[PDF] Spilled And Gone eBook

Author : Jessica Greenbaum
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822986582

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Spilled and Gone, Jessica Greenbaum's third collection marries the world through metaphor so that a serrated knife on its back is as harmless as "the ocean on a shiny day," and two crossed daisies in Emily Dickinson's herbarium "might double as the logo /for a roving band of pacifists." At heart, the poems themselves seek peace through close observation's associative power to reveal cohering relationships and meaning within the 21st century-and during its dark turn. In the everyday tally of "the good against the violence" the speaker asks, "why can't the line around the block on the free night/ at the museum stand for everything, why can't the shriek /of the girls in summer waves . . . / be the call and response of all people living on the earth?" A descendant of the New York school and the second wave, Greenbaum "spills" details that she simultaneously replaces-through the spiraling revelations only poems with an authentic life-force of humanism can nurture.

Author : Kyle Tran Myhre
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1638340102

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OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.

Author : Deb Caletti
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345534360

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From National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes an intensely gripping story about love, loss, marriage, and secrets—perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult, Kristin Hannah, and Anna Quindlen. “One of the best books I’ve read all year.”—Barbara O’Neal, author of The Garden of Happy Endings “What do you think happened to your husband, Mrs. Keller?” The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she’s surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He’s gone. As the police work methodically through all the logical explanations—he’s hurt, he’s run off, he’s been killed—Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can—and cannot—remember. As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard truth—about herself, her husband, and their lives together. “A thought-provoking and moving exploration.”—New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Author : Anna L. Jackson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524652075

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Spill is a mystery about a town in Maryland. It was a nice place to live until the Churchills moved there. George and Helen Churchill adopted a little boy named Bobby. Bobby was different from the other children. Bobbys parents were shot to death, and he went to a group home until the Churchills adopted him. He was quiet and very slim in size. The glasses didnt help his appearance at all. The kids at school would talk about him and also made jokes about him. Sometimes Bobby would laugh right along with them so that the hurt wouldnt show on his face. But at eighteen, Bobby grew up to a handsome young man. He used contacts instead of glasses and put on weight. But he was still weird to most. If you like a good mystery, this is the book for you. It will have you in suspense the whole time. There were four killings in the town, and nobody knew who the killer was. Can you guess the killer before you get to the last page? Read and guess who did it, and enjoy!

Author : Melanie Pickering
Publisher : Melanie Pickering
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2021-12-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0645294519

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If you'd always felt invisible, how far would you go to be seen? When seventeen-year-old Amy Shipley crosses the threshold of the abandoned house on Flinders Lane, she unwittingly unleashes the curse of a nineteenth-century bloodletter. Haunted by a charming ghost with a dark obsession, she is pushed down a path that leads to blood and pain. But it's a path where she is finally seen. Where she no longer feels alone. Unable to ignore Amy's descent into self-destruction, former boy-next-door Flynn Powell embarks on a mission to save the girl he's fallen for. But walking that path opens old wounds, forcing him to question whether he's the hero she really needs. While Flynn battles his troubled past, Amy is thrust deeper into a seductive world of secrets and lies. In the fight to save their love, more than blood is going to be spilled, and it might just cost Amy her life. If you like captivating mystery, characters with real issues and a tender romance that will melt your heart, you'll love Amy and Flynn's story.

Author : Jessica Greenbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0691156638

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This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects and metaphor share highest honors, attempt revelation through close observation of the everyday. Written in "plain American that cats and dogs can read," as Marianne Moore phrased it, these contemporary lyrics bring forward the challenges of Wisława Szymborska, the reportage of Yehuda Amichai, and the formal forays of Marilyn Hacker. The book asks at heart: how does life present itself to us, and how do we create value from our delights and losses? Riding on Kenneth Koch's instruction to "find one true feeling and hang on," The Two Yvonnes overtakes the present with candor, meditation, and the classic aspiration to shape lyric into a lasting force. Moving from 1960s Long Island, to 1980s Houston, to today's Brooklyn, the poems range in subject from the pages of the Talmud to a squirrel trapped in a kitchen. One tells the story of young lovers "warmed by the rays / Their pelvic bones sent over the horizon of their belts," while another describes the Bronx Zoo in winter, where the giraffes pad about "like nurses walking quietly / outside a sick room." Another poem defines the speaker via a "packing slip" of her parts--"brown eyes, brown hair, from hirsute tribes in Poland and Russia." The title poem, in which the speaker and friends stumble through a series of flawed memories about each other, unearths the human vulnerabilities that shape so much of the collection. From The Two Yvonnes: WHEN MY DAUGHTER GOT SICK Her cries impersonated all the world; The fountain's bubbling speech was just a trick But still I turned and looked, as she implored, Or leaned toward muffled noises through the bricks: Just radio, whose waves might be her wav- ering, whose pitch might be her quavering, I turned toward, where, the sirens might be "Save Me," "Help me," "Mommy, Mommy"—everything She, too, had said, since sloughing off the world. She took to bed, and now her voice stays fused To air like outlines of a bygone girl; The streets, the lake, the room—just places bruised Without her form, the way your sheets still hold Rough echoes of the risen sleeper, cold.

Author : Jessica Greenbaum
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Poetry. "A sinewy, vividly intelligent humanity gives to this collection its memorable voice. In one sense, Jessica Greenbaum's poems are incisively local that Brooklyn landscape out of Whitman and Hart Crane. In another sense, however, they tell of the larger sadness and recognitions of our century. They 'design their world through love' and scrupulous observation. A first book by a poet very much to be listened to." George Steiner"