Author : Clinton B. Seely
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
An introduction to the work, artistic development, and literary world of Jibanananda Das, one of the most quoted poets in both Bangladesh and West Bengal. From the 1930s came the rhapsodic sonnet cycle posthumously published under the title of Bengal the Beautiful, and from the 1940s, poetry that reflected his struggle with the problems of a world at war.
Author : Stewart Henderson
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0745980333
A Poet's notebook... with new poems...obviously... includes not just recent favourites, television and radio commissioned poems, some freshly minted verse written especially for this book but also notes and gives the background on how, why, and where the poems were written. Such documentary reportage and wider contemporary reflection gives a fascinating insight into the genesis, development and presentation of the 30 poems chosen. In effect, the book is part journal, part commentary on the wider implications of 'how did we all end up here'? It addresses the light and shade of our days, the celebrations and catastrophes, and acutely observes the collective state and soul of 'this one life'. Complete with the poet's trademark humour encouraging the reader to practice, once again, child-like glee. These are poems you can whistle, sing, chant... and be silent with.
Author : Natalie S. Bober
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805094075
Papa Is a Poet: is a picture book about the famous American poet Robert Frost, imagined through the eyes of his daughter Lesley. When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.
Author : Javier Zamora
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619321777
New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Author : Christopher Wagstaff
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1583944540
Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of the major postwar American poets, was an adulated figure among his contemporaries, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan "had the best ear this side of Dante." His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and Louis Zukofsky. Like his poetry, Duncan's conversation is generative and multi-directional, pushing out the boundaries of discourse. His recorded reflections are a means of discovery and exploration, and whether talking with a college student or a fellow poet, he was fully engaged and open to new thoughts as they emerged. The exchanges in this book are exciting and lively. His vast and wide-ranging knowledge offers readers an increased understanding of the interrelations of the arts, history, psychology, and science; those who would like to learn about Duncan's own life, his bravery in being an out gay man well before Stonewall, and his friendships with fellow writers, such as Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, and Kenneth Rexroth, will find this book richly rewarding. The six volumes of Duncan's collected writings are being issued by the University of California Press. The collected interviews are an indispensable companion to these books, providing an in-depth exposition of his poetics, which center on the belief that the poem is "a medium for the life of the spirit." In A Poet's Mind, he describes the genesis of some of his works, including that of books, essays, and individual poems, and also discusses gay love and life, along with the many diverse influences on his work. Ducan's fertile creative mind is also evident in these conversations: often coming back to Ezra Pound in these conversations, he gives one of the clearest expositions to be found anywhere on the scope and meaning of The Cantos. This volume also includes a number of photographs never before published.
Author : Samantha Downer Cole
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0557156432
A Poets Journey So Far is a collection of poems which spans over decades from the poets youth to adulthood. It speaks about life, choices, trials, strength, inspiration and faith. It evokes your inner man to be honest and genuine with one self. If you love spoken word poetry and biographies, and looking for some inspiration, read this book.
Author : Diane Lockward
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Creative writing
ISBN : 1947896083
Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material," "Finding the Best Words," "Making Music," "Working with Sentences and Line Breaks," "Crafting Surprise," and "Achieving Tone." The concepts become progressively more sophisticated, moving on to "Dealing with Feelings," "Transforming Your Poems," and "Rethinking and Revising." The final section, "Publishing Your Book," covers manuscript organization, book promotion, and presentation of a good public reading. The book includes thirty brief craft essays, each followed by a model poem and analysis of the poem's craft, then a prompt based on the poem. Ten recyclable bonus prompts are also included. Ten Top Tips lists are each loaded with poetry wisdom from an accomplished poet. The Practicing Poet pushes poets beyond the basics and encourages the continued reading, learning, and writing of poetry. It is suitable as a textbook in the classroom, a guidebook in a workshop, or an at-home tutorial for the practicing poet working independently. The craft essays, poems, and top tips lists include the work of 113 contemporary poets.
Author : Tennicia White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1450064434
This book is written in poetry as a sign of faith and hope for a better world. As a poet, writer, mother, and sister, I have seen the pain and hard times of the world, and sometimes it provides no justice. This is my way to help the world understand they are not alone. To give that single mom out there strength to go on, that man or women that has fallen strength to get up and try again. This book truly is inspired by Heaven because without GOD, I would not have a talent of the angels. To speak is one thing, but to be able to write without care or concern, born with a pen in my hand is a gift given by my Father alone. ?There is only one true source that can truly drive one in a way that is beautifully designed with love, purpose and understanding in mind . . . That is to be driven by the love of the Father!?
Author : John Riddoch Poynter
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780522845846
A highly readable history of the University of Melbourne that examines its growth from a small provincial institution, educating the elite of a relatively narrow society, to a major teaching and research institution - changes of a magnitude which could never have been envisaged in 1935 when the story begins.
Author : Laurel Snow Corelle
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570037627
"In this original study of Elizabeth Bishop's lifelong engagement with Christianity, Laurel Snow Corelle illuminates the ways in which Bishop's Protestant childhood and reading of Christian literature, coupled with her deep commitment to agnosticism, inform the works of this former poet laureate of the United States. Corelle sees in Bishop's writing a sophisticated and sustained interrogation of orthodoxy that exquisitely balances Bishop's religious upbringing with her agnostic stance and that has until now escaped thorough examination." "To make her case, Corelle immerses the reader in Bishop's works and world in order to convey the rigor, subtlety, and complexity of the poet's dialogue with historical Christianity and its literature. At the heart of that engagement are some compelling peculiarities. Bishop was a self-proclaimed nonbeliever; yet she grew up in two devout Protestant homes, and she studied Christian literature throughout her life. As a result some of the perspectives and prejudices voiced in her verse are transparently Protestant." "This study illustrates how she incorporated allusions to scripture and Protestant sacraments in a subversive critique of organized Christianity and how her appropriation of three traditional genres common to Christian literature - allegory, pastoral elegy, and spiritual autobiography - advanced her own poetic purposes."--BOOK JACKET.
