Author: James De-La-CourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Prospect of Poetry, with Other Poems
Author: James De-La-CourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Hatred of Poetry
Author: Ben LernerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0865478201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems
Author: Olena Kalytiak DavisPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619321211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Poem She Didn’t Write is a whirlwind of sound, syntax, and form, working together to amplify everyday experience.
Love and Other Poems
Author: Alex DimitrovPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 161932234X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.
Talk Poetry
Author: David BakerPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.
My Letter to the World and Other Poems
Author: Emily DickinsonPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554531039
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Presents illustrated versions of well-known poems written by one of America's most renowned poets.
Solving the World's Problems
Author: Robert Lee BrewerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935708902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something
On Poetry
Author: Glyn MaxwellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
“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.
Conversation Pieces
Author: Kurt BrownPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307265455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
An utterly delightful collection of responses to poems written across the centuries, these modern poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.
And Her Soul Out Of Nothing
Author: Olena Kalytiak DavisPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029915713X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Both contemporary and other-worldly, Davis's lyrical poetry is a fearless expression of the spirit which defines the very essence of our beings.