Poetry Pamphlets 1-4 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Poetry Pamphlets 1-4 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) PDF Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811220637
Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first four collections in our revitalized Poetry Pamphlet series, established to highlight original work from writers around the world as well as forgotten treasures lost in the cracks of literary history. Included are: Two American Scenes: Our Village & A Journey on the Colorado River, by Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger; Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker, by Susan Howe; The Helens of Troy, New York, by Bernadette Mayer; and Pneumatic Antiphonal, by Sylvia Legris.

Poetry Pamphlets 1-4 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Poetry Pamphlets 1-4 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) PDF Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811220637
Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The first four collections in our revitalized Poetry Pamphlet series, established to highlight original work from writers around the world as well as forgotten treasures lost in the cracks of literary history. Included are: Two American Scenes: Our Village & A Journey on the Colorado River, by Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger; Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker, by Susan Howe; The Helens of Troy, New York, by Bernadette Mayer; and Pneumatic Antiphonal, by Sylvia Legris.

That this

That this PDF Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Prose and poems

My Emily Dickinson

My Emily Dickinson PDF Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...."

Angels & Saints

Angels & Saints PDF Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811229874
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley. Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.

Debths

Debths PDF Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226867
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies, “the rule of remoteness,” and “the luminous story surrounding all things noumenal.” Following the preface are four sections of poetry: “Titian Air Vent,” “Tom Tit Tot” (her newest collage poems), “Periscope,” and “Debths.” As always with Howe, Debths brings “a not-being-in-the-no.”

A Bernadette Mayer Reader

A Bernadette Mayer Reader PDF Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212038
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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"She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she's read without a thought to stop. Best so this world is found changed." --Clark Coolidge

Fullblood Arabian

Fullblood Arabian PDF Author: Osama Alomar
Publisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
ISBN: 9780811221764
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A New Directions Poetry Pamphlet by one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, with an introduction by Lydia Davis

Midwinter Day

Midwinter Day PDF Author: Bernadette Mayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214063
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, in Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day", as Alice Notley notes, "is an epic poem about a daily routine". In six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day -- morning, afternoon, evening, night -- to dreams again: "a plain introduction to modes of love and reason, / Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season / Now I've said this love it's all I can remember / Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December".

Vale Ave

Vale Ave PDF Author: Hilda Doolittle
Publisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
ISBN: 9780811221078
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A hymn to Eros that charts the course of two lovers who each seek the other across cultures, myths, and centuries

Hospital Series (Vol. 19) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Hospital Series (Vol. 19) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) PDF Author: Amelia Rosselli
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224899
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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A poem cycle about hospital life and illness by revered, twentieth-century Italian avant-gardist. Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli’s virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems. Rosselli wrote much of the series in the mid 1960s after being hospitalized for a mental illness she suffered from for most of her life, and whose pain shapes her language and difficult vision. These explosive poems, a furious cacophonic crescendo of semantic and syntactic accumulations deeply admired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, place Rosselli among the greatest writers of her generation.