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Poems about Horses

Author : Carmela Ciuraru

Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 49,43 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Horses

ISBN : 9781841597843

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Many kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent war horses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's Aeneid, only to see it from a quite different perspective in Matthea Harvey's whimsical 'Inside the Good Idea'. Longfellow shows us Paul Revere defying an empire from the back of a horse, while Shakespeare's Richard III vainly offers his kingdom for one. Robert Burns's 'Auld Farmer' dotes affectionately on his ageing mare, while Paul Muldoon's 'Glaucus' is devoured by his fierce young fillies. Robert Frost's little horse stopping by the woods is gently puzzled by human behaviour, while Ted Hughes is dazzled by a stunning vision of horses at dawn, 'grey silent fragments/Of a grey silent world'.Mythical and metaphorical horses cavort alongside vividly real ones in these poems, whether they be humble servants, noble companions, beloved friends or emblems of the wild beauty of the world beyond our grasp.



She Had Some Horses

Author : Joy Harjo

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 95 pages

File Size : 21,12 MB

Release : 2008-11-25

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 039333421X

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A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.



The Poetry of Horses

Author : Various

Publisher : Serpent's Tail

Page : 114 pages

File Size : 50,17 MB

Release : 2021-10-07

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1782837450

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Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide entertaining antics when we're bored and quiet understanding when we need it most. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most wonderful muses, as they neigh, whicker and nuzzle, reflecting back at us our heartfelt tenderness and high spirits. The Poetry of Horses offers a selection of verses in praise of the horse by some of the most celebrated poets of all time. The perfect gift for literary horse fans.



Hoofprints

Author : Jessie Haas

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 31,6 MB

Release : 2014-09-02

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1497662605

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A VOYA Poetry Pick: Award-winning author Jessie Haas takes readers on a ride back in time to celebrate the special bond between horses and humans “We have all been changed by the horse, for better and worse.” —Jessie Haas Jessie Haas travels back sixty-five million years—from 5000 BCE to the present day—in 104 poems about our equine friends. Horses have shared some of the most significant moments in human history. In these lyrical and poignant pieces—some written from the horse’s point of view—readers will meet chariot racers, knights’ steeds, horse whisperers, even Pegasus, the winged horse. In one moving poem, a compassionate colt befriends a lonely man; in another, a starving soldier shares a meal with his mount. Whether it’s the thundering herd of Genghis Khan or a Dutch farmer shielding his horse from the Nazis, these transportive free-verse poems reveal how horses have influenced and enriched our lives. Hoofprints is an awe-inspiring journey through history as we gallop alongside horse and rider and experience “the mid-air moment” when “everything may yet / turn out all right.” This ebook includes a bibliography and a glossary of equine terminology.



The Real Horse

Author : Farid Matuk

Publisher : University of Arizona Press

Page : 102 pages

File Size : 49,35 MB

Release : 2018-02-27

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0816537348

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Grounded by a rigorously innovative attention to form, The Real Horse offers a testament to and reminder of a daughter's disobedience to cultural patrimony.



Nine Horses

Author : Billy Collins

Publisher : Random House

Page : 124 pages

File Size : 20,37 MB

Release : 2011-08-10

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1588362787

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Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001–2002, and reappointed for 2002–2003. What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.



Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been

Author : Chase Twichell

Publisher : Copper Canyon Press

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 24,79 MB

Release : 2013-06-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 161932105X

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Collecting the work of a poet whom Publishers Weekly called "a major voice in contemporary poetry."



Grief and Horses

Author : Patrick Daly

Publisher : Broadstone Books

Page : 80 pages

File Size : 40,8 MB

Release : 2021-11-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781937968953

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Patrick Daly indeed writes of both grief and horses (among other animals, all sources of wisdom), but his deeply empathetic poems cover the full range of emotion to arrive at hope. There is grief, to be sure, in Patrick Daly's new poetry collection, especially associated with the madness of war and its aftermath. And horses, yes, along with many other animals, all with wisdom to offer. But most of all there is language, the love of it and the skillful use of it, as in the opening poem "Words" in which he wishes to learn the language of trees, "But the words of trees / are so large we cannot hear them." Perhaps not, but in Daly's poetry, we nevertheless can sense that wider world. Writing in the foreword to the book, J. David Cummings observes that "Empathy is the rich center of all the poems in this book," the "hidden alchemy" by which Daly works this wonder, such that in the end it is not grief that we take away from these poems, but hope. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction.



Tracing the Horse

Author : Diana Marie Delgado

Publisher : New Poets of America

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 24,79 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781942683872

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A coming-of-age poetry collection about a young Chicana growing up amidst the drug violence of Southern California during the '90s.



Scared Violent Like Horses

Author : John McCarthy

Publisher :

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 25,7 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781571315076

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"A deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being. "--Amazon.com