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Author: Raymond J. Howlett Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 1611026253 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 117
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On the morning of December 14, 2012, I tried to go to sleep. Just before I could slip into a deep sleep, I started to get the beginnings of a poem repeating inside my head. It started out as two rhyming sentences that kept repeating over and over in my head as I was trying to go to sleep. I eventually got up and wrote the whole poem. Later that week, as I was thinking about that poem and another poem came into my head. My girlfriend eventually joined in on the fun of finding different things to write poems on. She would say to me, “Why don’t you write a poem about this, or that?” So, when she mentioned it, I started to write about it. When I finished, I decided to compile all of the poems into a book, and share them with the rest of the world.
Author: Raymond J. Howlett Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 1611026253 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 117
Book Description
On the morning of December 14, 2012, I tried to go to sleep. Just before I could slip into a deep sleep, I started to get the beginnings of a poem repeating inside my head. It started out as two rhyming sentences that kept repeating over and over in my head as I was trying to go to sleep. I eventually got up and wrote the whole poem. Later that week, as I was thinking about that poem and another poem came into my head. My girlfriend eventually joined in on the fun of finding different things to write poems on. She would say to me, “Why don’t you write a poem about this, or that?” So, when she mentioned it, I started to write about it. When I finished, I decided to compile all of the poems into a book, and share them with the rest of the world.
Author: Carol Sklenicka Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439160589 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 782
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The first biography of america’s best-known short story writer of the late twentieth century. The London Times called Raymond Carver "the American Chekhov." The beloved, mischievous, but more modest short-story writer and poet thought of himself as "a lucky man" whose renunciation of alcohol allowed him to live "ten years longer than I or anyone expected." In that last decade, Carver became the leading figure in a resurgence of the short story. Readers embraced his precise, sad, often funny and poignant tales of ordinary people and their troubles: poverty, drunkenness, embittered marriages, difficulties brought on by neglect rather than intent. Since Carver died in 1988 at age fifty, his legacy has been mythologized by admirers and tainted by controversy over a zealous editor’s shaping of his first two story collections. Carol Sklenicka penetrates the myths and controversies. Her decade-long search of archives across the United States and her extensive interviews with Carver’s relatives, friends, and colleagues have enabled her to write the definitive story of the iconic literary figure. Laced with the voices of people who knew Carver intimately, her biography offers a fresh appreciation of his work and an unbiased, vivid portrait of the writer.
Author: Titus Lucretius Carus Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486434469 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 262
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The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, De Rerum Natura — On the Nature of Things — theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the Greeks, Lucretius' work remains the primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought.
Author: Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 146291649X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 368
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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Author: Ray Robertson Publisher: Biblioasis ISBN: 1771960957 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 129
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A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
Author: Raman Selden Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134962738 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 159
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Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.
Author: Billy Collins Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812968875 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 354
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A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.
Author: Karen Hesse Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545517125 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 254
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Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
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