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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The Cabinet of Poetry
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Wonder Cabinet
Author: David Barber
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810151731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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Taking its inspiration from the wonder and curiosity cabinets of the late Renaissance, David Barber's second book of poems offers itself up as an eclectic gallery of natural marvels and historical gleanings. Creation is Barber's chief subject and he often concentrates on how human nature is constantly seeking to impose definition and significance upon the natural world. These are poems that meditate on all manner of wondrous phenomena: falconry and funiculars; the knotted quipus of the Inca Empire and the tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age; the lore and language of field guides, epitaphs, beekeeping, and seafaring; the ghostly vestiges of the La Brea tar pits and the ancient library of Alexandria. Then, in an innovative suite of "New World Sutras" composed in haiku stanzas, Barber riffs on the American genius for self-invention and epic ambition by calling up landmark figures such as Audubon, Houdini, Babe Ruth, and Buster Keaton. With a formal and verbal precision that is rife with agile music, avid wordplay, and mordant wit, Barber delves deeply into the realms of both natural history and popular culture.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810151731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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Taking its inspiration from the wonder and curiosity cabinets of the late Renaissance, David Barber's second book of poems offers itself up as an eclectic gallery of natural marvels and historical gleanings. Creation is Barber's chief subject and he often concentrates on how human nature is constantly seeking to impose definition and significance upon the natural world. These are poems that meditate on all manner of wondrous phenomena: falconry and funiculars; the knotted quipus of the Inca Empire and the tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age; the lore and language of field guides, epitaphs, beekeeping, and seafaring; the ghostly vestiges of the La Brea tar pits and the ancient library of Alexandria. Then, in an innovative suite of "New World Sutras" composed in haiku stanzas, Barber riffs on the American genius for self-invention and epic ambition by calling up landmark figures such as Audubon, Houdini, Babe Ruth, and Buster Keaton. With a formal and verbal precision that is rife with agile music, avid wordplay, and mordant wit, Barber delves deeply into the realms of both natural history and popular culture.
The Cabinet of Poetry, Containing the Best Entire Pieces ... in the Works of the British Poets. [Edited by S. J. Pratt. With Portraits by C. Watson.]
Author: Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson)
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Literary Souvenir, Or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Literary souvenir; or, Cabinet of poetry and romance, ed. by A.A. Watts. [on large paper].
Author: Alaric Alexander Watts
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Pages : 350
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Museum of the Americas
Author: J. Michael Martinez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143133446
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143133446
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the British poets [ed. by S.J. Pratt].
Author: Cabinet
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Pages : 524
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The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the British poets [ed. by S.J. Pratt].
Author: Cabinet
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Pages : 518
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The Cabinet of Poetry
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature
Author: Charles Anderson Read
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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