Poems Of Paris

Author : Emily Fragos
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101908129

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A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Paris covers a wide range of time, from the Renaissance to the present, and includes not only the pantheon of classic French poets, from Ronsard to Baudelaire to Mallarmé, but also tributes by visitors to the city and famous expatriates from all over the world, including Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vladimir Nabokov, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, and many more. All the famous sights of Paris are touched on here, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower, as are such classic Parisian themes as food, drink, and love, and famous events from the Revolution to the Resistance.

Author : Samuel Hazo
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811207889

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To Paris by Samuel Hazo Pdf

Reading To Paris, Samuel Hazo's newest book of poems, is an act of exploration, a search for an American-ness that can be felt in one's self only while abroad. And what is discovered is not the alienation born of internal exile but a widening sense of humanity defined by tensions between time and place: now and then, here and now. "The Paris in this book," Hazo explains, "is not merely a matter of geography, it is also what Paris means in history and, above all, what it can be imagined to mean. Call it the Paris of the mind or even the Paris in the blood--a certain freedom for the arts, for poetry, for life itself regardless of contradiction or even of consequence. In this sense To Paris for me is both a directional signal and a toast." Here then are honest and courageous poems whose straightforward cadences are attuned to the familiar modulations of American speech. Hazo's voice, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, "has found the ease to speak the 'You' who is both 'He' and 'I'"--reminding us of what we always knew about ourselves but had forgotten to remember.

Author : David Salner,Sudie Nostrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0974590975

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The Paris Poems by David Salner,Sudie Nostrand Pdf

Author : Sudie Nostrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0974590967

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The Paris Poems by Sudie Nostrand Pdf

Author : Hope Mirrlees
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571359943

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Paris by Hope Mirrlees Pdf

Paris: A Poem is a daring, experimental, psychogeographic long poem written by the British writer Hope Mirrlees. Offering a snapshot of post-war Paris, it describes a journey through the city from day to night by means of innovative and playful typography, collage and fragmentation. This would be a centenary edition, reproducing the original design and setting of the very first, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1920.

Author : Jim Barnes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0252066227

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Paris by Jim Barnes Pdf

Author : Peter Halstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173231621X

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Paris Poem by Peter Halstead Pdf

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781610750226

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The Apple That Astonished Paris by Billy Collins Pdf

Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins “the most popular poet in America.” He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems. In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers. In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, “I gathered together what I considered my best poems and threw them in the mail.” After “what seemed like a very long time” Press director Miller Williams, a poet as well, returned the poems to him in the “familiar self-addressed, stamped envelope.” He told Collins that there was good work here but that there was work to be done before he’d have a real collection he and the Press could be proud of: “Williams’s words were more encouragement than I had ever gotten before and more than enough to inspire me to begin taking my writing more seriously than I had before.” This collection includes some of Collins’s most anthologized poems, including “Introduction to Poetry,” “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House,” and “Advice to Writers.” Its success over the years is testament to Collins’s talent as one of our best poets, and as he writes in the preface, “this new edition . . . is a credit to the sustained vibrancy of the University of Arkansas Press and, I suspect, to the abiding spirit of its former director, my first editorial father.”

Author : Jim Chevallier
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1497394457

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Paris Poems by Jim Chevallier Pdf

This original collection includes a number of poems on Paris, the Seine, the gargoyles of Notre Dame, the shifting moods of the city and the nostalgia it inspires. A quirky homage to garlic ("Saloon") is followed by a number of poems on great art (Picasso, Renoir, Japanese prints). The collection ends with an elegy to the author's mother. The same collection is also available on CD.

Author : Frederic Thiphaine
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781493194995

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One Year In Paris by Frederic Thiphaine Pdf

One Year in Paris is a collection of poems. Writings range from the mundane To the realm of spirits, from the edge of anguish To unbridled joy and exuberant hope From audacious to irreverence Always with disconcerting Honesty the words Reveal a dangerously simple and personal philosophy. The poems explore the moody nexus of love belief The shadowy worlds of emotions Where poems are paintings of perceptions. From life to death to life to the sweetness Of child's presence The alert reader will glimpse the revealed soul.

Author : Cyrena N. Pondrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521086813

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The Road from Paris by Cyrena N. Pondrom Pdf

'For the best part of a thousand years English poets have gone to school to the French,' declared Ezra Pound in 1913. Whatever the truth of this assertion for all of English literature its accuracy for Pound's own period is well established. Both he and T. S. Eliot wrote frankly of the debt which they owed to their French predecessors and this fact has long been recognised by students of English literature. With the recognition of this influence went the assumption that Eliot and Pound were themselves responsible for its transmission from France to England. That this was not so is demonstrated by the documents reprinted in this volume. Dr Pondrom presents a selection of extracts and complete essays and letters by the critics and poets who together were principally responsible for channelling into English writing the ideas and theories of the French poetic avant-garde.

Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819569981

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Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire Pdf

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words "dangerous"—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical with the sardonic, Le Spleen de Paris may be regarded as one of the earliest and most successful examples of a specifically urban writing, the textual equivalent of the city scenes of the Impressionists. In this compelling new translation, Keith Waldrop delivers the companion to his innovative translation of The Flowers of Evil. Here, Waldrop's perfectly modulated mix releases the music, intensity, and dissonance in Baudelaire's prose. The result is a powerful new re-imagining that is closer to Baudelaire's own poetry than any previous English translation.

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781557288233

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The Apple That Astonished Paris by Billy Collins Pdf

Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins “the most popular poet in America.” He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems. In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers. In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, “I gathered together what I considered my best poems and threw them in the mail.” After “what seemed like a very long time” Press director Miller Williams, a poet as well, returned the poems to him in the “familiar self-addressed, stamped envelope.” He told Collins that there was good work here but that there was work to be done before he’d have a real collection he and the Press could be proud of: “Williams’s words were more encouragement than I had ever gotten before and more than enough to inspire me to begin taking my writing more seriously than I had before.” This collection includes some of Collins’s most anthologized poems, including “Introduction to Poetry,” “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House,” and “Advice to Writers.” Its success over the years is testament to Collins’s talent as one of our best poets, and as he writes in the preface, “this new edition . . . is a credit to the sustained vibrancy of the University of Arkansas Press and, I suspect, to the abiding spirit of its former director, my first editorial father.”

Author : Henri Cole
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681372181

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Orphic Paris by Henri Cole Pdf

A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, “For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic, oracular, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.

Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674262928

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Poetry and the Police by Robert Darnton Pdf

Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748–50" for songs from Poetry and the PoliceAudio recording copyright © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. In spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an “abominable poem about the king.” So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense? In this captivating book, Robert Darnton follows the poems as they passed through several media: copied on scraps of paper, dictated from one person to another, memorized and declaimed to an audience. But the most effective dispersal occurred through music, when poems were sung to familiar tunes. Lyrics often referred to current events or revealed popular attitudes toward the royal court. The songs provided a running commentary on public affairs, and Darnton brilliantly traces how the lyrics fit into song cycles that carried messages through the streets of Paris during a period of rising discontent. He uncovers a complex communication network, illuminating the way information circulated in a semi-literate society. This lucid and entertaining book reminds us of both the importance of oral exchanges in the history of communication and the power of “viral” networks long before our internet age.