Useful and Instructive Poetry
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Andrew Hudgins
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Humorous poetry, American
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A collection of laugh-out-loud tongue-in-cheek nursery rhymes that do for poetry what Edward Gorey did for cartooning. Illustrated by the distinguished artist and graphic designer Barry Moser.
Author : Alice Fulton
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1999-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she falls in love with an outrageous 17th century poet, argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters, and calls for a courageous poetics of inconvenient knowledge.
Author : Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619322382
Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts. Written during the body’s healing from a double mastectomy—in the wake of addiction and family dysfunction—these ambitious poems put new form to what’s been lost and gained. Candrilli ultimately imagines a joyful, queer future: a garden to harvest, lasting love, the insistent flamboyance of citrus.
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1877527815
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
Author : Brian Clements
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
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"For students and instructors, the anthology provides an implicit history of the genre, a wide array of models and strategies, and a map of the prose poem's potential via dozens of poets, a useful introductory essay and headnotes, and an innovative structore. For readers, it provides what every poem fan wants - a ton of great poems." (Buchrückseite).
Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1466878495
The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.
Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0062079417
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Author : Brian McGackin
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1594745293
As contemporary poets sing the glories of birds and birch trees, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste’s frozen pizza, for the cinematic oeuvre of Bruce Willis? Enter Broetry—a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. “Broet Laureate” Brian McGackin goes where no poet has gone before—to Star Wars conventions, to frat parties, to video game tournaments, and beyond. With poems like “Ode to That Girl I Dated for, Like, Two Months Sophomore Year” and “My Friends Who Don’t Have Student Loans,” we follow the Bro from his high school graduation and college experience through a “quarter-life crisis” and beyond.
Author : Kenneth Koch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1999-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0684824388
From the winner of the Bollingen Prize in poetry and author of the classic bestseller "Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?" comes a unique, highly entertaining book for anyone who wants to be a better reader and writer of poetry.