This Time

This Time PDF Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393319095
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." -- Grace Schulman, The Nation "Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." -- C. K. Williams

This Time

This Time PDF Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393319095
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." -- Grace Schulman, The Nation "Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." -- C. K. Williams

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry PDF Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458758028
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
This rich volume reflects the development of Berry's poetic sensibility. ''the Selected Poems of Wendell Berry makes available cartloads and heaps of clear and fluent work from Berry's fourteen books of poetry and four decades of writing, closely documenting the inner and the visible lives Berry sees and feels in agriculture and in nature.''

Talk Poetry

Talk Poetry PDF Author: David Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Book Description
What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.

New & Selected Poems

New & Selected Poems PDF Author: Stephen Berg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
Stephen Berg is one of the most original, passionate and vital American poets of his generation. This selection - his first book to be published in Britain - includes work from The Daughters (1971), Grief (1975), With Akhmatova at the Black gates (1981) and In It (1986), as well as new poems, a selection from a work-in-progress, Shaving, and his masterly long work, Homage to the Afterlife.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: A. Poulin (Jr.)
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Selected Poems includes ample offerings from A. Poulin, Jr.'s eight books, now out of print. Known for his imagination and deft intelligence, Poulin's poems balance philosophical inquiry with emotional intensity, calling us to a spiritual awakening beyond that of traditional religion. Edited by Michael Waters with a preface by prize-winning poet Gerald Stern, the release of the book coincides with the 25th anniversary of BOA Editions, founded by Poulin in 1976. Poet, translator and publisher A. Poulin, Jr. was the contributing editor of Contemporary American Poetry, published by Houghton Mifflin. The founder of BOA Editions, Poulin died in 1996.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466878487
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Book Description
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry." That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 PDF Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039331300X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems PDF Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195123735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Book Description
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.

Such Color

Such Color PDF Author: Tracy K. Smith
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 164445159X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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“Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” —Vogue Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems, her first career-spanning volume, traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. Each of Smith’s four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep of history; when one encounters death and the outer reaches of space, the next bears witness to violence against language and people from across time and delves into the rescuing possibilities of the everlasting. Smith’s signature voice, whether in elegy or praise or outrage, insists upon vibrancy and hope, even—and especially—in moments of inconceivable travesty and grief. Such Color collects the best poems from Smith’s award-winning books and culminates in thirty pages of brilliant, excoriating new poems. These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. This magnificent retrospective affirms Smith’s place as one of the twenty-first century’s most treasured poets.

I

I PDF Author: Toi Derricotte
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822945666
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Toi Derricotte’s story is a hero’s journey—a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. “I”: New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy. It is a record of one woman’s response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, color, gender, and sexuality. Each poem is an act of victory as the author finds her way through repressive forces to speak with beauty and truth. This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five previous collections.