The Rooster Mask

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066924
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rooster Mask by : Henry Hart

Download or read book The Rooster Mask written by Henry Hart and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wide White Page

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Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864734853
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wide White Page by : Bill Manhire

Download or read book The Wide White Page written by Bill Manhire and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide white page spans eight centuries of writing - from Dante's epic account of Ulysses's last southbound ocean journey to Michael Chabon's writing of a WWII US army base on the ice, in Kavalier and Clay. There is fiction and poetry from nearly a dozen different countries, and genres range from Coleridge's Rime of the ancient mariner, via H.P. Lovecraft's Gothic fantasy and Kim Stanley Robinson future fiction, to the surreal comedy of Monty Python's Scott of the Sahara." --book jacket.

The Pebble

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067945
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pebble by : Mairi MacInnes

Download or read book The Pebble written by Mairi MacInnes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting the best of Mairi Maclnnes's previous work -- including her breakthrough poem "I Object, Said the Object" -- along with new poems, The Pebble reflects years of quandary and conflict at home and abroad as the poet imposes on them the order of poetry. This volume concludes with her essay "Why Poetry", on the clash between obligations and rights through which imagination must make its way. A native of England and of Highland Scots descent, who spent nearly thirty years in the United States, Maclnnes looks afresh at what a changing perspective brings. Hers is a poetry of estrangement, loss, madness, reprieve, stalemate, and reconciliation. The bonds between person and place, parent and child, traveler and homeland, are called into question. Maclnnes draws our gaze to the crack in the foundation, the friction within an ordinary exchange, the shifting of ground beneath a familiar landscape, the long step between a museum of art and the slums outside.

A Map of the Night

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092759
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A Map of the Night by : David Wagoner

Download or read book A Map of the Night written by David Wagoner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wagoner’s wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family, the odd poet, and strangers who become even stranger when looked at closely. In this new collection, Wagoner catches the mixed feelings of a long drive, the sensations of walking against a current, the difficulty of writing poetry with noisily amorous neighbors, and many more uniquely familiar experiences.

Sleeping with the Moon

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056019
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Sleeping with the Moon by : Colleen J. McElroy

Download or read book Sleeping with the Moon written by Colleen J. McElroy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN Oakland National Literary Award, 2008 Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection’s award-winning poems animate women’s experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver lining of lust, love, illness, and aging. Rich with vivid imagery and candid storytelling, Sleeping with the Moon takes readers on moonlit adventures under the night sky, through the barroom’s smoky haze, and under the covers. ...Beware: such delicate sights have driven more than one woman to despair instead she watched him breathe-- relishing for a moment that secret space where night grows soft and the moon’s detumescence forgives-- and where if this jeweled light holds they might strip themselves of years if only for one night --from “In Praise of Older Women”

The Silent Singer

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069529
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (695 download)

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Book Synopsis The Silent Singer by : Len Roberts

Download or read book The Silent Singer written by Len Roberts and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Poetry Series awards, Len Roberts presents his best past work with a sizable collection of new poems.

The Frontier of Writing

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040037828
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Frontier of Writing by : Ian Hickey

Download or read book The Frontier of Writing written by Ian Hickey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form, the construction of identity, and poetry as redress, to a series of close readings of prose writing on poetic exemplars such as Robert Lowell, Patrick Kavanagh, W.B Yeats, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and Brian Friel. Seamus Heaney’s prose is extensive in its literary depth, knowledge, critical awareness and its span. During the course of his life, he published six collections of prose entitled Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978, Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland, The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings, The Place of Writing, The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures and Finders Keepers. Each of these texts is addressed in the collection alongside occasional and specific essays such as ‘Crediting Poetry’, ‘Writer and Righter’ and ‘Mossbawn via Mantua: Ireland in/and Europe, Cross-currents and Exchanges’, among many others. This book is a comprehensive and timely study of Seamus Heaney’s prose from leading international scholars in the field.

Veil and Burn

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209168X
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Veil and Burn by : Laurie Clements Lambeth

Download or read book Veil and Burn written by Laurie Clements Lambeth and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.

Barter

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092333
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Barter by : Ira Sadoff

Download or read book Barter written by Ira Sadoff and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ira Sadoff’s new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: “But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us. . . .” The poetry collected here is a response to this call. Rooted firmly in the “fleeting world,” Sadoff’s poems find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. The poems in Barter delve deeply into the past, the personal past of regret, travel, love, divorce, and bereavement, as well as the global past of Beethoven, Vietnam, and the fall of communism. Each poem is offered up by Sadoff as a barter, something to be traded for a little more time, a little more understanding. The poems in Barter comment on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. They also talk about commerce, the trading of bodies, the way we as a nation “use” and exchange and appropriate -- and like Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, try to bargain with and evade the urgency of our time on earth. In the poem “Self-Portrait with a Critic,” Sadoff makes what could be a succinct statement of purpose: “And inside, let’s not make it pretty, / let’s save the off-rhyme and onomatopoeia / / for the concert hall, let’s go to the wormy place / where the problematic stirs inside his head.”

The Wild Card

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066894
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wild Card by : Karl Shapiro

Download or read book The Wild Card written by Karl Shapiro and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by a grant from the Eric Mathieu King Fund of the Academy of American Poets.

Controlling the Silver

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091388
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Controlling the Silver by : Lorna Goodison

Download or read book Controlling the Silver written by Lorna Goodison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex beauty of the natural world.

Asian American Poetry

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071744
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Book Synopsis Asian American Poetry by : Victoria Chang

Download or read book Asian American Poetry written by Victoria Chang and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.

Common Wealth

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922232
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Book Synopsis Common Wealth by : Sarah Kennedy

Download or read book Common Wealth written by Sarah Kennedy and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Common Wealth Sarah Kennedy and R. T. Smith mine the deep vein of Virginia poetry to present a comprehensive collection of contemporary works that reflects the vibrant community of poets working today. Notable for its ethnic diversity, Common Wealth showcases the work of fifty-three poets--all of whom have a close connection to the Commonwealth--ranging from the virtually unknown to the well established, and representing all regions of the state. Contributors: Talvikki Ansel * Jennifer Atkinson * Molly Bendall * Kelly Cherry * Michael Chitwood * Rosanne Coggeshall * Stephen Cushman * Richard Dillard * Gregory Donovan * Rita Dove * Claudia Emerson * Forrest Gander * George Garrett * Margaret Gibson * Nikki Giovanni * John Haines * Cathryn Hankla * Henry Hart * David Huddle * T. R. Hummer * Julia Johnson * Sam Kashner * Sally Keith * Sarah Kennedy * Peter Klappert * Jeanne Larsen * Edward C. Lynskey * Heather Ross Miller * Elizabeth Seydel Morgan * Debra Nystrom * Gregory Orr * Eric Pankey * Jim Peterson * Hermine Pinson * Lucinda Roy * Steve Scafidi * Nancy Schoenberger * Tim Seibles * Dana Littlepage Smith * Dave Smith * R. T. Smith * Ron Smith * Katherine Soniat * Lisa Russ Spaar * Dan Stryk * Dabney Stuart * Eleanor Ross Taylor * Henry Taylor * Eric Trethewey * Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon * Reetika Vazirani * Ellen Bryant Voigt * Charles Wright Sarah Kennedy is Assistant Professor of English at Mary Baldwin College and the author of Double Exposure, Flow Blue, and From the Midland Plain. R. T. Smith is the editor of Shenandoah magazine at Washington and Lee University and the author of several books, including Messenger, Trespasser, and The Cardinal Heart.

Battles & Lullabies

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252073037
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Battles & Lullabies by : Richard Michelson

Download or read book Battles & Lullabies written by Richard Michelson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant book of poetry, Michelson weaves together the past and present, seeing within his children his own difficult childhood, within current wars the burning memory of the Holocaust, and within himself, the ghost of his father.

The Hollow Log Lounge

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092449
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hollow Log Lounge by : R. T. Smith

Download or read book The Hollow Log Lounge written by R. T. Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is no fairy tale. / It's all fantastic and bizarre and true. / It's my life, a raspy song, that sounds better if you sing along." The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. In this collection of poems, R. T. Smith paints a vividly imagined portrait of the community in this small-town bar, capturing the chorus of the patrons' voices echoing off the knotted wood-paneled walls. Smith's stand-in, Sam Buckhannon, scribbles stories heard and overheard as tongues loosened by liquor spin out monologues in which southern idiom and vernacular seem perfectly at home within the constraints of measured verse.

Turtle, Swan & Bethlehem in Broad Daylight

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068423
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Turtle, Swan & Bethlehem in Broad Daylight written by Mark Doty and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of four major awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize, Mark Doty has established himself as one of the most courageous and eloquent poets of our time. The University of Illinois Press is proud to present this one-volume edition of Doty's first two collections of poetry, Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight. Long out of print, Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight brought Doty to critical attention as the first post-Stonewall gay poet to emerge as a major voice in American letters. Stories of paradise, pageant, and fugitive peace course through these pages are lit by Doty's visions of the architecture and artifice of a lush world. Exploring the forms of remembering and inventing, Doty affirms that, from the first loss, we preserve by naming.

Immortal Sofa

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092546
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Immortal Sofa by : Maura Stanton

Download or read book Immortal Sofa written by Maura Stanton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of immortality, one made up of fragments of history and geography and the illusions of yearning human beings. From elephants in Ceylon to Nazi prisoners in Ireland, from Beowulf to Jane Austen, from sonnets to prose poems to blank verse, Immortal Sofa conjures our complex existence in all its sorrowful but astonishing variety.