Mister Toebones

Author : Brooks Haxton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593318539

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Mister Toebones by Brooks Haxton Pdf

In these marvelous pages, the award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. He looks back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into his personal relationships. Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his new collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In another poem, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young. Elsewhere, waist-deep in the Mississippi River, under the Atlantic Ocean, on the cracked ice of a frozen pond, even in outer space, the poet explores regions and forces that seem past endurance. Taking stock of threats against human survival, our own recklessness chief among them, these poems seek among visionaries and despots, scientific prodigies, murderers, and lovers what vitality may come from an alertness to all living things.

Author : Brooks Haxton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593318522

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Mister Toebones by Brooks Haxton Pdf

In these marvelous pages, the award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. He looks back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into his personal relationships. Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his new collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In another poem, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young. Elsewhere, waist-deep in the Mississippi River, under the Atlantic Ocean, on the cracked ice of a frozen pond, even in outer space, the poet explores regions and forces that seem past endurance. Taking stock of threats against human survival, our own recklessness chief among them, these poems seek among visionaries and despots, scientific prodigies, murderers, and lovers what vitality may come from an alertness to all living things.

Author : Sam Epstein,Beryl Epstein
Publisher : Coward McCann
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0698204026

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Mister Peale's Mammoth by Sam Epstein,Beryl Epstein Pdf

Enthralled by the new science of natural history, a famous American painter establishes a museum in his home and organizes a scientific expedition to find and dig up a complete mammoth skeleton.

Author : Sharon Olds
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307548597

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The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner—a stunning collection of poems about history, childhood, nurturing a new generation of children, and the transformative power of marital love. With poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations that are seldom the stuff of poetry. These are poems that strike for the heart, as Olds captures our imagination with unexpected wordplay, sprung rhythms, and the disquieting revelations of ordinary life. Writing at the peak of her powers, this greatly admired poet gives us her finest collection.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Film critics
ISBN : UCSC:32106016514330

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Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip by Richard Schickel Pdf

In his new book the celebrated film critic and biographer turns to a story of his own life as a child growing up in a comfortable Milwaukee surburb during the years of WW II.

Author : William Kittredge
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307549365

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The Willow Field by William Kittredge Pdf

After numerous essays, short stories and the heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky, William Kittredge gives us a debut novel that ratifies his standing as a leading writer of the American West. Rossie Benasco’s horseback existence begins at age 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than 200 head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary. It’s a journey that leads him, ultimately, to Eliza Stevenson and a passion so powerful, his previously unfocused life gains clarity and purpose. From the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it, this is an epic tale of love and wide open spaces that stretches over the grand canvas of the twentieth-century West.

Author : Phil Hansen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780143131526

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Creativity Sucks by Phil Hansen Pdf

An essential guide for artists of all levels, on how to live and work as a creative, from a popular artist and TED speaker. When we're kids, our parents tell us that being creative is fun, fun, fun. But when you decide to turn art into your career, whether that's painting, writing, drawing, or sculpting Edgar Allan Poe out of earthworms, that's when things get tough. Let's be honest. Creativity isn't always fun. It's also hard work. In this insightful and heartfelt guide, artist and speaker Phil Hansen shares his hard-won wisdom from the frontlines of life as a professional creative. Paired with his edgy art, Hansen provides advice for the difficult moments--the slumps, the creative blocks, the times when something you love doesn't resonate with the world--and gives you the pep talk you need to get through the tough times. He also shares helpful tips on how to put yourself in the prime creative mindset, how to build a support system, and how to create art that sells.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781598536409

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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by Harold Bloom Pdf

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another—how literary traditions are made—and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why, Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now, for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation’s literature. Assembled with David Mikics (Slow Reading in a Hurried Age), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades’ worth of Bloom’s writings— much of it hard to find and long unavailable—including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47 essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The story it tells, of American literature as a recurring artistic struggle for selfhood, speaks to the passion and power of the American spirit. All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied Bloom―Emerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishop―make their appearance in The American Canon, along with Hemingway, James, O’Connor, Ellison, Hurston, Le Guin, Ashbery and many others. Bloom’s passion for these classic writers is contagious, and he reminds readers how they have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves. Bloom, Mikics writes, “is still our most inspirational critic, still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our lives depended on it: Because, he insists, they do.” For readers who want to deepen their appreciation of American literature, there's no better place to start than The American Canon.

Author : Cheryl Willis Hudson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781984825636

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Brave. Black. First by Cheryl Willis Hudson Pdf

These 100 stunning postcards celebrate 50 groundbreaking African American women, from Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks to Angela Davis and Beyonc --published in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Based on the children's book Brave. Black. First., these empowering postcards celebrate artists, athletes, activists, politicians, and writers who championed civil rights in their communities. Each card features the portrait on the front and, on the back, an inspiring quote, short biographical information, and space for writing a message. With two postcards for every portrait, you'll have one to send and one to save. Taken together, the collection captures the iconic moments of fifty African American women whose heroism and bravery rewrote the American story for the better.

Author : Cheryl Willis Hudson
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525645818

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Brave. Black. First. by Cheryl Willis Hudson Pdf

Published in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discover over fifty remarkable African American women whose unique skills and contributions paved the way for the next generation of young people. Perfect for fans of Rad Women Worldwide, Women in Science, and Girls Think of Everything. Fearless. Bold. Game changers. Harriet Tubman guided the way. Rosa Parks sat for equality. Aretha Franklin sang from the soul. Serena Williams bested the competition. Michelle Obama transformed the White House. Black women everywhere have changed the world! Published in partnership with curators from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, this illustrated biography compilation captures the iconic moments of fifty African American women whose heroism and bravery rewrote the American story for the better. "A beautifully illustrated testament to the continuing excellence and legacy of Africane American women." -Kirkus Reviews

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016596707

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Acts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lucie Brock-Broido
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307804419

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A Hunger by Lucie Brock-Broido Pdf

Ranging from the mundane to the ethereal, the themes of Brock-Broido's first collection are interesting and sometimes startling. The poems range from those concerned with time, especially the conjunction of the past and the future; those influenced by things or places specifically American, poems that appear vaguely autobiographical; and those based on actual historical or contemporary events, usually involving, and often narrated by, a child.

Author : Talbot Mundy
Publisher : Olympia Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000366768

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Old Ugly-face by Talbot Mundy Pdf

Author : Brooks Haxton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307804341

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They Lift Their Wings to Cry by Brooks Haxton Pdf

Brooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection, titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket, gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of nature and to the folly and magnificence of human undertakings. In the opening poem, the poet comes home drunk without his key, collapses in the yard, and looks up to where, he says: Whorls of a magnetic field exfoliated under the solar wind, so that the northern lights above me trembled. No: that was the porch light blurred by tears. With this self-deprecating wit and tenderness toward human failings, these poems search through history into the wilderness of our origins, and through the self into the mysterious presences of people we love. A master of moods—as when a poem of grief after the death of a friend becomes a sprightly litany of her favorite wildflowers—Haxton is a poet who summons essences of thought and feeling in a few words, creating both narratives and miniatures that are rich in possibility beyond the page. ISAAC’S ROOM, EMPTY, 4 A.M. From the dark tree at his window blossoms battered by the rain fell into the summer grass, white horns, all spattered down the throat with purple ink, while unseen birds, with creaks and peeps and whistles, started the machinery of daybreak.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015082471429

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Puck by Anonim Pdf