Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 9781596436657
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book Here
Book Description
Twitter feeds, school notes, advertisements, street signs--find poetry in the unlikely places with thirty comtemporary poets. Imagine picking up a scrap of paper off the floor or reading a sign at a gas station or looking at graffiti on the subway and finding poetry in these words. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poems take existing text, reorder and refashion it, and present it as a poem. Youthful, urban, and ironic, this energetic and surprising poetic form demonstrates the beauty of everyday words and will inspire young poets to find their own poetry. Find your own poems with Georgia Heard's The Arrow Finds Its Mark as your guide.
Author: Lois Parker Edstrom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789389690514
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Get Book Here
Book Description
The most admirable characteristic of these poems in the poetry collection is the supreme simplicity. These poems are devoid of any labored vocabulary. The poems are quite notable on account of sufficiently powerful truth of feeling expressed in spontaneous style.
Author: Linda R. Waugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: John P. Hermann
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817300422
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Get Book Here
Book Description
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.
Author: Thomas M. Greene
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Get Book Here
Book Description
Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts - magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in this diminishment there occurs a verbal subtlety, and figural poignancy, commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures. Greene employs his well-known skills as a close reader to texts by a range of writers including a variety of contemporary theorists. in diverse contexts the distinction between disjunctive and conjunctive linguistics, dual theories of sound and meaning of crucial importance to Plato and Aristotle, to Catholic and Protestant debates on the sacraments, to the more recent skeptical methodologies of Derrida and de Man. Thomas M. Greene was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
Author: Heather McHugh
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Get Book Here
Book Description
A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work.
Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061856630
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Get Book Here
Book Description
“Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence.” — Publishers Weekly A landmark collection of new and published works by one of our finest poets that is a testament to the clarity and thoughtful lyricism of his poems Fire to Fire collects the best works from seven books of poetry by Mark Doty, acclaimed poet and New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Firebird and Dog Years. Doty’s subjects—our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire’s transformative power, and art’s ability to give shape to human lives—echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry’s most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.
Author: Mark Baumer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999264935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Get Book Here
Book Description
Poetry. "One way to introduce this posthumously released book by the beautiful enigma of Mark Baumer is to say something about how, as he lived, Mark was the writer most possessed of freedom--pure, uncompromised creative freedom--that I've probably ever read. By this I mean that the body of work he was able to produce in his heartbreakingly short time on our planet operated rigorously and overflowingly in a matter of vision unbound by convention, expectation, structure, theme, much less awards, credits, recognition; I mean how in everything he ever wrote, whether about vegetables or capitalism, office work or walking barefoot across America, from one word to another absolutely anything might happen, any inanimate entity might find a voice, through any word; to the extent that, from the outside, it seems the work of a child genius, where by child I mean the kind so unaffected by the arbitrary canonical rules that, like Barthelme or Kharms, it seems to describe a version of the world so innately absurd, so blissfully unbound, that many more restricted readers might receive it, one might say, only as might someone looking out through the security grid of our luxury panopticon at a far off and spectacular horizon slowly receding across the wide and darkened land, hearing an old friend's voice somewhere way out there in the receding gradient, saying it's okay, you will wake up soon, I am here."--Blake Butler
Author: Mark Fishbein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book Here
Book Description
Poet Mark Fishbein reacts to the richness of Chicago's streets with parody, satire, and a personal touch. His latest work, Billboards, Murals, Signs & Street Banners of Chicago, is an offbeat collection of poems, spotlighting ads and art from the Windy City in a way that will amuse, delight, and sometimes hit a nerve about modern life. It's a fresh take on how we decorate city landscapes.
Author: Mark Oakley
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Get Book Here
Book Description
Whether you love poetry or haven't read it since school, The Splash of Words will help you rediscover poetry’s power to startle, challenge and reframe your vision. Like throwing a pebble into water, a poem causes a ‘splash of words’ whose ripples can transform the way we see the world, ourselves and God. Through thirty selected poems, from the fourteenth century to the present day, Mark Oakley explores poetry’s power to stir our settled ways of viewing the world and faith, shift our perceptions and even transform who we are.
