Springing

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307547418
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Springing by : Marie Ponsot

Download or read book Springing written by Marie Ponsot and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”—a question that has kept Ponsot’s work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a “lost haven in a springing world.” Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges.

Spring and All

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Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513288040
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis Spring and All by : William Carlos Williams

Download or read book Spring and All written by William Carlos Williams and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between language and the world it describes. Part essay, part poem, Spring and All is a landmark of American literature from a poet whose daring search for the outer limits of life both redefined and expanded the meaning of language itself. “There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here.” In Spring and All, Williams identifies the incomprehensible nature of consciousness as the single most important subject of poetry. Accused of being “heartless” and “cruel,” of producing “positively repellant” works of art in order to “make fun of humanity,” Williams doesn’t so much defend himself as dig in his heels. His poetry is addressed “[t]o the imagination” itself; it seeks to break down the “the barrier between sense and the vaporous fringe which distracts the attention from its agonized approaches to the moment.” When he states that “so much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow,” he refers to the need to understand the nature of language, which keeps us in touch with the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Bird Catcher

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Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bird Catcher by : Marie Ponsot

Download or read book The Bird Catcher written by Marie Ponsot and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Marie Ponsot was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, confirming the praise that has been bestowed on her by critics and peers--among them Eavan Boland and Carolyn Kizer (who are quoted on the back of the book jacket) and Amy Clampitt, who had this to say of Ponsot's last book: "She is marvelously attuned to the visual and to the audible. She is no less precisely a geographer of the interior life, above all the experience of being a woman."

A Prayer in Spring

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Publisher : Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
ISBN 13 : 9780789324818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis A Prayer in Spring by : Robert Frost

Download or read book A Prayer in Spring written by Robert Frost and published by Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely illustrated edition of a timeless poem. Robert Frost s realistic depictions of rural life, especially of New England in the early twentieth century, are beautifully paired with the art created by Grandma Moses, the artist who epitomizes contemporary folk art. The result is a treasure to be enjoyed the whole year long. In spring, we give thanks for the natural and spiritual joys of the season. Moses s illustrations complement Frost s descriptions of the flowers, trees, bees, and other sights and sounds, which evoke a time of renewal and rebirth with illustrations that depict a place of quiet contemplation and endless possibility. A Prayer in Spring is a wonderful gift for lovers of Frost, Moses, poetry, and folk art, as well as for Easter baskets, birthdays, new babies, or for children and adults who can t wait for the season."

The Four Seasons

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Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307268349
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Four Seasons by : J. D. McClatchy

Download or read book The Four Seasons written by J. D. McClatchy and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery. Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson, and Thoreau, from Keats, Blake, and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly time or as states of mind or as the physical expressions of the ineffable. From Robert Frost’s tribute to the evanescence of spring in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to Langston Hughes’s moody “Summer Night” in Harlem, from the “stopped woods” in Marie Ponsot’s “End of October” to the chilling “mind of winter” in Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage the world outside ourselves.

Intaglio

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Publisher : Wick Poetry First Books (Paper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Intaglio by : Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis

Download or read book Intaglio written by Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis and published by Wick Poetry First Books (Paper. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize "The image evoked by Intaglio, this first collection by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, rests on a paradox, one perhaps central to the poetic impulse itself: that design can be shaped by what is cut away, by the loss that surrounds it, so that what is missing creates the negative space which raises the figure in relief, presents it to sight, and touch. Relief: a word whose two meanings--one artistic and material, the other emotional and intangible, together suggest how art engraves meaning."--Eleanor Wilner, Judge "Intaglio is a remarkable new book by a haunting new voice. Freighted with music and beauty, even the simplest lines are memorable: 'There is this heron in a hush of lift / and my eyes are filled with it.' In the lift, there is also a lyric pressure, an inner intensity which evokes the best kind of madness: 'Let Nothing be that / which bitch-slaps the heart, / for the heart, like a hospital, / is a many-winged thing.' Kartsonis has offered up a vision both playful and painful, all of it lit with the eerie glow of her brilliance. What a lovely and terrifying offering. What an extraordinary introduction to this new poet."--Laura Kasischke "With Intaglio, Kartsonis carefully incises the sensuality of history onto the fleet attentions of the day. And onto loss, onto bereavement, she incises the incredible, now credible, luxuries of everlastingness. This is a formidable debut, lavish in its mind and loves." --Donald Revell

"I Am"

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528691
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Book Synopsis "I Am" by : John Clare

Download or read book "I Am" written by John Clare and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

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Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513276867
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis Mrs. Spring Fragrance by : Sui Sin Far

Download or read book Mrs. Spring Fragrance written by Sui Sin Far and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) is a collection of short stories by Sui Sin Far. Inspired by her experience living among Chinese Americans in San Francisco and Seattle, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is considered one of the earliest works of fiction published in the United States by a woman of Chinese heritage. In “The Inferior Woman,” Mrs. Spring Fragrance encounters her neighbors, the Carmans, as they try to find someone to marry their son. While Mrs. Carman wants him to marry into a family of higher social standing, her son is in love with a local girl who works as a legal secretary. Known by Mrs. Carman as the “Inferior Woman,” she has risen through hard work and perseverance to achieve her position at the law firm. Sympathetic toward her neighbor’s son, Mrs. Spring Fragrance advocates on his behalf. “In the Land of the Free” is the story of a Chinese immigrant who is separated from her young son upon arrival due to insufficient paperwork. Exploring the struggles of this woman to reclaim her son, Sui Sin Far exposes the discrimination and hardships faced by Chinese Americans due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, illuminating the byzantine and restrictive immigration policies which sadly continue under a different guise in modern America. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance is a classic of Chinese American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Kiss Off

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446555347
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Kiss Off by : Mary D. Esselman

Download or read book Kiss Off written by Mary D. Esselman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of "The Hell with Love" are back, applying their irreverent view of life and love to help melt the hardest heart. For anyone who's been let down by life and love, these poems reveal that the most important person one can fall in love with is oneself. The editors of The Hell With Love are back, applying their irreverent view of life and love to help melt the hardest heart of all—your own. For anyone who’s been let down by life and love, these poems reveal that the most important person you can fall in love with is yourself. The collection travels through various stages of selfdiscovery, self-doubt, and, ultimately, self-realization and acceptance—from first kiss to kiss off. Renowned poets, including John Keats, Margaret Atwood, James Wright, Lucille Clifton, and Marie Ponsot explore the universal issues of trust and betrayal, awakening and curiosity, freedom, and self-confidence. This collection will show anyone looking for love how to find it within.

The Game Changed

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027743
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Game Changed by : Lawrence Joseph

Download or read book The Game Changed written by Lawrence Joseph and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Lawrence Joseph: "Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness... Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry." ---John Ashbery "Like Henry Adams, Joseph seems to be writing ahead of actual events, and that makes him one of the scariest writers I know." ---David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review "The most important lawyer-poet of our era." ---David Skeel, Legal Affairs A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose presents works by prominent poet and lawyer Lawrence Joseph that focus on poetry and poetics, and on what it is to be a poet. Joseph takes the reader through the aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, a lineage that includes Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein, switching critical tracks to major European poets like Eugenio Montale and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and back to American masters like James Schuyler and Adrienne Rich. Always discerning, especially on issues of identity, form, and the pressures of history and politics, Joseph places his own poetry within its critical contexts, presenting narratives of his life in Detroit, where he grew up, and in Manhattan, where he has lived for 30 years. These pieces also portray Joseph’s Lebanese, Syrian, and Catholic heritages, and his life as a lawyer, distinguished law professor, and legal scholar.

Zero at the Bone

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374603464
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Book Synopsis Zero at the Bone by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book Zero at the Bone written by Christian Wiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson wrote, “[Wiman’s] poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world . . . [It] enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader’s surprise and assent are one and the same.” Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman’s preoccupation with despair, and through fifty brief pieces, he unravels its seductive appeal. The book is studded with the poetry and prose of writers who inhabit Wiman’s thoughts, and the voices of Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and others join his own. At its heart and Wiman’s, however, are his family—his young children (who ask their own invaluable questions, like “Why are you a poet? I mean why?”), his wife, and those he grew up with in West Texas. Wiman is the rare thinker who takes on the mantle of our greatest mystics and does so with an honest, profound, and contemporary sensibility. Zero at the Bone is a revelation.

Miracle Maker

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Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918454
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (184 download)

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Book Synopsis Miracle Maker by : Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī

Download or read book Miracle Maker written by Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility. Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London. Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef's Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.

Easy

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375711872
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Easy by : Marie Ponsot

Download or read book Easy written by Marie Ponsot and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “delightful” (Poetry), celebratory volume of late-life poems from the award-winning octogenarian Marie Ponsot.

Coming to Age

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316424927
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Coming to Age by : Carolyn Hopley

Download or read book Coming to Age written by Carolyn Hopley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers." Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years. Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of "growing old." And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before. To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.

In Pursuit of Spring

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291417885
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis In Pursuit of Spring by : Edward Thomas

Download or read book In Pursuit of Spring written by Edward Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring was late in 1913 and Edward Thomas decided to go and search for winter's grave and the tell-tale signs of season's turn - he set out to cycle westwards from London to the Quantocks. Edward Thomas 1878-1917 turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914. His work as a poet has been widely celebrated and admired - Ted Hughes described Thomas as "the father of us all". The Pursuit of Spring, originally published in 1914, bridges the divide between Thomas the journalist/critic and Thomas the highly regarded poet.

A Spring Harvest

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ISBN 13 : 9789362095633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis A Spring Harvest by : Geoffrey Bache Smith

Download or read book A Spring Harvest written by Geoffrey Bache Smith and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spring Harvest, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

And Still I Rise

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030780206X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis And Still I Rise by : Maya Angelou

Download or read book And Still I Rise written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”