Collected Poems of John Wheelwright

Collected Poems of John Wheelwright PDF Author: John Wheelwright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208499
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Collected Poems of John Wheelwright

Collected Poems of John Wheelwright PDF Author: John Wheelwright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208499
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The Revolutionary Imagination

The Revolutionary Imagination PDF Author: Alan M. Wald
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807815359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan

Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov PDF Author: Howard Nemerov
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226572598
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. "Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "—Minneapolis Tribune "The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a hopeless hope is the most attractive quality in his poems, which slowly turn obverse to reverse, seeing the permanence of change, the vices of virtue, the evanescence of solidities and the errors of truth."—Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review

Other Traditions

Other Traditions PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down." Among those whom John Ashbery reads at such times are John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert. Less familiar than some, under Ashbery's scrutiny these poets emerge as the powerful but private and somewhat wild voices whose eccentricity has kept them from the mainstream--and whose vision merits Ashbery's efforts, and our own, to read them well. Deeply interesting in themselves, Ashbery's reflections on these poets of "another tradition" are equally intriguing for what they tell us about Ashbery's own way of reading, writing, and thinking. With its indirect clues to his work and its generous and infectious appreciation of a remarkable group of poets, this book conveys the passion, delight, curiosity, and insight that underlie the art and craft of poetry for writer and reader alike. Even as it invites us to discover the work of poets in Ashbery's other tradition, it reminds us of Ashbery's essential place in our own.

The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1

The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1 PDF Author: Clement Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Clement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse—has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate editor of Commentary from 1945 until 1957. His seminal essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" set the terms for the ongoing debate about the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. Though many of his ideas have been challenged, Greenberg has influenced generations of critics, historians, and artists, and he remains influential to this day.

Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency PDF Author: Frank O'Hara
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1957.

The Lyre Book

The Lyre Book PDF Author: Matthew Kilbane
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Redefines modern lyric poetry at the intersection of literary and media studies. In The Lyre Book, Matthew Kilbane urges literary scholars to consider lyric not as a genre or a reading practice but as a media condition: the generative tension between writing and sound. In addition to clarifying issues central to the study of modern poetry—including its proximity to popular song, hallowed objecthood, and seeming autonomy from historical determination—this revisionary theory of lyric presents a new history of modern US poetry as one sonorous practice among many clamorous others. Focusing on the mid-twentieth century, Kilbane traces the impact of new sound technologies on a diverse array of literary and musical works by Lorine Niedecker, Harry Partch, Louis and Celia Zukofsky, Sterling Brown, John Wheelwright, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Russell Atkins, and Helen Adam. Kilbane shows how literary critics can look to media history to illuminate poetry's social life, and how media scholars can read poetry for insight into the cultural history of technology. In this book, the lyric poem emerges as a sensitive barometer of technological change.

In the American Grain

In the American Grain PDF Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Eight More Harvard Poets

Eight More Harvard Poets PDF Author: Samuel Foster Damon
Publisher: New York, Brentano's
ISBN:
Category : College verse
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208994
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 to 1968; and to various universities in the United States throughout the 1970s. A great synthesizer, the rich diversity of Paz's thought is shown here in all its astonishing complexity. Among the sixty-seven selections in this volume, a gathering in English of his most essential poems drawn from nearly fifty years' work, are Muriel Rukeyser's now classic version of "Sun Stone" and new translations by editor Weinberger of "Blanco" and "Maithuna." And since for Paz, forever in motion, there can be no such thing as a "definitive text," all the poems have been revised to conform to the poet's most recent changes in the original Spanish. Besides those by Rukeyser and Weinberger, the translations in the Selected Poems are by G. Aroul, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, William Carlos Williams, and Monique Fong Wust.