McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets

McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets PDF Author: Dominic Luxford
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
Features a collection of one hundred poems.

McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets

McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets PDF Author: Dominic Luxford
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
Features a collection of one hundred poems.

McSweeney's Issue 22

McSweeney's Issue 22 PDF Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241143766
Category : Experimental fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This new and brilliant issue of McSweeney'scomes in three parts, held together by a magnet. In the first, poets including Michael Ondaatje and Denis Johnson initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet, who then does the same, and so on. In the second, F. Scott Fitzgerald provides unused story premises first catalogued in The Crack-Up; his mission is completed by new writers. In the third, the president of France's legendary Oulipians offers a rare glimpse into his group's current experiments with linguistic constraint. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose . . .

The Commandrine and Other Poems

The Commandrine and Other Poems PDF Author: Joyelle McSweeney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
The brilliance of Joyelle McSweeney's poems is a given; what remains delightfully open to negotiation are its methodologies and its mien. Is she an earnest relator, using wit and gesture to tell the story faster? Or does she take the piss of her subjects, using perfected skills of mimicry and divination to exploit, spot on, their errant humanities? In her second book McSweeney finds her subjects in the long form; "The Commandrine" is a verse-play that in nine scenes tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, and Irish, and their watery run-in with the Devil. "The Cockatoos Morose" stirs Eliotic grandeur with Stevensian absurdity for a cocktail of delirious observation and rigorous leaps of the sort McSweeney is certain to become famous for. "Crusade-dream flips like a standard. The standard / narrows to a point. And points. / Then it dips like a fern."

It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers PDF Author: Colin Nissan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797214756
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.

The Boss

The Boss PDF Author: Victoria Chang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938073588
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The Boss is an exploration of contemporary American culture, power structures, family life, and ethnic and personal identity. G.C. Waldrep writes that [The Boss] is part meditation on corporate life, part exploration of mother- and daughterhood, part elegy for a father who has not yet died.

The Emily Dickinson Reader

The Emily Dickinson Reader PDF Author: Paul Legault
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
ISBN: 9781936365982
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Book Description
Presents humorous retellings of each of Emily Dickinson's nearly eighteen hundred poems.

The New One

The New One PDF Author: Mike Birbiglia
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538701537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Book Description
With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one. In 2016 comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet Jennifer Hope Stein took their fourteen-month-old daughter Oona to the Nantucket Film Festival. When the festival director picked them up at the airport she asked Mike if he would perform at the storytelling night. She said, "The theme of the stories is jealousy." Jen quipped, "You're jealous of Oona. You should talk about that." And so Mike began sharing some of his darkest and funniest thoughts about the decision to have a child. Jen and Mike revealed to each other their sides of what had gone down during Jen's pregnancy and that first year with their child. Over the next couple years, these stories evolved into a Broadway show, and the more Mike performed it the more he heard how it resonated—not just with parents but also people who resist all kinds of change. So he pored over his journals, dug deeper, and created this book: The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad. Along with hilarious and poignant stories he has never shared before, these pages are sprinkled with poetry Jen wrote as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. So here it is. This book is an experiment—sort of like a family.

Open the Door

Open the Door PDF Author: Dorothea Lasky
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN: 9781938073298
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute 'Poets in the world' series editor Ilya Kaminsky."

The Incredible Sestina Anthology

The Incredible Sestina Anthology PDF Author: Daniel Nester
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912373
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Book Description
More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.

Romey's Order

Romey's Order PDF Author: Atsuro Riley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226719456
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
Romey's Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records--and tries to order--the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his "blood-home" and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform "every burn-mark and blemish," to “bind our river-wrack and leavings," Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley's poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.