Author : Martin McGovern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1301793030
Bad Fame
Martin McGovern
Bad Fame Poems
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Bad Fame - Poems
Martin McGovern
Author : Martin McGovern
Publisher : Able Muse Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781927409510
Bad Fame - Poems by Martin McGovern Pdf
Martin McGovern’s Bad Fame muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in “The Circle of Late Afternoon” which asks, “Isn’t there an art to giving myself away slowly like wheat opening to the sun?”; or, “Processionalia,” where “a bee/ abandons the tea roses/ and circle that black blossom of/ the widow’s veiled face as if her tears were/ pollen and the bee could feather/ its legs with grief.” Be it lore set in Colorado, or farther out, the personal and regional tributes unravel the universally familiar and pertinent. McGovern's debut collection is the work of a seasoned master in command of craft and themes. PRAISE FOR BAD FAME: Martin McGovern’s long-awaited, well-constructed first book gives itself away slowly, artfully. It is carefully considered, quietly passionate, and deeply humane. —Edward Hirsch There is an unforsaken paradise in these pages, and a lot of ungodly anxiety. . . . Like Dubliners, Bad Fame darkens, deepens, darkens through its sections, understanding with Joyce the tidal pull of place that will never let us survive if we resist the current . . . the “blue snow,” not of Dublin, but of memory, of Colorado . . . this extraordinarily unique McGovern flair for the Keatonish (Buster) aside mixed with lyrical intellection, these poetic rooms with their many blue lights, direct or indirect, for us to turn on as night comes on. —David Lazar (from the foreword) Here are exacting sentences, any number irregularly hugged into the ferocious clusters which are Mr. McGovern’s poems. My likely favorite, “If the Light Could Kill Us,” does heavy duty as a garden unfurled at dawn, the beloved “still sleeping,/ flame-pink welts our love leaves on your almost/ too delicate skin, brazen in this light.” And then the assault of a very different sentence, “Samuel Johnson is dead. And Mrs. Thrale./ And the kind cherub of a straitjacket/ she kept closeted should reason fail/ him thoroughly, where’s that deck-coat now?” followed by other people’s torments inspected so closely that this morning “violence/ lingers like the last touch of a season.” Hence: “Only as I rise to pull the window’s shade/ do you wake, dusted and dazed, as from a fever.” Strong as they are, the sentences, like the centuries, are treated pitilessly, as you can hear, yet there is what the poet calls “the shimmer of a teen movie” throughout. Resilient art, and no loitering. —Richard Howard
Bad Fame
Martin McGovern
Author : Martin McGovern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1927409500
Bad Fame by Martin McGovern Pdf
Martin McGovern s Bad Fame muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in The Circle of Late Afternoon which asks, Isn t there an art to giving myself away slowly like wheat opening to the sun?; or, Processionalia, where a bee/ abandons the tea roses/ and circle that black blossom of/ the widow s veiled face as if her tears were/ pollen and the bee could feather/ its legs with grief. Be it lore set in Colorado, or farther out, the personal and regional tributes unravel the universally familiar and pertinent. McGovern's debut collection is the work of a seasoned master in command of craft and themes. PRAISE FOR BAD FAME: Martin McGovern s long-awaited, well-constructed first book gives itself away slowly, artfully. It is carefully considered, quietly passionate, and deeply humane. Edward Hirsch There is an unforsaken paradise in these pages, and a lot of ungodly anxiety. . . . Like Dubliners, Bad Fame darkens, deepens, darkens through its sections, understanding with Joyce the tidal pull of place that will never let us survive if we resist the current . . . the blue snow, not of Dublin, but of memory, of Colorado . . . this extraordinarily unique McGovern flair for the Keatonish (Buster) aside mixed with lyrical intellection, these poetic rooms with their many blue lights, direct or indirect, for us to turn on as night comes on. David Lazar (from the foreword) Here are exacting sentences, any number irregularly hugged into the ferocious clusters which are Mr. McGovern s poems. My likely favorite, If the Light Could Kill Us, does heavy duty as a garden unfurled at dawn, the beloved still sleeping, / flame-pink welts our love leaves on your almost/ too delicate skin, brazen in this light. And then the assault of a very different sentence, Samuel Johnson is dead. And Mrs. Thrale./ And the kind cherub of a straitjacket/ she kept closeted should reason fail/ him thoroughly, where s that deck-coat now? followed by other people s torments inspected so closely that this morning violence/ lingers like the last touch of a season. Hence: Only as I rise to pull the window s shade/ do you wake, dusted and dazed, as from a fever. Strong as they are, the sentences, like the centuries, are treated pitilessly, as you can hear, yet there is what the poet calls the shimmer of a teen movie throughout. Resilient art, and no loitering. Richard Howard ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Martin McGovern earned his MA in philosophy at Stanford University and his PhD in creative writing/literature at the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Chicago Review, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. He cofounded The Urban Theater Company in Houston and was Associate Artistic Director of Ad Hoc Theater and Artistic Director of Tir Na nOg: An Irish Theater in Denver. His play "Joseph K" earned the 2009 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best New Work. Having taught for Regis University's College for Professional Studies since 2007 and creating its MA in Creative Writing, McGovern is also now cofounder and codirector of that university's Mile-High Low-Residency MFA program.
Please DonÕt Read These Poems: They Come From the Mind of a Demented and Perverted Poet Who Is Only Interested in Riches and Fame
John Cieslinski
Author : John Cieslinski
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781483472980
Please DonÕt Read These Poems: They Come From the Mind of a Demented and Perverted Poet Who Is Only Interested in Riches and Fame by John Cieslinski Pdf
One reviewer claims that Please Don't Read These Poems is "the book that made censorship in America fashionable again and removed the stigma from book burning." In all seriousness, there is very little serious content in this new collection of limericks intended to not necessarily inform but definitely entertain. Be ready to laugh out loud at bawdy bunches of rhyming verse. Take, for instance, his poem "In Your Pocket: " Now cell phones have reason to rate As a true technological great- Text messaging's fine- Bell tones are divine- But you'll smile if you let them vibrate. Cieslinski goes even further. He bemoans the state of Pinnochio in a relationship, chides a law-breaking marsupial, and somehow makes a violent king into a foul-mouthed, laughing stock. From start to finish, these limiricks keep readers happily nodding along as rhymes lead to loud laughter. Not for the easily offended, Please Don't Read These Poems is a refreshing take on a world that's grown much too serious.
Good Bones
Maggie Smith
Author : Maggie Smith
Publisher : Tupelo Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781946482426
Good Bones by Maggie Smith Pdf
Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu
Double-Parked, with Tosca
Ellen Kaufman
Author : Ellen Kaufman
Publisher : Able Muse Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781773490670
Double-Parked, with Tosca by Ellen Kaufman Pdf
Ellen Kaufman's Double-Parked, with Tosca navigates the natural and the manmade-often with an eye on their strained juxtaposition-or unravels the complex dynamics of the physical, social, and political. Kaufman can go from elegizing an Elizabethan old dress past to the environmentally conscious "now [when] the polar caps / undress themselves." She weaves the history of early settlements and their challenges and triumphs over the sometime inhospitable land; or negotiates the melding and mismatch of cultures in her native New York City. Kaufman's poems assert their claim inside violence, indifference, and exclusion. This surefooted second collection is a fitting special honoree for the 2019 Able Muse Book Award. PRAISE FOR DOUBLE-PARKED, WITH TOSCA Ellen Kaufman's poems pierce the reader the way a needle pierces fabric. With a stunningly precise apprehension of the real, she stitches immigration histories and the intimacies of family life, cityscapes and suburban developments, the recent past and the perilous future. She has the power to shapeshift, too, so that we experience, as if from inside, the hidden life of a retired battleship, an algae bloom, a bird nesting in a traffic light. Marked by grief, endurance, and the truths of beauty made manifest, these are essential poems. - Jennifer Barber, author of Works on Paper Ellen Kaufman's absolutely terrific second book can fearlessly slash through pretext, but also cohere unlikely pairs through the X-ray delicacy of an ace metaphorist. She can use "he wanted to get laid" as a refrain in a satisfyingly avenging villanelle, and also see how a beret looks like a "fluffy flounder," and a chandelier handed down through generations "rattles like a skeleton." A tick can alternate stanzas with its host, and an orchestra can create a landscape from its instruments. Kaufman uses form-including a masterful crown of sonnets about her father's end of life-and the speaker herself takes form in persona poems of NYC landmarks; of the USS Intrepid, she writes, "the old moon / shuttle Discovery perches / like an aphid on a rose leaf." I bet you never heard that before! And so you will feel about this whole body of poems. Kaufman's wit, her craft, her vision-this book celebrates their collaboration. - Jessica Greenbaum, author of Spilled and Gone As a young person, the best poem I ever read in my life was a Petrarchan sonnet by Ellen Kaufman-before I even knew what a Petrarchan sonnet was. Now, in reading Ellen Kaufman's newest book, Double-Parked, with Tosca, I immediately see everything I want poetry to be: imaginative, evocative, observant, musical, filled with sound and living breath, and brilliant. I can't recommend this book and this author enough. - Nicholas Samaras, author of American Psalm, World Psalm ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ellen Kaufman's first collection, House Music, was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award (Able Muse, 2013). A poem from that book won the Morton Marr Poetry Prize awarded by Southwest Review, where it also appeared. Her poems have also been published by Beloit Poetry Journal, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, the New Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Salamander, Shenandoah, the Yale Review, and other literary magazines. Twice a MacDowell Fellow (2009 and 2013), she holds an AB from Cornell, and MFA and MSLS degrees from Columbia University. Formerly a poetry reviewer for Library Journal, she now reviews for Publishers Weekly. She lives near Straus Park in upper Manhattan.
The rape of the lock, and other poems
Alexander Pope
Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UGA:32108003543082
The rape of the lock, and other poems by Alexander Pope Pdf
The Poems of Alexander Pope: The rape of the lock and other poems
Alexander Pope
Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003776122
The Poems of Alexander Pope: The rape of the lock and other poems by Alexander Pope Pdf
Matrices of Genre
Mary Depew,Dirk Obbink
Author : Mary Depew,Dirk Obbink
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674034201
Matrices of Genre by Mary Depew,Dirk Obbink Pdf
The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome. In a fruitful variety of ways the contributors to this volume address the questions: what generic rules were recognized and observed by the Greeks and Romans over the centuries; what competing schemes were there for classifying genres and accounting for literary change; and what role did authors play in maintaining and developing generic contexts? Their essays look at tragedy, epigram, hymns, rhapsodic poetry, history, comedy, bucolic poetry, prophecy, Augustan poetry, commentaries, didactic poetry, and works that "mix genres." The contributors bring to this analysis a wide range of expertise; they are, in addition to the editors, Glenn W. Most, Joseph Day, Ian Rutherford, Deborah Boedeker, Eric Csapo, Marco Fantuzzi, Stephanie West, Alessandro Barchiesi, Ineke Sluiter, Don Fowler, and Stephen Hinds. The essays are drawn from a colloquium at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies.
The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Memoirs & Letters
Walter Scott
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 15718 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547803195
The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Memoirs & Letters by Walter Scott Pdf
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Memoirs & Letters (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Contents: INTRODUCTION SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens WAVERLY NOVELS WAVERLEY GUY MANNERING THE ANTIQUARY ROB ROY IVANHOE KENILWORTH THE PIRATE THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL PEVERIL OF THE PEAK QUENTIN DURWARD ST. RONAN'S WELL WOODSTOCK THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN Tales of My Landlord OLD MORTALITY BLACK DWARF THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR A LEGEND OF MONTROSE COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS CASTLE DANGEROUS Tales from Benedictine Sources THE MONASTERY THE ABBOT Tales of the Crusaders THE BETROTHED THE TALISMAN SHORT STORIES: Chronicles of the Canongate CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE – INTRODUCTORY THE HIGHLAND WIDOW THE TWO DROVERS THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER The Keepsake Stories MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK CHRISTOPHER CORDUROY PHANTASMAGORIA THE INFERNO OF ALTISIDORA A HIGHLAND ANECDOTE DEPRAVITY AMONG ANIMALS Translation GOETZ OF BERLICHINGEN, WITH THE IRON HAND Plays HALIDON HILL MACDUFF'S CROSS THE DOOM OF DEVORGOIL AUCHINDRANE Poetry Journal Letters PAUL'S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK LETTERS OF MALACHI MALAGROWTHER LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT Historical Works TALES OF A GRANDFATHER IN FIVE VOLUMES THE LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE Articles RELIQUES OF ROBERT BURNS LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN HOME LIFE OF KEMBLE — KELLY'S REMINISCENCES SALMONIA ON PLANTING WASTE LANDS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING TRIAL OF DUNCAN TERIG ALIAS CLERK, AND ALEXANDER BANE MACDONALD BIOGRAPHIES: SIR WALTER SCOTT by George Saintsbury SIR WALTER SCOTT by Richard H. Hutton THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT by J. G.
Keep Moving
Maggie Smith
Author : Maggie Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982132088
Keep Moving by Maggie Smith Pdf
The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR “A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” —People For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience. When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?
The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100045602V
The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene; with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600080396
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene; with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : GENT:900000223626
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser. Edited for Popular Perusal with Current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes, by D. Laing Purves
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026240262