Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Now You Care - cover

Now You Care

Di Brandt

Publisher: Coach House Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Nominated for a Griffin Poetry Prize
 
In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the toxic fallout of over-industrialization and war, these poems face the dark side of our postmodern climate with a language that doesn't give in. They tremble and shake,they rage against despair, they speak against death and wrestle with the fateful spirits of Armageddon to loosen their choke-hold on humanity. Perhaps we won't figure it out and the horizon is already on fire, and our best love will never be more than an approximation of regret, but grass still grows between the cement blocks of the sidewalk to 'grin of the wild.'
Available since: 10/15/2003.
Print length: 120 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Flatting-Mill - cover

    The Flatting-Mill

    William Cowper

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Flatting-Mill by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011.William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper")was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak. He was a nephew of the poet Judith Madan. (summary from Wikipedia)
    Show book
  • Doris Day (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    Doris Day (NHB Modern Plays)

    EV Crowe

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Two police officers clash over different expectations of the job.
    This play was originally published in the volume Charged, a collection of plays about the lives of women in the criminal justice system, and was commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.
    Show book
  • Short Poetry Collection 140 - cover

    Short Poetry Collection 140

    Various Various

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015.
    Show book
  • Awake and Sing! - cover

    Awake and Sing!

    Clifford Odets

    • 0
    • 2
    • 0
    Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Richard Kind and Ben Gazzara, brings to life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country’s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Emily Bergl as Hennie BergerBen Gazzara as JacobJonathan Hadary as Myron BergerJane Kaczmarek as Bessie BergerRichard Kind as Uncle MortyPeter Kybart as SchlosserMark Ruffalo as Moe AxelrodRaphael Sbarge as Sam FeinschreiberPeter Smith as Ralph BergerDirected by Bartlett Sher. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
    Show book
  • A Ruined Reversolet - cover

    A Ruined Reversolet

    C. J. Dennis

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Ruined Reversolet by C. J. Dennis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2012.Clarence James Dennis was an Australian poet and journalist. In his varied career, he worked as a barman, shearer, solicitor's clerk, newspaper proprietor and (as do many Australians) a civil servant, before settling down in a rural retreat at Toolangi, in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne.His most famous work is "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", a verse novel written in an Australian vernacular and first published in 1915. Despite its artless presentation, Dennis' verse is constructed with great skill, and attracted enthusiastic reviews from such august critics as H.G. Wells. E.V. Lucas and Sir John Betjeman.Dennis' significance as a literary figure has been recognized by the establishment of C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, which is awarded annually as part of the Premier's Literary Awards for the state of Victoria.
    Show book
  • The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me - Two Plays - cover

    The Normal Heart and The Destiny...

    Larry Kramer

    • 0
    • 1
    • 0
    Two award-winning plays from the legendary activist and dramatist who has been called “one of the best writers of our times.” (Lambda Book Report)  The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me is the stirring story of an AIDs activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.  The Normal Heart was selected as one of the 100 Greatest Plays of the Twentieth Century by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain  The Destiny of Me was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a double Obie winner, and the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play of the Year.   Introduction by Tony Kushner.   “Wired with anger, electric with rage. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Boston Globe
    Show book