Download or read book 50 American Plays Poems written by Michael Dickman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality." —The New Yorker Identical twins Michael and Matthew Dickman once invented their own language. Now they have invented an exhilarating book of poem-plays about the fifty states. Pointed, comic, and surreal, these one-page vignettes feature unusual staging and an eclectic cast of characters—landforms, lobsters, and historical figures including Duke Ellington, Sacajawea, Judy Garland, and Kenneth Koch, the avant-garde spirit informing this book introduced by playwright John Guare. "Lucky in Kansas" Judy Garland: This is always the worst part Tin Man: The coming back Judy Garland: Yes, it fucking sucks, it's depressing as shit The Lion: Well, we're lucky to still be employed at this farm Straw Man: I wouldn't call it lucky The Lion: We were lucky to get back Straw Man: That's not really lucky either I don't think you know what lucky means Judy Garland: It's funny what you miss Tin Man: The running Judy Garland: The flying Tin Man: The flying monkeys Judy Garland: The beautiful flying monkeys above the endless emeralds the unbelievably green world Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman are identical twins who were born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Michael received the 2010 James Laughlin Award for his second collection Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Matthew won the prestigious APR/Honickman Award for his debut volume, All-American Poem.
Download or read book Complete Poems and Plays written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1971 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.
Download or read book The Poems Plays of Robert Browning written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Incredibly Short Plays Poems Stories written by James H. Norton and published by Harcourt College Pub. This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the Language of Poems Plays and Prose written by Mick Short and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.
Download or read book The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Poems written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.
Download or read book Poems Plays and The Briton written by Tobias Smollett and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions. The poems in the volume represent Smollett's entire achievement as a poet. Among the shorter poems are "A New Song," his first printed work; "The Tears of Scotland," an early expression of his defiant spirit; and the popular "Ode to Independence," written during the last decade of his life. Two longer works, "Advice" (1746) and its sequel, "Reproof" (1747), are satires written in Popean heroic couplets; they mark the beginnings of Smollett's attacks on theater managers, corrupt politicians, iniquitous military leaders, and other well-known personalities of the day. An appendix to this volume includes five additional poems assigned but not definitely attributed to Smollett. The Reprisal; or The Tars of Old England and The Regicide are the only extant plays by Smollett. The Regicide, written when the author was only eighteen or nineteen, dramatizes the story of the murder of James I of Scotland. The Reprisal, a patriotic comedy performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, was a moderate theatrical success. Smollett's political writings for The Briton, a weekly journal he established in 1762 for defending the policies of the Earl of Bute, mark a particularly painful period in the author's life. A paper war erupted with the first number, and Smollett and Bute became the objects of scathing counterattacks, particularly in the writings of John Wilkes. This volume brings together for the first time all issues of The Briton and also includes a key identifying the weekly's numerous elliptical references to persons and places.
Download or read book Theatrix Poetry Plays written by Terese Svoboda and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terese Svoboda's eighth book of poetry, "Theatrix: Poetry Plays," is all about play, and no pun is too low to interrogate the reader's Fourth Wall. Voices and not voice amplify the anxious voyeur's Theatrix experience. Touching on HBO's Chernobyl series, democracy in the Sudan, the patter of a comedienne, Mom, a little Shakespeare, the performative qualities of a Title IX hearing, Emma Goldman's corpse, the Supreme Court hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, the murder of the prostitute Helen Jewett, Covid-19 (of course), the actual house of Usher, WWII schipperkes, and the 1980s phenomenon of atria, Theatrix goads the meta-theatrical into an explosion of poetry.
Download or read book William Shakespeare Complete Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by Barnes & Noble Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete plays of Shakespeare are often considered among the greatest works in all of English literature. Replete with great characters, from the portly and funny Falstaff to the hesitative and obsessive Hamlet, the plays present us with the entire gamut of human personality. They give us an unparalleled look at love and humour, death and tragedy, history and magic. These plays represent the peak of genius and art from the English language's greatest writer.
Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including 'Letters: Poems 1953-1956'.
Download or read book The Plays Poems of Robert Greene written by Robert Greene and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains theories relating to the creation of the universe including Kepler's three laws of motion, Einstein's theory of relativity, and the Steady State and Big Bang theories.
Download or read book Play for Time written by Paula Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Vijay Seshadri as the winner of the 2019 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. "Unimpeachable . . . round and rich and exfoliating with intuition, hesitation, self-questionings, and personhood." --Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, 3 Sections "If you were made to speak a language you labored to make yours, I wrote it for you. If you wished you could unwrite, rewrite, or write in stone or water any number of lifetimes you've endured, I wrote it for you. If you felt that the only home you've known was inside words; if you have written the names of lovers on pieces of paper and burned them in spells; if you understand which words hurt and which heal; if you've begged for more and for mercy, I wrote it for you." In her blistering debut, Paula Mendoza wields the weapon of language as she dismantles the longstanding traditions of the colonial narrative, male speech, and the sentimental love poem. Taking on the forms of historically polarizing figures--the witch, the femme-dom, Eve--the speaker of her poems is both submissive object and powerful agent that wills herself caught between pirate and plunder, that rewrites linguistic scripts to survive oppression, that self-immolates into a state of rebirth, that asks what use or meaning can be made of brokenness and displacement. Playful and deliberate, innovative and strange, Play for Time, Mendoza's debut collection of experimental lyric poems demolishes the literary commonplaces of "universality" and provides a timely introduction to an explosively original voice in poetry.
Download or read book Plays Prose Writings and Poems written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Plays the Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology provides every single one of Shakespeare's tragedy plays, from the earliest "Titus Andronicus" to "Coriolanus." Follow one of the greatest love stories ever told in perhaps his most widely known play, "Romeo and Juliet." In this classic tale, the two young lovers are members of feuding families, but they believe that their love transcends their families' hate. In "Othello," a Moorish general in the Venetian army is destroyed because of the jealousy and envy that his ensign Iago holds for the distinguished Othello. "Antony and Cleopatra" is a love story about the two real-life lovers Mark Antony of Rome and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. It is a story of jealousy, power, and death as the two lovers must deal with political unrest amidst their passionate love affair. Other plays included in the collection are "Hamlet," "Julius Caesar," and "Macbeth." In typical Shakespearian fashion the tragedy of these plays is underscored by the fact that in many cases it could have been avoided if not for the fatal flaws of the principal characters. "The Complete Plays (The Tragedies: Volume I of III)" reminds readers of the genius that Shakespeare had for seeing the tragic consequences that men's choices often create for themselves.
Download or read book Shale Play written by Julia Kasdorf and published by Keystone Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores, in poetry and photographs, the effects of the natural gas boom and fracking in the small towns, fields, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania.
Download or read book Poetry Pharmacy written by William Sieghart and published by Particular Books. This book was released on 2025-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary- those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.
