Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732655032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732655032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732655032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman
Poetry in America
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Poetry in America offers extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources. Where, in such times, can poetry emerge, the book asks—and answers—again and again. Largely set in rural places and small towns, these poems are politically committed but deeply sensuous, emotionally complex and compassionate. They take up the everyday in meaningful ways, and deliver it with blunt force, yet not without hope or bright humor.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Poetry in America offers extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources. Where, in such times, can poetry emerge, the book asks—and answers—again and again. Largely set in rural places and small towns, these poems are politically committed but deeply sensuous, emotionally complex and compassionate. They take up the everyday in meaningful ways, and deliver it with blunt force, yet not without hope or bright humor.
Looking for The Gulf Motel
Author: Richard Blanco
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978393
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother's life shaped by exile, his father's death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978393
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother's life shaped by exile, his father's death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text
American Poetry in Performance
Author: Tyler Hoffman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
American Performance Poetry is the first book to trace a comprehensive history of performance poetry in America from Whitman through the rap-meets-poetry scene and to show how the performance of poetry is bound up with the performance of identity and nationality in the modern period. This book will be a meaningful contribution both to the field of American poetry studies and to the fields of cultural and performance studies, as it focuses on poetry that refuses the status of fixed aesthetic object and, in its variability, performs versions of race, class, gender, and sexuality both on and off the page. Relating the performance of poetry to shifting political and cultural ideologies in the United States, Hoffman argues that the vocal aspect of public poetry possesses (or has been imagined to possess) the ability to help construct both national and subaltern communities. In doing so, American Performance Poetry explores public poets’ confrontations with emergent sound recording and communications technologies as those confrontations shape their mythologies of the spoken word and their corresponding notions about America and Americanness.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
American Performance Poetry is the first book to trace a comprehensive history of performance poetry in America from Whitman through the rap-meets-poetry scene and to show how the performance of poetry is bound up with the performance of identity and nationality in the modern period. This book will be a meaningful contribution both to the field of American poetry studies and to the fields of cultural and performance studies, as it focuses on poetry that refuses the status of fixed aesthetic object and, in its variability, performs versions of race, class, gender, and sexuality both on and off the page. Relating the performance of poetry to shifting political and cultural ideologies in the United States, Hoffman argues that the vocal aspect of public poetry possesses (or has been imagined to possess) the ability to help construct both national and subaltern communities. In doing so, American Performance Poetry explores public poets’ confrontations with emergent sound recording and communications technologies as those confrontations shape their mythologies of the spoken word and their corresponding notions about America and Americanness.
My America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439372909
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439372909
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.
I, Too, Sing America
Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395895993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395895993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.
Letters to America
Author: Jim Daniels
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A collection of poems that explore the issues surrounding race relations in American society, told from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Hispanic, and white cultures.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A collection of poems that explore the issues surrounding race relations in American society, told from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Hispanic, and white cultures.
Awake in America
Author: Daniel Tobin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268042370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Awake in America seeks to establish a conversation between Irish and Irish American literature that challenges many of the long-accepted boundaries between the two.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268042370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Awake in America seeks to establish a conversation between Irish and Irish American literature that challenges many of the long-accepted boundaries between the two.
Stealing the Language
Author: Alicia Ostriker
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Stealing The Language represents the first comprehensive appraisal of women's poetry in American and brilliantly defines one of the most exciting and original literary movement of our time.
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Stealing The Language represents the first comprehensive appraisal of women's poetry in American and brilliantly defines one of the most exciting and original literary movement of our time.