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“timothy liu”

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  • Let It Ride

    by Timothy Liu ...
    A lyrical exploration of midlife, love, and loss from award-winning poet Timothy Liu.In Let It Ride, Timothy Liu integrates life's struggles at midlife through disintegration, leaving behind lyrical traces of poetry as a gambol and love as a gamble. These poems argue for a life that is more than amusement—rather, a mythic venture waiting to be embodied, embarked upon. Liu shows us that, sometimes, ... Read more

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  • Vox Angelica

    by Timothy Liu ...
    In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash--they are the lash--and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that ... Read more

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  • Don't Go Back to Sleep

    by Timothy Liu ...
    Don't Go Back To Sleep answers the Sufi call to wake up to this life in the here and now where ecstasy serves its summons, inviting us to break out of the mundane quotidian. Timothy Liu winds the clock back to the Nanking Massacre in 1937, then traces its consequences on his family of origin, his mother's mental illness, his father's religious fundamentalism, and Liu's obsessive search for love. ... Read more

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  • Ploughshares Winter 2024-25

    by John Skoyles, Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, Kellam Ayres, Justin Balog, Craig Burnett, Alex Chertok, Zachary Colter, Margarita Cruz, Stuart Dybeck, Ori Feinberg, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Taylor Light, Leslie McIntosh, Pablo Medina, Nancy Mitchell, Rosalie Moffett, Jarrett Moseley, Alexandra Napier, Alafia Nicole Sessions ...
    The Winter 2024-25 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2024-25 Issue, edited ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Sense of Regard

    Essays on Poetry and Race

    by Martha Collins, Tony Hoagland, Randall Horton, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Kazim Ali, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Lucy Biederman, Jaswinder Bolina, Rafael Campo, Ken Chen, Travis Hedge Coke, Joanna Penn Cooper, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Paula Hayes, Garrett Hongo, Ailish Hopper, Leigh Johnson, Patrick S. Lawrence, Matthew Lippman, Charles H. Lynch, Philip Metres, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Mura, Sara Marie Ortiz, Jason Schneiderman, Ravi Shankar, Tess Taylor, Timothy Leyrson, Dr. Gerald Maa, Camille T. Dungy ...
    A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • A Human Eye

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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

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  • Everything But the Burden

    What White People Are Taking from Black Culture

    by Greg Tate ...
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  • Fear of Black Consciousness

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    Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopherIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the ... Read more

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  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    by Paisley Rekdal ...
    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

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  • The Poem Is You

    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making ... Read more

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