Download or read book Shroud Of The Gnome written by James Tate and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speakers in James Tate's poems are and are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless; another man traps theories and then lets them loose in a city park; a nun confides that "it was her / cowboy pride that got her through"; a gnome's friend inhabits a world where "a great eschatological ferment is at work. "Shroud of the Gnome" is a bravura performance in Tate's signature style: playful, wicked, deliriously sober, charming, and dazzling. Here, once again, one of America's most masterful poets celebrates the inexplicable in his own strange tongue.

Download or read book Hawks on Wires written by Dave Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Smith's sixteenth poetry collection chronicles the arc of almost sixty years living in the American South. From dusty sawmills to the ubiquitous Waffle House, Hawks on Wires stages both mortal and comic dramas that speak to the poet's autumnal acceptance of himself and the South. Poems of growing up engaged with the people of the coast and woodlands -- boatmen, hunters, crabbers, sawyers, and tough-mouthed waitresses -- celebrate the once strong but now tenuous threads of community. Traveling through the latter twentieth century, Smith presents matters of family, sex, and race during a turbulent and historic era in southern history. Assassinations, withdrawal of religious prohibitions, violent cultural convulsions, and even the diminished meaning of the word "southern" shake the poet's personal identity. Smith uses the language of an ordinary man seeking meaning as the memory of events, carried over a lifetime, now begs for explanation. Despite the inevitable displacements and disappointments of identity, which remain mysterious, Smith finds optimism in life.

Download or read book Dream Work written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, an “astonishing” book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Primitive and “one of our very best poets” (New York Times Book Review) Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness, so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive, continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit, to accepting the truth about one’s personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

Download or read book Here Everything Is Dreaming written by Robert Moss and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.

Download or read book WILD IS THE HAWK S DREAM written by Ruth Wildes Schuler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Is The Hawk’s Dream is a novella about a group of Moslem Arabs in an American University in the 1950s and the effect that an American girl has on their lives. It is a clash of culture that foreshadows the coming world events in the Middle East today. Also included in this book is a collection of short stories previously printed around the world that deal with prejudice, hate, injustice and war, and the courage that the protagonists deal with the difficulties they encounter in their lives.

Download or read book Contemporary American Poetry written by Lloyd M. Davis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Download or read book Dream Boat written by Shelley Feller and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "'behold / this litmus of longing,' Shelley Feller begins in the linguistic triumph that is their foray into extending the conversation that Hart Crane began in the last century. With DREAM BOAT, Feller anatomizes, churns, palpitates, then spews onto the page a powerful exorcism of self-loathing that non-cishet, non-binary souls like them have been forced to imbibe and digest all their lives. Feller does what others have not dared. They literally turn upside down, inside out, even metaphorically flip off the gaze of those who come to the page for easy catharsis. Don't expect the sense-making that anesthetizes the pain and suffering you've come to want to see. That Feller's speakers refuse to be anything other than their fleshly, full-bodied selves is the genius of this debut. O how fortunate we are to hold in our hands such a wondrous, hope-filled work of art."--L. Lamar Wilson "What a dream, to be 'sissy-cathected to death!' With generous helpings of cut-throat aplomb, Shelley Feller hacks up the hierophantic hairball of homo sapiens' compulsive language-ing and pokes it with the genius-stick until something falls out: ack. This book is a delirious conveyance to the viscid otherworld that coats the inside of this world's jeans. It's a sticky zipper, a gemmy hologram, and it's truly, truly, truly outrageous."--Joyelle McSweeney "The brine of Shelley Feller's textual seas is teeming with emergent queer life, post life, and glorious, grotesque effulgence."--Tim Jones-Yelvington "In DREAM BOAT, the sea is an 'open organ,' frothing with gender possibilities, some toxic, some giddy, but always endlessly recombining damaged pasts and rocking new hereafters. A 'chick-fil-a' pirate, Shelley Feller 'spake[s] sissy' into the entire Anglo-American poetic tradition with lavish oceanic sprays of emojis, taunts, schoolyard chants, pop songs, and campy lore. Sweet, nasty, tender, queer: this work is recklessly inventive. It's like nothing else. It's like the future."--Vidhu Aggarwal

Download or read book The Hawk written by David Galas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual book consists of a long, narrative poem followed by a selection of new short poems. The title poem is exceptional in its form and in its wide scope and range, weaving together images of a life, dream-like narrative scenes, into a lyrical story. Its protagonist is a complex man of the northwest woods, whose life is played out for him in a fantastical adventure. The Hawk sets the tone for the set of short poems of a more conventional and reflective form that follow. This small volume is an adventure in the art of poetry through pictures of struggle and memory, an affection for the land, and a search for meaning and the future. On his first book, Lost Thunder From KIRKUS REVIEWS, “Galas’ first collection of poetry is substantial of breadth and sure of voice, ... poems digested slowly offer the exceptional pleasures of poetry.”

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Brett Zimmerman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimmerman breaks new ground in Poe studies by providing a catalogue of three hundred figures of speech and thought in the author's oeuvre, including his tales, personal correspondence, literary criticism, book reviews, and marginalia. This incisive catalogue of literary and rhetorical terms, presented in alphabetical order and amply illustrated with examples - in addition to close examinations of some of Poe's most important tales - overwhelmingly demonstrates Poe's rhetorical and linguistic dexterity, putting a nearly two-hundred-year-old critical debate to rest by showing Poe to be a conscientious craftsman of the highest order.

Download or read book The Ego Makers written by Donald Everett Axinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fast-paced, powerful novel of corporate America in the free-wheeling 1980s, a successful construction company executive is swept up in the risky, seductive world of big business and bigger egos.

Download or read book Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Change As A Curved Equation written by Donald Everett Axinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in nature and the earth, but often soaring to high altitudes (Axinn is a veteran pilot) this new book of poems catches moods, seasons, weather; poses questions large and small about life, the earth, the passage of time and the seasons, about geography and geometry. In this his sixth volume of poems, he hones his language more cleanly and elegantly than ever before.

Download or read book Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu

Download or read book Little Big Bully written by Heid E. Erdrich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry In a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression. Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic object lessons. What is truth now? Who are we now? How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness? The past for Indigenous people, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. Here, survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well.

Download or read book Moon on the Tides The AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology a Guide for Students written by David Wheeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and comprehensive guide to all sixty poems in the AQA Poetry Anthology. Each poem is carefully explained in its context and then minutely analysed. Unfamiliar words are explained, there is a comprehensive glossary of poetic terms, advice on how to answer examination questions and sixteen model answers based on specimen questions supplied by AQA.

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: