The Hollow Log Lounge

Author : R. T. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780252092442

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The Hollow Log Lounge by R. T. Smith Pdf

"This is no fairy tale. / It's all fantastic and bizarre and true. / It's my life, a raspy song, that sounds better if you sing along." The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. In this collection of poems, R. T. Smith paints a vividly imagined portrait of the community in this small-town bar, capturing the chorus of the patrons' voices echoing off the knotted wood-paneled walls. Smith's stand-in, Sam Buckhannon, scribbles stories heard and overheard as tongues loosened by liquor spin out monologues in which southern idiom and vernacular seem perfectly at home within the constraints of measured verse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015057993019

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Southern Humanities Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok,Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110804423

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Speech Surrogates. Part 2 by Thomas A. Sebeok,Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok Pdf

Author : Mr Benjamin Halligan,Mr Michael Goddard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409494010

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Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics by Mr Benjamin Halligan,Mr Michael Goddard Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with The Fall that spans thirty years. Although The Fall were originally associated with the contemporaneous punk explosion, from the beginning they pursued a highly original vision of what was possible in the sphere of popular music. While other punk bands burned out after a few years, only to then reform decades later as their own cover bands, The Fall continue to evolve while retaining a remarkable consistency, even with the frequent line-up changes that soon left Mark E. Smith as the only permanent member of the group. The key aspect of the group that this volume explores is the invariably creative, unfailingly critical and often antagonistic relations that characterize both the internal dynamics of the group and the group's position in the pop cultural surroundings. The Fall's ambiguous position in the unfolding histories of British popular music and therefore in the new heritage industries of popular culture in the UK, from post-punk to anti-Thatcher politics, to the 'Factory fiction of Manchester' and on into Mark E. Smith's current role as ageing enfant terrible of rock, illustrates the uneasy relationship between the band, their critical commentators and the historians of popular music. This volume engages directly with this critical ambiguity. With a diverse range of approaches to The Fall, this volume opens up new possibilities for writing about contemporary music beyond traditional approaches grounded in the sociology of music, Cultural Studies and music journalism – an aim which is reflected in the variety of provocative critical approaches and writing styles that make up the volume.

Author : R. T. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:14265770

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The Hollow Log Lounge by R. T. Smith Pdf

Author : Steve Gehrke
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780252074202

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Michelangelo's Seizure by Steve Gehrke Pdf

The following is a book of poems based on the lives of several classic and contemporary painters, including Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Magritte and many others. While the poems participate in the tradition of ekphrastic poetry, they also engage with each painters' biography, as a lens through which to see each work. In the poems, many of the painters are reacting to a dramatic loss, transforming the pain of personal tragedy into art.

Author : Kevin Stein
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252092565

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American Ghost Roses by Kevin Stein Pdf

In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture. Stein embraces subjects as various as his father's death, magazine sex surveys, Kandinsky's theory of art, the dangling modifier, Jimi Hendrix's flaming guitar, racial bigotry, and a teacher's comments on a botched poem. Presiding over this miscellany are ghosts of a peculiarly American garden of dreamers and beloved misfits, those redeemed and those left fingering the locked gate.

Author : Dylan Nelson,Kent Nelson
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429928052

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Birds in the Hand by Dylan Nelson,Kent Nelson Pdf

A unique anthology of avian literature From the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are central to literature because they connect us intimately to the natural world. Whether we watch birds at our feeders, travel vast distances to identify rare species, or simply pause in a busy day to listen to the coo of a dove or the trill of a warbler, birds sustain us. Birds in the Hand is a collection of contemporary fiction and poetry that explores the complex, often startling ways in which birds shed light upon our lives. In work from a diverse and celebrated group of contemporary authors such as Charles Baxter, T.C. Boyle, Jim Harrison, Flannery O'Connor, Pattiann Rogers, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Ethan Canin, and Jorie Graham, birds are sources of inspiration, confrontation, and revelation. These stories and poems take us from New York and Hoboken to the Salton Sea and the wilds of Montana, from a hardware store to the westernmost Aleutian island, from a prison to marshes, forests, and seacoasts. Field guides and natural history books cannot capture the essence of why birds thrill us. Birds in the Hand uses the vitality and nuance of fiction and poetry to get at the heart of our mysterious sense of birds and the way they can reflect the brightest and darkest aspects of our own natures.

Author : David Wagoner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780252092749

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Good Morning and Good Night by David Wagoner Pdf

By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good Morning and Good Night, this range includes his usual rich forays into nature and personalities, and poetry for all ages, young and old, amidst a vivid array of memories and explorations. Readers will find homages to the poets that have inspired him, as well as the bountiful lyricism that has made Wagoner's poetry one of our most enduring sources of delight and joy. Good Morning and Good Night features poems previously published in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The New Republic, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, The Yale Review, and other leading literary journals.

Author : Victoria Chang
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0252071743

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Asian American Poetry by Victoria Chang Pdf

A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.

Author : Theresa L. Burriss,Patricia M. Gantt
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780821444566

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Appalachia in the Classroom by Theresa L. Burriss,Patricia M. Gantt Pdf

Appalachia in the Classroom contributes to the twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia by offering topics and teaching strategies that represent the diversity found within the region. Appalachia is a distinctive region with various cultural characteristics that can’t be essentialized or summed up by a single text. Appalachia in the Classroom offers chapters on teaching Appalachian poetry and fiction as well as discussions of nonfiction, films, and folklore. Educators will find teaching strategies that they can readily implement in their own classrooms; they’ll also be inspired to employ creative ways of teaching marginalized voices and to bring those voices to the fore. In the growing national movement toward place-based education, Appalachia in the Classroom offers a critical resource and model for engaging place in various disciplines and at several different levels in a thoughtful and inspiring way. Contributors: Emily Satterwhite, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, John C. Inscoe, Erica Abrams Locklear, Jeff Mann, Linda Tate, Tina L. Hanlon, Patricia M. Gantt, Ricky L. Cox, Felicia Mitchell, R. Parks Lanier, Jr., Theresa L. Burriss, Grace Toney Edwards, and Robert M. West.

Author : David Wagoner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780252092756

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A Map of the Night by David Wagoner Pdf

David Wagoner’s wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family, the odd poet, and strangers who become even stranger when looked at closely. In this new collection, Wagoner catches the mixed feelings of a long drive, the sensations of walking against a current, the difficulty of writing poetry with noisily amorous neighbors, and many more uniquely familiar experiences.

Author : Charles Wright,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780743299756

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The Best American Poetry 2008 by Charles Wright,David Lehman Pdf

An anthology of poetry selected as the best published in magazines and periodicals in 2007 by editor Charles Wright, featuring seventy-five poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Alex Lemon, and others.

Author : Colleen J. McElroy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780252056017

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Sleeping with the Moon by Colleen J. McElroy Pdf

PEN Oakland National Literary Award, 2008 Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection’s award-winning poems animate women’s experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver lining of lust, love, illness, and aging. Rich with vivid imagery and candid storytelling, Sleeping with the Moon takes readers on moonlit adventures under the night sky, through the barroom’s smoky haze, and under the covers. ...Beware: such delicate sights have driven more than one woman to despair instead she watched him breathe-- relishing for a moment that secret space where night grows soft and the moon’s detumescence forgives-- and where if this jeweled light holds they might strip themselves of years if only for one night --from “In Praise of Older Women”

Author : Frank G. Honeycutt
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587432637

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Truth Shall Make You Odd, The by Frank G. Honeycutt Pdf

When life is murder, who can you trust? One minute Mia Quinn is in her basement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor’s office. The next minute there’s a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror as her colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death. Mia’s a natural for heading up the murder investigation, but these days it’s all she can do to hold her life together. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-old who wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less — and working Colleen’s case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was her friend, and she needs to keep her job. So she reluctantly teams up with detective Charlie Carlson to investigate Colleen’s death. But the deeper they dig, the more complications unfold — even the unsettling possibility that someone may be coming after her. Lis Wiehl’s signature plot twists and relatable characters shine in this absorbing series debut . . .with an intriguing cameo from her best-selling Triple Threat series.