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Confessions of a Poet Laureate

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017478X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Poet Laureate written by Charles Simic and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us from his rattling house on a stormy New Hampshire night, to a park bench in Washington Square where two old men sit discussing the women they've known, to a business convention in Topeka where he reads a poem, to the vanished subterranean jazz clubs of old New York, and beyond. Part autobiographical fragment, part waking dream, these pieces are marked by Simic's characteristic wit, audacity, and awe before life's strangeness. Contents include: --Reminiscing about the Night Before --Strangers on a Train --Confessions of a Poet Laureate --The Blustering Blast --The Buster Keaton Cure --On Losing --On the Couch with Philip Roth, at the Morgue with Pol Pot

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199831678
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction written by Alan Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.

Confessions of a Poet

Author : Robert D. Edmonson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468551132
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Poet written by Robert D. Edmonson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " CONFESSIONS OF A POET " is a story of love. In this book you will find happiness, despair, humor, sadness and maybe just a little bit of yourself; what I have learned is: THERE REALLY IS LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS AND THE HUMAN HEART, WHILE SOMETIMES FRAGILE, BEATS STRONGEST WHEN YOU DARE TO DREAM! This collection is my legacy; a gift I choose to share...finally. I open my heart, once more, to let you in.

Poetically Speaking: Confessions of a Soul Untamed

Author : Tychena Sanders
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312127511
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Poetically Speaking: Confessions of a Soul Untamed written by Tychena Sanders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book filled with poetry that soothes the soul. The journey starts and goes full speed ahead to highlight love, the journey to maturity and the happiness that lies at the end of the tunnel. Poetry from the Soul of a Southern Belle to countless hearts throughout the world of literature.

An Honest Day's Confession

Author : Canada Research Chair in Poetics and Assistant Professor of English Nathan Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997643695
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book An Honest Day's Confession written by Canada Research Chair in Poetics and Assistant Professor of English Nathan Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Honest Day's Confession is the third book in a trilogy that Nathan promised his daughter Sierra. In these difficult times of political idiocy and planetary uncertainty, he wanted to give her these confessions as a means of being honest to his core. They are smiles and winks amidst the mind-bending, head-bowing puberty of the 21st Century.

Confessions

Author : Rabee Jaber
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220680
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Confessions written by Rabee Jaber and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful thriller about trauma and forgiveness, from the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hospital, adopted by one of the assassins, and raised in a new family. “My father used to kidnap and kill people …” begins this haunting tale of a child who was raised by the murderer of his real family. The narrator of Confessions doesn’t shy away from the horrible truth of his murderous father—instead he confronts his troubled upbringing and seeks to understand the distortions and complexities of his memories, his war-torn country, and the quiet war that rages inside of him.

Confessions of a Poet

Author : F. W. Orde (Frederick William Orde Ward
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290746687
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Poet written by F. W. Orde (Frederick William Orde Ward and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

More Money than God

Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980428
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book More Money than God written by Richard Michelson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both beautiful, full of suffering, and balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin? With humor, anger and great tenderness, Richard Michelson’s poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political, and the connections between history and memory. Growing up under the shadow of the Holocaust, in a Brooklyn neighborhood consumed with racial strife, Michelson’s experiences were far from ordinary, yet they remain too much a part of the greater circle of poverty and violence to be dismissed as merely private concerns, safely past. It is Michelson’s sense of humor and acute awareness of Jewish history, with its ancient emphasis on the fundamental worth of human existence that makes this accessible book, finally, celebratory and life-affirming.

True Confessions & New Cliches

Author : Liz Lochhead
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9780954407537
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book True Confessions & New Cliches written by Liz Lochhead and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In True Confessions & New Cliches, Liz Lochhead has brought together a selection of the best of her raps, songs, sketches and monologues from her plays and revues. She pokes fun at the seriousness with which we deal with everyday events in touching and hilarious ways. For a poet who believes so much in poetry belonging to the voice, these works hold a special place and they have become firm favorites with the many fans who attend her public readings.

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist

Author : Carlton Lake
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211307
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist written by Carlton Lake and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.

Confessions of a Poet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Poet written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Compelling Confessions

Author : Suzanne Diamond
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470439
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Compelling Confessions written by Suzanne Diamond and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in contemporary scholarship. Yet, 'telling one's story' raises questions, not only about authorial intent or authenticity, but also about the pressures disclosure can impose upon its audiences. Far less ubiquitous than confessions themselves, as these contributors suggest, are the critical tools that general audiences might employ in order to better evaluate the rhetoric of personal disclosure. It is, in fact, the shortage of such tools – responses and procedures that could be stated plainly and implemented by any reader or viewer – that Compelling Confessions sets out to address.

The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate (Classic Reprint)

Author : Alfred Tennyson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331402193
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Tennyson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate In the Valley of Cauterets. Pg?! Supposed Confessions of a Second-rite Sen The Flower sltive Mind not in Unity with Itself The Islet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

True Confessions

Author : John Guzlowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945467172
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book True Confessions written by John Guzlowski and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to his award-winning memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolding, John Guzlowski once again proves himself the master of autobiographical poetry.True Confessions offers the reader a series of autobiographical/memoir poems about Guzlowski's life from 1965 to the present. True Confessions is partially set in the Midwest where he lived until he retired from university teaching. The poems in this book deal with his hippie years in Chicago in the 1960s, his marriage to his wife, living in a small town in Illinois after their marriage, the deaths of his parents, his love of teaching, the after effects of 9/11, and his thoughts on aging, America, poetry, and love. His previous book Echoes of Tattered Tongues won the Independent Book Publishers Association's Ben Franklin Poetry award in 2017, the Eric Hoffer/Montaigne Award for most thoughtful book of 2017. His poetry books and novels have been reviewed in New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Review, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Review, and Shelf Awareness. In reviewing Guzlowski's first book of memoir poems, Language of Mules, Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "Exceptional...even astonished me...reveals an enormous ability for grasping reality."

Confessions of a Poet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Simulacra

Author : Airea D. Matthews
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030022396X
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Simulacra written by Airea D. Matthews and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book "rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant." This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.

Vasko Popa

Author : Vasko Popa
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137336X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Vasko Popa written by Vasko Popa and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original collection of work by the great Serbian poet of the twentieth century. Vasko Popa is widely recognized as one of the great poets of the twentieth century, a riddling fabulist, whose work, taking its bearings from the songs and folklore of his native his Serbia and from surrealism, has a dark gnomic fatalistic humor and pathos that are like nothing else. Charles Simic, a master of contemporary American poetry, has been translating Popa’s work for more than a quarter century. This revised and greatly expanded edition of Simic’s Popa is a revelation.