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The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324001799

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The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling by Robert Pinsky Pdf

A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Author : James Knapp,Margaret Ferguson,Mary Jo Salter,Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 1998 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0393969142

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The Norton Anthology of Poetry by James Knapp,Margaret Ferguson,Mary Jo Salter,Jon Stallworthy Pdf

The Broadview Anthology of Poetry - Second Edition

Author : Amanda Goldrick-Jones,Herbert Rosengarten
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551114859

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The Broadview Anthology of Poetry - Second Edition by Amanda Goldrick-Jones,Herbert Rosengarten Pdf

Among the poets new to this edition are such leading names as Americans Robert Pinsky, Louise Erdrich and Louise Glück; Britons James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Anne Carson, Robert Bringhurst, and Christian Bök. A number of names who may be new to many readers of poetry are also included among them: Ohioan Debra Allbery, Vancouverite Elise Partridge, and the Cree poet Connie Fife; as with the first edition, the editors have endeavored to include much that is fresh as well as much that is familiar. There are many additions to the selections from poets who appeared in the first edition including selections from the recent work of Leonard Cohen, Les Murray, and Margaret Atwood. As before, the anthology includes work from English-language poets throughout the world from India, Africa, and the Caribbean as well as from Britain, North America, and Australia. Although the selections from the work of poets of earlier eras are largely unchanged from the first edition, there have been some changes; among poems added for this edition are Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Bradstreet’s “Employment,” Dickinson’s “I cannot live without You,” Frost’s “Once by the Pacific,” and Auden’s “Funeral Blues.” As before, the text emphasizes work of the past century; poems from 1900 or later take up more than half of the anthology’s pages. In its first edition The Broadview Anthology of Poetry included biographical information about the poets at the back of the anthology; for the new edition, biographical material appears in a headnote to each poet. Two other features are also new to this edition: the date of first publication is appended after each poem, and line numbering is used throughout. The numbers have been kept unobtrusive, however; as with the first edition, the designers have endeavored to give a clean look to the pages of the anthology. A substantial section on prosody, figures of speech, and so on is included as an appendix.

Bright Wings

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231150873

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Bright Wings by Billy Collins Pdf

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substantial anthology, more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original, ornithologically precise illustrations. Part poetry collection, part field guide, part art book, Bright Wings presents verbal and visual interpretations of the natural world and reminds us of our intimate connection to the "bright wings" around us. Each in their own way, these poems and pictures honor the enchanting creatures that have been, and continue to be, longtime collaborators with the poet's and painter's art. Poet and bird pairings include: Wallace Stevens and the Blackbird; Emily Dickinson and the Robin; Marianne Moore and the Frigate Pelican; Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch; Sylvia Plath and the Pheasant; John Updike and the Seagull; Walt Whitman and the Eagle; Billy Collins and the Sparrow.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0195122712

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Anthology of Modern American Poetry by Cary Nelson Pdf

Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

A Child's Anthology of Poetry

Author : Elizabeth Hauge Sword
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0062393375

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A Child's Anthology of Poetry by Elizabeth Hauge Sword Pdf

Finally in paperback, a timeless collection celebrating the joys of poetry for children of all ages—an indispensable introduction to literature and life that brings together essential classic children's poems with the best of modern and contemporary international poetry. The simple pleasures of reading and listening to poetry can make unforgettable memories in childhood and help children develop an interest in language and storytelling. From Robert Frost to Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein to Emily Dickinson, this collection emphasizes the fun and diversity of poetry, providing young readers with a well-rounded, inclusive selection of poets. Under the guidance of a special advisory board of esteemed poets, and featuring artwork by Tom Pohrt, the well-known illustrator of Crow and Weasel, A Child's Anthology of Poetry includes favorite poems such as William Blake's "The Tyger" and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," in addition to more recent classics such as Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz." Full of surprises and lyric charm, this delightful volume will be treasured by generations of readers.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Author : Ferguson, Margaret,Salter, Mary Jo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393979206

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The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Ferguson, Margaret,Salter, Mary Jo Pdf

The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780143106432

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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by Rita Dove Pdf

An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.

Talking to the Sun

Author : Kenneth Koch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985-11-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805001441

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Talking to the Sun by Kenneth Koch Pdf

Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A Book of Luminous Things

Author : Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756905559

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A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz Pdf

Nobel Laureate Milosz's personal selection of the world's greatest poetry, selected for their language, imagery, and ability to move the reader. Poems range from eighth-century China to contemporary America.

Native Poetry in Canada

Author : Jeannette Armstrong,Lally Grauer
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551112008

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Native Poetry in Canada by Jeannette Armstrong,Lally Grauer Pdf

Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.

Resisting Canada

Author : Nyla Matuk
Publisher : Signal Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550655337

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Resisting Canada by Nyla Matuk Pdf

"Poetry, Canadian Poetry, activism, Indigenous agency, cultural belonging, environmental anxieties and racial privilege. Poems included in Resisting Canada--by poets such as Lee Maracle, Jordan Abel, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Louise Bernice Halfe, Michael Prior, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson."--

Global Poetry Anthology

Author : Kim Addonizio,David Dabydeen,Vona Groarke,Susan Nalugwa Kiguli,Arvind Krishna Mehrota,Pascale Petit,Talya Rubin,Carmine Starnino,Mark Tredinnick,Joseph Akawu Ushie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:1391527994

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Global Poetry Anthology by Kim Addonizio,David Dabydeen,Vona Groarke,Susan Nalugwa Kiguli,Arvind Krishna Mehrota,Pascale Petit,Talya Rubin,Carmine Starnino,Mark Tredinnick,Joseph Akawu Ushie Pdf

World Poetry

Author : Katharine Washburn,Clifton Fadiman
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393041301

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World Poetry by Katharine Washburn,Clifton Fadiman Pdf

An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century

Poetry of Presence

Author : Phyllis Cole-Dai,Ruby R. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Mindfulness (Psychology)
ISBN : 0998258830

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Poetry of Presence by Phyllis Cole-Dai,Ruby R. Wilson Pdf

A celebrated and diverse group of poets have contributed the beautiful selections that make up Poetry of Presence. This book of mindfulness poems provides a refuge of quiet clarity that is much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.