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The Wild Braid A Poet Reflects On A Century In The Garden
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Download or read book Wild Braid written by Stanley Kunitz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality."—Booklist Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award.
Download or read book The Wild Braid written by Stanley Kunitz and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his one hundreth year, award-winning poet Stanley Kunitz explores the life cycle, the creative process, and his own life.
Download or read book Passing Through written by Stanley Kunitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Touch Me," the last poem in the collection, Kunitz propounds a question, "What makes the engine go?" and gives us his answer: "Desire, desire, desire." These poems fairly hum with the energy, the excitement, the ardor, that make Kunitz one of our most enduring and highly honored poets. In the words of Carolyn Forch , "he is a living treasure."
Book Synopsis 100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes by : Twentieth Century Society
Download or read book 100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes written by Twentieth Century Society and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of Britain's most extraordinary gardens and landscapes from the twentieth century to present day. 100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes highlights the evolution of gardens and landscapes over the past century, tracing how these distinctive creations complemented buildings of their period. Entries in this book are grouped in chronological periods, documenting changing styles and techniques in a visual timeline. The examples chosen take the story from the Arts and Crafts garden and the garden city, through the landscapes created for mid-century housing and the new towns, to the low-maintenance gardens of the 1980s and contemporary trends for community and wildlife gardens. Designed landscapes were often integral to the conception of twentieth-century developments; the inclusion of a handful of particularly successful landscapes for memorial gardens, offices, industry, transport and parks demonstrate a changing attitude to public green space during the century and its increasing importance as private gardens have become ever smaller. Designers and architects such as Piet Oudolf, Charles Jencks, Frederick Gibberd, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Vita Sackville-West and Gertrude Jekyll are all featured, alongside more detailed essays on the history of gardens, planting styles, the importance of modern landscapes, and the career of Geoffrey Jellicoe. The text is written by architectural, landscape and garden historians including Elain Harwood, Barbara Simms and Alan Powers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with photography, illustrations and garden plans, this book is ideal for gardeners and landscape lovers alike.
Book Synopsis Grounds for Pleasure by : Denise Otis
Download or read book Grounds for Pleasure written by Denise Otis and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of four centuries of gardening in America covers the subject from pre-Columbian Native American designs to the private gardens of America's suburban landscape.
Book Synopsis Rules for the Dance by : Mary Oliver
Download or read book Rules for the Dance written by Mary Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "The dance, " in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work - and enables readers, as only she can, to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure."
Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Download or read book A River Sutra written by Gita Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With imaginative lushness and narrative elan, Mehta provides a novel that combines Indian storytelling with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love--love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming. "Conveys a world that is spiritual, foreign, and entirely accessible."--Vanity Fair. Reading tour.
Book Synopsis The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese by : William Jennings
Download or read book The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese written by William Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Book of Tom by : Tom Schellenbach
Download or read book The Book of Tom written by Tom Schellenbach and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unsparing memoir, Tom Schellenbach, a gay former Franciscan priest, chronicles his personal evolution while studying for and serving for five decades within the Catholic Church. Tom retraces his experiences from his childhood in Hamilton, Ohio as one of 13 children, to his entry into the seminary at the age of 14 which ultimately led to his becoming a priest, his leaving the priesthood but still working for the Church, his resignation, and finding his true love.Set against the swift cultural changes of the 60s, 70s and 80s, the Church remained stubbornly unwilling to acknowledge the cultural changes that were reshaping the attitudes of their parishioners and the priests who served them. The Church's resistance to change ultimately led Tom to leave the priesthood to pursue a life of uncompromising authenticity. His work as a priest took him from the verdant hollers of rural Kentucky to the spare, open beauty of Navajo country in the southwest. His story offers a rare look into the life of a priest, revealing the loneliness and alienation many priests struggle with as they pursue their dedication to serve. On the cusp of his third decade of service in the Church, Tom succumbed to a crisis of faith and identity. He details his halting exit from the priesthood, and his coming out at a time when homosexuality was more commonly met with hostility and fear. Yet there was no turning back. Gone was his "safe" identity he had shaped since his early teens. His life was his to begin again. The Book of Tom is an important memoir that lays bare the challenges of stark truthfulness and honesty faced when answering the call to authenticity -- no matter our path in life. It reflects the Catholic Church's failure to lead with compassion during a time of cultural change, and it highlights a critical inflection point in our culture's long-overdue evolution to acceptance of those in the LGBT+ community.
Book Synopsis Landscape with Rainbow Notebook by : Robert S Duncanson
Download or read book Landscape with Rainbow Notebook written by Robert S Duncanson and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The front and back covers of this pocket-sized notebook feature Robert S. Duncanson's Landscape with Rainbow. The classic painting was part of the 2021 Joseph R. Biden-Kamala Harris Inauguration Celebration at the US Capitol. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, who helped select the artwork for the occasion, felt that the rainbow represented optimism. Includes 64 blank pages--perfect for jotting down notes, appointments, grocery lists, sketches, and more.
Book Synopsis The Collected Poems by : Stanley Kunitz
Download or read book The Collected Poems written by Stanley Kunitz and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award winner celebrates a life in poetry, sharing his work-- published and unpublished--in this single volume of his life's accomplishment. Reprint.
Download or read book Humeirah written by Sabah Carrim and published by Ripples Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about meaning and existence haunt Humeirah, filling her with a sense of dread and unease as she wonders why thoughts that bother her don't bother others, why she isn't happy with things that make women around her happy, and why she can't fit in. Humeirah spends most of her time thinking, reading, destroying and reconstructing the ideas and beliefs she was raised with. This is a story recounting the life of a woman who seeks something beyond freedom from a suffocating marriage and a cluster of people who don't understand her. A story of a swim against the tide." The Hindu, India "Humeirah...stands out as a particularly courageous story of looking within for answers." Vasudev Murthy, Author of What the Raags Told Me and Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Timbuktu "Humeirah is the touching story of a philosophical quest." L'Express Dimanche, Mauritius "There is a depth to...[Humeirah]...that belies mere storytelling." The Sun, Malaysia
Download or read book Life on Mars written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.
Download or read book Das Energi written by Paul Williams and published by . This book was released on 1980-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Letters and theoretical writings by : Велимир Хлебников
Download or read book Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Letters and theoretical writings written by Велимир Хлебников and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the "King of Time," Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the "language of the stars." The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok, Esenin, and Mayakovsky), Khlebnikov has been perhaps the most praised and the more censured. This first volume of the Collected Works, an edition sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation, will do much to establish the counterimage of Khlebnikov as an honest, serious writer. The 117 letters published here for the first time in English reveal an ebullient, humane, impractical, but deliberate working artist. We read of the continuing involvement with his family throughout his vagabond life (pleas to his smartest sister, Vera, to break out of the mold, pleas to his scholarly father not to condemn and to send a warm overcoat); the naive pleasure he took in being applauded by other artists; his insistence that a young girl's simple verses be included in one of the typically outrageous Futurist publications of the time; his jealous fury at the appearance in Moscow of the Italian Futurist Marinetti; a first draft of his famous zoo poem ("O Garden of Animals!"); his seriocomic but ultimately shattering efforts to be released from army service; his inexhaustibly courageous confrontation with his own disease and excruciating poverty; and always his deadly earnest attempt to make sense of numbers, language, suffering, politics, and the exigencies of publication. The theoretical writings presented here are even more important than the letters to an understanding of Khlebnikov's creative output. In the scientific articles written before 1910, we discern foreshadowings of major patterns of later poetic work. In the pan-Slavic proclamations of 1908-1914, we find explicit connections between cultural roots and linguistic ramifications. In the semantic excursuses beginning in 1915, we can see Khlebnikov's experiments with consonants, nouns, and definitions spelled out in accessible, if arid, form. The essays of 1916-1922 take us into the future of Planet Earth, visions of universal order and accomplishment that no longer seem so farfetched but indeed resonate for modern readers.
Download or read book The Big Sea written by Langston Hughes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
