Author : Buck Ramsey
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780896725690
"Commemorative edition of the epic poem first published as And as I rode out on the morning. Includes commentary on Ramsey's work by poets, musicians, and historians; Ramsey's short story on which he based the poem; and the original 1990 recording in John Hartford's Nashville studio, introduced by Andy Wilkinson"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Marie Buck
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2015
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781928650362
Poetry. In PORTRAIT OF DOOM, Marie Buck creates a cast of angsty heroes who speculate on their own bodies and the fucked-up, ever- shifting world around them. The characters suffer their fates and wait for an opening, a site for confronting the cops, spiders, parents, brokers, dragons, and ice- bombers who control their pleasures and threaten to keep them in cycles of misery and ecstatic hope forever. Buck's new book is as mobile as this cast of characters and antagonists is diverse and relentless militant, tender, outraged, witty, understated, and excessive. "With our bombs melting / what's the right thing to do? / The opening we want is behind its ear."
Author : Marie Buck
Publisher : Roof Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781931824897
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Marie Buck's new Roof Book UNSOLVED MYSTERIES collects a group of short prose pieces that mashup stories from the television show Unsolved Mysteries and her reminiscences growing up in rural South Carolina. Buck's work unravels not only the mysteries of the tv series, but also how American popular culture portrays the working class. The violence of the lives and deaths of people named Dexter and Kari Lynn in the tv show inspire in Buck ambitions for social justice, revelatory sexual engagements and hope for clarity in documenting what really happens to people in contrast to the cleaned-up versions of more commercial narratives. Buck keeps hoping people will be alright, but she knows they died in pain and their deaths cause unending sorrow to their families. Such clear and poignant social texts are rare among today's poets, especially when they converge honesty and sympathy. Readers will find no sentimentality in UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, but they may find themselves.
Author : Buck Ramsey
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Presents a poem about Billy Deaver's cowboy initiation into manhood.
Author : Paula Closson Buck
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807169072
In You Cannot Shoot a Poem, Paula Closson Buck offers sharp-witted, deeply felt, and skillfully structured poems. With clear and powerful imagery, these poems reveal an urgent need to rethink the way we interact with each other and the planet. Touching on racism, environmental exploitation, and failed political diplomacy, Closson Buck relies on the ability of poetry to enter otherwise hidden or forbidden territories. Closson Buck transports readers to the abandoned city of Varosha, Cyprus, with its history of interethnic violence; to Venice, Italy, as the water in the Lagoon rises; to Niagara Falls, New York, where she sets a personal moral compass against environmental degradation and religious zeal. She examines the decline of these cities with precise attention to the lives caught in the current. Sometimes satiric and sometimes elegiac, You Cannot Shoot a Poem inhabits a troubled world while inspiring confidence in the human ability to create change.
Author : James Dickey
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0819570974
Winner of the National Book Award (1966) Winner of the Melville Cane Award (1966) Whoever looks to a new book by James Dickeys for further work in an established mode, or for mere novelty, is going to be disappointed. But those who seek instead a true widening of the horizons of meaning, coupled with a sure-handed mastery of the craft of poetry, will find this latest collection satisfying indeed. Here is a man who matches superb gifts with a truly subtle imagination, into whose depths he is courageously traveling—pioneering—in exploratory penetrations into areas of life that are too often evaded or denied. "The Firebombing," "Slave Quarters," "The Fiend"—these poems, with the others that comprise the present volume, show a mature and original poet at his finest.
Author : M.K. Asante
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812983629
“A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou “In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”—NPR A coming-of-age story about navigating the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family, Buck shares the story of a generation through one original and riveting voice. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: his mother a dancer, his father a revered professor. But as a teenager, MK was alone on the streets of North Philadelphia, swept up in a world of drugs, sex, and violence. MK’s memoir is an unforgettable tale of how one precocious, confused kid educated himself through gangs, rap, mystic cults, ghetto philosophy, and, eventually, books. It is an inspiring tribute to the power of literature to heal and redeem us.
Author : Douglas Kearney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780986437373
These poems look at what life is like for a young black man today.
Author : Teri Youmans Grimm
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2016
Category : POETRY
ISBN : 9781597093224
The provocative fall and rise of a beautiful silent film star recounted through a series of persona poems that are indelibly lush and cinematic.
Author : Marie Buck
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2017
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781931824705
Poetry. There is no other book quite like Marie Buck's GOODNIGHT MARIE, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL. Its tight economy of language and demotic vocabulary imply an almost diaristic simplicity. Any normality you might expect is interrupted and overwritten by recurring images of fantasy, transfiguration, and violence. GOODNIGHT MARIE, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL vacillates between the real and the not. Each poem turns on a dime between the logical and the illogical, with poems beginning in "a Room of Salted Flesh" and ending at the beach; or introducing a family having breakfast and culminating in a celebration over champagne in an in- between land of ghost and ghouls, desires and fears. Buck's aleatory carrousel of subject matter and bizarre scenes creates a contradictory, complex subjectivity, "...the type of person who would... / eat part of a sandwich from a very legit-seeming Italian place / and immediately puke into a trash can / about 10 seconds after telling a chatty stranger how great the sandwich is."
