Selected Prose

Selected Prose PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

Selected Prose

Selected Prose PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose PDF Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208239
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 PDF Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348040
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art. Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.

Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers

Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers PDF Author: George Oppen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520941069
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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This is the first comprehensive critical edition of the unpublished writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Editor Stephen Cope has made a judicious selection of Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" as well as "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. Most notable are Oppen's "Daybooks," composed in the decade following his return to poetry in 1958. Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers is an inspiring portrait of this essential writer and a testament to the creative process itself.

Selected Prose and Prose-Poems

Selected Prose and Prose-Poems PDF Author: Gabriela Mistral
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292778597
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry. This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects pieces that reveal Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the practice of teaching; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's own writing practices; and her social beliefs. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life and a brief introduction to her career and prose.

Nice Fish

Nice Fish PDF Author: Louis Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, 1995 "To imagine what it means to be another human being is an act of love. These are poems written by a great lover of the world. Everything in it that stands alone, unobserved, and luminous. Solitary people with their solitary destinies...If there's a native, archetypical American solitude, Louis Jenkins has given us its flavor."--Charles Simic,The Boston Review

No Lonesome Road

No Lonesome Road PDF Author: Don West
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209283X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This is the first book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the most charismatic Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). West was a poet, a pioneer advocate for civil rights, a preacher, a historian, a labor organizer, a folk-music revivalist, an essayist, and an organic farmer. He is perhaps best known as an educator, primarily as cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. In his old age, West served as an elder statesman for his causes. No Lonesome Road allows Don West to speak for himself. It provides the most comprehensive collection of his poetry ever published, spanning five decades of his literary career. It also includes the first comprehensive and annotated collection of West's nonfiction essays, articles, letters, speeches, and stories, covering his role at the forefront of Southern and Appalachian history, and as a pioneer researcher and writer on the South's little-known legacy of radical activism. Drawing from both primary and secondary sources, including previously unknown documents, correspondence, interviews, FBI files, and newspaper clippings, the introduction by Jeff Biggers stands as the most thorough, insightful biographical sketch of Don West yet published in any form. The afterword by George Brosi is a stirring personal tribute to the contributions of West and also serves as a thoughtful reflection on the interactions between the radicals of the 1930s and the 1960s. The best possible introduction to his extraordinary life and work, this annotated selection of Don West's writings will be inspirational reading for anyone interested in Southern history, poetry, religion, or activism.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose PDF Author: Charlotte Mary Mew
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
ISBN: 9780571316182
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The 1935 Selected Poems, introduced by T.S. Eliot, bought Marianne Moore's fastidious and inimitable work to the attention of a wider public for the first time.

Selected Prose

Selected Prose PDF Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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R. S. Thomas is Wales's most eminent poet in the English language, and one of the most acclaimed poets writing in Britain today. Since 1946 he has published twenty-six collections of poetry including his massive Collected Poems in 1993. His poems and books have won many prizes including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964. Thomas's growing influence on modern poetry has been considerable. This is a result of the poems themselves: Thomas remains a largely private figure, living on the island Anglesey, content to let his writing speak for itself. Thomas's occasional prose writings have consequently been of great importance, providing a glimpse into the craft of his poems and their concerns. Selected Prose is the only book to collect some of his scattered prose in both languages, many Welsh language articles appearing in translation for the first time. It is a varied selection, both creative and critical, aiming to reflect the major preoccupations of Thomas and his poetry: religion and theology; Wales and its topography; Welsh Nationalism and the language; Nature and the countryside; the poet and his craft. It includes also the translated transcript of an autobiographical radio broadcast.

Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney PDF Author: Lydia Sigourney
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460402952
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) was the most widely read and respected pre-Civil War American woman poet in the English-speaking world. In a half-century career, Sigourney produced a wide range of poetry and prose envisaging the United States as a new kind of republic with a unique mission in history, in which women like herself had a central role. This edition contributes to the current recovery of Sigourney and her republican vision from the oblivion into which they were cast by the aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of a male-dominated American “national” literary canon, and the aesthetics of Modernism. In this Broadview edition, a representative selection of poetry and prose from across her career illustrates Sigourney’s national vision and the diversity of forms she used to promote it. In the appendices, letters and documents illustrate her challenges and working methods in what she called her “kitchen in Parnassus.”