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Author: Henry Ryman Miner Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
About the Book As Henry Ryman Miner began to grow older, he noticed a subtle increase in forgetfulness, like going to another room and forgetting what he came for. He began to undertake various forms of mental exercise in an effort to improve his memory which led him to engage in the practice of memorizing and reciting favorite and newly discovered poems, a practice that he combined with cycling in the Oakland hills. Gradually his collection of memorized verse grew to reach one hundred poems. Broken into three parts, Miner first details his process for memorization, explaining in detail his methods and strategies. In part two, he lists all one hundred poems and includes his thoughts on each, reflecting on its place in the chronology of his life. Now familiar with his personal process and poems, Miner, in part three, explains the science behind memory, memorization, and the brain, proving and disproving some of his own methods in part one. A fascinating read on the realities of memory loss with aging, and the power of poetry, Miner’s One Hundred Poems and the Brain blends science and art into one engaging, thoughtful mental exercise.
Author: Henry Ryman Miner Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
About the Book As Henry Ryman Miner began to grow older, he noticed a subtle increase in forgetfulness, like going to another room and forgetting what he came for. He began to undertake various forms of mental exercise in an effort to improve his memory which led him to engage in the practice of memorizing and reciting favorite and newly discovered poems, a practice that he combined with cycling in the Oakland hills. Gradually his collection of memorized verse grew to reach one hundred poems. Broken into three parts, Miner first details his process for memorization, explaining in detail his methods and strategies. In part two, he lists all one hundred poems and includes his thoughts on each, reflecting on its place in the chronology of his life. Now familiar with his personal process and poems, Miner, in part three, explains the science behind memory, memorization, and the brain, proving and disproving some of his own methods in part one. A fascinating read on the realities of memory loss with aging, and the power of poetry, Miner’s One Hundred Poems and the Brain blends science and art into one engaging, thoughtful mental exercise.
Author: Seamus Heaney Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374720118 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 192
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.
Author: John Hollander Publisher: ISBN: 9781573226462 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particulary intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them.
Author: Anthony Holden Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476712778 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
Author: david forbes Publisher: One Hundred Poems ISBN: 9781667820880 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
From the ultra-demented to the almost imperceptibly disturbed, we all suffer; we are all victims of birth, all victims of fearful not far off insanity. Many people however, throughout their entire lives manage to hide their insanity well enough; but there is no getting away from it. With our mind working in high or low degrees of mental, this is who we are, this is how we exist, and living in the unnatural way we do, is it any wonder we are all going or already mad? An awkward aspect of acknowledged mental illness, is remembering you have a mental illness, and when in the throes, knowing that there are potentially positive 'things' you really need to do about it; but you are unable to do the 'things' you know you need to do, to do something about it. Either because you are too mental right now, or do not care enough about yourself or anything else, or you have forgotten what the mysterious 'things' are - if you ever really knew or had any grasp on these 'things' in the first place.
Author: Steven Matthews Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1843846365 Category : Languages : en Pages : 211
Book Description
An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.
Author: Robert Ernest Rhines Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1532047614 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
This is a poetry book Ive been working on for thirty-five years, and these poems are of real-life events, situations of day-to-day reality.
Author: William Harmon Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231112598 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Contains one hundred of the most anthologized poems in the English language, and includes notes, profiles of the authors, and bibliographic information; presented in chronological order with a glossary, and author, title, and first line indexes.
Author: Jorge Torrez Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312358327 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 151
Book Description
The poems depict mental verses by an individual who has been through the ravages of Depression in which uses old themes and combining them in a new contemporary style unique to his persona. As is with the rest of his poetry books, Jorge dedicates all his works to all those who want to enjoy them, but specifically are intended for those individuals afflicted with a disability.
Author: Henry Ryman Miner
Author: Henry Ryman Miner
Author: Seamus Heaney
Author: John Hollander
Author: Anthony Holden
Author: david forbes
Author: Robert Klein Engler
Author: Steven Matthews
Author: Robert Ernest Rhines
Author: William Harmon
Author: Jorge Torrez