Author: Charlie Smith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324005106
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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A dazzling volume that gushes with the rhythms of life and language, from award-winning poet Charlie Smith. Moving through shades of darkness and light, Charlie Smith captures a refracted view of a disturbed, disintegrating world. Demo explores landscapes both natural and urban, probing the places where the two overlap. Its narrator is at once wanderer and witness, living among streets where flowers are covered with dust and smells of Mexican food and Chinese cooking fill the air. The poet finds a resurgence of life in the ruins, reminding us once again “that we don’t really know what beauty is until we’ve looked hard at the horror that throws beauty into bright relief” (David Kirby, New York Times).
Author: Jerry Clack
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN: 9780865162549
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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This text provides an excellent introduction to the poetry of Meleager. His 132 epigrams are encompassed in a little more than 800 lines, allowing a complete reading within a reasonable time. Also included are notes, vocabulary, and proper name and epigram source indices.
Author: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317112
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2021” From the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s newest collection arrives brimming with personal and political histories. “‘You tell me how I was born what I am,’” demands Naka-Hasebe Kingsley—of himself, of the reader, of the world. The poems of Dēmos: An American Multitude seek answers in the Haudenosaunee story of The Lake and Her children; in the scope of a .243 aimed at a pregnant doe; in the Dōgen poem jotted on a napkin by his obaasan; in a flag burning in a church parking lot. Here, Naka-Hasebe Kingsley places multiracial displacement, bridging disparate experiences with taut, percussive language that will leave readers breathless. With astonishing formal range, Dēmos also documents the intolerance that dominates American society. What can we learn from mapping the genealogy of a violent and loud collective? How deeply do anger, violence, and oppression run in the blood? From adapted Punnett squares to Biblical epigraphs to the ghastly comment section of a local news website, Dēmos diagrams surviving America as an other-ed American—and it refuses to flinch from the forces that would see that multitude erased. Dēmos is a resonant proclamation of identity and endurance from one of the most intriguing new voices in American letters—a voice singing “long on America as One / body but many parts.”
Author: Les Murray
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1921825448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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Les Murray's Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree (1965) to Poems the Size of Photographs (2002). In tracing Murray's artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery. "He is, quite simply, the one by whom language lives." - Joseph Brodsky "There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational." - Derek Walcott
Author: Annie Finch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472116935
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A major new guide to writing and understanding poetry
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520313933
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Author: Dirk Obbink
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical importance of his work. Philodemus presents us with a poetic theory of interest in itself, and several of his treatises provide us with instances of how poetry was seen as providing moral paradigms and guidance. These essays explore the many facets of Philodemus's work and the relationship between them, offering a critical survey of recent trends and developments in scholarship on Philodemus in particular and Hellenistic literary theory in general.
Author: Meleager
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520030039
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: M. Gopala Krishna Adiga
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126021611
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Gopalakrishna Adiga Is One Of The Greatest Indian Poets Of The Twentieth Century. The Images, In His Poems, Are Drawn From Contemporary City Life And The Ironic Mode Examines The Failures Of Indian Culture, Society And Politics. Poets Can Learn From Adiga Hitherto Unknown Strategies Of Poetic Expression For Their Raid On The Inarticulate.
Author: Les Murray
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374713731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poets Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond your own intelligence. —from "The Instrument" New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's own gathering from the full range of his poetry—from the 1960s through Taller When Prone (2004) and including previously uncollected work. One of the finest poets writing today, Murray reinvents himself with each new collection. Whether writing about the indignities of childhood or the depths of depression, or evoking the rhythms of the natural world; whether writing in a sharply rendered Australian vernacular or a perfectly pitched King's English, his versatility and vitality are a constant. New Selected Poems is the poet's choice of his essential works: an indispensable collection for readers who already love his poetry, and an ideal introduction for those who are new to it.
