[PDF] The Undressing Poems eBook

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393635015

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“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPR A breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu-Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 039306543X

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Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love. The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources, including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.

Author : James Broughton
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1971
Category : American poetry
ISBN :

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In the sensibilities of a discerning few James Broughton has for years occupied a special place comparable of Cocteau or Keaton, Satie or Sitwell. As poet, film-maker, and playwright he has graced the San Francisco scene through its various Renaissances since 1946.

Author : Sam Sax
Publisher : Button Poetry
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1943735085

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"Forgive my bluntness, but...Goddamn, Sam Sax can write some poems. Devastating, comic, inventive, weird, dangerous, smart as hell. I could talk about the diction sometimes glass and sometimes bouquet. Or the syntax jagged here, balletic there. Or the metaphors, good lord. But the bottom line is that when reading the poems in A GUIDE TO UNDRESSING YOUR MONSTERS, one after the next, I kept saying to myself, probably twisting my face a little bit or squirming in my seat, "Goddamn, Sam Sax can write some poems." Ross Gay

Author : Sarah Cortez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611921786

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ItÍs not every book of poetry that includes an ñOde to Body Armor.î But then, itÍs not every poet whose experience in academia includes a stint at the police academy. The poems of Sarah Cortez are tough-minded, verbally supple, and often deeply (even explicitly) erotic: You want me to come/ to you each night, drop my gun belt,/ lie along your muscled length . . . And each of these fifty lyric poems (with titles such as ñRosie Working Plain Clothes,î ñLas TÕas,î and ñAttempt to Locateî) displays CortezÍs many facets: the street smarts of a law-enforcement officer (deputy constable in HoustonÍs Harris County); the bilingual vocabulary of a proud Mexican American; the coolly analytic eye of a corporate accountant (as she once was); the linguistic dexterity of a Latin teacher (another former occupation); and the frank sensuality of a strong and spirited woman. Surveying fellow officers, friends, criminals, lovers, strangers, and family members, Sarah Cortez has learned that a bullet-proof vest may, with luck, protect the body, but keeping the heart from harm is a chancier and more mysterious affair. Long after the pages of How to Undress a Cop have been turned, her unique and distinctive voice will stir the blood and haunt the memory.

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 193816055X

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Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must Sing Here I Am A Final Thing V. The Cleaving

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938160541

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Table of Contents I. Epistle The Gift Persimmons The Weight Of Sweetness From Blossoms Dreaming Of Hair Early In The Morning Water Falling: The Code Nocturne My Indigo Irises Eating Alone II. Always A Rose III. Eating Together I Ask My Mother To Sing Ash, Snow, Or Moonlight The Life The Weepers Braiding Rain Diary My Sleeping Loved Ones Mnemonic Between Seasons Visions And Interpretations

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375755195

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Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393334813

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“Lee’s lyrics have a tidal sweep as he moves between the universe within and the world without.” —Booklist, starred review