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Book The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry  1993 1994

Download or read book The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1993 1994 written by Douglas Messerli and published by Sun and Moon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry  1994 1995

Download or read book The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1994 1995 written by Douglas Messerli and published by Sun and Moon Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry  1994 1995

Download or read book The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1994 1995 written by Douglas Messerli and published by Sun and Moon Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian American Poets

Download or read book Asian American Poets written by Guiyou Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel. And despite the proliferation of a large number of poets of Asian descent in the 20th century, Asian American poetry remains a neglected area of study. Poetry as an elite genre has not reached the level of popularity of the novel or short story, partly due to the difficulties of reading and interpreting poetic texts. The lack of criticism on Asian American poetry speaks to the urgent need for scholarship in this area, since perhaps more than any other genre, poetry most forcefully captures the intense feelings and emotions that Asian Americans have experienced about themselves and their world. This reference book overviews the tremendous cultural contributions of Asian American poets. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent, most of whom have been active during the latter half of the 20th century. Each entry begins with a short biography, which sometimes includes information drawn from personal interviews. The entries then discuss the poet's major works and themes, including such concerns as family, racism, sexism, identity, language, and politics. A survey of the poet's critical reception follows. In many cases the existing criticism is scant, and the entries offer new readings of neglected works. The entries conclude with bibliographies of primary and secondary texts, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Book Writing in Our Time

Download or read book Writing in Our Time written by Pauline Butling and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s. The poetics explored include the works of Nicole Brossard, Daphne Martlatt, bpNichol, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Frank Davey in the 1960s and ’70s. For the 1980-2000 period, the authors include essays on Jeff Derksen, Clare Harris, Erin Mour, and Lisa Robertson. They also look at books by older authors published after 1979, including Robin Blaser, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah. A historiography of the radical poets, and a roster of the little magazines, small press publishers, literary festivals, and other such sites that have sustained poetic experimentation, provide context.

Book International Who s Who in Poetry 2004

Download or read book International Who s Who in Poetry 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

Book Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature written by Seiwoong Oh and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on Asian-American literature providing profiles of Asian-American writers and their works.

Book Cather Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan J. Rosowski
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1996-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780803264151
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Cather Studies written by Susan J. Rosowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather?s work for the informed reader or the specialized student. In fourteen essays, critics and scholars examine Cather?s Catholic Progressivism, her literary relations with William Faulkner, and her place in the multicultural canon of American literature.

Book Poets Talk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pauline Butling
  • Publisher : University of Alberta
  • Release : 2005-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780888644312
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Poets Talk written by Pauline Butling and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that takes on the “hard questions” about the role of poets in society together with the challenges of reading “difficult” poetry. Using the relaxed format of the personal interview, Butling and Rudy open doors to some of the most challenging and important poetry of the 1990s. Robert Kroetsch talks about his dread of systems and his subversive use of sub-literary forms. Erin Mouré and Daphne Marlatt discuss the feminist trajectories in their work—how to jump circuits and activate alternative networks. Dionne Brand links her poetics to Marxist politics and Pan-African liberation movements. Annharte explains her use of humour to de-program Native people. Jeff Derksen wants to disarticulate and rearticulate linguistic and social systems, while Fred Wah emphasizes the role of poetry in changing how we see the world.

Book Seedings   Other Poems

Download or read book Seedings Other Poems written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry which contains the title poem, a celebration of poets and friends, and four other sections--Improvisations, Twentieth Century Unlimited, An Oracle for Delfi, and 14 Stations.

Book After

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Messerli
  • Publisher : Sun & Moon
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book After written by Douglas Messerli and published by Sun & Moon. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the late 1970s poet, dramatist and fiction writer Douglas Messerli began casually translating poems that he had difficulty comprehending in other translations. Describing these sometimes loosely translated works as poems after the originals, he began experimenting in his own poetry with some of the poetic techniques and themes he had worked with in the poems of other languages. In 1993 he began pairing the poems he had written with the poems after other writers.

Book Sheila Murphy Greatest Hits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sheila Murphy
  • Publisher : Pudding House Publications
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781930755413
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Sheila Murphy Greatest Hits written by Sheila Murphy and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 greatest hit poems from the career of Sheila E. Murphy. Part of the Invitational national archive, Poets Greatest Hits. --Pudding House Publications.

Book Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires

Download or read book Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary history behind this beautiful mountain region. The Massachusetts Berkshires have long been a mecca for literary greats, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edith Wharton to Sinclair Lewis and Joan Ackermann. The Green River in Great Barrington inspired William Cullen Bryant’s poetry. Charles Pierce Burton’s childhood hometown, Adams, became the setting for his frolicking Boys of Bob’s Hill children’s books. During an interlude in Lenox, Patricia Highsmith consulted a local undertaker for details to use in The Talented Mr. Ripley. In this book, Bernard A. Drew brings together a fascinating chronicle of some 250 wordsmiths who took inspiration from the hills and valleys of the Berkshires.

Book An Anthology of New  American  Poets

Download or read book An Anthology of New American Poets written by Lisa Jarnot and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Anthology. AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW (AMERICAN) POETS features the work of thirty-five young poets who represent "a new opening of the field for American poetry [and] a turn to living figures and essential issues" --Paul Hoover. The poems are characteristically aware of the traditions they are falling out of step with, making a "'thinking' compendium of the planetary poetry scene and a boon to the ongoing struggle to keep the world safe for poetry" --Anne Waldman. The Anthology is co-edited by Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz and Chris Stroffolino, and contains work by Lee Ann Brown, Candace Kaucher, Jeffrey McDaniel, Claire Needell, Mark Nowak, Edwin Torres and many more.

Book Drafts 1   38  Toll

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Blau DuPlessis
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 081957256X
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Drafts 1 38 Toll written by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drafts 1-38, Toll, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has built a work which mimics memory and its losses, and which plays with the textures of memory, including its unexpectedness, its flashes and disappearances. Her recurrent motifs and materials include home, homelessness and exile; death and the memory of the dead; political grief and passion; silence, speech, the sayable and the ineffable. Drafts 1-38, Toll functions as a long poem comprised of 38 pieces, or drafts. These poems are conceived as autonomous "canto-like" sections that work on two procedural principles. One is the random repetition of lines or phrases across poems, a self-questioning, processual, and reconceptualizing strategy that honors the term "drafts." A second procedural principle is "the fold." This is the reconsideration of a "donor draft" and the deployment of some aspect in the donor draft in a related draft. The periodicity of this reconsideration is the number 19; hence drafts 1-19 make up the original layer, while drafts 20-38 constitute the first fold on top of this material.

Book International Who s Who of Authors and Writers 2004

Download or read book International Who s Who of Authors and Writers 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Book Contemporary Authors

Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Joyce Nakamura and published by Contemporary Authors Autobiogr. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the 30 volumes in this series presents about 20 autobiographical essays written exclusively for the series, allowing your patrons to approach each author's life from a unique, highly personal vantage point. Varying in style and length (minimum 10,000 words) and international in scope, authors' essays are brimming with reflections and insights.A unique resource for studies on the memoir, each essay is illustrated with photographs supplied by the author and followed with a complete bibliographic listing of works. Every volume also provides a cumulative subject index to the more than 450 entrants in the series. Featured authors include:Diane AckermanGeorge BoweringDennis BrutusRita DoveHoward FastMichael GilbertLarry HeinemannGarrett HongoSandra McPhersonGerald VizenorAnne WaldmanElie WieselTobias WolffAnd many more(Note: this series has been discontinued, however new autobiographical essays will appear periodically in the Contemporary Authors series.)