Download or read book Poems and Prose written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 89) sought to discover afresh the potentialities of language, and to that end developed his idiosyncratic theories of instress, inscape and sprung rhythm. Hopkins's verse is also informed by his religious beliefs; having converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, he became a Jesuit priest eleven years later. However, his poetry is free from a sense of religious dogma, and instead offers a whole hearted involvement with all aspects of life, a love of nature and a search for a unifying sacramental view of creation. His best known poems include 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', 'The Windhover', 'Pied Beauty', 'Spring and Fall', 'Carrion Comfort' and 'Harry Ploughman'.
Download or read book Fleeting Things written by Gerald Hammond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry.
Download or read book Early Collected Poems 1965 1992 written by Gerald Stern and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stern’s unadorned craftsmanship has few rivals in American letters.”—Philadelphia Inquirer Early Collected Poems gathers the poems from the first six books of Gerald Stern’s body of work. A master poet, Stern has sought new language for the overlooked, neglected, and unseen facets of human experience. Whether writing about modern poets, Hebrew prophets, death, war, or love, “Stern’s literary songs are sharp, surprising, and unerring in their delivery” (Ploughshares, Editor’s Choice). from “The Red Coal” The coal has taken over, the red coal is burning between us and we are at its mercy— as if a power is finally dominating the two of us; as if we’re huddled up watching the black smoke and the ashes; as if knowledge is what we needed and now we have that knowledge. Now we have that knowledge.
Download or read book Last Blue written by Gerald Stern and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."—Booklist
Download or read book American Sonnets written by Gerald Stern and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2002 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-nine "Stern sonnets" of twenty or so lines from the 1998 National Book Award winner. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next. "I was taken over by the writing of these poems," Stern says.
Download or read book Lucky Life written by Gerald Stern and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Save the Last Dance Poems written by Gerald Stern and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle). In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal—yet always universal, and always surprising—poems, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and often redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything Is Burning, while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part, a long poem called "The Preacher," Stern takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness, represented here by the concept of a "hole" that resurfaces throughout.
Download or read book From a Person Sitting in Darkness written by Gerald Barrax and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a nod toward the grounding inspiration of Mark Twain and James Baldwin in its opening epigraphs, this lush collection of free and formal verse—turning on multiple axes of race, religion, history, politics, and social issues—soars in exploration of the dark, troublesome visions of America. Gerald Barrax, “a black poet who makes familiar black attitudes agonizingly fresh” (Library Journal), speaks with ire and passion of those robbed—and those who rob them—of hope, of sight, of faith, of life. “Ask the West African what happened to his ancestors. / Ask the Native American what happened to his land. / Ask the Person Sitting in Darkness what happened to his light.” But Barrax also croons—about the natural world and its creatures, about music, and about human love and relationships. “Cello Poem,” Dennis Sampson wrote in the Hudson Review, “is an erotic love poem of flesh-and-blood so artfully told one scarcely knows the difference between the cello at the end and the remembered lovers.” And in “The Old Poet Is Taken in Marriage,” Barrax displays an endearing capacity for gentleness and surprise. “Poets who swagger and strut make me sick / with envy,” he writes, “while yet I marvel, in terrified humility, / that poems come to me at all, as Emily / did, for no reason I can understand.” Through the unswerving perspective of a black man, Barrax widens the human experience, achieving a universality of tone. His poems find words for real feelings, and the color of a lover’s skin is, ultimately, not very important. One hundred four poems in all, eighteen penned since his last book, From a Person Sitting in Darkness showcases Barrax’s gifts for arresting imagery and compression, crystalline diction and dichotomy, narrative force, and the leavening touches of humor and irony. This collection is the essence of a lyrical, sensual, unpredictable work.
Download or read book The Material of Poetry written by Gerald L. Bruns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem. By spelling out such enabling conditions he gives us an engaging overview of some of the kinds of contemporary poetry that challenge our notions of what language is: sound poetry, visual or concrete poetry, and "found" poetry. Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied poets as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Steve McCaffery, and Francis Ponge to argue for three seemingly competing points. First, poetry is made of language but is not a use of it. That is, poetry is made of words but not of what we use words to produce: concepts, narratives, expressions of feeling, and so on. Second, as the nine sound poems on the CD included with the book demonstrate, poetry is not necessarily made of words but is rooted in, and in fact already fully formed by, sounds the human body can produce. Finally, poetry belongs to the world alongside ordinary things; it cannot be confined to some aesthetic, neutral, or disengaged dimension of human culture. Poetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages: Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.
Download or read book Blessed as We Were Late Selected and New Poems 2000 2018 written by Gerald Stern and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern. For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this “sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary” (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending philosophical, wide-ranging intellect with boisterous wit. Memory unites the poems in Blessed as We Were, which reach back through seven collections written over almost two decades. Stern explores casual miracles, relationships, and the natural world in Last Blue (2000); offers a satirical and redemptive vision in Everything Is Burning (2005) and Save the Last Dance (2008); meditates on the metamorphosis of aging in In Beauty Bright (2012); and captures the sensual joys of life—even when they are far in the past—in the wistful love poems and elegies of Galaxy Love (2017). The volume concludes with over two dozen new poems that combine the metaphysical with the domestic, from the passage of time and the cost of love to the profound banality of cardboard and its uses. With his characteristic exuberant, oracular voice animating every line, Stern reminds us why he is one of the great American poets, one who has long “been telling us that the best way to live is not so much for poetry, but through poetry” (New York Times Book Review).
Download or read book Poems by Gerald Bullett written by Gerald Bullett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1949, this book presents a selection of verse by the renowned British writer and broadcaster Gerald Bullett (1893-1958). 36 poems are contained, 25 of which appeared for the first time in this volume. The rest were selected from two previous collections: Poems in Pencil (1937) and Winter Solstice (1943). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Bullett and English poetry.
Download or read book Swimmer Climbing Onto Shore written by Gerald J. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. The world is sensuously and immediately present in Gerald Fleming's SWIMMER CLIMBING ONTO SHORE. While these poems question the capacity of language to render the heart of human existence, the poet's words never fail to praise the transformative power of art in making sense of that existence. "Love is the catalyst, but so also is wit, unexpected and inexorably delivered," says Diana O Hehir of this collection. "In a voice of condensed, colloquial intimacy sobered by awareness of the world's menace and acknowledging the irrational in himself, [Fleming] reaches a high compassionate humor as he infuses his exploration with the surprising pleasure of sudden discovery"--Jack Marshall.
Download or read book Lovesick written by Elizabeth Macavoy and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rejoicings written by Gerald Stern and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bread Without Sugar written by Gerald Stern and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems including "The Bull-Roarer," "The Founder," "One Gift," "Aspiring to Music," "Those Things," and "I Would Call it Derangement"
Download or read book The Ballad of Babe Christabel with Other Lyrical Poems written by Gerald Massey (Author of Ancient Egypt.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ballad of Babe Christabel with Other Lyrical Poems written by Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
