Download or read book Confessions of a Lyric Poet written by James J. Aldridge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyric poet book may be of your dreams that you feel about life as we see it.
Download or read book Theory of the Lyric written by Jonathan Culler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric—the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has come to dominate the study of poetry—both of which neglect what is most striking and compelling in the lyric and falsify the long and rich tradition of the lyric in the West. Jonathan Culler explores alternative conceptions offered by this tradition, such as public discourse made authoritative by its rhythmical structures, and he constructs a more capacious model of the lyric that will help readers appreciate its range of possibilities. “Theory of the Lyric brings Culler’s own earlier, more scattered interventions together with an eclectic selection from others’ work in service to what he identifies as a dominant need of the critical and pedagogical present: turning readers’ attention to lyric poems as verbal events, not fictions of impersonated speech. His fine, nuanced readings of particular poems and kinds of poems are crucial to his arguments. His observations on the workings of aspects of lyric across multiple different structures are the real strength of the book. It is a work of practical criticism that opens speculative vistas for poetics but always returns to poems.” —Elizabeth Helsinger, Critical Theory
Download or read book After Confession written by Kate Sontag and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how poems have been used as autobiographies throughout time.
Download or read book CONFESSIONS OF A POET written by Robert D. Edmonson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " CONFESSIONS OF A POET " is a story of love. In this book you will find happiness, despair, humor, sadness and maybe just a little bit of yourself; what I have learned is: THERE REALLY IS LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS AND THE HUMAN HEART, WHILE SOMETIMES FRAGILE, BEATS STRONGEST WHEN YOU DARE TO DREAM! This collection is my legacy; a gift I choose to share...finally. I open my heart, once more, to let you in.
Download or read book Confessions of a Poet Laureate written by Charles Simic and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us from his rattling house on a stormy New Hampshire night, to a park bench in Washington Square where two old men sit discussing the women they've known, to a business convention in Topeka where he reads a poem, to the vanished subterranean jazz clubs of old New York, and beyond. Part autobiographical fragment, part waking dream, these pieces are marked by Simic's characteristic wit, audacity, and awe before life's strangeness. Contents include: --Reminiscing about the Night Before --Strangers on a Train --Confessions of a Poet Laureate --The Blustering Blast --The Buster Keaton Cure --On Losing --On the Couch with Philip Roth, at the Morgue with Pol Pot
Download or read book Professing Sincerity written by Susan B. Rosenbaum and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.
Download or read book Compelling Confessions written by Suzanne Diamond and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in contemporary scholarship. Yet, 'telling one's story' raises questions, not only about authorial intent or authenticity, but also about the pressures disclosure can impose upon its audiences. Far less ubiquitous than confessions themselves, as these contributors suggest, are the critical tools that general audiences might employ in order to better evaluate the rhetoric of personal disclosure. It is, in fact, the shortage of such tools – responses and procedures that could be stated plainly and implemented by any reader or viewer – that Compelling Confessions sets out to address.
Download or read book Lyric Confession and the Specter of Autobiography in Postmodern American Poetry written by Anastasia Nikolis and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since M.L. Rosenthal's review of Life Studies in 1959, confessional poets like Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath have been read for clues that offer insight into the mental illnesses that haunt their autobiographies. Confessional poetry is often maligned as a genre defined by its autobiographical content rather than poetics. In turn, this has led to the misconception that confession's characteristic privacy, intimacy, and sincerity are effected by autobiographical facticity rather than rhetorical structures. My project reconceives of confessional poetry as a poetic style rather than as a school of poetry or content-based genre. Using Peter Brooks's definition of confession, "to know oneself and make oneself known," I propose that lyric confession is based on juxtaposition of language that advertises privacy with language that advertises private experience less. I locate this in the construction of self-conscious language that foregrounds attention to an "I" juxtaposed with more impersonal aesthetic language, such as description or allegory. I demonstrate how this structure operates in the work of poets who critics have read as being private, cold, distant, or experimental, and who often deny foregrounding autobiographical details but are still recognized for writing poetry that suggests confession. Each chapter focuses on one poet's work and demonstrates how self-conscious language is mediated by another rhetorical device or mode. In the first chapter, I use Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III to show how she juxtaposes interiorized self-reflection with descriptions of her external surroundings. In the second chapter I look at long poems by James Merrill to show how descriptions of memories dramatize the shift to self-conscious interrogation of the speaker's ability to remember. In the third chapter, I discuss how, in Meadowlands, Louise Gl|ck disperses intimate moments across multiple speakers who are juxtaposed across two allegorically-linked narratives - the mythological story of The Odyssey and the story of a contemporary marriage's dissolution. In the final chapter, I examine how Claudia Rankine foregrounds use of a lyric "you" instead of a lyric "I" in Citizen to disrupt the assumed universality of the white confessional lyric speaker, in turn destabilizing the assumed correlation between poet and poetic speaker in confessional poetry"--Pages viii-ix.
Download or read book The Middle English Penitential Lyric written by Frank Allen Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen written by Claudia Rankine and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Download or read book Confessions of the Highest Bidder written by Chris Connelly and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry as Survival written by Gregory Orr and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences. As a poet who has experienced considerable trauma--especially as a child--Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.
Download or read book The Lyrical Journal of Sapphire Rhymes written by Amber Branch and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphire Rhymes is a collection of poems about the years the author wore rose-colored glasses and thought life was golden. It is also about dark times in her life when she wore all black or nothing at all. Her lyrics describe times in her life when she was drowning in her tears with no rescue in sight. Journey with Sapphire as she discovers, no matter how blue or bruised your soul is, there is still beauty within. Follow her as she continues forward with the hope of one day returning to the Shades of Amber she'd long forgotten about.
Download or read book Lyric anti lyric written by Douglas Barbour and published by NeWest Publishers Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very best of Barbourrsquo;s criticism over the past two decades.
Download or read book Confessions written by Michael T. Soper and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and lyric poems by the author of Xavier Wakes, Stepping Stones, Reversed, Decrypted, What Happens After You Flunk French, and Impressions.
Download or read book pt 1 The epic and lyric poets with an appendix on Homer by Prof Sayce written by John Pentland Mahaffy and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Storytelling in Goethe s Lyrical Poetry written by Karin Ingrid Pagel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
