Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive and archaic cultures that have been opening up to us over the last hundred years." It is this combined sense of mystery and authenticity, in words and new structures that approach archetypal chant, that informs his poetry. First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.
Poems for the Game of Silence
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive and archaic cultures that have been opening up to us over the last hundred years." It is this combined sense of mystery and authenticity, in words and new structures that approach archetypal chant, that informs his poetry. First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive and archaic cultures that have been opening up to us over the last hundred years." It is this combined sense of mystery and authenticity, in words and new structures that approach archetypal chant, that informs his poetry. First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.
Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections in Print
Author: Marietta Chicorel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Game of Silence
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061756717
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home. The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061756717
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home. The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”
Silence in the Snowy Fields
Author: Robert Bly
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life—all life—of which mankind is only a part.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life—all life—of which mankind is only a part.
Pre-faces & Other Writings
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207867
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Essays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207867
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Essays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts.
Josephine, the Mouse Singer
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207553
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Josephine, a mouse, takes a vow of celibacy in order to devote all her time to her art, singing.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207553
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Josephine, a mouse, takes a vow of celibacy in order to devote all her time to her art, singing.
The Book of Silence
Author: Rasheed Copeland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985172893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
poems by Rasheed Copeland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985172893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
poems by Rasheed Copeland
The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River
Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207157
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal--yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus and Villon.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207157
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal--yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus and Villon.
Exile
Author: Robert Nichols
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With Exile, Robert Nichols concludes his innovative utopian tetralogy, Daily lives in Nghsi-Altai. Thus far, we have peered at this imaginary central Asian land through the eyes of exploring Westerners and the inhabitants themselves, learning the ways of both city dwellers and country folk.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With Exile, Robert Nichols concludes his innovative utopian tetralogy, Daily lives in Nghsi-Altai. Thus far, we have peered at this imaginary central Asian land through the eyes of exploring Westerners and the inhabitants themselves, learning the ways of both city dwellers and country folk.
A Paradise of Poets
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214278
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931(1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry--& through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets ... I do not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing--in the body of the poem." In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his latest book to the presence of poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature. No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry." With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214278
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931(1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry--& through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets ... I do not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing--in the body of the poem." In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his latest book to the presence of poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature. No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry." With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.