Author: Martha Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964145467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock. "Catherine Breese Davis fills an important but unsung niche in the tradition of women's poetry in the U.S. and now unsung no more. The editors of this book have given us a brilliant selection from Davis's poems, combined with illuminating writings about her work and life. This volume is a true labor of love, a priceless introduction to a lucid, poignant, and unflinching poet." Annie Finch "I have admired Catherine Davis's exquisitely sculpted lyrics for over forty years. But it has been futile to recommend her work to others because it has been nearly impossible for anyone to find the poems, most of which were never published in book form. What a gift to have this lost poet restored to us." Dana Goia"
Catherine Breese Davis
Author: Martha Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964145467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock. "Catherine Breese Davis fills an important but unsung niche in the tradition of women's poetry in the U.S. and now unsung no more. The editors of this book have given us a brilliant selection from Davis's poems, combined with illuminating writings about her work and life. This volume is a true labor of love, a priceless introduction to a lucid, poignant, and unflinching poet." Annie Finch "I have admired Catherine Davis's exquisitely sculpted lyrics for over forty years. But it has been futile to recommend her work to others because it has been nearly impossible for anyone to find the poems, most of which were never published in book form. What a gift to have this lost poet restored to us." Dana Goia"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964145467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock. "Catherine Breese Davis fills an important but unsung niche in the tradition of women's poetry in the U.S. and now unsung no more. The editors of this book have given us a brilliant selection from Davis's poems, combined with illuminating writings about her work and life. This volume is a true labor of love, a priceless introduction to a lucid, poignant, and unflinching poet." Annie Finch "I have admired Catherine Davis's exquisitely sculpted lyrics for over forty years. But it has been futile to recommend her work to others because it has been nearly impossible for anyone to find the poems, most of which were never published in book form. What a gift to have this lost poet restored to us." Dana Goia"
Wendy Battin: On the Life & Work of an American Master
Author: Charles Hartman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734435603
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Poetry. Criticism. Edited by Charles Hartman, Martha Collins, Pamela Alexander, and Matthew Krajniak. The Unsung Masters Series brings the work of great, out-of-print, little-known writers to new readers. Each volume in the Series includes a large selection of the author's original writing, as well as essays on the writer, interviews with people who knew the writer, photographs, and ephemera. The curators of the Unsung Masters Series are always interested in suggestions for future volumes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734435603
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Poetry. Criticism. Edited by Charles Hartman, Martha Collins, Pamela Alexander, and Matthew Krajniak. The Unsung Masters Series brings the work of great, out-of-print, little-known writers to new readers. Each volume in the Series includes a large selection of the author's original writing, as well as essays on the writer, interviews with people who knew the writer, photographs, and ephemera. The curators of the Unsung Masters Series are always interested in suggestions for future volumes.
Residuum
Author: Martin Rock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Poetry. 2015 CSU Poetry Center First Book Competition, Editor's Choice. "Martin Rock's RESIDUUM spins language into twinned helices of what is said and what is taken back, layering micro- and macroscopic images of bodies in love and space and history. It might make you a little dizzy. It might be contagious or reproducing. It might ask you to glimpse at the moments when you try to speak truly and find your words coming out all infected and in debt. It is a love poem as Williams' Asphodel is a love poem. It is spectacular and leaves me with a head encircled by stars." Heather Christle "In RESIDUUM, Martin Rock creates the illusion of an enormous mind always in motion. 'Meditating on the peak of a mountain last year / years ago // I held all the universe inside my skull, ' it informs us, suggesting both the intimacy and vastness of its vision. At times, these poems appear to live beyond the range of any individual, as if Emerson's Oversoul spoke directly to, and through, us though just as quickly they become intimate and humane, whispering softly into our ears. Always, Rock's observations, subtractions, and revisions fascinate, disrupting any clean, centered view of the world, replacing it with brilliant abstraction." Kevin Prufer "Martin Rock's remarkable debut collection, RESIDUUM, takes on nothing less than making the unsayable (as Heidegger perceives it) 'legible.' I find the partial erasure form of this book dynamic, and lyrically fluid. RESIDUUM is also moving, and genuinely funny in many spots. For all its critical engagement and thoughtfulness, it never loses the necessary, bodily pulse. Rock's is a wonderful new voice to encounter, a poet who takes from several different canons within our poetic tradition and makes something utterly his own from them." Erin Belieu "In our culture where composition largely resides between blinking cursors and revision is often an act of deletion, Martin Rock's impressive debut collection, RESIDUUM, announces itself like a command to 'Save.' Language is not just the words that we use but everything that has been reconsidered, replaced, evolved, or ignored to get us here. Sometimes, that language comes via the intense privileges of gender, race, or class. Other times it can be a more earned catalog of allusion and emotions. These lyrics compositions of image and additive subtraction are earned and owe as much to Robert Rauschenberg as they do Martin Heidegger. And because of that, Rock's collection is a visual and allusory opportunity for the reader: the word bank is open, the questions are asked, and the answers are here in poems that are both unexpected and fascinating." Adrian Matejka"
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Poetry. 2015 CSU Poetry Center First Book Competition, Editor's Choice. "Martin Rock's RESIDUUM spins language into twinned helices of what is said and what is taken back, layering micro- and macroscopic images of bodies in love and space and history. It might make you a little dizzy. It might be contagious or reproducing. It might ask you to glimpse at the moments when you try to speak truly and find your words coming out all infected and in debt. It is a love poem as Williams' Asphodel is a love poem. It is spectacular and leaves me with a head encircled by stars." Heather Christle "In RESIDUUM, Martin Rock creates the illusion of an enormous mind always in motion. 'Meditating on the peak of a mountain last year / years ago // I held all the universe inside my skull, ' it informs us, suggesting both the intimacy and vastness of its vision. At times, these poems appear to live beyond the range of any individual, as if Emerson's Oversoul spoke directly to, and through, us though just as quickly they become intimate and humane, whispering softly into our ears. Always, Rock's observations, subtractions, and revisions fascinate, disrupting any clean, centered view of the world, replacing it with brilliant abstraction." Kevin Prufer "Martin Rock's remarkable debut collection, RESIDUUM, takes on nothing less than making the unsayable (as Heidegger perceives it) 'legible.' I find the partial erasure form of this book dynamic, and lyrically fluid. RESIDUUM is also moving, and genuinely funny in many spots. For all its critical engagement and thoughtfulness, it never loses the necessary, bodily pulse. Rock's is a wonderful new voice to encounter, a poet who takes from several different canons within our poetic tradition and makes something utterly his own from them." Erin Belieu "In our culture where composition largely resides between blinking cursors and revision is often an act of deletion, Martin Rock's impressive debut collection, RESIDUUM, announces itself like a command to 'Save.' Language is not just the words that we use but everything that has been reconsidered, replaced, evolved, or ignored to get us here. Sometimes, that language comes via the intense privileges of gender, race, or class. Other times it can be a more earned catalog of allusion and emotions. These lyrics compositions of image and additive subtraction are earned and owe as much to Robert Rauschenberg as they do Martin Heidegger. And because of that, Rock's collection is a visual and allusory opportunity for the reader: the word bank is open, the questions are asked, and the answers are here in poems that are both unexpected and fascinating." Adrian Matejka"
On Acting
Author: Steven Breese
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585106852
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
To support a new generation of actors/acting teachers by coupling fresh ideas and new approaches with the best proven methods and practices. On Acting is written primarily for the contemporary American actor. It strives to address the acting process with an eye toward the performance culture and requirements that exist today. It is a book for the new twenty-first century artist—the serious practical artist who seeks to pursue a career that is both fulfilling and viable. The text features a balance of philosophy, practical advice, anecdotal evidence/experiences and a wide variety of acting exercises/activities. Also included is the short Steven Breese play "Run. Run. Run Away" and an example of a scene score from that play.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585106852
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
To support a new generation of actors/acting teachers by coupling fresh ideas and new approaches with the best proven methods and practices. On Acting is written primarily for the contemporary American actor. It strives to address the acting process with an eye toward the performance culture and requirements that exist today. It is a book for the new twenty-first century artist—the serious practical artist who seeks to pursue a career that is both fulfilling and viable. The text features a balance of philosophy, practical advice, anecdotal evidence/experiences and a wide variety of acting exercises/activities. Also included is the short Steven Breese play "Run. Run. Run Away" and an example of a scene score from that play.
Dark Horses
Author: Joy Katz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Poets discuss forgotten favorites
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Poets discuss forgotten favorites
Black Stars
Author: Ngo Tu Lap
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 157131900X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal. While the past may evoke village life and the present a postmodern urban world, the poems often exhibit a dual consciousness that allows the poet to reside in both at once. From the universe to the self, we see Lap’s landscapes grow wider before they focus: black stars receding to dark stairways, infinity giving way to now. Lap’s universe is boundless, yes, but also “just big enough / To have four directions / With just enough wind, rain, and trouble to last.”
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 157131900X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal. While the past may evoke village life and the present a postmodern urban world, the poems often exhibit a dual consciousness that allows the poet to reside in both at once. From the universe to the self, we see Lap’s landscapes grow wider before they focus: black stars receding to dark stairways, infinity giving way to now. Lap’s universe is boundless, yes, but also “just big enough / To have four directions / With just enough wind, rain, and trouble to last.”
The Fears
Author: Kevin Prufer
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322811
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An unflinching study of death, Kevin Prufer’s The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter. Editor, publisher, and poet Kevin Prufer presents his ninth poetry collection, The Fears, an intimate meditation on storytelling and mortality. "Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided together as Prufer manipulates white space to mimic the silence of minds at work on unsolvable problems, how time “unravels / endlessly.” Here, visions of classical Greece and the trials of ancient Romans coexist with the everyday—memories of a parent’s death or the loss of a pet. We bear witness as the poet writes to preserve the intricacy of his own mind against the “certainty of absence.” Exploring what it means to be forgotten and how legacy is preserved through poetry, history books, a mummy’s index finger, and love letters from the grave, The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322811
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An unflinching study of death, Kevin Prufer’s The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter. Editor, publisher, and poet Kevin Prufer presents his ninth poetry collection, The Fears, an intimate meditation on storytelling and mortality. "Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided together as Prufer manipulates white space to mimic the silence of minds at work on unsolvable problems, how time “unravels / endlessly.” Here, visions of classical Greece and the trials of ancient Romans coexist with the everyday—memories of a parent’s death or the loss of a pet. We bear witness as the poet writes to preserve the intricacy of his own mind against the “certainty of absence.” Exploring what it means to be forgotten and how legacy is preserved through poetry, history books, a mummy’s index finger, and love letters from the grave, The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter.
Last Act
Author: Marilyn Schroeder
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365506045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Kathryn, Emma, and Marian are good friends. Two live in a fine retirement community and appreciate its benefits. They are exploring issues of aging, living well, and dying well.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365506045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Kathryn, Emma, and Marian are good friends. Two live in a fine retirement community and appreciate its benefits. They are exploring issues of aging, living well, and dying well.
Blue Front
Author: Martha Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel arch with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this was a modern event, the trees were not involved. —from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence—newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel arch with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this was a modern event, the trees were not involved. —from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence—newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
Maurice Dobb
Author: T. Shenk
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137297026
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his outpost at the University of Cambridge, where he was a protégé of John Maynard Keynes and mentor to students, Dobb made himself into one of British communism's premier intellectuals.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137297026
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his outpost at the University of Cambridge, where he was a protégé of John Maynard Keynes and mentor to students, Dobb made himself into one of British communism's premier intellectuals.