Book Description
A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process
Author : Andrew Hudgins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472071548
A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process
Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0865478201
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Author : Harryette Mullen
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555976569
"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." —Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship Urban tumbleweed, some people call it, discarded plastic bag we see in every city blown down the street with vagrant wind. —from Urban Tumbleweed Urban Tumbleweed is the poet Harryette Mullen's exploration of spaces where the city and the natural world collide. Written out of a daily practice of walking, Mullen's stanzas adapt the traditional Japanese tanka, a poetic form suited for recording fleeting impressions, describing environmental transitions, and contemplating the human being's place in the natural world. But, as she writes in her preface, "What is natural about being human? What to make of a city dweller taking a ‘nature walk' in a public park while listening to a podcast with ear-bud headphones?"
Author : Janet Grace Riehl
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Death and dying
ISBN : 0595374999
Following a family tragedy, author Janet Grace Riehl returns to her childhood home in the Midwest. There she turns to her craft-writing-for comfort and understanding in a world that seems stripped of meaning. In her search she discovers a new sense of connection-a reunion with life before and after her sister's death.
Author : Nadia Hayes
Publisher : Castle Point Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781250202383
Poetry made easy with ideas and vocabulary prompts Instagram poetry is sweeping the nation, and millions of people are finding their feelings are best expressed in modern poetic form. This handy guided journal offers a theme and word suggestions on each page, helping writers and would-be writers exercise their creative muscles and practice their art.
Author : Pat Lowther
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Bob Hicok
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 082299092X
Bob Hicok's poems are often edgy, brazen, and funny. They’re just as likely to be soulful, reflective, and provocative. Usually at the same time. As Hicok builds toward the punchline of a poem set up with his characteristic wit, he zigs into seriousness. A thoughtful meditation that builds to a moment of epiphany zags into comedy. Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill the pages of Insomnia Diary. The fourth collection of poetry from this former automotive die designer delivers more of the cunning brilliance that has become Hicok's hallmark.
Author : Brian Bilston
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1760786659
It’s January 1st and Brian Bilston is convinced that this year his New Year’s resolution will change his life. Every day for a year, he will write a poem. It’s quite simple. Brian’s life certainly needs improving. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and indefatigable charity fundraiser to boot; he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son; and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and management jargon. So poetry will be his salvation. But there is an obstacle in the form of Toby Salt, his arch nemesis at Poetry Club and rival suitor to Liz, Brian’s new poetic inspiration. When Toby goes missing, just after the announcement of the publication of his first collection, This Bridge No Hands Shall Cleave, Brian becomes the number one suspect. If he is to regain his reputation and to have a chance of winning Liz, he must find out what has happened to Toby before it is too late. Part tender love story, part murder mystery, part coruscating description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a Somebody is the most original novel you will read this or any year.
Author : Rachel Zucker
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0819576131
Winner of the Strousse Award fro Best Group of Poems (2002) In Rachel Zucker's re-imagining of the Greek myth, Persephone is a daughter struggling to become a woman. Unlike the classical portrait of a maiden kidnapped by a tyrant, Zucker's Persephone chooses to travel to the Underworld and assume her role as Hades' queen. Caught between worlds—light and dark, innocence and power, a mother's protection and a lover's appeal—Persephone describes the strangeness of the Underworld and the problems of transformation and transgression. The arrangement of Zucker's poems reflects Persephone's travels between the Underworld and the Surface. Both spare and lyrical, they are written as entries in Persephone's diary and as letters between Persephone, Demeter, and Hades. The language—strange, urgent, direct—is pulled and changed as Persephone journeys from one world to another revealing the struggle of unmaking and remaking the self.
Author : Donald Britton
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781937658441
An evocative and luminous collection of poems from the late Donald Britton