Barataria Poetry – serie
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Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight
Poems
Häftad, 2014
267 kr
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A polished poet of extraordinary skill.... Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering."" -- Library JournalWith an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine enacts a visceral, lyric experience that slips wildly …
Diener
Poems
Häftad, 2015
267 kr
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The Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the dead in the interstice between the living world and the world beyond, is the person with whom Martha …
Dear Almost
A Poem
Häftad, 2016
267 kr
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Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Beginning with the hope and promise of springtime, poet Matthew Thorburn traces the course of a year with sections set in each of the four seasons. Part book of days, part meditative prayer, part travelogue, the …
Mouths Open to Name Her
Poems
Av Katie Bickham, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2019
267 kr
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Mouths Open to Name Her, Katie Bickham's dazzling new collection, resounds with the intensity of new motherhood and confronts the relationship between mothers and their children, as she explores what it means to carry a child, even one conceived by rape or ""a child born from no place, from the …
Grace of Distance
Poems
Av Matthew Thorburn, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2019
267 kr
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In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life, between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love. He seeks to name, and find, that …
Naming the Leper
Poems
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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Between 1919 and 1941, five relatives of Christopher Lee Manes were diagnosed with an illness then referred to as ""leprosy"" and now known as Hansen's disease. After their diagnosis, the five Landry siblings were separated from their loved ones and sent to the National Leprosarium in Carville, …
Double Effect
Poems
Av Martha Serpas, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2020
267 kr
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Martha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines Saint Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of that name, which governs whether an action is morally permissible despite a foreseeable evil result. In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, …
Ordinary Psalms
Av Julia B. Levine, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
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Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. As she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along …
Our Lady of Bewilderment
Poems
Av Alison Pelegrin, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2022
267 kr
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Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood, or back talk from "indelicate broads," a complicated world speaks to and through Alison Pelegrin in Our Lady of Bewilderment. An unusual blend of mystic-comedian, Pelegrin explores physical and psychic beauty and terror …
String
Av Matthew Thorburn, Ava Leavell Haymon m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
267 kr
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A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn's String tells the story of a teenage boy's experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he knew, but survives to tell his story. Written in the boy's fractured, echoing voice-in lines that …
For Today
Poems
Av Carolyn Hembree, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2024
283 kr
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A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree's For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father's death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil. Written in closed and nonce forms that give way to the …
Hundred Birds
Poems
Häftad, 2027
236 kr
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In A Hundred Birds, his poignant new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the worries and wonders that make up the middle of life. Caught in the in-between, these are poems that look in two directions: at the poet's son growing up too quickly; and at his parents growing older so swiftly, …
Girl After Girl After Girl
Poems
Häftad, 2017
265 kr
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The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation. Through an acknowledgment of mothers' unconditional love, the memories evoked by physical objects, and the stories mothers pass down, these poems explore the common thread …
Tramp
Poems
Av Joelle Biele
Häftad, 2018
265 kr
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Using newspaper accounts and court records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Joelle Biele's poems tell the personal stories of women who left their homes and families to tramp the roads and rails. Driven by poverty, abuse, or a desire for a better life, these women often …
