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Acts of Poetry

Author : Heidi R. Bean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0472131419
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Poetry written by Heidi R. Bean and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American poets' theater emerged in the postwar period alongside the rich, performance-oriented poetry and theater scenes that proliferated on the makeshift stages of urban coffee houses, shared apartments, and underground theaters, yet its significance has been largely overlooked by critics. Acts of Poetry shines a spotlight on poets' theater's key groups, practitioners, influencers, and inheritors, such as the Poets' Theatre, the Living Theatre, Gertrude Stein, Bunny Lang, Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, Carla Harryman, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Heidi R. Bean demonstrates the importance of poets' theater in the development of twentieth-century theater and performance poetry, and especially evolving notions of the audience's role in performance, and in narratives of the relationship between performance and everyday life. Drawing on an extensive archive of scripts, production materials, personal correspondence, theater records, interviews, manifestoes, editorials, and reviews, the book captures critical assessments and behind-the-scenes discussions that enrich our understanding of the intertwined histories of American theater and American poetry in the twentieth century.

Solving the World's Problems

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935708902
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Solving the World's Problems written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Random Acts of Poetry

Author : Brett Starr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Random Acts of Poetry written by Brett Starr and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a break from the fast life and breathe. Exercise your mind and let it paint a picture. Read a poem a day and ask yourself if and how it applies to you. Random Acts of Poetry is titled appropriately as that was just the way it happened - randomly. I have categorized my poems into nine topics in various forms and disciplines. Subjects include philosophy, humor, science and math, religion, politics, family, death, temptation and mental illness. Most poems are free verse, but there is at least one of the following: limerick, haiku, sonnet, and acrostic. I hope at least one speaks to you personally and makes you go 'hmmm.' My hopes and intentions are that anyone who reads these poems might experience some enjoyment, perspective, and appreciation of the content. If you come across a term with which you are not familiar, I encourage you to knock on the internet door or visit a library to learn more. Consider it a type of Easter egg hunt. There are lots of Easter eggs in this book. Please remember that these thoughts are from an engineering mind dabbling into the art of poetry.

Reconnaissance

Author : Carl Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713391
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Reconnaissance written by Carl Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets There's a trembling inside the both of us, there's a trembling, inside us both. The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering [seems] in fact for nothing," and "all we do is maybe all we can do." In the face of this, Carl Phillips, reconsidering and unraveling what we think we know, maps out the contours of a world in revision, where truth lies captured at one moment and at the next goes free, transformed. These are poems of searing beauty, lit by hope and shadowed by it, from a poet whose work "reinstates the possibility of finding meaning in a world that is forever ready to revoke the sources of meaning in our lives" (Jonathan Farmer, Slate).

American Poetry in Performance

Author : Tyler Hoffman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472029630
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book American Poetry in Performance written by Tyler Hoffman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains provocative, interesting, and accessible." ---Jay Parini, Middlebury College American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop is the first book to trace a comprehensive history of performance poetry in America, covering 150 years of literary history from Walt Whitman through the rap-meets-poetry scene. It reveals how the performance of poetry is bound up with the performance of identity and nationality in the modern period and carries its own shifting cultural politics. This book stands at the crossroads of the humanities and the social sciences; it is a book of literary and cultural criticism that deals squarely with issues of "performance," a concept that has attained great importance in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology and has generated its own distinct field of performance studies. American Poetry in Performance will be a meaningful contribution both to the field of American poetry studies and to the fields of cultural and performance studies, as it focuses on poetry that refuses the status of fixed aesthetic object and, in its variability, performs versions of race, class, gender, and sexuality both on and off the page. Relating the performance of poetry to shifting political and cultural ideologies in the United States, Hoffman argues that the vocal aspect of public poetry possesses (or has been imagined to possess) the ability to help construct both national and subaltern communities. American Poetry in Performance explores public poets' confrontations with emergent sound recording and communications technologies as those confrontations shape their mythologies of the spoken word and their corresponding notions about America and Americanness.

The Acts of Oblivion

Author : Paul Batchelor
Publisher : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 : 9781800171992
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Acts of Oblivion written by Paul Batchelor and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-anticipated second collection from award-winning poet and Guardian & TLS critic, Paul Batchelor.

Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

Author : Jared Singer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1943735751
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction written by Jared Singer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainstay of the NYC poetry scene. With work that ranges from the laugh out loud funny to the silence and rage of loss, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction is a must read. As the book unfolds Jared guides the reader through fresh takes on the discussion of body image and body positivity side by side with all too familiar discussions of mental health, anxiety and suicide. It explores the complex cloth that is American culture and New York in particular, taking extra time to examine his identity as a Jewish American and how that underpins the authors daily experience. Forgive Yourself is a modern handbook for finding yourself and your place without losing your way.

Random Acts of Poetry and Other Attempts at Humor

Author : Michael J. Murphy
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664289054
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Random Acts of Poetry and Other Attempts at Humor written by Michael J. Murphy and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need some lumpy, red, all-purpose glue to hold your life together? Do you need a new perspective on filing your income tax return this year? Have you ever wondered if there are aliens from space living at the South Pole? Do you wish people were kinder to each other? Did you know that Betsy Ross had three husbands and five daughters? Do you know what a carbuncle is? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, please, take a few moments to enter a strange world. Let your mind wander through the nooks and crannies of the ridiculous and the sublime. This might be just the escape from your screens that you’ve been waiting for. Consider dropping a copy of this book at your doctor’s or dentist’s waiting room. The folks there need a smile or a good laugh right about now. Do you know someone who has everything already? They don’t have this. Do you have a friend who needs a laugh? This book can only make your friendship stronger.

A Defence of Poetry, the Four Ages of Poetry

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Defence of Poetry, the Four Ages of Poetry written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poet's Market 34th Edition

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593332113
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Poet's Market 34th Edition written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updated Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than Poet's Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book and chapbook publishers, print and online poetry publications, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the completely updated listings, the 34th edition of Poet's Market offers: Hundreds of updated listings for poetry-related book publishers, publications, contests, and more Insider tips on what specific editors want and how to submit poetry Articles devoted to the craft and business of poetry, including how to track poetry submissions, perform poetry, and find more readers 77 poetic forms, including guidelines for writing them 101 poetry prompts to inspire new poetry

Cortège

Author : Carl Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cortège written by Carl Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Phillips is the author of nine previous books of poems, including "Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006";" Riding Westward"; and "The Rest of Love," a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. This is the second collection of poems by Carl Phillips, whose first book, "In the Blood," won the 1992 Morse Poetry Prize. As "The Boston Book Review" observed, "Cortege" is the work of "an erotic poet, one who follows his sexuality into surprising territory . . . The contemporary scene is fully present [throughout this book], with all its new and old terrors--AIDS, loneliness--but Phillips's richness of mind is such that he often encounters in this life the artifacts of a couple of millennia of art and mythology. Which is not to say these poems have an academic flavor--far from it. The vision is contemporary, the language ours . . . What makes these poems such a coherent whole, in addition to their open sensuality, is the awareness they contain of the inescapable sadness of beauty . . . This is a poet of tact and delicacy, with an understated approach to even potentially explosive subjects." "A classicist by training, Phillips mythologizes the everyday as adeptly as he domesticates Ovid, and the verse [to be found in "Cortege"] is both poised and informal, literate and personal."--"The New Yorker" ""Cortege" is a book that has been packed in salt: the durable salt of artistic making and the bitter salt of longing."--"Alan Shapiro" "The poems of James Merrill and Paul Monette come to mind as one reads Phillips's second collection. Here is a poet who writes with the same masterly elegance, often enhanced by tight, three-line stanzas. References to Ovid, Dante, or Renaissance painting are as lyrical as his frequent descriptions of shadows and birds. 'And now, / the candle blooms gorgeously away / from his hand-- / and the light had made / blameless all over / the body of him.' The word "gorgeously" here points to the care with which each image is sought. Friends, lovers, and, by extension, readers are addressed with a parallel tenderness. Explicit sexual imagery is inserted so delicately that it's impossible to take offence. Written by a poet who also happens to be an African American, these are some of the most sensitive homoerotic poems to be found in contemporary literature. ["Cortege" is] recommended for all poetry collections."--"Library Journal"

ACTS OF RANDOM KINDNESS

Author : Vince Iuliano
Publisher : vinceiulianowrites
ISBN 13 : 0463322231
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book ACTS OF RANDOM KINDNESS written by Vince Iuliano and published by vinceiulianowrites. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of brilliant poems (parts of this collection were previously sold as Blackbirds Drawn Against a Charcoal Sky White Snow and Frozen Town) here in one handy dandy collection you can sink your teeth into. Less A collection of brilliant poems (parts of this collection were previously sold as Blackbirds Drawn Against a Charcoal Sky White Snow and Frozen Town) here in one handy dandy collection you can sink your teeth into. Mr. Iuliano has been writing for several decades : his poetry has been called 'simple and wistful', 'meaningful' and 'hopeful'. His poems are deceptively simple, but dark and deep as the ocean

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131783237X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.

Acts of Contortion

Author : Anna Meek
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299182649
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Contortion written by Anna Meek and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poems that are by turns witty, lush, and unflinching, Acts of Contortion explores the gestures of both hurtfulness and compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the midst of a political demonstration, or at the center of an orchestra, the poems pursue the place of language in an injurious world. The political conscience at work is feminist, pacifist, and at odds with itself. Anna George Meek finds that the brutal and the compassionate are sometimes indistinguishable, born of our need to make contact outside of ourselves. These gestures--of music, of touch, of poetry--appear in the poems as the violin, domestic abuse, and words to comfort a woman in pain. The poems argue: difficult yet imperative, the attempt to gesture beyond ourselves is an act of contortion.

Lend a Hand

Author : John Frank
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
ISBN 13 : 9781620148297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Lend a Hand written by John Frank and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A picture book collection of poems centered on spontaneous acts of kindness, representing diverse voices and topical themes"--

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199596808
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry written by Peter Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

Acts of Mind

Author : Richard Jackson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081730228X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Mind written by Richard Jackson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1984-05-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There have been any number of books of interviews with contemporary writers, but none precisely like this one. The author/editor has somehow managed to get these very different poets to follow his lead and (in many cases for the first time anywhere) to reveal much about their intellectual habits, assumptions, and preconceptions. In almost every case he has been able to get these poets to talk more openly and freely than anyone else has ever done."--George Garrett