Poets of the Wight
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Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Danez\ Smith
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1943735093
"These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way—saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, black movie repeats."—Marcus Wicker "Danez Smith's BLACK MOVIE is a cinematic tour-de-force that lets poetry vie with film for the honor of which medium can most effectively articulate the experience of Black America."—Rain Taxi
Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1476708193
Collects poems chosen by editor Sherman Alexie as the best of 2015, featuring poets such as Sarah Arvio, Chen Chen, Andrew Kozma, and Terence Winch.
Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674265874
“This is a book for anyone,” Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell states, “With rhyme what matters is the distance between rhymes” or “the line-break is punctuation,” he compresses into simple, memorable phrases a great deal of practical wisdom. In seven chapters whose weird, gnomic titles announce the singularity of the book—“White,” “Black,” “Form,” “Pulse,” “Chime,” “Space,” and “Time”—the poet explores his belief that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities: breath, heartbeat, footstep, posture. “The sound of form in poetry descended from song, molded by breath, is the sound of that creature yearning to leave a mark. The meter says tick-tock. The rhyme says remember. The whiteness says alone,” Maxwell writes. To illustrate his argument, he draws upon personal touchstones such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. An experienced teacher, Maxwell also takes us inside the world of the creative writing class, where we learn from the experiences of four aspiring poets. “You master form you master time,” Maxwell says. In this guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature, Maxwell shares his mastery with us.
Author : Aliki Barnstone
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1992-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0805209972
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.
Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0674044622
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Author : Gillian White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674734394
Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.
Author : Rachel Moritz
Publisher : Lost Roads Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780918786647
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Rachel Moritz's powerfully sweet SWEET VELOCITY delivers a lived-in world--material, object- oriented and also lyrically distinctive. The song here treats a serene, sometimes bemused, engagement with life passages--the essentials of coming into and going out of the world, of bringing about and of letting go. But Moritz's song, like the Dickinsonian one, also abrades the conventions it observes. Poetry is the result. An eccentric system. "[S]tops of flow before the animal."
Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1855
Category : 1855
ISBN :
Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1933517034
An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.