Author: The Poet'S Nook
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770674497
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Left to right, back row: Andrea Mayfield, Valerie Mayfield, Chuck Meier, Ken McCaffrey, John Rodgers, Mary Petrich, Ruth Hale, Maureen Johnson, Veronica Schell, Barbara Crotts. Left to right - Front row Mary Ann Fear, Dreama Powell, Shirley Securro, Floriana Hall, Sparrow Kelley, Linda Grazulis POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL OHIO - Then and Now is a compilation of poetry by twenty members of THE POET'S NOOK. It was written to be a source of inspiration and information for people who live in Ohio, to attract people who are thinking of moving to Ohio, and to encourage visitors to Ohio. Ohio is a state of great beauty and one of the safest states to live in the United States. Ohio is one of only several states which can boast of the four seasons....
POEMS of BEAUTIFUL OHIO
Author: The Poet'S Nook
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770674497
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Left to right, back row: Andrea Mayfield, Valerie Mayfield, Chuck Meier, Ken McCaffrey, John Rodgers, Mary Petrich, Ruth Hale, Maureen Johnson, Veronica Schell, Barbara Crotts. Left to right - Front row Mary Ann Fear, Dreama Powell, Shirley Securro, Floriana Hall, Sparrow Kelley, Linda Grazulis POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL OHIO - Then and Now is a compilation of poetry by twenty members of THE POET'S NOOK. It was written to be a source of inspiration and information for people who live in Ohio, to attract people who are thinking of moving to Ohio, and to encourage visitors to Ohio. Ohio is a state of great beauty and one of the safest states to live in the United States. Ohio is one of only several states which can boast of the four seasons....
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770674497
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Left to right, back row: Andrea Mayfield, Valerie Mayfield, Chuck Meier, Ken McCaffrey, John Rodgers, Mary Petrich, Ruth Hale, Maureen Johnson, Veronica Schell, Barbara Crotts. Left to right - Front row Mary Ann Fear, Dreama Powell, Shirley Securro, Floriana Hall, Sparrow Kelley, Linda Grazulis POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL OHIO - Then and Now is a compilation of poetry by twenty members of THE POET'S NOOK. It was written to be a source of inspiration and information for people who live in Ohio, to attract people who are thinking of moving to Ohio, and to encourage visitors to Ohio. Ohio is a state of great beauty and one of the safest states to live in the United States. Ohio is one of only several states which can boast of the four seasons....
Ohio Violence
Author: Alison Stine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2008. Ohio Violence starts with scandal: the narrator leads the high school football coach into the cornfields, but as she promises, "nothing happened." In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, turn on each other. Men watch from the rearview as the narrator hedges, changes her mind, then shows all in this break-out collection of bittersweet and cataclysmic lyrics. "Alison Stine writes, 'Believe me.' I am telling you a story, ' and the story she tells us we believe as it unfolds. The poems are moving--beautiful, tragic, death-haunted, and uncanny--like old folk songs and murder ballads--lovely on the tongue, heavy on the heart. As a narrator, Stine does not and will not swerve when faced with the brutal, the adamantine and the ordinary damage that equals a life."--Eric Pankey, judge and author of Reliquaries ALISON STINE is a 2008 winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She was born in Indiana and grew up in Ohio. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the author of the chapbook Lot of My Sister, winner of the Wick Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review. This is her first book. She lives in Athens, Ohio.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2008. Ohio Violence starts with scandal: the narrator leads the high school football coach into the cornfields, but as she promises, "nothing happened." In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, turn on each other. Men watch from the rearview as the narrator hedges, changes her mind, then shows all in this break-out collection of bittersweet and cataclysmic lyrics. "Alison Stine writes, 'Believe me.' I am telling you a story, ' and the story she tells us we believe as it unfolds. The poems are moving--beautiful, tragic, death-haunted, and uncanny--like old folk songs and murder ballads--lovely on the tongue, heavy on the heart. As a narrator, Stine does not and will not swerve when faced with the brutal, the adamantine and the ordinary damage that equals a life."--Eric Pankey, judge and author of Reliquaries ALISON STINE is a 2008 winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She was born in Indiana and grew up in Ohio. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the author of the chapbook Lot of My Sister, winner of the Wick Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review. This is her first book. She lives in Athens, Ohio.
The Poetry of James Wright
Author: Andrew Elkins
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817304966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In The Poetry of James Wright the author traces Wright's formal evolution and concentrates on his consistent themes: the artist's role in society, the artist's search for poetic and personal identities, the power of poetry as fortification against the onslaughts of time, and the definition of a good and humane action. Charting the poet's evolution from his first book, The Green Wall, to the last collections, This Journey, Elkins discusses one major book I each chapter, explicating the more important poems in detail and explaining how each volume is part of a progression from youthful imitator to mature innovator. Wright's individual struggle, taking place as it did in the last half of the 20th century in America, dramatizes the central problems of the creative individual in a late industrial society who is trying to turn a life into are. Wright worked in the great tradition of the adamant individualists in our literary heritage, and, like all of his formidable ancestors, he refused to trust the socialized self he found attached to his soul, refused to be diminished or circumscribed by any society's definition of himself. The effect of reading and studying his complete work is the recognition that Wright is a major 20th century American poet whose apparent simplicity and occasional sentimentality can obscure the complexity and maturity of his courageous confrontation with the problems of living and writhing in contemporary America.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817304966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In The Poetry of James Wright the author traces Wright's formal evolution and concentrates on his consistent themes: the artist's role in society, the artist's search for poetic and personal identities, the power of poetry as fortification against the onslaughts of time, and the definition of a good and humane action. Charting the poet's evolution from his first book, The Green Wall, to the last collections, This Journey, Elkins discusses one major book I each chapter, explicating the more important poems in detail and explaining how each volume is part of a progression from youthful imitator to mature innovator. Wright's individual struggle, taking place as it did in the last half of the 20th century in America, dramatizes the central problems of the creative individual in a late industrial society who is trying to turn a life into are. Wright worked in the great tradition of the adamant individualists in our literary heritage, and, like all of his formidable ancestors, he refused to trust the socialized self he found attached to his soul, refused to be diminished or circumscribed by any society's definition of himself. The effect of reading and studying his complete work is the recognition that Wright is a major 20th century American poet whose apparent simplicity and occasional sentimentality can obscure the complexity and maturity of his courageous confrontation with the problems of living and writhing in contemporary America.
Dothead
Author: Amit Majmudar
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101947098
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice Dothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within the first pages, Amit Majmudar asserts the claims of both the self and the other: the title poem shows us the place of an Indian American teenager in the bland surround of a mostly white peer group, partaking of imagery from the poet’s Hindu tradition; the very next poem is a fanciful autobiography, relying for its imagery on the religious tradition of Islam. From poems about the treatment at the airport of people who look like Majmudar (“my dark unshaven brothers / whose names overlap with the crazies and God fiends”) to a long, freewheeling abecedarian poem about Adam and Eve and the discovery of oral sex, Dothead is a profoundly satisfying cultural critique and a thrilling experiment in language. United across a wide range of tones and forms, the poems inhabit and explode multiple perspectives, finding beauty in every one.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101947098
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice Dothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within the first pages, Amit Majmudar asserts the claims of both the self and the other: the title poem shows us the place of an Indian American teenager in the bland surround of a mostly white peer group, partaking of imagery from the poet’s Hindu tradition; the very next poem is a fanciful autobiography, relying for its imagery on the religious tradition of Islam. From poems about the treatment at the airport of people who look like Majmudar (“my dark unshaven brothers / whose names overlap with the crazies and God fiends”) to a long, freewheeling abecedarian poem about Adam and Eve and the discovery of oral sex, Dothead is a profoundly satisfying cultural critique and a thrilling experiment in language. United across a wide range of tones and forms, the poems inhabit and explode multiple perspectives, finding beauty in every one.
James Wright
Author: Peter Stitt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Collects the finest critical writing on one of the masters of American poetry
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Collects the finest critical writing on one of the masters of American poetry
The Second O of Sorrow
Author: Sean Thomas Dougherty
Publisher: American Poets Continuum
ISBN: 9781942683551
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.
Publisher: American Poets Continuum
ISBN: 9781942683551
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.
Good Bones
Author: Maggie Smith
Publisher: Tupelo Press
ISBN: 1946482420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu
Publisher: Tupelo Press
ISBN: 1946482420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu
Muse and Views
Author: Shirley Securro
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504928598
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Muse and Views - A Kaleidoscope of Poetry is the heart and soul of The Poets Nook. Poetry tells a story, and you will be amazed at the inspirational stories in this book. It is full of descriptions and insights written by authors from very diverse backgrounds. It is a very good read that offers something for everyone: love, joy, peace, solace, laughter, education, and spirituality. You can find life lessons in this book on how to live a victorious life, how not to live a victorious life, some history of our country, imagery of our beautiful country, our American heroes, our pets, our dreams, our families, our losses, and our tears. Shirley Securro, coordinator for The Poets Nook Contact Shirley at [email protected] or [email protected].
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504928598
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Muse and Views - A Kaleidoscope of Poetry is the heart and soul of The Poets Nook. Poetry tells a story, and you will be amazed at the inspirational stories in this book. It is full of descriptions and insights written by authors from very diverse backgrounds. It is a very good read that offers something for everyone: love, joy, peace, solace, laughter, education, and spirituality. You can find life lessons in this book on how to live a victorious life, how not to live a victorious life, some history of our country, imagery of our beautiful country, our American heroes, our pets, our dreams, our families, our losses, and our tears. Shirley Securro, coordinator for The Poets Nook Contact Shirley at [email protected] or [email protected].
The Book of Appassionata
Author: David Citino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Sister Mary Appassionata has been talking herself into David Citino's poetry collections for many years. Charming when she wants to be, pushy by nature and by vocation, determined to say what she has to say, Sister Mary has evolved into a recognized literary personality, very popular with readers of Citino's poetry. She has now persuaded both poet and press that she is ready for her own breakthrough book, arguing that everything she has said in the past is still true and that she also has important new observations to make. The Book of Appassionata presents Sister Mary's new poems and brings together in one volume all her poems from Citino's previous collections.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Sister Mary Appassionata has been talking herself into David Citino's poetry collections for many years. Charming when she wants to be, pushy by nature and by vocation, determined to say what she has to say, Sister Mary has evolved into a recognized literary personality, very popular with readers of Citino's poetry. She has now persuaded both poet and press that she is ready for her own breakthrough book, arguing that everything she has said in the past is still true and that she also has important new observations to make. The Book of Appassionata presents Sister Mary's new poems and brings together in one volume all her poems from Citino's previous collections.
Francis, Not the Saint
Author: Floriana Hall
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1771430133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Francis, Not the Saint is a true story of a family's triumph over adversity during The Great Depression and World War II. It is an important part of history. It is also a mesmerizing story of a wonderful mother who taught her three children morals and manners and was sometimes thought of as a saint, and a father who was anything but a saint, though his religious background gnawed at his very soul. It is a story of a man who tried to juggle three families at the same time and found out that it cannot be done. A man who lied and cheated and made his children victims of his lies. It is also a spiritual story of a daughter's forgiveness of the lies he told, which is a criteria for complete and peaceful existence. About the Author Floriana Hall, b. 10/2/27, Pittsburgh, PA, graduate and Distinguished Alumna of Cuyahoga Falls High School, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, attended Akron University, married Robert Hall 63 years, five children, nine grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, author/editor of sixteen non-fiction inspirational books, SMALL CHANGE, self published; THE ADVENTURES OF FLOSSIE, ROBBIE, AND JUNEY During The Great Depression (2006), THE SANDS OF RHYME, self published, DADDY WAS A BAD BOY, OUT OF THE ORDINARY SHORT STORIES, HEARTS ON THE MEND (2006), FRANCIS, NOT THE SAINT in English and Spanish, MISS FLOSSIE'S WORLD - Coping with Adversity During The Great Depression Then and The Recession Now, SHORT STORIES OF ANGELS, HOPE, AND LAUGHTER. Founder/coordinator of the Poet's Nook at Cuyahoga Falls Library, Editor of The Poet's Nook's five books, THROUGH OUR EYES, POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL NORTHEAST OHIO, POET'S NOOK POTPOURRI, and TOUCHING THE HEARTS OF GENERATIONS and POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL OHIO, Then and Now. Winner of many poetry contests. Published in United States, England, France and India. Poetry teacher, YOU, ME, AND POETRY, for www.LssWritingSchool.com WHO'S WHO IN US WRITERS, EDITORS AND POETS, WHO'S WHO IN INTERNATIONAL POETRY, MARQUIS WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. Works compared to Poe and Hawthorne style by Taj Mahal Review.
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1771430133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Francis, Not the Saint is a true story of a family's triumph over adversity during The Great Depression and World War II. It is an important part of history. It is also a mesmerizing story of a wonderful mother who taught her three children morals and manners and was sometimes thought of as a saint, and a father who was anything but a saint, though his religious background gnawed at his very soul. It is a story of a man who tried to juggle three families at the same time and found out that it cannot be done. A man who lied and cheated and made his children victims of his lies. It is also a spiritual story of a daughter's forgiveness of the lies he told, which is a criteria for complete and peaceful existence. About the Author Floriana Hall, b. 10/2/27, Pittsburgh, PA, graduate and Distinguished Alumna of Cuyahoga Falls High School, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, attended Akron University, married Robert Hall 63 years, five children, nine grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, author/editor of sixteen non-fiction inspirational books, SMALL CHANGE, self published; THE ADVENTURES OF FLOSSIE, ROBBIE, AND JUNEY During The Great Depression (2006), THE SANDS OF RHYME, self published, DADDY WAS A BAD BOY, OUT OF THE ORDINARY SHORT STORIES, HEARTS ON THE MEND (2006), FRANCIS, NOT THE SAINT in English and Spanish, MISS FLOSSIE'S WORLD - Coping with Adversity During The Great Depression Then and The Recession Now, SHORT STORIES OF ANGELS, HOPE, AND LAUGHTER. Founder/coordinator of the Poet's Nook at Cuyahoga Falls Library, Editor of The Poet's Nook's five books, THROUGH OUR EYES, POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL NORTHEAST OHIO, POET'S NOOK POTPOURRI, and TOUCHING THE HEARTS OF GENERATIONS and POEMS OF BEAUTIFUL OHIO, Then and Now. Winner of many poetry contests. Published in United States, England, France and India. Poetry teacher, YOU, ME, AND POETRY, for www.LssWritingSchool.com WHO'S WHO IN US WRITERS, EDITORS AND POETS, WHO'S WHO IN INTERNATIONAL POETRY, MARQUIS WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. Works compared to Poe and Hawthorne style by Taj Mahal Review.