuestro: amad, luchad, no os conforméis. Llevo toda mi vida en Madrid, mi ciudad, pero me gustaría vivir en Nueva Orleans. Una vez volé de un tejado a otro pero nunca nadie me ha creído. De pequeño mi abuelo me daba siempre queso curado y me dejaba cogerle todos los libros que tenía en sus estanterías. Desde entonces mi vida no tiene sentido sin queso y sin literatura. La música me ayuda a vivir. Lo digo en serio. Lloro viendo series y películas. Tengo la fortuna de estar enamorado. Viajamos juntos en una furgoneta California para poder dormir cerca del mar. Ella tiene miedo a la muerte y yo tengo miedo de que se muera. Intento mantener la intensidad a raya. Escribo para hablar del silencio que guardo.Antología poética
Par William Butler Yeats. 2017
W.B. Yeats es, junto a Ezra Pound y T.S. Eliot, el gran renovador de la poesía europea del siglo XX.…
W.B. Yeats es, junto a Ezra Pound y T.S. Eliot, el gran renovador de la poesía europea del siglo XX. Nacido en Irlanda, su obra está transida de la mitología céltica, los ritmos del modernismo sajón y la fiebre de sus pasiones ocultistas y esotéricas. Lumen presenta aquí una rigurosa antología de toda su obra, seleccionada y prologada por el también irlandés y Premio Nobel de Literatura Seamus Heaney. La traducción corre a cargo de poeta Daniel Aguirre, quien ha llevado a cabo una impecable versión rimada, sin duda una de las aportaciones más brillantes que se han hecho a la traducción de poesía en nuestro país.El estilo de mis matemáticas
Par Mauricio Redoles. 2017
La poesía única y las mejores canciones de Mauricio Redolés, legendario ícono de la cultura chilena Con sus canciones, poemas…
y apariciones públicas, Mauricio Redolés se ha convertido en una figura incomparable de la cultura chilena. Atrevido, perspicaz, lírico, delicado y humorístico son términos con los que su trabajo podría ser descrito. Pero quedan cortos. Redolés es imprevisible, va por la libre. Pasa como si nada del poema coloquial al tango audaz, de la elegía amorosa al canto paródico, del chiste político al verso filosófico. El año 2000, bajo el título Estar de la poesía o el estilo de mis matemáticas, el propio autor editó un volumen con sus mejores poemas que se convirtió en un verdadero best seller alternativo. La presente edición es una remasterización de ese libro mítico prologada por el poeta y filósofo Yanko González.The Night Before Christmas: A Light-up Book
Par Clement Clarke Moore, Lindsay Dale-Scott. 2018
Share the magic of Christmas with Clement C. Moore's classic poem and dazzling twinkle lights in this new board book…
for the whole family. "Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse!"Snuggle under a warm blanket with your family this holiday and share in the magic and wonder of Clement C. Moore's timeless poem, "The Night Before Christmas." With jolly illustrations, this is sure to become a staple of your holidays for years to come.Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation
Par Carolyn Forche, Brett F Lauer, Lynn Melnick. 2006
One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as…
it is right now--full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of "the rape joke"; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it.Editors Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick have crafted a book that is a must-read for those wanting to know the future of poetry. With an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché, Please Excuse This Poem has the power to change the way you look at the world. It is The Best American Nonrequired Reading--in poetry form.Enter the Raccoon
Par Beatriz Hausner. 2012
Enter the Raccoon documents a love affair between a woman and a raccoon. They are a couple that loves without…
preconceptions, whose being together eschews all limits until their beliefs in the self are put to the test. Their story unfolds each time one surrenders to the other in a sometimes melancholic and cruel, other times joyful, even ecstatic embrace.