Download or read book In Poetry Prose and Song written by Mitchell Alexander Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three administrations at the helm steered the American lives. Clinton saw the American individual needing two jobs. W. Bush refused to save one American home as he put more and more Americans into uniforms abroad. Obama opened the floodgates to illegal and undocumented immigrants. Consequently, of Americas 120 million citizens, 90 million (ages sixteen and older) fell jobless. Ninety million were not in the labor force, as stated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Department of Labor). These Americans were virtually locked out of the workforce. Slowly were their needs ignored as Americans. Congress and Court offered no hope. The Americans became weathered, and the individual citizen found himself all but lost in a sea of 180 million immigrants. Thus, this immigrant number has overgrown the American population. Since 2013, the weathered American is left to do the best he can with what little he has. In In Poetry, Prose and Song, the forgotten US individual seeks a slice of the American pie.
Download or read book Revolution Song written by Morgan/Rae Hoog/Growing Field Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry and Prose of the Tang and Song written by and published by Beijing : Chinese Literature Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lyrics Prose written by Ric Ocasek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the New Wave music scene of the late ‘70s, The Cars catapulted to success with the very first single—“Just What I Needed”—off of their debut album. Led by Ric Ocasek, the lead vocalist (along with Benjamin Orr), rhythm guitarist, and songwriter, The Cars became one of the most successful bands of the ‘80s—and their songs are just as beloved by fans today. Ocasek himself has had an illustrious career beyond The Cars, from writing and performing solo work, publishing poetry in Granta and elsewhere, and producing albums by musical artists like Weezer, Hole, Guided By Voices, and Jonathan Richman. In Lyrics & Prose, Ocasek collects his lyrics together for the first time—and included throughout are Ocasek’s early handwritten notes and set lists, doodles and all. His work spans from The Cars’ self titled debut album in 1978 to Move Like This, released in 2011, as well as Ocasek’s six solo albums. This is not merely a songbook for fans of The Cars, however: Ocasek is a versatile and affecting poet as well as songwriter, and his original verses—interspersed with album artwork and more than twenty-five beautiful black and white photographs—round out this beguiling book.
Download or read book Collected Prose Poems the Condition Song Lyrics and Poems about Music written by Bill Knott and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A double chapbook, priced the lowest Amazon allows me to set it at (my "profit" is zero).
Download or read book Three Poems written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem “The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,” John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, “Three Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered.” The effect of these prose poems is at once deeply familiar and startlingly new, something like encountering a collage made of lines clipped from every page of a beloved book—or, as Ashbery has also said of this work, like flipping through television channels and hearing an unwritten, unscriptable story told through unexpected combinations of voices, settings, and scenes. In Three Poems, Ashbery reframes prose poetry as an experience that invites the reader in through an infinite multitude of doorways, and reveals a common language made uncommonly real.
Download or read book Poetic Song Verse written by Mike Mattison and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music from entertainment to art-that-entertains. Musician Mike Mattison and literary historian Ernest Suarez synthesize a wide range of writing about blues and rock—biographies, histories, articles in popular magazines, personal reminiscences, and a selective smattering of academic studies—to examine the development of a relatively new literary genre dubbed by the authors as “poetic song verse.” They argue that poetic song verse was nurtured in the fifties and early sixties by the blues and in Beat coffee houses, and matured in the mid-to-late sixties in the art of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gil Scott-Heron, Van Morrison, and others who used voice, instrumentation, arrangement, and production to foreground semantically textured, often allusive, and evocative lyrics that resembled and engaged poetry. Among the questions asked in Poetic Song Verse are: What, exactly, is this new genre? What were its origins? And how has it developed? How do we study and assess it? To answer these questions, Mattison and Suarez engage in an extended discussion of the roots of the relationship between blues-based music and poetry and address how it developed into a distinct literary genre. Unlocking the combination of richly textured lyrics wedded to recorded music reveals a dynamism at the core of poetic song verse that can often go unrealized in what often has been considered merely popular entertainment. This volume balances historical details and analysis of particular songs with accessibility to create a lively, intelligent, and cohesive narrative that provides scholars, teachers, students, music influencers, and devoted fans with an overarching perspective on the poetic power and blues roots of this new literary genre.
Download or read book Spring and All written by William Carlos Williams and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between language and the world it describes. Part essay, part poem, Spring and All is a landmark of American literature from a poet whose daring search for the outer limits of life both redefined and expanded the meaning of language itself. “There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here.” In Spring and All, Williams identifies the incomprehensible nature of consciousness as the single most important subject of poetry. Accused of being “heartless” and “cruel,” of producing “positively repellant” works of art in order to “make fun of humanity,” Williams doesn’t so much defend himself as dig in his heels. His poetry is addressed “[t]o the imagination” itself; it seeks to break down the “the barrier between sense and the vaporous fringe which distracts the attention from its agonized approaches to the moment.” When he states that “so much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow,” he refers to the need to understand the nature of language, which keeps us in touch with the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Time for Nothing written by Kevin Trent Boswell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains two parts. The first is a general compendium of poetry and prose. The second section is the complete body of song lyrics by Kevin Trent Boswell (aka Magus). That's complete as of the publication date; new work comes out regularly. This book doesn't require much explanation. There was a need to gather all the lyrics in one place, and this text accomplishes that goal. Over sixty original songs are presehere, pulling from solo work and various bands throughout the years. The poetry section is mainly the newest material, everything written since the publication of the previous eight collections. There is no lengthy introduction or a specific theme to this mixed bag (outside the repertory of music lyrics). The goal is simple: to get everything out there while there is still a little time. The world is staring at multiple looming crises of war, refugees, economic bubbles, humanitarian dilemmas, and environmental catastrophes. We live in a time when one must steel themselves before checking the daily news. It feels as if rarely a day goes by without some new firestorm is occurring, whether figuratively or literally. Therefore, it is more important than ever to remember what is good in this life. This author believes that the highest, best, and most noble elements of this earthly existence are love and art. Of all the things that a person might choose to do these days, all the ways one may spend their time, love, and art should rank at the top of the list. Love on the people you love; make sure there is no lingering doubt in their minds. Love them and love them harder than ever before. That should be priority number one. Outside of this, take copious amounts of time to bask in the luxury of art. Read poetry and listen to music. Look at art; make art, if so inclined. Fill your proverbial gas tank with beauty and wonder. Humanity appears hellbent upon annihilating itself and everything else upon the planet. Considering that plausible (perhaps even guaranteed) potentiality, you will be wise to spend your time in the quiet contemplation of wonderful, beautiful things, such as poetry, music, and other art forms. Soak up all the good things you can. There may be precious little time for anything else.
Download or read book Vanishing Acts written by Brian Barker and published by Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vanishing Acts, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry's great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. With a dark whimsicality, Barker explores such topics as extinction, power, class, the consequences of tyranny and war, and the ongoing destruction of the environment in the name of progress. A linked sequence of poems forms the book's backbone, with an oracular voice from the future heralding the return--or hoped for return--of common animals. Part lyrical odes, part creation myths, part excerpts from a bizarre guide for naturalists, these poems mix fact and fiction, science and fable to create an unsettling vision of a dystopian world stricken by extinction, one where the world's last catfish sleeps "in the shadow of a hydroelectric dam." The imaginative language and bizarre stories of these poems are perfectly suited to capture a world that no longer makes sense: a man who wears a toupee to hide an injury inflicted by secret police, a group of villagers who make a bad bargain with a land agent. The poems in Vanishing Acts straddle the comic and the tragic. They are by turns funny and haunting and ripe with scathing satire. They draw on the genres of speculative and science fiction as much as poetic traditions, and speak to the precarious state of man and the natural world in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Hermit written by Lucy Ives and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts concerning art and experience by layering in one volume, the poet's fragments of dreams, lists, games, conversations, poems, and excerpts from notebooks, as a way of looking into the writing practice.
Download or read book Pearls of Thought in Poem and Song written by Annie Randall White and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nothing in Particular Everything in General written by Cindy Daniels and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing In Particular, Everything In General" is a lifetime collection of poems, prose, spiritual writings, gospel and country song lyrics that are peppered with addiction, alcoholism, depression, love, relationships, dedications, gratitude, and spirituality. Some of these writings have won Literary Awards. It is basically a book layered with writings about living life on life's terms, and how that has been accomplished amidst a numerous amount of highs and lows that the author has experienced throughout her life. She touches on the solution, which was given to her and is available to anyone; an answer to some of the problems she has faced with alcoholism, depression and the seemingly unending misery of these common maladies. CINDY DANIELS holds an Associates Degree in Commercial Advertising and Graphic Design. She currently resides In Smithfield, North Carolina, where she has lived for the past 25 years. She has two children. Several of her poems have won Literary Awards and have been published on the Internet. Cindy currently writes a weekly column called "Cooking wiht Cindy" for the Robeson Journal in Lumberton, North Carolina. She hand paints hand carved Mahogany items shipped in from Indonesia for a company that is located on the east side of I-95 between exits 14 and 17, in Lumberton, North Carolina. Her hobbies include cooking, gardening, ceramics and reading. You can visit her website, where her art work is available, at: www.cindywdaniels.com.
Download or read book Beautiful Gems of Thought and Sentiment written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decoded Enhanced Edition written by Jay-Z and published by Random House Group. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook includes: • Over 30 minutes of never-before-seen video* interviews with Jay-Z discussing the back-story and inspiration for his songs • Two bonus videos*: “Rap is Poetry” and “The Evolution of My Style” • The full text of the book with illustrations and photographs *Video may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. Expanded edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded. Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.
Download or read book Hebrew Melodies written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems Prose Songs written by Ishkur Poet and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems, prose and songs is a poetic compilation that contains mainly verse content, although it dares with some song lyrics and a touch of prose.
