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| Author | : Chelsey Minnis |
| Publisher | : Wave Books |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2009-04-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1933517417 |
Poems both punishing and radiant. No one is writing like Minnis, and no one should dare.
| Author | : Chelsey Minnis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781940696713 |
A playful collection of poems reconfiguring iconic dialogue from classic American films to upend notions of love, wealth, gender, and consumption.
| Author | : John Poch |
| Publisher | : Orchises Press |
| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781932535006 |
| Author | : Tommy Pico |
| Publisher | : Tin House Books |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2017-05-09 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1941040640 |
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.
| Author | : Chelsey Minnis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 88 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : |
Chelsey Minnis's formal invention and wild personae represent a progressive yet individualized position in the galaxy of truly contemporary poetry. Zirconia's female speaker is by turns fatigued, charmed, wishful, battered, sly, perverse, and omnipotent. These poems engage a material world not unlike ours yet featuring a phantasmagorically elliptical relationship to the dimension of real action. Her speaker is detached, but alive to the poignancy of detachment, and through the "silver lips of a feverish child" invites connectivity by means of tenderness and brutality. Long pauses, enforced by strings of gemlike punctuation, allow for the reader's digestion of hilarious, frightened, sometimes frightening substance. One is compelled to follow trails of feminine intuition, savagery, ennui, fantasy, and intimacy to their diabolical, fruitful conclusions. Zirconia is accessible, confrontational, hilarious, occasionally shocking, never ever dull, and often extremely moving.
| Author | : Victoria Sackville-West |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Country life |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jones Very |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 568 |
| Release | : 1886 |
| Genre | : Epic poetry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : James Weldon Johnson |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2000-10-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780141185453 |
2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
| Author | : Layli Long Soldier |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1555979610 |
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
| Author | : John Donne |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781853264009 |
John Donne's poetry is marked by a scientific colloquial directness and a complex, even tortured, intelligence. It falls into two classes. There is the early ironic and erotic poetry that contains some of the finest English love poetry and also his later, religious poetry.
