Author: Tony HoaglandPublisher:
ISBN: 0472037579
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Tony Hoagland's essays, full of sharp wit and astute observations, draw out the poetry hiding everywhere in American culture.
The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls
Author: Tony HoaglandPublisher:
ISBN: 0472037579
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Tony Hoagland's essays, full of sharp wit and astute observations, draw out the poetry hiding everywhere in American culture.
The Best American Poetry 2020
Author: David LehmanPublisher: Scribner
ISBN: 198210659X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.
Turn Up the Ocean
Author: Tony HoaglandPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451808
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
The final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, “one of the most distinctive voices of our time” (Carl Dennis). Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems in Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humor the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoagland’s signature wit and unparalleled observations take in long-standing injustices, the atrocities of American empire and consumerism, and our ongoing habit of looking away. In these poems, perseverance depends on a gymnastics of skepticism and comedy, a dogged quest for authentic connection, and the consolations of the natural world. Turn Up the Ocean is a remarkable and moving collection, a fitting testament to Hoagland’s devotion to the capaciousness and art of poetry.
Ghosts and the Overplus
Author: Christina PughPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472039601
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry
From the Valley of Bronze Camels
Author: Jane MillerPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472055429
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
"Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem. Miller explores the use of the question mark in the history of poetry and its function as a revelation of poetic voice. She considers the positive and negative aspects of surrealism on the contemporary poem, its anti-feminist origins in France, its contemporary usage, and the benefits of Super-Real images. Miller examines how identity politics might affect the imagination. She describes ancient Chinese musical instruments to show how their sounds resonate off/in American poems and on the aural integrity of the lyric poem. She interrogates the political implications of language and the degeneration and regeneration of words. Finally, in an essay about what she dares not say about poetry, she comes out against forms of surrealism, narrative, jargon, rhetoric, irony, and appropriation. This masterful work can be read as advice to a young writer, but it also invites us into the mind of a writer who has developed her craft through the course of a lifetime of writing, reading, and exploring the world, showing not only the ideas that influenced her-feminist, lesbian, and international works-but also how Miller has, in turn, influenced ideas"--
Joy (or Something Darker, But Like It)
Author: Nathaniel PerryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472039717
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry
A Beat Beyond
Author: Major JacksonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472039067
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
In this collection of essays, interviews, and notes, Major Jackson reveals and revels in the work of poetry to not only limn and give access to the intellectual width and spiritual depth of poets, but also to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art itself. Accessible and critically minded, Jackson avoids pedantry and provisional judgments by returning to the poem as an unparalleled source of linguistic pleasure that structures a multilayered "lyric self." In his interviews, Jackson illustrates poetry's distinct ability, through metaphor and expressive language, to mediate the inexplicable while foregrounding the possibilities of human song. Collected over several decades, these essays find Jackson praising mythmaking in Frank Bidart and Ai's poetry, expressing bafflement at the silence of white-identified poets in the cause of social and racial justice, unearthing the politics behind Gwendolyn Brooks's Pulitzer Prize, and marveling at the "hallucinatory speed of thought" in the poetry of a diverse range of poets including Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Brenda Hillman, Afaa Weaver, Forrest Gander, and Terrance Hayes. This collection passionately surveys the radical shifts of the art and notes poetry's ardor and cultural value as a necessity for a modern sensibility.
To Go Into the Words
Author: Norman FinkelsteinPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472221302
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
To Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen Adam, and Nathaniel Mackey, the book engages the contemporary poetic fascination with transcendence through the radical delight with language. By opening up a given poem, Finkelstein seeks the “gnosis” or insight of what it contains so that other readers can understand and appreciate the works even more. Pulling from Finkelstein’s experience of writing thirteen books of poetry and six books of literary criticism, To Go Into the Words consistently rewards the reader with insights as transformative as they are well-considered and deftly mapped out. This volume opens the world of poetry to poets, scholars, and readers by showcasing “the gnosis that is to be found in modern poetry.”
Poetry of a Soul in Transit
Author: Andree Jeannette HardyPublisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 9781462699803
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poetry of a Soul in Transit a second collection of poems, preceded by Hope in Moonlit Dreams, is also inspired by the beautiful sceneries and waterways of the Florida Keys, and true to my life. "Gardeners 'Legacy" (West Martello Towers), "My Life on the Water," "Deja vu," "Key West Butterflies," "St-Mary Star of the Sea," "Love of a Friend," "Second Wind," "Grandmother Lemay," "Sailing the Keys," "D j vu," are some of the poems you will find here. Between land and sea, anchored out off Sunset Cove, closer to nature than I had ever been before, my search has moved inward. Poetry of a Soul in Transit, an attempt to rise above this sea of temporary duality, brings forth these poems, like soldiers fighting for my sanity. My spirit has traveled through many bodies since my birth. Storms come and go but nothing can cut me, burn or destroy me, I am an eternal spirit. Writing brings me solace; it is where you will find me disarmed on the road to self-realization. It is where I am found most reasonable...where I am able to find the sun shining through darkest of clouds.
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