Author: John ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
Author: John ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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American Journal
Author: Tracy K. SmithPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978673
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another. Taking its title from a poem by Robert Hayden, the first African American appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Journal investigates our time with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Among the fifty poets included are: Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Matthew Dickman, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Robin Coste Lewis, Ada Límon, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Brian Turner, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young.
Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life
Author: George MonteiroPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661945X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms, stick to small ones,'" Robert Frost said. "Twenty acres are just about enough." Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim, he returned to New England, acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of the rest of his life. Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England "georgics," his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry. Like the "West-Running Brook" in his poem of the same name, Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of contrariness.
Flyover Country
Author: Austin SmithPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691181578
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as “memorable” (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and “impressive” (Chicago Tribune) Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of his childhood on a dairy farm in Illinois, Austin Smith explores the beauty and cruelty of rural life, challenging the idea that the American Midwest is mere “flyover country,” a place that deserves passing over. At the same time, the collection suggests that America itself has become a flyover country, carrying out drone strikes and surveillance abroad, locked in a state of perpetual war that Americans seem helpless to stop. In these poems, midwestern barns and farmhouses are linked to other lands and times as if by psychic tunnels. A poem about a barn cat moving her kittens in the night because they have been discovered by a group of boys resonates with a poem about the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. A poem beginning with a boy on a farmhouse porch idly swatting flies ends with the image of people fleeing before a drone strike. A poem about a barbwire fence suggests, if only metaphorically, the debate over immigration and borders. Though at times a dark book, the collection closes with a poem titled “The Light at the End,” suggesting the possibility of redemption and forgiveness. Building on Smith’s reputation as an accessible and inventive poet with deep insights about rural America, Flyover Country also draws profound connections between the Midwest and the wider world.
Rural Lays and Sketches, and Other Poems
Author: John PRINCE (Poet.)The Rural Muse
Author: John ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
Author: John ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Poems of Rural Life in Common English
Author: William BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Rural and Other Poems
Author: Mrs. ChadwickPoems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Author: William BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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