Download or read book A Poetic State of Mind written by Anna M. Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A poetic State of Mind" is an internal journey through self discovery and awareness. It is a collection of both narrative and poetry, a poetic path to peace.
Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
Download or read book Poetic Visions Through the State of Mind written by Jennifer Parker and published by RoseDog Books. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetic Mind written by Frederick Clarke Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creativity and the Poetic Mind written by Jean Tobin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and the Poetic Mind mingles the voices of well-known writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Donald Hall, John Koethe, Marge Piercy, and Robert Pinsky with newer voices, and includes engaging excerpts from interviews with thirty-eight American poets. Within a sustained argument about creative states of mind, this book innovatively presents and explores the technique of «going to the place» as more reliable in writing poetry than waiting for «inspiration». It explains why poets frequently believe that talking about their own poetry may damage their creativity and why, for centuries, inspiration has seemed to come from somewhere beyond the poet. In addition, it discusses the practicality of poets' thinking that «being creative» and «writing poetry» are two separate skills: inspiration is unreliable, but experienced poets create daily.
Download or read book Nine Gates written by Jane Hirshfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-08-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. A person who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world -- alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably. In part a primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, with each "gate" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, Nine Gates is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.
Download or read book A Coney Island of the Mind written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Download or read book A State of Mind written by Joey Joe McGuire and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetic Mind written by Frederick Clarke Prescott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetic Mind Some of the principles presented in this book are new. This I acknowledge with misgiving, for in a subject as old as poetry, where orthodox views are particularly apt to be sound, novelty is not a recommendation. Fortunately most of the principles are old, and all, I hope, rest on old foundations. Indeed I have tried to return to and develop classical views of poetry which are now somewhat out of vogue. In the main, then, old principles at most receive new interpretation and relation. A discussion, even of the present length, dealing with many aspects of the large subject of poetry, must be somewhat superficial. It would have been easier and more satisfying to completeness to apply the principles herein developed to one or two divisions of the subject. I have thought it better to carry them through several, and apply them to poetry in most of its important aspects, with the prefatory statement, however, that the treatment is introductory and provisional. Each chapter invites correction, and also demands development. Some chapters, I hope, may lead to more thorough and sagacious inquiries. The subject undertaken - the operation of the poet's mind - is fortunately not quite so broad as poetry itself. This limitation however, is counterbalanced by its lying halfway between two provinces - literature on the one hand and psychology on the other. Evidently its treatment calls for a special psychological training, to which I cannot pretend, as will no doubt sufficiently appear. The subject as a whole, so far as I know, has not been attempted by the psychologists; perhaps it is a field in which they wisely fear to tread. In what follows a literary treatment is hazarded, which may in the end, I hope, prove helpful to psychology. Evidently the subject must be approached from both sides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book State of Mind written by Donald Easton-Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of thoughts and poems that reflect the hills and valleys of life. The book is a collection of thoughts and poems the author wrote from junior high school to adulthood. From a young age, the author used poem as a way to cope with life and the challenges it presented to him as he grew. The book represents challenges to find love, with God, with society, with past demons, and with self.
Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Download or read book Vibes of Mind A Bunch of poems written by Bibi Karuvthottathil and published by Writersgram. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibi’s collection of poems titled “ Vibes of Mind A Bunch of Poems” is not just a collection of poems to her; who claims that they are the state of mind and it etched the poets' mental anguish, personal grief, and emotional haunting; you would find how writing kept her alive. The lines that are born in front of you are the moments that melt away in her days and nights, evoked as thoughts from her to the tip of the pen. The emotions pictured here are universal, they are deeply introspective in tone. She laments over the vired status of a person's mind. As a poet, she successfully depicted the different vibes of a mind, the mind that longing for love, care, and happiness. The uneasiness of mind and the mind trying to escape from the chaos of the emotional realm. On her scribbles, she clutches to her breath. It’s the only way to get in touch with one's self.
Download or read book Poetry and Mind written by Laurent Dubreuil and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- POETRY AND MIND -- Title -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Download or read book In a Ubiquity State of Mind written by Robert Hall and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observations of the lives we chose to live create many challenges. Decisions have been made to determine which path deemed to reach success is the right choice. Along those travels we encounter many obstacles, both positive and negative. The Ubiquity poems give you some profound thoughts and realization of situations most will encounter in some shape or form once in their life time. This book is a combination of love, hate, good and evil and many other thoughts we all have engaged upon. Poetry does have the omnipresence to unite masses of people embracing each other when times are good and bad. Enjoy this read of treats!
Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Download or read book Poetic Verses written by Reginald Bryant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let your conscious be your guide. Those words I remember so well since they were said so repetitiously by the elders. My gurus were my great grandmother, Grandmas Mary, and Ethel, as well as my great aunts, some who came to life in the latter 1800's.
Download or read book The Resonance Code written by Joseph Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLACK-AND-WHITE EDITION Human civilization is at a crossroads. Challenges of immense volatility and uncertainty press us to evolve our ourselves at a greater pace than we have ever done. We need to heal and revitalize the inner terrain of the psyche so our consciousness can respond creatively to the complexity that surrounds and challenges us. The Resonance Code is born of a marriage between ancient and modern, East and West. Its ancient and Eastern sources are Taoist Philosophy and the I Ching, one of Earth's most ancient complexity theories. Its modern and Western sources are contemporary theories of human development and practices of leadership coaching. According to the Taoist framework, the human psyche functions as an organic "resonator," directly exchanging and amplifying resonance - known as qi - with its social and natural environment. Qi carries information essential for our growth and thriving as individuals and as a species. However, on our modern, materialistic path of development, our cognitive minds struggle to process this subtle exchange between ourselves and our environment. This disconnection leads to much of the grief, loneliness, and pervasive distress we experience today. The Resonance Code presents a knowledge system developed through a leadership training curriculum at Resonance Path Institute. This system aims at awakening the psyche to resonance. It enables the rational mind to evolve beyond current limitations so we can dance with complexity and embrace uncertainty as the fertile ground of creativity. The Resonance Code is calling forth a new generation of resonance leaders. These are people who may or may not hold conventional leadership titles, but who love the Earth, feel compassion for all its inhabitants, and are committed to participate in humanity's evolutionary journey.
