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Homeland Elegies

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031649643X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Homeland Elegies written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.

Elegy

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Elegy written by Mary Jo Bang and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems written by Mary Jo Bang in the year following the death of her son.

Little Elegies for Sister Satan

Author : Michael Palmer
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811230902
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Little Elegies for Sister Satan written by Michael Palmer and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds,’ I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.” In the light of day perhaps all of this will make sense. But have we come this far, come this close to death, just to make sense?

Department of Elegy

Author : MARY. BIDDINGER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625570291
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Department of Elegy written by MARY. BIDDINGER and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part post-punk ghost story, part Gen-X pastoral, Mary Biddinger's poetry collection DEPARTMENT OF ELEGY conjures dim nightclubs, churning lakes, and vacant Midwestern lots, meditating on moments of lost connection. With the afterlife looming like fringe around the edges of this book, Biddinger constructs a view of heaven as strange as the world left behind. These poems escort us from forest to dance floor, bathtub to breakwater, memory into present. "In DEPARTMENT OF ELEGY, Mary Biddinger examines the hot pink ignorance of youth and the equally vulnerable present. These thrillingly nimble, funny poems empathize with hunger and long for longing."--Jennifer L. Knox "The Talking Heads once asked, 'How did I get here?' a rhetorical interrogation that happens at the very point where our past and present lives intersect. Time's fulcrum, and all its possibilities, even the imaginary ones, are the deep gothic heart that powers Mary Biddinger's DEPARTMENT OF ELEGY. This collection savors its sadness but never wallows in it, just as it asks the reader to take all the joys of the world and taste them. If an elegy is a song of mourning, these poems--with their abiding love for the human experience and a generous dollop of empathy--are an invitation to the most rollicking Irish wake you've ever attended. They remind us that we come together not only to mourn but also to celebrate the things that ask us to say goodbye."--Steve Kistulentz "Mary Biddinger's seventh poetry collection guides readers across the dangerous terrain between memory and chaos with confidence, bravado, and--ultimately--hard-won expertise. The speakers' words themselves sustain a series of exquisite and delicate tensions between utterance and erasure, between form and improvisation, anchored throughout by a series of 'Book' poems ('Book of Hard Passes,' 'Book of the Sea,' 'Book of Misdeeds,' 'Book of Transgressions,' 'Book of Disclosures,' 'Book of Mild Regrets'). The emotional undercurrent of this collection samples such a wide range of life and existence that we are left wondering where time goes and why so quickly, from the ritualistic taste of the insides of gloves, to the realization that once '...your friends have perished under tragic circumstances / eventually they become like beloved characters from books.'"--Erica Bernheim Poetry. Fiction.

American Elegy

Author : Max Cavitch
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909180
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book American Elegy written by Max Cavitch and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Dead Wrestler Elegies

Author : W. Todd Kaneko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940430249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Wrestler Elegies written by W. Todd Kaneko and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about dead wrestlers, dead fathers, loss, love, violence, and the universe of memory inexorably connected to each of them.

Love Sonnets and Elegies

Author : Louise Labé
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177312
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Love Sonnets and Elegies written by Louise Labé and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Labé, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth.

Hillbilly Elegy

Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062872257
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

Stained Glass Elegies

Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211420
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Stained Glass Elegies written by Shūsaku Endō and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

Inventions of Farewell

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393049725
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Inventions of Farewell written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loss and sorrow are key themes in this collection of poems and elegies by Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, W. S. Merwin, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millary, and Stanley Kunitz, among others.

Propertius in Love

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520935845
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Propertius in Love written by Sextus Propertius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

The Old English Elegies

Author : Anne L. Klinck
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773522411
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Old English Elegies written by Anne L. Klinck and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the hear

Civil Elegies and Other Poems

Author : Dennis Lee
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887845576
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Civil Elegies and Other Poems written by Dennis Lee and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful new edition of Civil Elegies, this is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies “one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country.”"

Elegies for Uncanny Girls

Author : Jennifer Colville
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253024366
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Elegies for Uncanny Girls written by Jennifer Colville and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ordinary and the extraordinary merge in the strange and complex lives of young women in this “frequently luminous” debut short story collection (Kirkus Reviews). Unsettling and perceptive, this debut story collection challenges our notion of American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Alternately wide-eyed, wise, and mysterious, the girls at the center of these stories leave their realities behind for curious new places where the barrier between real and unreal begins to blur. Still others hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls take place at a boundary where both the girls’ bodies and their narratives belong either to themselves or to the cultures that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends. “Brisk, satisfying, and fiercely observant.” —Publishers Weekly

Elegies of Love

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843681632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Elegies of Love written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the end of his life, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) began creating astonishingly an improvisatory and free life drawings. First published in a very limited edition in 1939, 31 of these drawings are paired here with selected Love Elegies from Ovid, one of Rodin's favorite authors. With Christopher Marlowe's glittering translation highlighting Ovid's work, Rodin's stunning art seems alive on the page in this unique volume.

Roman Elegies and the Diary

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Roman Elegies and the Diary written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of two of Goethe's erotic works, which are rarely included in German editions. The introduction examines Goethe's erotic poetry in his overall development and in relation to other European poetry of the genre.

The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy

Author : Karen Weisman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199228132
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy written by Karen Weisman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single most comprehensive study of elegy, this Handbook offers groundbreaking scholarship, historical breadth, and responds to recent exciting developments in elegy studies: the explosion in interest in elegies about AIDS, cancer, and war; the reconsideration of the role of women; and elegy's relation to ethics, philosophy, and theory.