Download or read book New and Selected Poems 1975 1995 written by Thomas Lux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."
Download or read book Poems written by Craig Wells and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems 1975 1995 written by Micheal O'Siadhail and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micheal O'Siadhail's poetry has always set the intensities of a life against the backdrop of worlds shaken by change. He constantly seeks new dimensions: delving passions of friendship, marriage, trust and betrayal in an urban culture, exploring the intricacies of music and science as he tries to shape an understanding of the shifts and transformations of late modernity. This book traces the continuity of a poetic voice which 'heals the rift of head and heart', resonating with classic traditions. Micheal O'Siadhail is deeply rooted in Ireland while at home in the European and American traditions. Sometimes in free verse, often in more formal modes, a concentration of meaning and music, of thought and language leads to a clarity and accessibility. This selection, taken from nine books, includes all of Hail! Madam Jazz (1992) and A Fragile City (1995), but excludes his recent collection Our Double Time (1998), which is available separately. In an illuminating introduction, Micheal O'Siadhail draws together the strands of a poetry that 'comes from the core', 'an endless jazz improvisation'.
Download or read book How We Became Human New and Selected Poems 1975 2002 written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.
Download or read book Washing the Stones written by Maude Meehan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maude Meehan's wise and tender poetry chronicles her seventy-five year journey as political activist, wife, mother, and now widow. Rich experiences of liberal politics and love with her husband of fifty-seven years.
Download or read book 30 written by Dawn Richerson and published by Autumn Zephyr Press. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes a series of poems written during my first thirty years, beginning at age 10 in 1975 through to the year I turned 30 in 1995.
Download or read book New And Selected Poems Of Thomas Lux written by Thomas Lux and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."
Download or read book Dances Learned Last Night written by Michael Donaghy and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2000 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colection brings together Shibboleth, which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Errata, Michael Donaghy's first collection. It also includes some previously unpublished poems.
Download or read book The Cradle Place written by Thomas Lux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cradle Place is a collection from Thomas Lux, a self-described "recovering surrealist" and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. These fifty-two poems bring to full life the "refreshing iconoclasms" Rita Dove so admired in Lux's earlier work. His voice is plainspoken but moody, humorous and edgy, and ever surprising. These are philosophical poems that ask questions about language and intention, about the sometimes untidy connections between the human and natural worlds. In the poem "Terminal Lake," Lux undermines notions of benign nature, finding dark currents beneath the surface: "it's a huge black coin, / it's as if the real lake is drained / and this lake is the drain: gaping, language- / less, suck- and sinkhole." In the ominous "Render, Render," the narrator asks us to consider a concentration of the essences of our lives: all that is physical, spiritual, remembered, and dreamed for, melded together to make the messy self we present to the world. Lux's voice is intelligent without being bookish, urgent and unrelentingly evocative. He has long been a strong advocate for the relevance of poetry in American culture. The Los Angeles Times praises Lux for his "compelling rhythms, his biting irony, and his steady devotion to a craft that often seems thankless." As Sven Birkerts noted, "Lux may be one of the poets on whom the future of the genre depends."
Download or read book Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren written by Robert Penn Warren and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Burt’s Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren’s poetry than any previous selected gathering. More than two hundred poems from every phase grace the volume, a vehicle ideal for sampling—or soaking in—the finest of Warren’s rich output. With each poem, Burt has carefully located the version that constitutes Warren’s final revision. His introduction gives an eloquent overview of the poet’s career, touching on every published book of verse and highlighting significant lines. A “selected” collection in the truest sense, featuring several previously unpublished pieces, this treasure is at once new and familiar. At the heart of Warren’s poetry is a celebration of man’s intellect and imagination, his integral place within nature, and his relationship to time and the past; ultimately, joy coexists with the knowledge of life’s many mysteries, including its tragedies. Selected Poems, a generous survey and a convenient compendium, is the shining portal to this greatly gifted poet.
Download or read book I Am Flying Into Myself written by Bill Knott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring -thorny genius- (Robert Pinsky).
Download or read book What I Love about Men written by Heather Brown and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems with drawings spanning the artists lifetime.
Download or read book Door into the Dark written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Door into the Dark, Seamus Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent.
Download or read book Good Poems written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written a good poem. Somebody else can worry about greatness. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" is a good poem, and so is James Wright's "A Blessing." Regular people love those poems. People read them aloud at weddings, people send them by e-mail. Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
Download or read book 100 Poems written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections. In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites. It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come.
Download or read book Stupid Hope written by Jason Shinder and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, "one of the finest of our new poets" (Gerald Stern) I close my eyes and try to remember when I was unopposed, when I started to die, buoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love. —from "Before" Jason Shinder's last poems are his moving testimonies to poetry, love, and friendship. With power, clarity, and disarming humor, the poems confront grief and mortality with a humility and fortitude that come only "with hope, stupid hope." Stupid Hope is Shinder's wry, penetrating, and wise farewell.
