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Book Synopsis Commentaries by an American Poet by : Quillan
Download or read book Commentaries by an American Poet written by Quillan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loneliness is god and goddess of the lonely Such insane notions reprieves insanity, and Pathetic hermitism is savior and troubadour To those blasphemed by the public gallows And the shallow cull of pink-plastic dolls Society's mindlessness twirls under the strobes And commingle with crowded philistinism While the solitary-hundreds gaggle about The tables and brass rails of achievement Wine and perception is a stronger medicine
Book Synopsis Jewish American Poetry by : Jonathan N. Barron
Download or read book Jewish American Poetry written by Jonathan N. Barron and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.
Download or read book Dickinson written by Emily Dickinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson’s work as a poet, “from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.” Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler’s selection reveals Emily Dickinson’s development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called “the history and science of feeling.” In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, “the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.” All of Dickinson’s preoccupations—death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought—are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet’s startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as “a master” of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry.
Download or read book Making Poems written by Todd F. Davis and published by Excelsior Editions. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
Download or read book Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation’s most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem develops, moves, improvises, and surprises. Instead of picking and choosing particular passages to support a reading of the poem, Folsom and Merrill take Whitman at his word and interact with “every atom” of his work. The book presents Whitman’s final version of the poem, arranged in fifty-two sections; each section is followed by Folsom’s detailed critical examination of the passage, and then Merrill offers a poet’s perspective, suggesting broader contexts for thinking about both the passage in question and the entire poem.
Book Synopsis Our American Lives, Volume 4 by : Keith S Harris
Download or read book Our American Lives, Volume 4 written by Keith S Harris and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME 4: Featuring 100 Poems.I've always been of the belief that poetry shouldn't be elitist, but instead should be a medium that all can enjoy without scholarly interpretation.Take away "Roses are Red", and a certain limerick about a gentleman from Nantucket, and I'm afraid many of us would be hard pressed to recite a poem of our liking, that wasn't learned by rote during our school days.So what's my "go to" style you may be asking? It's definitely rhyme poetry, and my subject matter is as broad and deep as the world we live in. I am fascinated by everything, and my curiosity continually leads me to write on new topics.My commitment is to craft a story of interest on the particular topic. I am obsessive in choosing the right combination of words, and creating it within a tight rhyme format. My goal is that it's a pleasurable experience for the reader, being easy to follow, and rewarding to read.So now, celebrating forty years of writing poetry, and with hundreds of poems to offer, I have decided to begin sharing my collection.
Download or read book On Whitman written by C. K. Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
Download or read book Poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beautiful & Pointless by : David Orr
Download or read book Beautiful & Pointless written by David Orr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Download or read book The Road Not Taken written by David Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.
Book Synopsis A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly by : Peter Johnson
Download or read book A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly written by Peter Johnson and published by Madhat, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: prose poem anthology
Download or read book Blue Notes written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
Download or read book Warrior Poet written by Alexis De Veaux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited first biography of the author of "The Cancer Journals," an American icon of womanhood, poetry, African American arts, and survival.
Download or read book Poems written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Poems of Emily Dickinson by : Joseph Duchac
Download or read book The Poems of Emily Dickinson written by Joseph Duchac and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Other Voices, Other Lives by : Grace Cavalieri
Download or read book Other Voices, Other Lives written by Grace Cavalieri and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices. The book also includes interview excerpts from her public radio series, The Poet & the Poem. Her incisive interviews with Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Josephine Jacobsen offer profound insights into the writing life.
Book Synopsis The Lover of a Subversive is Also a Subversive by : Martín Espada
Download or read book The Lover of a Subversive is Also a Subversive written by Martín Espada and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet
