The Power Of Poetry

Author : William Sieghart
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781846149801

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The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart Pdf

'Truly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder - the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen Fry As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensary Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and a chance to realize - I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain. 'The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetryin relation to its biggest and most serious task: helping us to live and diewell' Alain de Botton

Author : Adrienne Gear
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Author : Vic Guest,Jo Eshuys,Glendon Lewer,Cathy Crawley
Publisher : Nelson Australia
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Poetics
ISBN : 0170124851

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The Power of Poetry by Vic Guest,Jo Eshuys,Glendon Lewer,Cathy Crawley Pdf

The Power of Poetry is a highly valuable poetry reference book for secondary students. It teaches skill development and explores poetry under broad themes, ideas and feelings. The new edition focuses on students as creators of poetry and exposes them to a wide variety of poetic techniques and forms. In line with recent developments in English curricula across Australia, The Power of Poetry includes activities in critical and visual literacy and multiple intelligences. The activities are geared towards years 7-10 students, but are also suitable for senior students. A complimentary CDa ROM containing many of the images in the book is available to schools who booklist or purchase class sets of The Power of Poetry. To receive your free copy, please email your request to your state Sales Representative. New to this Edition: a A profile of the poet Steven Herrick and his works a New published poetry including modern song lyrics a A stronger emphasis on critical thinking skills a More synthesis and evaluation-style questions a A new emphasis on visual literacy a A glossary of poetic terms a A stunning new text design.

Author : Vern Kousky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698172166

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Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry by Vern Kousky Pdf

An owl with an unusual passion learns to shine in this fresh, funny debut picture book introducing a poetry-loving owl whom kids will cheer for. Otto loves poetry—Keats, Rossetti, Dickinson, even T. S. Eliot. He prefers reading to roosting and reciting to hunting. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a problem. But, you see, Otto is an owl. When the other owls begin to make fun of Otto, he embarks on a difficult journey, finding along the way both his inner poet and a community that accepts him for who he is. Celebrating courage and the importance of sticking with your passion, and incorporating an engaging mix of original and famous poems, Vern Kousky has created an enchanting and inviting world—a forest filled with the sounds of poetry.

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324001799

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The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling by Robert Pinsky Pdf

A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.

Author : Smiley Blanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258449897

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The Healing Power of Poetry by Smiley Blanton Pdf

A Psychiatrist Introduces Poems Which He Has Found Helpful To His Patients.

Author : Claire Keyes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333519

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The Aesthetics of Power by Claire Keyes Pdf

When still a senior at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich was selected as a Yale Younger Poet. The judge, W.H. Auden, wrote the introduction to her first book of poems. Thus Rich's career was launched by one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century, someone Rich herself admired and emulated. Adrienne Rich's early mentors were men, and her early poetry consequently adopted a strong male persona. In her development as artist, woman, and activist, however, Rich emerged as a leading voice of modern feminism--a voice which rejects a male-dominated world, forcing new definitions of power, new possibilities for women, and profound repercussions for society. In The Aesthetics of Power, Claire Keyes examines the shape and scope of Rich's poetry as it applies to Rich's female aesthetic. Keyes uncovers the process by which Rich embraces, then rejects, accepted uses of power, achieving a vision of beneficent female power. In her early poems, Adrienne Rich accepts certain traditions associated with the divisions of power according to sex. Later, Rich continually defines and redefines power until she can reject power-as-force (patriarchal power) for the power-to-transform, which, for her, is the truly significant and essential power. Surveying Rich's poetry and prose from 1951 to the present, this book traces the development of Adrienne Rich's new understanding of the power of the poet and the power of woman. Sharing Rich's feminist sensibilities, yet at times critical of her more radical positions, Claire Keyes draws a portrait of an artist who was molded by the complex political and social climate of post-World War II America. It is a portrait that reveals the creative growth of an artist, and the personal growth of a powerful and controversial woman.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

Author : Richard Georges
Publisher : Shearsman Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1848615272

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MAKE US ALL ISLANDS by Richard Georges Pdf

A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges. These poems craft narratives of long forgotten migrations, shipwrecks, and the personal with a vivid and sensual aesthetic that is located in the contested spaces between the sea and the shore. "The voice is placid, and leaves no print of self-conscious style and ego but rather the poems themselves, rolling softly up the beach and then sucking us into a greater history of the sea and our only and sometimes lonely selves-- our i-lands." --Vladimir Lucien "In these pages all roads lead to the sea. The poet never plots a route. Gods fall, forgotten paths return, poetry books break and glasses of water kill. Though the sea divides, it brings redemption. Georges shows all mankind to be one author. His beauteous poems rise like coral islands. Justice is done." --Andre Bagoo "Singing 'light into bleakness, ' in vivid poetic language that shakes us out of apathy, Georges' harsh and lyrical hymns portray the painful beauty of the Virgin Islands and Caribbean archipelago." --Loretta Collins Klobah

Author : Vasko Popa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106006234469

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The Little Box by Vasko Popa Pdf

Author : David Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : 0982990502

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The Waldorf Book of Poetry by David Kennedy Pdf

A collection of poems edited by an experienced Waldorf class teacher that harmonizes with the structure and content of the Waldorf curriculum.

Author : Iba Marcel
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781647022396

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The Power of Wolves by Iba Marcel Pdf

The Power of Wolves By: Iba Marcel The Power of Wolves is a collection of empowerment poetry intended to inspire and motivate readers. During challenging times, spirituality, religion, or other forms of supports are often used for guidance and direction. The Power of Wolves sets out to become another instrument for the toolbox.

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780358539414

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Light for the World to See by Kwame Alexander Pdf

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin's "A Report from Occupied Territory," Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America's crisis of conscience . . . to the centuries of loss, endless resilience, and unstoppable hope. Includes an introduction by the author and a bold, graphically designed interior. A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author.

Author : Leanne Howe
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393356809

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by Leanne Howe Pdf

Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize–winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Diné poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete.

Author : ALICE. KINSELLA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912111632

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Flower Press by ALICE. KINSELLA Pdf

This short collection of poems can be described as an elegiac apostrophe. In three sections--bud, bloom, and blood--it explores the growth of love in childhood, the loss of innocence, and the fallout of that loss. Flower Press does not claim to offer answers, but the consolation of the act of remembering.