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Author : Michael Collier,Stanley Plumly
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0874519500
A galaxy of writers epitomizes the state of American poetry at the century's close.
Author : Michael Collier,Plumly Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0605811296
Author : Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College
Publisher : Hanover : Published for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College, by University Press of New England
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015018637648
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the country reveal, alleged malefactors such as witches, wife beaters, and whores, as well as debtors, rapists, and fornicators, were as much a part of the social landscape as farmers, merchants, and ministers. Ordinary people "made" law by establishing and enforcing informal rules of conduct. Codified by a handshake or over a mug of ale, such agreements became custom and custom became "law." Furthermore, by submitting to formal laws initiated from above, common folk legitimized a government that depended on popular consent to rule with authority. In this book we meet Marretie Joris, a New Amsterdam entrepreneur who sues Gabriel de Haes for calling her a whore; peer cautiously at Christian Stevenson, a Bermudian witch as bad "as any in the world;" and learn that Hannah Dyre feared to be alone with her husband--and subsequently died after a beating. We travel with Comfort Taylor as she crosses Narragansett Bay with Cuff, an enslaved ferry captain, whom she accuses of attempted rape, and watch as Samuel Banister pulls the trigger of a gun that kills the sheriff's deputy who tried to evict Banister from his home. And finally, we consider the promiscuous Marylanders Thomas Harris and Ann Goldsborough, who parented four illegitimate children, ran afoul of inheritance laws, and resolved matters only with the assistance of a ghost. Through the six trials she skillfully reconstructs here, Crane offers a surprising new look at how early American society defined and punished aberrant behavior, even as it defined itself through its legal system.
Author : Michael Collier
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0874519640
A stellar collection celebrates the vitality of American poetry at the turn of the new century. Collier is director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference which encourages the most promising new and young writers in America. 59 illustrations.
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1787 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135355197
The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.
Author : Roberts A.M. Roberts
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474472074
The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values.With chapters by distinguished critics from both sides of the Atlantic, the book ranges widely over contemporary poetry in America and the British Isles and explores transatlantic connections. Informed by current theoretical debates around ideas of value, the chapters focus these through clear discussion of texts in various media, including the work of a wide variety of poets and movements. The book carries forward the debate on the value of contemporary poetry amongst critics, scholars and practitioners while offering rich material for students and teachers of contemporary poetry and culture.Contributors: Jonathan Allison, Vicki Bertram, Paul Breslin, Cairns Craig, Robert Crawford, Lilias Fraser, Alan Golding, Romana Huk, Marjorie Perloff, Andrew Michael Roberts.Features * Focuses on the relationship between poetry and cultural practices* Informed by current theoretical debates about value* Wide range of British and American poetry discussed by leading critics from both sides of the Atlantic
Author : Jeffrey Skinner,Lee Martin
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781936747412
In this anthology, distinguished writers explore the relevance of mentors in their education and development as writers. Each author contributes an essay and a story or poem, which together give a unique sense of the forces that shape a writer's craft and vision.
Author : Sharon Bryan,William Olsen
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1889330914
Essential reading for the student of creative writing, and all writers
Author : Michael Collier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393239218
“Profound, emotional, sparing, loving, and sometimes very funny. . . . [Collier is] always the consummate craftsman.”—Poet Lore An Individual History describes the fears, anger, and guilt—personal, familial, societal, political, and historical—that comprise a life. The figure of the speaker’s maternal grandmother who was institutionalized for five decades serves as an overriding metaphor for this haunting, bold new work by an essential American poet. from “An Individual History” This was before the time of lithium and Zoloft before mood stabilizers and anxiolytics and almost all the psychotropic drugs, but not before thorazine, which the suicide O’Laughlin called “handcuffs for the mind.” It was before, during, and after the time of atomic fallout, Auschwitz, the Nakba, DDT, and you could take water cures, find solace in quarantines, participate in shunnings, or stand at Lourdes among the canes and crutches.
Author : Michael Collier
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0618919910
The award-winning poet Michael Collier's elegiac fifth collection is haunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds: From a cardinal that crashes into a window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier engages birds as myth-makers and lively messengers, carrying memories from lost friends. The mystery of death and the vital absence it creates are the real subjects of the book. Collier juxtaposes moments of quotidian revelation, like waking to the laughing sounds of bird song, with the drama of Greek tragedy, taking on voices from Medea. As Vanity Fair praised, his poems "tread nimbly between moments of everyday transcendence and spiritual pining."
Author : Elizabeth Spires
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393285642
"Spires is a jewel of a poet, never self-conscious or self-indulgent."—Los Angeles Times Opening with a powerful sequence of poems about her mother's death, Elizabeth Spires writes about the life-and-death matters of midlife: the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest friendships. These poems find hope in the seasonal and spiritual moment when "the green blade rises."
Author : Stuart Dischell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101175231
Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, heartbreaking, and always unpredictable. Dig Safe reaffirms why he commands high regard among poets and critics and popularity among his readers. Taking as their metaphor the markings that construction workers use to warn of utilities below street level—these new poems pierce the body politic as they evoke interconnection and misalliance, movement and inhabitation.
Author : William A. Katz,Linda Sternberg Katz,Esther Crain
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023110104X
Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Author : Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College
Publisher : Hanover, NH : Published for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College by University Press of New England
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015018637655
Thirty-two of America1s best contemporary authors practice the art of the essay in its varied forms.
Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679750802
Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives. Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's Selected Poems is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling.