Author: Maureen Higson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329234685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466875631
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees— The fountain rises at the center of the plaza; on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub. —from "tributaries" Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines—expansive, fluent, and full—manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

Author: George Crabbe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374283745
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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The eleventh collection by the author of "Averno" and "Ararat" includes the piece "Tributaries," an exploration of a timeless Mediterranean village and the contrast between its natural and architectural elements.

Author: Kyle Tran Myhre
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1638340102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Cheryl Ainsworth Martin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524541125
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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She is sharing some of her favorite poems that she had to repeat every day in her little village. This book presents the flavor and spiciness of words as they can be sung or repeated at home or at school. She is helping young people to remember their own cultural backgrounds and to celebrate their own culture as they live in a plural society in the United States of America. New York is a melting pot of different cultures, and we can celebrate our own cultures as we live from day to day by learning poems from the past and the present. Cheryl Ainsworth Martin is a teacher. She is the mother of Shari, Nicole, and Vanessa Marie Martin. She is also the grandmother of Troy, Trent, and Triniti Gaillard. She currently lives and works in New York. Her books can be obtained from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Xlibris Bookstore.

Author: Dr. Gajanan T. Hivale
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359736890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Author: Anthony Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780371573
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more? Lifesaving Poems is a way of trying to answer that question. Giving himself the constraint of choosing no more than one poem per poet, Anthony began copying poems out, one at a time, as it were for safekeeping. He asked himself: was the poem one he could recall being moved by the moment he first read it? And: could he live without it? Then he posted each poem on his blog and said why he liked it. Word spread and soon his blog had thousands of followers, everyone reading and responding to the poems he talked about - and sharing his posts. Now Lifesaving Poems has turned into an anthology, not one designed to be a perfect list of 'the great and the good', but a gathering of poems he happens to feel passionate about, according to his tastes. As Billy Collins says: 'Good poems are poems that I like'. Anthony's popular personal commentaries are included with the poems. There are Lifesaving Poems by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, Carol Ann Duffy, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Marie Howe, Jaan Kaplinski, Brendan Kennelly, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Norman MacCaig, Ian McMillan, Derek Mahon, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Jo Shapcott, Tomas Transtromer, Wislawa Szymborska, and many, many others.

Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322277
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an audience of everyday readers and believes poets “need to write poetry that doesn’t make people feel stupid.” Each poem in Red Stilts strives to reveal the complex beauties of the ordinary, of the world that’s right under our noses. Right under Kooser’s nose is rural America, most specifically the Great Plains, with its isolated villages, struggling economy, hard-working people and multiple beauties that surpass everything wrecked, wrong, or in error.