Beautiful & Pointless

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079417
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful & Pointless by : David Orr

Download or read book Beautiful & Pointless written by David Orr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

Harold Monro

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595782
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Harold Monro by : D. Hibberd

Download or read book Harold Monro written by D. Hibberd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubled by his complex sexuality, Monro was a tormented soul whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry. Hibberd's revealing and beautifully-written biography will help rescue Monro from the graveyard of literary history and claim for him the recognition he deserves. Poet and businessman, ascetic and alcoholic, socialist and reluctant soldier, twice-married yet homosexual, Harold Monro probably did more than anyone for poetry and poets in the period before and after the Great War, and yet his reward has been near oblivion. Aiming to encourage the poets of the future, he befriended, among many others, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and the Imagists; Rupert Brooke and the Georgians; Marinetti the Futurist; Wilfred Owen and other war poets; and the noted women poets, Charlotte Mew and Amma Wickham.

The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking

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ISBN 13 : 9781951319472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking by : James Matthew Wilson

Download or read book The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking written by James Matthew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant new book powerfully demonstrates how the evolution of Modern and Post-Modern criticism and theory, free verse, and political ideology have greatly diminished contemporary poetry. The final chapter is a tour de force that compellingly argues for meter as the catalyst that joins syllables, accents, and (often) rhyme to create the deeply subtle artistry of our language's poetry. "What is poetry and what is poetry for? To ask the first question is to ask the second. To answer both in light of the western tradition stretching back to Homer, and against much modernist and postmodernist poetic theory and practice, is the goal of this remarkable book. Poetry's final end is nothing less than to arouse in us a profound sense of wonder in coming to know that 'Reality as a whole is formed as the good-world-order, the intelligible beauty showing forth from [the] cosmic circle of procession and return.'"-David Middleton, author of The Fiddler of Driskill Hill, in The American Conservative

On Modern Poetry

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249038
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis On Modern Poetry by : Guido Mazzoni

Download or read book On Modern Poetry written by Guido Mazzoni and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.

Poetry and the Age

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ISBN 13 : 9780813021089
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry and the Age by : Randall Jarrell

Download or read book Poetry and the Age written by Randall Jarrell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Poetry and the Age: "Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review "Randall Jarrell's book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The reader is exhilarated, led on to agree with Mr. Jarrell joyfully, even to cap his opinions--and at last to grow reckless. . . . Poetry and the Age is enormously readable."-- Louis Simpson, The American Scholar "The most powerful reviewer of poetry active in this country for the last decade. . . . Everybody interested in modern poetry ought to be grateful to him." -- John Berryman, New Republic Randall Jarrell was the critic whose taste defined American poetry after World War II. Poetry and the Age, his first collection of criticism, was published in 1953. It has been in and out of print over the past 40 years and has become a classic of American letters. In this new edition, two long-lost lectures by Jarrell have been added. Recently discovered by critics, they speak to issues at the heart of Jarrell's criticism: the structure of poetry and the question "Is American poetry American?" One of the outstanding poets of the postwar generation, Jarrell was also celebrated for his extraordinary praise of some underappreciated older and younger poets and for his witty dismissals of current favorites he thought less qualified. Poetry and the Age includes groundbreaking considerations of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost as well as profound appraisals of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, and William Carlos Williams. His early reviews that established the reputations of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are here, beside other enthusiastic discoveries that have withstood the test of time. Poetry and the Age also contains Jarrell's influential essays on the obscurity of poetry and on the age of criticism, essays that offer some of the most relevant and readable literary judgments of the 20th century. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) wrote eight books of poetry, five anthologies, four children's books illustrated by Maurice Sendak, four translations, including Faust: Part I and The Three Sisters (performed on Broadway by the Actor's Studio), and a novel, Pictures from an Institution. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1960, served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1957 and 1958, and taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He was a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195122701
Total Pages : 1249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Anthology of Modern American Poetry by : Cary Nelson

Download or read book Anthology of Modern American Poetry written by Cary Nelson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

Poetry's Afterlife

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472070991
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry's Afterlife by : Kevin Stein

Download or read book Poetry's Afterlife written by Kevin Stein and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire creativity in their students, to graduate students in MFA programs, to working poets who struggle with the aesthetic dilemmas Stein elucidates, and to teachers of poetry on any level." --- Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Arizona State University "Kevin Stein is the most astute poet-critic of his generation, and this is a crucial book, confronting the most vexing issues which poetry faces in a new century." ---David Wojahn, Virginia Commonwealth University At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates. Kevin Stein is Caterpillar Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Bradley University and has served as Illinois Poet Laureate since 2003, having assumed the position formerly held by Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism. digitalculturebooksis an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

New Age Poems

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Publisher : Booksclinic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9389757428
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (897 download)

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Book Synopsis New Age Poems by : Bhagirath Choudhary

Download or read book New Age Poems written by Bhagirath Choudhary and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of New Age Poetry invites and implores every human being upon earth to align his or her consciousness with evolutionary wisdom and truth. Author with indomitable faith and trust in evolutionary wisdom emphasizes through his poem after poem that there is no greater truth than evolutionary wisdom which was distilled and derived from the mindful striving by the Life Principle - the Chain of Great Being for millions of years, experimenting through genetic mutations and adaptations with environment. The apex of this evolutionary wisdom manifested as human body and being, invokes humankind to be and become true to herself through scientific temperament and testimony, aligning her consciousness with evolutionary wisdom by mindful day to day relationships and interactions with earth, environment, all the sentient beings and humanity at large upon earth. Author calls upon his readers to be and become responsible earth citizens through mindful consumer behavior practicing energy efficiency like taking less from earth and giving back more, in other words, don’t waste, don’t pollute and be fuel efficient. The latest research in human health and wellbeing conducted by Neuroscientists have come to the conclusion that altruistic human thoughts, words and deeds strengthen and empower human immune system showing that man is made is in the likeness of an altruistic organism. The evolutionary mandate to humankind is to transform the organic energy into spiritual energy of love and light.

The Poetry of Ṭáhirih

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Publisher : George Ronald Publisher Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Ṭáhirih by : John S. Hatcher

Download or read book The Poetry of Ṭáhirih written by John S. Hatcher and published by George Ronald Publisher Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a unique collection of the poetry of Thirih: scholar, poet, and the only woman Letter of the Living. The original Persian texts and annotated English translations are set in their historical context and explained.

Inquire Within

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062954717
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis Inquire Within by : In-Q

Download or read book Inquire Within written by In-Q and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the soul, Inquire Within is a provocative and entertaining debut from an award-winning poet. You’ll never look at poetry the same way again.

Coming of Age as a Poet

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674010246
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Coming of Age as a Poet by : Helen Vendler

Download or read book Coming of Age as a Poet written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.

Voices of Light

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Voices of Light by : Aliki Barnstone

Download or read book Voices of Light written by Aliki Barnstone and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though often deprived of public position, women have long practiced the personal art of writing and so have been prepared to be our spiritual and visionary voices of light."--BOOK JACKET.

Highest Truths

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781469758183
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (581 download)

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Book Synopsis Highest Truths by : Ficklin Bryant

Download or read book Highest Truths written by Ficklin Bryant and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, when Ficklin Bryant's father asked him to write a poem, neither of them knew this poem would culminate in an entire collection of poetry. His father requested Bryant create a poem entitled "And the Greatest of These Is Love." Although the suggested title didn't stick, Bryant wrote a poem called "Highest Truths," which began a journey that reached its end in 2012. Highest Truths: Poetry for a New Age features poems Bryant has written from 1997 to 2012. In these poems, Byrant provides glimpses of the spiritual truths he has sought and the people he has known and loved. He also uses his words to call to mind events and peolple that have affected the world, such as the tragedies of 9/11, the Iraq War and the Bush administration. Through his poetry, Bryant works not merely to record life events but also to portray these experiences through the feelings they awaken, In this way, Highest Truths allows readers to remember historic occasions as well as revisit the inherent feelings they stimulated.

Modern Poetry After Modernism

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195101782
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Poetry After Modernism by : James Longenbach

Download or read book Modern Poetry After Modernism written by James Longenbach and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a diverse range of poets - John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur - Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid-century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see.

Gary Soto

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811807586
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Gary Soto written by Gary Soto and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.

Unoriginal Genius

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226660613
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Unoriginal Genius by : Marjorie Perloff

Download or read book Unoriginal Genius written by Marjorie Perloff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of "unoriginal" writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, "personal" than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980's and 90's. --

Poems of the New Age

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543404537
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems of the New Age by : Martin Kari

Download or read book Poems of the New Age written by Martin Kari and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet shows human power (Faust, Wolfgang von Goethe). Here rhyme is not asked to make an exclusive appearance. Poems of Martin Kari are prose poems, written very much from the heart. They are not too much concerned with form and line ending, in other words, rhyme only. Truth is here a concern. The reader is not confronted with difficult intellect, rather, being invited to share with the poets natural views where the outcome is positive (FAWQ editor, Caroline Glen). Des Menschen Kraft im Dichter off enbart (Faust, Wolfgang von Goethe). Hier ist nicht gefragt: Reim dich, oder ich fri dich. Gedichte von Martin Kari sind Prosa-Gedichte. Sie kommen vom Herzen. Sie sind nicht alleine vom Format bestimmt, es geht um die Wahrheit, daher ist die Sprache direkt, ohne Umschweife. Der Dichter sucht bereinstimmung mit dem Leser. Die Gedichte lesen sich leicht, kein besonderer Intellekt ist angesprochen die Aussagen sind unmiverstndlich und heben das Bewutsein (FAWQ editor, Caroline Glen).