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My Hollywood and Other Poems

Author : Boris Dralyuk
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589881672
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book My Hollywood and Other Poems written by Boris Dralyuk and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The wit and daring of his rhymes and phrasing remind me of that old master, Donald Justice, who dazzled us with the elegance of his forms. Dralyuk carries this high style into the 21st century, and I, for one, am thrilled to be in the presence of his marvelous verbal art. Pay attention, readers: a new maestro is in our midst."—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "These [poems] are the souvenirs of an almost-vanished glamour, an ethnic, gritty, free-wheeling city, little fantasias encased in rhyme and meter."—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's My Hollywood and Other Poems is a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. In forms ranging from ballades to villanelles to Onegin sonnets, the poems pursue the sublime in a tarnished landscape, seek continuity and mourn its loss in a town where change is the only constant. My Hollywood draws on the poet’s own life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, honors the vanishing traces of the city’s past, and, in crisp and poignant translations, summons the voices of five Russian poets who spent their final years in LA, including the composer Vernon Duke. “Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates My Hollywood. It’s an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse.”—New York Review of Books "Sophisticated, musical, and often humorous."—Booklist "Byronic rhymes are poetry’s answer to special effects, and Dralyuk’s skill at slipping them in—so that the art seems artless—is worthy of Industrial Light & Magic . . . What’s true of my favorite films is true of this book: the lines are first-rate, but it’s the images that linger.”— Austin Allen, The Hopkins Review "My Hollywood is a first-rate collection of precise, delightfully graceful poems, the poet as Fred Astaire tap-dancing up and down the lines."—Russian Life

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

Author : Amber Dawn
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551527944
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems written by Amber Dawn and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life. In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page in a heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmaking takes on artists. These long poems offer difficult truths within their intricate narratives that are alternately incendiary, tender, and rapturous. In a cultural era when intersectional and marginalized writers are topping bestseller lists, Amber Dawn invites her readers to take an unflinching look at we expect from writers, and from each other. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard: Poems

Author : Dana Goodyear
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082466
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard: Poems written by Dana Goodyear and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about sex, marriage, and the desire for a child from a “scary-cool and edgy-smart” poet (J. D. McClatchy). The frank, raw lyrics of Dana Goodyear’s second collection draw on the scenery of Los Angeles—the teenagers, vagrants, pornographers—and the beautiful decay that serves as an insistent reminder to them all. The poems are unsparing but tender, candid but sly, and open to the force of nature on an individual human life. from “Wildfire” We want this. The end to sleeping, the bittersweet arousal, the peeling back, the soft bath in resin, the release. It can’t come quick enough, the hot touch that breaks the crust and lets us go. Hear it now: a crackling, as the woods begin to sing alongside the birds.

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Author : Robert Chandler
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141972262
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry written by Robert Chandler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a more magical view of the world. During the Soviet era, poetry became a dangerous, subversive activity; nevertheless, poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the censors. This anthology traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert Chandler and others. The volume also includes a general introduction, chronology and individual introductions to each poet. Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet and translator. His many translations from Russian include works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov, while his anthologies of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales are both published in Penguin Classics. Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and co-founder of the StoSvet literary project. Her most recent collection is 2013's Ophelia i masterok [Ophelia and the Trowel]. Boris Dralyuk is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews and translator of many books from Russian, including, most recently, Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (2014).

Ghosts of Hollywood and Other Poems

Author : Jeremy Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892011220
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Hollywood and Other Poems written by Jeremy Butler and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing in Odessa

Author : Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1936797313
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in Odessa written by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, "I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it." One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top of your head off. Kaminsky is the real thing. Impossibly young, this Russian immigrant makes the English language sing with the sheer force of his music, a wondrous irony, as Ilya Kaminsky has been deaf since the age of four. In Odessa itself, "A city famous for its drunk tailors, huge gravestones of rabbis, horse owners and horse thieves, and most of all, for its stuffed and baked fish," Kaminksy dances with the strangest — and the most recognizable — of our bedfellows in a distinctive and utterly brilliant language, a language so particular and deft that it transcends all of our expectations, and is by turns luminous and universal.

Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589882041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 2025-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hollywood Hearts

Author : E. M. Bautista
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781424155064
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Hearts written by E. M. Bautista and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood Hearts is E.M. Bautistaas second book of poetry, following Mere Words. It is divided into three sections: Hollywood, her life, and the will of God. She writes descriptive poems about various stars from the past, such as Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, as well as todayas stars like Madonna and addresses talk and reality shows. In the section on her life she takes an honest look at herself and reveals struggles with self-image and depression. Wanting to help missing children, she has written a poem dedicated to them and their desperate and hurting families. She doesnat want them to be forgotten. In the final section, she writes spiritual poems, songs about God and finding His will for her life, and stories of hope when others discover His wonderful grace and love that can transform their lives.

The Others

Author : Matthew Rohrer
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1940696623
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Others written by Matthew Rohrer and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. this night they all seemed asleep for a while the stark shadows held me only my mind moved wildly behind my eyes until I heard a tiny song coming from the driver song of a bandit’s broken heart, song of his betrayal I slept and dreamed I was awake Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

The Hypnotiser

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Hypnotiser written by Michael Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hollywood & God

Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226673413
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood & God written by Robert Polito and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing—even lurid—hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today’s Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Robert Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers of light dancing tantalizingly on the silver screen. Mixing lyric and essay, collage and narrative, memoir and invention, Hollywood & God is an audacious book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it is devastatingly serious.

Feeld

Author : Jos Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571315052
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Feeld written by Jos Charles and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetic exploration in Middle English about the body, physical space, ownership of space, gender, and transitioning genders."--

The Zoo in Winter

Author : Polina Barskova
Publisher : Melville House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1935554263
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Zoo in Winter written by Polina Barskova and published by Melville House Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opulent, playful and sensual, Polina Barskova's poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under the age of 40. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova's work remains unmistakably contemporary, at once classic and edgy - always fresh, new and startling. This is the first English translation of this remarkable poet, collecting poems from seven earlier books as well as from her recent work. Dralyuk and Stromberg's superb translation perfectly renders the strange and intoxicating beauty of Barskova's poetry.

Toward the Winter Solstice

Author : Timothy Steele
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804010900
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Winter Solstice written by Timothy Steele and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new collection in twelve years by renowned California poet and New Formalist, Timothy Steele. A quiet intelligence pervades the lines of these poems and reinforces Steele's mastery of form and image.

The Secret Place

Author : Dorothy Keeley 1896-1966 Aldis
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014259561
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Place written by Dorothy Keeley 1896-1966 Aldis and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Living with a Visionary

Author : John Matthias
Publisher : DOS Madres Press
ISBN 13 : 9781953252388
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Living with a Visionary written by John Matthias and published by DOS Madres Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his afterword, Igor Webb writes, "The lament, uttered when love and death are most closely bound, is something like an essential accessory to mortality. . . . 'Living with a Visionary' is the poet's account of his, and (and his wife) Diana's, descent into hell (from effects of Parkinson's disease). . . . But it's in 'Some of Her Things,' a fable in the form of a long prose poem, . . . that Matthias most powerfully, and poignantly, deploys his language. . . . it is a courtly threnody for lost time." Literary Nonfiction

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

Author : John Lithgow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797209485
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown written by John Lithgow and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproarious poems and illustrations encompass Trump's impeachment, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and much more. Lithgow targets Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, Bill Barr, Jared Kushner, Elaine Chao, and many others, but also includes a few heroes of the moment, including Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and even Barack Obama. The book arrives at a time when it's needed most. With all-new poems and never-before-seen line drawings, Lithgow will once again make readers laugh and pause to remember some of the most defining moments in recent history—skewering the reign of King Dumpty one stanza at a time. Digital audio edition read by the author.