Pomes A Wry Look At Life And Everything

Author : Thad Sherman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781479720903

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Pomes A Wry Look At Life And Everything by Thad Sherman Pdf

This is 150 pages crammed with eighty four pomes presented in an easily readable style. Short titles have been chosen so that the plot and punch line are not always immediately obvious. Pomes are a reflection of everyday life and happenings with a wry twist. The subjects vary widely and randomly, the only consistent theme is that all except the first three are in alphabetical order. No two pomes cover the same subject although The Fantasies' and The Ponderer' are close but different. Some are based on Thad's early life in London while others derive from living close to the countryside in later life. A few touch on solutions to insoluble problems but only in a light hearted manner, for example The Roads'. The only pome with a message is The Time'. There is of course the odd cheeky pome and romantic pome to cover as much of life's spectrum as possible. Some of the pomes relate true happenings and it could be fun to try to pick them out The rest are pure imagination. The title Pomes' is a legacy from my late sister Eileen who was an absolute wizard at advertising rhymes and jingles she called Pomes. So in some way this book is a late tribute to Eileen; if I have only been half as good as Eileen then hopefully you will enjoy these pomes as much as I have enjoyed writing them. In all honesty I cannot offer a money back guarantee since tastes will differ .But I just offer you this thought . As an engineer I have a very practical and logical mind, but I can assure you I have witnessed poltergeists in action. My aunt was a psychic medium and called me a reincarnate. I try hard to keep an open mind about everything, but I believe my sister has in some way guided me while writing the verses. I know what I think, I do not ask you to believe it. I have to ask myself why this sudden urge to write pomes and all written within six months and never before have I written a pome, poem, or verse. (Spooky Eh?)

Author : Patrick MacDonogh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015053130517

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Poems by Patrick MacDonogh Pdf

Author : Tom Cain,Ruth Connolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317445210

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The Poems of Ben Jonson by Tom Cain,Ruth Connolly Pdf

Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Penshurst’ and his moving elegy ‘On my First Son’, his work inspired the whole generation of seventeenth-century poets who declared themselves the ‘Sons of Ben’. This edition brings his three major verse publications, Epigrams (1616), The Forest (1616), and Underwood (1641) together with his large body of uncollected poems to create the largest collection of Jonson’s verse that has been published. It thus gives readers a comprehensive view of the wide range of his achievement, from satirical epigrams through graceful lyrics to tender epitaphs. Though he is often seen as the preeminent English poet of the plain style, Jonson employed a wealth of topical and classical allusion and a compressed syntax which mean his poetry can require as much annotation for the modern reader as that of his friend John Donne. This edition not only provides comprehensive explanation and contextualization aimed at student and non-specialist readers alike, but presents the poems in a modern spelling and punctuation that brings Jonson’s poetry to life.

Author : Cynthia Conchita Sugars
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199941865

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature by Cynthia Conchita Sugars Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the literary - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

Author : Han Shan
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611806984

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Cold Mountain Poems by Han Shan Pdf

The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and the walls of the monasteries they visited. Their poetry expressed in the simplest verse but in a completely new tone, the voice of ordinary people. Here premier translator J. P. Seaton takes a fresh look at these captivating poets, along with Wang Fan-chih, another “outsider” poet who lived a couple centuries later and who captured the poverty and gritty day-to-day reality of the common people of his time. Seaton’s comprehensive introduction and notes throughout give a fascinating context to this vibrant collection.

Author : Ben Barton
Publisher : www.benbarton.co.uk
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1842941801

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The Red Book by Ben Barton Pdf

This is a fine collection of poetry and is a very good example of an individual voice. The Red Book brings together Ben Barton's collected small-press poems published from 1996 to 2006. Many have appeared in some of Britain's foremost 'little' magazines, including Scriptor, Roadworks and X Magazine. In the 40 poems in this book Barton explores many issues, from packing when moving house, My life packed away / in boxes / categorised. The thing / I said I would never do. to condemnation with a twist of alcohol and cigarettes, things I hate the most where he tells us you choke / garrotted year after year. Many of these poems are shorter snapshots, only a few lines long, which you find yourself wishing he had expanded and developed. There is the the feeling that he feels this himself and he writes in WORK IN PROGRESS My notebook is full / Of opening lines // but that is all they are / What they will remain / / incomplete / (for now) / like me.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:L0075588574

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Bombay by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tomas O' Carthaigh
Publisher : Cartyweb
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781411626041

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Writings in Rhyme by Tomas O' Carthaigh Pdf

Writings in Rhyme is the first in a series of poetry books by author Tomas O' Carthaigh. Focusing on all the traditional topics from life to love, to death and politics, these writings often add a wry touch to answering some of lifes greatest mysteries.

Author : Maurice Riordan
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571367139

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Shoulder Tap by Maurice Riordan Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism - while elsewhere encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue. These poems twinkle with mischief and humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. Riordan - a poet whose strong, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake - affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry.

Author : Anne Everall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032320569

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Women's Words by Anne Everall Pdf

Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 189403788X

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Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Pdf

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.

Author : Farzana Doctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1990601057

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You Still Look the Same by Farzana Doctor Pdf

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life breakups and dating, female genital cutting, imprints of racism and misogyny, and the oddness of sex and love, and urges us to take a second look at the ways in which human relationships are never what we expect them to be.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3643818

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Ambit by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Giorno
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374721862

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Great Demon Kings by John Giorno Pdf

A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic, ambitious, and eager to soak up as much of Manhattan's art and culture as possible. Poetry didn't pay the bills, so he worked on Wall Street, spending his nights at the happenings, underground movie premiers, art shows, and poetry readings that brought the city to life. An intense romantic relationship with Andy Warhol—not yet the global superstar he would soon become—exposed Giorno to even more of the downtown scene, but after starring in Warhol's first movie, Sleep, they drifted apart. Giorno soon found himself involved with Robert Rauschenberg and later Jasper Johns, both relationships fueling his creativity. He quickly became a renowned poet in his own right, working at the intersection of literature and technology, freely crossing genres and mediums alongside the likes of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Twenty-five years in the making, and completed shortly before Giorno's death in 2019, Great Demon Kings is the memoir of a singular cultural pioneer: an openly gay man at a time when many artists remained closeted and shunned gay subject matter, and a devout Buddhist whose faith acted as a rudder during a life of tremendous animation, one full of fantastic highs and frightening lows. Studded with appearances by nearly every it-boy and girl of the downtown scene (including a moving portrait of a decades-long friendship with Burroughs), this book offers a joyous, life-affirming, and sensational look at New York City during its creative peak, narrated in the unforgettable voice of one of its most singular characters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106020249519

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Australian Literary Studies by Anonim Pdf