Author: Todd Evans
Publisher: Blue Jade Press LLC
ISBN: 9781961043077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cap City Open Mic is the longest continually running open mic in central Jersey. There are two reasons it has stayed so strong for so long. The first is the host Todd Evans is completely immersed in community poetry and is so hardheaded that he could keep it going through the sheer force of his willpower. The second reason is the family makes up the Open Mic. They make this a supportive place for poets to read their work. New poets, young poets, shy poets and poets tapping into raw and painful incidents in their lives are all welcomed by veteran poets. They do all sorts of work-emotional, academic, political, personal, Christian, beautiful, spoken word, poetry, music, stand-up and even bar trivia. The Open Mic has gone through many changes. It has been held in the back of the bookstore, on the sidewalk, as part of Art All Night and as part of a walking tour through downtown Trenton in honor of Doc Long. It has published its own chapbook and now a second book of poetry that you hold in your hands. Todd jokes that the only thing he hasn't done is do poetry underwater-but knowing him I am sure that is coming soon. Based in Classics Bookshop in downtown Trenton, the Cap City Open Mic regularly meets on the first Saturday of every month at 2 pm. Join us and you can see that I am telling the truth. Eric Maywar- Owner Classic's Books and Gifts
Classics Capitol Area Poets Anthology
Author: Todd Evans
Publisher: Blue Jade Press LLC
ISBN: 9781961043077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cap City Open Mic is the longest continually running open mic in central Jersey. There are two reasons it has stayed so strong for so long. The first is the host Todd Evans is completely immersed in community poetry and is so hardheaded that he could keep it going through the sheer force of his willpower. The second reason is the family makes up the Open Mic. They make this a supportive place for poets to read their work. New poets, young poets, shy poets and poets tapping into raw and painful incidents in their lives are all welcomed by veteran poets. They do all sorts of work-emotional, academic, political, personal, Christian, beautiful, spoken word, poetry, music, stand-up and even bar trivia. The Open Mic has gone through many changes. It has been held in the back of the bookstore, on the sidewalk, as part of Art All Night and as part of a walking tour through downtown Trenton in honor of Doc Long. It has published its own chapbook and now a second book of poetry that you hold in your hands. Todd jokes that the only thing he hasn't done is do poetry underwater-but knowing him I am sure that is coming soon. Based in Classics Bookshop in downtown Trenton, the Cap City Open Mic regularly meets on the first Saturday of every month at 2 pm. Join us and you can see that I am telling the truth. Eric Maywar- Owner Classic's Books and Gifts
Publisher: Blue Jade Press LLC
ISBN: 9781961043077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cap City Open Mic is the longest continually running open mic in central Jersey. There are two reasons it has stayed so strong for so long. The first is the host Todd Evans is completely immersed in community poetry and is so hardheaded that he could keep it going through the sheer force of his willpower. The second reason is the family makes up the Open Mic. They make this a supportive place for poets to read their work. New poets, young poets, shy poets and poets tapping into raw and painful incidents in their lives are all welcomed by veteran poets. They do all sorts of work-emotional, academic, political, personal, Christian, beautiful, spoken word, poetry, music, stand-up and even bar trivia. The Open Mic has gone through many changes. It has been held in the back of the bookstore, on the sidewalk, as part of Art All Night and as part of a walking tour through downtown Trenton in honor of Doc Long. It has published its own chapbook and now a second book of poetry that you hold in your hands. Todd jokes that the only thing he hasn't done is do poetry underwater-but knowing him I am sure that is coming soon. Based in Classics Bookshop in downtown Trenton, the Cap City Open Mic regularly meets on the first Saturday of every month at 2 pm. Join us and you can see that I am telling the truth. Eric Maywar- Owner Classic's Books and Gifts
Good Poems
Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174978
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written a good poem. Somebody else can worry about greatness. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" is a good poem, and so is James Wright's "A Blessing." Regular people love those poems. People read them aloud at weddings, people send them by e-mail. Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174978
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written a good poem. Somebody else can worry about greatness. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" is a good poem, and so is James Wright's "A Blessing." Regular people love those poems. People read them aloud at weddings, people send them by e-mail. Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
Classical World Literatures
Author: Wiebke Denecke
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199971846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Ever since Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres. This book compares the dynamics between the younger literary cultures of Japan and Rome and the literatures of their venerable predecessors, China and Greece. How were writers of the younger cultures of Rome and Japan affected by the presence of an older "reference culture," whose sophistication they admired, even as they anxiously strove to assert their own distinctive identity? How did they tackle the challenge of adopting the reference culture's literary genres, rhetorical refinement, and conceptual vocabulary for writing texts in different languages and within distinct political and cultural contexts? Classical World Literatures captures the striking similarities between the ways early Japanese authors wrote their own literature through and against the literary precedents of China, and the ways Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents. But it also brings to light suggestive divergences that are rooted in geopolitical, linguistic, sociohistorical, and aesthetic differences between early Japanese and Roman literary cultures. Proposing a methodology of "deep comparison" for the cross-cultural comparison of premodern literary cultures and calling for an expansion of world literature debates into the ancient and medieval worlds, Classical World Literatures is both a theoretical intervention and an invitation to read and re-read four major literary traditions in an innovative and illuminating light.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199971846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Ever since Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres. This book compares the dynamics between the younger literary cultures of Japan and Rome and the literatures of their venerable predecessors, China and Greece. How were writers of the younger cultures of Rome and Japan affected by the presence of an older "reference culture," whose sophistication they admired, even as they anxiously strove to assert their own distinctive identity? How did they tackle the challenge of adopting the reference culture's literary genres, rhetorical refinement, and conceptual vocabulary for writing texts in different languages and within distinct political and cultural contexts? Classical World Literatures captures the striking similarities between the ways early Japanese authors wrote their own literature through and against the literary precedents of China, and the ways Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents. But it also brings to light suggestive divergences that are rooted in geopolitical, linguistic, sociohistorical, and aesthetic differences between early Japanese and Roman literary cultures. Proposing a methodology of "deep comparison" for the cross-cultural comparison of premodern literary cultures and calling for an expansion of world literature debates into the ancient and medieval worlds, Classical World Literatures is both a theoretical intervention and an invitation to read and re-read four major literary traditions in an innovative and illuminating light.
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now
Author: Aliki Barnstone
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805209972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805209972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.
World Poetry
Author: Katharine Washburn
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393041309
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393041309
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars
Author: Stephen Harrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350379476
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance and early modern period. An appealing feature of Renaissance and early modern Latinity is the composition of fine Neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases, the two are actually combined in the same work. In others, the creative composition and scholarship accompany each other along parallel tracks, when scholars are moved to write their own verse in the style of the subjects of their academic endeavours. In still further cases, early modern scholars produced fine Latin verse as a result of the act of translation, as they attempted to render ancient Greek poetry in a fitting poetic form for their contemporary readers of Latin.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350379476
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance and early modern period. An appealing feature of Renaissance and early modern Latinity is the composition of fine Neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases, the two are actually combined in the same work. In others, the creative composition and scholarship accompany each other along parallel tracks, when scholars are moved to write their own verse in the style of the subjects of their academic endeavours. In still further cases, early modern scholars produced fine Latin verse as a result of the act of translation, as they attempted to render ancient Greek poetry in a fitting poetic form for their contemporary readers of Latin.
London
Author: Mark Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
Collection of poems about London, organized chronologically from John Gower (14th century) to Ahren Warner (1986-)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
Collection of poems about London, organized chronologically from John Gower (14th century) to Ahren Warner (1986-)
The Incredible Sestina Anthology
Author: Daniel Nester
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912373
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912373
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.
How to Suppress Women's Writing
Author: Joanna Russ
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292724457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292724457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions
The Songs of the South
Author: Qu Yuan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141971266
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141971266
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.