Download or read book Poetic Encores written by Frank De Canio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the refreshingly quirky to the humorous, poignant and erotic; from politics to philosophy to the playfully perverse, through sonnet forms, the villanelle and prose poems, Frank’s oeuvre is a treasure chest of nursed musings framed in verse. These are the measured scribblings of a person confronting an unfolding world as he assesses it with literary flair. In these poems there’s love, loss, birth, pique and reconciliation. There’re bawdy fancies and vexing ones. There’re pop culture ruminations, cultural allusions and emotional contusions. He’s got the whole whirlwind of feelings in his writer’s hand as he presents us with a smorgasbord of imagistic fruits. There are lords and swords and bawds in his vocabulary of interests, as well as quotidian encounters. We find a dialectic between a lump in his throat, as Frost has put it, and the written word. A very agreeable way to spend your spare afternoons.
Download or read book Poetic Encore written by Yusuf Mifsud and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feed your soul with what it means to be real. Turn each page in premonition of the next, and let this poetry paralyse your senses, with farms, and sheep, and grass, and sounds that are all too familiar. Maybe we can uncover your heart and piece it back together with a few words and nouns. This poetic encore is for you, and you only.
Download or read book Encore written by Marjorie Potter and published by ATBOSH Media Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encore is a collection of poetry and songs written by Marjorie E. Potter from 1969 to 2009 that chronicle events in her life as well as various imagined journeys, and often express her philosophies both spiritual and political.
Download or read book Encore Encore written by Alice Briley and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetic Encore written by Brian MItchell and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Encore commemorates ten years of poetic writings.
Download or read book Encore written by National Federation National Federation of State Poetry Societies and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top 150 prize-winning poems from NFSPS 2017 contests are featured in this edition of Encore, the annual anthology of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. From nearly 8,000 submissions representing 43 states, Canada, and the United Kingdom, these winning poems provide a diverse collection with challenging poetic forms and subjects. Poets give fresh, personal interpretations to a wide range of contest themes and write in forms from lune to sonnet, from minute poem to villanelle. This volume opens with a $1,000 prize-winning narrative poem by Christine Irving of Denton, TX, and closes with poetry by three gifted high school students. The 2017 Encore is an anthology to savor, cover to cover.
Download or read book Encore written by National Federation National Federation of State Poetry Societies and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2018 edition of Encore, the National Federation of State Poetry Societies presents the top 150 prize-winning poems selected from nearly 7,000 submissions from states across the U.S., as well as the United Kingdom and Canada. The 50 contests challenged authors to write in many poetic forms, such as rondeau, trimeric, terza rima sonnet, minute, and villanelle. They also provoked fresh, personal interpretations of wide-ranging themes. The 2018 anthology is a collection to savor.
Download or read book One Secret Thing written by Sharon Olds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful collection of poems about family and grief—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger—public and private—illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Olds’s characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. The doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his first rotation in the emergency room. On the ancient boarding-school radio, in the attic hall, the announcer had given my boyfriend’s name as one of two brought to the hospital after the sunrise service, the egg-hunt, the crash—one of them critical, one of them dead. I was looking at the stairwell banisters, at their lathing, the necks and knobs like joints and bones, the varnish here thicker here thinner—I had said Which one of them died, and now the world was an ant’s world: the huge crumb of each second thrown, somehow, up onto my back, and the young, tired voice said my fresh love’s name. from “Easter 1960”
Download or read book Encore written by Russ Peery and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russ Peery, 89, brings fresh perspectives on nature, life, aging Author announces release of his latest book Encore: A Collection of Poems KISSIMMEE, Fla. - It is not every day that one has access to the thoughts of a gifted 89-year-old poet. Russ Peerys Encore available in large print paperback in August 2016, offers just such an opportunity. In his own words, this striving ancient being finds wonder in dailyness and meaning in aging. In these latter years of mine / I milk the sky and earth for poems / I milk my memories / I milk my thoughts. A former pastor and woodworker, Peery came relatively late to poetry. At the age of 73, he was persuaded by his ailing mother to write seriously, and his wife of 40 years encourages him on a daily basis to keep at it. Peerys latest collection of 180 poems spanning such universal subjects as nature, relationships, love, inspiration, memories, aging, end-of-life reflections is a rare treasure, laying bare in gratifying cadence truths of the human condition and human experience, with the wisdom gathered from nearly nine decades. Encore is illustrated with striking photographs taken by Peerys friend and editor, Joanne Schwandes. In the photos, readers actually see many of the vistas and images that inspire Peery and that he paints so vividly with words. Peerys poems are accessible and varied. A number of poems have a timeless quality: Down by the sea that I see no more / the sea close to me in my days of yore / are waters still lapping a now distant shore Others describe touching encounters with grandchildren and people he knows. Some poems catch the reader off guard with their candor, amuse with their contemporary references (iPhones), and make one laugh out loud with unexpected metaphors. On the whole though, the poems are powerful, keenly incisive and a testament to the unconquerable soul (as in Henleys Invictus). The section entitled Harvesting a Memory is especially poignant, covering loss, nostalgia, disappointment, gratitude and triumph. One excerpt that captures the general tone of the book comes from the poem A Tool Weve Been Given on p. 123: My mind often covets those memories / spawned when this century was new / But rather than cry at the losses / we do best by recalling and smiling / for that is the tool weve been given / that offers us great consolation / when our accumulated years / deny us the blessings / once almost taken for granted. This book at its core pays homage to aging, with humor, insightful perspective and dignity. It will resonate with anyone who is or loves a senior citizen of any age. The poems are particularly well-suited for reading aloud and may easily be used as a springboard for reflection, discussion and reminiscing.
Download or read book Encore written by Elisabeth R. Owens and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encore written by Zaneta Varnado Johns and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your seat and prepare to be enchanted by Encore: A Collection of Poetry. Zaneta Varnado Johns, an internationally recognized poet and author, is back with ninety-nine select poems in her third poetry collection. She is fueled by passion, purpose and gratitude in response to her readers' request for more. In Encore, Johns shares romantic musings and essences derived from travel and her appreciation of her surroundings and experiences. Her love and compassion for people are beautifully expressed either as poetic observation or unique tributes found in the chapter titled, "In Awe." Her prose poem, "She Speaks for Me," is a masterpiece showcasing the renowned African and African American women poets who influence her writing.You will be inspired by beautiful images and quotes, the poet's signature accent also found in her previous collections. Johns has a lot to say about the human condition. You will witness Hawaii's spirit of aloha throughout this collection. Some poems are concise while others are grouped in the chapters "Rants and Spiels" or "Keynotes." She passionately addresses hunger, gun violence, women's empowerment, and prejudice, among other issues. In "It Has to Stop," Johns expresses a gut-wrenching response to yet another fatal school shooting. Throughout Encore, Zaneta Varnado Johns leaves an indelible mark with every word and rendering.
Download or read book Encore written by Marjorie E Potter and published by Atbosh Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encore is a collection of poetry and songs written by Marjorie E. Potter from 1969 to 2009 that chronicle events in her life as well as various imagined journeys, and often express her philosophies both spiritual and political.
Download or read book Encore written by May Sarton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author and newly minted octogenarian “demonstrates that old age can be a vibrant and liberating experience . . . fearless and triumphant” (Publishers Weekly). On the second day of her 80th year, May Sarton began a new journal. She wrote it because she wanted “to go on a little while longer;” to discover “what is really happening to me.” This triumphant sequel to Endgame—Sarton’s journal of her 79th year—is filled with the comforting minutiae of daily life, from gardening to planning dinners and floral arrangements to answering fan mail. The wonderful thing about getting older, Sarton writes, is “the freedom to be absurd, the freedom to forget things . . . the freedom to be eccentric.” Her other octogenarian pleasures include preparing for holidays and weddings, lunches with old friends and new admirers, the heady delight of critical recognition, and the rebirth of her lyric voice as she creates new poems. Yet Sarton knows that age can also bring pain and ill health, as well as a deepening awareness of the “perilousness of life on all sides, knowing that at any moment something frightful may happen.”
Download or read book Encore with Rectangle and Philosophy written by Ron Padgett and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. "I figured there was time / but for what?" ENCORE WITH A RECTANGLE AND PHILOSOPHY is the work of a seasoned duo--a meditation on beginnings and ends and what it's all been all about. Whatever gloominess we might expect from such ruminations is deflected by Padgett and Winkfield's characteristic playfulness and grace. It's as if every line of the poem is aware of itself as something that's being felt and written in the moment. Some parts deepen as the poem goes on; others find themselves deflated the next line down. Winkfield's clean, architectural drawings play variations on Padgett's nimbly shifting tones. Padgett says, "I built a house that had ideas in it," and Winkfield reifies the house's geometry, its contraptions, and the echo of departing footsteps. This genial adventure goes beyond the usual categorization of New York School collaboration and into that something known as real life.
Download or read book Encore written by Kathy Lohrum Cotton and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encore Prize Poems is a collection of the top award-winning poems from the 2020 National Federation of State Poetry Societies annual contests. These poems were chosen from more than 6,500 submissions by poets across the nation and from Canada, the United Kingdom and Spain. The anthology's wide variety includes visually unique shape poems; well-structured forms like pantoum, villanelle, and sonnet; and the short forms of 3-line haiku, 13-line trimeric, 60-syllable minute poems. Diverse viewpoints bring fresh, personal interpretations to such wide-ranging subjects as wolves and hometown heroes, women's power and environmental issues, books and borders. Encore 2020 adds a new feature for students winning in categories of elementary-, middle- and high-school. NFSPS invites you to explore cover-to-cover, finding the unique passion, insight and inspiration of many voices on many subjects.
Download or read book Our First Encore written by Dan Lake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry range is quite diverse in subject matter ranging from humour, politics, life and of course love, what poet would not write about love? We hope you enjoy reading them as much as Dan and Lulu have enjoyed writing them for you in this their second book together. They have many fans who will be delighted to see this book come to publication as their first has been a tremendous success.
