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Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486111544
Written in the poet's unique personal idiom, these early poems include "Chicago," "Fog," "Who Am I?" "Under the Harvest Moon," plus more on war, love, death, loneliness, and the beauty of nature.
Author : Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770487444
Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an introductory headnote and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Companion websites include genre-specific quizzes and discussion questions for students and instructors. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way. The second edition of The Broadview Anthology of Literature: Short Fiction includes new stories by Haruki Murakami, Octavia Butler, Lynn Coady, Leeanne Betasamosake Simpson, and more.
Author : Don Share,Christian Wiman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226750736
“If readers would like to sample the genius and diversity of American poetry in the last century, there’s no better place to start.” —World Literature Today When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011. And at the same time, Poetry continues to discover the new voices who will be read a century from now. To celebrate the magazine’s centennial, the editors combed through Poetry’s incomparable archives to create a new kind of anthology. With the self-imposed limitation to one hundred, they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtaposition, echo across a century of poetry. Here, Adrienne Rich appears alongside Charles Bukowski; famous poems of the two world wars flank a devastating yet lesser-known poem of the Vietnam War; Short extracts from Poetry’s letters and criticism punctuate the verse selections, hinting at themes and threads and serving as guides, interlocutors, or dissenting voices. The resulting volume is a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand.
Author : José Olivarez
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781608469550
“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today
Author : William Allegrezza,Raymond L. Bianchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015070757243
Poetry. This anthology brings together a sampling of some of the best poets working in Chicago and the surrounding region. From all corners of the city, these poets are crafting a voice for Chicago literature in the new century. "When Carl Sandburg asked in his Chicago Poems, close to a hundred years ago, for 'a voice to speak to me in the day end, / A hand to touch me in the dark room / Breaking the long loneliness, ' little did he know his city would be so fully and lovingly answered and so honored. Chicago is once again transformed by poetry. Here in these myriad acts of imagination, the poets of THE CITY VISIBLE give to it again, in Shakespeare's terms, 'a local habitation and a name'"--Peter Gizzi
Author : Mary Kinzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226923061
In A Poet’s Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie also shares her own successful classroom tactics that encourage readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. The three parts of A Poet’s Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most subtle. The second part carefully examines meter and rhythm, as well as providing a theoretical and practical overview of free verse. The final section offers helpful chapters on writing in form. Rounding out the volume are writing exercises for beginning and advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms, and a bibliography of further reading. For this new edition, Kinzie has carefully reworked the introductory material and first chapter, as well as amended the annotated bibliography to include the most recent works of criticism. The updated guide also contains revised exercises and adjustments throughout the text to make the work as lucid and accessible as possible.
Author : Jahan Ramazani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226730288
Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani’s award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages, make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world literature and global studies.
Author : Nate Marshall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822981084
Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category) Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category) Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards (poetry category) Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781447487029
This early work by Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a large collection of his poetical works and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the history of American poetry. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Charles G. Blanden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0265193745
Excerpt from The Chicago Anthology: A Collection of Verse From the Work of Chicago Poets It is, rather, to express the relation between the poet's personality and its environment. It is to utilize imaginatively those elements, in the Lake coun try of England, in London, in Chicago, in the sea or in the mountains, that express through their form or their symbolism those emotions which would other wise lack expression and torture their possessor. Realistic detail is therefore necessary - 40me earthly content - but equally so is the reaction of the soul, a reaction that is not necessarily stated in words, whether they be the assertion that the poet is cap tain of his soul or that he wishes to God he was dead, but which may be implicit in the associations of ideas in the poem, in the adumbration of old, un happy, far-ofi things that the words of the poem recall or, more subtly even, in the swell and ebb of the rhythm. All good poetry, then, is, to use a phrase from one of Francis Thompson's most self-revealing and poignant poems, a Jacob's ladder, pitched between Heaven and Charing Cross. Our Charing Crosses may badly need sweeping, and poets with the social conscience will naturally wish to call our sluggish attention to the fact. In so doing the heavenly side of the equation may be neglected for a time. But in the poetry which is not only to move us today to action but which shall abidewith our children as a joy in itself when our social chores are all done - in that we find the poet's true reason for being. Have the poets, then, in this volume, done too much justice to their individual heavens and not enough to their Charing Crosses or their Dearborn Streets? Should Francis Fisher Browne, who for more than thirty years edited The Dial, which he founded in Chicago, have anticipated Carl Sandburg and written about the city which is the hog-butcher of the world? The few poems here printed are quite representative of Mr. Browne and they deal with mountains and dead heroes. Very disappointing, doubtless, to his realist successors. But as a matter of fact they were just as much inspired by Chicago as if they had been written concerning stockyards. Only they were in spired by antithesis. Mr. Browne hated the crudity and noise of Chicago's industrial life. He told the writer once that the only way he could traverse Dear born Street on foot and keep his sanity was by shut ting out its roar and reciting to himself some of the great number of poems he had committed to memory. Surely some of the poems he created were born out of that same distaste stimulating imaginative hunger for the Opposite of all this dust and wasted motion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226492513
Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning—metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Glück, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it. An astute writer and critic of poems, Longenbach makes his case through a sustained engagement with the language of poetry. Each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry (line, syntax, figurative language, voice, disjunction) and shows that the power of poetry depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means—on the temporal process we negotiate in the act of reading or writing a poem. Readers and writers who embrace that process, Longenbach asserts, inevitably recoil from the exaggeration of the cultural power of poetry in full awareness that to inflate a poem's claim on our attention is to weaken it. A graceful and skilled study, The Resistance to Poetry honors poetry by allowing it to be what it is. This book arrives at a critical moment—at a time when many people are trying to mold and market poetry into something it is not.
Author : Marc Kelly Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780810143098
Inception and implosion, Chicago’s grit and grandiosity all come together in the finite poetic power of the original Slam igniter, renowned poet Marc Kelly Smith and his retrospect denotation, Ground Zero. A cultural, community, and adversarial figure, Smith has challenged the status quo and raised new questions about an environment in a state of continuous calamity. Smith’s power and influence have inspired celebrated figures who cut their teeth on both the stage and the page under his watchful eye—always speaking in the traditions of Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks. Ground Zero challenges but pays homage to the thousand underbellies of Chicago with Smith’s wicked, cigarette-in-the-beer language: “I ain’t diggin’ no concrete coffin, / No backyard mausoleum / To keep me a pickle sweet aplenty / Plied with sardines and pork sausage wieners / Livin’ out the chance that some bubble-flesh victim / Will come puckered up and scabby lipped / To kiss me in the name of a new mankind.” Ground Zero leaves no doubt. The Slampapi / instigator / visionary / you-may-love-me-or-hate-me-but-my-history-will-always-be-chiseled-in-everything-the-poetry-world-does-next collects a survey of his land and his experience, no matter how beautiful or flawed. This book lets the landmines of imagery and Chicago’s slow and uneasy drawl showcase one of our most original voices.
Author : Robert Faggen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521634946
A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost's art and thought.
Author : Fred Sasaki,Don Share
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226504766
In 2012, to celebrate the centennial of Poetry, the Press published The Open Door:100 Poems,100 Years of Poetry Magazine, edited by Share and Wiman; that is the model for this new anthology of fifty essays about reading poetry. All were commissioned by Poetry for a column called The View From Here, in which people "from outside the world of poetry" are invited to describe when and why they read poetry. The editors sought contributions from philosophers and journalists, musicians and artists, doctors and soldiers, an iron-worker, a lawyer, anthropologist, economist, and politician. Contributors include Neko Case, Roger Ebert, Richard Rorty, Rhymefest, Lynda Barry, Daniel Handler, and Alex Ross. They have arranged the essays in groups and pulled out quotes to open each of the eight sections as a way to suggest themes without trying to prescribe how the pieces should be read. Each essay retains its own voice, and many are surprising, provocative, touching, or funny.
Author : Charles Bernstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226044774
Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between ordinary and poetic language, and between everyday life and its adversaries. Attack of the Difficult Poems, his latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art. Applying an array of essayistic styles, Attack of the Difficult Poems ardently engages with the promise of its title. Bernstein introduces his key theme of the difficulty of poems and defends, often in comedic ways, not just difficult poetry but poetry itself. Bernstein never loses his ingenious ability to argue or his consummate attention to detail. Along the way, he offers a wide-ranging critique of literature’s place in the academy, taking on the vexed role of innovation and approaching it from the perspective of both teacher and practitioner. From blues artists to Tin Pan Alley song lyricists to Second Wave modernist poets, The Attack of the Difficult Poems sounds both a battle cry and a lament for the task of the language maker and the fate of invention.