Author : Gerald Costanzo
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Prose poems
ISBN : 9780918526939
This is truly poetry in the American grain. Costanzo looks unflinchingly at our totems, artifacts and folkways, and sets them down just as they are, with a deadly but affectionate irony.--Carolyn Kizer
Author : Richard Foerster
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781929918836
The Burning of Troy was catalyzed by the rapid death of Richard Foerster's partner of fifteen years. However, Foerster's lines are less a private testament of loss and grief than the universal voicing of a lover's confrontation with mortality. To connect to this universal experience, Foerster consciously employs various distancing devices, voices, and mythic allusions. And, as always in his poetry, there is an attention to the natural world with its hidden symbolic and metaphysical resonances.
Author : Michael Waters
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781880238431
Michael Waters writes vivid, sensual poems that fuse our longings in this world with the human urge to glimpse whatever lies beyond. Waters' muse is Walt Whitman and, like much of Whitman's work, his poems challenge us to abide one another and embrace humanity's imperfections. Viewing curiosities in a medical museum, Waters asks: "How then can I forget/ these jars stuffed with the invisible/ masses who touch us in our dreams, who steep/ our yearnings in their milky waters?" These generous poems, crafted syllable by syllable, speak to love and loss, our foibles and shortcomings, and the possibility of aesthetic and spiritual transcendence.
Author : Jim Simmerman
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781929918645
In his fifth collection, Simmerman creates an elegy-in-verse with technical mastery, wit and passion.
Author : Steve Kronen
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781929918782
Steve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. Some of the poems in Splendor focus on our inescapable vulnerability due to aging or accident. Splendor also includes love poems to the author's wife and daughter. Many of the poems are rhymed and metered and use formal elements such as sonnets, villanelles, a sestina, a Dantean canzone, nonce forms, and others. Steve Kronen's first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Poems from Splendor have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere.
Author : Cecilia Woloch
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781929918423
Late is driven by the alternating energies of prose poems and free verse. Woloch understands a person's true -relationships with family, friends, and lovers arrive late--if at all. The exquisite pathos in these poems disclose Woloch's abiding empathy for family, children, ex-lovers, and strangers. Born in Pittsburgh in 1956, Cecilia Woloch grew up in Pittsburgh and in Kentucky. She earned degrees in English and Theatre Arts from Transylvania University. Woloch has been active as a poet in the schools and teacher of creative writing workshops. She has received poetry prizes from The Wildwood Journal, Literal Latte, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Author : Rafael Catalá
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1995-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810816022
The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.
Author : William Heyen
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781880238691
A poetic exploration of the House of Windsor through the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Author : Gerald Costanzo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 149620655X
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Costanzo evokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now--in the present--is forced to live with diminished experience. He mourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be found but where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. Regular Haunts is a retrospective collection of Costanzo's work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.
Author : Louis Simpson
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938160711
Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual’s maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover’s quarrel with the world. "Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."—Seamus Heaney Educated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University, Louis Simpson has taught widely, most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
