Author: Thomas Brower Peacock
Publisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Roy J. Beckemeyer
Publisher: Little Balkans Press
ISBN: 9780982454961
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Poems published between 2014 and 2016 on Kansas Poet Laureate Emerita Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg's 150 Kansas Poems Website, this assemblage includes work by 86 authors selected by 28 monthly editors. Poet and one-time Kansan Anita Skeen says of this collection: "Memory is a powerful force in Kansas. In Kansas, there is always another story to tell."

Author:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

Author: John Patrick Dunn
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021402714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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John Patrick Dunn's collection of poetry explores the beauty and richness of the Kansas plains, as well as the challenges faced by those who live and work on them. Dunn's work is suffused with a deep appreciation for the natural world and a sense of the interconnectedness of all things. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Kathryn Petras
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679776222
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

Author: H. C. Ballard
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Philip A. Greasley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253021162
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1074

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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?

Author: Megan Kaminski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938055010
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. "The body 'being' in sun, the gaze at rain, teleology inside the house with these strokes and compasses, Megan Kaminski deftly configures a desiring map, across seacoasts and Kansas plains, through leaves, roots, movements of light. Here a quieter but not quietist America emerges where life's precarity holds there is a relation between the natural world and neural capacity as we are pulled into syntax's own search and quizzicality, its seeking to find a place for the I that only momentarily settles before it dislodges again, uncovering questions, finding parts of speech or weeds that answer. 'Speech lies in the break on the river edge, ' the poem says: 'subtle splendor.'" Erin Moure "Megan Kaminski's book is hauntingly quiet, but not silent, just as 'teleology is not silent.' The book is in some ways the teleology of imagism, realizing itself late in history and bursting into jagged pieces, having been dragged through 'some saffron metropolis' and the long summer of the great plains. It is a book that approaches us cannily, drenched in form, never word-spent and never without cocktails; a 21st century pleasure with a keen eye on the terrain and something to say." Joshua Clover "One of the best books I've read this year, Megan Kaminski's DESIRING MAP melds landscape to mind-to heart-to breath-with some of the most subtly effective melopoeia I've ever encountered in any book of poems. Use it as a dowsing rod, as I've been doing, to find the brain's poetic reuptake pump, and to get it moving again." Joseph Massey"