The Task

The Task PDF Author: William Cowper
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The Task

The Task PDF Author: William Cowper
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The Poems of William Cowper

The Poems of William Cowper PDF Author: William Cowper
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Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

The Poetical Works of William Cowper PDF Author: William Cowper
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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The Diverting History of John Gilpin

The Diverting History of John Gilpin PDF Author: William Cowper
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Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Wild Gratitude

Wild Gratitude PDF Author: Edward Hirsch
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307761983
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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An excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude: "Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey, And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth, And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens, And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air, And listened to her solemn little squeals of delight, I was thinking about the poet, Christopher Smart, Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing In everyone of the splintered London streets, And was locked away in the madhouse at St. Luke's With his sad religious mania, and his wild gratitude, And his grave prayers for the other lunatics, And his great love for his speckled cat, Jeoffry. All day today—August 13, 1983—I remembered how Christopher Smart blessed this same day in August, 1759, For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience."

The Task and Other Poems

The Task and Other Poems PDF Author: William Cowper
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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What Work Is

What Work Is PDF Author: Philip Levine
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307761959
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel’s Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely their jobs. They are unusually artistic, living ‘at the borders of dreams.’ One reads The Tempest ‘slowly to himself’; another ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn by his teacher to suggest a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of ‘the dark from the dark.’ What Work Is ranks as a major work by a major poet . . . very accessible and utterly American in tone and language.” —Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal

Ordering the Storm

Ordering the Storm PDF Author: Susan Grimm
Publisher: Cleveland St U Poetry Cntr
ISBN: 9781880834701
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. "ORDERING THE STORM empowers readers to see the poetry collection as an artistic medium in itself, and offers diverse perspectives on the subject. Experienced writers and beginners alike will find inspiration and encouragement in the words of exceptional poets such as Maggie Anderson, Wanda Coleman, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg. This book should be required reading for all graduate student poets, even those who are still in the process of writing their first collection, because it includes essential information on poetic sequencing and useful strategies for examining a manuscript's possibilities. One of the most exciting aspects of the book is the sense of community that readers feel upon exploring each essay. ORDERING THE STORM transforms the task of arranging poems from a solitary undertaking to a collaborative adventure"--Mary Biddinger, Associate Editor of RHINO.

The Task

The Task PDF Author: William Cowper
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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The Poetry Home Repair Manual

The Poetry Home Repair Manual PDF Author: Ted Kooser
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803259782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.