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Vermont Poets and Their Craft

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Author : Neil Shepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732743441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Vermont Poets and Their Craft written by Neil Shepard and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology Vermont Poets and Their Craft is a deep well of both information and art that offers thought-provoking essays on poetic craft and a unique selection of poetry. Compiled as a follow-up to Sundog Poetry Center's lecture series of the same name, filmed and televised by Vermont Public Television, this collection will not only be an invaluable resource for creative writing classes, but for writers at all stages of development who might enjoy literary company diving deep into various aspects of poetic craft. Included are essays from most of the poets from the original series - Major Jackson, Sydney Lea, David Budbill, Baron Wormser, Neil Shepard, Diana Whitney, David Huddle, and, Pamela Harrison, Mary Jane Dickerson, and Tamra Higgins - as well as seven additional poets vital to Vermont's lyric canon: Partridge Boswell Martha Zweig, Stephen Cramer, Greg Delanty, Chard deNiord, Didi Jackson, and Julia Shipley. These essays on poetic craft offer something for everyone, whether you are an accomplished poet, or a student seeking deeper understanding of poetic craft, or are simply curious about poetry's allure. Topics include poetic plain-style; the interweaving of lyric and narrative elements in a poem; the formal elements of both metered and free verse; the art of concealing and revealing in a poem; the deployment of dramatic and thematic cues through poetic structure; the natural-world representations of desire in poetry; the grounding of a poem through imagery; the convergence of history and poetry; the complexity of poetry residing in its combination of irony and ecstasy; the music inside lyric poetry and the poetry inside music lyrics; the linguistic play, serendipity, and subversion of experimental poetry; and - what else? - the mystery and terror at the heart of Robert Frost's nature poetry. This 250-page anthology by Vermont poets on poetic craft is full of the best writing and best advice on writing you're likely to find anywhere in the English-speaking world (and certainly within Vermont). If there's a particular angle that Vermont poets take when writing about poetic craft, it's probably rooted in their selection of poems by contemporary Vermont poets to illustrate their ideas about craft. So yes, this anthology is partly a local affair, discussing Vermont poems and poetic concepts that resonate for writers here in the Green Mountains, even as it reflects ideas about poetic craft that come down to us from several thousand years ago and several thousand miles away.

How Does a Poem Mean?

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Author : John Ciardi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How Does a Poem Mean? written by John Ciardi and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1975 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

The Flexible Lyric

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Author : Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340065
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Flexible Lyric written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems. She argues for reading as a writer reads--with equal parts passion and analysis. Her analyses of the effects of tone, image, voice, and structure connect brilliant theory with tangible examples. Intimate as well as informative, the collection begins with a discussion of the creative process and Voigt's fascination with the writing of Flannery O'Connor and Elizabeth Bishop. Readings of lyric poems by Shakespeare, Sidney, Poe, Stevens, Williams, Larkin, Bogan, Roethke, Plath, Levertov, Berryman, and others demonstrate the roles of gender, point of view, image, and music in poetry. An experienced teacher, Voigt focuses on the lyric but encourages, in any study of poetry, original thinking, attention to structure, and, above all, close reading of the work itself. An intelligent and thought-provoking marriage of art and scholarship, The Flexible Lyric exemplifies, with fierceness, dedication, and precision, how the making of poems is not just a trade but a calling.

GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA

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Author : Shanta Lee Gander
Publisher : Diode Editions
ISBN 13 : 1939728401
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA written by Shanta Lee Gander and published by Diode Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to move away from the shadow of one’s mother, parents, or family in order to come into being within this world? As collective memory within the Black diaspora has been ruptured, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA time travels by creating and recapturing memory from a fractured past to survive in the present and envision a future. In her first full-length collection GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander navigates between formal and vernacular styles to introduce the reader to a myriad of subjects such as scientific facts that link butterflies to female sexuality and vulnerability; whispers of classical Greek myth; H.P. Lovecraft’s fantastical creature, Cthulhu; and the traces of African mythmaking and telling. Beneath the intensity, longing, seeking, wondering, and the ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ voice that sometimes tussles with sadness, there is a movement of sass and a will that refuses to say that it has been broken. Gander leaves a door ajar in this ongoing conversation of the Black female body that walks the spaces of the individual within a collective; the tensions between inherited and hidden narratives; and the present within a history and future that is still being imagined.

No Doubt the Nameless

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Author : Sydney Lea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935536734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book No Doubt the Nameless written by Sydney Lea and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems plumb the depths of elegy yet offer an upward gesture by the volume's end

Roll Deep: Poems

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Author : Major Jackson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246906
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Roll Deep: Poems written by Major Jackson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit of travel and pays homage to heritage. In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of “rolling deep” to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental—his “crew.” The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a range of topics, most prominently human intimacy and war. And like his best work to date, these poems create new experiences with language owed to Jackson’s willingness to once again seek a rhythmic sound that expresses the unique realities of the twenty-first century with humor and understanding. Whether set in Nairobi, Madrid, or Greece, the poems are sensuously evocative and unapologetically with-it, in their effort to build community across borders of language and style. From Urban Renewal, “The Dadaab Suite”: I have come to Dadaab like an actor on a press release, unprepared for the drained faces of famine-fleeing refugees, my craft’s glamour dimmed by hundreds of infant graves, children whose lolling heads’ final drop landed on their mothers’ backs like soft stones. What beauty can I spell in this swelter of dust?

What's the Story?

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Author : Sydney Lea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990973393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book What's the Story? written by Sydney Lea and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the Story? Reflections on a Life Grown Long is, in many ways, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of this ongoing search. By turns elegiac, humorous, sad, joyful, angry -and often many of these at once- this book of extremely short prose reflections entertains an abiding question for Lea: to what extent does "my" version of what happens in this life and in the world at large coincide with some imagined "real" version? If the author had an opinionated, positive answer to such a question when young, life has imposed a degree of humility upon him in older age, whether he wants it or not. What's the Story? is less notable, then, for the conclusions it reaches at any given point than for its compelling witness to what poet Wallace Stevens called "the mind in the act of finding what will suffice."

Borges and Me

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Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 198489949X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Borges and Me written by Jay Parini and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when—as ever—it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.

The Blue-Collar Sun

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Author : Lucas Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733653459
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Blue-Collar Sun written by Lucas Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The world is hard to find once you start looking for it' -- from its beginning, this book activates such a search (and sometimes wants to walk away from it) in such a startling way that by the breath-taking final section the poet finds himself searching for his relationship to a fish hook. Which of all objects looks most like a question mark, so the search becomes not one for answers but for the questions themselves, that Rilkean stance. Questions carry with them the obligation to go on, to carry on in any direction they may take us, and for the sake of the art of poetry Lucas Farrell does just that. His is a mind that never stops moving.

Their Names Are Mine

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Author : Will Kasso
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781095998083
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Their Names Are Mine written by Will Kasso and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajnii's tongue is ancestral, and his spirit is free. In the tradition of sacred word-warriors, he names the fallen and the martyrs with extraordinary grace and a humbling consciousness that manifest light in all directions. His fiery poems ration out eternal wisdoms that call forth simply a substitution of love for hate and a spiritual reckoning so that we all can breathe. Sing on, dear brother. - Major Jackson (Poetry Editor of Harvard Review)Rajnii Eddins breathes through the written word. A full recital that allows us to see more clearly the dimly lit spaces of the black romantic. For over 2 decades, this poet, father, teacher and son has allowed the spoken word to be a guide and refuge. In his words, there is refuge for which I always felt drawn. When I'm with Rajnii, I often feel strong in his silence and watch him craft truth as he lives such that listening, breathing and writing become synonymous. It's rare that the light of hope shines so brightly these days and when it does we must stand forward and receive the light, lest we in our efforts, grow dim. Rajnii shares the long awaited letter from your dearest friend, your closest sister and the villain who attempts to steal our laughter. If you ride these poems, you will arrive at peace. Thank you Raj for your light. - Theaster Gates (Social Practice Installation Artist)

On Poetry and Craft

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Author : Theodore Roethke
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320924
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book On Poetry and Craft written by Theodore Roethke and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre." Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools. "Art is our defense against hysteria and death." With the assistance of Roethke's widow, this volume has been edited to include the finest selections from out of print collections of prose and journal entries. Focused on the making and teaching of poetry,On Poetry and Craft will be prized in the classroom-and outrageous Roethke quotes will once again pepper our conversations. "You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is." Theodore Roethke was of an illustrious generation of poets which included Sexton, Plath, Lowell, Berryman, and like them he received nearly every major award in poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize and twice the National Book Award. In spite of his fame, he remained a legendary teacher, known for the care and attention he gave to his students, poets such as James Wright, Carolyn Kizer, Tess Gallagher, and Richard Hugo. Roethke died on August 1, 1963, while swimming in a friend's pool. "But before I'm reduced to an absolute pulp by my own ambivalence, I must say goodbye. The old lion perisheth. Nymphs, I wish you the swoops of many fish. May your search for the abiding be forever furious." On Poetry and Craft I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods. We can't escape what we are, and I'm afraid many of my notions about verse (I haven't too many) have been conditioned by the fact that for nearly 25 years I've been trying to teach the young something about the nature of verse by writing it--and that with very little formal knowledge of the subject or previous instruction. So it's going to be lik

Fire Is Not a Country

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Author : Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144220
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Fire Is Not a Country written by Cynthia Dewi Oka and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.

Shark Girl

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Author : Kelly Bingham
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763654477
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Shark Girl written by Kelly Bingham and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive. (Age 12 and up) On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything -- absolutely everything -- changed. Now she’s counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, "That’s her -- that’s Shark Girl," as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art? What about her life? In this striking first novel, Kelly Bingham uses poems, letters, telephone conversations, and newspaper clippings to look unflinchingly at what it’s like to lose part of yourself - and to summon the courage it takes to find yourself again.

The Lumberjack's Dove

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Author : GennaRose Nethercott
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062853686
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Lumberjack's Dove written by GennaRose Nethercott and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove, GennaRose Nethercott describes a woodsman who cuts off his hand with an axe—however, instead of merely being severed, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing, time and memory, and—finally—the act of storytelling itself. The lumberjack, his hand, and the axe that separated the two all become participants in the story, with unique perspectives to share and lessons to impart. “I taught your fathers how to love,” Axe says to the acorns and leaves around her. “I mean to be felled, sliced to lumber, & reassembled into a new body.” Inflected with the uncanny enchantment of modern folklore and animated by the sly shifting of points of view, The Lumberjack’s Dove is wise, richly textured poetry from a boundlessly creative new voice.

Happily After All

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Author : Laura Caroline Stevenson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395502167
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Happily After All written by Laura Caroline Stevenson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept some of the truths her father had always kept from her.

The Meeting Place

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Author : Dede Cummings
Publisher : Salmon Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9781912561865
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Meeting Place written by Dede Cummings and published by Salmon Poetry. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Meeting Place, Dede Cummings exposes some of the more interesting cards in the deck of her life. The results are a series of openhearted, straightforward poems, which are as sensitive to the natural world as they are to the inner one. Best of all, they are sensitive to the reader, whose presence is welcomed (if sometimes shyly) into these intimate rooms." --Billy Collins "In Dede Cummings' The Meeting Place, we find a writer at the height of her powers, reaching back to the past to and not only herself, but also to explore her family's origins, and the sources of love that bind them together. Yet in these open-armed, funny, serious and sacred poems, we also meet ourselves over and over, for Cummings knows that the specific, when lovingly described, becomes the universal. Dede Cummings is 'writing to reach' a world desperately in need of the tenderness and affection that underpin each and every one of her poems." --James Crews "Neighborhood bullies, first love, the ties that thread sisters, mothers, a long marriage. The poems in The Meeting Place follow the longitudinal lines of family, as well as the globe. They take us to Portugal, Cuba, Vermont, Ireland and beyond. And like the jars of 'achingly red Roma tomatoes, ' Cummings describes, they invite you to open them and feast." --Danusha Laméris

Judevine

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Author : David Budbill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Judevine written by David Budbill and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: