Magnificent Errors by Sheryl Luna (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Magnificent Errors by Sheryl Luna Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope.In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in Magnificent Errors, Lunas third collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, Luna turns her gaze toward people living on the margins-whether it be cultural, socioeconomic, psychological, or personal-and celebrates their ability to recover and thrive. Luna reveals that individuals who suffer and experience injustice are often lovely and awe inspiring. Her poems reflect on immigrants in a detention camp, a meth addict, a homeless individual, and someone on food stamps. She explores the voices of people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or PTSD, poets, visual artists, and people living in a mental health community setting. The authors own journey to recovery from childhood abuse and mental illness also illuminates how healing is possible.The poems in Magnificent Errors are lyrical, narrative, and often highly personal, exploring what it means to be the "other" and how to cope with difference and illness. They venerate characters who overcome difficulties including ostracism and degradation. People who live outside of the mainstream in poverty are survivors, and showing their experience teaches us compassion and kindness. Ideas of art, culture, and recovery flow throughout the poems, exploring artistic creativity as a means of redemption. With language that is fresh and surprising, Sheryl Luna shares these remarkable poems that bring a reader into the experiences of marginalization and offer hope that grace and restoration do indeed follow. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Sheryl Lunas first collection, Pity the Drowned Horses, won the inaugural Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize for emerging Latino/a poets (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, Anderson Center, Ragdale Foundation, and Canto Mundo. She received the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award from Sandra Cisneros in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Kalliope, and Notre Dame Review, among others. Table of Contents I1. Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps 2. The Vocation3. The Thief 4. Change5. Tornillos Tent Prison for Migrant Children 6. Salt Shaker7. Meditation on Hunger8. Breathing the Borders Fire 9. The Poet10. Autumns Art 11. Forehead12. Regeneration13. What Id Say if I had Fifteen Minutes of Fame II14. Shock and Awe15. Neighbors Smoke on an Apartment Porch Owned by aMental Health Agency 16. Secret Missionary for the Virgin Mary Off His Meds17. The Sailing Bicycle18. Shock Treatment 19. Lit20. Lamentation to Praise 21. The Language of Drowning22. The Star Song23. To Rest24. The Leaves25. Manic with Depression 26. Eccentric 27. A Homeless Poet Friend Rages at the Worlds Lesser People28. The Party29. Adopting Step-Father 30. Alone 31. Voice32. Figures 33. Anxiety and Diagnosis 34. The Artist Addressing Violence 35. The Singer36. She Wishes She Never Had37. I.Q. Over 160? 38. The Prayer III 39. Night40. Rubbernecking 41. Listening to Sky42. Risk 43. The Laugh 44. We Believe in Kindness Because Its Hard to Die45. Casualties 46. The Witness47. The Hummingbird 48. Clouds and Sapling 49. Prayer for this Clay Earth50. Mud 51. Finding Water52. The Transgression Review "With Magnificent Errors, Luna has broken the regional boundaries of the American Southwest and become one of Americas finest poets." —Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning"In Magnificent Errors, Sheryl Luna shows us once again why she is one of Americas premier poets. Her gutsy, gorgeous language, her hard-won vision of grit and grace—all bid us enter the universe of a poetic saint whose earthy wisdom is unparalleled." —Joy Roulier Sawyer, author of Lifeguards and Tongues of Men and Angels"Sheryl Lunas voice is unforgettable because she has a visionary touch where her experiences become our own. As readers, we are blessed to find ourselves in her poems. We have been waiting. As a poet, she shows us, in powerful poem after poem, what it takes for the poet to reveal her place in a difficult world. The result is a book that opens when the poet says so and rests, gently, in the readers hands." —Ray Gonzalez, author of Feel Puma"Since her 2005 debut Pity the Drowned Horses, Luna has excelled at the elegant lyric, yet what stands out here are the interior landscapes that bridge a visionary attention to nature and raw reflections on mental illness, abuse, trauma, and healing. . . . Lunas book beautifully expands upon the many intersections between Chicana ecopoetics and disability poetics, while claiming its own lyric territories." —The Latinx Project"Like her acclaimed first book Pity the Drowned Horses and second book Seven, Lunas newest work reminds readers, no matter a persons socio-economic or mental status, all of humanity is linked. Every poem in this collection is a standout. Each piece succinctly captures the discontent of the countrys working poor." —Latino Book Review Review Quote "With Magnificent Errors , Luna has broken the regional boundaries of the American Southwest and become one of Americas finest poets." --Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning Excerpt from Book Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps Words fall out of my coat pocket, soak in bleach water. I touch everyones dirty dollars. Maslows got everything on me. Fourteen hours on my feet. No breaks. No smokes or lunch. Blank-eyed movements: trash bags, coffee burner, fingers numb. I am hourly protestations and false smiles. The clock clicks its slow slowing. Faces blur in a stream of hurried soccer games, sunlight and church certainty. I have no poem to carry, no material illusions. Cola spilled on hands, so sticky fingered, Im far from poems. Id write of politicians, refineries and a borders barbed wire, but I am unlearning Americas languages with a mop. In a summer-hot red polyester top, I sell lotto tickets. Cars wait for gas billowing black. Killing time has new meaning. A jackhammer breaks apart a life. The slow globe spirals, and at night black space has me dizzy. Visionaries off their meds and wacked out Meth heads sing to me. A panicky fear of robbery and humiliation drips with my sweat. Words some say are weeping twilight and sunrise. I am drawn to dramas, the couple arguing, the man head-butting his wife in the parking lot. 911: no metered aubade, and nobody but myself to blame. Description for Sales People * Magnificent Errors explores the speakers mental illness and the mental illness of those she observes, covering difficult topics like sexual abuse of children, mental illness, poverty, and homelessness that pervade todays society. * This collection also explores the resiliency of people at the margins of society who are enduring impossible situations and who are particularly vulnerable to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. * Sheryl Luna is the author of Pity the Drowned Horses . * This volume will be of interest to readers of modern poetry or those who wish to engage with social issues like mental illness and homelessness. Details ISBN026820182X Author Sheryl Luna Publisher University of Notre Dame Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 026820182X ISBN-13 9780268201821 Format Paperback Imprint University of Notre Dame Press Country of Publication United States Series Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry Place of Publication Notre Dame IN Pages 88 Publication Date 2022-02-01 AU Release Date 2022-02-01 NZ Release Date 2022-02-01 US Release Date 2022-02-01 UK Release Date 2022-02-01 Illustrator James Dean Birth 1958 Position EDFR Qualifications M.D. DEWEY 811.6 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161676920;

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