Poetry And The Police

Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Jackie Sheeler
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781887128810

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Off the Cuffs by Jackie Sheeler Pdf

The first collection of poetry that allows us to see police officers not just as brutalizers or heroes but as complicated human beings in a position that is sometimes terrifying, sometimes rewarding and often questionable. On a daily basis police save lives, take lives, and risk their own lives. Existing books on police and policing give us a single point-of-view, a black and white story that portrays cops as either saints or villains. This exploration of the dynamic point of understanding makes Off The Cuffs unique. Divided into four sections--Eyewitnesses, Insiders, Victims & Perpetrators, and Dreamers--Off The Cuffs gives us a diversity of voices, telling stories of fear, apprehension, love, brutality, death, sorrow, joy, hope and resolve. Out of this multiplicity of voices: convicts, police, bike messengers and established poets such as Charles Simic, Martin Espada, Kevin Young and Colette Inez - emerges a dialogue showing us the infinite shades of blue that surround the profession and the profession's relationship to the society they are sworn to protect. Off The Cuffs adds an important and unheard piece to this body of work: the usually disparate voices of cops, prisoners and everyone in between engaging with one another within the pages of one book.

Author : Dennis Cooper
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802134572

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The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper Pdf

The Dream Police collects the best poems from five of his previous books and also includes a selection of new works. From his darkly erotic early verse to the more refined, post-punk poems, to his later experimental pieces. Cooper's evolving study of the distances in romantic relationships has made him a singular voice in American poetry.

Author : Quentin Bailey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409427063

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Wordsworth's Vagrants by Quentin Bailey Pdf

Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside. From the Salisbury Plain poems through to Lyrical Ballads, Quentin Bailey's readings are sensitive to Wordsworth's early radicalism without equating his socio-political engagement solely with support for the French Revolution.

Author : Jonathan M. Wender
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780252033711

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Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life by Jonathan M. Wender Pdf

A former police sergeant draws on philosophy, literature, and art to reveal the profound--indeed poetic--significance of police-citizen encounters

Author : Brian Clements,Alexandra Teague,Dean Rader
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807025598

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Bullets into Bells by Brian Clements,Alexandra Teague,Dean Rader Pdf

A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. The result is a stunning collection of poems and prose that speaks directly to the heart and a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.

Author : James Lasdun
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393346589

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Woman Police Officer in Elevator: Poems by James Lasdun Pdf

"American readers who want to see rejuvenated form in untroubled action, giving brisk shape to contemporary and classical events, will find it in Lasdun." —Helen Vendler With this, his second collection of poetry, James Lasdun consolidates his reputation as a writer of rich, emotionally charged poems of utter virtuosity. The poems in this book concern themselves with transformations, dislocations, and metamorphoses. Vividly rendered landscapes from Tuscany to New Jersey evolve into meditations on love, myth, and sexual and social politics. Woman Police Officer in Elevator is a rigorous and compelling mix of the classical and the cosmopolitan.

Author : Sarah Cortez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1611921783

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How to Undress a Cop by Sarah Cortez Pdf

ItÍs not every book of poetry that includes an ñOde to Body Armor.î But then, itÍs not every poet whose experience in academia includes a stint at the police academy. The poems of Sarah Cortez are tough-minded, verbally supple, and often deeply (even explicitly) erotic: You want me to come/ to you each night, drop my gun belt,/ lie along your muscled length . . . And each of these fifty lyric poems (with titles such as ñRosie Working Plain Clothes,î ñLas TÕas,î and ñAttempt to Locateî) displays CortezÍs many facets: the street smarts of a law-enforcement officer (deputy constable in HoustonÍs Harris County); the bilingual vocabulary of a proud Mexican American; the coolly analytic eye of a corporate accountant (as she once was); the linguistic dexterity of a Latin teacher (another former occupation); and the frank sensuality of a strong and spirited woman. Surveying fellow officers, friends, criminals, lovers, strangers, and family members, Sarah Cortez has learned that a bullet-proof vest may, with luck, protect the body, but keeping the heart from harm is a chancier and more mysterious affair. Long after the pages of How to Undress a Cop have been turned, her unique and distinctive voice will stir the blood and haunt the memory.

Author : Keith S. Wilson
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322004

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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson Pdf

"“Wilson’s collection is romantic yet world-weary, bereaved yet fortified―a kindred reflection of the heart in the modern world.” ―Publishers Weekly Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration. There is the sense of the speaker as a cartographer of familiar spaces, of land he has never left or relationships that have stayed with him for years, and always with the newness of an alien or stranger. Acutely attuned to the heritage of Greco-Roman myth, Wilson writes through characters such as the Basilisk and the Minotaur, emphasizing the intense loneliness these characters experience from their uniqueness. For the racially ambiguous speaker of these poems, who is both black and not black, who has lived between the American South and the Midwest, there are no easy answers. From the fields of Kentucky to the pigeon coops of Chicago, identities and locations blur—the pastoral bleeds into the Afrofuturist, black into white and back again."

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322424

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Passion by June Jordan Pdf

After decades out of print, Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights,” “Poem About Police Violence,” “Free Flight,” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people—and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.

Author : James Patrick McMann
Publisher : Good Times Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0963929038

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Poetry in Blue by James Patrick McMann Pdf

Author : Heather McHugh,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743299732

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The Best American Poetry 2007 by Heather McHugh,David Lehman Pdf

The twentieth edition of theBest American Poetryseries celebrates the rich and fertile landscape of American poetry. Renowned poet Heather McHugh loves words and the unexpected places they take you; her own poetry elevates wordplay to a species of metaphysical wit. For this year's anthology McHugh has culled a spectacular group of poems reflecting her passion for language, her acumen, and her vivacious humor.Graced with McHugh's fascinating introduction, the book includes the poets' valuable comments on their work, as well as series editor David Lehman's engaging foreword that limns the necessity of poetry.The Best American Poetry 2007is an exciting addition to a series committed to covering the American poetry scene and delivering great poems to a broad audience.

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619320802

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Directed by Desire by June Jordan Pdf

Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."

Author : Nicholas Mazza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317606994

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Poetry Therapy by Nicholas Mazza Pdf

For decades, poetry therapy has been formally recognized as a valuable form of treatment, and it has been proven effective worldwide with a diverse group of clients. The second edition of Poetry Therapy, written by a pioneer and leader in the field, updates the only integrated poetry therapy practice model with a host of contemporary issues, including the use of social media and slam/performance poetry. It’s a truly invaluable resource for any serious practitioner, educator, or researcher interested in poetry therapy, bibliotherapy, writing, and healing, or the broader area of creative/expressive arts therapies.

Author : Rickey Laurentiis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822981060

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Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis Pdf

Winner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Rickey Luarentiis is a winner of a 2018 Whiting Writers Prize In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art and myth, to desire, the practice of lynching and Hurricane Katrina. Always at its center, though, is the poet himself—confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain.