Download or read book Brenda Is in the Room Other Poems written by Craig Morgan Teicher and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry, this is a beautiful and original work that appears to be, on first impression, a light-hearted and amusingly self-conscious account of daily life, but reminds us that our mundane lives are utterly strange and magical.
Download or read book 2009 Poet s Market written by Editors Of Writers Digest Books and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.
Download or read book Starting Today written by Rachel Zucker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this anthology document the political and personal events of the president's crucial first days through a variety of contemporary poetic voices.
Download or read book 2009 Poet s Market Listings written by Editors Of Writers Digest Books and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.
Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2020 written by David Lehman and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Attention Equals Life written by Andrew Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers--including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing--the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of smartphones and social media is an urgent and unending task.
Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2009 written by David Wagoner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb introductory essay, series editor David Lehman's astute foreword about the current state of poetry and criticism, and cover art from the beloved poet John Ashbery, The Best American Poetry 2009 is a memorable and delightful addition to a series dedicated to showcasing the work of poets at their best.
Download or read book The Octopus Museum written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy's worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.
Download or read book To Keep Love Blurry written by Craig Morgan Teicher and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Keep Love Blurry is about the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and children, writers and readers. These poems include sonnets, villanelles, and long poems, as well as two poetic prose pieces, tracing how a son becomes a husband and then a father. Robert Lowell is a constant figure throughout the book, which borrows its four-part structure from that poet's seminal Life Studies. Craig Morgan Teicher won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He is poetry reviews editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
Download or read book Advanced Poetry written by Kathryn Nuernberger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself. Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of: - received traditions and innovative forms - confessional and epistolary poetry - aesthetic experimentation with voice - methods and theories developed by early Surrealists -deep image and the poetics of spells - ecopoetics & poetry of place - writing the body based on queer theory and disability studies - docupoetics and lyric research - racial imaginaries and poetics of liberation - digital poetics - writing in community with other poets and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects - revision processes and putting together a collection or chapbook -advice on writing artist statements and other professional materials Bringing together a comprehensive craft guide with a carefully collated anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text explores how poetry since the 20th century has embraced traditional structures, borrowed from other disciplines, and invented wildly new forms. With close readings, writing prompts, excerpts of interviews from key figures in the field and a supplementary companion website, this is the definitive text for any poet looking to continue their poetic journey.
Download or read book Instead of Dying written by Lauren Haldeman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invoking spiders and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman’s second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief. In the spirit of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, these poems compulsively imagine alternate realities for a lost sibling (“Instead of dying, they inject you with sunlight & you live” or “Instead of dying, you join a dog-sledding team in Quebec”), relentlessly recording the unlived possibilities that blossom from the purgative magical thinking of mourning. Whether she is channeling Google Maps Street View to visit a scene of murder (“Because / a picture of this place is / also a picture of you”) or investigating the origins of consciousness (“Yes, alien / life-forms exist / they are your thoughts”), Haldeman wrenches verse into new sublime forms, attempting to both translate the human experience as well as encrypt it, inviting readers into realms where we hover, plunge, rise again, and ascend.
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Download or read book Daily Poetry written by Carol Simpson and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Select a "poem of the week" and then follow this book's Monday-to-Friday schedule of activities for deepening students' appreciation of that poem. Choose your own poem or use one of the 39 supplied in this book as reproducible handouts; each of the book's poems comes with half a dozen or more activities related to the poem's language and its themes, a list of related poems and children's books, and a writing assignment based on a reproducible handout. The book also describes 12 activity ideas that will work with any poem. Grades K-3. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 288 pages.
Download or read book The Rules of Poetry written by Susan Knier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume also features essays on perennial life topics such as the daunting task of self-forgiveness, appreciation of the natural world, the meaning of hospitality, giving, the loneliness pandemic and the strangeness of estrangement.
Download or read book Brenda s Bargain written by Helen Leah Reed and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brenda's Bargain" by Helen Leah Reed is a captivating novel that follows the adventures of Brenda, a resourceful and determined young girl, as she navigates the challenges of life and discovers the true meaning of resilience and friendship. Set in a charming and picturesque town, the story centers around Brenda and her family as they face financial difficulties. When Brenda's father loses his job, the family's financial stability is shaken, and Brenda takes it upon herself to find a way to help. Fueled by her determination and creativity, Brenda embarks on a journey to contribute to the family's income. The novel beautifully portrays Brenda's spirit and ingenuity as she explores various opportunities to earn money. Her determination leads her to unexpected ventures, and along the way, she forms meaningful connections with people in her community. As Brenda takes on different roles and responsibilities, readers are treated to a heartwarming tale of personal growth and the power of perseverance. Helen Leah Reed's writing skillfully captures the essence of Brenda's character, portraying her as a relatable and inspiring protagonist. Brenda's interactions with her family, friends, and the people she meets on her journey are portrayed with authenticity and depth, adding richness to the narrative. One of the central themes of the novel is the importance of empathy and understanding. As Brenda learns about the challenges others face and forms bonds with individuals from various walks of life, she gains a new perspective on the world around her. Her experiences teach her the value of compassion and the impact that even small acts of kindness can have. "Brenda's Bargain" is a heartwarming exploration of resilience, community, and the enduring strength of family bonds. Through Brenda's trials and triumphs, readers are reminded of the significance of determination, the rewards of hard work, and the transformative power of reaching out to others in times of need. In summary, "Brenda's Bargain" is a touching and uplifting novel that captures the spirit of a young girl's journey to make a difference and the profound lessons she learns along the way. Helen Leah Reed's storytelling invites readers to reflect on their own values, relationships, and the ways in which simple acts of kindness can shape lives and create lasting connections.
Download or read book Brenda s Bargain written by Helen Leah Reed and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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