Download or read book Voices of Maryland and Other Poems written by Adelaide Eliza Keester and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Other Voices Other Lives written by Grace Cavalieri and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices. The book also includes interview excerpts from her public radio series, The Poet & the Poem. Her incisive interviews with Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Josephine Jacobsen offer profound insights into the writing life.
Download or read book Regional Voices written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emerging Voices written by Maryland Writers' Association and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A selection of short stories and poems by members of teen writers' clubs sponsored by the Maryland Writers' Association." --
Download or read book Voices Bright Flags written by Geoffrey Brock and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is a series of experiments in what is sometimes called public poetry, with the poet's country, America, and his relation to it, as the main theme. The poems approach America from a range of perspectives--political, historical, and personal--and in a range of styles and voices, with each voice planting its own flag, as it were, implying its own America. Together the poems form a partial (in both senses) mosaic, a discordant chorus, a succession of conversations and quarrels between the poet and the motley citizens of his imagination. "The collection VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS could have been created only by a lover of texts--an avid consumer of histories, biographies, diaries, essays, articles, ledgers, novels and ephemera. It is a book of and for the old-fashioned reader, the one who will appreciate the precise prosodic dados and dove-tailings of the poet's craft."--from Heather McHugh's foreword "Geoffrey Brock's VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is ambitious in the best sense of the term. The breadth of his subjects--from the first Western contact with the Hawaiian Islands, to ornithology, the buffalo nickel, and his young son's nightmares--makes the unity of vision behind the book all the more striking. There is insight here without self-consciousness, bold craft without showiness. VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is a rich, important, and deeply humane collection."--Don Bogen "Geoffrey Brock's VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is rooted in political emotions, not political opinions. It combines exquisite technical sophistication with plainspoken language attuned to the particulars of time and place, a combination put in service to a rich and troubled vision of America as both stubborn dream and dream-killing reality. If you're looking for poetry that is immersed in literary and social history while avoiding all the usual pieties and commonplaces about American culture in favor of keenly evoked and deeply felt experience, personal and collective, this book is for you."--Alan Shapiro "[W]hile distinguishing himself as one of the pre-eminent translators of Italian poetry in this country, Brock showed himself with his first book, Weighing Light, also to be one of the most gifted of the younger formalists. His gift is on full display in the new book. Many of the poems in VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS take figures and events from American history as their subjects. It is a curious thing about old fashioned poetic form that not only is it best for humorous verse . but it accommodates historical subjects well and both reveals their symmetries and hints at their chaotic origins. This may be true of any poetry about a historical subject, from the Iliad to 'The Shield of Achilles.' In the book's first poem, 'Bryant Park at Dusk, ' Brock suggests that the act of reading will be his subject. He describes watching a woman reading on a park bench as the evening comes on. He sees how she looks away from her reading, then returns, still in a kind of revery. It is perhaps this revery of attention that his series of historical poems asks of us: a return to subjects we think we know already. The subjects of the poems range from Phillis Wheatley in England to the battle of Cold Harbor to the Westward Expansion to Anzio in World War II to the ivory-billed woodpecker and the passenger pigeon. Brock is such a good writer that you never wonder if he can sustain the poem."--Mark Jarman
Download or read book Voices written by Lucille Clifton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of empathetic and illuminating poems by one of America's most-beloved poets.
Download or read book Baltimore Sons written by Dean Bartoli Smith and published by Stillhouse Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of his father's suffocating obsession with firearms. With the city of Baltimore as his backdrop, accomplished poet, author, and editor Dean Bartoli Smith offers a wrenching examination of our troubled attachments to place and the deepest wounds of the American psyche.
Download or read book The Silent Shore written by Charles L. Chavis Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."
Download or read book Emerging Voices Volume 2 written by Teen Clubs and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writing by members of the Maryland Writers' Association's Teen Writing Clubs.
Download or read book Emerging Voices Volume 3 written by Maryland Teens and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writing by members of the Maryland Writers' Association's Teen Writing Clubs.
Download or read book Voices written by Lucille Clifton and published by American Poets Continuum. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of empathetic and illuminating poems by one of America's most-beloved poets.
Download or read book Voices of the sea and other poems written by Edward Andrew Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Someone Else s Name written by Joseph Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "SOMEONE ELSE''S NAME is a first book full of stunning performances, each one infused with wit, feeling, and humanity, and each one delighting in the full use of the medium and its devices. It''s a happy thing to witness the emergence of such a talent."--Richard Wilbur "In this brilliant first book the deepest of feeling and the most profound thought rise up in response to a glittering surface of wit, which is never an end in itself. Throughout these poems, deep poetic learning and passionate responses to immediate experience interanimate one another. Mr. Harrison''s imagination is unflagging, and can keep going through ''As If,'' a splendid revisionary sonnet sequence, or the remarkable ''Mobile Bay Jubilee.'' His is an outstanding talent, and he does not betray it by anything but the most meticulous of workmanship."--John Hollander "SOMEONE ELSE''S NAME is a book of brilliant wit, erudition, and technical ingenuity, and, played for the highest stakes, is no less than a quest for personal and artistic identity through poem after poem in which no reader can fail ''Underneath their curlicue and flair / [to] hear the real pathos there.'' It is a stunning book."--Greg Williamson "Seven years ago the poet Greg Williamson sent me a slim manuscript by his close friend and Johns Hopkins colleague, Joe Harrison. I was very impressed by what I read, but it just didn''t prepare me for the impact of this stunning and ample first collection. Harrison has all of Williamson''s strengths. He is a punctilious metrist, a born rhymer, an inventor of graceful, intricate stanzas. He''s also ingeniously contemporary, as in the two poems for Dante the robot, which was lowered into the caldera of Mount Erebus. In flawless terza rima, of course. Or the little ode ''Air Larry,'' about the nut case who rode his helium-balloon-powered lawn chair into the jet space 16,000 feet above L.A. Yet everything he writes is invested with a deep learning, worn lightly, borne of wide reading in the canon. He is a far more mournful poet than his younger friend, and his concerns are more elemental, less cerebral. If I have any reservation about either of them, it is that they are too much concerned with the themes of iteration, with writing poetry on poetry. But that''s the reaction of a farmer to most academics. In his fifth decade, Harrison is a fully formed, dazzlingly fine poet; and every lover of our ancient art will be grateful to have this book on his shelf."--Timothy Murphy "Sad and funny by turns and often simultaneously, the quests, meditations, and laments in this rich collection are unfailingly sane--no, more than sane, wise. Furthermore, Harrison''s every poem is lullingly melodic, though each sings a different tune. This exceptional debut is a rare delight."--Rachel Hadas "Harrison''s most serious poems, with their cold, depopulated locales, pick up on the grimmest bits of Robert Frost: in ''The End of Dewitt Finley'' a snowbound salesman starves to death in his truck. After such harsh forests of symbols, it''s a joy to find ''Mobile Bay Jubilee,'' an expansive homage in giant acrobatic stanzas (borrowed from Edmund Spenser) to an annual tidal event ''when the fish come forth from the sea / And the sweet flesh of the deep can be had for a song.'' Scholars might call it a piscatory ode; Alabamians might call it a feast."--Stephen Burt "Joseph Harrison''s is a distinctive voice which is never less than highly entertaining; this is a mind of great quickness and wit, served by a sheer skill that is itself a pleasure to encounter."--Glyn Pursglove "Joseph Harrison''s first collection, SOMEONE ELSE''S NAME, carries a glowing blurb from Richard Wilbur (complimentary almost to the point of giddiness), and a lengthy, glorifying introduction by Anthony Hecht which, taken together, may be the closest thing to a money-back guarantee a publisher can offer...The book...is...a Major Accomplishment ...And, more importantly, it is enormous fun."--Jon Mooallem
Download or read book Emerging Voices written by Carolee Noury and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writing by members of the Maryland Writers' Association's Teen Writing Clubs.
Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Download or read book City of Memory and Other Poems written by Jose Emilio Pacheco and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations. The first, "City of Memory," touches on Pacheco's major literary obsessions: the destructive effects of time; the essential egotism and cruelty of the natural world, with humankind at its violent center; and the capacity of the human spirit to achieve transcendence. The second, "I watch the Earth," is an emotional catharsis, the poet's mediation on the tragic earthquake that devastated his native Mexico City in 1985. Together, these poems paint a vivid picture of the noble beauty and uncontrollable tragedy that is Mexico-and the world-today. Jose Emilio Pacheco is the winner of the Jose Asuncion Silva Award for the best book of poetry to appear in Spanish from 1990 to 1995. Novelist, poet, essayist, and translator, he lives in Mexico City. Cynthia Steele is the author of Politics, Gender and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988, Beyond the Pyramid and the translator of Underground River and Other Stories by Ines Arredondo. David Lauer is a poet and translator who lives in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Download or read book The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
