The Fugitive Poets

The Fugitive Poets PDF Author: William Pratt
Publisher: J.S. Sanders Books
ISBN: 1461632781
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a “backward glance” before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.

Secure the Shadow

Secure the Shadow PDF Author: Claudia Emerson
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807143030
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human collective of Soul-making, in which each death accrues into an immortal web of ongoing love and meaning for the living. Emerson's unwavering gaze shows that loss cannot be eluded, but can be embraced in elegies as devastating as they are beautiful. The macabre title poem refers to the old custom of making daguerreotypes, primitive photographs, of deceased loved ones. Other striking poems describe animal deaths -- mysterious calf killings, a hog slaughter, the burial of a dead jay, "identifiable / but light, dry, its eyes vacant orbits." Death, as the speaker's heart and mind instruct her, exists in a shadow world. When the body disappears, the shadow also flees. By securing the shadow, the poet finds a representation of the dead's soul, a soul always linked to the body. Hence, Emerson's attention to the minute details of the body's repose -- reflected in the long, related sequence of refrained poems -- never allows its memory to fade.

Poets On Place

Poets On Place PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Tells of an extended tour across the U.S. taken by the author and his wife, during which they visited with more than sixty poets, asking them about the importance of place in their work. This volume presents the text of those interviews, often accompanied by a poem from the author, and interwoven with segments of Pfefferle's travel narrative and illustrated with black and white photographs.

In the Mind of SouthernPoet

In the Mind of SouthernPoet PDF Author: Karen LEE
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557094054
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Everyone has a story to tell, and this is mine;from being a weak soul, to becoming a strong womanwith so much to say and do. I have experienced so much in my days. I have fallen, and I have been lifted up through the graceof my Savior. My poems are words that come from my heart and soul, from life experiences, from listening to others and being in their world. They come from different people who have come into my life. I may receive criticism for my creative expression, but this book is for people who are in search of peace within themselves; for those who wishto stop , think, listen and consider others at a time when it is so needed. Welcome to the world and mind of SouthernPoet.Much love.

Inheritance

Inheritance PDF Author: Taylor Johnson
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, the poems live outside of the outside and beyond the language of categorical difference, inviting anyone listening to listen a bit closer. Inheritance is about the self’s struggle with definition and assumption.

The Abiding Image

The Abiding Image PDF Author: Cathy Smith Bowers
Publisher: Press 53
ISBN: 9781950413249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Part handbook, part memoir, part stand-up comedy routine, The Abiding Image by Cathy Smith Bowers will provide inspiration and guidance for any writer, reader, and teacher of poetry.

Through the Mind of a Southern Boy

Through the Mind of a Southern Boy PDF Author: Micky Edward Roberts
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781478305699
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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This book of poetry is from my heart and is the way I veiw the world from my eyes. God has Blessed me in many way and I thank Him daily.

War Poetry of the South

War Poetry of the South PDF Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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An American Sunrise: Poems

An American Sunrise: Poems PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003871
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.

Southbound

Southbound PDF Author: Ernest Suarez
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082626168X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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"There's a real flowering, I think, of southern poetry right now, ... assembling at the edges of everything. "This observation by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright reflects upon the continuing vibrancy and importance of the southern poetic tradition. Although the death of James Dickey in 1997 left southern poetry without a recognizably dominant voice, an array of other vibrant voices continue to be heard and recognized. Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets provides a glimpse of the many poets who promise to keep southern poetry vital into the twenty-first century.

A Journey of the Mind: Collected Poems of Helen Pinkerton, 1945-2016

A Journey of the Mind: Collected Poems of Helen Pinkerton, 1945-2016 PDF Author: Helen Pinkerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615933115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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"She is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority."-Yvor Winters "Pinkerton's work is . . . remarkable for its intelligence. Her poems are not only enjoyable to read, but rewarding to think about. Philosophically, she seems to be a dualist, in the sense that she regards life as a continual negotiation between mutually essential, but seemingly opposed, elements. Her poems strive to balance and connect the transient and the timeless, matter and spirit, reason and faith, our particular lives and Being itself."-Timothy Steele "Her poetry, in form and in content, is both traditional and original. In the best sense of the word, it is poetic."-John Baxter, in Sequoia In 1959 Helen Pinkerton published her first book of poems, Error Pursued. In the fifty seven years since that date, Pinkerton's publication of poetry has remained as rare as her poems are well-wrought. Slim chapbooks such as Bright Fictions: Poems on Works of Art, and "The Harvesters" and Other Poems on Works of Art, followed, both published by R.L. Barth. In 2002, Swallow Press-Ohio University Press published the body of her work to that date in Taken in Faith: Poems. This latest collection, A Journey of the Mind: Collected Poems of Helen Pinkerton:1945-2016, contains the life work of an authoritative master of poetic style. By turns lyrical and devotional, historical and metaphysical, the poems herein lead us from the beginning to the end of a life lived in submission to the Muse. About the Author Helen Pinkerton is a poet, essayist, and scholar of American and English literature. Her poems as have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Southern Review. The 1999 winner of the Allen Tate Poetry Prize, she has taught poetry, fiction, and the writing of poetry at Stanford, Michigan State, and other universities. She lives in Grass Valley, California.