Here And Now Poems

Author : Stephen Dunn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393343557

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Here and Now: Poems by Stephen Dunn Pdf

“A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post In his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls “the problems of the normal,” which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem “Don’t Do That” opens with the lines: “It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything / hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red / along with some resentment I’d held in / for a few weeks.” In other poems, Dunn contemplates his own mortality, echoing Yeats—“That is no country for old men / cadenced everything I said”—only to discover he’s joined their ranks. In “The Writer of Nudes” his speaker is in search of the body’s “grammar” but tells his models, “Don’t expect to see yourself as other / than I see you.” Full of grace, wit, humor, and masterful precision, the poems in Here and Now attest to the contradictions we live with in the here and now. Political and metaphysical, these astonishing poems remind us of the essential human comedy of getting through each day. from "The House on the Hill" . . . from out of the fog, a large, welcoming house would emerge made out of invention and surprise. No things without ideas! you'd shout, and the doors would open, and the echoes would cascade down to the valleys and the faraway towns.

Author : Stephen Dunn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393244557

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Here and Now: Poems by Stephen Dunn Pdf

“A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post In his sixteenth collection, Stephen Dunn continues to bring his imagination and intelligence to what Wallace Stevens calls “the problems of the normal,” which of course pervade most of our lives. The poem “Don’t Do That” opens with the lines: “It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything / hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red / along with some resentment I’d held in / for a few weeks.” In other poems, Dunn contemplates his own mortality, echoing Yeats—“That is no country for old men / cadenced everything I said”—only to discover he’s joined their ranks. In “The Writer of Nudes” his speaker is in search of the body’s “grammar” but tells his models, “Don’t expect to see yourself as other / than I see you.” Full of grace, wit, humor, and masterful precision, the poems in Here and Now attest to the contradictions we live with in the here and now. Political and metaphysical, these astonishing poems remind us of the essential human comedy of getting through each day. from "The House on the Hill" . . . from out of the fog, a large, welcoming house would emerge made out of invention and surprise. No things without ideas! you'd shout, and the doors would open, and the echoes would cascade down to the valleys and the faraway towns.

Author : Sinéad Morrissey
Publisher : Carcanet Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015042403108

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Between Here and There by Sinéad Morrissey Pdf

A trenchant search for beauty amidst a world ravaged by cruelty.

Author : 相田みつを
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Calligraphy, Japanese
ISBN : 4478701199

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いまここ by 相田みつを Pdf

Author : Jessica Urlichs
Publisher : Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 047362284X

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All I See Is You by Jessica Urlichs Pdf

**Hardback includes bonus pages of additional poetry!** "Oh, how the days are long it's true Yesterdays are many But todays are a few So I'll fill them up With all of you And simply be, Here With you. "'All I See Is You', captures the heartfelt and honest moments of early motherhood. Jessica's words encompass the highs and the lows, the raw and the vulnerable and everything in between. It's the kind of book you want on your bedside sitting next to the bottles or breast pump. This book of 60 poems and proses will take mothers on a journey of healing and growth with a powerful affirmation that you are not alone. A popular gift around the world for expectant mother's, new mother's and mothers with grown children. There are words in here for everyone. "Jessica found a way to put into words the very soul of motherhood'. "This writer writes as though she's taken the words out of every mother's head... the feelings that most mothers will experience but can't always express. So relatable, so beautiful, sometimes funny and often emotional, I challenge you not to get teary eyed!" "Thank you for your poems, your writing makes me feel human again". Jessica's poetry books have sold tens of thousands around the world. 'All I See Is You', is Jessica's second in her collection of poetry, with 'From One Mom to a Mother' being her first and 'My After All', the final in her collection. Jessica is also a best selling author of 'The Rainbow In My Heart', a picture book on emotions. Jess's poems can also be found on Etsy! www.jessicaurlichs.com

Author : Phyllis Cole-Dai,Ruby R. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Author : Youngjoo San
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135491802

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Here and Now by Youngjoo San Pdf

Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change. Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical, and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition, the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive interventions in the production of social space through their critical interaction with dominant spatial codes.

Author : Paul Auster,J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101606278

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Here and Now by Paul Auster,J. M. Coetzee Pdf

“[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It’s a pleasure to be in their company.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. After a meeting at an Australian literary festival brought them together in 2008, novelists Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee began exchanging letters on a regular basis with the hope they might “strike sparks off each other." Here and Now is the result: a three-year epistolary dialogue that touches on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, eroticism, marriage, friendship, and love. Their high-spirited and luminous correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and reveal their pleasure in each other’s friendship on every page.

Author : Vasilis Papageorgiou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443818285

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Here, and Here by Vasilis Papageorgiou Pdf

Important to the essays here is the possibility of using logos without the negative, restricting and violent aspects of logos. In this respect I speak about affirmation and about tragic awareness rather than about the tragic itself or tragic conflict, as I read texts of a literary democracy that is already here, texts by Don DeLillo, Tomas Tranströmer, John Ashbery and Thanasis Valtinos, or see arrangements by Lo Snöfall. Indeed it is all about arrangements, about knowing how to affirm and doing it rather than using language and its codes in order to transcribe, however accurate this might be. Arrangements say yes, since they do not raise any absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: it is a cosmos, where affirming is a tragically aware cosmetics. Cosmos is neither the world nor any ordering or embellishment of this world, but an openness as the incalculable accumulation of arrangements that say yes in their awareness that they do not amount to an ontology.

Author : Kathryn Gosling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800311109

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Here and Now by Kathryn Gosling Pdf

There's a poem I'd like you to read...... Book one A Piece Of Rope was written over a period of 30 years. I am now living in the Here and Now. My second book contains 79 new poems split into 4 sections. Poems for Humour, Poems for Thought, Poems Telling Stories and Poems For Support. Poems For Humour takes a lighter look at life telling of things we may remember from childhood, events that may have happened and some written just for fun! Poems Telling Stories is just that. They contain surprising facts and trivia you may never have known, all written of course in poetic language, all rhyming! Poems For Thought contains an anthology of topics on which to ponder, something to think about be it an everyday occurrence we rarely give much thought to or a future event planned. Some words may even echo your own thoughts and feelings on a subject. My last section contains poems offering support, whether it reminds you how wonderful you are or reassures you in a time of need that you are never on your own. Some of these may rest with you a while during periods of silence that we all experience from time to time. Here and Now is a collection of poems for where I am at this present point in time. I hope you enjoy my words of humour, amazing stories, thoughtful questions and words of comfort. Happy Reading, Kathryn

Author : Stephen Dunn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393240818

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Lines of Defense: Poems by Stephen Dunn Pdf

Juxtaposes the ridiculousness and absurdities of daily life with the imagined life through poems about finding a lost cat and not being invited to a party.

Author : Grace Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1780375328

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Passport to Here and There by Grace Nichols Pdf

One of Britain's best-known and most popular Caribbean poets traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape, turning the ordinary into something vivid and memorable, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : IND:30000154363471

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Here and Now by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pádraig Ó Tuama
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781838856335

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Poetry Unbound by Pádraig Ó Tuama Pdf

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry Unbound This inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig’s illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem. Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn’t necessarily know how to do so. Poetry Unbound contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Layli Long Soldier and more.

Author : Yisrael Levin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317186199

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A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word by Yisrael Levin Pdf

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature work. While Swinburne's scandalous early poetry has received considerable critical attention, the thoughtful, rich, spiritually and politically informed poetry that began to emerge in his thirties has been generally neglected. This volume addresses the need for a fuller understanding of Swinburne's career that includes his fiction, aesthetic ideology, and analyses of Shakespeare and the great French writers. Among the key features of the collection is the contextualizing of Swinburne's work in new contexts such as Victorian mythography, continental aestheticism, positivism, and empiricism. Individual essays examine, among other topics, the dialect poems and Swinburne's position as a regional poet, Swinburne as a transition figure from nineteenth-century aesthetic writing to the professionalized criticism that dominates the twentieth century, Swinburne's participation in the French literary scene, Swinburne's friendships with women writers, and the selections made for anthologies from the nineteenth century to the present. Taken together, the essays offer scholars a richer portrait of Swinburne's importance as a poet, critic, and fiction writer.