Mary szybist (127 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic--however quirky or strange.This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald JusticeIn Tennessee I Found a FireflyFlashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clungto the dark of it: the legs of the spiderheld the tucked wings close, held the abdomen still in the midst of callingwith thrusts of phosphorescent light--When I am tired of being human, I try to rememberthe two stuck together like burrs. I try to place themcentral in my mind where everything else mustsurround them, must see the burr and the barb of them.There is courtship, and there is hunger. I supposethere are grips from which even angels cannot fly.Even imagined ones. Luciferin, luciferase.When I am tired of only touching, I have my mouth to try to tell youwhat, in your arms, is not erasedThis is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald Justice.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic--however quirky or strange.This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald JusticeIn Tennessee I Found a FireflyFlashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clungto the dark of it: the legs of the spiderheld the tucked wings close, held the abdomen still in the midst of callingwith thrusts of phosphorescent light--When I am tired of being human, I try to rememberthe two stuck together like burrs. I try to place themcentral in my mind where everything else mustsurround them, must see the burr and the barb of them.There is courtship, and there is hunger. I supposethere are grips from which even angels cannot fly.Even imagined ones. Luciferin, luciferase.When I am tired of only touching, I have my mouth to try to tell youwhat, in your arms, is not erasedThis is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald Justice. …

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new colour. Through the lens of an iconic moment, the Annunciation of an unsettling angel to a young woman, Szybist describes the confusion and even terror of moments in which our longing for the spiritual may also be a longing for what is fundamentally alien to us. In a world where we are so often asked to choose sides, to believe or not believe, to embrace or reject, Incarnadine offers lyrical and brilliantly inventive alternatives.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the US's top literary magazines and writing programmes, as well as additional poems submitted through an open online competition.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic--however quirky or strange.This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald JusticeIn Tennessee I Found a FireflyFlashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clungto the dark of it: the legs of the spiderheld the tucked wings close, held the abdomen still in the midst of callingwith thrusts of phosphorescent light--When I am tired of being human, I try to rememberthe two stuck together like burrs. I try to place themcentral in my mind where everything else mustsurround them, must see the burr and the barb of them.There is courtship, and there is hunger. I supposethere are grips from which even angels cannot fly.Even imagined ones. Luciferin, luciferase.When I am tired of only touching, I have my mouth to try to tell youwhat, in your arms, is not erasedThis is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald Justice.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic--however quirky or strange.This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald JusticeIn Tennessee I Found a FireflyFlashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clungto the dark of it: the legs of the spiderheld the tucked wings close, held the abdomen still in the midst of callingwith thrusts of phosphorescent light--When I am tired of being human, I try to rememberthe two stuck together like burrs. I try to place themcentral in my mind where everything else mustsurround them, must see the burr and the barb of them.There is courtship, and there is hunger. I supposethere are grips from which even angels cannot fly.Even imagined ones. Luciferin, luciferase.When I am tired of only touching, I have my mouth to try to tell youwhat, in your arms, is not erasedThis is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald Justice. …