Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller written by Joaquin Miller and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1897 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller written by Joaquin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller Classic Reprint written by Joaquin Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller In looking over my notes at the end of this second edition, wherein I have tried to answer and even anticipate the eager questions of young poets, I find I may have said too much; given too much encouragement, too little caution. Let me qualify all I have set down in this book, by saying bluntly, that the poet's trade is the hardest trade of all trades in the world; his compensation is the poorest; his triumphs the fewest; not one in ten thousand can earn his bread at it. Sir Walter Besant is being laughed at for having advised that a man should secure a competence before writing books. But Sir Walter was right. And the novelist, as a rule, receives fifty dollars to the poet's one. Another thing to be taken into account before venturing up the stormy steeps of song, poets, like priests or preachers, are not in the line of preferment, either at the polls or at the White House. Suppose that James Whitcomb Riley should ask to be Governor, or I to be sent to the beautiful land of the Rising Sun! See? Yet we have managed our affairs fairly well, made fortune and fair name out of nothing, - have practically made bricks without straw. Yet, while there is no more danger of our asking such preferment than there is of our receiving it, you see clearly that the poet must stand alone. Again, the poet is, must be, as sensitive as a child, and his work wears and wears till his nerves are so threadbare that he dares not take up a newspaper lest he may see something ugly. Let me say again, frankly, Don't try to be a poet if you can possibly help it. But if you must, you must; and there will always be plenty who must. My Notes are for those who must. But better be a first-rate plowman than a second-rate poet, so far as fortune, health, and content are concerned. A Burns, of course, can be first at both. Born a rover and a lover, I have wandered farther, perhaps, than any man living, for my poetry opened all doors and made travel a delight. Then I was paid immensely for my prose. But if I had depended on poetry, I should have stayed at home, and half starved. Take care! I traveled so much all my life till late years, that I had to hastily feed my corn out, weed or flower, green or ripe corn, from the four quarters of the world, as I ran. Hence the need of this revision. And yet, even now, after all my cutting and care, I am far from satisfied, and can commend to my lovers only the few last poems in the book. True, the earlier ones have color and clime, and perfume of wood or waste, and I am not ungrateful for the friends they brought me, but I fear they fall short of the large eternal lesson which the seer is born to teach - the vision of worlds beyond. I have tried to mend this fault in my later work; to give my new poems not only body, but soul. 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 The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller written by Joaquin Miller and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs of the Sierras written by Joaquin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unwritten History Life Amongst the Modocs written by Joaquin Miller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book California Poetry written by Dana Gioia and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry, this ground-breaking new book presents the work of 101 authors across two centuries. California Poetry includes poets as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Yone Noguchi, Robinson Jeffers, Josephine Miles, Charles Bukowski, Ishmael Reed, Francisco X. Alarcón, and Marilyn Chin. With ample biographical and critical notes for each author, California Poetry goes beyond the limits of the ordinary anthology and provides a detailed and often intimate account of the Golden State's rich but often neglected cultural history.
Download or read book The Ship in the Desert written by Joaquin Miller and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1875 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH deep reverence I inscribe these lines, my dear parents, to you. I see you now, away beyond the seas, beyond the lands where the sun goes down in the Pacific like some great ship of fire, resting still on the green hills, watching your herds, waiting "Where rolls the Oregon, And hears no sound save its own dashing." Nearly a quarter of a century ago you took me the long and lonesome half-year's journey across the mighty continent, wild, and rent, and broken up, and sown with sand and ashes, viii and crossed by tumbling, wooded rivers that ran as if glad to get away, fresh and strange and new as if but half-fashioned from the hand of God. All the time as I tread this strange land I re-live those scenes, and you are with me. How dark and deep, how sullen, strong, and lion-like the mighty Missouri rolled between his walls of untracked wood and cleft the unknown domain of the middle world before us!
Download or read book The Syntax of English Poetry 1870 1930 written by Will Baker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Poetry of the American West written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred fifty poems by seventy-five poets offer an inclusive collage of voices--protest poems of the Chicano farmworkers' movement, campfire cowboy songs, sacred Native American songs, and works by Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and other canonical figures--from a land where cultural collision is part of the rugged landscape.
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Download or read book Over the River and Through the Wood written by Karen L. Kilcup and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers readers a view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Complemented by period illustrations, this collection includes work by poets from all geographical regions, as well as rarely seen poems by immigrant and ethnic writers and by children themselves.
Download or read book Queer Compulsions written by Amy H. Sueyoshi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Recently arrived in California, Noguchi was in awe of the established writer and the two had struck up a passionate correspondence. Still, he viewed their relationship as doomed—not by the scandal of their same-sex affections, but their introverted dispositions and differences in background. In a poem dedicated to his “dearest Charlie,” Noguchi wrote: “Thou and I, O Charles, sit alone like two shy stars, east and west!” While confessing his love to Stoddard, Noguchi had a child (future sculptor Isamu Noguchi) with his editor, Léonie Gilmour; became engaged to Washington Post reporter Ethel Armes; and upon his return to Japan married Matsu Takeda—all within a span of seven years. According to author Amy Sueyoshi, Noguchi was not a dedicated polyamorist: He deliberately deceived the three women, to whom he either pretended or promised marriage while already married. She argues further that Noguchi’s intimacies point to little-known realities of race and sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and illuminate how Asian immigrants negotiated America’s literary and arts community. As Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences, his affairs additionally assert how Japanese in America could forge romantic fulfillment during a period historians describe as one of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Moreover, Noguchi’s relationships reveal how individuals who engaged in seemingly defiant behavior could exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. His unexpected intimacies in fact relied upon existing social hierarchies of race, sexuality, gender, and nation that dictated appropriate and inappropriate behavior. In fact, Noguchi, Stoddard, Gilmour, and Armes at various points contributed to the ideological forces that compelled their intimate lives. Through the romantic life of Yone Noguchi, Queer Compulsions narrates how even the queerest of intimacies can more provocatively serve as a reflection of rather than a revolt from existing social inequality. In unveiling Noguchi’s interracial and same-sex affairs, it attests to the complex interaction between lived sexualities and socio-legal mores as it traces how one man negotiated affection across cultural, linguistic, and moral divides to find fulfillment in unconventional yet acceptable ways. Queer Compulsions will be a welcome contribution to Asian American, gender, and sexuality studies and the literature on male and female romantic friendships. It will also forge a provocative link between these disciplines and Asian studies.
