We know a thing or two about Tortured Poets at Mizzou Libraries.
To help tide you over until April 19th, here are just a few of the tortured poets in our collection.
‘All’s fair in love and poetry.’
Skies by Alison Brackenbury
Skies is Alison Brackenbury’s ninth Carcanet collection. In these poems, Brackenbury sustains delicate proximities between war and love, joy and sadness, summer and winter.
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mars
A literary coming-of-age poetry collection, an ode to the places we call home, and a piercingly intimate deconstruction of daughterhood, Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
A fluid, poetic memoir anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as America’s fifth inaugural poet In this brief and evocative memoir, Richard Blanco shares his life as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional understanding of what it means to be an American.
From From by Monica Youn
“Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never belong here, you’re a perpetual foreigner, you’ll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.
Africa in My Skin by Rafael Nino Feliz
…more than an idea of social class or politics proper, the poet takes us on a journey across the islands of the Caribbean region where he uncovers the footprints of its inhabitants.
His wry humor and darkly illuminating vision are on full display here as he moves close to the dark ironies of history and human experience. Simic understands the strange interplay between the ordinary and the odd, between reality and imagination.
The Broken String by Grace Schulman
The award-winning author of Days of Wonder celebrates the wonders and limitations of life through the power of music as she meditates on such themes as joy, faith, death, and the human heart.
