Download or read book Poems Song Lyrics Essays and Short Stories written by Nina Hatchitt Duffield and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the farm in Minnesota was not easy during the early 1900s. All family members had to work long hours as a team to maintain an adequate supply of food, clothing, and shelter the basic necessities of human existence. A trip to the annual County Fair was a treat beyond the comprehension of today's leisure-burdened Americans. Why, then, would a talented and attractive young woman named Nina Hatchitt leave a successful career in the heady cultural environment of Washington D.C. to marry a Minnesota farmer? Nina's decision was driven by love of a particular man and by love of family in the broadest and purest sense. Her choice was between the probability of new sensations of pleasure and more money to spend on things, and the promise of life-long heart happiness. She made her decision at a time when her already successful career was about to soar to higher levels. But by becoming a farmer's wife, she simply added a second career to an already impressive resume. Somehow she managed to continue writing poetry, song lyrics, and prose while giving birth to and raising six children under the difficult conditions of farm life. She was able to get a few of her pieces into print, but most have gathered dust in family archives during the eight decades since her death. By compiling and annotating Nina's writings, Wendell and Anne Duffield record a bit of early-1900s farm-life history while documenting engaging literature of broad and universal appeal.
Download or read book Poems Song Lyrics Essays and Short Stories written by Nina Hatchitt Duffield and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the farm in Minnesota was not easy during the early 1900s. All family members had to work long hours as a team to maintain an adequate supply of food, clothing, and shelter ... the basic necessities of human existence. A trip to the annual County Fair was a treat beyond the comprehension of today's leisure-burdened Americans. Why, then, would a talented and attractive young woman named Nina Hatchitt leave a successful career in the heady cultural environment of Washington D.C. to marry a Minnesota farmer? Nina's decision was driven by love of a particular man and by love of family in the broadest and purest sense. Her choice was between the probability of new sensations of pleasure and more money to spend on things, and the promise of life-long heart happiness. She made her decision at a time when her already successful career was about to soar to higher levels. But by becoming a farmer's wife, she simply added a second career to an already impressive resume. Somehow she managed to continue writing poetry, song lyrics, and prose while giving birth to and raising six children under the difficult conditions of farm life. She was able to get a few of her pieces into print, but most have gathered dust in family archives during the eight decades since her death. By compiling and annotating Nina's writings, Wendell and Anne Duffield record a bit of early-1900s farm-life history while documenting engaging literature of broad and universal appeal.
Download or read book The Poetics of American Song Lyrics written by Charlotte Pence and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard
Download or read book Songwriting Without Boundaries written by Pat Pattison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail! Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to: • tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details • effectively use metaphor and comparative language • add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.
Download or read book Gallimaufry written by Marsha Goldstein and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word GALLIMAUFRY (gal-le-moh-free) is defined as a hodgepodge, and the example given is: the collection is a gallimaufry of poems, essays and short stories that have no apparent unifying theme. The definition perfectly summarizes the writing herein. There is a range of short stories without a related theme, poems, song lyrics, memoirs and rants.
Download or read book Seasons of Life Lived written by Robert Curtis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Nature unfurls each season of each year, so Life unfolds seasons of each lifetime. Each season of Nature and Life presents its own joys and challenges, primarily depending on one's perspective. Over 45 years of writing compose this compilation of personal though fictional stories, poems, song lyrics, and essays from the author's pen, as well as inspirational quotes from others. Journey from early childhood into late-life through chapters Spring, Summer, Autumn, Summer, Seasons Future, and Seasons Forever. Since Seasons go on and on again and again, and Life goes on and on over and over generation after generation, consider--is THIS all there is to Life? One of the book's two shortest poems reads: "Fear not for the future / Nor regret the past / Each day is a lifetime / Live it like your last." But it's your choice.
Download or read book Bullet Proof Bible written by Albert Griffin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July of 1999, Brax Bragg was on the brink of something big. After being published twice in the Mercer University literary review, he gleaned his lyrical poetry and set out to be the next Bob Dylan. Many nights of paying his dues while singing across the Southeast soon paid off for Bragg. He quickly went from a one-man minstrel to recording a CD with his new band. Shows were booked, and Bragg left for a short vacation before setting out on the road. All this was tragically cut short by a car accident which claimed the life of Bragg as well as his younger brother. Brax Bragg's unique creative gifts have not been lost. Bullet Proof Bible, a collection of Bragg's work, contains over 450 pieces of poetry, song lyrics, and essays as taken from his journals, notebooks, and personal writings. The selections are arranged in alphabetical order, and a detailed Appendix provides chronological information as well as other historical notes. Bullet Proof Bible reflects what Brax Bragg will always be--an innovative wordsmith and a keen perceiver of human behavior, blessed with the ability to make it sound unique.
Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
Download or read book Songs Poems Short Stories and Essays complete Book Intended for Near Future written by J. H. Poyser and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equestrian Monuments written by Luis Chaves and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Translated by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim. In Luis Chaves's EQUESTRIAN MONUMENTS, the stately figure of a former president, Leon CortÈs, is counterbalanced by a cast of mock-heroic or non-normative foils: a cross-dresser, a singleton, homunculus, thief, and gardener. Dialogue from The Exorcist coexists alongside lines from the Latin Kyrie, Rex, while sweeping statements about entire generations, continents, and genres find a basis in the most intimate details of home-life. The intersections are uncanny, sometimes hilarious, often sad and unsettling. Chaves's hyper-caffeinated imagination renders each image in this remarkable collection in a way that orients the reader and provides a moment's stasis and clarity before "the waves come and the waves erase it."
Download or read book Essays on Song writing written by John Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postcards from the Interior written by Wyn Cooper and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section, "Postcards from Vermont," is composed of poems about Vermont towns and historical landmarks. The second section, "Postcards from the Interior," stretches to include poems from far-flung places, real and imagined. Adroit at juxtaposing the exterior weather of landscapes and the interior weather of the human condition, Cooper writes poetry with the heft of a Romantic meditation and the breezy ease of contemporary song lyrics. Wyn Cooper has published three previous poetry collections. A poem from his first book was turned into lyrics for Sheryl Crow's Grammy-winning song "All I Wanna Do." He lives in Battleboro, Vermont.
Download or read book I Would Leave Me If I Could written by Halsey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey’s poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power. Masterful as it is raw, passionate, and profound, I Would Leave Me If I Could signals the arrival of an essential voice. Book cover painting, American Woman, by the author.
Download or read book The Country of Here Below written by Wyn Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Rock n Roll Wannabe written by Michael Patrick King and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Rock n Roll Wannabe is an anthology of poems, song lyrics, short stories and essays. Peppered with quasiautobiographical sketches and blurbs, it is at once a highly personal work and a candid portrayal of life in the world from Kings point of view. Structured in commentary form, it offers personal insights into the operation of one poets mind as he struggles to express what God has revealed to him. Thirty-four songs and eight poems comprise the first section of the book. These are divided into seven sections, according to purpose rather than to theme. Following them are three short stories and four essays, written to provoke rather than entertain.
Download or read book Selected Poems of Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.
Download or read book Acts of Teaching written by Joyce Armstrong Carroll and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusive of the scope and authoritative references from earlier editions, this edition additionally embraces the digital world and provides practical suggestions for performing the "act of teaching." Teachers of writing at all levels will applaud this edition for its new features designed to help teachers to understand and teach to today's new paradigms in writing. New to this edition are two chapters on cognition and technology, respectively; a chapter on early literacy, with student samples; and, for the first time, an online connection that links readers to important articles, visuals, and resources. Essay writing is explored through discussion of the thesis and its criteria; five organizational patterns for the expository essay; and distinctions among the opinion, persuasive, and argumentative essay. Several new prewriting strategies are also provided: A Sense Notebook, Looking, Contouring, an expanded explanation of Blueprinting, and a discussion of a hierarchical approach to organization.
