Inicio > Literatura y estudios literarios > Poesía > Life
Life

Life

Life

Rachel Toalson

11,64 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Rachel Toalson
Año de edición:
2017
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781946193308
Páginas:
64
Encuadernación:
Rústica
11,64 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Añadir a favoritos
Sobre IBD

Life: A Definition of Terms is a playful collection of poetry that explores the immensity of life in all its facets, from family and love to mental health and humanity. Written entirely in haiku poetry, award-winning poet Rachel Toalson proves that the profound can be contained within a few words.The poems in Life range from humorous and spirited to wistful and philosophical, capturing in brilliant simplicity the potential of one life to touch the broad range of human emotion and experience.Life: A Definition of Terms is Rachel’s second book of poetry and a spectacular offering from a master of observing and communicating the poetic nature of life.

Artículos relacionados

  • Beyond the Road
    JT Curran
    “Beyond the Road” is JT Curran’s first published volume of poetry.  Selected from collected works which span over fifty years, JT’s poetry blends colorful observations with thought-provoking reflections.  With wit, compassion, irony, and humor, this book invites the reader to consider the signposts, off-ramps, co-travelers and vistas which populate our journeys. JT’s words remi...
    Disponible

    24,76 €

  • Polishing the Silver
    Jennifer Chrystie
    ‘There’s a touch of both Dickinson and Larkin in Jennifer Chrystie’s mature exhumation of the tales and tropes of family. Figures who could so easily flit like phantoms in her well honed poetry are palpably enjoying an after-life in the poet’s ability to redeem through deep understanding. The collection arcs from, at one extreme, the parsimonies of the household, to the transce...
    Disponible

    15,83 €

  • One Kiss
    Edward V Bonner
    The very title of Edward V. Bonner's first volume of poetry, One Kiss (Ingram, 2015), suggests some ways in which the poems inside balance the universal with the particular. Most of the poems examine the themes of beauty and risk, pleasure and danger, in the context of one of three kinds of relationships: to romantic partners, to the spiritual world, and to the world of nature....
    Disponible

    11,43 €

  • Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
    Valerius Flaccus / Michael Barich
    Swollen seas, erotic monsters, Greek passion gone Latin, deftlyThis 1st-century AD Latin version of the earlier Greek epic features exotic lands, wondrous monsters and a sea voyage over swells of young love. Valerius Flaccus lent sharp Roman refinements and erotic passion to the tale, which are skillfully sustained in this careful and appealing modern translation in English ver...
    Disponible

    19,29 €

  • Crow Impressions & Other Poems
    Edith Hoisington Miller
    Foreword Welcome to the poetry of Edith Hoisington Miller. Through her book, Crow Impressions & Other Poems, we travel through Edith Miller’s life, a journey lived to the fullest through family stories, travel adventures, nature, music, and history. In her poetry, we discover a writer who has spent her life as a quiet observer, but, at the same time, deeply engaged in natural ...
    Disponible

    15,40 €

  • The Truth about A
    Maureen O'Shaughnessy
    In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney, among a fictional underworld family, The Truth abou...
    Disponible

    13,35 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Colors of a Life
    Rachel Toalson
    'she can’t see what / lies beyond but even so / she steps outinto the unknown / is far better than / stagnation'So Rachel writes in this captivating collection of poetry exploring the vibrant colors that illuminate a life. Using her deft grasp of humor and her characteristic introspection, Rachel explores love, loss, childhood, joy, hope, mental illness, and so much more, braid...
    Disponible

    12,91 €

  • In the End
    Rachel Toalson
    In the End is a powerful and poignant reminder of the beauty of resilience, perfect for readers who enjoyed the introspective sincerity of Emma Straub’s All Adults Here and the moving examination of tangled relationships in Joanne Tompkins’s What Comes After.Erin McLain lost herself somewhere along the way-motherhood, caretaking, the busyness of life. But she didn’t just lose h...
    Disponible

    14,37 €

  • this is how you fly
    Rachel Toalson
    'You forget / how remarkable your family is / how remarkable your kids are / how remarkable you are / and / this is how / you remember,' writes Rachel Toalson in this captivating, honest, and achingly beautiful volume of poetry that illuminates love, parenting, and self-acceptance in the time of COVID-19. Probing the realities of working from home, living in quarantine with sev...
    Disponible

    11,88 €

  • Textbook of a Parenthetical Life
    Rachel Toalson
    From award-winning poet Rachel Toalson comes a brand-new collection of poetry inspired by the parenthetical years of life, perfect for fans of Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, and Billy Collins.Textbook of a Parenthetical Life is a poignant collection that tells the story of years spent feeling invisible-in careers, in families, in lives. With her characteristic candor and curiosity, ...
    Disponible

    11,62 €

  • If These Walls Could Talk
    Rachel Toalson
    Don’t worry about us; we’re doing just fine.In the parenting world, we readily adjust our masks, pretend we’re having a grand old time, do anything we can to avoid admitting that sometimes we don’t know what we’re doing, sometimes we question our sanity, sometimes we think our kids might be breaking us. Judgment is rife and large in the parenting world, and we dare not say anyt...
    Disponible

    12,55 €

  • this is how you live
    Rachel Toalson
    this is how you live is the long-awaited followup to award-winning poet Rachel Toalson’s debut poetry book, this is how you know. Delving into the depths and mystery of mental illness, Rachel examines what it means to wrestle with depression, daily life, and, ultimately, hope.Written over the course of a tumultuous year, this is how you live is an honest documentation of life s...
    Disponible

    12,14 €