The Place that Inhabits Us

2010 San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

Author : Sixteen Rivers Press
Release : 2010
Genre : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
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Book Rating : 611/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Place that Inhabits Us written by Sixteen Rivers Press. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. California Studies. Foreword by Robert Hass. The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay, the poems in THE PLACE THAT INHABITS US are drawn from both a physical and a metaphoric watershed. From the granite slopes of the Sierra to the Delta, through the Coastal Range to the bay and shores of the Pacific, one hundred poems by poets well known and not well known, living and dead, map this improbable region. There are egrets and grievous losses here; prayers, panhandlers, Delta mornings and sunsets in the 'hood; the fog, certainly, and the bridges, but there are shades of Dante on a Miwok trail, and Wang-wei haunts the slopes of Grizzly Peak. These poems are internal maps, "the mental maps that for humans," writes Robert Hass in the foreword, "make a place a place." Gathered together, they evoke the San Francisco Bay watershed, the place that inhabits us.

Wade in the Water

2018-04-03 Poetry

Author : Tracy K. Smith
Release : 2018-04-03
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wade in the Water written by Tracy K. Smith. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else Are they so buffered against, if not love’s blade Sizing up the heart’s familiar meat? We watch and grieve. We sleep, stir, eat. Love: the heart sliced open, gutted, clean. Love: naked almost in the everlasting street, Skirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. —from “Unrest in Baton Rouge” In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith’s signature voice—inquisitive, lyrical, and wry—turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men, and violence. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors’ reports of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets.

Watershed

2014 American literature

Author : Laura Donnelly (Poet)
Release : 2014
Genre : American literature
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Watershed written by Laura Donnelly (Poet). This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Lovely and urgent in their strangeness, the poems in Laura Donnelly's Watershed conjure spaces to dwell in and return to, spaces of astonishment held by a deft ear for inner experience and a numinous power to sense back toward the ancestral, never 'forgetting even our not-knowing,' and calling upon us 'to grasp / barefoot the breakwaters / and fossil ourselves to that wall.' To read these lyrics is to want to flesh out and stay here, woven into her artful and sensitive music—'to move through this world in waves, my love—it's a wonder we cross paths at all'—and yet WATERSHED leads us to the precipice of that wonder again and again."—Jennifer K. Sweeney "These poems by Laura Donnelly—clarity, yes. Grace absolutely. And desire's long shot. But it's their edge that fills us with past unto future and dread's empathy, how a dark brilliant Botticelli hangs in an old-world hospital 'where typhoid once / lingered below the good angel,' or that 'the first half / of the film...sets you up / to feel worse in the end.' Maybe poems are omens, maybe not. But you don't feel worse. You deepen instead, reading this work. Like the fine musician she is, Donnelly makes us listen hard to Bach, to everything because 'the theme / is only the starting point.' Amid stars and birds, there's complication. 'And I think / I too fear,' she tells us."—Marianne Boruch "In this book Laura Donnelly explores 'the principle of flickering:' how, if we look at anything—or each other—closely enough, we might just detect a being in motion, a thing or a soul in the process of changing. If, as Donnelly argues, 'we move through this world in waves... / it's a wonder we cross paths at all.' And yet this is a book of crossings and encounters, observer with painting, musician with elusive notes, cloud shadow with wharf, lover with lover, the flickering of change—nothing holds still—and the loss and the beauty and sometimes the wonder of that. What an exquisite debut collection!"—Nancy Eimers

Watershed

2007-05-01 Poetry

Author : Harold Gower
Release : 2007-05-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Watershed written by Harold Gower. This book was released on 2007-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Watershed

2023-03-30

Author : Carolyn Clark
Release : 2023-03-30
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Book Rating : 968/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Watershed written by Carolyn Clark. This book was released on 2023-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Only the simple things in life are true," Carolyn Clark writes in Watershed, a book that offers incontrovertible evidence to prove it true. In meditations on the bucolic life of upstate New York, Clark marvels at the enduring beauty of the natural world and finds within it echoes of the Greek antiquity from which some areas take their names. While nature is always welcome in these poems, it is the community of people Clark honors with them that somehow resonate more deeply, perhaps the way they offer stark relief to the isolation and fear of the pandemic. Clark's book assures us, with warm comfort, that our connections are what keep us aloft, whether marital, communal, or natural. -Charles Jensen, writer, https: //linktr.ee/charlesjensen Carolyn Clark gets better with each book, each poem. Where else could we get woodlands, strawberries, free range blue eggs, in a world populated by Artemis, Eurydice, Apollo, and horses. To create the beauty and mystery of classic myths within the natural world is to be inside and outside of the imagination, a rare read. Cobwebs, woodchucks, compost, Covid, stars-poems from the pandemic that make us heal. Clark says, "My heart glows with affection." So do ours, your readers. -Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate This book's title points two ways: literal and metaphoric. In her poems, Carolyn Clark pictures the first and seeks the second. A free spirit with wordplay, rhyme, and cognates across the European language spectrum, she addresses her trees as "rusting red/organ donors/doing their job/better than me" and pauses during a pandemic to "feel no guilt/in rejoicing in nature." Clark's work celebrates marriage's sick days and valentines, a ranch's new blue eggs and hand tools and dearly aging mares-aware that we are "just one stop away from extinction," yet affirming hope as a space to live in. -Mary Gilliland, author of The Devil's Fools Carolyn Clark is a keen observer of the world around her, and an excellent communicator of what she sees. Like the best poets, she helps us see our own world more clearly and experience it more fully. -Michael R. Burch

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