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This long-awaited poetry debut traces an emotional biography from a wild childhood through tender and terrifying adulthood. Rooted in the heart and messy organs of our mortality, Melissa Crowe's work is epistolary in tone and gritty in texture, insisting that we love fiercely no matter how much it hurts.
Book Synopsis Dear Terror, Dear Splendor by : Melissa Crowe
Download or read book Dear Terror, Dear Splendor written by Melissa Crowe and published by Wisconsin Poetry. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited poetry debut traces an emotional biography from a wild childhood through tender and terrifying adulthood. Rooted in the heart and messy organs of our mortality, Melissa Crowe's work is epistolary in tone and gritty in texture, insisting that we love fiercely no matter how much it hurts.
Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman—tender, hungry, hopeful—who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack—poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book’s early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.
Book Synopsis Lo by : Melissa Crowe
Download or read book Lo written by Melissa Crowe and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman—tender, hungry, hopeful—who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack—poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book’s early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.
No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality." Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, DEAR READER is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology. From his miraculous rainbow-filled birth during the fiery conflict of World War II, Kim Jong Il watched as his beloved Korea finally earned its freedom from the cursed Japanese. Mere years later, the wicked US imperialists took their chance at conquering the liberated nation—with devastating results. But that's only the beginning of the Dear Leader's story. In DEAR READER, Kim Jong Il explains: *How he can shrink time *Why he despises the Mona Lisa *How he recreated the arts in Korea *Why the Juche idea is the greatest concept ever discovered by man *How he handled the crippling famine *Why Kim Jong Un was chosen as successor over his elder brothers With nothing left uncovered, drawing straight from dozens of books, hundreds of articles and thousands of years of Korean history, DEAR READER is both the definitive account of Kim Jong Il's life and the complete stranger-than-fiction history of the world's most unique country.
Book Synopsis Dear Reader by : Michael Malice
Download or read book Dear Reader written by Michael Malice and published by Michael Malice. This book was released on 2014-01-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality." Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, DEAR READER is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology. From his miraculous rainbow-filled birth during the fiery conflict of World War II, Kim Jong Il watched as his beloved Korea finally earned its freedom from the cursed Japanese. Mere years later, the wicked US imperialists took their chance at conquering the liberated nation—with devastating results. But that's only the beginning of the Dear Leader's story. In DEAR READER, Kim Jong Il explains: *How he can shrink time *Why he despises the Mona Lisa *How he recreated the arts in Korea *Why the Juche idea is the greatest concept ever discovered by man *How he handled the crippling famine *Why Kim Jong Un was chosen as successor over his elder brothers With nothing left uncovered, drawing straight from dozens of books, hundreds of articles and thousands of years of Korean history, DEAR READER is both the definitive account of Kim Jong Il's life and the complete stranger-than-fiction history of the world's most unique country.
Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track—before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of “the horses & their restless minds.”
Book Synopsis Horsepower by : Joy Priest
Download or read book Horsepower written by Joy Priest and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track—before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of “the horses & their restless minds.”
In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.
Book Synopsis A Nail the Evening Hangs On by : Monica Sok
Download or read book A Nail the Evening Hangs On written by Monica Sok and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.
Book Synopsis The Union Collection of Hymns and Sacred Odes, Additional to the Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts: Adapted to the Use of the Church and the Social Circle, Etc by : J. Curtis (of Bristol.)
Download or read book The Union Collection of Hymns and Sacred Odes, Additional to the Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts: Adapted to the Use of the Church and the Social Circle, Etc written by J. Curtis (of Bristol.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
This gorgeous and wry debut firmly claims physical strength, toughness, and authority for femininity. Ambalila Hemsell's poems speak from a place of empowerment as well as wonder. They address the insatiable fear of motherhood and the violence embedded in natural processes of creation, birth, and survival. Her words flicker and glow with magical realism, just as they reveal profound truths shared by the miraculous and the mundane. This lush and lyric collection artfully tackles what it means to reconcile one's own needs and desires with those of others, and to find abundance and strength in the midst of catastrophe.
Book Synopsis Queen in Blue by : Ambalila Hemsell
Download or read book Queen in Blue written by Ambalila Hemsell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous and wry debut firmly claims physical strength, toughness, and authority for femininity. Ambalila Hemsell's poems speak from a place of empowerment as well as wonder. They address the insatiable fear of motherhood and the violence embedded in natural processes of creation, birth, and survival. Her words flicker and glow with magical realism, just as they reveal profound truths shared by the miraculous and the mundane. This lush and lyric collection artfully tackles what it means to reconcile one's own needs and desires with those of others, and to find abundance and strength in the midst of catastrophe.
In May’s debut collection, poems buzz and purr like a well-oiled chassis. Grit, trial, and song thrum through tight syntax and deft prosody. From the resilient pulse of an abandoned machine to the sinuous lament of origami animals, here is the ever-changing hum that vibrates through us all, connecting one mind to the next. “Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel.” —Publishers Weekly “The elegant and laconic intelligence in these poems, their skepticism and bent humor and deliberately anti-Romantic stance toward experience are completely refreshing. After so much contemporary writing that seems all flash, no mind and no heart, these poems show how close observation of the world and a gift for plain-spoken, but eloquent speech, can give to poetry both dignity and largeness of purpose, and do it in an idiom that is pitch perfect to emotional nuance and fine intellectual distinctions. Hard-headed and tough-minded, Hum is the epitome of what Frost meant by ‘a fresh look and a fresh listen.’” —Tom Sleigh "Jamaal May’s debut collection, Hum, is concerned with what’s beneath the surfaces of things—the unseen that eats away at us or does the work of sustaining us. Reading these poems, I was reminded of Ellison’s ‘lower frequencies,’ a voice speaking for us all. May has a fine ear, acutely attuned to the sonic textures of everyday experience. And Hum—a meditation on the machinery of living, an extended ode to sound and silence—is a compelling debut.” —Natasha Trethewey "In his percussive debut collection Hum, Jamaal May offers a salve for our phobias and restores the sublime to the urban landscape. Whether you need a friend to confide in, a healer to go to, or a tour guide to take you there, look no further. That low hum you hear are these poems, emanating both wisdom and swagger.” —A. Van Jordan From "Mechanophobia: Fear of Machines": There is no work left for the husks. Automated welders like us, your line replacements, can't expect sympathy after our bright arms of cable rust over. So come collect us for scrap, grind us up in the mouth of one of us. Let your hand pry at the access panel with the edge of a knife, silencing the motor and thrum. Jamaal May is a poet, editor, and filmmaker from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and appears in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Believer, NER, and The Kenyon Review. Jamaal has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. He founded the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press.
Book Synopsis Hum by : Jamaal May
Download or read book Hum written by Jamaal May and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May’s debut collection, poems buzz and purr like a well-oiled chassis. Grit, trial, and song thrum through tight syntax and deft prosody. From the resilient pulse of an abandoned machine to the sinuous lament of origami animals, here is the ever-changing hum that vibrates through us all, connecting one mind to the next. “Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel.” —Publishers Weekly “The elegant and laconic intelligence in these poems, their skepticism and bent humor and deliberately anti-Romantic stance toward experience are completely refreshing. After so much contemporary writing that seems all flash, no mind and no heart, these poems show how close observation of the world and a gift for plain-spoken, but eloquent speech, can give to poetry both dignity and largeness of purpose, and do it in an idiom that is pitch perfect to emotional nuance and fine intellectual distinctions. Hard-headed and tough-minded, Hum is the epitome of what Frost meant by ‘a fresh look and a fresh listen.’” —Tom Sleigh "Jamaal May’s debut collection, Hum, is concerned with what’s beneath the surfaces of things—the unseen that eats away at us or does the work of sustaining us. Reading these poems, I was reminded of Ellison’s ‘lower frequencies,’ a voice speaking for us all. May has a fine ear, acutely attuned to the sonic textures of everyday experience. And Hum—a meditation on the machinery of living, an extended ode to sound and silence—is a compelling debut.” —Natasha Trethewey "In his percussive debut collection Hum, Jamaal May offers a salve for our phobias and restores the sublime to the urban landscape. Whether you need a friend to confide in, a healer to go to, or a tour guide to take you there, look no further. That low hum you hear are these poems, emanating both wisdom and swagger.” —A. Van Jordan From "Mechanophobia: Fear of Machines": There is no work left for the husks. Automated welders like us, your line replacements, can't expect sympathy after our bright arms of cable rust over. So come collect us for scrap, grind us up in the mouth of one of us. Let your hand pry at the access panel with the edge of a knife, silencing the motor and thrum. Jamaal May is a poet, editor, and filmmaker from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and appears in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Believer, NER, and The Kenyon Review. Jamaal has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. He founded the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press.
A captivating story of two young women, bound together by the tragedy of two very different wars. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee.
Book Synopsis The Poppy Factory by : Liz Trenow
Download or read book The Poppy Factory written by Liz Trenow and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating story of two young women, bound together by the tragedy of two very different wars. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee.
Little Deaths is a collection of poems that provide the reader with insight into loss: of love, of stories never told, of the dogs who become so much more than simple pets. The poems don't end there however, they carry the reader forward, into a place where grief grows and blossoms, and eventually blooms into something more-healing and hope. Without ever tipping over into sentimentality, Shilo Niziolek weaves poems that will make you simultaneously weep with sorrow and then step outside barefoot and tremble in awe at the absurdity and beauty of living. This collection shows us what real love looks like and how once a dog or person has burrowed into your heart, you'll never ever want it any other way. ** Shilo Niziolek's Little Deaths offers up a striking combination of formal experiment, incisive observation, and exquisite tenderness. Full of elegy, erasure, and homage, this collection makes clear that longing and grief are twin states, sometimes indistinguishable. The speaker insists again and again on the power of poetry to conjure what's desired and resurrect what's lost. Language in these poems is both a compensatory force and a political tool, a kind of magic by which the poet somehow tells us the hard truths and makes us love the world all the more. I, for one, am grateful. Melissa Crowe, author of Lo and Dear Terror, Dear Splendor Shilo Niziolek's book, Little Deaths, is full of poems sharp with the black bars of grief, the silence of the unsayable that longs to be shaped into some solid, shimmering thing. Here, all the little and big deaths are tallied. Through the fractures and occlusions, a lyric and searching voice brings us closer to the source in poems that are raw with loss, yes, but also raw with hope and wonder. The heartbreaking diptych, "When my dog is dying," first told through an erasure, then straight on so as to obscure nothing, summons the full, obliterating force of sorrow that is as devastating as it is life-affirming. For, as deeply as this gorgeous book mourns, it also sings. This collection is a profound declaration of aliveness, awake to every radiant blooming, to every staggering moment that we are breathing. We are here, "little / bursts of green drift over us," we are letting go, "we try not to weep / when the golden hour comes," we are holding steady, "and there's dew coating the tall green grass. / Soon the yellow iris will be in bloom, waving," we are looking up at the stars, we are witnessing miraculous things. Allison Titus, author of High Lonesome Shilo Niziolek's Little Deaths marks each small loss as it chronicles the obstacles of illness, climate change, gun violence, and grief. In this intriguing collection, erasures are placed before their full poems, giving the impression of an unveiling or replenishment or return. Niziolek's work invokes a state of longing, leaving readers "sharp-toothed after monsooning" in the wake of wildfire evacuations and pop songs tied to memory. This is a writer who will continue to astonish. Jennifer Militello, author of The Pact
Book Synopsis Little Deaths by : Shilo Niziolek
Download or read book Little Deaths written by Shilo Niziolek and published by . This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Deaths is a collection of poems that provide the reader with insight into loss: of love, of stories never told, of the dogs who become so much more than simple pets. The poems don't end there however, they carry the reader forward, into a place where grief grows and blossoms, and eventually blooms into something more-healing and hope. Without ever tipping over into sentimentality, Shilo Niziolek weaves poems that will make you simultaneously weep with sorrow and then step outside barefoot and tremble in awe at the absurdity and beauty of living. This collection shows us what real love looks like and how once a dog or person has burrowed into your heart, you'll never ever want it any other way. ** Shilo Niziolek's Little Deaths offers up a striking combination of formal experiment, incisive observation, and exquisite tenderness. Full of elegy, erasure, and homage, this collection makes clear that longing and grief are twin states, sometimes indistinguishable. The speaker insists again and again on the power of poetry to conjure what's desired and resurrect what's lost. Language in these poems is both a compensatory force and a political tool, a kind of magic by which the poet somehow tells us the hard truths and makes us love the world all the more. I, for one, am grateful. Melissa Crowe, author of Lo and Dear Terror, Dear Splendor Shilo Niziolek's book, Little Deaths, is full of poems sharp with the black bars of grief, the silence of the unsayable that longs to be shaped into some solid, shimmering thing. Here, all the little and big deaths are tallied. Through the fractures and occlusions, a lyric and searching voice brings us closer to the source in poems that are raw with loss, yes, but also raw with hope and wonder. The heartbreaking diptych, "When my dog is dying," first told through an erasure, then straight on so as to obscure nothing, summons the full, obliterating force of sorrow that is as devastating as it is life-affirming. For, as deeply as this gorgeous book mourns, it also sings. This collection is a profound declaration of aliveness, awake to every radiant blooming, to every staggering moment that we are breathing. We are here, "little / bursts of green drift over us," we are letting go, "we try not to weep / when the golden hour comes," we are holding steady, "and there's dew coating the tall green grass. / Soon the yellow iris will be in bloom, waving," we are looking up at the stars, we are witnessing miraculous things. Allison Titus, author of High Lonesome Shilo Niziolek's Little Deaths marks each small loss as it chronicles the obstacles of illness, climate change, gun violence, and grief. In this intriguing collection, erasures are placed before their full poems, giving the impression of an unveiling or replenishment or return. Niziolek's work invokes a state of longing, leaving readers "sharp-toothed after monsooning" in the wake of wildfire evacuations and pop songs tied to memory. This is a writer who will continue to astonish. Jennifer Militello, author of The Pact
