Author: Tim Seibles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1

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Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593511859
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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“Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres.” —The Washington Post From the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry—to be published simultaneously with his latest poetry collection, So to Speak Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brilliant contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development. Proceeding from Toni Morrison's aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in Playing in the Dark ("I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography"), Watch Your Language charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. "If you don't see suffering's potential as art, will it remain suffering?" he asks in one of the lively mock poetry exam questions of this musing, mercurial collection. Hayes's astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet's routes, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.

Author: Tim Seibles
Publisher: Etruscan Press
ISBN: 0983294429
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Presents the seventh collection of poems by the 2012 National Book Award finalist in poetry.

Author: Dylan Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781804470916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The poetry of Dylan Thomas has long been heralded as amongst the greatest of the Modern period, and along with his play, Under Milk Wood, his books are amongst the best-loved works in the literary canon. This new selection of his poetry contains all of his best-loved verse - including 'I See the Boys of Summer', 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion', 'The Hand that Signed the Paper' and, of course, 'Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night' - as well as some of his lesser-known lyrical pieces, and aims to show the great poet in a new light. '[Then] the greatest living poet in the English language.' (Observer) 'He is unique, for he distils an exquisite mysterious moving quality which defies analysis.' (Sunday Times)

Author: C. E. Morgan
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142997804X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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One summer, a young woman travels with her lover to the isolated tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As Orren works to save his family farm from drought, Aloma struggles with the loneliness of farm life and must find her way in a combative, erotically-charged relationship with a grieving, taciturn man. A budding friendship with a handsome and dynamic young preacher further complicates her growing sense of dissatisfaction. As she considers whether to stay with Orren or to leave, she grapples with the finality of loss and death, and the eternal question of whether it is better to fight for freedom or submit to love. All the Living has the timeless quality of a parable, but is also a perfect evocation of a time and place, a portrait of both age-old conflicts and modern life. It is an ode to the starve-acre Southern farm, the mountain landscape, and difficult love. In her lyrical and moving debut novel, C.E. Morgan recalls both the serenity of Marilynne Robinson and the shifting emotional currents and unashamed eroticism of James Salter. It is an unforgettable book from a major new voice.

Author: Ron Padgett
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893429
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 843

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Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.

Author: Samiya A. Bashir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658632
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In her third collection, Bashir (Gospel) displays an intriguingly multivalent approach to the objectivities and subjectivities of black experience reflected in her multimedia collaborations

Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517034
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.

Author: Sōseki Natsume
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1552123952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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"Ten Nights' Dreams is a collection of ten short stories or dreams. Among the ten nights, the first, second, third, and fifth nights start with the same sentence, "This is the dream I dreamed." Each dream has a surrealistic atmosphere. Some are funny, and others are grotesquely weird. Did Soseki try to express what he actually dreamed? Or was his subconscious emerging spontaneously in the form of narrative dream?"--Page 4 of cover

Author: Tim Seibles
Publisher: Cleveland St U Poetry Cntr
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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"I want to talk about some of the things I'm after when I write, my sense of the American predicament, and what I hope for poetry and for people in relation to words...I believe poetry can be proof that dynamic awareness is alive and kicking, a constant reminder to ourselves and to our fellow citizens that being alert, both inwardly and outwardly, rewards each person with more life. Doesn't a good poem bring that electric sense of things, that edgy vitality that can't be laughed off or shopped away? I think being fully human demands this, demands poetry." -- Open Letter by the author.