The Daughter of Man
Miller Williams Poetry Prize
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
3 meses gratis
The Daughter of Man
Compra ahora por $6.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
L.J. Sysko
-
De:
-
L. J. Sysko
Acerca de esta escucha
"This whip-smart collection is a playful celebration of feminine power."
—Publisher's Weekly
"A valley girl Beowulf."
—Colorado Review
"What a beautiful book."
—Ross Gay
"With the verve of Alice Fulton and the panache of Gerald Stern, Sysko keens into the canon, a welcome voice. Sing, indeed, heavenly muse."
—Alan Michael Parker
Finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Selected by Patricia Smith
The Daughter of Man follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from maiden to warrior—then to queen, maven, and crone—against the backdrop of suburban America from the 1980s to today. In this bold reframing of the hero's journey, L. J. Sysko serves up biting social commentary and humorous, unsparing self-critique while enlisting an eccentric cast that includes Betsy Ross as sex worker, Dolly Parton as raptor, and a bemused MILF who exchanges glances with a young man at a gas station. Sysko's revisions of René Magritte's modernist icon The Son of Man and the paintings of baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, whose extraordinary talent was nearly eclipsed after she took her rapist to trial, loom large in this multifaceted portrait of womanhood. With uncommon force, The Daughter of Man confronts misogyny and violence, even as it bursts with nostalgia, lust, and poignant humor.
Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
Cloud Cuckoo Land
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland, Simon Jones
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,128
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8,037
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,003
Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of 2021, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Academic Snobbery
- De TVR en 10-03-21
De: Anthony Doerr
-
Fates and Furies
- A Novel
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Will Damron, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 4,957
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,423
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,444
From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Paean to Marriage, Mythology and Theatre
- De W Perry Hall en 09-20-15
De: Lauren Groff
-
Dearly
- New Poems
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margaret Atwood
- Duración: 1 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and—zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Heavy!
- De Martha Alcantar en 12-29-20
De: Margaret Atwood
-
I Love You, Call Me Back
- Poems
- De: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrado por: Sabrina Benaim
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks, has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now, she dives into challenging and universal territory: grief over a relationship’s end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious diagnosis.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing
- De Bobbie en 03-20-23
De: Sabrina Benaim
-
The God of Small Things
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,753
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,448
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,444
Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Worthy Booker winner!
- De Saman en 08-10-17
De: Arundhati Roy
-
IRL
- De: Tommy Pico
- Narrado por: Tommy Pico
- Duración: 1 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 53
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 49
IRL is a sweaty summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons, ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs, and Beyoncé’s visual albums. It follows Teebs, a reservation-born, queer NDN weirdo, trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops, privacy in the age of the Internet, street harassment, suicide, boys boys boys, literature, colonialism, religion, leaving one's 20s, and a love/hate relationship with English.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Great reading by author
- De SadieBelle93 en 04-25-21
De: Tommy Pico
-
Cloud Cuckoo Land
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland, Simon Jones
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,128
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8,037
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,003
Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of 2021, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Academic Snobbery
- De TVR en 10-03-21
De: Anthony Doerr
-
Fates and Furies
- A Novel
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Will Damron, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 4,957
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,423
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,444
From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Paean to Marriage, Mythology and Theatre
- De W Perry Hall en 09-20-15
De: Lauren Groff
-
Dearly
- New Poems
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margaret Atwood
- Duración: 1 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and—zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Heavy!
- De Martha Alcantar en 12-29-20
De: Margaret Atwood
-
I Love You, Call Me Back
- Poems
- De: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrado por: Sabrina Benaim
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks, has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now, she dives into challenging and universal territory: grief over a relationship’s end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious diagnosis.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing
- De Bobbie en 03-20-23
De: Sabrina Benaim
-
The God of Small Things
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,753
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,448
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,444
Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Worthy Booker winner!
- De Saman en 08-10-17
De: Arundhati Roy
-
IRL
- De: Tommy Pico
- Narrado por: Tommy Pico
- Duración: 1 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 53
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 49
IRL is a sweaty summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons, ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs, and Beyoncé’s visual albums. It follows Teebs, a reservation-born, queer NDN weirdo, trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops, privacy in the age of the Internet, street harassment, suicide, boys boys boys, literature, colonialism, religion, leaving one's 20s, and a love/hate relationship with English.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Great reading by author
- De SadieBelle93 en 04-25-21
De: Tommy Pico
-
I Would Leave Me If I Could.
- A Collection of Poetry
- De: Halsey
- Narrado por: Halsey
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 592
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 518
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 514
Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could., she reveals never-before-heard poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing
- De Nik en 11-17-20
De: Halsey
-
Whale Day
- And Other Poems
- De: Billy Collins
- Narrado por: Billy Collins
- Duración: 1 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
To be read in the voice of Billy Collins
- De Maggie Hess en 11-03-20
De: Billy Collins
-
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
- Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
- De: N. D. Wilson
- Narrado por: N. D. Wilson
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 171
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 146
What is this world? What kind of place is it? The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Captivating!
- De C.G. en 11-08-18
De: N. D. Wilson
-
Time Is a Mother
- De: Ocean Vuong
- Narrado por: Ocean Vuong
- Duración: 1 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
The terrible narration
- De mariella smith-masters en 05-22-25
De: Ocean Vuong
-
Electric Arches
- De: Eve L. Ewing
- Narrado por: Eve L. Ewing
- Duración: 1 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 87
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 77
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 77
Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances - blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects - hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook - as precious icons.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
100% recommend
- De Erin Cline en 11-01-17
De: Eve L. Ewing
-
The Seasons of My Mother
- De: Marcia Gay Harden
- Narrado por: Marcia Gay Harden
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 54
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In this poetic and inspiring memoir, one of America’s most revered actresses uses the imagery of flowers and the art of Ikebana to depict the unique creative bond that she has had with her mother throughout the years - and how, together, they are facing her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
eloquent writing
- De LA Adams en 06-27-19
-
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
- Poems by Mary Lambert
- De: Mary Lambert
- Narrado por: Mary Lambert
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 135
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 119
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down - and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
amazing
- De Amazon Customer en 01-08-19
De: Mary Lambert
-
How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
- Poetry
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Joy to Read
- De Lee Moderow en 05-20-21
-
No Matter the Wreckage
- De: Sarah Kay
- Narrado por: Sarah Kay
- Duración: 2 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 154
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 141
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 140
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B", Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. No Matter the Wreckage presents listeners with new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's talent for celebrating family, love, travel, and unlikely romance between inanimate objects ("The Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire"). Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows listeners to join her on the journey of discovering herself and the world around her.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved it!
- De Viviana en 05-30-20
De: Sarah Kay
-
Dreaming in Cuban
- De: Cristina García
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Marisa Blake, Anthony Lee Medina, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times).
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Too hard to follow
- De J. Freeman en 06-03-23
De: Cristina García
-
World of Wonders
- In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
- De: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrado por: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 421
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 346
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 346
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction - a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting approach to a nonfiction book...
- De Fact addict en 01-25-21
-
Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- De: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, y otros
- Narrado por: Garrison Keillor
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
- Versión resumida
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Very good, but. . .
- De KSmith en 01-27-11
De: Emily Dickinson, y otros
Reseñas de la Crítica
"This whip-smart collection is a playful celebration of feminine power." —Publisher's Weekly
"A valley girl Beowulf." —Colorado Review