Amazon Poetry
Author : Elly Bulkin
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Elly Bulkin
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Kevin Killian
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2024-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1635902185
A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com. An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others. The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco’s New Narrative writing circle. From 2003–2019, he was also one of Amazon’s most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied “Top 100” and “Hall of Fame” status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian’s commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer’s endless pages of user-generated content. Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark. Some for “verified purchases,” others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian’s reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny—flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly—earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian’s reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique. Killian’s prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: “They’re reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They’re poems. They’re essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon.”
Author : Antony Rowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110884197X
Introduction -- Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness -- Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry -- Committed and Autonomous Art -- Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment -- The Double Consciousness of Modernism -- Conclusion.
Author : Helena Michie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 1992-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195360818
This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity and sisterhood to a more nuanced notion of women's relations with other women which may include such uncomfortable concepts as envy, jealousy, and competition as well as more institutionalized ideas of difference such as race and class. Chapters on literature are interspersed by "inter-chapters" on the choreography of sameness and difference among women in popular culture.
Author : Sarah Gorham
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780964115187
Groundbreaking anthology of poetry on substance abuse and recovery.
Author : Rachel Lawson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0244848157
An anthology of poem by one poet, Rachel Lawson, poet and short story writer.
Author : R. Victoria Arana
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438108370
The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
Author : Steve Kowit
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0884485404
*Over 90,000 copies sold* Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.This edition adds Steve Kowit’s famous essay on poetics “The Mystique of the Difficult Poem,” in which he argues stirringly and forcefully that a poem need not be obscure to be great. Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry. It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to write. If you long to create poetry that is magical and moving, this is the book you've been looking for. Here are chapters on the language and music of poetry, the art of revision, traditional and experimental techniques, and how to get your poetry started, perfected, and published. Not the least of the book's pleasures are model poems by many of the best contemporary poets, illuminating craft discussions, and the author's detailed suggestions for writing dozens of poems about your deepest and most passionate concerns.
Author : Jane Roberta Cooper
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472063505
Gathering reviews and essays which examine Rich's poetry and prose, this text also looks at how critical opinion about her works has changed.
Author : Kirstin Hotelling Zona
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472113040
Provides a new perspective on three important women poets-and challenges prevailing notions of feminist criticism