Poetry After the Invention of América

Poetry After the Invention of América PDF Author: A. Ajens
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349296842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Book Description
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions

Poetry After the Invention of América

Poetry After the Invention of América PDF Author: A. Ajens
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349296842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Book Description
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions

The Weather of Words

The Weather of Words PDF Author: Mark Strand
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375709703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a brilliant and witty collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry -- a master class both entertaining and provocative. The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time a poem that truly amazes him: "You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish, in which night sweeps in an unstoppable but exhilarating circle around the earth toward the speaker standing at noon. The essay goes on to explicate the poem, but it also evokes, through its form and content, the poem's meaning -- time's circular passage -- with the young Strand first happening upon the poem, the older Strand seeing into it differently, but still amazed. Among the other subjects Strand explores: the relationship between photographs and poems, the eternal nature of the lyric, the contemporary use of old forms, four American views of Parnassus, and an alphabet of poetic influences. We visit as well Strandian parallel universes, whose absurdity illuminates the lack of a vital discussion of poetry in our culture at large: Borges drops in on a man taking a bath, perches on the edge of the tub, and discusses translation; a president explains in his farewell address why he reads Chekhov to his cabinet. Throughout The Weather of Words, Mark Strand explores the crucial job of poets and their readers, who together joyfully attempt the impossible -- to understand through language that which lies beyond words.

Eureka!

Eureka! PDF Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 9780761316657
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Book Description
Presents poems describing inventors and their inventions, including the invention of the printing press, dishwasher, and velcro.

Inventions of the March Hare

Inventions of the March Hare PDF Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156005876
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Book Description
Presents over fifty poems written by the author in his twenties, including early drafts of famous poems, and extensive critical notes on the works.

Inventing Difficulty

Inventing Difficulty PDF Author: Jessica Greenbaum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Poetry. "A sinewy, vividly intelligent humanity gives to this collection its memorable voice. In one sense, Jessica Greenbaum's poems are incisively local that Brooklyn landscape out of Whitman and Hart Crane. In another sense, however, they tell of the larger sadness and recognitions of our century. They 'design their world through love' and scrupulous observation. A first book by a poet very much to be listened to." George Steiner"

Poets on Inventing

Poets on Inventing PDF Author: Jason Wirtz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Incredible Inventions

Incredible Inventions PDF Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060872454
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Book Description
Inventions can be big, like roller coasters, or small, like crayons. And inventors can be scientists or athletes or even boys and girls! It's hard to imagine life without Popsicles, basketball, or Band-Aids, but they all started with just one person and a little imagination. With sixteen original poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Julia Sarcone-Roach's imaginative artwork, Incredible Inventions celebrates creativity that comes in all shapes and sizes. What will you invent today?

The Invention of the Zero

The Invention of the Zero PDF Author: Richard Kenney
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780679749974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
'Four narrative poems make up the heart of the book. Although they range across eons and firmaments, each is anchored in the Pacific Ocean and the Second World War... The Invention of the Zero was compelling enough to inspire me to read it twice aloud. I don't know when I last found a book of contemporary verse so enlivening in this hurtling, hellbent way...He is+ one of the most gifted and multifaceted and original of American poets.'

Invent Story

Invent Story PDF Author: Eileen Tabios
Publisher: DOS Madres Press
ISBN: 9781939929365
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "There are so many paths thru the enchanted forest that is Eileen Tabios' oeuvre that no one can possibly take them all in one lifetime. So it is with something approaching glee that I find here a completely unexpected one: a mid- career 'selected' constructed around her recurring use of the list / catalogue-form. Did I say the list-form? No, pluralize that, and prepare to encounter an entire ecosystem of catalogues and lists. And don't for a minute let this lead you to think that this is a book of 'weak conceptualism', not that there's anything wrong with weakness (in the sense of an antifoundationalism), nor with conceptualism, because there's not. Think rather that you are encountering poetry, sans qualifiers; prepare to read; and (quoting Perec quoting Verne) 'Look with all your eyes, look'. This is the real stuff." John Bloomberg- Rissman"

The Invention of Influence

The Invention of Influence PDF Author: Peter Cole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811221726
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A dazzling new book by a writer with perhaps the most capacious command of the Jewish poetic tradition of any poet now writing in English(Religion and Literature)