Bøger af Judith Cody

A gimlet-eyed catalogue of the natural world, and, contained within it, the world within ourselves. Irresistible language makes it a classic. Andrew Sean Greer, author of the novel LESS, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winnerThe prose poem, "Hose. Ants. Plants. Expressway." alone makes this delightful chapbook worthy of our close consideration-and is emblematic, too, of this glorious, serious, humorous, loving paean to the natural world and us in it, in this, to quote another poem, "personal myth of the garden. Claire Ortalda, Georgia State University Fiction Prize WinnerIn Judith Cody's gorgeous collection of poems, Garden on an Alien Star, a fistful of soil is a place of endless wonder, where the poet sings praises to decay, and a window box is a magical crossroads where the human and natural worlds interact. The gardener's many relationships with her flowers and weeds are full of metaphors for personal and spiritual relationships. Everyday experiences take on mythical stature, in one poem it's a line of ants along a garden hose, in another poem it's "a descending cascade of petals" distracting a brown towhee from an earwig. The poems in this collection offer the poet's vision of a backyard Eden where today's creation legends continue to be forever born and reborn. John Curl, author of novels, The Outlaws of Maroon, The Co-op Conspiracy and the history, Indigenous Peoples Day

Energy crackles through PEN Oakland's new collection of poetry and prose, in which 125 works distill radical politics and the need for social justice into passionate literature. Pieces span the spectrum of human emotion: from rage, as in Floyd Salas's declamation against torture, to grief in CB Follett's "Words to the Mother Whose Son Shot My Son," to joy and contentment in the work of California poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. They range in subject from Kitty Kelley's expos of the revenge tactics of George H. W. Bush to Paul Krassner's account of the night Ken Kesey invited him to a Grateful Dead concert at the pyramids of Giza. Featuring works by luminaries such as Rebecca Solnit and MacArthur Fellow Ishmael Reed as well as writers you will be glad to meet for the first time, Fightin' Words bears witness to a vibrant American literary tradition well outside mainstream consciousness.

Regarded by many as the finest American female composer of the 20th century, Vivian Fine's accomplishments ranged from the first performances of her work to the composition of a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. This work provides a bibliography of her compositions.