Tough Luck Poems

“Tough Luck is funny and philosophical and wry and large-hearted, and it’s our great good luck to have it.”—Beth Ann Fennelly At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home—all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and “a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life” (Tony Hoagland).

With a voice that blends lyrical beauty with brutal honesty, Pähkel navigates the storms of fate and the calm waters of resilience.

A selection of poems by the great american poetess Wanda Coleman, with calligraphy and layout by Jean-Jacques Tachdjian

Joe Beads gets on well with his class 3B. However, he is having a problem getting through to Twagger, a sullen absentee. He's also worried about Nasim, just arrived from Pakistan feeling very friendless and very foreign. It's going to be a tricky year.

Collection of poems about school. Suggested level: primary.

Poems deal with the joys and sorrows of growing up Chinese American, and the prejudice which Chinese Americans sometimes face.

The poems I have written in this book are not just poems to me, they are feelings which I held within myself for years and which I longed to be shared with someone. Finding that someone who would understand what I wanted to say through m words which were mostly the intervals between my long silence would have been tough luck. Thus, I began to write! Each day. Would sit out on the couch of m house in hue evening with a cup of tea besides me and this dairy in my lap, and I would write - one feeling a day. It was not much long when I completed hundred poems. To me, they weren't just hundred poems, but they are hundred days i lived which otherwise had become just a matter of survival for me. Publishing them in this book, as this collection, is my answer to myself when I began asking myself if I would ever find someone who would be able to understand these feelings? Well, all can say is that yes, I have found someone. Not just someone, I hope thousands of people now. And to their understanding, I leave this book-these feelings here with them.

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The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be." Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, Harris's hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight-of-hand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully upside-down way. With enthusiastic endorsements from bestselling luminaries such as Lemony Snicket, Judith Viorst, Andrea Beaty, and many others, this entirely unique collection offers a surprise around every corner. Adding to the fun: Lane Smith, bestselling creator of beloved hits like It's a Book and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has spectacularly illustrated this extraordinary collection with nearly one hundred pieces of appropriately absurd art. It's a mischievous match made in heaven! "Ridiculous, nonsensical, peculiar, outrageous, possibly deranged--and utterly, totally, absolutely delicious. Read it! Immediately!" --Judith Viorst, bestselling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Attractive lovely rhyming poems that will give every thought wings and will take you to the mirror of world and its reality. Will make you realise how cruel and beautiful the world is, means showing the positive as well as negative side of the world and people. How some people struggle and win or get tramped on by the heavy murders of dreams and a man's thoughts.