Author: William J. Harris
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Louis Filler
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879720780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers. Also, they have received from substantial to torrents of comment.

Author: William J. Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878860432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Marietta Chicorel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231123518
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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'Uptown Conversation' asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. The essays illustrate how for more than a century jazz has initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures, inspiring musicians, filmmakers,painters and poets.

Author: Marietta Chicorel
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Marietta Chicorel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101573899
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. Unsettling America includes work by: Amiri Baraka Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rita Dove Louise Erdich Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Garrett Hongo Li-Young Lee Pat Mora Naomi Shihab Nye Marye Percy Ishmael Reed Alberto Rios Ntozake Shange Gary Soto Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nellie Wong David Hernandez Mary TallMountain ...and many more.

Author: Lloyd M. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Author: Steve Kowit
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1684751454
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to write. If you long to create poetry that is magical and moving, this is the book you've been looking for.Here are chapters on the language and music of poetry, the art of revision, traditional and experimental techniques, and how to get your poetry started, perfected, and published. Not the least of the book's pleasures are model poems by many of the best contemporary poets, illuminating craft discussions, and the author's detailed suggestions for writing dozens of poems about your deepest and most passionate concerns.