Author: Derek Hillard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780838757468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The most significant European poet of the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Celan, viewed poetry as "the language of an individual that has become form," an individual that is constructed through the act of observation in the poem. In Poetry as Individuality: The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan Derek Hillard argues that individuality is the crux of poetry for Celan because the Holocaust effectively eviscerated the individual. Hillard investigates the core figures of individuality in Celan's poetry and prose: semblance, madness, and the wound. Celan's enigmatic poetry of a depopulated textual universe has perplexed critics. The book argues that the poetry's figures have a common source - the discourse of observation from the fields of appearance, perception, and the mind.
Author: Rita Dove
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393867773
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls’ night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali’s conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives. Meticulously orchestrated and musical in its forms, Playlist for the Apocalypse collects a dazzling array of voices: an elevator operator simmers with resentment, an octogenarian dances an exuberant mambo, a spring cricket philosophizes with mordant humor on hip hop, critics, and Valentine’s Day. Calamity turns all too personal in the book’s final section, “Little Book of Woe,” which charts a journey from terror to hope as Dove learns to cope with debilitating chronic illness. At turns audaciously playful and grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to catastrophic failures of the human soul. Listen up, the poet says, speaking truth to power; what you’ll hear in return is “a lifetime of song.”
Author: Brent R. LaPadula
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476673950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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The concept of the individual or the self, central in so many modern-day contexts, has not been investigated in depth in the Anglo-Saxon period. Focusing on Old English poetry, the author argues that a singular, Anglo-Saxon sense of self may be found by analyzing their surviving verse. The concept of the individual, with an identity outside of her community, is clearly evident during this period, and the widely accepted view that the individual as we understand it did not really exist until the Renaissance does not stand up to scrutiny.
Author: Sheryl Nicole Prince
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735102528
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Written by a veteran Special Educator, and illustrated by a talented student with special needs, "Uniquely Me: A Poem Celebrating Individuality" is sure to help readers embrace what makes them unique, while also embracing what makes others unique. This stimulating book promotes love for self & others, diversity, inclusivity, and celebrating each individual's uniqueness. Colorful narrations from various perspectives of students with special needs helps readers gain a sense of understanding, appreciation, and respect for all. Extension activities tailored to different learning modalities are included to enhance learning.
Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0865478201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Author: Peter Dronke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816528918
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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A multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from Alaska to Chile, and features familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets--both emerging and acclaimed--from regions underrepresented in anthologies.
Author: David Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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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.
Author: Richard Eberhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Individualism
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604134410
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Provides an examination of the use of enslavement and emancipation in classic literary works.
