Author: Adrienne Rich Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393079724 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 63
Book Description
In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world. "I hope never to idealize poetry—it has suffered enough from that. Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard."
Author: Andrea Gibson Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 1452177406 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 135
Book Description
How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In this accessible volume, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone. Whether lapsed poetry lovers, aspiring poets, or total novices, readers will learn to uncover verse in unexpected places, find their way through a poem when they don't quite "get it," and discover just how transformative poetry can be. This is a gorgeous and inspiring gift for any fan of the written word.
Author: Elaine Kahn Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1593765843 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
“This book takes me right back to the Carnage Years―yours, too―sacrificed to love. If only I, you, had possessed Elaine Kahn’s wisdom and wit. These poems are lacerating, coy, bloody, and so true I wanted to memorize lines from them.” ―Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth, love, and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative’s power to both disfigure and restore. ROMANCE or THE END This is a book about love. And it is a book about lies. Love can be a lie, but it is also always true. This is a book about truth. This is a book about story. There is no such thing as a true story and so there are no stories in this book. Without a story, there is separation. This is a book about separation. Everything is a story. Even the truth. There is nothing truer in this world than the lie of love.
Author: John Hollander Publisher: ISBN: 9781573226462 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particulary intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them.
Author: Adrienne Rich Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393079678 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.
Author: Tiang Hong Ee Publisher: NUS Press ISBN: 9789971692049 Category : Singapore poetry (English) Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
The author examines the changing thematic and stylistic concerns in the poetry of Edwin Thumboo. Ee identifies and analyses in the context of social and historical change.
Author: Adrienne Rich
Author: James Reeves
Author: Andrea Gibson
Author: Elaine Kahn
Author: John Hollander
Author: Ben Lerner
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Adrienne Rich
Author: Langston Hughes
Author: Tiang Hong Ee