A Gathering of Poets

A Gathering of Poets PDF Author: A Gathering of Poets
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ISBN: 9780578616391
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Languages : en
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A collection of poems by 12 poets.

A Gathering of Poets

A Gathering of Poets PDF Author: A Gathering of Poets
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ISBN: 9780578616391
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Languages : en
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A collection of poems by 12 poets.

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493008420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is the granddaddy of all cowboy poetry events, proclaimed by the US Senate in 2000 in recognition of its pioneering role in the preservation and revitalization of this important American tradition. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the event, this commemorative volume collects 100 poems by various cowboy poets who have appeared at the gathering over the last three decades, from Baxter Black and Wallace McRae to Georgie Sicking and Paul Zarzyski. Representing the best contemporary cowboy poetry from the first gathering to the present, the poets and poems are culled for their importance and quality with consideration for a wide range of topics that represent the richness and depth of this broad genre. In addition to poems that will make you smile, sigh, or sit up straight in your saddle, the anthology features expressive photos of the contributors, biographical and explanatory headnotes, relevant artwork from the Western Folklife Center's extensive archives, and illuminating sidebars on various topics such as working cattle; life on the land; the relationship between cowboy poetry and song; gear, horses, or cattle mentioned in poems; and profiles and photos of important cowboy poets from earlier times. Cowboy poet extraordinare Baxter Black will provide a foreword, and Charlie Seemann, executive director of the Western Folklife Center, will write an introduction that gives context both to the event itself and to cowboy poetry in general, from the days of the trail drives in the nineteenth century to the lives of the hardworking men and women who still ranch and live on the land in the West today.

Light-Gathering Poems

Light-Gathering Poems PDF Author: Liz Rosenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805062236
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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... poems, gathered from all peoples and traditions, that blaze, inspire, and bring forth light.

A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering

A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering PDF Author: Dawn Lundy Martin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820329916
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." Martin's poems bend the form into something new, seeing a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness is balanced by a firm grounding in bodily experience and in the amazing capacity of language to expand itself in Martin's hands. She explodes any pretense at a world where words mean exactly what we want them to mean and never more nor less -- Back cover.

Cowboy Poetry

Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Hal Cannon
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052089
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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This collection of poems was chosen from among 10, 000 gathered from cowboy reciters, ranch poets and from a library of over 200 published works of cowboy verse. One third of the poems are classics that have proven their vitality by having lived in the hearts and minds of cowboys and ranchers for decades. The remaining two-thirds are new, created within the last few years. "Most cowboy poems speak of real events and people, from bucking horses and cagey cows to old Stetson hats and long winter travels. Although they focus on the ordinary stuff of life, their truths . . . seem no less eternal than those penned by William Shakespeare. Some cowboy poems are bust-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty . . . most carry an honest, primitive power." --Michael Riley, TIME Magazine

Hammer and Blaze

Hammer and Blaze PDF Author: Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820324166
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Hammer and Blaze provides a true cross-section of the best contemporary poets writing in North America today. Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind. The stellar group of contributors includes MacArthur fellows Campbell McGrath, Anne Carson, Edward Hirsch, Eleanor Wilner, Susan Stewart, and Lucia Perillo. Also represented here are works by Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Dunn and Louise Glück; Ruth Lilly Prize winner Carl Dennis; and Robert Wrigley, Thomas Lux, and B. H. Fairchild, winners of the Kingsley Tufts Award. From the couplets of Pablo Medina to the neoclassical lyricisms of Carl Phillips, this anthology appropriately reflects the cross-cultural nature of contemporary North American poetry with its most diverse and prestigious voices. A number of the poems are previously unpublished, including work by Joan Aleshire, Stuart Dischell, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, Roland Flint, Carol Frost, Barbara Greenberg, Edward Hirsch, Pablo Medina, Steve Orlen, Gregory Orr, Kathleen Peirce, Kenneth Rosen, Daniel Tobin, Alan Williamson, and Eleanor Wilner. Hammer and Blaze, a gathering of our best poets, should garner attention from the literary world at large as well as from students of contemporary poetry and creative writing.

A Gathering of Poets

A Gathering of Poets PDF Author: FCCA Poetry Workshop
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741424355
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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A Gathering of Poets

A Gathering of Poets PDF Author: Maggie Anderson
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384681
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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A collection of poems commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the killing of four Kent State students on May 4, 1970.

America Zen

America Zen PDF Author: Ray McNiece
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
This is an essential collection of contemporary American Zen poetry from thrity poets whose work is shared through biographical statement, Zen statement, photo, and five or more poems each. It's a book that can help you awaken to your natural self.

Solving the World's Problems

Solving the World's Problems PDF Author: Robert Lee Brewer
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ISBN: 9781935708902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something