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Don't Read Poetry

Author : Stephanie Burt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780465094516

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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.

Reading Old English Biblical Poetry

Author : Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487507466

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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry by Janet Schrunk Ericksen Pdf

Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.

Reading Poetry

Author : Tom Furniss,Michael Bath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000548990

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Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight. This third edition has been significantly updated in response to current developments in poetry and poetic criticism, and includes many new examples and exercises, new chapters on ‘world poetry’ and ‘eco-poetry’, and a greater emphasis throughout on American poetry, including the impact traditional Chinese poetry has had on modern American poetry. The seventeen carefully staged chapters constitute a complete apprenticeship in reading poetry, leading readers from specific features of form and figurative language to larger concerns with genre, intertextuality, Caribbean poetry, world poetry, and the role poetry can play in response to the ecological crisis. The workshop exercises at the end of each chapter, together with an extensive glossary of poetic and critical terms, and the number and range of poems analysed and discussed – 122 of which are quoted in full – make Reading Poetry suitable for individual study or as a comprehensive, self-contained textbook for university and college classes.

The Half-God of Rainfall

Author : Inua Ellams
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780008324780

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The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams Pdf

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.

Poetry Unbound

Author : Pádraig Ó Tuama
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781838856335

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Poetry Unbound by Pádraig Ó Tuama Pdf

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry Unbound This inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig’s illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem. Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn’t necessarily know how to do so. Poetry Unbound contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Layli Long Soldier and more.

Why Poetry

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062343093

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Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder Pdf

An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.

How To Read A Poem

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547543727

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How To Read A Poem by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. "The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."—Boston Book Review

Powerful Poetry

Author : Adrienne Gear
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551389530

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Powerful Poetry by Adrienne Gear Pdf

Powerful Poetry celebrates the beauty, power, and pleasure of poetry in the classroom. This highly-readable book outlines the many benefits of integrating poetry into your literacy program, including building reading, writing, and speaking skills, nurturing creativity, and celebrating language. Powerful Poetry provides practical, enjoyable lessons for integrating poetry into your year-long literacy program and engaging ways to introduce poetic structure, language, tools, and devices. Book lists introduce a wide range of wonderful poems and poets. Ideal for new and experienced teachers who are looking to bring the power of poetry into their classroom.

The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry

Author : Andrew Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108843249

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The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry by Andrew Hodgson Pdf

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

Reading Poetry

Author : Tom Furniss,Michael Bath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138374083

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Reading Poetry by Tom Furniss,Michael Bath Pdf

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Successive chapters introduce key skills and critical or theoretical issues, enabling users to read poetry with enjoyment, insight and an awareness of the implications of what they are doing. This new edition includes a new chapter on 'Post-colonial Poetry', a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms. Not just an add-on, the Glossary works as a key resource for the structuring of particular topics in any individual teaching or learning programme. Many of the exercises and interactive discussions develop not only the skills of competent close reading but also the necessary confidence and experience in locating historical and other contextual information through library or internet searches. The aim is to enhance readers' literary and scholarly competence - and to make it fun!

Poetry as Re-Reading

Author : Ming-Qian Ma
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810124837

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Poetry as Re-Reading by Ming-Qian Ma Pdf

Grounded in a detailed and compelling account of the philosophy guiding such a project, Ma's book traces a continuity of thought and practice through the very different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage and language poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and Charles Bernstein. His deft individual readings provide an opening into this notoriously difficult work, even as his larger critique reveals a new and clarifying perspective on American modernist and post-modernist avant-garde poetics. Ma shows how we cannot understand these poets according to the usual way of reading but must see how they deliberately use redundancy, unpredictability, and irrationality to undermine the meaning-oriented foundations of American modernism--and to force a new and different kind of reading."--Pub. desc.

Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems Worth Reading

Author : McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 007248442X

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Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems Worth Reading by McGraw-Hill Education Pdf

Be Your Own Guide: Explore Literature with The Hudson Series. The Hudson Series is dedicated to providing the best literature - without commentary or interpretation - at a student-friendly price.

A Thousand Mornings

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101595978

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A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

The Perseverance

Author : Raymond Antrobus
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781951142438

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The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus Pdf

Featured on NPR's Morning Edition A Best Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Poetry School, New York Public Library, and Entropy Magazine Winner of the Ted Hughes Award, Rathbones Folio Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award; finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and Reading the West Book Award In the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer.” The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.

The Discovery of Poetry

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0156007622

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The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes Pdf

Beginning with basic terminology and techniques, Mayes shows how focusing on one aspect of a poem can help you to better understand, appreciate, and enjoy the reading and writing experience.