Author: Edward Field
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553201710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Neal Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846318645
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Drawing on the recent focus on spatial imagination in the humanities and social sciences, Poetry and Geography looks at the significance of space, place, and landscape in the works of British and Irish poets, offering interpretations of poems by Roy Fisher, R. S. Thomas, John Burnside, Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott, and many others. Its fourteen essays collectively sketch a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, and sound and space, exploring poetry's unique capacity to invigorate and expand our spatial vocabularies and the many relationships we have with the world around us.

Author: Alice Entwistle
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political and geographical analysis, Alice Entwistle shows how writers' different senses of relationship with Wales, its languages, history and imaginative, as well as political, geography feeds the form as well as the content of their poetry. Her innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first century Wales.

Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466889411
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, "The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds ‘grand,' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech."

Author: Stacey Waite
Publisher: Tupelo Press
ISBN: 1936797348
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: ‘i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body’ ... This is [Waite’s] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence — to get around English’s pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and...” “In this arresting collection, Stacey Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft and deft language, that open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise.” — Kwame Dawes

Author: Alice Entwistle
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783165812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Poetry, Geography, Gender explores literary and geographical analysis, cultural criticism and gender politics in the work of such well-known literary figures as Gwyneth Lewis, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans and Gillian Clarke, alongside newer names like Zoë Skoulding and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Drawing on her unpublished interviews with many of the featured poets, Alice Entwistle examines how and why their various senses of affiliation with a shared cultural hinterland should encourage us to rethink the relationship between nation, identity and literary aesthetics in post-devolution Wales. This series of lively and detailed close readings reveals how writers use the textual terrain of the poem, both literally and metaphorically, to register and script aesthetic as well as geo-political and cultural-historical change. As an innovative critical study, this volume thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first-century Wales.

Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426310099
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Full-color photographs accompany two hundred poems about animals.

Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200981
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Thomas Merton's final testament as a poet is his most ambitious long work and a remarkable poetic achievement.

Author: Alexandra Teague
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892553588
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Drawing on sources as varied as ESL classroom discussions, a colonial travelogue, and the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook, Alexandra Teague explores how language alternately empowers and fails us in this smart, searching, and accessible debut.

Author: Conchitina Cruz
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9789715424950
Category : Philippine poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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