Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Death Tractates

Death Tractates PDF Author: Brenda Hillman
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572039
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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From the depths of sorrow following the sudden death of her closest female mentor, Brenda Hillman asks anguished questions in this book of poems about separation, spiritual transcendence, and the difference between life and death. Both personal and philosophical, her work can be read as a spirit-guide for those mourning the loss of a loved one and as a series of fundamental ponderings on the inevitability of death and separation. At first refusing to let go, desperate to feel the presence of her friend, the poet seeks solace in a belief in the spirit world. But life, not death, becomes the issue when she begins to see physical existence as "an interruption" that preoccupies us with shapes and borders. "Shape makes life too small," she realizes. Comfort at last comes in the idea of "reverse seeing": that even if she cannot see forward into the spirit world, her friend can see "backward into this world" and be with her. Death Tractates is the companion volume to a philosophical poetic work entitles Bright Existence, which Hillman was in the midst of writing when her friend died. Published by Wesleyan University Press in 1993, it shares many of the same Gnostic themes and sources.

Letters of Delmore Schwartz

Letters of Delmore Schwartz PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Poems of Sappho

Poems of Sappho PDF Author: Sappho
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 048681727X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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"The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.

The Last Skin

The Last Skin PDF Author: Barbara Ras
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101222891
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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A third collection from a poet whose "beautiful sentences weave the miraculous and mundane into a single, luminous tapestry" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Barbara has won acclaim for fluid and graceful poems that touch on the small occurrences and mysteries of daily life in the hopes of finding the secret meaning beneath them. Both intimate and wide ranging, her work is unafraid of big subjects and big feelings, and sometimes comedic. Her third collection, The Last Skin, extends and develops these qualities, offering landscapes and characters both domestic and exotic, in poignant personal lyrics of precise description that investigate beauty, grief, death, fragility, time, and loss. Here is a poet engaged with the spirit as well as the political, blending the give and take of the world into her own ecstatic rhythms.

Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known

Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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This is the eagerly awaited new collection of poetry from the Nobel prize-winning author - his first since 'Mandela's Earth' in 1989.

Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary PDF Author: Harryette Mullen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520927834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

Final Path

Final Path PDF Author: Ron Lands
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
ISBN: 9781646621897
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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This is a story told with poems about sons and fathers, how the one gradually becomes the other, starting with a dream, growing up and growing old together. It's a journey that's as long as a memory, and a cycle that never ends.

Selected Poems (1938-1958)

Selected Poems (1938-1958) PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201919
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"Every point of view, every kind of knowledge and every kind of experience is limited and ignorant: nevertheless so far as l know, this volume seems to me to be as representative as it could be.---Delmore Schwartz

The Darkening Trapeze

The Darkening Trapeze PDF Author: Larry Levis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1555977278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It" The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by Larry Levis, written during the extraordinary blaze of his final years when his poetry expanded into the ambitious operatic masterpieces he is known for. Edited and with an afterword by David St. John and published twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about his son. The Darkening Trapeze is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry.