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Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays

Author : Tony Hoagland
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973299
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays written by Tony Hoagland and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to Me Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. This is more than a shame, for poetry is our common treasure-house, and we need its vitality, its respect for the subconscious, its willingness to entertain ambiguity, its plaintive truth-telling, and its imaginative exhibitions of linguistic freedom, which confront the general culture's more grotesque manipulations. We need the emotional training sessions poetry conducts us through. We need its previews of coming attractions: heartbreak, survival, failure, endurance, understanding, more heartbreak. —from "Twenty Poems That Could Save America" Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the "vertigo" effects of new poetry give way to appraisals of Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, and Dean Young. At the heart of this book is an honesty and curiosity about the ways poetry can influence America at both the private and public levels. Tony Hoagland is already one of this country's most provocative poets, and this book confirms his role as a restless and perceptive literary and cultural critic.

American Originality

Author : Louise Glück
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875682
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book American Originality written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück’s second book of essays—her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück’s moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of “narcissism” and “genius” that are unique to the American literary climate. This includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career, such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, American Originality is a seminal critical achievement.

First Loves

Author : Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684864398
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book First Loves written by Carmela Ciuraru and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.

An Essay on American Poetry

Author : Solyman Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on American Poetry written by Solyman Brown and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The News from Poems

Author : Jeffrey Gray
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053183
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The News from Poems written by Jeffrey Gray and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection explores contemporary American poetry's relation to social critique and the public sphere

Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets

Author : Henry Taylor
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141755
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets written by Henry Taylor and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best American Poetry, 1999

Author : Robert Bly
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780684842806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry, 1999 written by Robert Bly and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sales have tripled for The Best American Poetry since the debut volume in 1988. And what has become a "must for poetry lovers" (Tampa Tribune-News), should stir even more excitement with Robert Bly as this year's guest editor. An award winning poet and translator -- famous, too, for his leadership role in the men's movement and his bestselling book, Iron John -- Bly offers a fresh perspective on American poetry. Bly has chosen the seventy-five best poems of the year from a host of contenders culled from a wide range of literary magazines and journals. He has selected the work of celebrated poets John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Henri Cole, Louise Gluck, Phillip Levine, and Richard Wilbur, as well as poems from innovative newcomers. With comments from the poets elucidating their work, and with a Foreword by Series Editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 1999 is a stunning addition to the series People magazine called, "a year's worth of the very best."

The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry written by Helen Vendler and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. The poetry collected in this volume reveals the range and power of the contemporary American imagination. The verve, freedom, and boldness of American English are combined with the new harmonies of modern cadence. Here are distillations of twentieth-century perception, feeling, and thought, and reflections of changing social realities, scientific and psychoanalytic insights, and the strong voices of feminism and black consciousness. This is a book for those who value fresh and original poetry and for readers worldwide who are curious about contemporary American experience. Helen Vendler relies on her own taste and judgment in singling out excellent poems, beginning with the late modernist flowering of Wallace Stevens and continuing to the present. Her wide-ranging Introduction places recent American poetry in its aesthetic and social contexts. The anthology provides an extensive offering of the work of major poets and introduces many writers who are only now beginning to make their reputation. Thirty-five poets are included, with a representative selection from the earlier to later work of each and a significant number of long poems. Brief biographies of the poets are appended.

The Best American Poetry 2019

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982106581
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2019 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today…While readers may question some of the selections—an annual sport with this series—most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.” The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it—to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, “makes poems that rumble and rock” (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year’s most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.

Why Poetry

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780062343079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.

Can Poetry Matter?

Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can Poetry Matter? written by Dana Gioia and published by . This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into account. --World Literature Today.

The Best American Poetry 2015

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476708193
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2015 written by Sherman Alexie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects poems chosen by editor Sherman Alexie as the best of 2015, featuring poets such as Sarah Arvio, Chen Chen, Andrew Kozma, and Terence Winch.

Freedom and Form

Author : Esther Giger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Form written by Esther Giger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best American Poetry, 1990

Author : Jorie Graham
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9780020327851
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry, 1990 written by Jorie Graham and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.

Feeling as a Foreign Language

Author : Alice Fulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Feeling as a Foreign Language written by Alice Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she falls in love with an outrageous 17th century poet, argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters, and calls for a courageous poetics of inconvenient knowledge.

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry

Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry written by Dana Gioia and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2004 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.

Beyond the Muse of Memory

Author : Laurence Lieberman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Muse of Memory written by Laurence Lieberman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stunningly precise formal, biographical, and cultural analysis, Laurence Lieberman turns his critical eye to American poets and confirms his prodigious talent not only as a narrative poet, but as a critic and essayist as well. What Lieberman aspires to do in Beyond the Muse of Memory, a collection of new and previously published essays, is to send the reader back to major poets for a fresh look and to neglected artists for close study. Lieberman's new studies of Robert Lowell illuminate the poems of Lowell's final period, "a sector of his work that has been wrongly undervalued by many of his critics". Other essays that have never before appeared in book form on James Dickey, Robert Penn Warren, and Stephen Berg are gathered here with Lieberman's best and best-known earlier essays on W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Derek Walcott, James Wright, and William Stafford, to name a few.