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The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322926
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans written by Mary Jo Bang and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a place where "From its single window he could see the downstream extremity of the Isle of Swans." With a bow to Beckett's style and linguistic playfulness, Mary Jo Bang's collection of poems deals compassionately and gracefully with the tangible world. Bang's savvy alliterative insistence sweeps the reader along, as her poems collectively offer a world delicately structured from memorable fragments of experience, emotion, things, and places--inside and outside the human psyche.

On Beckett

Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285807
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book On Beckett written by S. E. Gontarski and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century – countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. “On Beckett” brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802141576
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Eye Like a Strange Balloon written by Mary Jo Bang and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts.

Louise in Love

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219656X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Louise in Love written by Mary Jo Bang and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems inspired by silent-film star Louise Brooks from the National Book Critics Award–winning author of Elegy and acclaimed translator of Dante’s Inferno. In this stunning collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious, and the reader is invited to listen. Bang, whose first collection was the prize-winning Apology for Want, both parodies and pays homage to the lyric tradition, borrowing its lush music and dramatic structure to give new voice to the old concerns of the late Romantic poets. Louise in Love is a dramatic postmodern verse-novel. The poems, rife with literary allusion, take journeys to distant lands. And, like anyone on a voyage without a destination, they are endlessly questioning of the enigmatic world around them. “One of the finest poets of her generation.” —Marjorie Perloff

Drawing of a Swan Before Memory

Author : Laynie Browne
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327297
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Drawing of a Swan Before Memory written by Laynie Browne and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we experience the world before memory, before language, before the senses have separated, or before the concepts of “you” and “I” have been distinguished? Laynie Browne investigates both the limits and potential of such an inchoate world in her new book of poetry, Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. In a series of elegant prose poems, Browne guides the reader through the intricate development of human perception, where the haunting vastness of childhood slowly gives way to the defining features of adult cognition. Subtly nuanced verse constructs a world of color before sight and utterance before language--all the while aware that, ironically, language itself makes this ethereal world possible.

Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century

Author : Claudia Rankine
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572365
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century by : Claudia Rankine

Download or read book Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century written by Claudia Rankine and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fine and selective anthology that’s also a critical introduction to some of the most provocative, and some of the most original, poetry out there.” —Stephanie Burt, author of Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems The American Poets in the 21st Century series continues with another anthology focused on female poets. Like the earlier books, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at contemporary poetry, this new volume extends its geographical net by including Caribbean and Canadian poets. Representing three generations of women writers, among the insightful pieces included in this volume are essays by Karla Kelsey on Mary Jo Bang’s modes of artifice, Christine Hume on Carla Harryman’s kinds of listening, Dawn Lundy Martin on M. NourbeSe Phillip (for whom “english / is a foreign anguish”), and Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson’s confoundingly beautiful surfaces. In addition, a companion website presents audio of each poet’s work.

Beckett in Performance

Author : Jonathan Kalb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423793
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Beckett in Performance written by Jonathan Kalb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.

No-thing is Left to Tell

Author : John L. Kundert-Gibbs
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637623
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book No-thing is Left to Tell written by John L. Kundert-Gibbs and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.

Apology for Want

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518221
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Apology for Want written by Mary Jo Bang and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1996 Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for Poetry.

Knot

Author : Stacy Doris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328138
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Knot written by Stacy Doris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What follows occurs in a moment; a flash. It would detail a single tangibility if that did not entail all sensation. Stacy Doris charts the invisible, investigates the unborn, and describes everything not yet imagined. The tightly constructed verses of Knot weave imagery of decay and birth, science and culture: the warp and weft of cloth, digestion, wave particles, and a talking cat. Linguistic play abounds, and Doris presents us with a human double bind: to cling to the stability of the tangle or to participate in the circuits of entanglement. From "Under Fire, i.VII": "Each moment, fifteen pounds of air pin us by gravity. Then / anyone / Needs sixteen pounds of lightness to ever budge. Such compliance / Demands levitation, must generate excitement, which passion enact; / Thus dreams have all they can handle. From a stone, anchored, / is how / We rise, where faith is placed only in potential, miracle without / Dimension's measure so opening, unhinged at least, where each "they" / Is porous, in penetrability dunked and enriched.

Depth Theology

Author : Peter O'Leary
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328065
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Depth Theology written by Peter O'Leary and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depth Theology taps the religious potential of poetry to access both the interior and the exterior worlds. Inspired by depth psychology, the field of psychology devoted to the unconscious, Peter O'Leary's poems work to discover the religious knowledge of the unconscious mind. While seeking a revelatory poetry, O'Leary engages the inconclusive quality of the revealed, observing that "There's / a liquidy trickiness to life, an entropy / of spillage." The religious imagination that evolves in this series of thirty-four poems is unclouded by dogma and richly colored by erudition, while it tests the limits of human language and experience in an effort to understand our inwardness. Overflowing with images of birds and other objects of day-to-day experience, interwoven with the mythic, allegorical, and biblical, Depth Theology charts a path to understanding our innermost worlds. From "Lux Contemplatio": "there is no place anymore for us to migrate. The need / yet remains. / Antarctica means now an interior domain. Curiosity / about our inner life increases. A nomad's desert God is an inward / generator. Our outward movement yields our soul's circumincession / its insitting / in rotation with the divine abeyance"

Lord Brain

Author : Bruce Beasley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327303
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Lord Brain written by Bruce Beasley and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Brain is an extended meditation on the psyche (in its double sense of mind and soul) in its relationship to that three-pound bundle in our skull. Bruce Beasley’s collection of thirty-one poems is named for Sir Walter Russell Brain, or Lord Brain (1895-1966), the eminent British neuroscientist and author of Brain’s Diseases of the Nervous System. Bringing into conversation the disparate fields of neuroscience, theology, linguistics, particle physics, and theology, these poems investigate in both lyrical and scientific terms the relationship of brain to mind and soul, and of brain to the cosmos and God. Whether discussing cosmology or astrophysics, neurobiology or insect physiology, Lord Brain connects the inner cosmos of our human anatomy with the external forces (material and divine) that brought the cosmos into being.

The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001

Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137807
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001 written by S. E. Gontarski and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Press Reader commemorates a spirit of independent publishing that has flourished for fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.

Samuel Beckett--humanistic Perspectives

Author : Ohio State University. College of Humanities
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814203345
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett--humanistic Perspectives written by Ohio State University. College of Humanities and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571300197
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Samuel Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,... but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.

The Collected Shorter Plays

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802144381
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Shorter Plays written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.

The Book of Motion

Author : Tung-Hui Hu
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325682
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Motion written by Tung-Hui Hu and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut collection explores memory, cities, motion. Tung-Hui Hu's tone has some of the swampy wit that recalls Calvino or Michaux: A man swaps bodies with his lover; a mapmaker holds captive a city, which needs his crystal telescope to navigate through streets "unreadable as palm lines"; a car pushed off a cliff in a fit of anger becomes home for a school of fish. Anchored by the sequence "Elegies for self," Hu's poetry brings a quiet sophistication to syntax, diction, and form.