Download or read book The Weight of Snow written by Sharon Lask Munson and published by Blue Light Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Lask Munson's poems travel through space, tunnel through time, and cross generations. Whether free verse, prose poem, haiku or haibun, they carry, lean on and converse with each other in this exquisite volume of poetry. Personal history, family traditions, food, the natural world, pop culture, all blend into a sumptuous word stew. Reality is often heightened. Snow becomes more than snow. A collection of watches becomes an emblem of time. A dessert pastry becomes more than a dessert, 'no two... cut from the same dough.' She shows us that life can be painted with marvelous colors, sensuous images, and at 'end of day' be 'strewn with possibilities. Sharon Lask Munson was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She taught school in England, Germany, Okinawa, and Puerto Rico before driving to Anchorage, Alaska and staying for the next twenty years. She is a retired teacher, poet, coffee addict, old movie enthusiast, lover of road trips -- with many published poems, two chapbooks, and one full-length book of poetry. She now lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon. She says many things motivate her to write: a mood, a memory, the smell of cooking, burning leaves, a windy day, rain, fog, something observed or overheard -- and of course, imagination. She has a pin that says, "I Make Things Up.
Download or read book Stillness Settles Down the Lane written by Sharon Lask Munson and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscence of Mount Erin Convent and High School, Wagga Wagga
Download or read book German Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present written by Susan L. Cocalis and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Italian volumes represent their respective countries; the Hispanic volume includes poems from the many Spanish-speaking nations; and the Hebrew volume encompasses writing in Hebrew from around the world. The poems are presented in their original languages alongside English translations. Each volume includes an introduction, placing the poetry in historical and aesthetic perspective, and full biographical and bibliographical notes on the poets.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Galway Kinnell s Another Night in the Ruins written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Galway Kinnell's "Another Night in the Ruins," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Spoken Word written by Jacob Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of functions and assumed an important place in the American home. In this book, Jacob Smith surveys a diverse range of spoken word genres—including readings of classic works of literature and drama, comedy albums, children’s records, home therapy kits, even erotica—to illuminate this often overlooked aspect of the postwar entertainment industry and American culture. A viable alternative to mainstream broadcasting, records gave their listeners control over what they could hear at home. Smith shows how the savvy industry used spoken word records to develop markets for children, African Americans, women, and others not well served by radio and television.
Download or read book Letters to Thomas Lask of the New York Times written by Richard Eberhart and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters relating to the Times' request to republish Eberhart's poem From suite in prison.
Download or read book The Art of Confession written by Christopher Grobe and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --
Download or read book Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context 4 volumes written by Linda De Roche and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 2067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dharma Lion written by Michael Schumacher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs.
Download or read book John Berryman and Robert Giroux written by Patrick Samway S.J. and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914–2008), editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace and Company and later of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and John Berryman (1914–1972), Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and Shakespearean scholar who also received a National Book Award and a Bollingen Prize for Poetry. From their first meeting as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the early 1930s, Giroux and Berryman became lifelong friends and publishing partners. Patrick Samway received unprecedented access to Giroux’s letters and essays. By incorporating either sections or whole letters of the correspondence between Berryman and Giroux into this book, Samway makes available for the first time a historical account of their relationship, including revealing portraits of their personal lives. As Giroux edited over a dozen books by Berryman, his letters to the poet were often filled with editorial details and pertinent observations, emanating from his genuine affection for his friend, whose talent he never doubted, even as Berryman endured prolonged periods of hospitalization due to his alcoholism. Giroux gave Berryman the greatest gift he could: sustained encouragement to continue writing without trying to manipulate or discourage him in any way. But Giroux also had a deep-seated secret desire to surpass the essays written about Shakespeare by Berryman, as well as the book on Shakespeare written by their mutual professor Mark Van Doren. Giroux’s volume, The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, was finally published in 1982. Samway’s fascinating account of a gifted but troubled poet and his devoted yet conflicted editor will interest fans of Berryman and all readers and students of American poetry.
Download or read book The Quizzical Chair written by Diane Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell written by Howard Nelson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of critical responses to the work of poet Galway Kinnell
Download or read book Shy of the Squirrel s Foot written by Andy Martrich and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1929–2008) in 1951. Jargon quickly gained a reputation as the home of the poetic and literary avant-garde, including noted midcentury poets like Charles Olson and Lorine Niedecker. Williams himself looms large in this story as the publisher at Jargon until his death, making this book as much about his life and work as the press he founded, which today operates through the Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, North Carolina. Andy Martrich authors this story in a manner befitting Jargon's ethos of literary experimentation by focusing on the books the Society cataloged but never published. While it's not uncommon for a small press to plan for books that don't make it to publication, Martrich argues that Jargon's incessant financial difficulties, coupled with Williams's impressive network, makes its trail of unfinished projects unique and an ideal way to chronicle the press itself. Using archival research, interviews with volunteers at Jargon, and more, Martrich gives readers not only an intimate look into a Southern press and publisher but also an important history of modern and experimental literature in twentieth-century America. Shy of the Squirrel's Foot includes an epilogue by Anne Midgette, an afterword by Nicole Raziya Fong, and Jargon's complete annotated bibliography, which details every book the press published, compiled in one place for the first time.
Download or read book Th at Certain Blue written by Sharon Lask Munson and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To an Anchorage schoolyard invaded by a bull moose. Toa spot at Lord Rothschild¿s tea table. To the uncharted,unfathomable territory of an aging mother¿s dementia.To the end of a Chrysler assembly line in Detroit.With lively wit and an eye for striking imagery, SharonLask Munson takes us all over this world and throughgenerations of family history and lore. Her poems inviteus into both macrocosm and microcosm¿that place inwhich ¿Earth rotates on its axis/ and a vine maple dropsits last red leaf.¿ ¿Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet LaureateSharon Lask Munson¿s fi rst full-length book, Th at Certain Blue, is charmingand tender. Munson¿s unpretentious free verse invites the reader to engagewith her narratives of everyday life. Details about gypsy moths, a kiss on thepalm, Pearl Harbor, begin in the kitchen and ultimately plant us in Detroit(where she grew up), Alaska (where she taught school and fell in love), andOregon (where she lives now). Much like Marge Piercy, her poems are tingedwith references to her Jewish heritage. One cannot help but feel the truthsbehind her lines.¿Laura LeHew, Editor, Uttered Chaos This is poetry about civilization: ¿It all begins in the kitchen¿ and is sustainedby a poet¿s clear memory and cameo-like vignettes of family, travel, and homesin Detroit, Alaska and Oregon. That Certain Blue ¿brings a wistfulness¿ forthings past and passing. The poet cherishes simple pleasures, the here andnow of a full moon or the first day at school. The ¿Six Years¿ of her mother¿sAlzheimer¿s is the worst fate: memory loss, loss of recognition and tradition,loss of the knack her daughter has of telling things exactly as they are.¿Erik Muller, Editor, Traprock Books¿As weightless as the one thin strand of hair/drifts toward first light,¿ writesSharon Lask Munson, and with those words she could be describing thepoems in That Certain Blue, poems which seem to fl oat above the page as theycarry us effortlessly from the 1950¿s Detroit to Alaska¿s Kenai, from a younggirl playing poker on Joey Silver¿s porch to an adult daughter preparing forher ailing mother one last Spanish omelet. Munson is a certain navigatoracross this landscape of a well-wrought life: ¿traveling the highway, visibilityclear/throttle up.¿¿Nancy Carol Moody, Poet, Photograph With GirlsAbout the AuthorSharon Lask Munson grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She attendedMichigan State University and Wayne State University. She taught forthe Department of Defense Schools in England, Germany, Okinawa, andPuerto Rico. After overseas teaching, Sharon drove her blue Oldsmobileup the Alcan Highway to Anchorage, Alaska where she put down newroots, taught school, married, and lived for the next twenty years. She isnow retired and lives with her husband, Keith, in Eugene, Oregon. Shehas poems in Verseweavers, Windfall, Earth¿s Daughters, Drash: NorthwestMosiac, Th e Quizzical Chair, Goose River Anthology, Popshot, Punkin HouseDigest, and many other literary journals and anthologies. Her chapbook,Stillness Settles Down the Lane was published in summer 2010 by UtterredChaos Press. That Certain Blue is her first full-length book of poems.
Download or read book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe Russia and Eurasia written by Mary Zirin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 2898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Download or read book Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems written by Joe Moffett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a literary critic’s perspective, Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems borrows insights from Religious Studies and critical theory to examine the role of spirituality in contemporary poetry, specifically the genre of the long poem. Descending from Whitman’s Song of Myself, the long poem is often considered the American twentieth-century equivalent of the epic poem, but unlike the epic, it carries few generic expectations aside from the fact that it simply must be long. This makes the form particularly pliable as a tool for spiritual inquiry. The period following World War II is often described as a secular age, but spirituality continued as a concern for poets, as evidenced by this study. These writers look beyond conventional faith systems and instead seek individual paths of understanding; they engage in mysticism, in other words. With chapters on H.D. and Brenda Hillman, Robert Duncan, James Merrill, Charles Wright, and Galway Kinnell and Gary Snyder, this study demonstrates how these poets engage the culture of consumption in the postwar years at the same time they search for opportunities for transcendence. Not content to throw over the earthly in favor of the otherworldly, these poets reject the familiar binary of the worldly and metaphysical to produce distinctive paths of spiritual understanding that fuel what Wright calls a “contemplation of the divine.”
