Download or read book Everything Winged Must be Dreaming written by Susan Ludvigson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems in Susan Ludvigson's Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming turn in large measure, as the title suggests, on images of flight and wings, dreams and air. Many concern dreams or unconscious material erupting into, intersecting with, affecting, our conscious lives." "Ludvigson conveys her major recurring theme - love, sexual love, as it relates to the life of the spirit, and also to death - in an assortment of ways. "Etiam Peccata," for example, chronicles the liaison that inspired the dramatist Paul Claudel's masterpiece, Partage de Midi. Through this long poem, told from the point of view of Roza Scribor-Rylska, Claudel's lover, we witness the endurance, and finally the death, of her love, as well as Claudel's struggle to resolve the conflict between his sensuality and his spirituality. "After Love," another example, reads like a release of breath in describing a woman's flight of reason in sexual ecstasy: She remembers how reason/ escaped from the body,/ flew out with a sigh,/ went winging up/ to a corner of the ceiling/ and fluttered there,/ a moth, a translucence,/ waiting." "In other poems we are reminded that the spirit is a solitary entity. In "October in the Aude," one of many poems set in France, the poet and her husband watch hawks circling in the sky, in the mountains, and then turn to observe some men and women sprinting downhill trying to catch a gust of wind during a parachute lesson: Even such brief/ joinings with air, with absence,/ must give them a sense that the world/ can be left behind, that one can choose/ the landscape of the mind. I imagine/ their goal, small brushes with death/ made beautiful, the spirit drifting off/ where it will." "Marked by audacious couplings of thought and feeling, these are poems of comprehensive reach and unerring empathy. They add further distinction to an already remarkable poetic career."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Poets on Paintings written by Robert D. Denham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

Download or read book Sweet Confluence written by Susan G. Ludvigson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In new poems and old, Sweet Confluence turns and returns to themes of art, music, landscape, and family that have feathered Ludvigson's lush expressive output over the past twenty-five years. The twenty new poems resume -- Ludvigson's Wisconsin motif -- the cradle of her experience and consciousness--and use Old World European sights, her mother's death from Alzheimer's, and a southern palette of sight, scent, and sound to explore the fluidly interconnected states of being: memory, emotion, sleep, thought, and sensation, among others. Disclosing an acceptance of the world as it is, never refusing or diminishing life's full and reaching reality, Ludvigson possesses a joyous maturity that dovetails with the youthful urgency to know and understand exhibited in her early poems.

Download or read book What is a Book written by David Kirby and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Is a Book? David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic, and book. He discusses his students, his work, and his practice as a teacher, writer, critic, and reader, and positions his theories and opinions as products of "real" life as much as academic exercise. Among the ideas animating the book are Kirby's beliefs that "devotion is more important than dissection" and "practice is more important than theory." Covering an impressive range of writers--from Emerson, Poe, and Melville to James Dickey, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Susan Montez, and others--Kirby considers the evolution of critical theory from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth and explores the role of criticism in contemporary culture. Drawing from his experience writing poetry and reading to children at a local housing project, he answers two of his four central questions: "What is a reader?" and "What is a writer?" In the largest section of the book, "What Is a Critic?," Kirby demonstrates his passionate engagement with the function of the critic in literary culture and offers both overviews and close examinations of literary theory, book reviewing, and the historical background of criticism from its earliest beginnings. In the final section of the book, he addresses the question "What is a book?" with an examination of the reading preferences of older readers. Kirby's analysis of those responses, along with his own notions of the literary canon, is an insightful excursion into how books are valued. Deeply learned and wonderfully entertaining, What Is a Book? is a lucid look at the whole of literary culture. Kirby makes us think about the books we love and why we love them.

Download or read book Writing America written by Katherine Wood (editor of Writing America.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yellow Shoe Poets written by George Garrett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1964, when Louisiana State University Press published its inaugural book of verse (Miller Williams’s A Circle of Stone), its poetry list has grown exponentially—191 books by 93 poets—into a program that inspires understandable pride in those associated with it. Two collections have won the Pulitzer Prize—The Flying Change (1986), by Henry Taylor, and Alive Together (1996), by Lisel Mueller. Another book by Mueller, The Need to Hold Still (1980), won the National Book Award, while several other LSU titles have been finalists for that distinction, most recently The Fields of Praise (1997), by Marilyn Nelson, and The Vigil (1993), by Margaret Gibson. Dozens more have been recognized for their excellence through a host of various honors. The Press publishes the winner of the annual Walt Whitman Award, given by The Academy of American Poets for a first collection; and in 1996 it launched the Southern Messenger series in collaboration with Dave Smith, bringing two shining works into the fold each year. The appearance of The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren in 1998 meant for the Press the realization of a long, dearly held dream. To mark this thirty-five-year-old tradition as the century and millennium turn, and to offer a sampling of its richness, The Yellow Shoe Poets, a retrospective anthology, was compiled under the editorship of George Garrett, a longtime colleague of the Press and the author of eight poetry volumes. (Say “the LSU poets” real fast with a southern drawl and you get the ridiculously wonderful moniker that poet Elizabeth Seydel Morgan’s young friend innocently mistook for this noble band. It’s an image Brendan Galvin has appropriated to a perfect fit in his poem “Yellow Shoe Poet,” written on behalf of his fellow “yellow shoes” across the years.) All 173 poems are taken from LSU Press books and were selected by the poets themselves, if living. Arranged alphabetically by author, they consist of at least one poem from every poet published by the Press. Goethe’s admonition that “one ought every day at least, to read a good poem” can find no better starting point than in The Yellow Shoe Poets.

Download or read book Writing America written by Keith Donohue and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Writing America, published by the Nat. Endow. for the Arts (NEA), features the work of 50 NEA Literature Fellowship winners -- one from each state -- who paint a vivid portrait of the U.S. in the last decades of the 20th cent. They evoke the magnificent spectrum of people, places, and experiences that define America. Their biographies and personal narratives are stories in and of themselves, revealing each writer's own unique path to fulfill the call to write. The selections, which include a mix of poetry and prose, serve as inspiration to emerging writers and provide a glimpse of the tremendous vitality and diversity of contemporary American literature.

Download or read book Southern Writers written by Joseph M. Flora and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.

Download or read book When Dreams Have Wings written by Shoma Bakre and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features seven outstanding women who have incredible stories of grit, determination, and perseverance in following their passion, doing what they believe in, and realizing their dreams. The authors interactions with them and experiences with some of their organizations inspired her to write this book. The stories of these seven women are simply amazing and can benefit and inspire a lot of women to pursue their passion, follow their dreams, do what they believe in, and never give up despite all odds. The book highlights the dreams, struggles, efforts, and achievements of these highly inspirational women through miniature biographies of each one of them. Hopefully, their stories will help empower many women to shed their fears, inhibitions, hesitations, and inertia and inspire them to venture out where they dreamt to go but dared not go before. A big takeaway from the stories of these admirable women is the message that nothing is impossible if one sets ones heart on a goal. A very inspirational book for all. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the organizations founded by these remarkable women who have inspired the author to write their stories.

Download or read book Southern Poetry Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Facing the Lion written by Kurt Brown and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now writers or would-be writers can read the most provocative and the most useful lectures on life and craft presented at such select conferences as Bread Loaf, the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. In these addresses, Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.

Download or read book The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers written by Tom Mack and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of new essays on additional authors from the late eighteenth century to the present who have contributed to the Palmetto State's distinctive literary heritage. Each profile in this concise reference includes essential biographical facts and critical assessments to place the featured writers in the larger context of South Carolina's literary tradition. The guide comprises 128 entries written by more than sixty-nine literary scholars, and it also highlights the sixty-nine writers inducted thus far into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, which serves as the state's literary hall of fame. Rich in natural beauty and historic complexity, South Carolina has long been a source of inspiration for writers. The talented novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, journalists, historians, and other writers featured here represent the countless individuals who have shared tales and lore of South Carolina. The guide includes a foreword by George Singleton, author of two novels, four short story collections and one nonfiction book, and a 2010 inductee of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

Download or read book On Wings of Dreams a Life Completed written by Barbara Bronson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wings of Dreams, while simultaneously a deeply personal memoir/biography of the writer and her husband, is also a sharing of the universal experience of loss and transformation. The narrative is woven seamlessly into the psychological framework of Carl Jungs writings. Jung wrote of another kind of time, not horizontal time - the time of clocks and calendars that rule our lives. This vertical time is experienced through those shared motifs found in our collective human memory. Carl Jung describes this as the collective unconscious, the intersection where we experience horizontal time and are connected to the Divine in vertical time. Through the un-folding of our dreams we are touched and transformed by this connection. On Wings of Dreams takes the reader through this transformational journey, lighting the way we must all eventually follow. Mrs. Mary Jane Leone, a first reader/editor wrote: I have never experienced dream journals so completely shared and explained by a loving couple with 40 years of marriage. Life and death journeys melded into one! Combining Carl Jungs teachings, with your world wide experience through reading and living, plus your deeply shared religious beliefs is a book completed and ready to be published. It is a treasure not to be lost.

Download or read book Dragon Dreams and Fairy Wings written by Bailey Bradford and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one fairy with a faulty memory meets a snarky dragon, the supernatural world will never be the same. Griff was born a Love fairy, but he never quite fitted in. He didn't want to be part of a harem...at least he didn't think so. What with his wings gone and his memory damaged, he can't be certain of what he felt in the past. All he does know is he wants his wings back. Without them, he's grounded. Blaze is a dragon shifter who tends to stick his foot in his mouth—and some other parts in other places—when he really shouldn't. His brother's the king, and his sister-in-law is scary. Blaze's last screw-up got him grounded, unable to shift into his dragon form. His punishment seems harsh to him, but there's no escaping it. When the Love fairies come to the castle to work on forming an alliance, Blaze has about had it with guarding the horny beings, and he's disappointed that they don't stay small and cute. Swatting at something buzzing him, he almost starts an inter-species war when it turns out to be a fairy on a dragonfly. And from that snarky first meeting between Griff and Blaze, something wonderful, and dangerous, will come...

Download or read book A Mosaic of Wings Dreams of India written by Kimberly Duffy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1885, and all Nora Shipley wants, now that she's graduating from Cornell University as valedictorian of the entomology program, is to follow in her late father's footsteps by getting her master's degree and taking over the scientific journal he started. The only way to uphold her father's legacy is to win a scholarship, so she joins a research expedition in Kodaikanal, India, to prove herself in the field. India isn't what she expects, though, and neither is the rival classmate who accompanies her, Owen Epps. As her preconceptions of India--and of Owen--fall away, she finds both far more captivating than she expected. Forced by the expedition leader to stay at camp and illustrate exotic butterflies the men of the team find without her, Nora befriends Sita, a young Indian girl who has been dedicated to a goddess against her will. In this spellbinding new land, Nora is soon faced with impossible choices--between saving Sita and saving her career, and between what she's always thought she wanted and the man she's come to love.

Download or read book On Wings of Dreams written by Jan Johnson and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong tradition and creativity flourish in the home of Emma Aileen Morgan, a young woman with three sisters who all come of age in the turbulent 1960s. When she moves away from home and becomes a professional dancer, Emmas physical strength and external confidence thrust her forward. But inside she is carrying emotional confusion rooted in childhood experiences she hasnt shared with her sisters. An ill-destined marriage, betrayal, and unexpected losses cause Emma to question why her life has brought her so much adversity. The breaking down of her old life cuts a new path. Answers come through inner guidance when she starts remembering and documenting her nightly dreams. Emma chooses to step into an alternative relationship and further changes her life direction by leaving the dance world to study the healing arts. Revelations and metaphysical experiences catapult her onto a conscious spiritual path that transforms the way she looks at the world. Her self-inquiry and change shake the foundations of her intimate partnership. Jan Johnson sheds a light on the stories we tell, the beliefs we cling to, the power of dreams, and the process of spiritual awakening. In this account of her search for her own truth, Johnson offers tools that have the potential to help readers find their own higher understanding.

Download or read book Dream Angel How Stella Got Her Wings written by Patricia Penny and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella sprout her wings to protect the family she loves all while she is pregnant. She learns how to forgive as well as how to fly; and how to mend broken hearts.