Tiresias and Other Poems

Tiresias and Other Poems PDF Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Get Book Here

Book Description

Tiresias and Other Poems

Tiresias and Other Poems PDF Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Get Book Here

Book Description


Hold Your Own

Hold Your Own PDF Author: Kae Tempest
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632862069
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Get Book Here

Book Description
From playwright, novelist, spoken-word star, and the youngest-ever winner of the Ted Hughes Award, an electrifying poem-sequence based on the myth of the gender-switching prophet Tiresias. My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat. Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakes--and is punished by the goddess Hera, who turns him into a woman. So begins Hold Your Own, a riveting tale of youth and experience, wealth and poverty, sex and love, that draws ancient figures into a fiercely contemporary vision. Weaving elements of classical myth, autobiography and social commentary, Tempest uses the story of the blind, clairvoyant Tiresias to create four sequences of poems, addressing childhood, manhood, womanhood, and late life. The result is a rhythmically hypnotic tour de force--and a hugely ambitious leap forward for one of the most broadly talented and compelling young writers today.

To E. FitzGerald

To E. FitzGerald PDF Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20

Get Book Here

Book Description


Tiresias

Tiresias PDF Author: Leland Hickman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982264515
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Get Book Here

Book Description
Named for Leland Hickman’s unfinished, long poem, “Tiresias,” this volume gathers all of the poetry published during Hickman’s lifetime as well as unpublished pieces drawn from his archives at the University of California, San Diego. With this book, Hickman’s innovative, emotional, and absolutely unique confessional verse will join the landscape of twentieth century American experimental poetry.

Paradise Lost, Book 3

Paradise Lost, Book 3 PDF Author: John Milton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Get Book Here

Book Description


Nightingale

Nightingale PDF Author: Paisley Rekdal
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322013
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Get Book Here

Book Description
Nightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid’s epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal’s characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events. In Nightingale, a mother undergoes cancer treatments at the same time her daughter transitions into a son; a woman comes to painful terms with her new sexual life after becoming quadriplegic; a photographer wonders whether her art is to blame for her son’s sudden illness; and a widow falls in love with her dead husband’s dog. At the same time, however, the book includes more intimate lyrics that explore personal transformation, culminating in a series of connected poems that trace the continuing effects of sexual violence and rape on survivors. Nightingale updates many of Ovid’s subjects while remaining true to the Roman epic’s tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence, and fragmentation. Is change a physical or a spiritual act? Is transformation punishment or reward, reversible or permanent? Does metamorphosis literalize our essential traits, or change us into something utterly new? Nightingale investigates these themes, while considering the roles that pain, violence, art, and voicelessness all play in the changeable selves we present to the world.

The Strayed Reveller

The Strayed Reveller PDF Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : 1849
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Get Book Here

Book Description


Poems

Poems PDF Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Get Book Here

Book Description


The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems PDF Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962

Get Book Here

Book Description


The World's Wife

The World's Wife PDF Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 057119995X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Get Book Here

Book Description
Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.