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Poetry and Uselessness

Robert Archambeau,Taylor & Francis Group
Poetry and Uselessness Book PDF

Author : Robert Archambeau,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032175834

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Poetry and Uselessness by Robert Archambeau,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

W.H. Auden famously claimed poetry makes nothing happen. That may or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing happen has, itself, been extremely influential, and has made a great deal happen in the world. This book examines several of the main currents in literary history as that influential idea flows through poetry and into the wider world. Since the invention of the idea, it has influenced theories of education; helped legitimize the entry of the middle class into political life; spawned ideas of symbolism that are still with us; formed a bulwark protecting literary culture from the commercial world; helped create the artistic subculture of bohemia; informed queer discourse and identity; and helped create both contemporary literary taste and the institutions that support it. Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerful--and useful--idea.

Poetry Is Useless

Anders Nilsen
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Author : Anders Nilsen
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465893

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Poetry Is Useless by Anders Nilsen Pdf

New and formally inventive work from a New York Times notable author In Poetry is Useless, Anders Nilsen redefines the sketchbook format, intermingling elegant, densely detailed renderings of mythical animals, short comics drawn in ink, meditations on religion, and abstract shapes and patterns. Page after page gives way under Nilsen’s deft hatching and perfectly placed pen strokes, revealing his intellectual curiosity and wry outlook on life’s many surprises. Stick people debate the dubious merits of economics. Immaculately stippled circles become looser and looser, as craters appear on their surface. A series of portraits capture the backs of friends’ heads. For ten or twenty pages at a time, Poetry is Useless becomes a travel diary, in which Nilsen shares anecdotes about his voyages in Europe and North America. A trip to Colombia for a comics festival is recounted in carefully drawn city streets and sketches made in cafés. Poetry is Useless reveals seven years of Nilsen’s life and musings: beginning in 2007, it covers a substantial period of his comics career to date, and includes visual reference to his works, such as Dogs & Water, Rage of Poseidon, and the New York Times Notable Book Big Questions. This expansive sketchbook-as-graphic-novel is exquisitely packaged with appendices and a foreword from Anders Nilsen himself.

Useless Magic

Florence Welch
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Author : Florence Welch
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525577164

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Useless Magic by Florence Welch Pdf

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.

Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys

D. A. Powell
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Author : D. A. Powell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555976956

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Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, now in paperback D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, explores the darker side of divisions and developments, the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstage, bathhouse, and bar. With witty banter, emotional resolve, and powerful lyricism, this collection demonstrates Powell's exhilarating range.

Useless Virtues

T. R. Hummer
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Author : T. R. Hummer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807126683

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Useless Virtues by T. R. Hummer Pdf

Useless Virtues, T. R. Hummer's seventh book of poetry, is a wide-ranging series of forays into metaphysical territory. Its presiding inquiry concerns the dependency of our consciousness and our spirit on the untrustworthy powers of language. How often and how deeply is our faith -- in words, if not in gods -- misplaced, destructive, glorious, redemptive? How can we know? This powerful collection is fueled by the desire to answer these impossible, indispensable questions. The centerpiece of the book, Axis, takes as its terrain the thought of Martin Heidegger, and through this brilliant and controversial figure the nature of identity, of humanity, is contemplated. The poem is, finally, a lyrical farewell to the poet's father and to his generation -- the generation for which World War II was the great defining destiny -- and hence to that century we called 19. In these poems we find the almost sensual allure of direst possibility. From a woman who, during lovemaking, envisions strangling her lover, to a Pernod drinker whose dark imaginings recall the absinthe addicts of an earlier era -- mortality and loss, as well as human failing, are hovering presences. Philosophic and searching, traditional yet bold, Useless Virtues is the work of a master poet at his best.

Beautiful and Useless

Min Jeong Kim
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Author : Min Jeong Kim
Publisher : Moon Country Korean Poetry
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1939568366

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Beautiful and Useless by Min Jeong Kim Pdf

In Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and 'naughty, unwomanly" language in order to challenge readers to expand their ideas of not only what a poem is, but also how women should speak. In this way Kim undermines patriarchal authority by displaying the absurd nature of gender expectations. But even larger than issues of gender, these poems reveal the illogical systems of power behind the apparent structures that govern the logic of everyday life. By making the source of these antagonisms and gender transgressions visible, they make them less powerful. This skillful translation from Soeun Seo and Jake Levine, brings the full playfulness and intelligence of Kim's lyricism to English-language readers.

Wild Geese Returning

Mich?le M?tail
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Author : Mich?le M?tail
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789629968007

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Wild Geese Returning by Mich?le M?tail Pdf

The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as "a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing."

Book of Haikus

Jack Kerouac
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Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101664889

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Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this collection, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich supplements an incomplete draft of a haiku manuscript found in Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of Kerouac's other haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. With more than 500 poems, this is a must-have volume for Kerouac enthusiasts everywhere.

Hawk of the Mind

Yang Mu
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Author : Yang Mu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780231545617

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Hawk of the Mind by Yang Mu Pdf

Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance. A bold innovator and superb craftsman, he elegantly combines cosmopolitan experimentation with poetic forms and an allusive reverence for classical Chinese poetry while remaining rooted in his native Taiwan and its colonial history. Hawk of the Mind is a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu’s poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career, rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators. It conveys the complexity and beauty of Yang Mu’s work in a stately and lucid English poetic register that displays his ability to range from meditative to playful and colloquial to archaic. The volume includes an editor’s introduction and definitive commentary that offer insights into the poet’s major themes and motifs, explaining how he draws on deep engagement with Chinese and Western literary traditions, history, and art as well as mythology, philosophy, and music and a profound love for the natural world to create a nuanced and multifaceted artistic universe. It also contains translations of prefaces and afterwords written by Yang Mu for collections of his poetry. Hawk of the Mind demonstrates the breadth and depth of Yang Mu’s oeuvre, illustrating the distinctive style and affective power of a great poet.

Beautiful & Pointless

David Orr
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Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062079411

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Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr Pdf

"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

Rage of Poseidon

Anders Nilsen
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Author : Anders Nilsen
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465909

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Rage of Poseidon by Anders Nilsen Pdf

A wise and funny collection of modern-day parables about the ties between humans and their gods Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don't don't need you anymore. What do you do? Perhaps, seeking answers, you go exploring. Maybe you end up in Wisconsin and discover the pleasures of the iced latte. And then, perhaps, everything goes wrong. Anders Nilsen, author of Big Questions and Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow, explores questions like these in his newest work, a darkly funny meditation on religion and faith with a modern twist. Rage of Poseidon brings all of the philosophical depth of Nilsen’s earlier work to bear on contemporary society, asking how a twenty-first century child might respond to being sacrificed on a mountaintop, and probing the role gods like Venus and Bacchus might have in the world of today. Nilsen works in a unique style for these short stories, distilling individual moments in black silhouette on a spare white background. Above all, though, he immerses us seamlessly in a world where gods and humans are more alike than not, forcing us to recognize the humor in our (and their) desperation. Rage of Poseidon is devastating, insightful, and beautiful hewn; it’s a wry triumph in an all-new style from a masterful artist.

The Poet Resigns

Robert Thomas Archambeau
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Author : Robert Thomas Archambeau
Publisher : Akron Series in Contemporary P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1937378411

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The Poet Resigns by Robert Thomas Archambeau Pdf

The essays of The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World set out to survey not only the state of contemporary poetry, but also the poet's relationship to politics, society, and literary criticism. In addition to pursuing these topics, The Poet Resigns peers into the role of the critic and the manifesto, the nature of wit, the poetics of play, and the persistence of modernism, while providing detailed readings of poets as diverse as Harryette Mullen and Yvor Winters, George Oppen and Robert Pinsky, Pablo Neruda and C.S. Giscombe. Behind it all is a sense of poetry, not just as an academic area of study, but also as a lived experience and a way of understanding. Few books of poetry criticism show such range"yet the core questions remain clear: what is this thing we love and call poetry, and what is its consequence in the world?

Look Round for Poetry

Brian McGrath
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Author : Brian McGrath
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823299812

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Look Round for Poetry by Brian McGrath Pdf

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. Look Round for Poetry transforms Wordsworth’s idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. Once one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly. For poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.

Communism and Poetry

Ruth Jennison,Julian Murphet
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Author : Ruth Jennison,Julian Murphet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030171568

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Communism and Poetry by Ruth Jennison,Julian Murphet Pdf

Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital addresses the relationship between an upsurge in collective political practice around the world since 2000, and the crystallization of newly engaged forms of poetry. Considering an array of perspectives—poets, poet-critics, activists and theorists—these essays shed new light on the active interface between emancipatory political thought and poetic production and explore how poetry and the new communism are creating mutually innovative forms of thought and activity, supercharging the utopian imagination. Drawing inspiration from past connections between communism and poetry, and theorizing new directions over the years ahead, the volume models a much-needed critical solidarity with creative strategies in the present conjuncture to activate movements of resistance, on the streets and in verse.

Crazy Heart

Thomas Cobb
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Author : Thomas Cobb
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062325525

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Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb Pdf

“Crazy Heart just might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none.” — Houston Post "A masterpiece. . . . Cobb has created an unforgettable character who engages not only your interest but your emotion . . . and who proceeds to take you on a roller-coaster ride through his tawdrily tumultuous life.” — Chicago Tribune Thomas Cobb’s riveting novel tells the unforgettable story of a former country music star hoping to take one last shot at a better life. At the age of fifty-seven—living a life riddled with ex-wives, one night stands, and daily diet of Jack Daniels—Bad Blake is on his last legs. His ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and “picker” who hasn’t recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and bowling alleys. Enter Jean Craddock, a young journalist sent to interview him after a beautiful concert, and a tentative romance blooms. Can Bad stop living the life of a country-western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart?