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  Colaterales Collateral

  Dinapiera Di Donato

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  A winner of the prestigious poetry award named for the Nobel laureate Octavio Paz—in a special bilingual edition featuring English and Spanish translations.   These poems were written during days spent clearing river debris while the author was living along the Hudson River in Manhattan. They speak of these wanderings in the imaginary landscape of a nomadic subject who erases and rewrites.   This volume by Venezuelan poet Dinapiera di Donato earned the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series and The Center at Miami Dade College.

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  The Poetry of W B Yeats

  WB Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865. 
   
  His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as ‘entirely Un-Irish’.  With Ernest Rhys he founded the Rhymers Club. Based at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street it’s best described as a drinking club for performing poets.  Yeats later cited them as ‘The Tragic Generation’.  By now Yeats was writing and publishing poetry and stories that were profoundly based in Irish folklore.   
   
  Yeats is perhaps best described as Ireland’s national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue. He represents the ‘Romantic poet of modernism,’ with an extraordinary style created from the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions.  
   
  In 1923 his fame was brought to an even wider audience when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.  
   
  His personal life was driven by his many relationships in love and by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism.  Yeats also wrote prose and drama and, as an ardent Nationalist, established himself as a spokesman of the Irish cause and served as an Irish senator for two terms.  
   
  W B Yeats died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28th January 1939.  He was 73. 
   
  In modern times his contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable.  His sumptuous poetry elegantly envelopes the reader in a world very few can articulate but all know well.  A legacy for everyone 
  1 - The Poetry of W B Yeats - An Introduction 
  2 - A Man Young and Old - I - First Love by W B Yeats 
  3 - A Man Young and Old - II - Human Dignity by W B Yeats 
  4 - A Man Young and Old - III - The Mermaid by W B Yeats 
  5 - A Man Young and Old - IV - The Death of the Hare by W B Yeats 
  6 - A Man Young and Old - V - The Empty Cup by W B Yeats 
  7 - A Man Young and Old - VI - His Memories 
  8 - A Man Young and Old - VII - The Friends of His Youth 
  9 - A Man Young and Old - VIII - Summer and Spring 
  10 - A Man Young and Old - IX - The Secrets of the Old 
  11 - A Man Young and Old - X - His Wildness 
  12 - A Man Young and Old - XI - From 'Oedipus at Colonus' 
  13 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats 
  14 - A Prayer for My Daughter by W B Yeats 
  15 - The Mother of God by W B Yeats 
  16 - Among School Children by W B Yeats 
  17 - The Stolen Child by W B Yeats 
  18 - Long-Legged Fly by W B Yeats 
  19 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  20 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
  21 - The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats 
  22 - Leda and the Swan by W B Yeats 
  23 - The Cat and the Moon by W B Yeats 
  24 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone by W B Yeats 
  25 - Imitated From The Japanese by W B Yeats 
  26 - All Things Can Tempt Me by W B Yeats 
  27 - A Statesman's Holiday by W B Yeats 
  28 - The Fascination of What's Difficult by W B Yeats 
  29 - A Drinking Song by W B Yeats 
  30 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  31 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats 
  32 - The Song of Wandering Aengus by W B Yeats 
  33 - The Travail of Passion by W B Yeats 
  34 - The Falling of Leaves by W B Yeats 
  35 - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W B Yeats 
  36 - Down by the Salley Gardens by W B Yeats 
  37 - Quarrel in Old Age by W B Yeats 
  38 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats 
  39 - Under Saturn by W B Yeats 
  40 - To Ireland In The Coming Times by W B Yeats 
  41 - I Am of Ireland by W B Yeats 
  42 - The Second Coming by William Bu

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  Footprints

  James Ten Eyck

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  Footprints are a collection of poems that were either written or revised recently or recalled from work begun and lost fifty years before. Some recall pleasant memories of my beloved Veronica and some of her later struggles with ill health. She was born and grew up in Dublin and Ireland remained a special place for both of us. The DART from Howth to Greystones "tunnels under Queen V's crown and pops out for the view above Killiney Bay" where "the magic face of Ireland is found." We met and married in Syracuse. Events and places from that time are featured in some of the poems. Newtown Plus Five was written shortly after news coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre. An Elegy for One and Many commemorates the life of a friend of the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue rampage who died during the same period of time. Many of the poems are written in traditional verse forms and rhyme schemes. 
  A number of poems reflect concerns about America: the face it presents to the world and the state of its democracy. Ode from a Colonial Bowl recounts a family history of its founding. 
  Flint where "once-upon-a-time America coursed through (its) leaden arteries to nurse its middle class." In Vietnam "we've grown old, some fifty years removed from when our universe was rolled into a white-hot ball," to find the common threads we shared in youth to pursue our common legacy. American Graffiti asks, "Can Cicero and Caesar coexist within republican constraint?" 
  Let Freedom Ring calls upon us to answer "the distant bells of freedom pealing " in Ukraine. The challenge is to understand how both poems can be compatible in our logic.

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  Grocery Shopping with My Mother...

  Kevin Powell

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  When Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home ever week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way—and examined his own healing while praying for hers.Grocery Shopping with My Mother originated as social media posts about these visits and evolved into a breathtaking collection of thirty-two new poems, crafted like an album, plus four bonus tracks celebrating a great love of wordplay. Culturally rooted in the literary traditions of Ntozake Shange and Allen Ginsberg, Powell’s poems honor the likes of V (formerly Eve Ensler), bell hooks, and Sidney Poitier.Grocery Shopping with My Mother dives into the complexities of relationships and contemporary themes with honesty and vulnerability. Creatively and spiritually inspired by Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, Powell’s poems shift in form and style, from praise chants to reverential meditations to, most importantly, innovative hope.

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  Salome

  Oscar Wilde

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  The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Iokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. (Summary by wikipedia)Cast:Herod Antipas: Mark PenfoldIokanaan: Bruce PirieThe Young Syrian: Kim StichTigellinus: Matthew ReeceA Cappadocian: Tim FerreiraA Nubian: D MoNeYFirst Soldier: SkythrockSecond Soldier: Joshua LoganThe Page of Herodias: om123Herodias: SweetlilbirdySalome: Arielle LipshawA Slave: AnaFirst Jew: Frank BookerSecond Jew/Fourth Jew/Sadducee: Elizabeth KlettThird Jew/First Nazarene: Denny SayersFifth Jew: David LawrenceSecond Nazarene: Algy PugA Pharisee: mbNarrator: Tricia GAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

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  I know something you don't know

  Amy LeBlanc

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  Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection of folklore and femininity. With fairy-tale lucidity and fluid voice, the poems in this collection weave through the seams between story and fact. This debut collection is alluring and noxious like hemlock, foxglove, and blooming wildflowers.

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