Download or read book GONE SECULAR Other Poems written by James Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poems having to do with everyday life-experiences featuring rhyme and rhythm mostly, rather than free verse
Download or read book Thick and Dazzling Darkness written by Peter O'Leary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues in the work of contemporary writers to illuminate an often obscured but still central spiritual impulse that has shaped the production and imagination of American poetry. O’Leary presents close and comprehensive readings of the modernist, late-modernist, and postmodern poets Robinson Jeffers, Frank Samperi, and Robert Duncan, as well as the contemporary poets Joseph Donahue, Geoffrey Hill, Fanny Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Pam Rehm, and Lissa Wolsak. Examining how these poets drew on a variety of traditions, including Catholicism, Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, and mysticism, the book considers how modern and contemporary poets have articulated the spiritual in their work. O’Leary also argues that an anxiety of misunderstanding exists in the study and writing of poetry between secular and religious impulses and that the religious nature of poets’ works is too often marginalized or misunderstood. Examining the works of a specific poet in each chapter, O’Leary reveals their complexity and offers a defense of the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society.
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 The County Palatine and Other Poems Sacred and Secular Original and Translated written by George Samuel Hodges and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secular Music and Other Poems written by Matt Proser and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secular Music and Other Poems By: Matt Proser Poet Matt Proser finds his poetic identity in nature and locality. He expresses himself through descriptive details of localities such as the Outer Banks in North Carolina, Seattle, Connecticut, or in various places in Argentina. For Proser, an engagement with place is a new engagement with life, and travel is adventure, trial, and rebirth, but underneath these runs the pulse of nature and the instinctive self that guides his language. Proser’s poems are attempts to release the primitive energy hidden within us; energy associated with the pleasure or pain that exists in human relationships such as love, marriage, friendship, or even social being, and their opposite, death. Thus, language is the staff that leads us from the outer world of civilized communication to the intense world of illogical feeling, the residue of our primitive past. In so doing, his poetry at times engages myth, the basis of all art, and music, the voice of the inexpressible. Secular Music encompasses a particular segment of Proser’s life during which he attempted disentangle the world with words that reached into the meaning of the human experiences he was having.
Download or read book Amenophis and Other Poems Sacred and Secular written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amenophis and Other Poems Sacred and Secular Classic Reprint written by Francis T. Palgrave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Amenophis and Other Poems, Sacred and Secular Joseph severn, dying IN 1879 pere LA chaise AN invocation AN aspiration A pause before battle the lost eurydice' the sun-dial TO A child portrait OF A child OF seven l'imrrevu, port}! Gwyn, dinlleyn IN memoriam the happy valley children's lament for baby vere noyo A late spring naturai'z rei'ara'i'rici. 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 Delights of the Muses written by Richard Crashaw and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry 1025 1081 written by Floris Bernard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, critically reconsidering modern assumptions about Byzantine poetry, and focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society. By providing a detailed account of the various media through which poetry was presented to its readers, and by tracing the initial circulation of poems, this volume takes an interest in the Byzantine reader and his/her reading habits and strategies, allowing aspects of performance and visual representation, rarely addressed, to come to the fore. It also examines the social interests that motivated the composition of poetry, establishing a connection with the extraordinary social mobility of the time. Self-representative strategies are analyzed against the background of an unstable elite struggling to find moral justification, which allows the study to raise the question of patronage, examine the discourse used by poets to secure material rewards, and explain the social dynamics of dedicatory epigrams. Finally, gift exchange is explored as a medium that underlines the value of poetry and confirms the exclusive nature of intellectual friendship.
Download or read book The Eye of the Aspen and Other Bad Poems written by Jay Eacker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eye of the Aspen If you look at the bark Of an aspen tree Where a limb has been lost An eye you will see. The eye may not see But, if it could, The tree would be made Of more than just wood ... Jay Eacker In a refreshing collection of poetry that intertwines humor with poignancy, Jay Eacker shares fifty or more bad poems that reflect on the world through his eyes. Eackers poetry explores not only relatable subjects such as gardening, nature, sports, love, aging, and life, but also the process of writing doggerel (bad verse). Helped by his wry sense of humor, Eacker makes fun of the annual ritual of sprinkling moneyalso known as flower seedson the ground every spring; rowing a boat that goes nowhere; and indulging in the joy of the nap. Also included are touching poems that reflect on days of fishing with his father, brotherly and young love, and the dreams of youth. In this collection of fifty or more bad poems, a college professor reflects on life, love, and why Warren Buffett is a guy with a lot of fish to fry.
Download or read book Very Bad Poetry written by Kathryn Petras and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
Download or read book The Poetry of Religion written by Charles Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad red blue blue Poetry other compulsory unpaid labors written by Mikhail Mavrotheris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a work of This", the poet says. This is the fourth book of poetry from Greek poet and writer based in Glasgow, Mikhail Mavrotheris. Colorful poetry full of images, sometimes in the traditional form and most of the times in a more experimental style. It's a book to enjoy and play along with it as the lines and the words expand from page to page. The structure of the book is also associated with the poems in the book. The poetry of the book is based on the concept of "This", a concept the author and his fellows developed one night they were bored and tired-"This" is a new way to put down on paper voice and style and creating the structure of a poem, as he explained. "This" and only "This" because contemporary poetry is boring; This is not.
Download or read book The story of st Stephen and other poems written by John Collett (poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Boy Poetry written by GPF BX and published by GPF BX. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complicated heart of a bad boy pulled in so many directions: the cost of his lifestyle and the cost of his love. He gets a lot wrong but never his heart. All he has is his loyalty, his word, and his love. To him: she's worth all the consequences, the bittersweet, and righting a path that has been wayward for a long time. These 102 poems reveals a bad boy's complicated feelings and his heart. This book contains some explicit language. Keywords: love and loss, letting go, poetry poems about loss, poetry about heartbreak broken heart, american love loss poems poetry, sad love poems poetry, emotional personal heartfelt poetry, complicated feelings poetry, mixed feelings poetry, complicated emotions poetry, mixed emotions poetry, love lost poetry, poetry on loss, poems on loss, prose on loss, prose about loss, poetry about love, poems about love, prose about love, love hate poetry, lust erotic poetry, beautiful love and loss poetry, beautiful love lost poetry, former love poetry, passionate poetry, bittersweet heartfelt poetry poems prose, love gone wrong, a lot of love and loss poetry,
Download or read book Secular Poems written by Henry Vaughan and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Adultolescence written by Gabbie Hanna and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice with a magical ability to connect through alienation, cut to the profound with internet slang, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first because she gets you.
