A Journey Poems Of Feeling And Thought

Download or read book A Journey, Poems of Feeling and Thought written by S. J. Figueroa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON THIS JOURNEY OF LIFE AND ITS MUNDANE BYWAYS, And the trials and tribulations experienced by many of us on this "stage" Called life, on which the players were are called to be, in some way offering Understanding, Enlightenment, and possibly clarity, on our great adventure of life's realization with - (POEMS OF) ( FEELING AND THOUGHT. ) A gift to my children ( Tash and Josh ) (Peace)

Download or read book A Journey of the Mind: Collected Poems of Helen Pinkerton, 1945-2016 written by Helen Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority."-Yvor Winters "Pinkerton's work is . . . remarkable for its intelligence. Her poems are not only enjoyable to read, but rewarding to think about. Philosophically, she seems to be a dualist, in the sense that she regards life as a continual negotiation between mutually essential, but seemingly opposed, elements. Her poems strive to balance and connect the transient and the timeless, matter and spirit, reason and faith, our particular lives and Being itself."-Timothy Steele "Her poetry, in form and in content, is both traditional and original. In the best sense of the word, it is poetic."-John Baxter, in Sequoia In 1959 Helen Pinkerton published her first book of poems, Error Pursued. In the fifty seven years since that date, Pinkerton's publication of poetry has remained as rare as her poems are well-wrought. Slim chapbooks such as Bright Fictions: Poems on Works of Art, and "The Harvesters" and Other Poems on Works of Art, followed, both published by R.L. Barth. In 2002, Swallow Press-Ohio University Press published the body of her work to that date in Taken in Faith: Poems. This latest collection, A Journey of the Mind: Collected Poems of Helen Pinkerton:1945-2016, contains the life work of an authoritative master of poetic style. By turns lyrical and devotional, historical and metaphysical, the poems herein lead us from the beginning to the end of a life lived in submission to the Muse. About the Author Helen Pinkerton is a poet, essayist, and scholar of American and English literature. Her poems as have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Southern Review. The 1999 winner of the Allen Tate Poetry Prize, she has taught poetry, fiction, and the writing of poetry at Stanford, Michigan State, and other universities. She lives in Grass Valley, California.

Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Javier Zamora and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Download or read book A Penny for Your Thoughts written by Sherrill S. Cannon and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever loved, been loved, been confused about love, or suffered from loss of love? All these feelings have been captured and shared in the word of heartfelt poems, compiled over many years by a retired teacher and award-winning author. Sherrill S. Cannon now shares her thoughts in this book of feelings. “As a teacher, I used poetry to help counsel many troubled teens and friends, and have continued this pattern throughout the years.”There are three sections in her book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails . . . (Love & Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms includes free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets. Some poems are simply plays on words.

Download or read book A Journey Through Love And Peace of Mind written by Joe Vigil and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Vigil has written a beautiful book of poetry that will inspire and move you. This book is an honest look at life and what is important. He covers many topics with an enlightened sensitivity that is sure to touch your heart and engage your mind. Dive deep with Joe and let this book encourage you to look at your own emotions and experiences. This book will make an impression on your heart, your mind and your spirit.

Download or read book The New Testament written by Jericho Brown and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library Journal NPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-present death, but also the joy of survival and sin. And not everyone has the chutzpah to rewrite The Good Book.”—NPR.org "Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry."—Rain Taxi "To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius."—Claudia Rankine In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast. Fairy Tale Say the shame I see inching like steam Along the streets will never seep Beneath the doors of this bedroom, And if it does, if we dare to breathe, Tell me that though the world ends us, Lover, it cannot end our love Of narrative. Don’t you have a story For me?—like the one you tell With fingers over my lips to keep me From sighing when—before the queen Is kidnapped—the prince bows To the enemy, handing over the horn Of his favorite unicorn like those men Brought, bought, and whipped until They accepted their masters’ names. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. He currently teaches at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Download or read book Our Thoughts Our Problems Our Inner Feelings Always Evolving Poems of Our Times written by Roberta Fluellen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selections of the poems contained herein were written over a period of many decades. These poems reflect the times that we have lived and will be living. Most of them are based on true feelings and events that have taken place during my life and yours in this society and other countries. I truly hope that you will enjoy them and I truly thank you for sharing these precious moments and poems with me. Also, please keep an open mind when reading them, and if you can think about some of the events that have taken place in our world, understand that there are always pros and cons to any given occurrence in our world. Remember that there is a destiny that connects all mankind. No one stands alone. Whatever vibes you send will be channeled in different directions into our universe. With due respect, I know and understand that we do not hold on to the same values and belief systems. Please keep an open mind. Open your hearts and spiritual beliefs and allow Mother Nature's wind to blow into a time with me. I believe that whatever you send into the lives and experiences of others will certainly, at some point or another, have an effect on us, whether we accept the outcome(s) or not; it is so written.