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Ruins, a Book of Poetry

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TD Recommended Iconby Margaret Randall

This book of poetry caught my eye when II was over on the University of New Mexico website. Finding some samples, I thought it worthy of a look.  You can see for yourself using the “Look Inside” feature over at Amazon.com. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening

AVAILABLE AT UNMPress.com & AT AMAZON.COM

Ruins, poetry book coverABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time’s movement–through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced time’s transformations and traumas.

Writer and social activist Margaret Randall is the author of more than eighty published books, including To Change the World: My Years in Cuba (2009) and, most recently, As If the Empty Chair / Cómo si la silla vacía(a bilingual book of poetry) and First Laugh (essays). She lives in Albuquerque.

Civil Twilight, a Poetry Book

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Carnegie Mellon Poetry
by Margot Schilpp

The poetry is described in reviews as “beautiful, quietly powerful” and “of supreme lyrical delicacy”. These are high accolades, indeed, bespeaking a powerful book that one reviewer described as “a splendid lamination of paradoxes.” –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books

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Civil Twilight, new poetry bookABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

The poems in Civil Twilight animate the present with a resonant sense of the past as character and as compass. The poems in the collection reveal a fascination with the possibilities that exist at every moment and the human urge to resist the inevitable and keep those possibilities open. The language of these poems is personal and precise, attuned to the mind and the ear, and, with each line, readers are reminded of the perilous nature of our existence here on earth and of the joys our lives hold.

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press; 01 edition (January 11, 2012)
  • Language: English

ABOUT THE POET

Margot Schilpp was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1962. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: The World’s Last Night (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001), Laws of My Nature (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005), and Civil Twilight (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in January, 2012). Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines, and she has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and an M.F.A. at the University of Utah. She teaches at Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, and at the Educational Center for the Arts. Schilpp lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, the poet Jeff Mock, and their two daughters, Paula and Leah.

Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry

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TD Recommended Iconby Patty Paine (Editor), Samia Touati (Editor), Jeff Lodge (Editor)

I chose to feature this poetry book, not because I want to incur the wrath of “rag-head” haters, but because I want the opportunity to stop the hate by inviting understanding of people of the Middle East. Understanding is, to me, the bridge to embracing differences and cultivating tolerance, and poetry best touches the core of culture provoking that internal resonance that’s key to empathy. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening

poetry book cover: : An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf PoetryAVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM

ABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry brings readers into the rich and vibrant world of the Arabian Gulf, offering an understanding of the people and culture of the region through poetry. A handful of anthologies represent the Middle East in general, or individual Middle Eastern countries; however, this is the first collection that presents poets from across the Arabian Gulf. The Arabian Gulf has a distinct and deeply rooted tradition of poetry and a thriving contemporary literary community. This anthology offers an exciting collection of poems by poets from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Gathering the Tide makes available to English-language readers the important literary work being undertaken by the poets of the Arabian Gulf. The anthology includes poetry from established and rising poets in the region and encompasses a wide range of poems and poets, from the work of Laala Kashef Alghata, a nineteen-year-old poet from Bahrain, to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Emir of Dubai. While several of the poets composed their poems in English, most of the poems were translated from Arabic to English by an exceptional team of accomplished translators. The Gulf has attracted global attention for its explosive growth, and the poets within contemplate everything from souks to shopping malls, to love, loss, and solitude, to war, peace and beyond.