Poems Of The Known World

Download Poems Of The Known World full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Poems Of The Known World ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Poems of the Known World

Author : William Kistler
Publisher : Council Oak Books
ISBN 13 : 9781559703017
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Poems of the Known World by : William Kistler

Download or read book Poems of the Known World written by William Kistler and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of the Known World come to us from the paradoxes and harsh juxtapositions of late 20th-century life - the unkempt homeless sleeping beside a smoothness of marble cut from mountains they will never see and used as the facings of buildings they will almost never enter; male and female reaching toward union while memories of the brutality of war pass between them; the recognition by a market futures trader that his life is as vulnerable and circumscribed as that of a frog he had dissected as a student years before. Kistler is sometimes likened to Wallace Stevens because of his careers in both poetry and business. His concerns, however, are both contemplative and activist. He has looked at the structures of late 20th-century society and understood their effects on our lives. His language and his imagery are at times harsh, at times lyrical; they open new shapes of understanding. These poems resonate with the experiences of an intense life. A fierce seeking is here joined with an expansive heart.

The Known World

Author : Don Bogen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819522375
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Known World by : Don Bogen

Download or read book The Known World written by Don Bogen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning poetry that explores the complex relationship between past and present.

Bright Dead Things

Author : Ada Limón
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472154576
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bright Dead Things by : Ada Limón

Download or read book Bright Dead Things written by Ada Limón and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, Bright Dead Things considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact - tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth and falls in love. In these extraordinary poems Ada Limón's heart becomes a 'huge beating genius machine' striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. 'I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,' the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and 'effortlessly lyrical' (New York Times) - though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt and lived.

A World Full of Poems

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744037379
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A World Full of Poems by : DK

Download or read book A World Full of Poems written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated introduction to poetry for children, featuring poems about everything from science, sports, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings. This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse and for young poetry fans seeking out new favorites. Explore poetry from a diverse selection of contemporary and historical poets, covering a broad range of topics—from personal subjects like emotions and family, to the wonders of the natural environment. Carefully selected works encourage children to see the poetry in everything and to embrace the beauty of their everyday lives. Prompts and activities inspire children to create their own poetry, and devices like rhyme, repetition, and alliteration are introduced and explained in a fun and accessible manner.

The Carrying

Author : Ada Limón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571315137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Carrying by : Ada Limón

Download or read book The Carrying written by Ada Limón and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." --WASHINGTON POST

Out of This World

Author : Amy E. Sklansky
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375864598
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Out of This World by : Amy E. Sklansky

Download or read book Out of This World written by Amy E. Sklansky and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers lyrically presented facts about space and with perspective illustrations and additional explanations in the margins.

The Known World

Author : Edward P. Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061746363
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Known World by : Edward P. Jones

Download or read book The Known World written by Edward P. Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Edward P. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities. “A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon.”—Time

Poetry for the Earth

Author : Sara Dunn
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449905993
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Poetry for the Earth by : Sara Dunn

Download or read book Poetry for the Earth written by Sara Dunn and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the state of the environment is a very current issue, passion and concern for the world around us is nearly as old as the world itself. Poetry for the Earth brings together a cross-section of some of the most beautiful and haunting poetry ever written in tribute to--or in mourning for--our magnificent landscapes.

Across the Known World

Author : Keith Ratzlaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931209758
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Across the Known World by : Keith Ratzlaff

Download or read book Across the Known World written by Keith Ratzlaff and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Famous Poems from Bygone Days

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486148564
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Famous Poems from Bygone Days by : Martin Gardner

Download or read book Famous Poems from Bygone Days written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell.

Best Remembered Poems

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486116409
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Best Remembered Poems by : Martin Gardner

Download or read book Best Remembered Poems written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Cortège

Author : Carl Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cortège by : Carl Phillips

Download or read book Cortège written by Carl Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Phillips is the author of nine previous books of poems, including "Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006";" Riding Westward"; and "The Rest of Love," a National Book Award finalist. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. This is the second collection of poems by Carl Phillips, whose first book, "In the Blood," won the 1992 Morse Poetry Prize. As "The Boston Book Review" observed, "Cortege" is the work of "an erotic poet, one who follows his sexuality into surprising territory . . . The contemporary scene is fully present [throughout this book], with all its new and old terrors--AIDS, loneliness--but Phillips's richness of mind is such that he often encounters in this life the artifacts of a couple of millennia of art and mythology. Which is not to say these poems have an academic flavor--far from it. The vision is contemporary, the language ours . . . What makes these poems such a coherent whole, in addition to their open sensuality, is the awareness they contain of the inescapable sadness of beauty . . . This is a poet of tact and delicacy, with an understated approach to even potentially explosive subjects." "A classicist by training, Phillips mythologizes the everyday as adeptly as he domesticates Ovid, and the verse [to be found in "Cortege"] is both poised and informal, literate and personal."--"The New Yorker" ""Cortege" is a book that has been packed in salt: the durable salt of artistic making and the bitter salt of longing."--"Alan Shapiro" "The poems of James Merrill and Paul Monette come to mind as one reads Phillips's second collection. Here is a poet who writes with the same masterly elegance, often enhanced by tight, three-line stanzas. References to Ovid, Dante, or Renaissance painting are as lyrical as his frequent descriptions of shadows and birds. 'And now, / the candle blooms gorgeously away / from his hand-- / and the light had made / blameless all over / the body of him.' The word "gorgeously" here points to the care with which each image is sought. Friends, lovers, and, by extension, readers are addressed with a parallel tenderness. Explicit sexual imagery is inserted so delicately that it's impossible to take offence. Written by a poet who also happens to be an African American, these are some of the most sensitive homoerotic poems to be found in contemporary literature. ["Cortege" is] recommended for all poetry collections."--"Library Journal"

The Known World

Author : Don Bogen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571849
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Known World by : Don Bogen

Download or read book The Known World written by Don Bogen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning bare description into a luxuriance, The Known World looks at the complex relationship of past and present, creating energetic juxtaposition between different historic periods to envision life at the end of our own century. Don Bogen calls the work an archeology, and uses details f life in past eras as a way of penetrating the surfaces of history. In his account, everything known is both encumbered with and defined by the past. Short poems in this collection cohere around the long title poem, which explores the nineteenth century through more than thirty sections in different voices and styles, including lists, mock letters, brief narratives, and lyric passages. The result is lively and illuminating.

Daddy, Daddy

Author : Paul Durcan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Daddy, Daddy by : Paul Durcan

Download or read book Daddy, Daddy written by Paul Durcan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed for his vibrant and eclectic "poetry of the present moment", Paul Durcan is one of the most dramatically intense modern Irish poets. Drawing its strength from its urgent treatment of a wide range of contemporary subject matter, Durcan's poetry is striking for the subtlety and strangeness of its unique imagery. In Daddy, Daddy Durcan pushes out in a radical new direction. Fusing the personal with the political, his angry response to violence and oppression in poems such as "The Murder of Harry Keyes" and "Shanghai, June 1989" is incisive and humane. Here also are love poems of all manner and kind; bizarre meditations on the nature of loneliness; and poems of celebration of writers and artists like Primo Levi, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Cezanne. Durcan also embarks on an exploration of his relationship with his father, creating poetry that is compelling in its probing artistry and painful honesty. --Publisher description

This Place I Know

Author : Georgia Heard
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763628758
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis This Place I Know by : Georgia Heard

Download or read book This Place I Know written by Georgia Heard and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of life-affirming verses, inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, includes poems paired with artwork volunteered by such well-known picture book artists as G. Brian Karas, Keven Hawkes, and Giselle Potter.

Across the Known World

Author : Keith Ratzlaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Across the Known World by : Keith Ratzlaff

Download or read book Across the Known World written by Keith Ratzlaff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Long Live Latin

Author : Nicola Gardini
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374717044
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Long Live Latin by : Nicola Gardini

Download or read book Long Live Latin written by Nicola Gardini and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead language From the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it “dead” or not. What use is Latin? It’s a question we’re often asked by those who see the language of Cicero as no more than a cumbersome heap of ruins, something to remove from the curriculum. In this sustained meditation, Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply: Latin is, quite simply, the means of expression that made us—and continues to make us—who we are. In Latin, the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world; the poet Propertius told of love and emotion in a dizzying variety of registers; Caesar affirmed man’s capacity to shape reality through reason; Virgil composed the Aeneid, without which we’d see all of Western history in a different light. In Long Live Latin, Gardini shares his deep love for the language—enriched by his tireless intellectual curiosity—and warmly encourages us to engage with a civilization that has never ceased to exist, because it’s here with us now, whether we know it or not. Thanks to his careful guidance, even without a single lick of Latin grammar readers can discover how this language is still capable of restoring our sense of identity, with a power that only useless things can miraculously express.