Please Excuse This Poem

Author : Brett F Lauer,Lynn Melnick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101615386

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Please Excuse This Poem by Brett F Lauer,Lynn Melnick Pdf

One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now—full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke”; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it. Editors Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick have crafted a book that is a must-read for those wanting to know the future of poetry. With an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché, Please Excuse This Poem has the power to change the way you look at the world. It is The Best American Nonrequired Reading—in poetry form.

Author : Allan Ahlberg
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780141928036

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Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg Pdf

Happy 30th birthday, Please Mrs Butler! This witty collection of school poems by Allan Ahlberg, re-jacketed for its 30th anniversary and for a whole new generation of school children to fall in love with, is full of typical classroom events that will be recognized and enjoyed by everyone. From never-ending projects, reading tests, quarreling, making-up, excuses and 'Please, Sir, it isn't fair.' Fritz Wegner's line drawings beautifully complement the hilarious and poignant verses. Please Mrs Butler was voted the most important twentieth-century children's poetry book in a Books for Keeps poll.

Author : Brett Fletcher Lauer,Aimee Kelley
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015060123794

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Isn't it Romantic by Brett Fletcher Lauer,Aimee Kelley Pdf

100 love poems written by younger american poets.

Author : Libby Carty McNamee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1732220204

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Susanna's Midnight Ride by Libby Carty McNamee Pdf

As the former Colonies struggle for freedom, the Revolution depends on teenage Susanna Bolling. Like America in rebellion, she craves independence. While her Patriot brothers fight, she longs to help. When British General Cornwallis invades her plantation, she hears his secret plan. America's fight for liberty hinges on her.

Author : Ivor G Davies
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326957681

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Ivor's Poetry by Ivor G Davies Pdf

Author : Paul Brinkley-Rogers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501151255

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Please Enjoy Your Happiness by Paul Brinkley-Rogers Pdf

A war correspondent recounts his love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959, when he served as a sailor aboard the USS Shangri-La.

Author : Carolyn Forché,Duncan Wu
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393347661

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Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 by Carolyn Forché,Duncan Wu Pdf

A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.

Author : Lynn Melnick
Publisher : YesYes Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1936919559

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Landscape with Sex and Violence by Lynn Melnick Pdf

The poems in Landscape with Sex and Violence explore what it means to be a woman, a sexual being, and a trauma survivor in contemporary America.

Author : Graziano Krätli
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826359971

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Why Should I Write a Poem Now by Graziano Krätli Pdf

In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry. Williams was intrigued enough to write back. Their intense epistolary relationship, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters. Rayaprol returned to India and lived a quiet life as a civil engineer. Yet his commitment to poetry, spurred by Dr. Williams’s long-distance mentoring, never faltered, and the three collections he published eventually gained him a lasting position in the canon of postcolonial Anglophone poetry in India. Rich in personal details, feelings, and moods, the Rayaprol-Williams correspondence is particularly significant as it provides valuable information about transnational literary modernism in the context of American cultural influence during the Cold War as well as the role played by US philanthropic organizations and their relationship to overt and covert CIA operations in India.

Author : Lynn Melnick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477326008

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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive by Lynn Melnick Pdf

A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon. The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s, she had been the victim of rape, abuse, and trauma, and her path to healing would be long. But in Parton’s words and music, she recognized a fellow survivor. In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration, Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Parton’s dual identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol, identities that reflect the author’s own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice. Each chapter engages with the artistry and impact of one of Parton’s songs, as Melnick reckons with violence, misogyny, creativity, parenting, friendship, sex, love, and the consolations and cruelties of religion. Bold and inventive, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive gives us an accessible and memorable framework for understanding our times and a revelatory account of survival, persistence, and self-discovery.

Author : John E WordSlinger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781304119780

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Poetry Train America by John E WordSlinger Pdf

A colorful combination of storytelling, poets, poetry, and railways presented using America's fifty states as a backdrop. 3 men who travel the U.S.A. in the year of 2012... To write a written documentary on Poets and the Railroad in our times... When they sleep they get taken back in time to the 19th Century, when the roads were built, and they have such great experiences, and meet key Poets, and figures... Upon waking they have conversations about Poets from the 20th Century, and RxR events... Then it goes into their written documentary on Poetry and Poets now... Main Characters that Andy and Red and Train Marshal Charlie journey within their Dreams, and they are Alphonso G. Newcomer, Mad Bear, Jung Hem Sing, Mr. Welchberry, Patrick O'Hara, Jimmy New Orleans, and many more

Author : Tom Fisher
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609384807

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Writing Not Writing by Tom Fisher Pdf

Writing Not Writing is both a detailed analysis of four individual poets who left poetry behind and a theoretically provocative exploration of the political and ethical possibilities of silence, not-doing, and disavowal. Reading the silences of George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Bob Kaufman, the renunciation of Laura Riding, and other more contemporary instances and modes of poetic abnegation, Tom Fisher explores silence, refusal, and disavowal as political and ethical modes of response in a time of continuous crisis. Through a turn away from writing, these poets offer strategies of refusal and departure that leave anagrammatical hollows behind, activating the negational capacities of writing and aesthetics to disrupt the empire of sense, speech, and agency.

Author : Amy Newman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393245677

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Dear Editor: Poems by Amy Newman Pdf

"Amy Newman is one of the most gifted and original poets writing in America today."—Martha Collins Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about chess, sainthood, and the poet's lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite exploration of memory and longing.

Author : Meghan Privitello
Publisher : YesYes Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1936919311

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A New Language for Falling Out of Love by Meghan Privitello Pdf

Poetry. Through rapid associations and inquisitions with objects of domesticity, A NEW LANGUAGE FOR FALLING OUT OF LOVE attempts to discover why we must suffer in love, loneliness, and loss, as it engages in dialogue with a grand cast of animate and inanimate objects that also seem to ache to know what it takes to be and feel alive. The speaker is determined to discover "the mathematics of the living" in any way she can, never giving up on the seemingly impossible quest of finding happiness among all that seems ruined.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101595978

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A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.