Ours

Ours PDF Author: Cole Swensen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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"A remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more effortless. Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and approach to the text clearly place her among the finest post-avant poets we now have."—Ron Silliman, author of The Age of Huts (compleat)

California Poetry

California Poetry PDF Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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The first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry, this ground-breaking new book presents the work of 101 authors across two centuries. California Poetry includes poets as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Yone Noguchi, Robinson Jeffers, Josephine Miles, Charles Bukowski, Ishmael Reed, Francisco X. Alarcón, and Marilyn Chin. With ample biographical and critical notes for each author, California Poetry goes beyond the limits of the ordinary anthology and provides a detailed and often intimate account of the Golden State's rich but often neglected cultural history.

When My Brother Was an Aztec

When My Brother Was an Aztec PDF Author: Natalie Diaz
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320339
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it— He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

Ours

Ours PDF Author: Cole Swensen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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"A remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more effortless. Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and approach to the text clearly place her among the finest post-avant poets we now have."—Ron Silliman, author of The Age of Huts (compleat)

Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits

Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits PDF Author: Ella Sterling Mighels
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Poetry at the Edge

Poetry at the Edge PDF Author: Joseph Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981959764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Publication 233 from The Book Club of California. A poetry anthology edited and designed by Carolee Campbell of Ninja Press, letterpress printed by Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress, and featuring the poetry of Joseph Stroud, Kay Ryan, Gary Young, Martha Ronk, and Michael Hannon.

Poetry Los Angeles

Poetry Los Angeles PDF Author: Laurence Goldstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472120417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. Forty poems are reproduced in their entirety. One chapter is devoted to Charles Bukowski, the celebrity face of the city’s poetry. Other chapters discuss the ways that poets explore “Interiors” and “Exteriors” throughout the cityscape. Goldstein also provides ample connections to the novels, films, art, and politics of Southern California. In clear prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the strategies by which poets make significant places meaningful and memorable to readers of every region of the U.S. and elsewhere.

The Geography of Home

The Geography of Home PDF Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Ripe with possibilities, with a rich diversity of landscapes and people, California has nurtured poets born and raised on its soil, and has drawn to it established writers from other places. This is an ample and exciting collection in which California's emotional, cultural, and physical landscapes are examined, questioned, and ultimately celebrated.

Green and Gray

Green and Gray PDF Author: Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520250192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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California Sorrow

California Sorrow PDF Author: Mary Kinzie
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030726680X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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A collection of poems in which twentieth-century American poet Mary Kinzie reflects upon the natural world, the damages of time, and human memory.

The California Pioneer

The California Pioneer PDF Author: Lizzie F. Baldy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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