Download or read book Potscrubber Lullabies written by Eric H. McHenry and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. POTSCRUBBER LULLABIES aren't the kind that will put you to sleep. The poems in this first collection dance, dart, and double-cross, and are deadly serious the whole time. Preoccupied with impermanence and injustice, Eric McHenry wagers everything on the redemptive power of music, irony, and love. His language can be extraordinarily playful and self-aware--the double-negative 'affirms / itself in no uncertain terms'; the census strains 'the dead / from decade'; and a neighborhood blighted by Dutch Elm Disease learns that when 'You take the elms from Elmhurst, you get hurt.' But the poems always remain rooted in the sentence-rhythms of spoken English--in plain speech and 'the plain fact of song.' Every one of these poems is a little miracle of self-exactitude, rhyming and word play and metrical joy; they're games the words in the poem play elatedly with each other, and everybody wins. The poems are victories of observation and self-observation, outsight and insight. I think there's genius in this writing.--David Ferry This is a book that combines themes, places and music with wit and feeling, while letting them be what they are. Full of people, landscape and language treated with subdued newness. A great first book.--Aaron Fogel The exuberant, acrobatic poems of POTSCRUBBER LULLABIES are full of music and awareness of music. Along with their virtuosity, they have genuine feeling: generous laughter; a sneaky dignity free of self-importance; curiosity about the world; and an admirable sense of balance.--Robert Pinsky Eric McHenry's POTSCRUBBER LULLABIES is a fabulous book, one of the best books I've read in years. Witty, poignant, offbeat, elegiac and satirical (sometimes all at once), with metrical subtlety and sly rhymes, McHenry explores the idiom of place and the place of idiom. He reveals how even the most personal and intimate utterances lean 'hard with the weight of someone else's meaning.' This debut collection marks the beginning of a new and significant voice in American poetry.--Alan Shapiro POTSCRUBBER LULLABIES is a funky, tough-minded, grown-up first book of poems, dangerously deadpan and winsome, as alert to large social realities like Midwestern floods and politics as to tiny motions of the soul. McHenry's wordplay, a marriage of zany wit and truthfulness, never misses the beat or the point. Whether he is slinging his troubleball as John the Revelator, or declaring ominously, 'When you say nothing I know what you mean, ' he has our number, and we have reason to be grateful.--Rosanna Warren [POTSCRUBBER LULLABIES] has many of the same elements as much more blah collections--strolled towns and graveyards, a kitchen window, a compost pile and wheelbarrow, a family, the eponymous Potscrubber dishwasher--but these poems do what many don't: they are intent on and successful at leaving these scenes more memorable for the careful linguistic inspection. Normally suspicious when I hear the drumbeat of traditional forms, here I'm tempted to salute. Don't let a few colorfully borrowed bars fool you: by the dawn's early light, there's something very American up at Ft. McHenry.--Kevin McFadden McHenry's poems ... range in content from familial issues to politics to pop culture to self-reflection. The themes are often familiar or funny, but always emotionally brightened by McHenry's aural strategies: word-play, rhyme, meter and repetition. McHenry obviously delights in language ... but his delight brings with it a serious outcome. Robert Frost claimed that poetry is 'play for mortal stakes.' Eric McHenry plays well, and touchingly.--Amy Schrader

Download or read book Dictionary of Midwestern Literature Volume Two written by Philip A. Greasley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Download or read book Able Muse Summer 2015 No 19 print edition written by Alexander Pepple and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Summer 2015 issue, Number 19. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010). ". . . [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry." - Dana Gioia. CONTENTS: EDITORIAL - Alexander Pepple. FEATURED ARTIST - Wayne Levin; (Interviewed by Sharon Passmore). FEATURED POET - Eric McHenry; (Interviewed by Cody Walker). FICTION - Linda Boroff, Richard Dokey, Michael Bradburn-Ruster, Zara Lisbon, Lane Kareska. ESSAYS - Catharine Savage Brosman, Kevin Durkin, Robert Earle, Eric Torgersen. BOOK REVIEWS - Reagan Upshaw. POETRY - Jay Rogoff, Meredith McCann, William Baer, Jan D. Hodge, Stephen Scaer, William Thompson, Martial, Susan McLean, Carrie Shipers, Maura Stanton, Stephen Gibson, Len Krisak, Glenn Freeman, Richard Cecil, Bruce Bennett, Julie Steiner, Eric Torgersen, Ed Shacklee.

Download or read book The Entire Animal written by Gregory Heath and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Marshall is a man in pain. Though very successful in his professional life, he has a string of failed relationships behind him, and has all but abandoned hope of finding personal happiness. Then, quite suddenly, Clare, a beautiful young art student, appears in his life, seeming to hold out the prospect of escape from all that entrammels him. The question is, does he have the strength to respond? Gregory Heath's first novel is a meditation on the harm that is caused when people stop communicating with each other."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Names of Things written by Jeffrey Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers poems from Harrison's three published books, over two decades of poetry, and also includes a section of more recent poems.

Download or read book Shuffle and Breakdown written by Cody Walker and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Cody Walker's SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN, his first collection and a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2005 and 2006, is a work of comic brilliance and devastating irony. From Abbott and Costello: The Alzheimer's Years to a series of letters to Whitman from his imagined grandson, this is a wondrous strange book that operates with the precise timing of a great joke, while bracing itself for dissolution and worse. "You'll need your wits about you when you read this astonishing book. Cody Walker keeps working surprises, setting traps, yanking rugs from underfoot--and I must say, I enjoyed myself no end. Escalation, 2007, for instance, sounds as if written by a Mother Goose high on LSD. Walker is unique, no mere trickster but a serious craftsman who blurs the line of demarcation between sober poetry and light verse. Though he sometimes writes in forms usually frivolous--limericks, double dactyls, clerihews--he can do so with dark import. An amazing series of letters from a fictitious grandson of Walt Whitman is alone worth the price of admission."--X. J. Kennedy "In this case, the voice comes from some ways off, at an unexpected angle. Cody Walker's poems are singular, and severally strong. SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN is more than an assemblage; it's a collection with a subtending architecture, so that while one is savoring local pleasures--a brash simile, an odd and antic rhyme--one is aware of the book's shapely whole. Like Roethke, who also had a Pacific Northwest background, Walker makes adroit use of fractured nursery rhyme. Like Whitman, with whom he shares a taste for the out-flung, Walker means to be comprehensive. But SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN is more than a toting up of its influences. Here's a wry and rueful and utterly appealing new sensibility."--Brad Leithauser

Download or read book Field Knowledge written by Morri Creech and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOMINATED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE. WINNER of the first annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize "Morri Creech's Field Knowledge has given me more pleasure than any book I have read in years. The judges of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize clearly knew their business" - Frank Kermode "Gorgeous as they are, these poems maintain a fine tension between earthly splendors and spiritual anxieties... Dazzling" - Susan Ludwigson Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina in 1970, and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He has published one previous poetry collection, Paper Cathedrals and has received the Stan and Tom Wick Award from Kent State University Press, a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine and the Modern Poetry Foundation, and artist's fellowship from The Louisiana Division of the Arts. He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "Morri Creech uncovers for us the world as unspeakable enigma ... Each thing he holds up to the eye is lit from inside with the fire of its own passing away and its own eternity... These poems transform by a deepest magic." - Li-Young Lee

Download or read book The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets written by David Yezzi and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time. The poets of The Swallow Anthology do not constitute a school or movement; rather they are a group of unique artists working at the top of their craft. As editor David Yezzi writes in his introduction, “Here is a group of poets who have, perhaps for the first time since the modernist revolution, returned to a happy détente between warring camps. This is a new kind of poet, who, dissatisfied with the climate of extremes, has found a balance between innovation and received form, the terror beneath the classical and the order underpinning the romantic. This new unified sensibility is no watered–down admixture, no easy compromise, but, rather, the vital spirit behind the most accomplished poetry being written by America’s new poets.” Poets include: Craig Arnold, David Barber, Rick Barot, Priscilla Becker, Geoffrey Brock, Dan Brown, Peter Campion, Bill Coyle, Morri Creech, Erica Dawson, Ben Downing, Andrew Feld, John Foy, Jason Gray, George Green, Joseph Harrison, Ernest Hilbert, Adam Kirsch, Joanie Mackowski, Eric McHenry, Molly McQuade, Joshua Mehigan, Wilmer Mills, Joe Osterhaus, J. Allyn Rosser, A. E. Stallings, Pimone Triplett, Catherine Tufariello, Deborah Warren, Rachel Wetzsteon, Greg Williamson, Christian Wiman, Mark Wunderlich, David Yezzi, and C. Dale Young.

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Download or read book Perfect Hurt written by Bradford Telford and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for both the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and the Donald Justice Book Prize. Last Song We are nothing but the stories that we tell. We are all the people that we'll never know. We are oceans, echoed in a shell. We are the barren harvests that we sow. You'd think that I'd be sick of all these saws by now. I am. But if I had my druthers I would die to grow sick of more because we're all dying - and some faster than others. Our heaven is here, our hell is here, and love - the bleeding angel of no soul - is here. It flaps its broken wing, it hangs above our ground, it whispers in our grave's dirt ear one name that we forget before it roles, dives vanishing beneath the soil of our lives. Stunning first book from one of Waywiser's most compelling younger poets An old artist looks back at a century that almost killed him while yet turning him into the creator he was destined to become. Lovers pull down a tree to discover the life inside dead, dry bark. Through their exhilarating techniques, their adamant attachments to art and to nature, their sharp observations and their wry senses of humour, these poems re-imagine suffering and memory as what anchor us to the world - and what render that world, amazingly, worth surviving.

Download or read book Big eyed Afraid written by Erica Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Big-Eyed Afraid' is a fast-paced, breathlessly witty and illuminating riff on the multiple effects of race, sex, biology and social pressure on who we are and how we see ourselves. Dawson's dazzling rhymes, her perfect pitch for an array of idioms ranging from the smutty to the sacred, and her extraordinary combination of metrical control and jazz-like syntactical elaboration make her work feel at one and the same time chiselled and improvised, traditional and utterly distinct. Brilliantly alert to multiple influences yet irreducibly tied to this particular poet at this particular moment in our collective history, Big-Eyed Afraid is one of the most compelling and entertaining books of poetry I've read in I don't know how long.'- Alan Shapiro 'Erica Dawson is the most exciting younger poet I've seen in years. What drive and verve! Even in lines under tight control, she can sound reckless. Her dazzling wit informs poem after poem, making each seem like a stiff drink with a dash of bitters. 'Big-Eyed Afraid' is a sensational debut. I can't recall finding this much energy between two covers since Ariel.- X. J. Kennedy Erica Dawson was born in Columbia, Maryland in 1979. After earning her Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 2006, she moved to the University of Cincinnati, where she is pursuing a PhD in English and Comparative Literature as the Elliston Fellow in Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Blackbird, Sewanee Theological Review, Southwest Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She has been awarded several fellowships and prizes, including the Academy of American Poets Prize at Ohio State University. She also took second place in the 2004 Morton Marr Poetry Prize.

Download or read book Articles of Faith written by Neil Berry and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of British literary reviews and their editors, among them the pioneering Edinburgh Review, the New Statesman, and the London Review of Books. This new edition includes an afterword that discusses the ferocious controversy precipitated by the London Review of Books when, in 2006, it published a gigantic polemic by the American political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the subject of America's 'Israel Lobby'. It also discusses the kinship between the London Review and its transatlantic counterpart, the New York Review of Books, focusing on how the latter became drawn into the controversy and how the two reviews have together played a key role in opening up the vexed question of the 'special relationship' between Israel and the U.S.

Download or read book Shell Island written by Ian Parks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shell Island" is Ian Parks's second full collection of poems. As such, it extends and develops themes already present in his previous work: those of love, loss, and the relationship that exists between the individual and society. Themes of encounter - particularly with the miraculous - and of the resonating quality of history are juxtaposed with a series of intense love lyrics. The main preoccupation of the collection, however, is with the transitory nature of human experience and how that experience informs our perception of 'the rule of love and politics'.

Download or read book Identity Theft written by Joseph Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Joseph Harrison's new volume is a wonderful leap in his poetic development. Harrison fuses formal control with a rich interiority and composes many poems that deserve to become canonical.' - Harold Bloom'The title poem of Joseph Harrison's second book is a witty and headlong discussion of how one's self, if any, is constituted. We are a patchwork, it develops, and the same might be said of Harrison's book, which makes continual and expert use of Spenser, Wordsworth, Horace, Villon, and other predecessors. ... Harrison is a superlative ringmaster: his book throughout is governed by that playfulness and performance which, as Frost said, are required in poetry however impassioned or serious. I found myself particularly moved by Who They Were, which recalls the poet's mother and father in the stanza of Tennyson's In Memoriam.' - Richard Wilbur

Download or read book Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac written by Information Today Inc and published by Information Today. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mommy Daddy Evan Sage written by Eric H. McHenry and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood can be a confusing time, but not to Evan and Sage. They've got the world pretty well figured out, and are happy to explain it to their perplexed parents.

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