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Louisiana Poets

Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496822137
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Poets written by Catharine Savage Brosman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana has long been recognized for its production of talented writers, and its poets in particular have shined. From the early poetry of the state to the work crafted in the present day, Louisiana has nurtured and exported a rich and diverse poetic tradition. In Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide authors Catharine Savage Brosman and Olivia McNeely Pass assess the achievements of Louisiana poets from the past hundred years who, Brosman and Pass assert, deserve both public notice and careful critical examination. Louisiana Poets presents the careers and works of writers whose verse is closely connected to the peoples, history, and landscapes of Louisiana or whose upbringing or artistic development occurred in the state. Brosman and Pass chose poets based on the scope, abundance, and excellence of their work; their critical reception; and the local and national standing of the writer and work. The book treats a wide range of forty poets—from national bestsellers to local celebrities—detailing their histories and output. Intended to be of broad interest and easy to consult, Louisiana Poets showcases the corpus of Louisiana poetry alongside its current profile. Brosman and Pass have created a guide that provides a way for readers to discover, savor, and celebrate poets who have been inspired in and by the Pelican State.

Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War-era Newspapers

Author : Clint Bruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917860799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War-era Newspapers written by Clint Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original French text and English translations of Afro-Creole poetry published in L'Union and La Tribune (Civil War-era New Orleans newspapers established by free people of color), with a scholarly introduction and brief biographies of the poets"--

Uncommonplace

Author : Ann Brewster Dobie
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807122556
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Uncommonplace written by Ann Brewster Dobie and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought together here in one volume are sixty-seven vibrant poets united by deep ties to Louisiana. They sing of this uncommon place in voices enticingly diverse. Professor, grandmother, petroleum landman, insurance salesman—they are black and white; young and old; French- and English-speaking; native, transient, displaced, and even “recovering” Louisianians. They hail not only from cities, small towns, and farms throughout Louisiana, but also from states across the country where, despite time and distance, many continue to think of themselves as belonging to the bayous and cottonfields of their former home. Included are writers of considerable renown—such as Catharine Savage Brosman, Kelly Cherry, Andrei Codrescu, Yusef Komunyakaa, Pinkie Gordon Lane, David Middleton, Sue Owen, and Dave Smith—and others known better regionally. Each finds in poetry’s images, sounds, and forms the means to express personal encounters with the dilemmas of modern life and the age-old issues of love, guilt, family, death, and friendship. A rich array of styles, perspectives, and experiences, Uncommonplace delivers impressive proof of the creative spirit alive in the state and the power of place to unleash that spirit.

Louisiana Creole Literature

Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617039101
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Creole Literature written by Catharine Savage Brosman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad overview of the tremendous achievement of Louisiana writers in the Creole tradition

A Sand Book

Author : Ariana Reines
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793330
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book A Sand Book written by Ariana Reines and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." —Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.

Creole Echoes

Author : M. Lynn Weiss
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071492
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Creole Echoes written by M. Lynn Weiss and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creole poets have always eluded easy definition, infusing European poetic forms with Louisiana themes and Native American and African influences to produce an impressive variety of highly accomplished verses. The first major collection of its kind, Creole Echoes contains over a hundred of these poems by more than thirty different poets, presented by M. Lynn Weiss in their original French alongside new English translations by Norman R. Shapiro.The poems gathered here were all composed in French by Louisiana residents of European, African, and Caribbean origin. Their themes range from love and history to nightmare and childhood recollection. In these pages somber elegies meet whimsical surprises, and rhyming animal fables meet political panegyrics. "

The Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia

Author : Stephen Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933896939
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia written by Stephen Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia's poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices. The volume marks the fifth of the seriesArt & Literature has called “one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary Southern letters.”

Louisiana's Best Emerging Poets

Author : Z. Publishing
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987607437
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana's Best Emerging Poets written by Z. Publishing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the melting pot of Louisiana, diverse cultures have melded together over centuries to create its own unique flavor. Situated off the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana is home to a thriving fishing, seafood, and shipping industry that brings the world to their doorstep. And in its most famous city, New Orleans, the raucous sounds of jazz fill the streets in this down-home land of enchantment. Poetry is in the air here. In Louisiana's Best Emerging Poets, 28 up-and-coming poets have their own chance to shine. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these young talents will amaze you. Containing 1-3 poems per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.

Conversations with Billy Collins

Author : John Cusatis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496840682
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Billy Collins written by John Cusatis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Collins “puts the ‘fun’ back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called “hospitable” poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins was fifty-seven when his poetry began gathering considerable international attention. Conversations with Billy Collins chronicles the poet’s career beginning with his 1998 interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, which exponentially expanded his readership, three years prior to his being named United States Poet Laureate. Other interviewers range from George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review, to Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Henry Taylor to a Presbyterian pastor, a physics professor, and a class of AP English Literature students. Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Collins discusses such topics as discovering his persona, that consistently affable voice that narrates his often wildly imaginative poems; why poetry is so loved by children but often met with anxiety by high school students; and his experience composing a poem to be recited during a joint session of Congress on the first anniversary of 9/11, a tragedy that occurred during his tenure as poet laureate. He also explores his love of jazz, his distaste for gratuitously difficult poetry and autobiographical poems, and his beguiling invention of a mock poetic form: the paradelle. Irreverent, incisive, and deeply life-affirming—like his twelve volumes of poetry—these interviews, gathered for the first time in one volume, will edify and entertain readers in the way his sold-out readings have done for the past quarter century.

Poetry Performed

Author : Jan Baetens
Publisher : University of Louisiana at Lafayette
ISBN 13 : 9781946160782
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Poetry Performed written by Jan Baetens and published by University of Louisiana at Lafayette. This book was released on 2021 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, public readings have become a vital part of any form of literary life. Orality is the keyword of contemporary writing. Yet do we know what actually happens when a poetic text is read out loud? How are signs on a page transformed into a stage performance? What does it mean to move from a text meant for the eye alone to sounds and images presented in front of a living and actively participating audience? Poetry Performed: The Problem of Public Reading answers these questions, but not in abstract or general terms. Instead, author Jan Baetens examines how authors themselves live this experience of reading out loud and how they write about it in their works. Taking its departure from Balzac, this book revisits a wide range of masterpieces of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, including works by Marcel Proust and James Joyce, and contains a series of close readings of contemporary artists (poets, performers, directors, comics authors) who try to invent new forms of public reading.

Black Women Writers of Louisiana

Author : Ann B. Dobie
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439674248
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Writers of Louisiana written by Ann B. Dobie and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana has been home, by birth or adoption, to numerous literary greats. But among that talent, there's an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity, their record is fairly brief, but over the past century they have been responsible for a flowering of literature that portrays the Black experience through poetry, fiction, plays, essays and journalism. The writers profiled here have not gone wholly unrecognized though--far from it. Some have been honored with prestigious awards and have found a readership large enough to put them at the forefront of the national literary scene. Beginning with Alice Ruth Dunbar Nelson--a fiery activist, columnist and storyteller in the late nineteenth century--the work extends to Fatima Shaik, named 2021 Louisiana Writer of the Year. Join Ann B. Dobie on this celebration of Louisiana literary talent.

Louisiana Saturday Night

Author : Alex V. Cook
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807144568
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Saturday Night written by Alex V. Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs. Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south Louisiana's wellspring of musical tradition, showing us that indigenous music exists not as an artifact to be salvaged by preservationists, but serves as a living, breathing, singing, laughing, and crying part of Louisiana culture. Louisiana Saturday Night takes the reader to both offbeat and traditional venues in and around Baton Rouge, Cajun country, and New Orleans, where we hear the distinctive voices of musicians, patrons, and owners -- like Teddy Johnson, born in the house that now serves as Teddy's Juke Joint. Along the way, Cook ruminates on the cultural importance of the people and places he encounters, and shows their critical role in keeping Louisiana's unique music alive. A map, a journal, a snapshot of what goes on in the little shacks off main roads, Louisiana Saturday Night provides an indispensable and entertaining companion for those in pursuit of Louisiana's quirky and varied nightlife.

Poems by Walt Whitman

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Poems by Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louisiana Creole Literature

Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 161703911X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Creole Literature written by Catharine Savage Brosman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the flourishing period during which the term Creole had broad and contested cultural reference in Louisiana. The study consists in part of literary history and biography. When available and appropriate, each discussion—arranged chronologically—provides pertinent personal information on authors, as well as publishing facts. Readers will find also summaries and evaluation of key texts, some virtually unknown, others of difficult access. Brosman illuminates the biographies and works of Kate Chopin, Lafcadio Hearn, George Washington Cable, Grace King, and Adolphe Duhart, among others. In addition, she challenges views that appear to be skewed regarding canon formation. The book places emphasis on poetry and fiction, reaching from early nineteenth-century writing through the twentieth century to selected works by poets still writing in the early twenty-first century. A few plays are treated also, especially by Victor Séjour. Louisiana Creole Literature examines at length the writings of important Francophone figures, and certain Anglophone novelists likewise receive extended treatment. Since much of nineteenth-century Louisiana literature was transnational, the book considers Creole-based works which appeared in Paris as well as those published locally.

Louisiana's Best Emerging Poets 2019

Author : Z Publishing House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781713300694
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana's Best Emerging Poets 2019 written by Z Publishing House and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the melting pot of Louisiana, diverse cultures have melded together over centuries to create its own unique flavor. Situated off the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana is home to a thriving fishing, seafood, and shipping industry that brings the world to their doorstep. And in its most famous city, New Orleans, the raucous sounds of jazz fill the streets in this down-home land of enchantment. Poetry is in the air here. In Louisiana's Best Emerging Poets 2019, 20 up-and-coming poets have their own chance to shine. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these young talents will amaze you. Containing 1-3 poems per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.

Black Women Writers of Louisiana: Telling Their Stories

Author : Ann B. Dobie
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467151718
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Writers of Louisiana: Telling Their Stories written by Ann B. Dobie and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana has been home, by birth or adoption, to numerous literary greats. But among that talent, there's an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity, their record is fairly brief, but over the past century they have been responsible for a flowering of literature that portrays the Black experience through poetry, fiction, plays, essays and journalism. The writers profiled here have not gone wholly unrecognized though--far from it. Some have been honored with prestigious awards and have found a readership large enough to put them at the forefront of the national literary scene. Beginning with Alice Ruth Dunbar Nelson--a fiery activist, columnist and storyteller in the late nineteenth century--the work extends to Fatima Shaik, named 2021 Louisiana Writer of the Year. Join Ann B. Dobie on this celebration of Louisiana literary talent.

Mississippi Poets

Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829085
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Poets written by Catharine Savage Brosman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide showcases forty-seven poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today’s culture. In Mississippi, the importance of poetry can no longer be doubted. It partakes, as Faulkner wrote, of the broad aim of all literature: “to uplift man’s heart.” In Mississippi Poets, author Catharine Savage Brosman introduces readers to the poets themselves, stressing their versatility and diversity. She describes their subject matter and forms, their books, and particularly representative or striking poems. Of broad interest and easy to consult, this book is both a source of information and a showcase. It highlights the organic connection between poetry by Mississippians and the indigenous music genres of the region, blues and jazz. No other state has produced such abundant and impressive poetry connected to these essential American forms. Brosman profiles and assesses poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grounds for selection include connections between the poets and the state; the excellence and abundance of their work; its critical reception; and both local and national standing. Natives of Mississippi and others who have resided here draw equal consideration. As C. Liegh McInnis observed, “You do not have to be born in Mississippi to be a Mississippi writer. . . . If what happens in Mississippi has an immediate and definite effect on your work, you are a Mississippi writer.”