Johnson the Poet

Johnson the Poet PDF Author: David F. Venturo
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Through this combination of close reading and contextualized analysis, the book explores Johnson's complicated attitude toward the prevailing conventions of eighteenth-century poetics and the enterprise of writing poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Johnson the Poet

Johnson the Poet PDF Author: David F. Venturo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Book Description
Through this combination of close reading and contextualized analysis, the book explores Johnson's complicated attitude toward the prevailing conventions of eighteenth-century poetics and the enterprise of writing poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Inheritance

Inheritance PDF Author: Taylor Johnson
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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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.

In Full Velvet

In Full Velvet PDF Author: Jenny Johnson
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 194141138X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "natural" world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community. They contain a sinuous, shape-shifting quality that makes her explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant. Jenny Johnson won a 2015 Whiting Fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This Waiting for Love

This Waiting for Love PDF Author: Verner D. Mitchell
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781558495722
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1905-1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems for prizes in a 1926 competition. This volume brings together the poetry and a selection of correspondence by this poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

The Caregiver

The Caregiver PDF Author: Caroline Johnson
Publisher: Holy Cow! Press
ISBN: 1513645668
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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The Caregiver is Caroline Johnson's first full-length publication. It includes 50 poems that were inspired by the 15 years she devoted to taking care of her aging parents. The gathering includes free verse, lyrical poems, prose poetry and some formal verse. Many of the poems won contests and have been previously published in online print journals and anthologies. The poems touch on the topic of grieving but go beyond and focus on the many difficulties a caregiver experiences—both emotional and physical—yet also recognize the spiritual gifts that come with helping a loved one. Caregiving is a significant issue for our times and will only become more important as our population ages.

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1 PDF Author: Samuel Johnson
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House

Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House PDF Author: Kent Johnson
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ISBN: 9781848616998
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. "Offense given; offense taken. Betrayals remembered and the betrayers unforgiven. Kent Johnson's mordant poems burn away the scrimshaw, the lace-making, the dreck that passes for poetry today, exposing the hypocrisy of our official poetry culture where a cadre of pampered bourgeoisie imagine themselves enlightened revolutionaries, and the poetics of the avant-garde has congealed into a set of implicit rules more formulaic than the traditions it seeks to supplant. A book like this is rare and necessary in every age. Let the refiner's fire break forth, lest universal darkness bury all."--James Chapson "Kent Johnson is an avant-garde poet without an avant-garde...[He is] an antidote to the sentimental courtesies and complacencies that prevent a conversation about what and where poetry might be from soon beginning."--Keith Tuma "[Kent] Johnson's poems are like unchained pit bulls tossed into a school yard--somebody is going to get bit. But you almost have to admire all that taut muscle & those unstoppable jaws."--Ron Silliman

Red Summer

Red Summer PDF Author: Amaud Jamaul Johnson
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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This haunting debut collection explores a rash of race riots that swept the United States during the summer of 1919. With a tender lyrical quality reminiscent of the blues, Johnson moves through trauma and personal catastrophe to champion the endurance of the human spirit.

The Incognito Lounge

The Incognito Lounge PDF Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem
ISBN: 9780887484735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A reissuing of The Incognito Lounge, poetry by Denis Johnson.

Incurable

Incurable PDF Author: Lionel P Johnson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1907222626
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siècle. A lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde. Johnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub. It was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including The Chameleon, The Yellow Book, and The Savoy. Like a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson's dream churches, Incurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siècle. Containing a detailed biography, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, Incurable pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.