Results for "Trinidad, David"

Plainspoken, empowering, spare, wise beyond measure, Clifton's words are a balm and a force of good for all: "The surest failure / is the unattempted walk." Tracy K. Smith took a poetry workshop with Lucille Clifton following the death of her mother. The experience was an awakening. Clifton spoke of... Read More about Divining Poets: Clifton: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press (Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press)

This concentrated dose of the mystical wisdom of W.B. Yeats offers pleasure and insight to all who partake of it. "For nothing can be sole or whole / That has not been rent." Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon carries on the influential tradition of Irish mystical poetry with the great words o... Read More about Divining Poets: Yeats: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press (Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press)

This suburban California coming of age navigates Trinidad's personal history in the shadow of Hollywood, against the dramas of the 1960s and '70s. "Trinidad's pieces teach us how memory and history are forms of yearning, and about what can and cannot be recovered." --Amy Gerstler "This is the writi... Read More about Digging to Wonderland: Memory Pieces

This two-part collection by the beloved, award-winning poet looks at mortality, celebrity, pop culture, poetry, dreams, and otherworldliness in often disarming ways. "Bedrock at Night" (think The Flintstones) is the title poem of the first section, with tributes to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Hollywo... Read More about Swinging on a Star

A new collection of poetry from David Trinidad, author of DIGGING TO WONDERLAND. ... Read More about New Playlist: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Turtle Point Press is pleased to introduce the Divining Poets Quotable Deck Series. These elegant, boxed sets of seventy-eight cards la tarot decks feature short quotes meant to inspire, provoke, and guide users--to contemplate, memorize, or answer life questions. Here is the ever-astonishing Emil... Read More about Divining Poets: Dickinson (Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press)