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Author : Roberta Hill
Publisher : Holy Cow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Flowers written by Roberta Hill and published by Holy Cow Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a major American poet, a book of "unflinching hope."
Author : Ernest Yates
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664165630
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Sometime a Fine Morning written by Ernest Yates and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Ernest Yates’s fourteenth volume of poems, and the eleventh volume in an ongoing series based on his wanderings through Philadelphia streets. In this volume the poet’s morning walk along one of Philadelphia’s main thoroughfares introduces a realm “beyond belief,” as the volume’s first poem announces. Then in poem after poem the secular city provides ground and counterpoint to the poet’s variable meditations, as the city’s impersonality drives the poet to contemplate such human values as love, beauty, freedom, justice. In the end the poet moves on, bearing away all vain musings; it is the city?in its varied, raw physicality?that abides.
Author : Yolanda Wisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934909423
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Monk Eats an Afro written by Yolanda Wisher and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cracks open a blueswoman's purse of poem and songs, bursting folk poetry for the millennium. Lush, lively smak-talk pulsates with jazz cadences, afrofuturistic impulses, and recollections of epic women. These poems holler, scat, chant, and eulogize on their way to the midwife, sometimes by bus, sometimes on foot, always on time"--
Author : Thom Nickels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626198101
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Literary Philadelphia: A History of Poetry and Prose in the City of Brotherly Love written by Thom Nickels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for writers. Local essayist Agnes Repplier once shared a glass of whiskey with Walt Whitman, who frequently strolled Market Street. Gothic writers like Edgar Allan Poe and George Lippard plumbed the city's dark streets for material. In the twentieth century, Northern Liberties native John McIntyre found a backdrop for his gritty noir in the working-class neighborhoods, while novelist Pearl S. Buck discovered a creative sanctuary in Center City. From Quaker novelist Charles Brockden Brown to 1973 U.S. poet laureate Daniel Hoffman, author Thom Nickels explores Philadelphia's literary landscape.
Author : Thomas Devaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934909577
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Getting to Philadelphia: New and Selected Poems written by Thomas Devaney and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Every poem in this collection resonates with the subtle wit and insight emblematic of Devaney's work."--Michael Lally
Author : Rudy Francisco
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1943735883
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (437 download)
Download or read book I'll Fly Away written by Rudy Francisco and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Midwest Book Awards Finalist 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Nominee Language so often fails us. In his highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Francisco has created his own words for the things we cannot give name to. English is the shiniest hammer I own, but it's also the only thing in my toolbox. Nolexi noun no·lex·i | \ nō-lek-si \ Definition of nolexi: 1 : a word or phrase that does not exist or has no direct translation in a particular language I'll Fly Away uses Francisco's invented lexicon as the palette to paint an intimate portrait of Black life in America — one that praises joy and grace without shying away from the hard truths confronting all of us today.
Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Ice Cube Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948509152
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book I May Or May Not Love You written by David Perkins and published by Ice Cube Press. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in I May or May Not Love You reflect the author's belief that all of the history of poetry is there for the looting. You'll find Marianne Moore lurking in "I Should Have No Doubts," and Ezra Pound hanging out in "Meditation in the Color of C"; Homer beached in "Sentiment for a City," and W.B. Yeats bar-hopping in "Aging Out," among others. And while he believes that all schools of poetry have something to teach, it's better to stay in class and go on assimilating rather than graduate. It's the music of words that matter here: the "banging of consonants" the "rolling vowels," and the assonance and alliteration and the "contrapuntally chimed rhymes, off-key and off-kilter," as they wander the terrain; Paris, Philadelphia, Denver; gazing at clocks and mirrors, listening to Tchaikovsky, playing the lottery, looking askance at Death, and cross-examining love.
Author : Blythe Davenport
Publisher : PS Books
ISBN 13 : 9780979335068
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Second Oldest written by Blythe Davenport and published by PS Books. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blythe Davenport's mastery of the intricate and unexpected image guides us back and forth from past to present in her poetic portraits of the Philadelphia landscape. She fills her poems with voices, places, and lines like 'the sun flexes his supernova arm, punching/a perfect round brilliant/in the bruised evening sky.' This is a book well worth reading and rereading for its informed voice, its subtlety, its grace." -Donna Wolf-Palacio, author of What I Don't Know
Author : Marjorie Maddox
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271031913
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Common Wealth written by Marjorie Maddox and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state’s history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, and W. D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born master John Updike. The book’s 103 poets also include such noted authors as Diane Ackerman, Maggie Anderson, Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Gary Fincke, Harry Humes, Julia Kasdorf, Ed Ochester, Jay Parini, Len Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl, and Judith Vollmer. In these pages, poems sketch the landscapes and cultural terrain of the state, delving into the history, traditions, and people of Philadelphia, “Dutch” country, the coal-mining region, the Poconos, and the Lehigh Valley; the Three Rivers region; the Laurel Highlands; and Erie and the Allegheny National Forest. Theirs is a complex narrative cultivated for centuries in coal mines, kitchens, elevated trains, and hometowns, a tale that illuminates the sanctity of the commonplace—the daily chores of a Mennonite housewife, a polka dance in Coaldale, the late shift at a steel factory, the macadam of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With its panoramic vision of Pennsylvania, its culture, and its thriving literary heritage, Common Wealth is a collection of remembrance for a state that continues to inspire countless contributions to American literature.
Author : Shari Lowin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135131538
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus written by Shari Lowin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and homo-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars, in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to scriptural characters and storylines. This book examines the ways in which the scriptural referents fit in with, or differ from, the traditional Andalusian poetic conventions. The study then proceeds to compare the scriptural stories and characters as presented in the poems with their scriptural and exegetical sources. This new intertextual analysis reveals that the Jewish and Muslim scholar-poets utilized their sacred literature in their poems of desire as more than poetic ornamentation; in employing Qur’ānic heroes in their secular verses, the Muslim poets presented a justification of profane love and sanctification of erotic human passions. In the Hebrew lust poems, which utilize biblical heroes, we can detect subtle, subversive, and surprisingly placed interpretations of biblical accounts. Moving beyond the concern with literary history to challenge the traditional boundaries between secular and religious poetry, this book provides a new, multidisciplinary, approach to existing materials and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of Islamic and Jewish Studies as well as to those with an interest in Hebrew and Arabic poetry of Islamic Spain.
Author : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0679426310
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes written by James Langston Hughes and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Author : Deeci Murphy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514459159
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Love Is . . . written by Deeci Murphy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeci Murphy, a Philadelphia poet, author, and educator, presents a collection of fifteen love poems to warm the heart, as well as entertain and excite the spirit. Whether love is real or imagined, reciprocal or unrequited, lost or newly discovered, it’s still the most powerful emotion there is. If you feel it, say it, ’cause love is not love until it’s spoken.
Author : Barbara B. Heyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190863757
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Samuel Barber written by Barbara B. Heyman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes every genre, including the famous Adagio for Strings, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, three concertos, a plethora of songs, and two operas, the Pulitzer prize-winning Vanessa, and Antony and Cleopatra, the commissioned work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966. Generously documented by letter, sketches, autograph manuscripts, and interviews with friends, colleagues, and performers with whom he worked, this ASCAP-Award winning book is still unquestionably the most authoritative biography on Barber, covering his entire career and interweaving the events of his life with his compositional process. This second edition benefits from many new discoveries, including a Violin Sonata recovered from an artist's estate, a diary Barber kept his seventeenth year, a trove of letters and manuscripts that were recovered from a suitcase found in a dumpster, documentation that dispels earlier myths about the composition of Barber's Violin Concerto, and research of scholars that was stimulated by Heyman's work. Barber's intimate relations are discussed when they bear on his creativity. A testament to the lasting significance of Romanticism, Samuel Barber stands as a model biography of an important musical figure.
Author : Debra Powell-Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Philly Jawns for Women Revisited written by Debra Powell-Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Editors Debra Powell-Wright and Pat McLean-Smith have lovingly gathered a chorus of voices from the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection to honor Nina Simone, the queen of Black Woman Magic, Rage and Reckoning. These Philly jawns revisit and revive Nina's infinite gospel. This anthology is both playlist and prayer for Ms. Simone, our mold-breaker and future-fashioner. -- Yolanda Wisher, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2016-2017" (from back cover)
Author : Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144220
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Fire Is Not a Country written by Cynthia Dewi Oka and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.
Author : Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807026522
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Sonia Sanchez and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry, this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work, including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969), through to 2019, the poet has collected her favorite work in all forms of verse, from Haiku to excerpts from book-length narratives. Her lifelong dedication to the causes of Black liberation, social equality, and women’s rights is evident throughout, as is her special attention to youth in poems addressed to children and young adults. As Maya Angelou so aptly put it: “Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”
Author : James Grant Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography written by James Grant Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
