Download or read book Elegiac Feelings American written by Gregory Corso and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.
Download or read book Elegiac Feelings American Poetry written by Gregory Corso and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1970-01-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten sheets, his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs are included. The balance of the book is drawn from his shorter poems. Corso's reputation as a leading poet and co-founder of the Beat movement is clearly upheld in these poems. His instinct for integrated lyrical statement, his special contribution to Beat poetry, is as strong as ever; his sense of humor and sexuality have not diminished. But he has added a wider-ranging moral urgency and a new depth of humane solicitude that hold even his strangest visions close to the heart of contemporary feeling.
Download or read book Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit written by Gregory Corso and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corso, Herald of Autoc. Spirit. Poetry heralding "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values"
Download or read book Feeling as a Foreign Language written by Alice Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she falls in love with an outrageous 17th century poet, argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters, and calls for a courageous poetics of inconvenient knowledge.
Download or read book The Happy Birthday of Death written by Gregory Corso and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1960 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Accidental Autobiography written by Gregory Corso and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read.".
Download or read book Elegy written by Mary Jo Bang and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems written by Mary Jo Bang in the year following the death of her son.
Download or read book Recollections of My Life as a Woman written by Diane di Prima and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
Download or read book Mindfield written by Gregory Corso and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Corso's an aphoristic poet, and a poet of ideas. What modern poets write with such terse calrity that their verses stick in the mind without effort? Certainly Yeats, Pound, Williams, Eliot, Kerouac, Creeley, Dylan, & Corso have that quality. --from the Preface titled "On Corso's Virutes," by Alan Ginsberg
Download or read book All American Poem written by Matthew Dickman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All American Poem embraces the ecstatic nature of our daily lives. Introduction by Tony Hoagland.
Download or read book City of Bones written by Kwame Dawes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.
Download or read book Gasoline written by Gregory Corso and published by DeVault-Graves Agency. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Corso was born on March 26, 1930 in New York City. His first book of poetry was published by City Lights Press in 1955.
Download or read book Appalachian Elegy written by Bell Hooks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
Download or read book American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin written by Terrance Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
Download or read book Elegy On Toy Piano written by Dean Young and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-03-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black. As in the agitated "Whirlpool Suite": "Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline." In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.
Download or read book The Room where I was Born written by Brian Teare and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Brian Teare's poetry is turning the lyric on its ear, along with the Southern Gothic, the fairy tale, the Old Testament--anything that gets in the way of his powerful voice gets pulled in, chewed up, spit out as a new and frightening (and sexy!) utterance. No one is safe in any of these poems, in any sense of the word. What a brave new voice, livid and gutsy and fresh. --D.A. Powell.
Download or read book American Poetry The Twentieth Century Vol 2 LOA 116 written by Edward Estlin Cummings and published by Library of America: The Americ. This book was released on 2000-03-20 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of poems by 20th century American poets.
