Poetry And Commitment

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393079722

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Poetry and Commitment by Adrienne Rich Pdf

In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world. "I hope never to idealize poetry—it has suffered enough from that. Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard."

Author : James Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:150454418

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Commitment to Poetry by James Reeves Pdf

Author : Andrea Gibson,Megan Falley
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452177403

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How Poetry Can Change Your Heart by Andrea Gibson,Megan Falley Pdf

How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In this accessible volume, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone. Whether lapsed poetry lovers, aspiring poets, or total novices, readers will learn to uncover verse in unexpected places, find their way through a poem when they don't quite "get it," and discover just how transformative poetry can be. This is a gorgeous and inspiring gift for any fan of the written word.

Author : Tiang Hong Ee
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Singapore poetry (English)
ISBN : 997169204X

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Responsibility and Commitment by Tiang Hong Ee Pdf

The author examines the changing thematic and stylistic concerns in the poetry of Edwin Thumboo. Ee identifies and analyses in the context of social and historical change.

Author : D. S. Frenkel
Publisher : Whitby, Ont. : Plowman
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0929002342

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Poems of Ambivalence and Commitment by D. S. Frenkel Pdf

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712334

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The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner Pdf

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393075281

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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Relationships—partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal—are the deep fabric of this forceful work. In the intimate address of "Axel Avákar," the black humor of "Quarto," and the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation," compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, "I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book." from "Ballade of the Poverties" There's the poverty of wages wired for the funeral you Can't get to the poverty of bodies lying unburied There's the poverty of labor offered silently on the curb The poverty of yard sale scrapings spread And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on street Prince let me tell you who will never learn through words There are poverties and there are poverties.

Author : Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Black people in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015013509461

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The Poetry of Commitment in South Africa by Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre Pdf

Author : Marilyn Hacker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393351118

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Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker Pdf

This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.

Author : Robert F. Garratt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520066030

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Modern Irish Poetry by Robert F. Garratt Pdf

Traces the history of twentieth century Irish poetry and examines the Irish literary tradition

Author : Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer,Harris Feinsod,David Marno,Alexandra Slessarev
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691154916

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer,Harris Feinsod,David Marno,Alexandra Slessarev Pdf

Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191652462

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by Peter Robinson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though the book is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusiasms for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its individual readers.

Author : Levi Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009196208

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Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry by Levi Thompson Pdf

Re-orienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry is the first book to systematically study the parallel development of modernist poetry in Arabic and Persian. It presents a fresh line of comparative inquiry into minor literatures within the field of world literary studies. Focusing on Arabic-Persian literary exchanges allows readers to better understand the development of modernist poetry in both traditions and in turn challenge Europe's position at the center of literary modernism. The argument contributes to current scholarly efforts to globalize modernist studies by reading Arabic and Persian poetry comparatively within the context of the Cold War to establish the Middle East as a significant participant in wider modernist developments. To illuminate profound connections between Arabic and Persian modernist poetry in both form and content, the book takes up works from key poets including the Iraqis Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and the Iranians Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, and Forough Farrokhzad.

Author : Grant D. Moss
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498547710

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Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic by Grant D. Moss Pdf

From notions of art for art’s sake to committed poetry, it may seem that poets cannot achieve reconciliation between the politics and poetry. However, among committed Communist poets of the 20th century of the Spanish-speaking world, three poets stand out as examples of a search to bring together their political and their poetic commitments: Rafael Alberti, Nicolás Guillén, and Pablo Neruda. Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic analyzes the simultaneous development of politics and poetics in these three Spanish-language poets as it was nurtured by the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939). Beginning in these years, Alberti, Guillén, and Neruda strove to tackle the challenge of committing to their own independent poetic projects and to their politics at the same time. Later, these three poets maintained their Communist Party affiliation until their deaths and produced collection after collection of quality poetry. Despite the differences in their overall poetic trajectories and projects, the ability to maneuver between politics and poetry without sacrificing either one is common among them. Because of their unique experiences during the time of the Second Spanish Republic in Spain, each author explicitly denounced the injustices that the opposing Franquist forces had committed against the Republic. After the fall of the Republic in 1939, Alberti, Guillén, and Neruda continued to intertwine their politics with their poems only in a less obvious manner. Therefore, each could solidify his position within the poetic canon while at the same time each could maintain his position as a committed (or at least card-carrying) Communist.

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Literature
ISBN : LCCN:66000377

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What is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf