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Book Segments     The Stories Behind the Poems

Download or read book Segments The Stories Behind the Poems written by Charles Messina and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Segments - The Stories Behind the Poems: An Autopoemography of Charles Messina by Charles Messina Segments - The Stories Behind the Poems is a collection of poems that are easy to read and are understandable. Also included are short stories for each poem so the reader can understand and relate to them. There are many feel-good stories and some very sad ones as well. But all in all, this is a feel-good book that you will enjoy now and for years to come. You will find yourself opening this book up many times to share the stories with your children, families, and friends.

Book A Brief History of Burning

Download or read book A Brief History of Burning written by Cait O'Kane and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A poetry collection that navigates issues that include working class poetics, disabilities, and politics"--

Book The Poem in the Story

Download or read book The Poem in the Story written by Harold Scheub and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area—where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces—that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story. In a career devoted to exploring the art of the African storyteller, Scheub has conducted some of the most interesting and provocative investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling, the complex relationship between artist and audience, and, most dramatically, the role played by poetry in storytelling. This book is his most daring effort yet, an unconventional work that searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical center that Scheub calls "the poem in the story." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in southern Africa and decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Scheub develops an original approach—a blend of field notes, diary entries, photographs, and texts of stories and poems—that guides readers into a new way of viewing, even experiencing, meaning in a story. Though this work is largely focused on African storytelling, its universal applications emerge when Scheub brings the work of storytellers as different as Shakespeare and Faulkner into the discussion.

Book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Stephen Cushman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time

Book The Poet s Guide to Publishing

Download or read book The Poet s Guide to Publishing written by Katerina Stoykova and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to publishing poetry is designed for the poet on a journey from producing a pile of poems to celebrating at a book launch. If you have been writing poetry for some time and have accumulated a volume of work, this guide is designed to meet you where you are in your book creation or publication process. It is organized into five sections to mimic the distinct phases of conceiving, arranging, editing, publishing, and promoting a poetry collection. Each section provides a mix of theoretical materials and practical assignments to demystify and ground the publication process.

Book Steal it Back

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra Simonds
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9780991545490
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Steal it Back written by Sandra Simonds and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steal It Back takes on the powers that be, heralding the dawn of a revolution

Book Suzie Segment of Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vivian L. Hennah
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2006-10-30
  • ISBN : 1477162275
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Suzie Segment of Poetry written by Vivian L. Hennah and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HELLO MY NAME IS VIVIAN HENNAH, AND I STARTED MY POETIC WRITING WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN YEARS OF AGE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MS. GERENE FREEMAN AND THE SUPERVISION OF ELENI FOURTOUNI AT THE CETA SUMMER YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM, CALLED THE GIFTED AND TALENTED. THERE WERE TEN TALENTED YOUNG POETS IN THIS GROUP OF WHOM SPENT THEIR SUMMER WRITING, READING, DRAWING, AND TEACHING THOSE CHILDREN A BIT YOUNGER THAN THAT OF OURSELVES. MY WRITINGS WERE THEN PLACED WITHIN THE POETIC COLLECTIVE BOOKLET TITLED, YOUNG WORDS AND VISIONS! I HAVE REVISED SOME OF MY POEMS AS A SINGLE POET AND ENTERED THEM WITHIN 2003 INTERNATIONAL POETS SOCIETY. AFTER THE JUDGES VIEWED SEVERAL OF MY POEMS, I WAS AWARDED A INVITATION AS ONE OF THE 200 OUT OF THOUSANDS OF ENTRIES SUBMITED TO THEM AS A NOTABLE POETIC ARTIST, TO ATTEND AS ONE OF THE WINNERS OF SUCH NOTABILITY. THE 2003 SUMMER CONVENTION AND SYMPOSIUM HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AT THE HILTON HOTEL OF 1919 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORTH WEST WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009 : ON AUGUST 15th 17th 2003. HERE THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS, IN CONJUCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POETRY.COM, AND THE WATERMARK PRESS JUDGES CHOSE ME AS ONE OF THE 6 FINALIST OUT OF 36 SEMI FINAL ENTRIES REQUIRED; WITH MY COMING IN 4th PLACE! IN SPECIAL ATTENDANCE AT THE TWO EXCLUSIVE BANQUET ENTERTAINMENT EXTRAVAGANZAS WERE AMERICAS BEST SELLING POET MR. MATTIE STEPANEK, GREAT MUSICAL ARTIST AS THE DRIFTERS AND THE MARVELLETTES, LEGENDARY ACTOR MR. MICKY ROONEY etc. OF MY FOURTH PLACE WINNING , I RECEIVED A LARGE ENGRAVED SILVER POETRY AWARD CUP, A BRONZE COMMEMORATIVE AWARD MEDALLION, A PERSONAL MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS, etc. THIS YEAR OF 2003, I WAS SELECTED TWICE AS ONE OF THE 200 WINNERS OUT OF THOUSANDS SUBMITTED, TO HAVE MY POETRY PUBLISHED WITHIN TWO DIFFERENT INTERNATIONAL BOOKS OF POETRY THE FIRST TITLED: PATTERNS OF LIFE AND THE SECOND ENTITLE: THE BEST POEMS AND POETS OF 2003. INCLUDED WITHIN SUCH HISTORIC VOLUMES OF POETRY ARE THE WELL - KNOWN WRITERS, FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT MR. WILLIAM CLINTON, THE 14th DALAI LAMA, ARCH BISHOP DESMOND TUTU AND MANY MORE: WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO THE RESEARCH TO HELP FIND A CURE FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WORLDWIED!!! BOOK OF MY OWN POETRY BOOK IS CALLED: SUZIES SEGMENTS OF POETRY!!!

Book Look Ma   Hands  on Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adele L. Steiner
  • Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
  • Release : 2008-05
  • ISBN : 1598585045
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Look Ma Hands on Poetry written by Adele L. Steiner and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workshops in Look Ma,"Hands" on Poetry are designed to help teachers and poets familiarize elementary through high school students with a variety of creative and fun ways to engage their imaginations and write poetry They do so by encouraging teachers and students to explore, together, the art of poetry; i.e., the art of employing the five senses to capture experience in language. The workshops also introduce young writers to a wide range of poets and the poetic techniques and styles that they have incorporated in their writing. As a result when students complete a series of workshops from this book, they will know how to write a poem They may enjoy reading more poetry, too, because they will have a solid understanding of how poetry works. Finally, there are exciting ideas in Look Ma, "Hands," on Poetry for ways in which young writers can exhibit and perform their poetry. The workshops in this book run from 45-60 minutes with the time divided into three segments. In the first, the teacher reads and discusses poems that are examples of the types of poetry students will be writing. In the second, the teacher introduces the writing assignment and has students begin writing. Finally, students who finish poems are invited to share them in the remaining class time. Because poetry is the art of capturing experience in language, the workshops are structured around sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound. Each of the workshops in the first five chapters is geared toward exploring one of these senses, and the two later chapters contain workshops that require students to use all five to write their poems. As a result, workshops from each chapter may be used individually or in sequence to create one or twoweek poetry units that teachers and students can enjoy. Workshops in the book include the Sleight-of-Hand and Animal Mask Workshops wherein students use metaphor, simile, and personification to create imagery in poems. They use music and musical instruments to help them create sound and rhythm in the Native American, Chant, and Rap Workshops, and then they literally play with words to write Bingo and Multiple Voice Poems. Young people have opportunities to express their feelings through poetry in the Blues, Love Potion, and Ode Workshops; and finally, they use their five senses simultaneously when writing Bubble and Rainbow Poems and when they interpret paintings, sculpture, and music in Echphrastic Poems. The book's final section presents creative ideas for poetry readings, books, and displays. Suggestions for readings include the Poetry Cafe, which can incorporate any of the Coffee House, Tea Room, 1950's Diner, and/or Greco-Roman Garden venues discussed in this section. Student poetry books and chapbooks complete with student art and photos are described here, too, along with plans for poetry rainbows, sidewalks, mobiles, and poetry word collections.

Book Between History and Poetry

Download or read book Between History and Poetry written by Donna Krolik Hollenberg and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated selection of correspondence between Hilda Doolittle, an expatriate poet, and a graduate student who became her literary advisor, agent, and close friend. Letters are chosen to focus on Doolittle's creative process, her reading, and the publication of her work within the context of this developing friendship. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book How to Read Chinese Poetry

Download or read book How to Read Chinese Poetry written by Zong-qi Cai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. The companion volume How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook presents 100 famous poems (56 are new selections) in Chinese, English, and romanization, accompanied by prose translation, textual notes, commentaries, and recordings. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)

Book Beowulf Unlocked

Download or read book Beowulf Unlocked written by Michael D.C. Drout and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem. Techniques of cluster analysis identify patterns of vocabulary distribution that indicate robust similarities and differences among segments of the poem. The correlation of these patterns with knowledge gained from source-study, philological analysis, and neglected previous scholarship sheds new light on the material of which Beowulf was made and the way it was composed. The implications of this investigation for the dating, structure, and cultural context of Beowulf will overturn the current scholarly consensus and significantly improve our understanding of the poem, its nature, and origins.

Book Style in Latin Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paolo Dainotti
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2024-03-04
  • ISBN : 3111067351
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Style in Latin Poetry written by Paolo Dainotti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry - from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality to literary criticism - in recent years, for various reasons, it has not received the attention it deserves. This book, published a generation after Adams and Mayer's seminal 1999 volume, Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry, ideally aims to complement and update it on a smaller scale, offering the reader a collection of stimulating papers from international scholars on the style of some of the most significant voices of Latin poetry, from early drama to the Flavian period.

Book Holidays of the Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amir Locker-Biletzki
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 1438480873
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Holidays of the Revolution written by Amir Locker-Biletzki and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Party and its youth movement, which posed a radical challenge to Zionism. Amir Locker-Biletzki examines the development of this movement from 1919 to 1965, concentrating on how Communists built a distinctive identity through myth and ritual. He addresses three key themes: identity construction through Jewish holidays (Hanukkah and Passover), through civic holidays (Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israeli Independence Day), and through Soviet and working-class myths and ceremonies (May Day and the October Revolution). He also shows how Jewish Communists viewed, interacted, and celebrated with their Palestinian comrades. Using extensive archival and newspaper sources, Locker-Biletzki argues that Jewish-Israeli Communists created a unique, dissident subculture. Simultaneously negating and absorbing the culture of Socialist-Zionism and Israeli Republicanism—as well as Soviet and left-wing–European traditions—Jewish Communists forged an Israeli identity beyond the bounds of Zionism.

Book A History of Twentieth Century American Women s Poetry

Download or read book A History of Twentieth Century American Women s Poetry written by Linda A. Kinnahan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of American women poets. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Edna St Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of feminist literary criticism. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of women's poetry in America and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

Book The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry

Download or read book The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry written by Stephen Owen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poetry. This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. First, it examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some poems attached to authors and some not. By setting aside putative differences of author and genre, Stephen Owen argues, we can see that this was “one poetry,” created from a shared poetic repertoire and compositional practices. Second, it considers how the scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry. As Owen shows, early poetry comes to us through reproduction—reproduction by those who knew the poem and transmitted it, by musicians who performed it, and by scribes and anthologists—all of whom changed texts to suit their needs."

Book Collaborative Poetry Translation

Download or read book Collaborative Poetry Translation written by W.N. Herbert and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the 'poettrio' method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as a bilingual mediator between the two. Drawing on data from over 100 hours of recorded footage and interviews, Collaborative Poetry Translation offers both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the method in practice, exploring such issues as poem selection, translation strategies, interaction between participants, and the balancing act between the different cultures at play. A final chapter highlights both the practical and research implications for practices of collaborative translation. This innovative work is situated in an interdisciplinary framework of collaborative translation, poetry translation, poetry and creative writing, and it addresses concerns ranging from the ethnography of collaboration to contemporary publishing practice. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and specialists in translation studies, comparative literature, literary studies, and creative writing, as well as creative practitioners.

Book A Poet of the Abbasid Period

Download or read book A Poet of the Abbasid Period written by سنداوي، خالد and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has gathered the extant sources for the poet and presents this edition (in the Arabic original), with annotation (also in Arabic); as well as an introduction to the poet, his times, his audience, and style.