Love Song with Motor Vehicles

Love Song with Motor Vehicles PDF Author: Alan Michael Parker
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 193816069X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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In Love Song with Motor Vehicles, Alan Michael Parker marshals a penetrating wit and sharp irony that mirrors that of Charles Simic and John Berryman. Parker’s robust imagination explores the music in places poetry doesn’t usually travel. His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most strikingly, do not close at their endings but, rather, open. Alan Michael Parker is the author of two books of poetry, and co-editor of two scholarly works, The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse and Who’s Who in 20th Century World Poetry (Routledge Books). In 2000, his poems were included in all three major volumes of "younger American poets" (Carnegie Mellon University Press, University of Southern Illinois Press, and University of New England Press).

Love Song with Motor Vehicles

Love Song with Motor Vehicles PDF Author: Alan Michael Parker
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 193816069X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Book Description
In Love Song with Motor Vehicles, Alan Michael Parker marshals a penetrating wit and sharp irony that mirrors that of Charles Simic and John Berryman. Parker’s robust imagination explores the music in places poetry doesn’t usually travel. His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most strikingly, do not close at their endings but, rather, open. Alan Michael Parker is the author of two books of poetry, and co-editor of two scholarly works, The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse and Who’s Who in 20th Century World Poetry (Routledge Books). In 2000, his poems were included in all three major volumes of "younger American poets" (Carnegie Mellon University Press, University of Southern Illinois Press, and University of New England Press).

Life Watch

Life Watch PDF Author: Willis Barnstone
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918362
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Life Watch: A Circle of Ninety-One Nights is an ambitious sequence of -poems that begins in childhood, moves through Barnstone's adult years, and returns to youth. The poems engage and reflect on the civil wars that the author found himself in the midst of, Mexican orphanages, the cafes and arts salons in Paris, and walking with Borges. As the circles of these poems widen, they gather many perspectives on a life watched. Willis Barnstone has taught at universities in Greece and Argentina and authored more than 40 books--poetry collections, poetry translations, philosophical and religious texts. The New Covenant, his literary translation of the New Testament, was published in 2001 (Riverhead Books).

Peeping Tom's Cabin

Peeping Tom's Cabin PDF Author: X. J. Kennedy
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918966
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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"X. J. Kennedy's well-known travels between the realms of the comic and the serious qualify him for dual citizenship in the world of poetry. Here, the playful is on full display in verse not just 'light' but bright and delightful."--Billy Collins Peeping Tom's Cabin is the first full-length collection of light verse for adults composed by one of America's most celebrated poets. An uncompromising formalist, Kennedy uses a broad range of longstanding poetic forms, including limerick, nursery rhyme, ballad, rhymed epitaph, and clerihew. This collection includes many poems previously published in poetry and popular journals, including The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and Poetry. These poems honor and skewer all classes of citizen, regardless of their revered place in society. Parents, lovers, poetry critics, students, and especially notable literary figures receive Kennedy's astute comic attention. "To Someone Who Insisted I Look Up Someone" I rang them up while touring Timbuktu, Those bosom chums to whom you're known as "Who?" X. J. Kennedy has published six collections of verse, including Nude Descending a Staircase, which received the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets. His newest collection, The Lords of Misrule, received the 2004 Poets' Prize. Kennedy has also authored eighteen children's books and several textbooks on fiction and poetry. Other recognitions include the Los Angeles Book Award for Poetry, the Aiken-Taylor Award, and Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships. Kennedy was also given the first Michael Braude Award for light verse by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

American Children

American Children PDF Author: Jim Simmerman
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918645
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
In his fifth collection, Simmerman creates an elegy-in-verse with technical mastery, wit and passion.

Darling Vulgarity

Darling Vulgarity PDF Author: Michael Waters
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918850
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
Vivid and sensual new poems from the editor of the prestigious Contemporary American Poetry.

Bye-Bye Land

Bye-Bye Land PDF Author: Christian Barter
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Winner of the Isabella Gardner Award, this book-length poem is a collection of voices-in-dialogue—overheard, remembered, internal—that represents the mind at work as it considers the destructiveness of humanity, the hypocrisy bred in the bones of American venture. Voices from personal conversations, political speeches, Guantanamo detainees, news, and poets fill these pages, capturing a world of disrupted beauty and unrealized potential.

Good Woman

Good Woman PDF Author: Lucille Clifton
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 194268357X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Book Description
Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton’s career—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection and memoir, Good Woman is now available for the first time as a deluxe eBook edition. Enhanced with previously unpublished photographs from the Lucille Clifton Estate and a special foreword by Aracelis Girmay, this eBook is a must-have for longtime Clifton fans and newcomers alike.

Sky Country

Sky Country PDF Author: Christine Kitano
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683448
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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Christine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger—an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family—her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during WWII—Kitano's ambitious poetry speaks for those who have been historically silenced and displaced. Christine Kitano's first collection of poetry, Birds of Paradise, was published by Lynx House Press. She lives in Ithaca, NY, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing, poetry, and Asian American literature at Ithaca College.

Primitive

Primitive PDF Author: Janice N. Harrington
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683219
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Book Description
A biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African-American artist of his time—Primitive is a critique on current perceptions surrounding African-American folk art, as well as the absence of key African-American history in present-day curricula. Award-winning poet Janice Harrington connects readers with a fascinating, odds-defying artist, all while underscoring the human need for artistic expression.

The Motor Car and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century

The Motor Car and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century PDF Author: David Thoms
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351885464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Book Description
This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia. The contributors write from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including semiotics, social history, literary and film criticism, and musicology. Three main themes are addressed: the car as a cultural image; its impact on leisure and entertainment; and the cultural significance of the processes of manufacturing and selling cars.