Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard

Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard PDF Author: Gerald Costanzo
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780918526939
Category : Prose poems
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Book Description
This is truly poetry in the American grain. Costanzo looks unflinchingly at our totems, artifacts and folkways, and sets them down just as they are, with a deadly but affectionate irony.--Carolyn Kizer

Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard

Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard PDF Author: Gerald Costanzo
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780918526939
Category : Prose poems
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Book Description
This is truly poetry in the American grain. Costanzo looks unflinchingly at our totems, artifacts and folkways, and sets them down just as they are, with a deadly but affectionate irony.--Carolyn Kizer

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).

Not for Specialists

Not for Specialists PDF Author: W.D. Snodgrass
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160703
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Until the late 1970s, W. D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man—a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience. Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections. from “Nocturnes” Seen from higher up, it makes its first move in the low creekbed, the marshlands down the valley, spreading across the open hayfields, the hedgerows with their tops still lit, laps the roadbed, flows over lawns and gardens, past the house and up the wooded hillside back behind us till only some few rays still scythe between the treetrunks from the far horizon and are gone. W. D. Snodgrass, born in Pennsylvania in 1926, is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (BOA, 1995); Each in His Season (BOA, 1993); and Heart's Needle (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other books include To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (BOA, 2002), After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches (BOA, 1999) and six volumes of translation, including Selected Translations (BOA Editions, 1998), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Darling Vulgarity

Darling Vulgarity PDF Author: Michael Waters
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160738
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Book Description
With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity’s imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy. Or, as Nat Hardy wrote, “Waters’ meditative and confessional forays into the sexual sublime are both disturbing and artfully passionate.” Darling Vulgarity also includes poems based on Waters’ true literary experiences with such notables as Raymond Carver, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Lowell.

White City

White City PDF Author: Mark Irwin
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781880238837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Mark Irwin In "White City, Mark Irwin makes stunning jumps in imagination to create poetry that is Rilkean in conception and execution and speaks to America at the end of the 20th century. Irwin's vision for America is as broad as Walt Whitman's while his language is propelled by changing rhythms, lush music and fresh imagery.

Off-season in the Promised Land

Off-season in the Promised Land PDF Author: Peter Makuck
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918713
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
Poetry from an everyday paradise on the coastal waters of North Carolina.

Gratitude

Gratitude PDF Author: Sam Hamill
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781880238653
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
The poems in GRATITUDE are ones of humility as well as thankfulness. Raised in the West and influenced by the great Chinese and Japanese masters, Sam Hamill's poems draw from both traditions returning us "to that world beyond/words, which are only/a reflection of desire".

The Burning of Troy

The Burning of Troy PDF Author: Richard Foerster
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918836
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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The Burning of Troy was catalyzed by the rapid death of Richard Foerster's partner of fifteen years. However, Foerster's lines are less a private testament of loss and grief than the universal voicing of a lover's confrontation with mortality. To connect to this universal experience, Foerster consciously employs various distancing devices, voices, and mythic allusions. And, as always in his poetry, there is an attention to the natural world with its hidden symbolic and metaphysical resonances.

Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum

Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum PDF Author: Michael Waters
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781880238431
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Book Description
Michael Waters writes vivid, sensual poems that fuse our longings in this world with the human urge to glimpse whatever lies beyond. Waters' muse is Walt Whitman and, like much of Whitman's work, his poems challenge us to abide one another and embrace humanity's imperfections. Viewing curiosities in a medical museum, Waters asks: "How then can I forget/ these jars stuffed with the invisible/ masses who touch us in our dreams, who steep/ our yearnings in their milky waters?" These generous poems, crafted syllable by syllable, speak to love and loss, our foibles and shortcomings, and the possibility of aesthetic and spiritual transcendence.

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.