Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series – serie
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61 produkter
Crossing Over
Poems
Häftad, 2015
287 kr
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Long’s work begs to be read aloud in order to savor the rich language and rhythm she instills in each poem. She explores the beauty of specific bridges while employing them as a metaphor for crossings to death (a sister’s suicide), eros, and art. Part elegy, the book also explores living, …
Poetry of Remembrance
New and Rejected Works
Av Levi Romero
Häftad, 2009
374 kr
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Through familiar details - leaking faucets and lowriders, chicharrones and chicken coops - Levi Romero remembers familia, comunidad, and tradiciones from his upbringing in northern New Mexico's Embudo Valley. Alongside his training and jobs in the building trades and the architectural profession, …
Singing Bowl
Av Joan Logghe
Häftad, 2011
374 kr
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This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe’s work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humour, and passionate and inclusive social conscience. At once postmodern and deeply rooted in her adopted northern New Mexico home, Logghe’s work …
Flirt
Häftad, 2013
306 kr
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In this stunning first collection of poems, Noah Blaustein’s narrators face the complexities that shape a life: adolescence, fatherhood, our responsibility for the lives of others, the exhilaration of romantic love, and memory. These anxious, frequently witty poems flirt with physical danger, with …
Report to the Department of the Interior
Poems
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2015
281 kr
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Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honour traditional ways of life and …
Woman Who Married a Bear
Poems
Häftad, 2016
346 kr
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Winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Midge deftly weaves Plains Indian myths into the present day and seeks to define love, the nature of desire, and identity in the twenty-first century. The book includes a series of poems, each titled “Considering Wakatanka,” that …
Untrussed
Poems
Häftad, 2016
346 kr
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Stewart-Nuñez draws upon a number of styles - persona, ekphrastic, lyrical, formal - to create a collection that explores the promises of love and loss. Among Untrussed's many delights is a series of Wonder Woman poems that reveal a heroine who is as human as she is superhuman. From pleasure to …
Song of Dismantling
Poems
Häftad, 2018
360 kr
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In this dynamic debut collection, Fernando Pérez employs lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity politics and piece together a complex family history. The book embodies fragmentation in form and story, exploring how migration affects relationships between people of different generations. …
Rain Scald
Poems
Häftad, 2018
360 kr
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In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore. Presented in three sections, Tséyi’, Gorge Dweller, and Tóhee’, the poems negotiate between belief and doubt, self and family, …
Critical Assembly
Poems of the Manhattan Project
Av John Canaday
Häftad, 2017
318 kr
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With technical mastery and remarkable empathy, Canaday introduces readers to the people involved in the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb, from initial theoretical conversations to the secretive work at Los Alamos. Critical Assembly also includes brief biographies, notes, and a …
Gather the Night
Poems
Häftad, 2018
233 kr
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This debut collection reads like an elegy, not just for the author's brother Lou, stricken with schizophrenia, but for all families affected by mental illness. Through multiple personae and a variety of styles, Seluja offers a gritty authenticity and empathy to the subjects and themes. These poems …
Handyman's Guide to End Times
Poems
Häftad, 2018
221 kr
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In Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative. From zombie dating to the sin of popcorn ceilings, these poems investigate the nature of impermanence while celebrating the complexities of life.
After Party
Poems
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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The geography of After Party includes married life and fatherhood, a childhood survived if not fully understood, the transition from youth to an adulthood filled with responsibilities, and the dangers of our current world and culture-on a personal and global scale-that can distract and disrupt life …
To Cleave
Poems
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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Full of sensory detail and written with astute observation, to cleave searches for and lays bare the mythic moments one finds even in the most ordinary life. In this stunning collection Rockman explores the themes of aging; our relationships to our bodies; marriage; and the surprises, griefs, and …
Music of Her Rivers
Poems
Av Renny Golden
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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The Music of Her Rivers pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet--the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place, history, and people, especially those left voiceless due to violence or discrimination--from the …
Shadowgraph
Poems
Av James Cihlar
Häftad, 2020
298 kr
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In The Shadowgraph James Cihlar explores the ways images, performances, and memories shape and inform LGBTQ identity. Golden-age Hollywood cinema - in particular the career of fiercely independent actress Barbara Stanwyck - provides the screen on which Cihlar projects characters and stories …
Crosscut
Poems
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. It is a world where the sounds of trail tools - Pulaskis, McLeods, and hazel hoes - filter into dreams and set …
Grief Land
Poems
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one. The poems interrogate and dismiss common notions of loss and recovery through a series of letter-poems--to authors who have written about grief, to the …
Feel Puma
Poems
Av Ray Gonzalez
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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In Feel Puma, Ray Gonzalez traces his love of reading, philosophy, and learning with poems constantly in conversation - with each other, with texts by other writers and the writers themselves, with world history and his personal history and people he has encountered. Woven over three sections, this …
Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride
Poems
Av Sy Hoahwah
Häftad, 2021
298 kr
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Fractured storytelling for a fractured world, Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride draws readers into a world that appears eerily familiar but unsettling as well. Fierce, visceral, sometimes funny, and wholly original, Hoahwah's poems will linger in a reader's dreams long after she's closed the book.
Definition of Empty
Poems
Av Bill O'Neill
Häftad, 2021
306 kr
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The Definition of Empty is the story of a dedicated advocate trying to help adolescents facing incarceration and newly released parolees navigate imperfect and seemingly indifferent legal systems and societies. Told from the point of view of a public servant trying his best to work with people at …
Nowhere
Poems
Av Katie Schmid
Häftad, 2021
306 kr
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A book of wild imagination and linguistic play, Nowhere begins by chronicling the pain that the speaker and her absent father endure during the years they are separated while he is in prison. The alternative universe the speaker builds in order to survive this complex loss and its aftermath sees …
Loneliest Girl
Poems
Av Kate Gale
Häftad, 2022
233 kr
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Who was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena's temple, transformed into a monster, and banished into a cave, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim blaming. In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and …
Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds
Poems
Häftad, 2022
306 kr
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The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures. Menes engages with the Catholic …
Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery
Poems
Av Tina Carlson
Häftad, 2023
233 kr
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A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery gives voice to abused children, murdered women, research animals, war veterans, and even metronomes and lampshades. In poems inspired by Ovid, Tina Carlson explores the roots of voicelessness and journeys into metamorphosis, granting speech to those ignored or …
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma
And Other Prose Poems
Av Sy Hoahwah
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
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Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people …
Light of Wings
Poems
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
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This haunting collection merges spirit and nature in a voice both elegiac and celebratory. Kotchian invites readers to explore our deep connection to the natural world, one increasingly at risk even as it continues to surprise and inspire. From meditations on the dangers of global warming to …
Walk with Frank O'Hara
Poems
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
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Susan Aizenberg uses a range of techniques in her newest collection of poetry to explore contemporary daily life in a difficult world. She critiques gender, grief, culture, and the myriad experiences that define us. But even when grappling with old wounds, a strain of romance runs throughout the …
Unruly Tree
Poems
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
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The cryptic prompts - fragments, really - of Brian Eno's and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies unveiled themselves to Leslie Ullman as rough translations from an obscure language. As an experiment, Ullman used each one as a poem title, and in doing so she accessed a thrill of freedom, uncertainty, …
Real Man Would Have a Gun
Poems
Av Stacey Waite
Häftad, 2025
233 kr
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Stacey Waite's newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What …
