Download or read book Moondog Verse written by David Winans and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former student once wrote to Dave Winans, "Thanks for understanding that we're kids and yet not treating us like we are." With that sentiment in mind, Winans wrote Moondog Verse or what he refers to as one independent school teacher's manifesto and manual for teaching creative writing to middle schoolers. While offering advice on how to approach and treat students with respect, Moondog Verse provides lessons and exercises for creative writing assignments as well as thoughts and observations on how to excite young people about the writing process. Emphasizing the use of good models, relevant topics, and personal experience as resource, Moondog Verse encourages teachers to set high standards while allowing students the opportunity to express their ideas and feelings about themselves and the world around them.
Download or read book Rock My Soul written by Stephen G. Metzger and published by Stansbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 28, 2015, retired California State University, Chico librarian Jim Dwyer was found unconscious on the floor of the men’s room in a mini-mart outside Sacramento, apparently on his way home from the Bay Area opening night of the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well tour. He died that evening in a nearby hospital. A nationally recognized literary scholar, Jim had dubbed his alter ego the Rev. Junkyard Moondog, reading beat-like poetry at open mics, joining local bands on stage, marching for peace and justice, working to save endangered species, and generally raising his freak flag high. A year after Jim’s death, his friend and colleague Steve Metzger bought Jim’s tiny run-down cottage from Jim’s brother Billy, whose only condition was that Metzger not remove Jim’s giant peace sign—fashioned of yellow and white freeway-lane divider dots—from the sloping street-facing roof of the house. Metzger, adjusting to recent personal changes of his own, set about restoring the cottage. He eventually christened it the Blue Peace House. Part biography, part memoir, Rock My Soul: A Poet’s Heart, a Brokedown Palace, and a Final Fare-Thee-Well examines Jim’s complicated life, drawing on extensive interviews with Jim’s neighbors, friends and colleagues. The book also highlights turning points in Metzger’s 40-year freelance writing career, along the way offering a look at Chico history, including the filming of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Woody Guthrie’s little-known summer in Chico, the WWII Chico Army Air Field, and the beginnings of the Chico Peace and Justice Center. Facebook posts from Jim’s/Moondog’s friends after they learn of his death shed further light on the life of this eccentric scholar/artist.
Download or read book Key Zest written by Harmony Korine and published by Nieves. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Zest arises from Harmony Korine's 2019 film The Beach Bum, which follows the misadventures of a poet named Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a "rebellious burnout who only knows how to live life by his own rules." Set in Key West, Florida, and also starring Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Martin Lawrence and Jonah Hill, the movie tracks Moondog's comical mishaps and assignations, culminating in his unlikely fame after the publication of his memoirs, which are universally lauded and win him a Pulitzer Prize. Key Zest is a collection of Moondog's poems. Hilarious, preposterous and ribald, it includes such gems as "Alright, sunrise. / Let's get this party started." and "We can do whatever we want or nothing at all. / Eh, civilization." Harmony Korine writes, "Moondog is the greatest poet in the history of Key West. I read a few of these pages and loved every minute of it."
Download or read book Moondog the Viking of 6th Avenue written by Robert M. Scotto and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moondog's is one of the most improbable stories of the 20th century: a blind homeless man who became New York City's most famous eccentric and who rose to become an internationally respected composer, performer and conductor. A huge influence on Philip Glass, along with many other notable modern musicians and composers, Moondog lived a double life as both a viking-garbed street musician and as an internationally-feted musical maestro.
Download or read book Paradiso written by Dante and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse translation with facing-page Italian combines maximum fidelity to Dante's text with the artistry necessary to reflect the original's virtuosity. They have produced the clearest, most accurate, and most readable translation of the three books of The Divine Comedy, with unsurpassable footnotes and introductions, likely to be a touchstone for generations to come.
Download or read book Purgatorio written by Dante and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and reasearch. In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature.
Download or read book Gathering of the Tribe written by Mark Goodall and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating overview of music's intriguing and enduring relationship with the dark side. Much of the music discussed in Gathering Of The Tribe deals with the special power of sound and tone. Frank Zappa may have said that ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ but this book explains how music can - or for a moment believed it could - move mountains. It is a matter of record that over the centuries composers and musicians have been consistently inspired by the occult. Few music lovers can fail to have been intrigued by the rumours of magick and mysticism that surround many of their favourite albums. In chapters that cover the different musical styles, from jazz through folk, rock, pop, noise and experimental forms, Gathering Of The Tribe sketches a fascinating overview of this provocative and enduring relationship with heavy conscious creation, offering en route a guide to the ultimate occult record collection, ranging from the Beatles to the Stones, Led Zeppelin to Nick Cave, Captain Beefheart to the Wu Tang Clan, Debussy to Throbbing Gristle, Charles Manson, Barbara the Gray Witch, Coven and more.
Download or read book Index of American Periodical Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 254 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 The Inferno written by Dante and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first volume of Dante’s epic poem, the Divine Comedy. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible introduction and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and research. The Hollander translation is the new standard in English of this essential work of world literature.
Download or read book Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge written by Ginny Lowe Connors and published by Grayson Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100 contemporary American poets write about marriage in this anthology. Along with poems for weddings and anniversaries, there are reflections on nearly every aspect of married life.
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Download or read book Remember Me As Loving You written by Kimberly Childs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this colorful memoir, Kimberly Childs quests for the love and home her glamorous, alcoholic mother is unable to provide. Jeanne Gibson is a mountain woman with unusual charisma—a real-life Holly GoLightly—who marries Broadway’s meanest producer, David Merrick, and proceeds to self-destruct. Bounced from place to place, Childs grows up in Lady Eden’s English boarding school, London’s prestigious Savoy Hotel, a Kentucky farm with an outhouse, a Manhattan private girls’ school, and amidst Broadway’s theaters. Seeking connection on the streets and in the communes of 1960s San Francisco, Childs discovers serenity through meditation and the Dances of Universal Peace. Aspiring for transformation, she finds home in an Indian Guru’s ashram—then realizes she must trust her own instincts and courageously walks away. A touching story of compassion and forgiveness, Remember Me As Loving You is a compelling read that will be an inspiration to anyone who has found themselves betrayed by the people they love.
Download or read book Diane Arbus written by Patricia Bosworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A spellbinding portrait” of the tumultuous life and artistic career of one of the most creative photographers of the 1960s (New York magazine). Diane Arbus became famous for her intimate and unconventional portraits of twins, dwarfs, sideshow performers, eccentrics, and everyday “freaks.” Condemned by some for voyeurism, praised by others for compassion, she was nonetheless a transformative figure in twentieth-century photography and hailed by all for her undeniable genius. Her life was cut short when she committed suicide in 1971 at the peak of her career. In the first complete biography of Arbus, author Patricia Bosworth traces the arc of Arbus’s remarkable life: her sheltered upper-class childhood and passionate, all-consuming marriage to Allan Arbus; her roles as wife and devoted mother; and her evolution from fashion photographer to critically acclaimed artist—one who forever altered the boundaries of photography.
Download or read book The Little Black Book of Beatles Songs for Ukulele written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Black Book Of Beatles Songs For Ukulele is a collection of the Beatles hits presented in chord songbook format, for Ukulele, with chord boxes and full lyrics. This songbook contains sheet music with complete lyrics and chords to 195 songs, including All You Need is Love, Blackbird, Can’t Buy Me Love, A Day in the Life, Eight Days a Week, Eleanor Rigby and more.
Download or read book All Music Guide written by Vladimir Bogdanov and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
Download or read book The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook written by The Beatles and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Chord Songbook). This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by the Beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Also features a helpful playing guide and a full discography. Songs include: Across the Universe * All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Blackbird * Day Tripper * Dear Prudence * Drive My Car * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * A Hard Day's Night * Help! * Helter Skelter * Hey Jude * I Saw Her Standing There * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In My Life * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * The Long and Winding Road * Michelle * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Paperback Writer * Penny Lane * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * She Loves You * and more!
