–Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five-McKibbens founded The Pink Door Women’s Writing Retreat, an annual writing retreat in the US open exclusively to women of color. – She has an dynamic and large social media presence and a killer website: rachelmckibbens.com/-McKibbens is a member of Latinas Unidas and co-curates the critically-acclaimed monthly reading series Poetry and Pie Night in upstate New York.-According to her website, she is currently working on a memoir about growing up as a...
• Continuation of Orr’s previous book, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved, which is an endless, imaginary volume that has gathered itself into all the poems and songs since the beginning of time. • This book (like the last) was also inspired by a dream • Reviewers have likened Orr’s new poems to those of Rumi • Orr continues to push the “lyric sequence” beyond the usual expectations • Mary...
“Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence.”—The New Yorker Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons—where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a “factotum” for a portrait photographer—One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the psychic...
National Book Award FinalistBook of the Year honors from Publishers Weekly"As if hurled from a pitching mound, James Richardson's aphorisms and images approach the reader like fastballs, only to curve at the last second, painting the corners of the reader's mind with wisdom and delight. In By the Numbers Richardson dips into an expansive repertoire of approaches and shows excellent command, as he illuminates the commute between the ordinary and the mystical." —National Book...
A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time’s best nature photographers and a very talented and creative poet. Inspired by the majestic and savage beauty of Ian McAllister’s photographs, Lorna Crozier translates the wild emotion of these images into the language of the human heart: poetry. Featuring over 30 beautiful full-size photographs of wolves,...
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary traditions while simultaneously struggling to open new possibilities for poetry. This collection spans Darwish's entire career, nearly four decades, revealing an impressive range of...
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day).<br /><br /><i>Memory for Forgetfulness</i> is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and...
Einige Gedichte "Die Wörtergrüppchen in diesem Hörbuch, aneinander gereihte Gedanken, sind für mich eigentlich Schwarz-Weiß-Fotos in Bleistift, Fingerabdrücke. Sie zeigen, wie ich sehe." Herman van Veen Diese Gedichte, geschrieben in den 80er Jahren bis heute, wurden noch nie veröffentlicht. Herman van Veen widmet sich den Themen, die ihm schon während seiner gesamten Bühnenlaufbahn am Herzen lagen: dem scheinbar Unbedeutendem, der Liebe mit ihren Hochs und Tiefs, den Kindern, der...
Vor 25 Jahren veröffentlichte der Journalist und Exilforscher Jürgen Serke ein Aufsehen erregendes Buch: 57 Gedichte einer damals unbekannten Autorin – Gedichte über eine Liebe, die mehr Traum war als Wirklichkeit, gewidmet einem Freund, der später auf der Flucht nach Palästina ums Leben kam. Das Leben der entfernten Cousine Paul Celans, die schon mit 15 Jahren ihre ersten Gedichte schrieb, schien auf schicksalhafte Weise mit dem der Anne Frank verknüpft. Lange waren die Gedichte verschollen,...
This book of Zen poetry and art blends simple, haiku-like poetry with bold minimalist ink brush drawings.The unique books of Paul Reps have attracted countless readers since they were first published in the 1950s. His classic Zen Flesh, Zen Bones remains one of the most popular books on Zen ever published in English.Zen Telegrams is a collection of Reps's picture-poems," works of calligraphic art and minimalist poetry that first fascinated Japanese,then attracted Western viewers. A lesser...