Download or read book The Vision and Other Poems With Portrait written by George John Young and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roll Deep Poems written by Major Jackson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit of travel and pays homage to heritage. In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of “rolling deep” to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental—his “crew.” The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a range of topics, most prominently human intimacy and war. And like his best work to date, these poems create new experiences with language owed to Jackson’s willingness to once again seek a rhythmic sound that expresses the unique realities of the twenty-first century with humor and understanding. Whether set in Nairobi, Madrid, or Greece, the poems are sensuously evocative and unapologetically with-it, in their effort to build community across borders of language and style. From Urban Renewal, “The Dadaab Suite”: I have come to Dadaab like an actor on a press release, unprepared for the drained faces of famine-fleeing refugees, my craft’s glamour dimmed by hundreds of infant graves, children whose lolling heads’ final drop landed on their mothers’ backs like soft stones. What beauty can I spell in this swelter of dust?
Download or read book Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror written by John Ashbery and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems “of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore” (The New York Times).
Download or read book The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Augusta Webster Portraits and Other Poems written by Augusta Webster and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augusta Webster was very widely praised in her own time—Christina Rossetti thought her “by far the most formidable” woman poet. Her work has again come into favour, so much so that Isobel Armstrong and her co-editors of the influential anthology, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, declare that “there can be no doubt that Augusta Webster ranks as one of the great Victorian poets.” This collection is the first edition of Webster’s poems since 1895. It is a selection of her best work, emphasizing her powerful dramatic monologues and including a substantial number of her lyrics. With an introduction and background documents that highlight the distinctiveness of her work, this edition will help to re-establish Augusta Webster as a major figure of nineteenth-century English literature.
Download or read book A Portrait of the Self as Nation New and Selected Poems written by Marilyn Chin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, illuminating compilation of selected and new poems from Marilyn Chin, "a poet of contradictions, poignant sentiment, beat-your-ass toughness, and unexpected humor" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin’s passionate, polyphonic poetry travels freely from the personal to the mythic, from the political to the spiritual. Deeply engaged with the complexities of cultural assimilation, feminism, and the Asian American experience, she spins precise, beautiful metaphors as she illuminates hard-hitting truths. A Portrait of the Self as Nation celebrates Chin’s innovative activist poetry: her fearless and often confrontational early collections, Dwarf Bamboo and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty; the rebellious, vivid language of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow; and the erotic elegies of Hard Love Province. Also included are excerpts from Chin’s daring novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, and a vibrant chapter of new poems and translations. In poems that are direct and passionately charged, Marilyn Chin raises her voice against systems of oppression even as her language shines with devastating power and beauty. Image after image, line by line, Chin’s masterfully reinvented quatrains, sonnets, allegories, and elegies are unforgettable.
Download or read book Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England written by Jane Partner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for interpreting the poetry of Cavendish, Traherne, Marvell and Milton. Each chapter presents a reappraisal of vision in the work of one of these authors, and these case studies also combine to offer a broader consideration of the ways that conceptions of seeing were used in poetry to explore the relations between the ‘inward’ life of the viewer and the ‘outward’ reality that lies beyond; terms that are shown to have been closely linked, through ideas about sight, with the emergence of the fundamental modern categories of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians and historians of science.
Download or read book Lorenz Oken written by Alexander Ecker and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth written by Arthur Nicols and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man Before Metals written by Nicolas Joly and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Visit to Ceylon written by Ernst Haeckel and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Thoughts written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Management Including a General View of the Work of Education with Some Account of the Intellectual Faculties from the Teacher s Point of View written by Joseph Landon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sermons for the Church s season from Advent to Trinity selected by R F Wilson written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ranolf and Amohia written by Alfred Domett and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
