The Poet at Play
Author : Kenneth John McKay
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Hymns
ISBN :
Shale Play
Author : Julia Kasdorf
Publisher : Keystone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780271080932
Book Description
Explores, in poetry and photographs, the effects of the natural gas boom and fracking in the small towns, fields, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania.
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams
Author : Kenneth Koch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0060955090
Book Description
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout with pleasure. In this vivid account, Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a valuable text for all those who care about freeing the creative imagination and educating the young.
Stones
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1524732575
Book Description
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles Times). "We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind." In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South--one poem, "Kith," exploring that strange bedfellow of "kin"--the speaker and his young son wander among the stones of their ancestors. "Like heat he seeks them, / my son, thirsting / to learn those / he don't know / are his dead." Whether it's the fireflies of a Louisiana summer caught in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that makes up our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them—of us—poetry can save.
Pablo Neruda
Author : Monica Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 080509198X
Book Description
Describes the life and times of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet.
Everything to Play for
Author : John McAuliffe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Sports
ISBN : 9781902121574
Book Description
Sometimes sport takes over Irish life: we meet up at the match everyone is going to, or we stay in touch by talking about sport. And sport's the stuff of family lore - the wrong turn at Ballybrit that led to Connemara instead of the Galway Races, the ex who came good with tickets, the All-Ireland winner throwing an American football on the beach. The poems collected in this anthology know sport, and they respond to the way that sport in Ireland forms our alternative history, viewed from the stands, the sideline, and the centre circle. The first ever anthology of sports poems to be published in Ireland, Everything to Play For is edited by poet John McAuliffe and includes a foreword by World Champion athlete Sonia O'Sullivan, one of Ireland's best-loved sporting heroes. With poems on all major sporting disciplines, Everything to Play For brings together the work of many of Ireland's leading poets including Paul Durcan, Vona Groarke, Seamus Heaney, Rita Ann Higgins, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Enda Wyley, and many more.
Schiller's Poems and Plays
Author : Friedrich Schiller
Publisher :
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1889
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Cure at Troy
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1466864052
Book Description
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek out Philoctetes' support in a drama that explores the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency. Heaney's version of Philoctetes is a fast-paced, brilliant work ideally suited to the stage. Heaney holds on to the majesty of the Greek original, but manages to give his verse the flavor of Irish speech and context.
100 Poems
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374720118
Book Description
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections. In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites. It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come.
Sho
Author : Douglas Kearney
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1950268624
Book Description
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
