What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems write by Bianca Stone. This book was released on 2022-01-18. What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the New England Book Award in Poetry and the Vermont Book Award As heard on NPR Morning Edition A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022 A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. “I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,” writes Stone. “I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort.” Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the intimacy and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, What Is Otherwise Infinite deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self—which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.
Someone Else's Wedding Vows
Someone Else's Wedding Vows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Someone Else's Wedding Vows write by Bianca Stone. This book was released on 2014-03-18. Someone Else's Wedding Vows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The much-anticipated debut collection from a celebrated young poet, Someone Else's Wedding Vows marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in American poetry. Someone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts a human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psychological, and even supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing towards the absurdity of our choices. They recede into the imaginative in order to understand and translate the distressing nature of reality. It is a bittersweet question this book raises: Why we are like this? There is no easy answer. So while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.
Eyes to See Otherwise
Eyes to See Otherwise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eyes to See Otherwise write by Homero Aridjis. This book was released on 2002. Eyes to See Otherwise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "New Directions continues its public service to literature with this lively introduction to contemporary Mexican poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis."--"Publishers Weekly."
Essential Ruth Stone
Essential Ruth Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essential Ruth Stone write by Ruth Stone. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Essential Ruth Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Expertly and sensitively selected by her granddaughter Bianca, The Essential Ruth Stone bears witness to a vivid fifty-year career of one of America’s most influential and pioneering poets. Distilling twelve books into a single volume―from the wild formalism of her early work to the science-filled cosmic intellect of her final collection―The Essential Ruth Stone shows a visionary poet with a physical grasp on language. Dazzling, humorous and grief-stricken poems explore the continuity of loss and love, in the spectral appearances of the dead husband, to portraits of an American childhood, life during wartime, and complex metaphysical inquiries into consciousness itself. Ruth Stone’s feminism, mysticism and overall fierceness shine through her wit and passion. Moving gracefully between the loneliness of grief and loss to the fullness of life and love, Stone approaches all her subjects with a profound humanity, an understanding born from her own lived experiences.
The Book of Jane
The Book of Jane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Jane write by Jennifer Habel. This book was released on 2020-04-01. The Book of Jane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book of Jane is a perceptive, tenacious investigation of gender, authority, and art. Jennifer Habel draws a contrast between the archetype of the lone male genius and the circumscribed, relational lives of women. Habel points repeatedly to discrepancies of scale: the grand arenas of Balanchine, Einstein, and Matisse are set against the female miniature—the dancer’s stockings, the anonymous needlepoint, the diary entry, the inventory of a purse.
