Poetry
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The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.
The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.
"Can I kick it?"
"Yes you can!"
--A Tribe Called Quest
Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin's work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwin's poetry samples and re-purposes pop-culture--from Back to the Future to Prince, Missy Elliot to Dominique Wilkins--in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to live.
About the Book
Cancer as Spiritual Teacher is a collection of poems about reclaiming and engaging our spirits during the cancer journey. It encourages the reader to view the cancer healing journey as a spiritual pilgrimage, much like pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain in search of spiritual insight and direction. The poems in this book speak to the inner (mind and spirit) and outer (body) dimensions of this journey. As pilgrims, the Camino requires our commitment to walk each day with openness, gentleness gratitude, and healing intention. Our cancer journeys require the same of us. About the Author
Don Iannone serves as a faculty member at the Business School of the European Union-based Transcontinental University. Together with his wife, Mary, he has been providing part-time complementary medicine services to patients at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center for the past seven years. Don's expansive 47-year career has led him to 32 states, 10 countries, and 10 American Indian reservations. He is the author of twenty-two books that cover nonfiction, poetry, and photography, in addition to numerous articles in academic and professional journals. Born in the steel and coal regions of Eastern Ohio, Don's early life in Martins Ferry and St. Clairsville lends a genuine depth to his life story. He and his wife reside in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Don holds doctorates in Divinity and Philosophy.
Cancer as Spiritual Teacher is a collection of poems about reclaiming and engaging our spirits during the cancer journey. It encourages the reader to view the cancer healing journey as a spiritual pilgrimage, much like pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain in search of spiritual insight and direction. The poems in this book speak to the inner (mind and spirit) and outer (body) dimensions of this journey. As pilgrims, the Camino requires our commitment to walk each day with openness, gentleness gratitude, and healing intention. Our cancer journeys require the same of us. About the Author
Don Iannone serves as a faculty member at the Business School of the European Union-based Transcontinental University. Together with his wife, Mary, he has been providing part-time complementary medicine services to patients at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center for the past seven years. Don's expansive 47-year career has led him to 32 states, 10 countries, and 10 American Indian reservations. He is the author of twenty-two books that cover nonfiction, poetry, and photography, in addition to numerous articles in academic and professional journals. Born in the steel and coal regions of Eastern Ohio, Don's early life in Martins Ferry and St. Clairsville lends a genuine depth to his life story. He and his wife reside in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Don holds doctorates in Divinity and Philosophy.
A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from "a contemporary master"*--a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books Linda Gregerson's long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, "in a world where every breath I take is luck." From the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers? The magnificent poems in Canopy catalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.
A third collection, described as poetry that "delights, surprises, teaches, and sings ... with knowledge and wisdom." Aging, love, community, politics, pandemic life, surgery, art, nature, travel, creativity, and more. A banquet of subjects and flavors, serious and comic, somber and fun. Worth reading alone, then sharing with friends.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away--loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it--that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all--death, sorrow, loss--is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.
Gathered here are the works of a diverse assembly of poets, each exploring the universal themes of birth, life, and death through their own uniquely shadowed lens. This haunting collection pays homage to the literary greats who have long tantalized us with their dark elegance and brooding beauty. For those who revel in the works of Poe, the Brontës, and other masters of the macabre, this anthology, CAW: Poetry by a Murder of Writers promises to captivate and enchant. Surrender to its spell, and let the poems transport you to a place where every heartbeat echoes with the mysteries of the night, and every word is a step deeper into the hauntingly beautiful unknown.
About the Author
Don Iannone is a writer, poet, photographer, business school professor, and complementary medicine therapist. He is the author of twenty nonfiction, poetry, and photography books. His latest nonfiction work, Stories from an Hourglass, narrated his life's journey, enriched by the contributions of countless others. Don holds doctoral degrees in Divinity, and Metaphysics and Philosophy. His formative years unfolded in the towns of Martins Ferry and St. Clairsville, nestled in the heart of Eastern Ohio. Don and his wife Mary, and their cherished feline companion, Tilly, call Greater Cleveland home.
Allow me to introduce you to this second edition of Chasing Cosmic Butterflies. The journey began with the initial release of the book in 2016, and since then, the ideas behind this book have evolved. This collection of poems delves into the enchantment of reality and the reality of enchantment. It's a treasury of poems infused with contemplative humor. In this renewed edition, many of the poems have undergone a significant transformation, carefully reworked to resonate with the ever-shifting landscapes of today's world. Cosmic butterflies, a whimsical metaphor for our deepest dreams, fantasies, visions, and ultimate life goals, flutter through the very fabric of our existence. Much like the ethereal and delicate creatures they evoke, these aspirations are a source of boundless beauty and wonder in our lives. They represent the profound yearnings that drive us forward, the aspirations that stretch the limits of our imagination, and the relentless pursuit of that which makes us feel most alive. In the grand tapestry of human existence, we are all cosmic butterfly chasers. These dreams, whether they involve achieving personal success, experiencing profound love, making a lasting impact on the world, or simply finding happiness, are the threads that weave our life stories. They inspire us to spread our wings and venture into the unknown, to dance with the possibilities of the cosmos, and to embrace the extraordinary potential that resides within each of us. As we chase these cosmic butterflies, we not only discover the brilliance of our own existence but also contribute to the ever-evolving narrative of the universe itself. As a special treat, I have included a section at the end of the book containing my analysis of fifteen of the book's poems. As a preface, the poems in this book reflect my desire for rhyme and musicality in my life. The writing of this collection was guided by this desire. Don Iannone
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *
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Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.