Vice New And Selected Poems

Author : Ai
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244970
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vice: New and Selected Poems written by Ai and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-06-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry. Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books—Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed—along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision.

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Download or read book Vice : New & Selected Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ai
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089207
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Ai written by Ai and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy Harjo Before her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume. from “The Cockfighter’s Daughter” I found my father, face down, in his homemade chili and had to hit the bowl with a hammer to get it off, then scrape the pinto beans and chunks of ground beef off his face with a knife.

Author : Janice Mirikitani
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824847946
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Dust written by Janice Mirikitani and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Dust is a collection of new poems by activist, leader, poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Drawing from her own background as a Sansei (third generation) Japanese American, Mirikitani reflects on the many ways we connect through the dust and our ability to rise and renew ourselves from this place. From the dust of the World Trade Center in New York to the retaliatory ashes of the dead in America’s war in Afghanistan, the poems in this volume seek to explicate the connections of our humanity to the reactionary profiling of people of Middle Eastern descent and different ethnicities, comparing these choices to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Mirikitani’s poems cover topics about rape, incest, the continued struggle for justice and economic equality, and the poet’s experiences throughout her 50-year career at Glide Foundation and Church in San Francisco, where she has helped to create groundbreaking programs for the poor, women and children, and those who are healing from sexual assault, violence and abuse. Though constructed from a depth of experiences with struggle, these poems also erupt in celebration of marriage, daughters, and the discovery of self through diversity.

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393047059
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vice written by and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems from Ai's first four books also contains seventeen new poems that continue her gift for dramatic monologues that capture, in a searing and unforgettable fashion, the experiences of ethnic minorities and the urban poor.

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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruelty written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807068896
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shake Loose My Skin written by Sonia Sanchez and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.

Author : James Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of James Henry written by James Henry and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Henry (1798-1876) was a controversially humane doctor in Dublin, elected Vice President of the College of Physicians in 1832. Thirteen years later, receiving a large legacy on the death of his mother, he gave up the practice of medicine to begin more than twenty years of journeying through Europe on foot, with his wife and daughter, studying Virgilian manuscripts and rare editions, translating The Aeneid, and writing poems. More than a century after Henry's death, Christopher Ricks came upon a book of his poems -- printed at his own expense and with their pages still uncut -- in the Cambridge University Library. Here was poetry, Ricks writes in his introduction to this volume, "unaffectedly direct, sinewy, seriously comic. And "brave" from a man who "had integrity, moral, political, and spiritual." His convictions and his humor, his idiosyncrasies and his courage, were realized by him in poems of gravity and levity that gained no attention in his day, but are worthy of our time. "What a find Ricks has here! Such a pleasant personality, even when contemplating the backward and forward abysm in which we all find ourselves. That poem of a man with the cigar, woman with a basket - how profound, how amusing, how accurate, how sad. Hoorah for Henry." -Charles Tomlinson "Henry is special. There's no one like him." -Philip Levine

Author : Al Ogawa
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Floor written by Al Ogawa and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daisy Zamora
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Violent Foam written by Daisy Zamora and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Violent Foam includes selections from Zamora's previous acclaimed books and poems written since 1993. About her earlier book, Clean Slate, MultiCultural Review noted "Zamora was shaped by revolution and gender, but her voice is true and universal, transcending political boundaries and sounding clear notes of sanity in times of madness." Her new poems, beautifully translated by the poet George Evans, continue her lyrical, clear-sighted vision of the world with humor and gentle irony. LASSIE (Autobiography) It's true. I was faithful. My one desire was to be patted on the head by a disdainful hand. And happily wagging that tail I ran in circles, barked, and rolled around to welcome the master.