Download or read book Introspection and Contemporary Poetry written by Alan Bacher Williamson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experiment--from the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montage--like methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.
Download or read book The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Poetry written by Norman Finkelstein and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition includes all of the material from the first -- in-depth analyses of the work of such poets as George Oppen, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, and William Bronk -- as well as a new Preface, and a lengthy chapter on the younger language poets.
Download or read book Contemporary Poetry written by Deepak Chaswal (Editor) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary poetry (Volume 2) presents poems of 60 representative poets around the globe. These poems are the intellectual mirror of our time.INDEXA.J. Huffman I Dream in Silence 1Adrienne Wolfert Lost Words 2Allison Grayhurst With the purity of a single intention 3Andrew M. Bowen PICKING FLOWERS 4Andrew Scott Different Embrace 5Austin Alexis Craving 6ayo ayoola-amale WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? 7Bo Lanier Nothing Is Set In Stone 8Byron Beynon CARAVANSERAI 9Candice James Inversion 10Carol Smallwood Passage of Corn Fields 11-12Charles F. Thielman Oven 13Claire T. Field Fire and Icicles 14Dan Sklar HOW YOU READ 15Debra Ayis NO HERO 16Dianalee Velie BARS, STARS, & CARS 17Edith Speers Voices in the Air 18-19FERN G. Z. CARR I Touch a Singing Ghost 20G David Schwartz The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword 21Gary Pacernick SAUSALITO HARBOR 22Gonzalinho da Costa Our lives together... 23Hadaa Sendoo In the woods 24Heather Salter Dromm In Autumn, I Wait 25Howard Winn TALKING TO HAWKS 26Ingrid Gjelsvik between spring and neap tide 27Iqra Rehman Mirrors and Masks 28Ivy Lai Chun Chun CITY 29James Crickard A Glance 30-31Jim Newcombe WINTER SERENADE 32Joan McNerney Winter in New England 33Katie Johantges Sepia Colors 34Laura J. Minning i n t r o s p e c t i o n 35Leslie Marie In the Fast Lane 36Linda M. Crate misheard and misunderstood 37Lisa Zaran Gem 38Madeline Tiger SUN--DAY 39-40Marianne Lyon Roads 41Marianne Szlyk Grace Under Pressure 42-43Mark Hierholzer Trust me... 44Marsha Mathews Turning 35 45Marya Lenzi Trying Tai Chi 46Michael Lee Johnson Poem of Sinners and Saints 47Michelle Villanueva a parable for midday 48Miriam Sagan all courtyards are sad... 49 Hugh Fox Mozart 50Reid Kincaid Counting 51Rizvana Parveen Matrimony 52Sandra Kolankiewicz Obituary Page 53Sarah Brown Weitzman THE SEA 54Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi Double Exposure 55Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Adoration of the Magi 56Stephen Jones Fall 2014 57Stephen McQuiggan SLOWLY UNSPOOLING ALONE 58Susan Dale A Love Poem 59Sylvia Riojas Vaughn My Muse 60TATJANA DEBELJACKI JAPANESE LANTERN 61Teresa Podemska-Abt in the care of the night 62-63Valentina Cano The Crafts 64Wendy Barker THE SHADOW 65Yannis A. Phillis SYNONYMS 66 Contributors' List 67-79
Download or read book Introspection and Engagement in Propertius written by Jonathan Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Propertius' third book re-invents Latin love-elegy for the reality of Rome's new imperial age.
Download or read book The Light and Other Collected Poems written by Janet Scott McDaniel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LIGHT AND OTHER COLLECTED POEMS- Ms. McDaniel's first book of poetry- reflects the wide range of human emotions: love and loss in all its manifestations, redemption and discovery, ultimate joy and the depths of introspection. The reader is invited behind closed doors to witness the passions and the gut-wrenching spirit of that which is a personal and protected space. Ms. McDaniel's poems weave a rich tapestry, clear and eloquent, of life in all its wonder and challenge. Photographs and background stories make this an even more intimate journey as the voice of the poet emerges from conflict and struggle stronger than ever. Many of the pieces, while profoundly moving to any reader, are particularly empowering to women. Her poems strike the heart and reach into the soul, charting a unique new path into contemporary poetry. THE LIGHT leaves us touched by the mastery of the words and the emotions they invoke.
Download or read book Narcissus Sous Rature written by Jody Norton and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Narcissus Sous Rature, Jody Norton argues that Contemporary American poetry's characteristic problematic is the subject's contestation of hir discursive condition. While self-comprehension is a central, recurrent concern in post-literate poetry, most poetries in English since the Enlightenment have conceived their lyric subjects in accordance with the foundational Western philosophical assumption of the rationality of being. However, after Freud, Heisenberg, Saussure, Derrida, and Lacan, conceptions of the lyric "I" as representative of a more or less permanent, self-conscious, and self-possessed personality, inhabiting an ontologically dependable natural and historical world in a consistent way are no longer credible." "The problems of how to conceptualize the psycho-linguistic structuration of the male (putatively masculine) subject and hir relation to hir cultural environment, and of how to represent both the subject and hir relations in a medium - language - that is complexly involved in the construction of both the subject and hir representation (and, in a certain sense, of the subject as representation) emerge, for Contemporary poets, out of an historic moment particularly strongly marked by theoretical developments in extra-literary fields. Norton asserts that the lyric speaker in Contemporary American poetry cannot be understood unless the explicit and implicit dialogic relations between religious, philosophical, psychological, linguistic, aesthetic, critical and poetic texts are made central to the interpretive project."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book In Praise of Falling written by Cheryl Dumesnil and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century’s prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.
Download or read book Contemporary Poetry written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 19?? with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Self Poem written by Leonard M. Trawick and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World, Self, Poem collects the best of the essays submitted by poets and scholars from around the U.S. and Canada, and beyond, for presentation at the "Jubilation of Poets" festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in October 1986. In this collection, eighteen critics consider the works of a number of important postmodern poets and, using various approaches, confront some of the central problems posed by the poetry of the past 25 years. John Ashbery, Wendell Berry, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Lousie Gluck, Adrienna Rich, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern, and William Stafford are among the poets who receive detailed attention in these essays. The questions addressed include political involvement and noninvolvement, the theme of nuclear annihilation, the poet's use and misuse of history, poetry workshops in Central America; the "I" in contemporary poetry; the pastoral vein in contemporary poetry; the nature and implications of concrete and "found" poetry; analogies of poetry and music.
Download or read book Looking Glass Self written by Sivaranjani V. and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Every whisper that escapes the lips Is accompanied with a fear that runs all over.’ What started out as a piece written for a recitation spurred into a series of poems; a medium of expressing opinions and emotions. Looking Glass Self is a collection of 40 poems that hopes to instil a burning questioning in its readers. It questions existing beliefs and ideals and is a journey of introspection; each step undertaken with the willingness to muddy the waters. It speaks of reading between the lines and sullying already murky paths. After all, beauty is only skin deep. ‘They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, However, I believe that thought is the true overlord.’
Download or read book A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry written by Neil Roberts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Download or read book Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyzes the presence and function of traces of religious narratives in contemporary western culture, from the perspective of cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of narrative and art.
Download or read book John Ashbery and English Poetry written by Ben Hickman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets. Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. His study focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the historical present. He demonstrates that Ashbery's generosity as a writer is closely tied to his generosity, inattention and situatedness as a reader.
Download or read book From Modern to Contemporary written by James E. Breslin and published by . This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Songs We Know Best written by Karin Roffman and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of an American master The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the winner of nearly every major American literary award—reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery’s poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City—a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O’Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning. Ashbery has a reputation for being enigmatic and playfully elusive, but Roffman’s biography reveals his deft mining of his early life for the flint and tinder from which his provocative later poems grew, producing a body of work that he calls “the experience of experience,” an intertwining of life and art in extraordinarily intimate ways.
Download or read book Poems written by Cora C. Bass and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of poems written by Cora C. Bass. More than two dozen poems are featured inside, with some of them being 'The March of Time', 'Hope-On-River', 'Dead on the Field of Battle', 'Memorial Poem', and 'The Missing Path'.
Download or read book Walks in the World written by Roger Gilbert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life and the aesthetic closure of an artwork than that of a walk. Examining the walk poem, Roger Gilbert contends that at its heart is the "desire to keep what we have lived." What is the appeal of the walk poem for modern American poets? According to Gilbert, it provides a ready-made frame within which to explore the full range of individual consciousness as it responds to and reflects on the world immediately at hand. The unstructured, plotless character of the walk allows poets to move freely from place to place, image to image, thought to thought. Suggesting that the walk poem strikes a compromise between the American obsession with process or movement and more traditionally mimetic concerns, Gilbert shows how it enables the poet to apprehend the world as horizon rather than landscape. Through perceptive and extended analyses of walk poems by Frost, Stevens, Williams, Roethke, Bishop, O'Hara, Snyder, Ammons, and Ashbery, he uncovers a spectrum of representational strategies for transforming passing experiences into the more lasting substance of poetry. Walks in the World addresses anyone who takes poetry seriously. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
