Poems That Propel the Planet

Poems That Propel the Planet
Author: Paul Davis
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1602665214

This volume of prophetic poems focuses on the idea that the love of people must surpass the love of power. Love, liberation, and reconciliation is what the world needs. (Motivation)

The Day the Universe Exploded My Head

The Day the Universe Exploded My Head
Author: Allan Wolf
Publisher: Candlewick
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0763680257

Hang on tight for a raucous bounce through the solar system and back — propelled by funny, fanciful, factually sound poems and exuberant illustrations. The universe poured into me. My brain was overloaded. It smoked and glowed red-hot. And then it actually exploded. Ever wonder what the sun has to say about being the closest star to Earth? Or what Pluto has gotten up to since being demoted to a dwarf planet? Or where rocket ships go when they retire? Listen closely, because maybe, just maybe, your head will explode, too. With poetry that is equal parts accurate and entertaining — and illustrations that are positively out of this world — this book will enthrall amateur stargazers and budding astrophysicists as it reveals many of the wonders our universe holds. Space travelers in search of more information will find notes about the poems, a glossary, and a list of resources at the end.

Wheel With a Single Spoke

Wheel With a Single Spoke
Author: Nichita Stanescu
Publisher: Archipelago
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-07-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1935744429

Winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu was one of Romania’s most celebrated contemporary poets. This dazzling collection of poems – the most extensive collection of his work to date – reveals a world in which heavenly and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and a quest for truth are central, and urgent questions flow. His startling images stretch the boundaries of thought. His poems, at once surreal and corporeal, lead us into new metaphysical and linguistic terrain.

Little Glass Planet

Little Glass Planet
Author: Dobby Gibson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1555978894

The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world,” Gibson writes, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love.

Planets

Planets
Author: Ellen Hasbrouck
Publisher: Little Simon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780689844140

Take a trip through the solar system and discover what¹s really up in the sky! Packed with fascinating facts about planets, comets, asteroids and more, Planets is a galaxy of fun for young astronomers...and everybody who gazes at the night sky! Create your own universe and solar system with reusable stickers of the planets, asteroids, galaxies, and comets!

How a Poem Moves

How a Poem Moves
Author: Adam Sol
Publisher: Misfit Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781770414563

How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walk readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and delivers essays that demonstrate poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions.

Break, Blow, Burn

Break, Blow, Burn
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0307425096

America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.

Poetic Gesture

Poetic Gesture
Author: Kristine S. Santilli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136714138

This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.