Life is a Poem-- Often Set to Music
Author : Evelyn Brill Stark
Publisher : Southfarm Press, Publisher
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780913337349
Three Poems
Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1480459178
Book Description
A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem “The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,” John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, “Three Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered.” The effect of these prose poems is at once deeply familiar and startlingly new, something like encountering a collage made of lines clipped from every page of a beloved book—or, as Ashbery has also said of this work, like flipping through television channels and hearing an unwritten, unscriptable story told through unexpected combinations of voices, settings, and scenes. In Three Poems, Ashbery reframes prose poetry as an experience that invites the reader in through an infinite multitude of doorways, and reveals a common language made uncommonly real.
I Would Leave Me If I Could.
Author : Halsey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1982135611
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey’s poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power. Masterful as it is raw, passionate, and profound, I Would Leave Me If I Could signals the arrival of an essential voice. Book cover painting, American Woman, by the author.
Map
Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0544126025
Book Description
Collects translations of poems from throughout the author's career, including several new translations, including her entire final collection in English for the first time.
The Poetry of Pop
Author : Adam Bradley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300165722
Book Description
A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyoncé and beyond. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are music first. They also comprise the most widely disseminated poetic expression of our time. Adam Bradley traces the song lyric across musical genres from early twentieth-century Delta blues to mid-century rock 'n’ roll to today’s hits. George and Ira Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythm.” The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Rihanna’s “Diamonds.” These songs are united in their exacting attention to the craft of language and sound. Bradley shows that pop music is a poetry that must be heard more than read, uncovering the rhythms, rhymes, and metaphors expressed in the singing voice. At once a work of musical interpretation, cultural analysis, literary criticism, and personal storytelling, this book illustrates how words and music come together to produce compelling poetry, often where we least expect it.
The Poetry of Punk
Author : Gerfried Ambrosch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351384449
Book Description
Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to shape, punk culture. They can be described as the community’s collective ‘poetic voice,’ and they come in many different forms. Their themes range from romantic love to emotional distress to radical politics. Some songs are intended to entertain, some to express strong feelings, some to provoke, some to spread awareness, and some to foment unrest. Most have an element of confrontation, of kicking against the pricks. Socially and epistemologically, they play a central role in the scene’s internal discourse, shaping communities and individual identities. The Poetry of Punk is an investigation into the Anglophone punk culture, specifically in the UK and the US, where punk originated in the mid-1970s, its focus being on the song lyrics written and performed by punk rock and hardcore artists.
Songs of Innocence
Author : William Blake
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN :
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Art Song
Author : Carol Kimball
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1480352527
Book Description
(Book). Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music is a follow-up to author Carol Kimball's bestselling Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature . Rather than a general survey of art song literature, the new book clearly and insightfully defines the fundamental characteristics of art song, and the integral relationship between lyric poetry and its musical settings. Topics covered include poetry basics for singers, exercises for singers in working with poetry, insights into composers' musical settings of poetry, building recital programs, performance suggestions, and recommended literature for college and university classical voice majors. The three appendices address further aspects of poetry, guidelines for creating a recital program, and representative classical voice recitals of various descriptions. Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music is extremely useful as an "unofficial" text for college/university vocal literature classes, as an excellent resource for singers and voice teachers, and of interest to all those who are fascinated by the rich legacy of the art song genre.
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Maxims
ISBN :
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Reading Song Lyrics
Author : Lars Eckstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042030364
Book Description
Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser degree, cultural studies, partly as it cuts squarely across institutional boundaries. The first part of this book accordingly introduces a thoroughly transdisciplinary interpretive framework. It outlines theoretical approaches to issues such as performance and performativity, generic convention and cultural capital, sound and songfulness, mediality and musical multimedia, and step by step applies them to the example of a single song. The second part then offers three extended case studies which showcase the larger cultural and historical viability of this model. Probing into the relationship between lyrics and the ambivalent performance of national culture in Britain, it offers exemplary readings of a highly subversive 1597 ayre by John Dowland, of an 1811 broadside ballad about Sara Baartman, ‘The Hottentot Venus’, and of a 2000 song by ‘jungle punk’ collective Asian Dub Foundation. Reading Song Lyrics demonstrates how and why song lyrics matter as a paradigmatic art form in the culture of modernity.
