Author: Jay Eacker
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532015194
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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The Eye of the Aspen If you look at the bark Of an aspen tree Where a limb has been lost An eye you will see. The eye may not see But, if it could, The tree would be made Of more than just wood ... Jay Eacker In a refreshing collection of poetry that intertwines humor with poignancy, Jay Eacker shares fifty or more bad poems that reflect on the world through his eyes. Eackers poetry explores not only relatable subjects such as gardening, nature, sports, love, aging, and life, but also the process of writing doggerel (bad verse). Helped by his wry sense of humor, Eacker makes fun of the annual ritual of sprinkling moneyalso known as flower seedson the ground every spring; rowing a boat that goes nowhere; and indulging in the joy of the nap. Also included are touching poems that reflect on days of fishing with his father, brotherly and young love, and the dreams of youth. In this collection of fifty or more bad poems, a college professor reflects on life, love, and why Warren Buffett is a guy with a lot of fish to fry.
Author: Matthew Zapruder
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062343092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
Author: Alexander Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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A collection of sixty-three short poems by the English poet showing a young lad's reactions to love, beauty, friendship, and death as he approaches manhood.
Author: James Shea
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934200148
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"With a simplicity of phrasing, directness of address, and nimble first-mindedness, the poems in Star in the Eye convey great depth, zest, and mystery. Their brevity is anathema to fragmentation; instead playfully and mordantly, they honor "what will suffice," as Stevens says, with a calligraphic precision and flair. If anyone could cut a diamond with a paintbrush, it would be James Shea--his work is so marvelous; utterly lucent and revivifyingly strange." --Dean Young
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807068793
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: William Cullen Bryant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Author: Agnita Tennant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317793072
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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First published in 1996. Written by acclaimed contemporary writers, all winners of literary awards, these stories present deeply moving human dramas. What emerges from them is a picture of a somewhat sad people - sad because they have gone through sorrowful experiences of one kind or another. But they are people who transform their sufferings into blessings through their warm humanity, whether it be a soldier, a domestic servant or an office worker.
Author: Geoffrey Nutter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696324
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Opulent and lush poems inspired by Japanese, Chinese, and Elizabethan poets.
