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The Fire

Author : Robin Blaser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938852
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Fire written by Robin Blaser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected in The Fire reveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on "New American" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach. Blaser emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world—and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of countermemory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years.

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

Author : Jeffrey Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610698320
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes] written by Jeffrey Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

George Oppen

Author : Lyn Graham Barzilai
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476614830
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book George Oppen written by Lyn Graham Barzilai and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed look into the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish American poet George Oppen. Born in 1908 in New York State, Oppen spent parts of his life working as a die cutter and carpenter and later running a furniture factory. Like the work he did with his hands during those years, his poetry used basic materials; he favored short, simple nouns and focused on concrete objects rather than abstractions. This book examines the characteristics of Oppen's work, particularly his use of small and often odd phrasings and unusual line formations to express the ultimately inexpressible. The first three chapters delve into his primitive modes, language and materials. Subsequent chapters tackle his subjects: cityscapes, light and water, and then animals and their relation to human history and struggles. His final collection of poems, Primitive, is examined in its own chapter, which is followed by an exploration of recurring specific phrases and concrete images. The author demonstrates how Oppen's poetry restores to readers an essential dimension of communication and experience that has been ignored or forgotten.

Leaving Lines of Gender

Author : Ann Vickery
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819564320
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Lines of Gender written by Ann Vickery and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant contribution to the literary history of Language writing to date.

The "winter Mind"

Author : Burt Kimmelman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637906
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book The "winter Mind" written by Burt Kimmelman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through special attention to his uniquely elegant style, this study demonstrates how Bronk has brought together earlier American poetics and philosophy with modern and postmodern notions of being, emptiness, and nothingness.

The Early Poetry of Charles Wright

Author : Robert D. Denham
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786441984
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Early Poetry of Charles Wright written by Robert D. Denham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources and influences, and historical notes. It pays special attention to the way that Wright's poems work together and the links that are formed between them. While each poem is given its own commentary, the author argues that they work together in a concentrated whole to document a man's spiritual journey.

A Study Guide for Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Mother"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410353125
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Mother" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Collected Poems

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811218054
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book New Collected Poems written by George Oppen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work." "Editor Michael Davidson has written an introduction to the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that give readers a deeper understanding of the background of the individual books and references in the poems. Essayist Eliot Weinberger provides a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, "Oppen Then." This new, revised paperback edition also includes an extraordinary CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry books. Culled from obscure, rarely heard recordings of Oppen when he was in New York, San Francisco, and London at different times in his life, the CD adds a unique dimension to the lifework of one of America's finest poets."--BOOK JACKET.

Literature and the Environment

Author : George Hart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061661
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Environment written by George Hart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase literature and environment only achieved popularity in recent decades, yet writers dating back to the explorers of the 1500s—and later such 19th-century Romanticists as Thoreau—have long been addressing environmental issues through literary expression. This volume introduces students and educators to the field by tracing the evolution of environmental writing in the United States. Chapters written by distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on important environmental issues, guiding readers through 11 carefully selected literary works. Each chapter provides brief biographical information on the author, discussions of the work's structural, thematic, and stylistic components, and insights into the historical context that relates the work to relevant environmental issues. Each chapter concludes with information on works cited. The analyzed works cover a wide spectrum of literature and span nearly 100 years. Included are early writings, such as Mary Austin's 1903 The Land of Little Rain, and famous groundbreaking works, such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) and Gary Snyder's Turtle Island (1974). Also included are frequently assigned works of special interest to students, such as The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), The Earthsea Trilogy (1977), and Ceremony (1977). A list of selected further suggested readings completes the volume. Students of literature, as well as educators looking for new ways to present social issues, will find many ideas and much inspiration in this volume.

ARBA Guide to Biographical Resources, 1986-1997

Author : Robert L. Wick
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ARBA Guide to Biographical Resources, 1986-1997 written by Robert L. Wick and published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-source guide to selected biographical dictionaries and directories covers the entire spectrum of biographical sources (serial and nonserial) that have been published in the last ten years. In each entry the book gives complete bibliographic information along with price and a critical evaluation. Most entries have been selected from American Reference Books Annual (ARBA), between 1986 and 1997. Organized in two broad categories-International and National Biographies and Biographies in Professional Fields-listings are also easily accessed through detailed author/title and subject indexes. This work will be valuable to reference librarians, researchers, and others who require information on the lives of individuals from all fields of study and all time periods, and of particular use to those involved in the library acquisition process.

A Study Guide for James Merrill's "Lost in Translation"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410351521
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for James Merrill's "Lost in Translation" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for James Merrill's "Lost in Translation," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Attention Equals Life

Author : Andrew Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199972125
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Attention Equals Life written by Andrew Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers--including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing--the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of and social media is an urgent and unending task.

A Study Guide for Li-Young Lee's "Early in the Morning"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410344827
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Li-Young Lee's "Early in the Morning" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Li-Young Lee's "Early in the Morning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Regions of Unlikeness

Author : Thomas Gardner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803221765
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Regions of Unlikeness written by Thomas Gardner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Regions of Unlikeness Thomas Gardner explores the ways a number of quite different twentieth-century American poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Robert Hass, Jorie Graham, and Michael Palmer, frame their work as taking place within, and being brought to life by, an acknowledgment of the limits of language. Gardner approaches their poetry in light of philosopher Stanley Cavell?s remarkably similar engagement with the issues of skepticism and linguistic finitude. The skeptic?s refusal to settle for anything less than perfect knowledge of the world, Cavell maintains, amounts to a refusal to accept the fact of human finitude. Gardner argues that both Cavell and the poets he discusses reject skepticism?s world-erasing conclusions but nonetheless honor the truth about the limits of knowledge that skepticism keeps alive. In calling attention to the limits of such acts as describing or remembering, the poets Gardner examines attempt to renew language by teasing a charged drama out of their inability to grasp with certainty. ø Juxtaposed with Gardner?s readings of the work of the younger poets are his interviews with them. In many ways, these conversations are at the core of Gardner?s book, demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the struggles and mappings enacted in the poems. The interviews are themselves examples of the charged intimacy Gardner deals with in his readings.

Prior to Meaning

Author : Steve McCaffery
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117907
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Prior to Meaning written by Steve McCaffery and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read.

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368289
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature written by Haruo Shirane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.

Lyric Shame

Author : Gillian White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674734394
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Shame written by Gillian White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.