Download or read book Poems by a Bored Housewife written by Barbara J. Grimsley and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poetry book as been written from the heart some of the poems relate to personal things that have happened in my life, but there is some great fantasy stuff, love poems, stuff about different countries including Zimbabwe, Burundi also one about Krakow in Poland, there is approx 136 poems included in my works also my favourite subject of all, guardian angel so please look at the little introduction poem and see what I am all about and maybe buy one I would be most grateful and thank anyone dearly who does

Download or read book Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating tapestry woven from the lives of women who had won the right to vote a mere six years earlier. In Songs of a Housewife, we hear the voice of an emerging feminist, a voice that stubbornly and--given the political climate of the 1920s--courageously insists that women be respected. Fans of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings will be surprised and ultimately delighted by this long overdue collection."--Connie May Fowler, author of Sugar Cage and Before Women Had Wings "Makes available for the first time [the] early work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. . . . Reveals themes, attitudes, phrases, habits of speech . . . and a predilection for irony that characterizes [her] later work."--Peggy W. Prenshaw, Louisiana State University "Rawlings's poetry is surprisingly good. . . . solid, traditional poetry about subjects that will never go out of fashion."--Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina More than a decade before writing The Yearling and Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a young housewife-journalist living in Rochester, New York. In 1926, the Rochester Times-Union did a trial run of her column-in-verse, Songs of a Housewife. To the editor's surprise, the column proved immensely popular; over the next two years, Rawlings published a poem a day, six days a week, and gained a wide syndication. When she moved to Florida in 1928, however, the poems were forgotten and--until this collection of roughly half of them--never reprinted. In the 250 poems collected here, Rawlings presents homespun advice on such subjects as the trials and tribulations of being a cook, mother, friend, relative, and neighbor. She dedicates many to her favorite subjects: gardening, cooking, pets, and nature. Throughout, her goal is to entertain, to educate, and to give a voice to the housewife who sees her role as a creative and important one. In the process, of course, she also invariably reveals a great deal about herself, and devoted readers will be curious to see how the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings they know and love is evident here, in these early and spirited poems. Because little is known about Rawlings's life during this period, Songs of a Housewife is valuable as commentary on her evolving attitudes as a woman and as a writer, and many of the same themes appear in her later works. As a reflection of the life of a middle-class woman struggling to carve out an independent and fulfilling role for herself, these poems also offer a rare insight into the life of women in the late 1920s. Rodger L. Tarr is University Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University. His most recent publications are Short Stories of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (UPF, 1994) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: A Descriptive Bibliography (1996).

Download or read book Sonnet of a Housewife written by Vickie Adair and published by Third Coast Publishers Llp. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poetry of a Mad Housewife written by Lillian Wahtera and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry Of A Mad Housewife is a collection of poems written over several decades. It is an insight into the life and times of a woman who has battled depression, alcoholism and mental illness. An interesting and sometimes comical look at the changing seasons throughout the course of a lifetime. Of love, loss birth and death, Spring through Winter. See the World through Lillian's eyes as she experiences passion, despair, children and the loss of her greatest love, her husband John. Lillian's poetry has helped here express her innermost feelings and helped her to deal with the many challenges she has encountered. The poems are written in an honest, simple and empathetic way. They show you the beauty as well as the pain we sometimes experience throughout our lifetime.

Download or read book Housewife Other Poems written by Gail White and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pancakes and Coffee Breaks written by Erica Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erica Abbott has observed the world around her as if she was a spy. She has noticed the most obscure behavior and idiosyncrasies that humans display and has put them into poems that communicate the problems of the absurd world we live in. She shares moments of profound philosophical insight that she discovered throughout her life. Her poems of love, joy, fear, hope, success, disaster and humor are enhanced by beautiful, apt illustrations. Everyday issues that we all face are distilled into a few choice words. The thought, "That's exactly what happened to me." will occur over and over as you read through these delightful poems. Unlike some poetry, which is a chore to read, Erica's poems are easy and fun and can leave you wishing for another verse or more. Each one is a taste of surprise that might keep you reading into the night. If you are not touched by her romantic love words you will need to get a heart. This book introduces a new era in poetry. Something for everyone to read and enjoy and remember as the years pass.

Download or read book The World s Wife written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Download or read book Ovid and His Love Poetry written by Rebecca Armstrong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid devoted about half of his poetic career to the production of several collections of amatory verse, all composed in elegiac couplets. Indeed, his irrepressible interest in love, sex and elegiac poetry is one of the defining features of his entire output. Here Rebecca Armstrong offers a thematic examination of some important aspects of the Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Starting from an investigation of the narrator's self-creation and presentation of other characters within his amatory verse, she assesses the importance of mythical and contemporary reference, as well as the influence of the erotic on Ovid's later works. By looking at the Ars and Remedia alongside the Amores, the continuities and contradictions in the poet's elegiac outlook are revealed, and a complex picture is formed of the Ovidian world of love. Ovid's erotic works present the reader with a glimpse inside the minds of both poets and lovers, mediated through eyes which are frequently inclined to comedy and even cynicism, but always sharp, perceptive and above all fascinated by human behaviour.

Download or read book A Housewife s Poems written by Elise Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mid size Housewife written by Tara M Givens and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara M. Givens is a poet living on Capitol Hill, in the District of Columbia. She studied Creative Writing at Purdue University, and received her BA in English Literature at University of Delaware. Her poetry chronicles the disease states of manic-depressive illness.

Download or read book Self portrait with Housewife written by Jennifer Saunders and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Clockwise Chapbook Competition. "Welcome a bright new poet to the world! Jennifer Saunders romances the uncanny as she unveils the pleasures and the restlessness of that sometimes nesting bird--the housewife. Too often torn between a desire for adventure and a desire for stability, a desire to learn everything to protect family and the world, and a frustration with daily life when it lacks utilitarian or emotional value, we follow Jennifer Saunders on her lyric celebration of the quotidian because it is our own, and she captures for us the strangeness of even our most ordinary moments."--Sandra Alcosser "The charming poems of Jennifer Saunders' debut collection are a joy to read--laced with smart observations about our domestic lives and almost humble self-realizations. Whether she's observing 'the first goldfinch of spring / in your cupped hands, its frantic beating heart,' or becoming a crow, or 'draw[ing] arching eyebrows / that almost / resemble expression,' Saunders holds steady to her 'housewife's' aesthetic, which is also a poet's aesthetic. 'Why pretend,' the poet asks, 'things don't blow away?'"--Gail Wronsky "Jennifer Saunders' poems are thoughtful, sharply observed and complete in themselves as washed stones. She writes wryly of pain and disappointment. She has a clear and accurate eye. She is never sloppy or wordy but many of these poems stick in you with their sharp points, getting under your skin. These are poems of everyday life but there's nothing boring or expected about them."--Marge Piercy

Download or read book Everyone Is Beautiful written by Katherine Center and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hugely entertaining, poignant, and charming novel about what happens after happily ever after—from the New York Timesbestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire “Everyone Is Beautiful is for every woman who has ever struggled to find, hold on to, and nurture authenticity in the midst of that wild, messy, wonderful thing called motherhood.”—Brené Brown Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in Boston. She’s left behind family and friends—all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too . . . if only she could remember what they were. These days, Lanie always seems to prioritize herself last—and when another mom accidentally assumes she’s pregnant, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. It’s time to rise up, fish her moxie out of the diaper pail, and find the woman she was before motherhood consumed her entire existence. Lanie sets change in motion—joining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. Balancing motherhood and me-time, marriage and independence, and supporting loved ones while also realizing her own dreams, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.

Download or read book The Charles Bronson Book of Poems written by Stephen Richards and published by Mirage Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems and illustrations from one of Britain's dangerous category 'A' prisoners, Charles Bronson, formerly Michael Peterson. The poetry indicts the anachronistic penal system for what Bronson says they did to him.

Download or read book Selected Poetry written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood's translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin's verse.

Download or read book Amy Lowell Diva Poet written by Melissa Bradshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death. Recognizing Amy Lowell as a literary diva, Bradshaw shows, accounts for her commitment to her art, her extravagant self-promotion and self-presentation, and her fame, which was of a kind no longer associated with poets. It also explains the devaluation of Lowell's poetry and criticism, since a woman's diva status is always short-lived and the accomplishments of celebrity women are typically dismissed and trivialized. In restoring Lowell to her place within the American poetic renaissance of the nineteen-teens and twenties, Bradshaw also recovers a vibrant moment in popular culture when poetry enjoyed mainstream popularity, audiences packed poetry readings, and readers avidly followed the honors, exploits, and feuds of their favorite poets in the literary columns of daily newspapers. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers, and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw gives us an Amy Lowell who could not be further removed from the lonely victim of ill-health and obesity who appears in earlier book-length studies. Amy Lowell as diva poet takes her rightful place as a powerful writer of modernist verse who achieved her personal and professional goals without capitulating to heteronormative ideals of how a woman should act, think, or appear.

Download or read book 2014 Poet s Market written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted guide to getting poetry published! The 2014 Poet's Market includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book/chapbook publishers, poetry publications, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the listings, Poet's Market offers articles on the Craft of Poetry, Business of Poetry, and Promotion of Poetry--not to mention new poems from contemporary poets. Learn how to navigate the social media landscape, submit your poems for publication, write various poetic forms, give a perfect reading, and more. You also gain access to: • Lists of conferences, workshops, organizations, and grants. • One-year access to the poetry-related information and listings on WritersMarket.com (print edition only) • A free digital download of Writer's Yearbook featuring the 100 Best Markets Includes brand-new poems from today's best and brightest poets, including Amorak Huey, J.P. Dancing Bear, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Scott Owens, Martha Silano, Susan Rich, and more. "My grandmother bought my first Poet's Market when I was in college. I had just taken my first college creative writing class. Now, nearly 20 years later, as a writer who has had books published and as an editor of a 10-year-old magazine, Poet's Market is still an invaluable tool. Every poet and poetry student needs a copy on his or her bookshelf." --Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other Poems, and Poetry Editor of Contrary

Download or read book Written in the Kitchen written by Elizabeth Akin-Flenley and published by . This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: