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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Languages : en
Pages : 226

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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 : Horsemanship
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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On his wedding anniversary, John Gilpin sets out to join his wife for a celebration, but the horse runs away with him.

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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The Task

The Task PDF Author: William Cowper
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Languages : en
Pages : 238

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For Now

For Now PDF Author: James Richardson
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322269
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Classic meets contemporary in James Richardson’s ninth collection. Writers from Bashō to Hardy, from Merwin to Porchia, inspire meditations on everything from artichokes to cosmology that somehow morph into fables of limitation and desire. This “new poetry made the old way” takes seriously the task of lightening and illuminating our experience, and especially, of distilling it. As Richardson writes, “The road not taken also would have gotten me home.” More than sixty poems of ten lines or fewer, and two sequences of Richardson’s trademark aphorisms and “ten-second essays,” are set alongside surging lyric meditations and odes. For Now celebrates nows of every length, from the sweep of cosmic evolution, to the span of a life, to the glint of dew on a cold shovel.

Duende

Duende PDF Author: Tracy K. Smith
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978649
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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The award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.

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