Poetry unbound : 50 poems to open your world / Pádraig Ó Tuama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Tuama, Padraig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Explication.

Poetry.

Poetry--Appreciation.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

367 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

Fifty poems to open your world

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton, 2023.

Summary:

"Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. 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 Paadraig aO Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, aO Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Ó Tuama pairs fifty poems with his own reflections, considering each poem's artistry and exploring how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, he features a diverse array of poems and shows how each can take readers on a journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Introduction / Pádraig Ó Tuama

Wonder woman / Ada Limón

Book of genesis / Kei Miller

Phase one / Dilruba Ahmed

A portable paradise / Roger Robinson

Worm / Gail McConnell

Wishing well / Gregory Pardlo

All my friends are finding new beliefs / Christian Wiman

Don't miss out! Book right now for the journey of a lifetime! / Imtiaz Dharker

A blessing / James Wright

The word / Zaffar Kunial

Bullshit / Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo

Some things I like / Lemn Sissay

Say my name / Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi

Miscegenation / Natasha Trethewey

Reporting back to Queen Isabella / Lorna Goodison

When you say 'protestors' instead of protectors / No'u Revilla

We lived happily during the war / Ilya Kaminsky

Writing the camp / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

Battlegrounds / Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

[Whereas my eyes land on the shoreline] / Layli Long Soldier

Miami airport / Raymond Antrobus

Kulila / Ali Cobby Eckermann

reconciliation / Jónína Kirton

All bread / Margaret Atwood

Prayer / Faisal Mohyuddin

from The book of hours / Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Mark S. Burrows)

How prayer works / Kaveh Akbar

Of course she looked back / Natalie Diaz

After the goose that rose like the god of geese / Martín Espada

My mother's body / Marie Howe

Father / Carlos Andrés Gómez

Man and boy / Patience Agbabi

On receiving father at JFK after his long flight from Kashmir / Rafiq Kathwari

Essay on reentry / Reginald Dwayne Betts

Married love / Kathleen Flenniken

Exorcism / Freeport / Richard Georges

22: La Bota / Esteban Rodríguez

In Leticia's kitchen drawer / Peggy Robles-Alvarado

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 / Hanif Abdurraqib

Leaving early / Leanne O'Sullivan

Seventh circle of Earth / Ocean Vuong

Song / Tracy K. Smith

Coconut oil / Roshni Goyate

The place where we are right / Yehuda Amichai (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

What you missed that day you were absent from fourth grade / Brad Aaron Modlin

Life drawing / R.A. Villanueva

Consider the hands that write this letter / Aracelis Girmay

Living in the past / Joy Ladin

On listening to your teacher take attendance / Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Bioluminescence / Paul Tran

Notes:

First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Canongate Books Ltd.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

1324035471

9781324035473

OCLC:

1295352091