Download or read book The Good Gray Poet written by William Douglas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whitman Noir written by Ivy Wilson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the meaning of blacks and blackness in Whitman's imagination and, equally significant, also illuminates the aura of Whitman in African American letters from Langston Hughes to June Jordan, Margaret Walker to Yusef Komunyakaa. The essay, which feature academic scholars and poets alike, address questions of literary history, the textual interplay between author and narrator, and race and poetic influence."--Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Good Gray Poet A Vindication written by William Douglas O'Connor and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Douglas O'Connor authored the famous biographical fiction novel "the good gray Poet" on the usa of the united states. The book, marketed as a literary biography, gives readers with an in-intensity examination of Whitman's mind-boggling career as a poet and public parent. O'Connor's biography correctly navigates Whitman's family circle and modern lives, imparting slight on his early development, his style, and the social and cultural impact of his revolutionary poetry. O'Connor offers a superb portrait of Whitman, portraying each his accomplishments and his troubles in same degree. The writing's need for "the good grey Poet" references to Whitman's super tendencies as a poet who treated the difficulties of lifestyles with compassion and empathy. O'Connor's records highlights Whitman's fame as a literary trailblazer who defied institutional restraints and championed democratic, individualistic, and nonsecular answers to problems in his writings. At a sure aspect within the book, O'Connor offers readers with a whole assessment of the art work of Whitman effect on American manner of life and language, underscoring his persevering with importance in shaping the course of literary records. "The good grey Poet" is the right homage to Whitman's legacy, recognizing his contributions to the literary canon and his feature as surely one of the usa most essential poets.
Download or read book Elegy in a Country Churchyard written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems Retrieved written by Frank O'Hara and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of this classic, essential companion to Frank O'Hara's Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Bill Berkson.
Download or read book The Good Gray Poet Walt Whitman A Vindication written by William Douglas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. “Song of Myself”, a portion of Whitman’s monumental poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed of all American poems, it is written in Whitman’s signature free verse style, without a regular form, meter, or rhythm. His lines have a mesmerizing chant-like quality, as he sought to make poetry more appealing. Few poems are as fun to read aloud as this one. Considered to be the core of his poetic vision, this poem is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world in 1855. It is exhilarating, epic, and fresh in its brilliant and fascinating diction and wordplay as it tries to capture the unique meaning of words of the day, while also embracing the rapidly evolving vocabularies of the sciences and the streets. Far ahead of its time, it was considered by many social conservatives to be scandalous and obscene for its depiction of sexuality and desire, while at the same time, critics hailed the poem as a modern masterpiece. This first version of “Song of Myself” is far superior to the later versions and will delight readers with the playfulness of its diction as it glorifies the self, body, and soul. “I am large, I contain multitudes,”
Download or read book Some Things Words Can Do written by Martha Collins and published by Sheep Meadow Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new poems, Collins explores our capacity for violence and subtle forms of cruelty, as well as the disturbing power of words themselves to hurt and divide us. But she also reminds us that the language of lyric is most restorative when it makes demands upon us; when it is, as in these deeply intelligent poems, both graceful and athletic.
Download or read book Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim written by Timothy Gray and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, which tended to divide East from West. The geographical consciousness of Snyder's writing was particularly influential, Gray argues, because it gave San Francisco's Beat and hippie cultures a set of physical coordinates by which they could chart their utopian visions of peace and love.Gray's introduction tracks the increased use of “Pacific Rim discourse” by politicians and business leaders following World War II. Ensuing chapters analyze Snyder's countercultural invocation of this regional idea, concentrating on the poet's migratory or “creaturely” sensibility, his gift for literary translation, his physical embodiment of trans-Pacific ideals, his role as tribal spokesperson for Haight-Ashbury hippies, and his burgeoning interest in environmental issues. Throughout, Gray's citations of such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger shed light on Snyder's communal role, providing an amazingly intimate portrait of the west coast counterculture. An interdisciplinary project that utilizes models of ecology, sociology, and comparative religion to supplement traditional methods of literary biography, Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim offers a unique perspective on Snyder's life and work. This book will fascinate literary and Asian studies scholars as well as the general reader interested in the Beat movement and multicultural influences on poetry.
Download or read book Brute written by Emily Skaja and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.
Download or read book Musings with a Cuppa The Poetry of Tea written by Earlene Grey and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musings With a Cuppa-The Poetry of Tea is an invitation to experience the joy and serenity of a freshly brewed pot of tea, stirred and steeped just so, then blended perfectly with the wit and wisdom of the written word. For your pleasure, each poem in this lovely book has a reference to tea. It is delightfully illustrated with delicate line drawings that only enhance the words. This unique poetry is light, uplifting and easy to understand. Sometimes it is a bit spiritual, sometimes a bit naughty, but it is always worth looking under the top layer of sweetness to discovered the many layered insights. The author hopes that this original tea poetry will be sipped and savoured by you and then shared with a good and thoughtful friend.
Download or read book Blake s Water Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray written by William Blake and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 116 watercolors illustrate 13 best-loved poems by Thomas Gray, including "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat." First inexpensive full-color reproduction, with complete text of poems.
Download or read book These Unforgettable Things written by S L Gray and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are unforgettable things we lift to the light. There are unforgettable things we wish would stay buried. In her second collection, S.L. Gray tells the story of loss and healing through poetry and prose.
Download or read book Pop Sonnets written by Erik Didriksen and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Goodreads Choice Award nominee The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others. An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike. “Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME
Download or read book Guest of Myself written by John Grey and published by Cyberwit.Net. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense imaginative power in these poems draws its sustenance from the poet dreaming great dreams.
Download or read book Salient written by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting lyrical constellation centered on the Battle of Passchendaele in Flanders Fields and tibetan protective magic In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, “This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core ‘severance’ practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint.” Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading “not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning.” Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.
