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I Love Poetry

Author : Michael Farrell
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781925818307

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Michael Farrell is the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highly regarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntax and punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination, for punning and the letter – in both its verbal and visual aspects — gives his poetry its unique humour and energy. In poems like ‘AC/DC As First Emu Prime Minister’, ‘Sheep, Golden Syrup, Elizabeth Bishop’, and ‘Cate Blanchett And The Difficult Poem’, I Love Poetry scrambles a landscape of colloquial and obscure images. Michael Farrell’s collections include living at the z, ode ode (shortlisted for the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award), BREAK ME OUCH, a raiders guide (published by Giramondo in 2008), thempark and thou sand. His second collection with Giramondo, Open Sesame (2011) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for Poetry. Cocky’s Joy (Giramondo 2015) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He was the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. He is the author of a work of literary criticism, Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796–1945 (Palgrave Macmillan).

How To Read A Poem

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547543727

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How To Read A Poem by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. "The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."—Boston Book Review

Bending the Continuum

Author : Dane Swan
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781550713398

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The poems in Bending the Continuum are slave to no genre. Science-fiction, alternative realities, and time are fluid. Form, voice and space in this collection borrow from multiple canons. Dane's first book is equal parts CanLit, Harlem Renaissance, the Caribbean oral tradition known as Griotism, Roddenberry, hip-hop and dark-humour.

A Book of Love Poetry

Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195042328

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A Book of Love Poetry by Jon Stallworthy Pdf

Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms.

Love Poems

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811221481

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Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

Postcolonial Love Poem

Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781644451137

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WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

Felicity

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780698407473

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Felicity by Mary Oliver Pdf

“A breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human relationships . . . An eloquent celebration of simple joy from one of America’s most beloved poets.” —The Washington Post “Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” —New York Times Book Review Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in this collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty.

Love Poetry Out Loud

Author : Robert Alden Rubin
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781616202309

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Following the success of Poetry Out Loud (now in its eighth printing), an affectionate celebration of the declaimed poem, Love Poetry Out Loud now turns to the choppier waters of affection itself. From Hello, I Love You to Pleasures of the Flesh to Loves Me Not, this collection of one hundred poems shouts out life’s grand passion with the help of the voices of poets old and new. Rubin’s informed, irreverent style skillfully reveals the humor, beauty, variety, tradition, and passion of love poetry. Insightful commentary on the poems’ meanings and on ways to read them aloud, as well as notes on their history and background, are found on every page. Whether long lived like Shakespeare’s sonnets or newly-hewn like Carolyn Forché’s “Taking Off My Clothes,” Love Poetry Out Loud makes each poem as fresh and inspiring as the first time it was uttered.

Poems That Touch the Heart

Author : A.L. Alexander
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307489623

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With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.

Love Poems from Around the World

Author : Hippocrene Books (Firm)
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0781807522

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Love Poems from Around the World by Hippocrene Books (Firm) Pdf

From one corner of the globe to the other-and among the diverse countries, cultures and peoples in between-one thing will always remain universal: the powerful grasp of love. This charming, extensive collection of over 350 poems from around the world celebrates love in all of its unique facets. From the countryside of Ireland tot he city streets of China, the reader is swept away on an amazing cross-cultural journey through lost love, love's follies, love's strength, unrequited love, and love attained.

The New Faber Book of Love Poems

Author : James Fenton
Publisher : Faber & Faber Poetry
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Love poetry, English
ISBN : 0571218156

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The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton Pdf

'The New Faber Book of Love Poems' presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present.

The Hell with Love

Author : Mary D. Esselman,Elizabeth Ash Vélez
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0759527032

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The Hell with Love by Mary D. Esselman,Elizabeth Ash Vélez Pdf

This heart-wrenching collection of poems expresses the anger, hurt, depression of loss - asking why, analysing rifts and striving for explanation.

The Art of Love Poetry

Author : Erik Irving Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198752974

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Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. So thinkers from Plato onwards have claimed; and even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it is still commonly considered the most seductive of all forms of art. But why should this be? What are the connections between poetry and love that lead us to associate them so strongly with one another? In this study Erik Gray draws on a broad range of Western thought and poetry to reveal the qualities and structures that love and poetry share. Above all, he argues, both are founded on paradox. Love is at once necessarily public (because interpersonal) and intensely private; hence love both requires expression and resists it. Likewise the experience of love is simultaneously surprising and familiar, singular and conventional. In poetry, especially lyric poetry - which is similarly both dependent on and resistant to language, both exceptionally regular and exceptionally irregular - love finds a natural outlet. The Art of Love Poetry illuminates many of the recurrent tropes that poets across the centuries have employed to represent and express love, exploring such topics as the poetic kiss, the lyric of conjugal love, and the role of animals in love poetry. In describing the inherent erotics of poetry, it offers new insights not only into the long tradition of love lyric but into the nature of love itself.

Love Poem Collection

Author : George Chityil
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1469961431

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Love Poem Collection by George Chityil Pdf

Whether you are thinking about ways to convey your feelings to your love, or trying to find words to say how that other person touched your heart, then this book is for you.

Self Love Poetry

Author : Melody Godfred
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524874810

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Self Love Poetry by Melody Godfred Pdf

Readers have called her work “life changing,” “pandemic medicine,” and “part of my daily ritual.” Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry book, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers, a collection of 200 thought-provoking and heart-opening self love poems. In Self Love Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. On the left side of the book are "thinker" poems that light up the analytical, more literal, left side of the brain, and on the right side are companion "feeler" poems that speak to the creative, more emotional right side of the brain. Combined, the poems electrify the mind, body and soul through a completely unique poetry experience that inspires each of us to embrace all parts of ourselves. This empowering poetry book will not only engage you to think and feel, but will make you feel seen, show you how to love yourself, and encourage you to seek out the hope and beauty in the world … and in yourself. It’s the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love, especially after a most difficult year.