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My Lost Poets

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524711330
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book My Lost Poets written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth and easy as speaking, Levine reveals the things that made him the poet he became. In the title essay, originally the final speech of his poet laureate year, he recounts how as a boy he composed little speeches walking in the night woods near his house and how he later realized these were his first poems. He wittily takes on the poets he studied with in the Iowa Writers' Workshop: John Berryman, who was his great teacher and lifelong friend, and Robert Lowell, who was neither. His deepest influences--jazz, Spain, the working people of Detroit--are reflected in many of the pieces. There are essays on the Spanish poets he admires, on William Carlos Williams, Wordsworth, Keats, and others. A wonderful, moving collection of writings that add to our knowledge and appreciation of Philip Levine--both the man and the poet.

The Last Poets

Author : Christine Otten
Publisher : World Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781642860030
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Last Poets written by Christine Otten and published by World Editions. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring and imaginative novel based on the lives of The Last Poets, New York's legendary Hip-Hop pioneers from the ghettos.

My Poets

Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875054
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis My Poets by : Maureen N. McLane

Download or read book My Poets written by Maureen N. McLane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell "Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in My Poets not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Glück to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's mind," as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude. In a poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an "erotics of interpretation": this is it. Part Bildung, part dithyramb, part exegesis, My Poets extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.

Are You an Echo?

Author : Misuzu Kaneko
Publisher : Chin Music
ISBN 13 : 9781634059626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Are You an Echo? written by Misuzu Kaneko and published by Chin Music. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaneko's empathetic children's poetry was lost for decades. Now, this color-illustrated, bilingual volume presents her biography and most beloved poems.

The Last True Poets of the Sea

Author : Julia Drake
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368049419
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Last True Poets of the Sea written by Julia Drake and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Far from the Tree, We Are Okay and Emergency Contact will love this epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival. Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.

Book of My Nights

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160401
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Book of My Nights written by Li-Young Lee and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity. Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailing Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book with The City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times and The Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers. Rose and The City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago.

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz

Author : Delmore Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz written by Delmore Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets

Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781622889044
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets written by Christopher Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Levine came to teach at Fresno State in 1958 and Peter Everwine followed in 1962; C.G. Hanclicek came in 1966 and the initial group of Fresno poets collected here became students and colleagues of theirs. Sadly, about one third of the poets in Naming the Lost are no longer with us. This book focuses then on the community of poets first coming through Fresno, beginning in the early 1960s, starting it all off. Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets--Interviews & Essays, preserves an amazing nexus of poetic talent and fellowship, and documents the providence that brought so many outstanding poets to Fresno--early '60s through the '80s--a confluence and coincidence of talent and personalities unlikely to be seen again.

Sleeping with the Dictionary

Author : Harryette Mullen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520927834
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sleeping with the Dictionary written by Harryette Mullen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

The Government Lake

Author : James Tate
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062914731
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Government Lake written by James Tate and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor’s death. A baby is born transparent. James Tate’s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, “fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent,” (New York Times) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate’s dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative. With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form.

A Walk with Tom Jefferson

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030782974X
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Walk with Tom Jefferson written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the title poem of Philip Levine’s A Walk with Tom Jefferson is not the founding father and third president of the United States that most readers would imagine upon hearing the name. Levine’s Tom Jefferson is quite different from his namesake: he is an African American living in a destitute area of industrial Detroit. But to Levine, he is “wise, compassionate, deliberate, honest…a great unknown American.” In A Walk with Tom Jefferson, Philip Levine reminds us why he is best known for his poems about working-class life in Detroit--and why so many people count a Levine poem among their favorites.

The Last Shift

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493265
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Last Shift written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night/to discover that rain in New York City/is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, "The Last Shift."

Persistent Voices

Author : David Groff
Publisher : Alyson Books
ISBN 13 : 9781593501532
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Persistent Voices written by David Groff and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40 of the most admired poets who died of AIDS are remembered in a new and groundbreaking collection. From Reinaldo Arenas, Tory Dent and James Merrill to Paul Monette, Essex Hemphill and Joe Brainard, Persistent Voices memorialises these poets and many others by presenting their work - often dealing with AIDS but also other enduring topics - in the context of an unending epidemic that has profoundly affected global literature.

The Great Modern Poets

Author : Michael Schmidt
Publisher : Greenfinch
ISBN 13 : 1529434165
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Great Modern Poets written by Michael Schmidt and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900 Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a deeper understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems. Poets include: W.B. Yeats Robert Frost Edward Thomas Philip Larkin T.S. Eliot Ted Hughes Langston Hughes Sylvia Plath C.S Sisson Derek Walcott Ezra Pound & many more!

The Bughouse

Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448191882
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Bughouse written by Daniel Swift and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de Waal In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer – ‘The most important living poet in the English language’ according to T. S. Eliot – but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound – the artistic flair, the profound human flaws – whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.

The Lost Pilot

Author : James Tate
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780912946979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Pilot written by James Tate and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1982-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242242
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet written by Philip Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems. For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.