Poetry unbound : 50 poems to open your world /
Padraig Ó Tuama.
- First American edition.
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
- 367 pages ; 22 cm.
Wonder woman / Book of Genesis / Phase One / A portable paradise / Worm / Wishing Well / All my friends are finding new bellefs / Don't miss out! book right now for the journey of a lifetime! / A blessing / The word / Bullshit / Some things I like / Say my name / Miscegenation / Reporting back to Queen Isabella / When you say 'Protestors' instead of protectors / We lived happily during the war / Writing the camp / Battlegrounds / [Whereas my eyes land on the shoreline] / Miami airport / Kulila / reconclliation / All bread / Prayer / The Book of Hours / How prayers works / Of course she looked back / After the goose that Rose like the God of Geese / My mother's body / Father / Man and boy / On receving father at JFK after his long flight from Kashmir / Essay on reentry / Married love / Exorcism / Freeport / 22: La Bota / In Leticia's kitchen drawer / When we were 13, Jeff's father left the needle down on a journey Record before leaving the house one morning and Never coming back / Leaving early / Seventh circle of Earth / Song / Coconut oil / The place where we are right / What you missed the day you were absent from fourth grade / Life drawing / Consider the Hands that write this letter / Living in the past / On listenint to your teach take attendance / Bioluminescence / Ada Limon -- Kei Miller -- Dilruba Ahmed -- Roger Robinson -- Gail McConnell -- Gregory Pardlo -- Christian Wiman -- Imtiaz Sharker -- James Wright -- Zaffar Kunial -- Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo -- Lemn Sissay -- Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi -- Natasha Trethewey -- Lorna Goodison -- No u Revilla -- Ilya Kaninsky -- Yousif M. Qasmiyeh -- Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo -- Layli Long Soldier -- Raymond Antrobus -- Ali Cobby Eckermann -- Jonina Kirton -- Margaret Atwood -- Faisal Mohyuddin -- Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Mark S. Burrows) -- Kaveh Akbar -- Natalie Diaz -- Martin Espada -- Marie Howe -- Carlos Andres Gomes -- Patience Agbabi -- Rafiq Kathwari -- Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Kathleen Flennken -- Richard Georges -- Esteban Rodriguez -- Peggy Robles-Alvarado -- Hanif Abdurraqib -- Leanne O'Sullivan -- Ocean Vuong -- Tracy K. Smith -- Roshni Goyate -- Yehuda Amichai (trans. Stephen Mitchell) -- Brad Aaron Modllin -- R. A. Villanueva -- Aracelis Girmay -- Joy Ladin -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Paul Tran. from
"In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother's body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience." --publisher's website.
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English poetry. English poetry--21st century. Poetry.