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Sisyphus In The City and Other Poems

T.D. Richards
Sisyphus In The City and Other Poems Book PDF

Author : T.D. Richards
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781457557620

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In these poems, T.D. Richards imaginatively and unflinchingly examines the oddness of old age- “a rutabaga/ ripening inside us/ unnoticed till winter/ when knuckles sprout knobs/ and lips turn purple, skin/the color of mud.” As the poet presents strikingly original images of old age, he also offers insights related to coming to terms with it. Like Camus’ hero, who creates his life meaning through the task of rolling a boulder uphill, the speaker in Sisyphus in the City finds value in digging up and arranging the touchstones of his life. A snatch of song, two cardinals on the feeder, a grandmother’s potbelly stove, the scent of Shalimar and Old Spice - this and more become “treasure unearthed for one last look.” Shari Wagner, Indiana Poet Laureate, author of “The Harmonist at Nightfall” The pure art of metaphor- “stirring of stone soup” and “rutabaga ripening inside of us”- is evident throughout. But what best demonstrates Richards’s curious eye are the everyday things, like the “earthy scent” that “issues from the unwashed hollow of our arms” and the trash man, “lifting garbage cans like prized trophies won at the Olympics.” And who would not want to be in the car when Fats Domino grabs the wheel heading home from the 1950s prom? John Bowman, published poet and author of “This Could Be the House I Die In” In “Sisyphus in the City,” T. D. Richards’ poems move beyond a dialectic between life’s hardships and its joys, imploring readers to discover the sweetness of life amidst the bitter, and thus we find the characters in his poems humming, dancing, drinking, and celebrating, all while living within the harsh realities of the world. The strength of Richards’ poems are in their message but also in their language. Sensory details create visceral poems that allow readers to feel the worlds and characters he creates. “…..the scent of Shalimar/ and Old Spice blend on the dance floor/ ablaze with the heat of bodies/..” By complementing language with message, Richards leaves readers feeling they’ve traversed life itself, not always easy, yet certainly worth celebrating. Kyle D. Craig, published poet and author of “Invisible Tea.”

Sisyphus in the City and Other Poems

T. D. Richards
Sisyphus in the City and Other Poems Book PDF

Author : T. D. Richards
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1457556057

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In these poems, T.D. Richards imaginatively and unflinchingly examines the oddness of old age- "a rutabaga/ ripening inside us/ unnoticed till winter/ when knuckles sprout knobs/ and lips turn purple, skin/the color of mud." As the poet presents strikingly original images of old age, he also offers insights related to coming to terms with it. Like Camus' hero, who creates his life meaning through the task of rolling a boulder uphill, the speaker in Sisyphus in the City finds value in digging up and arranging the touchstones of his life. A snatch of song, two cardinals on the feeder, a grandmother's potbelly stove, the scent of Shalimar and Old Spice - this and more become "treasure unearthed for one last look." Shari Wagner, Indiana Poet Laureate, author of "The Harmonist at Nightfall" The pure art of metaphor- "stirring of stone soup" and "rutabaga ripening inside of us"- is evident throughout. But what best demonstrates Richards's curious eye are the everyday things, like the "earthy scent" that "issues from the unwashed hollow of our arms" and the trash man, "lifting garbage cans like prized trophies won at the Olympics." And who would not want to be in the car when Fats Domino grabs the wheel heading home from the 1950s prom? John Bowman, published poet and author of "This Could Be the House I Die In" In "Sisyphus in the City," T. D. Richards' poems move beyond a dialectic between life's hardships and its joys, imploring readers to discover the sweetness of life amidst the bitter, and thus we find the characters in his poems humming, dancing, drinking, and celebrating, all while living within the harsh realities of the world. The strength of Richards' poems are in their message but also in their language. Sensory details create visceral poems that allow readers to feel the worlds and characters he creates. .."...the scent of Shalimar/ and Old Spice blend on the dance floor/ ablaze with the heat of bodies/.." By complementing language with message, Richards leaves readers feeling they've traversed life itself, not always easy, yet certainly worth celebrating. Kyle D. Craig, published poet and author of "Invisible Tea."

Sisyphus and I

Ilja Kostovski
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Author : Ilja Kostovski
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781951508159

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A Glance into Ilja Kostovski’s Selected Poetry It is a slightly smirking smile that accompanies the voice calling on Muses in Ilja Kostovski’s epic poetry and final book, Sisiphus and I. In this seminal production of the poet’s work, an eager, if slightly sarcastic, voice cries out from the woodpile of modernity: Don’t tarry You envious God This minute I will go Into the deep forests And will chop for you Firewood in piles. As for Kostovski’s readers, they are the “connoisseurs of sorrow,” the “suicide...leaning on the railings of bridges,” the “self-despisers,” for he is a poet of the lone wolves, the melancholy wanderer we read about in Blake and imagine among the happy crowds at Coney Island in the 1920s, or among the tripping multitudes of Haight Ashbury in the 1960s, or in the city where he made his last residence, the throngs of the upright and enraged of Washington, D.C. Kostovski’s verse is prayer to a God who is or is not there, a nearly desperate, repeating “Come unto me.” It is not merely exhortation to the deity. He invokes, too, the gathering crowds of the lost and broken-hearted, as though the divine could only be conjured by those numbers, or as if the dead God of Nietzsche could be resurrected by a hoard whose suffering is the very thing that binds them. In that case, instead of a savior, the hero of these poems is a common wound: “Come unto me those/Who have turned your roads/Into hazardous games.” The language is straight out of the book of Micah (whose own anaphoric language begins each chapter with “Hear”), an Old Testament prophet no one believes, but the language pops with contemporary hideousness: “Come, candidates for oval offices/ Come, candidates for electric chairs.” In what is perhaps the most powerful poem in the collection, “Sermon at the Washington Monument,” Kostovski the poet recalls his association with Ferlinghetti, who “Told me once/The Anglo-Saxons speak the truth/with half-closed mouths...” From a formal angle, the collection Sisyphus and I is Kostovski’s open-mouthed song to a universe that may or may not be listening. Like the fledgling with mouth turned upward, Kostovski’s poetry is both artistic hallelujah and hungry yawp, whose overarching tone is a kind of “gallows praise”: “I hear America is not singing anymore/All songs are dead/And you are the executioner.../Have you ever known Francois Villion/ Who multiplied his life on the gallows?” The poet calls on writers to awaken—rather like Micah, standing on his street corner—if not to save anything, then to attend it as it passes, flares out, at the height of its beauty. Kostovski, born in the Macedonian province of Greece, is the author of Dostoevsky and Goethe: Two Devils, Two Geniuses. Like his poetry, his scholarship sought out the insight of the outsider, as he himself carried the burden of his generation through exile during Communist overthrows, until he settled in Washington, D.C. The prophetic insight is this: a monument does not memorialize a country, but rather a misinterpreted ideal. The best remembrances are those that serve a human purpose. And the best invitation to the gods, in Kostovski’s reckoning at least, is to chop some firewood, good for burning. This is a poet whose voice at once harkens back to the Tanakh while it recalls the beatniks of San Francisco, the homeless, and the insidious white power structures and silent mausoleums of Washington D.C. We are reminded in these pages that life is to be sung open-mouthed, if at all. David Keplinger December, 2017

The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays

Albert Camus
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Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307827821

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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.

Local Visitations: Poems

Stephen Dunn
Local Visitations Poems Book PDF

Author : Stephen Dunn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393326031

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Local Visitations: Poems by Stephen Dunn Pdf

A collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Dunn, featuring two sequences, the first focusing on Sisyphus, and the second on nineteenth-century novelists.

This, Sisyphus

Brandon Courtney
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Author : Brandon Courtney
Publisher : Yesyes Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936919702

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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Metaphysical in scope, transcendent in language, THIS, SISYPHUS makes malleable received forms and rhyme to articulate what it means to face incalculable loss. Centered on the death and subsequent repatriation of a sailor who was the author's lover and closest friend, this collection moves beyond elegiac gestalt, questioning instead a God who created an imperfect world in which death is possible and inevitable. Composed of four sections, THIS, SISYPHUS is a rejection of Leibniz's "best possible world," and, more importantly, it is the author's transubstantiated epiphany that, ultimately, in tragedy and suffering, we have only each other. "Whether wrestling God or trying to make sense and sound out of grief, Brandon Courtney's THIS, SISYPHUS is a bright, urgent addition to the elegiac canon. My lord, folks, the language Courtney has found here interrupted me. Such a deep well of grief matched with such a high zenith of lyric, just as it should be. Written exquisitely and vulnerably, this is a book for anyone seeking to wander back towards the light after travelling through Death's valley."--Danez Smith "Trenchant, Achillean mourning soaks this book's extraordinary sonic terrain with its indelible weight. What more definitive shape of haunting is there, THIS, SISYPHUS implores, than finding the beloved imbuing that one element which overwhelms the recognizable world-ocean, contained and unappeasable in all forms conventional and nonce, carnal and inanimate. Courtney's erotic, erosive soldier's psalms enunciate the guilt of doing what one can with the awful gift of a human life in the aftermath of another's destruction, 'building a new language / from what you left inside.'"--Justin Phillip Reed

The Room and the World

Laura McCullough
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Author : Laura McCullough
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815652236

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The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn is the first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer-winning poet’s oeuvre. Including twenty-four essays, a foreword by poet and essayist Dave Smith, and an introduction by Laura McCullough, this anthology illuminates Dunn’s development as a writer, his thematic obsessions, and his strategies and maneuvers on the page; it also locates him in the pantheon of essential American poets. Philosophical, funny, and founded on the juxtaposition of ideas with masterful tonal layering and texture, Dunn’s poems are considered some of the best of his generation. The contributing poets and scholars, including Dunn’s contemporaries and former students, highlight Dunn’s meditations on freedom and constraint, sexuality and sorrow, sound and sense, and the mystery in the dailiness of living. Fans will find this a crucial text that reveals the complexities of Dunn’s poetry and much about the man himself.

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

Carol Bailey
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Author : Carol Bailey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978829688

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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.

Talk Poetry

David Baker
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Author : David Baker
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781557289810

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What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.

The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976–1991

Northrop Frye
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Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442658325

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The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976–1991 by Northrop Frye Pdf

Northrop Frye’s The Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye’s thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye’s life. Frye’s study illuminates the enduring attraction and deep human significance of the romance genre in all its forms. He provides a unique perspective on popular fiction and culture and shows how romance forms have, by their very structural and conventional features, an ability to address both specific social concerns and deep and fundamental human concerns that span time and place. In distinguishing popular from elite culture, Frye insists that they are both ultimately two aspects of the same “human compulsion to create in the face of chaos.” The additional late writings reflect Frye’s sense at the time that he was working “toward some kind of final statement,” which eventually saw the light of day, only months before his death, as Words with Power (1990).

Play and Democracy

Alice Koubová,Petr Urban,Wendy Russell,Malcolm MacLean
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Author : Alice Koubová,Petr Urban,Wendy Russell,Malcolm MacLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000509915

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Play and Democracy by Alice Koubová,Petr Urban,Wendy Russell,Malcolm MacLean Pdf

This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important new theoretical and empirical research. It builds new paradigmatic bridges between philosophical enquiry and fields of application across the arts, political activism, children’s play, education and political science. Play and Democracy addresses four principal themes. Firstly, it explores how the relationship between play and democracy can be conceptualized and how it is mirrored in questions of normativity, ethics and political power. Secondly, it examines different aspects of play in urban spaces, such as activism, aesthetic experience, happenings, political carnivals and performances. Thirdly, it offers examples and analyses of how playful artistic performances can offer democratic resistance to dominant power. And finally, it considers the paradoxes of play in both developing democratic sensibilities and resisting power in education. These themes are explored and interrogated in chapters covering topics such as aesthetic practice, pedagogy, diverse forms of activism, and urban experience, where play and playfulness become arenas in which to create the possibility of democratic practice and change. Adding extra depth to our understanding of the significance of play as a political, cultural and social power, this book is fascinating reading for any serious student or researcher with an interest in play, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, sport or education.

Poems

Iain Banks,Ken MacLeod
Poems Book PDF

Author : Iain Banks,Ken MacLeod
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781408705889

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Poems by Iain Banks,Ken MacLeod Pdf

Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. Banks took his poetry seriously and worked on it assiduously, but showed it mostly to friends. He first thought of publishing his poetry late in 2012, though insisted it be a joint collection with his life-long friend Ken MacLeod. The two writers were working on this project when Banks learned of his terminal diagnosis, and continued thereafter. He made his final revisions just days before his death. Readers of Iain Banks' novels will find in the poems a further affirmation of the humane, sceptical and clear-eyed sensibility that informed all his work, shot through as ever with a dry wit that continues to disturb and delight. Ken MacLeod edited and introduces this collection.

Another Freedom

Svetlana Boym
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Author : Svetlana Boym
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226069753

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The word “freedom” is so overly used—and frequently abused—that it is always in danger of becoming nothing but a cliché. In Another Freedom, Svetlana Boym offers us a refreshing new portrait of the age-old concept. Exploring the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece to the present day, she argues that our attempts to imagine freedom should occupy the space of not only “what is” but also “what if.” Beginning with notions of sacrifice and the emergence of a public sphere for politics and art, Boym expands her account to include the relationships between freedom and liberation, modernity and terror, and political dissent and creative estrangement. While depicting a world of differences, she affirms lasting solidarities based on the commitment to the passionate thinking that reflections on freedom require. To do so, Boym assembles a remarkable cast of characters: Aeschylus and Euripides, Kafka and Mandelstam, Arendt and Heidegger, and a virtual encounter between Dostoevsky and Marx on the streets of Paris. By offering a fresh look at the strange history of this idea, Another Freedom delivers a nuanced portrait of freedom, one whose repercussions will be felt well into the future.

Poetry by American Women, 1900-1975

Joan Reardon,Kristine A. Thorsen
Poetry by American Women 1900 1975 Book PDF

Author : Joan Reardon,Kristine A. Thorsen
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015078262139

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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Merriam-Webster, Inc
Merriam Webster s Encyclopedia of Literature Book PDF

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0877790426

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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature by Merriam-Webster, Inc Pdf

Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.