Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410348598
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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A Study Guide for Alan Dugan's "How We Heard the Name," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375381567
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A Study Guide for Alan Dugan's "How We Heard the Name," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: CENGAGE LEARNING. GALE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535825115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393050688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."
Author: Clive James
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1760782416
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Injury Time, he wrote about living well in the time remaining, focusing our attention on the joys of family and art, and celebrating the immediate beauty of the world. When The River in the Sky opens, we find James in ill health but high spirits. Although his body traps him at home, his mind is free to roam, and this long poem is animated by his recollection of what life was and never will be again; as it resolves into a flowing stream of vivid images, his memories are emotionally supercharged ‘by the force of their own fading’. In this form, the poet can transmit the felt experience of his exceptional life to the reader. As ever with James, his enthusiasm is contagious; he shares his wide interests with enormous generosity, making brilliant and original connections, sparking passion in the reader so that you can explore the world’s treasures yourself. Because this is not just a reminiscence, it’s a wise and moving preparation for and acceptance of death. As James realizes that he is only one bright spot in a galaxy of stars, he passes the torch to the poets of the future, to his young granddaughter, and to you, his reader. A book that could not have been written by anyone else, this is Clive James at the height of his considerable powers: funny, wise, deeply felt, and always expressed with an unmatched power for clarity of expression and phrase-making that has been his been his hallmark.
Author: Alan Dugan
Publisher: Yale Series of Younger Poets
ISBN: 9780300246360
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Comprised of ironic, unsentimental poems on subjects of everyday life, Poems is the 57th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan's lifetime, Poems examines the unusual details of everyday subjects, including waterfalls, house plants, love, war, religion, and the Irish. Explorations inevitably arouse feelings of alienation, defeat, despair, and disenchantment. The poems are also marked by casual humor, mockery, and satire, which produce some of its strongest effects. The tone and style on display in this first book characterize all of Dugan's subsequent poetry.
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571225837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.
Author: John Skoyles
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Outrageously funny memoir of growing up in 1960's New York.
Author: Carl Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466878843
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low Comparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double Shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward—with no regrets and no looking back. Double Shadow is a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011
Author: Carlos Cortínez
Publisher: University of Maine Press
ISBN: 9780891010524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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