Poetic Joy

Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300226089

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Joy by Christian Wiman Pdf

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet "Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy."--David Skeel, Wall Street Journal "Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary."--Adrianna Smith, The Atlantic Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertisers, religious leaders, and politicians, joy can seem disquieting, even offensive. How does one speak of joy amid such ubiquitous injustice and suffering in the world? In this revelatory anthology, Wiman takes readers on a profound and surprising journey through some of the most underexplored terrain in contemporary life. Rather than define joy for readers, he wants them to experience it. Ranging from Emily Dickinson to Mahmoud Darwish and from Sylvia Plath to Wendell Berry, he brings together diverse and provocative works as a kind of counter to the old, modernist maxim "light writes white"--no agony, no art. His rich selections awaken us to the essential role joy plays in human life.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393248531

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Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf

National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.

Author : Angel M. Jimenez
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781532029783

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The Joy of Poems by Angel M. Jimenez Pdf

Life and love are things we all cherish. Our appreciation for life and everything it represents becomes exceedingly more significant in all spheres, o f which the most important on earth is humanity. The Joy of Poems celebrates life and love in all their various forms. Love is the origin and point of departure for beginning and continuing any relationship in life. Of all the emotions, it is the most important and essential. When it comes to love, we decorate the spheres of space, subjects, and objects with exotic, romantic dimension to enhance the outlook and context of life, and poetry comes alive. Author Angel M. Jimenez writes poems with passion about the beautiful exposures and experiences of life, building them with intrinsic essence for the enjoyment of the reader, emanating from the love of life and the joy of poetry. This poetry collection presents a series of verses that consider aspects of humanity, life, nature, and love with the goal of inspiring greater happiness in readers.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393083897

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Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf

A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345810

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She Had Some Horses: Poems by Joy Harjo Pdf

A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324003878

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An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo Pdf

A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest—and most complicated—poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.

Author : John Brehm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781614293316

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The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy by John Brehm Pdf

Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare. Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy received the Spirituality & Practice Book Award for 50 Best Spiritual Books in 2017 by Spirituality and Practice Website.

Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300226089

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Joy by Christian Wiman Pdf

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet "Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy."--David Skeel, Wall Street Journal "Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary."--Adrianna Smith, The Atlantic Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertisers, religious leaders, and politicians, joy can seem disquieting, even offensive. How does one speak of joy amid such ubiquitous injustice and suffering in the world? In this revelatory anthology, Wiman takes readers on a profound and surprising journey through some of the most underexplored terrain in contemporary life. Rather than define joy for readers, he wants them to experience it. Ranging from Emily Dickinson to Mahmoud Darwish and from Sylvia Plath to Wendell Berry, he brings together diverse and provocative works as a kind of counter to the old, modernist maxim "light writes white"--no agony, no art. His rich selections awaken us to the essential role joy plays in human life.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324075349

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Joy Harjo Pdf

Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.

Author : Jude Neale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771836741

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Inside the Pearl by Jude Neale Pdf

Inspired by contemporary English language haiku, accomplished poet, Jude Neale, explores ordinary objects through both poetry and photography in her new collection, Inside the Pearl. These photos and haiku-like poems capture moments and memories - recording and archiving, the history and treasures of Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, Canada. The images range from colourful household items to grainy, black and white snapshots of times past, reminders of a most difficult period in Japanese Canadian history that still resonate today.

Author : Victor H. Strandberg
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813164489

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The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren by Victor H. Strandberg Pdf

Though it has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, the poetry of Robert Penn Warren still is not widely or well understood. In this study, Victor H. Strandberg redresses this imbalance by providing a comprehensive survey of the poetic canon of this gifted, complex, and much-neglected poet. Warren writes in the tradition of Western poets concerned with the painful experience of a forced, one-way passage from innocence into "the world's stew" of time and loss. This passage, Strandberg explains, results for Warren in bifurcation of the self into warring segments: a "clean" idealistic surface ego, and a polluted "undiscovered self" in the unconscious. Revelation of the "dirty" part of human personality is tellingly evoked in many of Warren's major works. As the poet's vision expands, however, these conflicting elements are unified in a "mystic osmosis of being" whereby "the world which once provoked... fear and disgust may now be totally loved." In addition to close analysis both of individual poems and of the poet's overall development, Strandberg reviews critical opinion of Warren's poetry over the last three decades and assesses his place among fellow poets. Both as "prophecy" and as "art," he concludes, Robert Penn Warren's poetry is so significant, versatile, and excellent "as to rank him among the finest and most fertile talents of his age."

Author : D.J. Moores
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476614731

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The Ecstatic Poetic Tradition by D.J. Moores Pdf

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.

Author : Anidra Lough
Publisher : Anidra (MS Joy) Lough
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615641490

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Tears of Joy by Anidra Lough Pdf

Tears of Joy....A Poetic Journey in the Life of Ms. Joy is an autobiography in poetic form. There are life poems, love poems, poems that make you want to cry, poems that make you think, poems that take you down memory lane, poems you can relate to whether male or female. There are poems from as far back as when Ms. Joy was 9 years old. Take the time to experience the Journey...A poetic Journey!!

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044002711505

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Endymion, a Poetic Romance by John Keats Pdf

Author : Charles W. Hedrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597523974

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Parables as Poetic Fictions by Charles W. Hedrick Pdf

Contending that Jesus narrative parables are more poetic than metaphoric, Hedrick argues that parables should be heard solely on their own terms. Hedrick s dissatisfaction with figurative and metaphorical approaches or those that argue for a particular meaning or a single interpretation diverges sharply from the modern consensus and breaks new ground in parable studies.