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Prose Poetry and the City

Author : Donna Stonecipher
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602359660
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Prose Poetry and the City written by Donna Stonecipher and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fascinating book, Donna Stonecipher doubles down on the development of prose poetry and the city. Tactically, her sweeping, complex yet meticulous essay engages Baudelaire's sudden--or is it sudden?--incursion from the constraints of verse into the 'roominess' of prose, 'paragraphs of place, ' while linking 'civic horizontality' and 'corporate verticality.' Tracking possibilities, (m)using everything from architecture to landscape to cookbooks, fl neur-like, her essay exuberantly and expertly gathers together rhizomatic threads of thinkers and poets of the last two centuries. Reads like a song." --Norma Cole "This fascinating exploration of the prose poem begins with a question that most other studies have overlooked or taken for granted: 'What, if anything, do cities and prose poetry have to do with each other?' Donna Stonecipher's touchstone for this question is Charles Baudelaire's prose poems in Le Spleen de Paris, but her excavation of the relationship between the 'built environment' of prose poem and city moves backwards to ancient Greece and forwards to the new sentence. As Stonecipher unpacks the 'dialogic space' of the prose poem, her essay moves vertically and horizontally, providing histories of the skyscraper and the aesthetics and ethics of vertical ascension, and much else. As she moves nimbly through large swaths of intellectual, architectural, urban, and aesthetic history, Stonecipher engages debates central to poetics and to modernity itself, taking seriously the challenge of considering how aesthetic forms register, respond to, and transform their built, social, and historical environments. An indispensable and enlightening guide that is also a pleasure to read." --Susan Rosenbaum

The City in Which I Love You

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 193816055X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The City in Which I Love You written by Li-Young Lee and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must Sing Here I Am A Final Thing V. The Cleaving

27 Views of Durham

Author : Jean Anderson
Publisher : Eno Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0983247536
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book 27 Views of Durham written by Jean Anderson and published by Eno Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eno Publishers builds on its successful 27 Views series by showcasing the literary community of Durham, North Carolina, in 27 Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry. The book features 27 writers, who in poetry, essays, short stories, and book excerpts focus on the town of Durham, famous for Duke University, tobacco, and Southern cuisine. The collection offers readers a broad and varied picture of life past and present in Durham, as well as a sense of the town's literary breadth. Contributing authors include Steve Schewel, Jean Anderson, Carl Kenney, Katy Munger, Ariel Dorfman, Pierce Freelon, John Valentine, Shirlette Ammons, Jim Wise, and others.

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241285801
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.

Words of One

Author : William Diep
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Words of One written by William Diep and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of One: The Poetry, Prose, and Photography from an Activist Living in New York City is a set of poems, testimonies, and photographs from William Diep, a youth activist born and raised in New York City. From climate change to educational inequity to corruption, these texts reveal the issues the world is currently facing and emphasize how poetry, prose, and photography can be used to express feelings around these issues. Directed towards both young activists around the world and politicians not advocating for change for all of us, this book symbolizes how everyone needs to advocate for change through any medium.

Written In Water

Author : Luis Cernuda
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872864313
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Written In Water written by Luis Cernuda and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?" Luis Cernuda (1902â€“1963) was one of the leading poets of Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guillen.

Great American Prose Poems

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105111
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Great American Prose Poems written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery and on, right up to the present. In his brilliant and lucid introduction, Lehman explains that a prose poem can make use of all the strategies and tactics of poetry, but works in sentences rather than lines. He also summarizes the prose poem's French heritage, its history in the United States, and the salient differences between verse and prose. Arranged chronologically to allow readers to trace the gradual development of this hybrid genre, the poems anthologized here include important works from such masters of American literature as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, James Schuyler, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, and Elizabeth Bishop. Contemporary mainstays and emerging poets -- Robert Bly, John Ashbery, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Russell Edson, James Tate, Anne Carson, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Lydia Davis, among them -- are represented with their best work in the field. The prose poem is beginning to enjoy a tremendous upswing in popularity. Readers of this marvelous collection, a must-have for anyone interested in the current state of the art, will learn why.

Prose, Poems

Author : Jamie Iredell
Publisher : Jason Behrends
ISBN 13 : 0981748120
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Prose, Poems written by Jamie Iredell and published by Jason Behrends. This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of prose poems that when collected tell the tale of a young man and his cross country travels.

Vanishing Acts

Author : Brian Barker
Publisher : Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
ISBN 13 : 0809337274
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Acts written by Brian Barker and published by Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vanishing Acts, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry's great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. With a dark whimsicality, Barker explores such topics as extinction, power, class, the consequences of tyranny and war, and the ongoing destruction of the environment in the name of progress. A linked sequence of poems forms the book's backbone, with an oracular voice from the future heralding the return--or hoped for return--of common animals. Part lyrical odes, part creation myths, part excerpts from a bizarre guide for naturalists, these poems mix fact and fiction, science and fable to create an unsettling vision of a dystopian world stricken by extinction, one where the world's last catfish sleeps "in the shadow of a hydroelectric dam." The imaginative language and bizarre stories of these poems are perfectly suited to capture a world that no longer makes sense: a man who wears a toupee to hide an injury inflicted by secret police, a group of villagers who make a bad bargain with a land agent. The poems in Vanishing Acts straddle the comic and the tragic. They are by turns funny and haunting and ripe with scathing satire. They draw on the genres of speculative and science fiction as much as poetic traditions, and speak to the precarious state of man and the natural world in the twenty-first century.

27 Views of Raleigh

Author :
Publisher : 27 Views
ISBN 13 : 9780983247555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book 27 Views of Raleigh written by and published by 27 Views. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local anthology of Raleigh novelists, essayists, poets, who write about their hometown.

City of the Future

Author : Sesshu Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885030559
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book City of the Future written by Sesshu Foster and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Foster's childhood, comes a new collection of poetry and prose that takes on gentrification, modernization and globalization, as told from the same corner of this rapidly changing metropolis. These poems are, in the poet's words: "Postcards written with ocotillo and yucca. Gentrification of your face inside your sleep. Privatization of identity, corners, and intimations. Wars on the nerve, colors, breathing. Postcard poems of early and late notes, mucilage, American loneliness. Postcard poems of slopes, films of dust and crows. Incarceration nation 'Wish You Were Here' postcards 35 cents emerge from gentrified pants. You can't live like this. Postcards sent into the future. You can't live here now; you must live in the future, in the City of the Future." Poet, teacher and community activist Sesshu Foster (born 1957) was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching, writing and community organizing. His third collection of poetry, World Ball Notebook (2009), won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the speculative-fiction novel Atomik Aztex (2005), which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers.

Mega-city Redux

Author : Alyse Knorr
Publisher : Green Mountains Review Books
ISBN 13 : 9780996334228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Mega-city Redux written by Alyse Knorr and published by Green Mountains Review Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Alyse Knorr's MEGA-CITY REDUX is a marvel. In 1405, Christine de Pizan, the world's first female professional writer, published an allegorical work called The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she imagined constructing (with the help of her fairy godmothers Reason, Rectitude, and Justice) a walled city where women could live safe from sexism, misogyny, and gendered violence. Six hundred years later, women across the world still find themselves in need of such a city. MEGA-CITY REDUX, a novel in verse remix of Pizan's allegory, charts a modern-day road-trip search for the mythical city, with the help of 21st- century feminist heroes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena Warrior Princess, and Dana Scully from The X-Files.

Goest

Author : Cole Swensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Goest written by Cole Swensen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed poet Cole Swensen's ninth collection is haunted by vision and transfixed by light.

Prose Poetry

Author : Paul Hetherington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180644
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Prose Poetry written by Paul Hetherington and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry’s key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today’s most inventive writing. A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry’ s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women’s essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre. Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry.

Model City

Author : Donna Stonecipher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848613881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Model City written by Donna Stonecipher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified longing for the passing ghost of European idealism. In the various enquiries and explorations of Model City this is also the mapping of a lived condition and its relationships not readily found on every street corner, nor in the broken ideologies from the populist bargain basement proffered by our political cadres. What becomes apparent is that the model city/Model City exists by virtue of a poet's wit and inventiveness, in its accomplished and elegantly measured language. Stonecipher's mesmerizing, epigrammatic fables establish the off-centre polis where, oddly, we find ourselves at home.-Kelvin Corcoran

27 Views of Charlotte

Author : Mark de Castrique
Publisher : Eno Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0989609200
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book 27 Views of Charlotte written by Mark de Castrique and published by Eno Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27 VIEWS of CHARLOTTE: The Queen City in Prose & Poetry is an anthology of the city known for banking, trees, diversity, and sports. Journalists, novelists, poets, and essayists offer a broad and varied picture of life, present and past, in the legendary Southern city—from a history of the city’s stint as capital of the Confederacy, to a deeply personal essay about integrating restaurants during the civil rights era, to reflections on contemporary Charlotte’s overwhelming growth and New South reputation. Authors appreciate Charlotte’s diversity and vitality, tout its vibrant arts and food scenes, and praise surging Uptown. Yet they don’t shy away from its ongoing struggles: cultural, political, and economic. The views create a literary montage of Charlotte, reflecting its social, historic, and creative fabric.

City of a Hundred Fires

Author : Richard Blanco
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082297889X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book City of a Hundred Fires written by Richard Blanco and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Blanco, a Cuban raised in the United States, records his threefold burdens: learning and adapting to American culture, translating for family and friends, and maintaining his own roots. . . . Blanco is already a mature, seasoned writer, and his powers of description and determination to get every nuance correct are evident from the first poem. . . . Absolutely essential for all libraries." --Library Journal "As one of the newer voices in Cuban-American poetry, Blanco write about the reality of an uprooted culture and how the poet binds the farthest regions of the world together through language. . . . This book describes the price of exile and extends beyond the shores of America and the imagined shores of home." --Bloomsbury Review "Unlike most contemporary minority poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, introduces readers to the fullness and richness of ethnic life, and not only the frustration and isolation so often associated with it. Richard Blanco exquisitely portrays the triumphs and defeats of a land and a people that have just barely survived revolution and time, and, without sentiment or cliche, affirms the ability within us all to achieve wholeness." --Indiana Review "Blanco is a fine young poet, and this poetry, the bread and wine of our language of exile, is pure delight. May he continue to produce such a heavenly mix of rhythm and image-these poems are more than gems, they are the truth not only about the Cuban-American experience, but of our collective experience in the United States, a beautiful land of gypsies." --Virgil Suarez Richard Blanco was, as he says, "made in Cuba, asssembled in Madrid, and imported to the United States," meaning he was conceived in Cuba, born in Madrid, and arrived in the United States as an infant able to claim citizenship in three different countries. His work has appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including the Nation, Michigan Quarterly, TriQuarterly, and Indiana Review. Blanco is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at Florida International University and also works as a civil engineer.