Download or read book Trophy Girl and Other Poems written by Carmel McCarthy and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are various poems and themes in this collection. 'Trophy Girl' explores the superficiality of fashion. On the other hand 'Reply from an Agony Aunt' is a cry for help from a young woman with low self-esteem. It is back to childhood days in 'Pinkeens' and a beautiful description of the garden in 'A Summer's Day.' There is sadness in 'Stopping Bye' the house of her birth and the feelings of a child is described in 'Lost Child.'Then there are several poems about birds and animals and their antics - the greedy jackdaw, and the terns on Sandymount strand getting ready for their annual trip south. The caring diligent cat in 'Mother Cat', the huge alligator with enormous jaws looking for food-which could be you, because that is what you are to him. No smiles there, he is what he is with no apologies.'Be Here Now' the guru advises the reader to be in the moment or it is gone forever. Then there is 'Needen' the playful donkey who surely lives in the moment.
Download or read book Trophy Girl and Other Poems written by Carmel McCarthy and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are various poems and themes in this collection. 'Trophy Girl' explores the superficiality of fashion. On the other hand 'Reply from an Agony Aunt' is a cry for help from a young woman with low self-esteem. It is back to childhood days in 'Pinkeens' and a beautiful description of the garden in 'A Summer's Day.' There is sadness in 'Stopping Bye' the house of her birth and the feelings of a child is described in 'Lost Child.' Then there are several poems about birds and animals and their antics - the greedy jackdaw, and the terns on Sandymount strand getting ready for their annual trip south. The caring diligent cat in 'Mother Cat', the huge alligator with enormous jaws looking for food-which could be you, because that is what you are to him. No smiles there, he is what he is with no apologies. 'Be Here Now' the guru advises the reader to be in the moment or it is gone forever. Then there is 'Needen' the playful donkey who surely lives in the moment. Carmel McCarthy was born in Kilnaleck, Co Cavan, Ireland. She attended the local National School where her father was headmaster. Her secondary education was in a Convent Boarding School for five years. Then she attended University College Dublin where she qualified as a Medical Radiographer. She has worked in hospitals in Dublin, N. Ireland, UK and Canada. She lives in Dublin with her husband and has one son.
Download or read book Trophy Girl written by Marlis Manley and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing for a career-defining championship, a charismatic car-racing legend gets stuck with a 14-year-old runaway claiming she's his daughter, until her aunt comes to rescue her--and maybe him.
Download or read book Records of Woman written by Mrs. Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of Woman with Other Poems written by Felicia Hemans and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman in 1828 at the height of her long career. In the series, which includes nineteen poems about exemplary lives, Hemans explores what it means to be a woman, challenging traditional beliefs while at the same time reinforcing persistent stereotypes. Her work celebrates the lives, events, and imagined thoughts of unremembered women from different cultures and time periods whose deeds show nobility of spirit and inner strength. In her introduction, Paula Feldman examines how Hemans's poetry shaped and was shaped by nineteenth-century literary tastes, and she reconsiders the aesthetic value of Hemans's work and the current understanding of the nature of Romanticism.
Download or read book Records of Woman with Other Poems written by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Legged Girl written by Diane Seuss and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diane Seuss writes with the intensity of a soothsayer." —Laura Kasischke For, having imagined your body one way I found it to be another way, it was yielding, but only as the Destroying Angel mushroom yields, its softness allied with its poison, and your legs were not petals or tendrils as I'd believed, but brazen, the deviant tentacles beneath the underskirt of a secret queen —from "Oh four-legged girl, it's either you or the ossuary" In Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl, her audacious, hothouse language swerves into pain and rapture, as she recounts a life lived at the edges of containment. Ghostly, sexy, and plaintive, these poems skip to the tune of a jump rope, fill a wishing well with desire and other trinkets, and they remember past lush lives in New York City, in rural Michigan, and in love. In the final poem, she sings of the four-legged girl, the body made strange to itself and to others. This collection establishes Seuss's poetic voice, as rich and emotional as any in contemporary poetry.
Download or read book Poetry on Off the Page written by Marjorie Perloff and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays that make up this collection have as their common theme a reconsideration of the role historical and cultural change has played in the evolution of twentieth-century poetry and poetics. Committed to the notion that, in John Ashbery's words, "You can't say it that way anymore," Poetry On & Off the Page describes the formations and transformations of literary and artistic discourses, and traces these discourses as they have evolved in their dialogue with history, culture, and society. The volume is testimony to the important role that contemporary artistic practice will continue to play as we move into the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Victorian Poetry in Context written by Rosie Miles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the poetry of the Victorian era (including writers like Browning, Rossetti and Tennyson) and its social, cultural and political contexts.
Download or read book The Letters of Ruth Pitter written by Don W. King and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Ruth Pitter (1897–1992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total she produced eighteen volumes of new and collected verse. Her A Trophy of Arms (1936) won the Hawthornden Prize for Poetry in 1937, and in 1954 she was awarded the William E. Heinemann Award for The Ermine (1953). Most notably, perhaps, she became the first woman to receive the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955. Furthermore, from 1946 to 1972 she was often a guest on BBC radio and television programs, In 1974 The Royal Society of Literature elected her to its highest honor, a Companion of Literature, and in 1979 she received her last national award when she was appointed a Commander of the British Empire. Pitter was a voluminous letter writer. Her friends and correspondents read like a “Who’s Who” of twentieth-century British literary luminaries, including AE (George Russell), A. R. Orage, Hiliare Belloc, Walter de la Mare, Julian Huxley, John Masefield, Phillip and Ottoline Morrell, George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, James Stephens, Dorothy L. Sayers, Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Sackville-West, Dorothy Wellesley, Lord David Cecil,John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, John Wain, Kathleen Raine, and May Sarton. Stylistically Pitter’s letters are marked by crisp prose, precise imagery, and elegant simplicity reflecting a well-read and vigorous mind—lithe, curious, penetrating, analytical, and perceptive. Of her more than one thousand letters covering the years 1908–1988, published here is a generous selection. These selected letters go a long way toward illustrating Pitter’s desire to reach a public interested in her as both a poet and personal commentator. These letters offer an understanding of “the silent music, the dance in stillness, the hints and echoes and messages of which everything is full” reflected in her life and poetry. In total they provide an essential introduction to the work of this neglected twentieth-century poet.
Download or read book Records of Women and Other Poems written by Mrs. Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks written by Lucy Schall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the genres popular with today's teensfiction and nonfiction, including poetry and graphic novelsthis resource provides 110 great book choices for young adult reading, interactive booktalks, and individual writing activities. All educators and library professionals need practical resources with easily accessible information and activities that can be immediately applied. Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks! is such a resource, supplying ready-to-use, interactive booktalks and curriculum connections for more than 100 recently published young adult books. This unique book is an invaluable tool for motivating teens to read. It shows how to make booktalks interactive and get teens participating in the presentation, rather than passively listening. Book selections include titles published from 2008 to 2012 organized in seven categories: Issues, Contemporary, Adventure/Survival, Mystery/Suspense, Fantasy, Heritage, and Multiple Cultures. Complete bibliographical information for each selection is included along with a literary classification as well as an age/grade level and gender designation. The read-alouds passages include talkback questions to facilitate discussion, and related works are supplied as suggestions for additional reading choices.
Download or read book Adventures in Poetry written by Mary L. Kienholz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. Kienholz is one of the Northwest’s most versatile poets. Amy Woodward Fisher, former chairman of Washington State’s Poetry Day, described Kienholz’ style as incorporating “rhythm and imagery;” however, her poetry has an even broader definition. Her historical poetry ranges like a world traveler through human pathos, achievement, and brutality. Here, she addresses experiences of Native Americans, Chinese, and Japanese in the West, presents incisive descriptions of Northwest personalities and biographical sketches of more than thirty New World explorers. Her children’s poetry can be enjoyed equally by parents and children. She gives her animals personalities and dramatizes their worlds. Kienholz’ love poetry covers all the convolutions of the mating game. Much humor is evident in her serious poems, as well as in her “doggerel and other stuff.” Kienholz’ skillful use of poetic devices provides teachers with tools to explain poetry to students. Her poetry has won honors in many competitions as listed in the Appendix. The seven adventures in this volume of poetry: Image and Imagination A to Z Menagerie Walk Through Washington State Pearls of the Orient Hound Dog’s Book of Doggerel and Other Stuff We Love Explorers of the Western World
Download or read book Songs of affection and other poems written by Mrs. Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soft Life written by Bridget Talone and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Be Poet Be written by Raymond A. Hiraldo and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are times when we all feel so emotionally vulnerable that, all we can do is look towards the sky for any possible answers in the forms of celestial signs. Some of us shrug things off when nothing is shown to us but, many of us continue crying out to the sky asking even more questions. I admit at being among the many people who have done that very same thing. As I was so busy looking everywhere for a sign, I failed to look within my very being. Once I surrendered all my emotions to everything that is "me" is when one answer came. It not only came as a voice but, it even appeared almost as like a constellation in the sky. A sky I have looked up to with questions for so long. The answer? It was, "Instead of wasting time questioning yourself as to 'how?', 'why?', or 'what?' you are, you should just use that time to be!"
Download or read book International Who s Who in Poetry 2005 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
