Download or read book Collected Poems 1954 2004 written by Irving Feldman and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman’s rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational, his Yiddish flair for the comic, his profound social insight and lucidity. He writes about everything from the Coney Island days of his childhood and his bohemian years in postwar New York to the art of Picasso and George Segal, from the Holocaust to its aftermath—in narrative and dramatic poems and personal lyrics that are by turns ardent, witty, biting, ecstatic, and heartbreaking. Long a favorite among his fellow poets (John Hollander has called his work “amazing in its moral intensity”), Feldman has remained true to the soul’s deepest callings: I have questioned myself aloud at night in a voice I did not recognize, hurried and disobedient, hardly brighter. What have I kept? Nothing. Not bread or the bread-word. What have I offered? Rebel in the kingdom, my gift has wanted a grace. This glorious gathering of poems displays Feldman’s entire career in all its variety and passion, and confirms his place among the great poets of our time.
Download or read book The Poetry of Irving Feldman written by Harold Schweizer and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine essays in this volume, presented at a symposium on Irving Feldman at Bucknell University, are about how Feldman spans stylistic differences, how he weaves thematic narratives, builds conceptual topoi, develops motifs, and consigns moral values. Illustrated.
Download or read book How Poets See the World written by Willard Spiegelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.
Download or read book The Life and Letters written by Irving Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on life from a perspicacious observer, the subjects ranging from love to murder. In Theme Park America, he writes: "it's interesting / he's not screaming now / he's doubled over / and we don't have to worry / what it means / nothing is supposed to mean / that will come later / when there's more information / about the information."
Download or read book Modern Yiddish Verse written by Irving Howe and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1987 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.
Download or read book I Speak of the City written by Stephen Wolf and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of Hudson's arrival, Stuyvesant's prejudice, and the city's astonishing growth and gentrification. They speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements. They portray the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and the decay, fear, and unexpected kindness on a subway ride. They take place on sidewalks, bridges, and docks; in taxis, buses, and ferries; and even within nature. The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, and other familiar landmarks are recast through the prism of individual experience yet still reflect the seeming invincibility of New York and its status as a cultural magnet for the freethinking and experimental. While certain subjects and themes can be found in all urban verse, poems about New York have their own restless rhythm and ever-changing style, much like the city itself. Whether writing sonnets, epics, or experimental or imagistic verse, each of these poets has been inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.
Download or read book Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O Hara written by Joe LeSueur and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of O'Hara's poetry Joe LeSueur lived with Frank O'Hara from 1955 until 1965, the years when O'Hara wrote his greatest poems, including "To the Film Industry in Crisis," "In Memory of My Feelings," "Having a Coke with You," and the famous Lunch Poems—so called because O'Hara wrote them during his lunch break at the Museum of Modern Art, where he worked as a curator. (The artists he championed include Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Rauschenberg.) The flowering of O'Hara's talent, cut short by a fatal car accident in 1966, produced some of the most exuberant, truly celebratory lyrics of the twentieth century. And it produced America's greatest poet of city life since Whitman. Alternating between O'Hara's poems and LeSueur's memory of the circumstances that inspired them, Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara is a literary commentary like no other—an affectionate, no-holds-barred memoir of O'Hara and the New York that animated his work: friends, lovers, movies, paintings, streets, apartments, music, parties, and pickups. This volume, which includes many of O'Hara's best-loved poems, is the most intimate, true-to-life portrait we will ever have of this quintessential American figure and his now legendary times.
Download or read book The Spaces Between Us written by Ann Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "The last stanzas of Goldsmith's beautiful 'Finders Keepers' lay out her large achievement to discover and inhabit the 'radiance' whose light fills the 'dark thought', the spaces of time? of mortality? of cosmic emptiness? within and between us. This is the miracle poetry at its best can produce: the dark thought kept steadily in mind, its darkness illuminated without being blinded, without being sacrificed to light." Irving Feldman"
Download or read book Telling and Remembering written by Steven Joel Rubin and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of "more than two hundred poems by American Jewish poets on Jewish subjects and themes."--Jacket.
Download or read book Tygers of Wrath written by Philip Rosenberg and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1992-06-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a trigger-happy cop ends a hostage crisis at a Bronx junior high school involving a troubled student, by shooting the student, he sets off turmoil in the heart of the city. Reprint.
Download or read book Voices Within the Ark written by Howard Schwartz and published by Yonkers, N.Y. : Pushcart. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Yiddish Poetry written by Benjamin Harshav and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.
Download or read book Poets Against the War written by Sam Hamill and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. Since then, over 9,000 poets have joined this grassroots peace movement by submitting poems and statements to www.poetsagainstthewar.org, registering their opposition to the Bush administration's headlong plunge toward war in Iraq. Poets Against the War features a selection of the best poems that were submitted to the website. Contributors include: Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Marilyn Hacker, Grace Schulman, Shirley Kaufman, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Hayden Carruth, Jane Hirshfield, Tess Gallagher, Sandra Cisneros, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, and many others.
Download or read book War of the Foxes written by Richard Siken and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling poet and painter Richard Siken uses strong, bold strokes to reveal a world abstract, concrete, and exquisitely complex.
Download or read book Poetry After Auschwitz written by Susan Gubar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reads through the poetry inspired by the Holocaust and concludes that many post-war poets have written about the events without ever witnessing them. (Literature)
Download or read book Woman with Crows written by Ruth Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition of poet-performer Ruth Thompson's iconic poems of sensuality, nature, myth, loss and joy. Includes "The White Queen."
Download or read book Genesis written by Frederick Turner and published by Saybrook Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
