The Stamp of Class

The Stamp of Class PDF Author: Gary Lenhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Book Description
Thoughtfully investigates the important yet little-heralded topic of the effect of class on the poet's life and work

The Stamp of Class

The Stamp of Class PDF Author: Gary Lenhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Book Description
Thoughtfully investigates the important yet little-heralded topic of the effect of class on the poet's life and work

Kill Class

Kill Class PDF Author: Nomi Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482198
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Kill class is based on two years of fieldwork the author conducted within combat trainings in simulated Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America"--

No Breathing in Class

No Breathing in Class PDF Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780141300221
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Collection of poems about school. Suggested level: primary.

The Poetry Lesson

The Poetry Lesson PDF Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.

Poetry and Class

Poetry and Class PDF Author: Sandie Byrne
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030293025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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Book Description
This study discusses the representation of class in poetry in English from Britain and Ireland between the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries, and the effect of class on the production, dissemination, and reception of that poetry. It looks at the factors which enable and obstruct the production of poetry, such as literacy, education, patronage, prejudice, print, and the various alleged revivals of poetry in Britain, and the relationship between class and poetic form. Whilst this is a survey that cannot be comprehensive, it offers a number of case-studies of poets and poems from each period considered.

City of Bones

City of Bones PDF Author: Kwame Dawes
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134632
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.

A Class Act

A Class Act PDF Author: Chip Hamer
Publisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781905233533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
The work in Chip's first full collection, A Class Act, reveals a poet very much engaged with the struggles of the working man. The poetry is characterised by an attitude of stern determination and a tender, underlying empathy that never forgets the human story behind every headline and statistic.

Where I'm from

Where I'm from PDF Author: Steven Borsman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters PDF Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393050688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."

Daring to Take Up Space

Daring to Take Up Space PDF Author: Daniell Koepke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949759068
Category : Eating disorders
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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This is for anyone who needs a reminder that you deserve to take up space in the world and that you are enough. Daniell Koepke is the author behind the Internal Acceptance Movement (I. A.M.). In her first poetry collection, Daniell gives voice to the fear and anxiety, as well as the perseverance and strength, that has been fundamental to her own personal growth journey and the path to deeper and more meaningful self-love and acceptance. In her own words, this book is for "the 17-year-old Daniell who was convinced she was worthless; who was convinced she would never survive or amount to anything. This is for the friends and family who never stopped believing in and supporting her. This is for all the people who feel that they have to shrink and hide who they are in order to be loved and accepted and worth something.