Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A Poet's Alphabet
Author: Letter Writing Among Poets
Author: Jonathan EllisPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748681345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bis
The Alphabet Not Unlike the World
Author: Katrina VandenbergPublisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571314466
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
In her accomplished second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg writes from the intersection of power and forgiveness. With poems named for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and employing such innovative forms as the ancient ghazal, Vandenberg deciphers the seemingly indecipherable in this extraordinary becoming of self through language. Moving between the physical and the abstract, the individual and the collective, "Alphabet Not Unlike the World" unearths meaning--with astonishing beauty--from the pain of loss and separation.
Wondering the Alphabet
Author: Roderick MartinezPublisher:
ISBN: 9780986204999
Category : Alphabets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Art. Edited by Paul B. Roth. Like every alphabet, the origin of ours is vast and complex. It has grown from a determination of grunts and yelps of joyous wonder, through hollow reed pens pressed onto delicate papyrus, rubbed in ink across wood block carvings, shuffled around moveable type, all the way up to how our current hand-held devices and their design applications deliver us a constant barrage of typefaces, fonts and spatial designs. This book was written with that in mind as well as from a perspective of those writers, readers and designers who have spent their whole lives, in one way or another, focused on all the alphabet provides. Not only is there a chronology of our alphabet tracing graphically its changes over time, but this text also includes and combines tanka poems by twenty-six credited poets, each facing a visually translated composition of their work graphically rendered in full color by Roderick Martinez. In addition to these texts and graphics, every poet included has written his or her subjective thoughts about a specific letter assigned to them totally by chance. The beauty of these visual translations face to face with each poem, creates a most unique and heretofore unseen correspondence between both art forms. Each enhances the other, becomes a part of the other, allows for all ends to open up and flow between the two. Possibilities become infinite and Martinez's vision along with these twenty-six gracious poets, is both a sight to see and read!
The Alphabet; Verses; The Ghetto
Author: Jessica Care MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Poetry, prose."
The Rilke Alphabet
Author: Ulrich BaerPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823256316
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet’s work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings. Ulrich Baer’s The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world’s greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life’s mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke’s language, Baer examines twenty-six words that are not merely unexpected in his work, but problematic—even scandalous. Through twenty-six evocative essays, Baer sheds new light on Rilke’s creative process and his deepest thoughts about life, art, politics, sexuality, love, and death. The Rilke Alphabet shows how the poet’s work can be a guide to life even in our contemporary world. Whether it is a love letter to frogs, a troubling—though brief—infatuation with Mussolini, a sustained reflection on the Buddha, or the impassioned assertion that freedom must be lived in order to be known, Rilke’s thoroughly original writings pull us deeply into life. Baer’s decades-long experience as a scholar, translator, and editor of Rilke’s writings allows him to reveal unique aspects of Rilke’s work. The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight Rilke fans, and deepen every reader’s sense of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries of our world.
The Nomenclature of Small Things
Author: Lynn PedersenPublisher: Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperb
ISBN: 9780887486098
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Poetry
American Gramophone
Author: Carey McHughPublisher:
ISBN: 9780988735552
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. The poems in AMERICAN GRAMOPHONE are menacing—spiked with hazards, threats, warnings and spells—yet the contained lines and composed forms temper the peril with delicacy: a pin curl in the palm, glass shelves full of violets. The collection explores this sharpness and splendor in an agrarian landscape where earth is both burden and livelihood. Here, beneath the music of machinery and birdsong, the trap is set.
Gatherer's Alphabet
Author: Susan Kelly-DeWittPublisher:
ISBN: 9781957062006
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The first book in the Gunpowder Press California Poets Series. These luscious poems feel like small museums of infinite wonder. Gallery, butterfly, stars in autumn. The wisdom of nature, the work of angels, what women endure-I love these poems. A timeless grace breathes through this marvelous book, this bounty you'll be grateful that you read. --Lee Herrick, Fresno Poet Laureate (2015-17) author of Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire Susan Kelly-DeWitt's concentrations come to life as if in a studio, with watercolor washes and ink accentuations. As well as mother and father, ghosts and angels, words are animated characters urgently communicating- whistling to animals or dogwood gods, pinches of anger too-a tool to save us. Is she holding a pen-or a moth by its wings? Poems like "Words" and "The Thorne Miniatures" and the title poem gaze multi-eyed at the reader from the palm of her offering hand. - Sandra McPherson, author of The 5150 Poems and Speech Crush
Author: ROSSITER JOHNSON