Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - General

Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives - ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic - the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry.

The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded, but nonetheless historically resonant materials to...

This focused, accessible collection carries readers into a deep and intimate understanding of the natural world, the power of language, and the interconnectedness of life. Untold stories are revealed through documented events in various tribal histories, and indictments of destructive encounters between Western colonialism and Native peoples are juxtaposed with...

COMES LOVE tells the story of three men caught in love's web as they struggle to share a life together with kindness and mutual support despite their differences in age and culture. The author recounts a decade of compassion and sexual obsession like watching a reality TV show, trying to make sense of their life together as they travel the globe. The three have joined in a love triangle, a kind of new age marriage years before the current flowering of gay life, and they ride that wave till it crashes on the shore. But as the blues song goes, "Comes love, nothing to be done."

Nancy L. Reed has had many dogs in her lifetime and she wanted to celebrate every one of them with poems and songs dedicated to the joy they gave her. This is the origin for Dog-grr-el: canine cadence, hound haiku, puppy poetry. With original poems, haikus, songs written by Reed, and colorful illustrations by Jennifer Schafer, Dog-grr-el appeals to all family members, including pets. Well, maybe not cats.

Poems and haikus feature cave-dwelling dogs, canine coat of arms, howling hounds, and a tribute to the fire...

Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle's The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers.
Brian Doyle's uncategorizable form is the brief story dressed like a poem but with the loose lyricism and verve of an essay. Here are chants and litanies, like gentle songs to the sacrament of every moment.

Elisavietta Ritchie is a woman who has really lived and this verbal rumination on her heritage, the

people she has loved, the family recipes for borscht or cherry vodka or bread

are filled with such exquisite, well-realized detail, a reader is drawn along with

the force of a rip tide on a summer afternoon at the beach. It's all simply so interesting.

And her conversations with the past and recently dead intrigue us: "It

tolls for thee," they remind us, and yes, we all do eventually get out alive according

to this wise woman when it comes our time...

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.

Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects--from love to death and sex to writing--Bukowski's unvarnished and...

Why do dolls compel us so much? What are their meanings? What lessons do they have to teach us? The Doll Collection explores these questions. This wonderful anthology of poems asks us to rethink dolls. Not just toys, dolls signify much more than childhood. Dolls shape our thinking about the female body, about race and class. Dolls influence our understanding of childhood. Symbols of perfection, they both comfort and terrify. Dolls represent, as Freud would say, the "uncanny." They are replicas, simulacra, souvenirs and secrets. They are objects we recall with intense nostalgia but...