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Poems of the American Empire

Author : Jen Hedler Phillis
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386620
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Poems of the American Empire written by Jen Hedler Phillis and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of the American Empire argues that careful attention to a particular strain of twentieth-century lyric poetry yields a counter-history of American global power. The period that Phillis covers—from Ezra Pound’s A Draft of XXX Cantos in 1930 to Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire in 2012—roughly matches what some consider the ascent and decline of the American empire. The diverse poems that appear in this book are united by their use of epic forms in the lyric poem, a combination that violates a fundamental framework of both genres’ relationship to time. This book makes a groundbreaking intervention by insisting that lyric time is key to understanding the genre. These poems demonstrate the lyric form’s ability to represent the totality of history, making American imperial power visible in its fullness. Neither strictly an empty celebration of American exceptionalism nor a catalog of atrocities, Poems of the American Empire allows us to see both.

Poems of the American Empire

Author : Jen Hedler Phillis
Publisher : New American Canon
ISBN 13 : 1609386612
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Poems of the American Empire written by Jen Hedler Phillis and published by New American Canon. This book was released on 2019 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of the American Empire argues that careful attention to a particular strain of twentieth-century lyric poetry yields a counter-history of American global power. The period that Phillis covers--from Ezra Pound's A Draft of XXX Cantos in 1930 to Cathy Park Hong's Engine Empire in 2012--roughly matches what some consider the ascent and decline of the American empire. The diverse poems that appear in this book are united by their use of epic forms in the lyric poem, a combination that violates a fundamental framework of both genres' relationship to time. This book makes a groundbreaking intervention by insisting that lyric time is key to understanding the genre. These poems demonstrate the lyric form's ability to represent the totality of history, making American imperial power visible in its fullness. Neither strictly an empty celebration of American exceptionalism nor a catalog of atrocities, Poems of the American Empire allows us to see both.

Oracles of Empire

Author : David S. Shields
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226752992
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Oracles of Empire written by David S. Shields and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative look at previously neglected poetry in British America represents a major contribution to our understanding of early American culture. Spanning the period from the Glorious Revolution (1690) to the end of King George's War (1750), this study critically reconstitutes the literature of empire in the thirteen colonies, Canada, and the West Indies by investigating over 300 texts in mixed print and manuscript sources, including poems in pamphlets and newspapers. British America's poetry of empire was dominated by three issues: mercantilism's promise that civilization and wealth would be transmitted from London to the provinces; the debate over the extent of metropolitan prerogatives in law and commerce when they obtruded upon provincial rights and interests; and the argument that Britain's imperium pelagi was an ethical empire, because it depended upon the morality of trade, while the empires of Spain and France were immoral empires because they were grounded upon conquest. In discussing these issues, Shields provides a virtual anthology of poems long lost to students of American literature.

Engine Empire: Poems

Author : Cathy Park Hong
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082849
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Engine Empire: Poems written by Cathy Park Hong and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by American poet Cathy Park Hong.

The Insanity of Empire

Author : Robert Bly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insanity of Empire written by Robert Bly and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poetry collection discusses the Iraq war and some of the ominous implications of that serious step taken by the Republican administration. The collection includes six poems from the author's book on the Vietnam War, as well as a new group of poems discussing the power of the greedy soul or 'the rapacious soul.' Another five poems are in the ghazal form, including 'Call and answer, ' one of the first poems written against the Iraq War.

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

Author : Hugh Foley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192857096
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire written by Hugh Foley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between the 'I' of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. Foley's book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth-century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period--underpinned by the discourse of individual rights--forced poets to reckon with this entanglement, it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post-war period. By tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood, and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post-war liberalism, Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of 'lyric'>. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.

Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire

Author : Suvir Kaul
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919683
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire written by Suvir Kaul and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire, Suvir Kaul argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson's ode "Rule, Britannia " (1740) is the condition to which much English poetry of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aspires. Poets as varied as Marvell, Waller and Dryden, Defoe, Addison, John Dyer and Edward Young, or Goldsmith, Cowper, Hannah More and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, all wrote poems deeply engaged with the British-nation-in-the-making. These poets, and many others like them, recognized that the nation and its values and institutions were being defined by the expansion of overseas trade, naval and military control, plantations and colonies. Their poems both embodied, and were concerned about, the culture and ideology of "Great Britain" (itself an idea of the nation that developed alongside the formation of a British Empire). Poems in this period thus flaunt various images of poetic inspiration that show poetry and culture following triumphantly where mercantile and military ships sail. Or sometimes, more self-aggrandizingly for the poet, they enact the process by which the Muses use their powers to inspire and show the way. Even at their most hesitant, these poems were written as interventions into public discussion; their creativity is tied up with that desire to convince and persuade. Finally, as Kaul writes, it is their encyclopedic desire to incorporate new experiences, visions, and values that makes these poems such fine guides to the world of poetry in the long years in which "Great Britain" was consolidated as an empire, at home and abroad.

Empires

Author : John Balaban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556595707
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Empires written by John Balaban and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires showcases the pervasiveness of the human spirit across a diverse cast of characters, both modern and ancient.

Empire of Dreams

Author : Giannina Braschi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057959
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Dreams written by Giannina Braschi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stream-of-consciousness jottings by a Puerto Rican woman on life in New York City. A portrait of the city by a writer with an acute sense of observation. The author teaches Spanish at a university.

Nude Descending an Empire

Author : Sam Taylor
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980290
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Nude Descending an Empire written by Sam Taylor and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century, Nude Descending and Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings all the supposed sensitivity of poetry into contact with the world we actually live in—with all its crises, madness, and modernity—and insists that we feel it all. A reader will recognize many of the urgent political issues of our time, yet will find them re-inhabited and transformed here by the imaginative power of poetry. Our great ecological crisis is cast as the fulfillment of a long history of violence, domination, lies, and alienation—in one word, empire—and the book suggests that a livable future requires that we wholly inhabit our body-heart-mind and discover a new paradigm.

Poems of the Empire

Author : James L. Wingard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425104764
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Poems of the Empire written by James L. Wingard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of poems, quotes and illustrations looking to turn the tide of despotism and restore the middle class of America. With rhyme and humor we can endure with words that endure. We are losing the American Dream but hopefully these poetic words will stir the embers of dissent where written words cannot. Timing is everything and the energy pendulum is nearing it's zenith of negativism and once again positive energy will light our way out of the darkness of the arch-conservative right wing Republicanism. We are transforming into a Skull and Bone society as we drift towards Empire and Theocracy and Totalitarianism. We are in the midst of an Anerican crisis which will determine if we continue to function as a Republic and a Democracy. If we are to save this country from the pythonic grasp of the Fourth Reich American we must act soon. Remember in Germany the people were 95 percent for the Third Reich, the Good Germans, but after the collapse not a solitary one could be found. There is one bright spot in our favor, Hitler had the youth of Germany with him; Bush/Cheney/Rove/DeLay in their quest for power and plunder have forsaken the youth and even the middle class and America as we know it. They believe in the apocalyptic but at Armageddon they will not be on the side they think they are on. This country belongs to the people, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and we must take it back and soon. This cannot happen under the two political parties we have today, we need a third to evolve within the Democratic party.

Second Empire

Author : Richie Hofmann
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584309
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Second Empire written by Richie Hofmann and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The delicate arc of these poems intimates—rather than tells—a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the sterner recognitions that matter: 'I am a little white omnivore,' the speaker of Second Empire discovers. Mastering directness and indirection, Hofmann's poems break through their own beauty."—Rosanna Warren This debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others—other times, other places—in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary. Antique Book The sky was crazed with swallows. We walked in the frozen grass of your new city, I was gauzed with sleep. Trees shook down their gaudy nests. The ceramic pots were caparisoned with snow. I was jealous of the river, how the light broke it, of the skein of windows where we saw ourselves. Where we walked, the ice cracked like an antique book, opening and closing. The leaves beneath it were the marbled pages. Richie Hofmann is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.

I, Too, Sing America

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395895993
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book I, Too, Sing America written by Catherine Clinton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

Author : Hugh Foley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192671278
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire written by Hugh Foley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem—the lyric subject— and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. Foley's book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth-century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period—underpinned by the discourse of individual rights—forced poets to reckon with this entanglement, it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post-war period. By tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood, and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post-war liberalism, Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of ‘lyric'>. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.

American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178)

Author : David Sheilds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178) written by David Sheilds and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.

Navigating CHamoru Poetry

Author : Craig Santos Perez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535507
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Navigating CHamoru Poetry written by Craig Santos Perez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). In this book, poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez navigates the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics, diasporic migrations, and native aesthetics.

A Certain Clarity

Author : Lawrence Joseph
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720606
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Certain Clarity written by Lawrence Joseph and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer Drawing from his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph’s "poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness” (John Ashbery), each poem “an inspired, made thing by a poet-advocate who has honed a timely song within an urgent testimony that embraces the complex density of truth” (Yusef Komunyakaa). Joseph’s poems constitute one of the most essential and visionary bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. No other American poet covers the territory Joseph does. His ever-new interactions of thoughts, voices, and languages—influenced by his Lebanese and Syrian Catholic heritage, his professional life as a lawyer and legal scholar, and the economies of the world of working-class labor from which he comes—bear witness, on multilayered spatial and temporal planes, to the velocities of global and historical change, and to power structures embodied in endless wars, unleashed capital, racism, and ecological destruction, presenting an ongoing chronicle of what it means to write poetry in the turbulent times in which we live. But also integral to Joseph’s poetry is a sensual intimacy, passionately driven by an acute awareness of a deeper order in which beauty, love, and justice are indistinguishable. Meticulously formed, emotionally fierce, intellectually challenging, Joseph’s poems press back against the high-stakes pressures of our time with a moral and aesthetic intensity not easily forgotten.