50 American Plays (Poems)

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Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320401
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis 50 American Plays (Poems) by : Michael Dickman

Download or read book 50 American Plays (Poems) written by Michael Dickman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality." —The New Yorker Identical twins Michael and Matthew Dickman once invented their own language. Now they have invented an exhilarating book of poem-plays about the fifty states. Pointed, comic, and surreal, these one-page vignettes feature unusual staging and an eclectic cast of characters—landforms, lobsters, and historical figures including Duke Ellington, Sacajawea, Judy Garland, and Kenneth Koch, the avant-garde spirit informing this book introduced by playwright John Guare. "Lucky in Kansas" Judy Garland: This is always the worst part Tin Man: The coming back Judy Garland: Yes, it fucking sucks, it's depressing as shit The Lion: Well, we're lucky to still be employed at this farm Straw Man: I wouldn't call it lucky The Lion: We were lucky to get back Straw Man: That's not really lucky either I don't think you know what lucky means Judy Garland: It's funny what you miss Tin Man: The running Judy Garland: The flying Tin Man: The flying monkeys Judy Garland: The beautiful flying monkeys above the endless emeralds the unbelievably green world Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman are identical twins who were born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Michael received the 2010 James Laughlin Award for his second collection Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Matthew won the prestigious APR/Honickman Award for his debut volume, All-American Poem.

Theatrix: Poetry Plays

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ISBN 13 : 9781934695692
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis Theatrix: Poetry Plays by : Terese Svoboda

Download or read book Theatrix: Poetry Plays written by Terese Svoboda and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terese Svoboda's eighth book of poetry, "Theatrix: Poetry Plays," is all about play, and no pun is too low to interrogate the reader's Fourth Wall. Voices and not voice amplify the anxious voyeur's Theatrix experience. Touching on HBO's Chernobyl series, democracy in the Sudan, the patter of a comedienne, Mom, a little Shakespeare, the performative qualities of a Title IX hearing, Emma Goldman's corpse, the Supreme Court hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, the murder of the prostitute Helen Jewett, Covid-19 (of course), the actual house of Usher, WWII schipperkes, and the 1980s phenomenon of atria, Theatrix goads the meta-theatrical into an explosion of poetry.

Poems and Verse Plays

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems and Verse Plays by : Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Download or read book Poems and Verse Plays written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Narrative Poems

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140714814
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (148 download)

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Book Synopsis The Narrative Poems by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Narrative Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827464
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry by : Patrick Cheney

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry written by Patrick Cheney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his enigmatic place in print and manuscript culture, to his immersion in English Renaissance politics, religion, classicism, and gender dynamics. With individual chapters on Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint, the Companion also includes chapters on the presence of poetry in the dramatic works, on the relation between poetry and performance, and on the reception and influence of the poems. The volume includes a chronology of Shakespeare's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

Complete Poems and Plays

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151211852
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Complete Poems and Plays by : Thomas Stearns Eliot

Download or read book Complete Poems and Plays written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1971 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.

Poetry Pharmacy

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Publisher : Particular Books
ISBN 13 : 9780141987576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry Pharmacy by : William Sieghart

Download or read book Poetry Pharmacy written by William Sieghart and published by Particular Books. This book was released on 2025-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary- those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.

Locomotion

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440695881
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Locomotion by : Jacqueline Woodson

Download or read book Locomotion written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he's eleven, and he still misses them terribly. And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because "not a lot of people want boys-not foster boys that ain't babies." But Lonnie hasn't given up. His foster mother, Miss Edna, is growing on him. She's already raised two sons and she seems to know what makes them tick. And his teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. Told entirely through Lonnie's poetry, we see his heartbreak over his lost family, his thoughtful perspective on the world around him, and most of all his love for Lili and his determination to one day put at least half of their family back together. Jacqueline Woodson's poignant story of love, loss, and hope is lyrically written and enormously accessible.

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

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Total Pages : pages
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The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226344
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams by : Tennessee Williams

Download or read book The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the author's previously published poems, including poems from the plays, are in this definitive edition that comes with a CD of the author reading some of his poems in his unmistakable Mississippi drawl. Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. It was as a young poet that Williams first came to the attention of New Directions’ founder James Laughlin, who initially presented some of Williams’ verse in the New Directions anthology Five Young American Poets 1944 (before he had any reputation as a playwright), and later published the individual volumes of Williams’s poetry, In the Winter of Cities (1956, revised in 1964) and Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977). In this definitive edition, all of the playwright’s collected and uncollected published poems (along with substantial variants), including poems from the plays, have been assembled, accompanied by explanatory notes and an introduction by Tennessee Williams scholars David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis. The CD included with this paperbook edition features Tennessee Williams reading, in his delightful and mesmerizing Mississippi voice, several of the whimsical folk poems he called his "Blue Mountain Ballads," poems dedicated to Carson McCullers and to his longtime companion Frank Merlo, as well as his long early poem, "The Summer Belvedere."

Poetry's Playground

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332962
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (329 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry's Playground by : Joseph T. Thomas

Download or read book Poetry's Playground written by Joseph T. Thomas and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the study of children's poetry has always had a place in the realm of children's literature, scholars have not typically considered it in relation to the larger scope of contemporary poetry. In this volume, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., explores the "playground" of children's poetry within the world of contemporary adult poetic discourse, bringing the complex social relations of play and games, cliques and fashions, and drama and humor in children's poetry to light for the first time. Poetry's Playground considers children's poetry published in the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward, a time when many established adult poets began writing for young audiences. Through the work of major figures like Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, Shel Silverstein, and Jack Prelutsky, Thomas explores children's poems within the critical and historical conversations surrounding adult texts, arguing at the same time that children's poetry is an oft-neglected but crucial part of the American poetic tradition. Canonical issues are central to Poetry's Playground. The volume begins by tracing Robert Frost's emergence as the United States' official school poet, exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of his canonization and considering which other poets were pushed aside as a result. The study also includes a look at eight major anthologies of children's poems in the United States, offering a descriptive canon that will be invaluable to future scholarship. Additionally, Poetry's Playground addresses poetry actually written and performed by children, exploring the connections between folk poetry produced both on playgrounds and in the classroom. Poetry's Playground is a groundbreaking study that makes bold connections between children's and adult poetry. This book will be of interest to poets, scholars of poetry and children's literature, as well as students and teachers of literary history, cultural anthropology, and contemporary poetry.

Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198708564
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry by : James Williams

Download or read book Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry written by James Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of nonsense, Lear has also shaped the evolution of modern literature and his work continues to influence and inspire writers and readers today. This collection of essays, the first ever devoted solely to Lear, builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest and asks how it is that the play of Lear's poetry continues to delight, and to challenge our sense of what poetry can be. These seventeen chapters, written by established and emerging critics of poetry, seek to explore and appreciate the playfulness embodied in the poems and to provide contexts in which it can be better understood and enjoyed. They consider how Lear's poems play off various inheritances (the literary fool, Romantic lyric, his religious upbringing), explore particular forms in which his playful genius took flight (his letters, his queer writings about love), and trace lines of Learical influence and inheritance by showing how other poets and thinkers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played off Lear in their turn (Stein, Eliot, Auden, Smith, Ashbery, and others).

The Plays & Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Plays & Poems by : Robert Greene

Download or read book The Plays & Poems written by Robert Greene and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victorian Parlour Poetry

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486270449
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Victorian Parlour Poetry by : Michael R. Turner

Download or read book Victorian Parlour Poetry written by Michael R. Turner and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 117 gems by Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning and many lesser-known poets. "The Village Blacksmith," "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," "Only a Baby Small," more, often difficult to find elsewhere. Index of poets, titles, first lines.

Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth

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Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780918016553
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth by : Louis B. Wright

Download or read book Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth written by Louis B. Wright and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complete Poems

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ISBN 13 : 9780701178024
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Complete Poems by : Elizabeth Bishop

Download or read book Complete Poems written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.

Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781884964367
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (643 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by : O. Classe

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L written by O. Classe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: