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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep

August Kleinzahler
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880771

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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler Pdf

Those aren't stars, darling That's your nervous system Nanna didn't take you to planetariums like this --from "Hyper-Berceuse: 3 A.M." August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Vegas and Mayfair to the Asian steppes and contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St. Kevin and Attila with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Surprise after surprise, nothing seems to lie outside Kleinzahler's purview. This is the strongest collection to date from a poet with "the vision and confident skill to make American poetry new" (Clive Wilmer, The Times [London]).

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep

August Kleinzahler
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0571221734

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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler Pdf

August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high colour and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Vegas and Mayfair to the Asian steppes and contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St Kevin and Attila with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Surprise after surprise, nothing seems to lie outside Kleinzahler's purview. This is the strongest collection to date from a poet with 'the vision and confident skill to make American poetry new' (Clive Wilmer, The Times).

Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950, Volume 2

Robert Von Hallberg,Robert Faggen
Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950 Volume 2 Book PDF

Author : Robert Von Hallberg,Robert Faggen
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826363152

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Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950, Volume 2 by Robert Von Hallberg,Robert Faggen Pdf

Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry--its language, forms, and musicality--volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions. In this volume, von Hallberg and Faggen have gathered a diverse selection of poets to explore questions such as: How does poetry instruct a society with a highly evolved knowledge industry? Do poems bear a relation to the disciplined idioms of learning? What do poets think of as intellectual work? What is the importance of recognizable subject matter? What can honestly be said by poets concerning this nation so hungry for learning and so fixated on its own power? To these questions, the literary critics collected here find some answers in the poetry of Robert Pinsky, Susan Howe, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Olds, Ed Dorn, and August Kleinzahler.

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology

Phyllis Webb
The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology Book PDF

Author : Phyllis Webb
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770891395

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The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology by Phyllis Webb Pdf

The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

Cutty, One Rock

August Kleinzahler
Cutty One Rock Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429928496

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Cutty, One Rock by August Kleinzahler Pdf

Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place. These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

John Bartlett,Geoffrey O'Brien
Bartlett s Familiar Quotations Book PDF

Author : John Bartlett,Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 5216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780316250184

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett,Geoffrey O'Brien Pdf

More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

Third Rail

Jonathan Wells
Third Rail Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Wells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1416539522

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Third Rail by Jonathan Wells Pdf

"The poets who fill these pages have come to testify, to bear witness to the mysterious power of Rock and Roll. -- from the Foreword by Bono "The thread or the theme That holds this tune Together is the same One that rips it open...." -- from Gimme Shelter by Bill Knott "Chunky on the shag rug, I'm looking for my anthem, I'm looking for my headphones, I'm looking for the bare spot on the rug to wallow, side-stepped on the chair-stopped door. I blast my ears out." -- from The Prophet's Song by Daniel Nester "Drums, Whatta lotta Noise you want a Revolution? Wanna Apocalypse? Blow up in Dynamite Sound?" -- from Punk Rock You're My Big Crybaby by Allen Ginsberg As revolutionary as the music it celebrates, the poetry in this electrifying anthology -- by poets such as Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon and Philip Larkin -- turns rock upside down with indelible images and powerful expressions of the music that changed our lives.

The Open Door

Don Share,Christian Wiman
The Open Door Book PDF

Author : Don Share,Christian Wiman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226750705

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The Open Door by Don Share,Christian Wiman Pdf

Poetry's archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine's centennial, Don Share and Christian Wilman combed them to create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limitation of one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive--or even to offer the most familiar works--they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtapositions, echo across a century of poetry.

My Poets

Maureen N. McLane
My Poets Book PDF

Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466875050

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My Poets by Maureen N. McLane Pdf

A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell "Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in My Poets not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Glück to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's mind," as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude. In a poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an "erotics of interpretation": this is it. Part Bildung, part dithyramb, part exegesis, My Poets extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.

Technicolored

Jason Guriel
Technicolored Book PDF

Author : Jason Guriel
Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1550960032

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Technicolored by Jason Guriel Pdf

Cinematic and literary, this collection of poems reflects on the film icons of the 20th century, offering a fresh look at legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and B la Lugosi. This work exhibits meticulous tone and language while delving into the opulent world of classic films. Of interest to fans of both contemporary poetry and classic Hollywood, this collection further explores the intersection between film and literature.

Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction

Stephen Guppy
Writing and Workshopping Poetry A Constructive Introduction Book PDF

Author : Stephen Guppy
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781554813087

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Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction by Stephen Guppy Pdf

Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn’t often dealt with in any practical way. Writing and Workshopping Poetry focuses on all three phases of the process of composition: finding the material; building and developing the poem from rough draft to complete work; editing and refining. The text offers everything students and instructors need: extensive notes written in an accessible, conversational style; seventy-five writing exercises; and about a hundred poems chosen from a wide range of sources, from sixteenth-century sonnets to experimental constrained forms, with an emphasis on exciting poems by contemporary American and Canadian poets. Each chapter concludes with a brief, point-form summary of major learning objectives as well as a review list of useful terms.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

Europa Publications
International Who s Who in Poetry 2005 Book PDF

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1787 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135355197

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International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 by Europa Publications Pdf

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.

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

August Kleinzahler
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880764

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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler Pdf

The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler's career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant poets of our time. Travel—actual and imaginary—remains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds "This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America."

The FSG Poetry Anthology

Jonathan Galassi,Robyn Creswell
The FSG Poetry Anthology Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Galassi,Robyn Creswell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374722616

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The FSG Poetry Anthology by Jonathan Galassi,Robyn Creswell Pdf

To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski. Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices. This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.

The Hotel Oneira

August Kleinzahler
The Hotel Oneira Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374713331

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The Hotel Oneira by August Kleinzahler Pdf

A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation "His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy with a jazzy backbeat." That praise appeared in the pages of The New York Times in 2005, but it applies no less to August Kleinzahler's newest collection. Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: Voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, all mingle together in verses that always ring true. Whether the poem is three lines long or spans several pages; whether the voice embodied is that of "an adult male of late middle age, // about to weep among the avocados and citrus fruits / in a vast, overlit room next to a bosomy Cuban grandma" as in "Whitney Houston," or that of the title character in "Hootie Bill Do Polonius," who is bidding "adios compadre // To a most galuptious scene Kid"—Kleinzahler finds the throbbing human heart at the core of experience. This is a poet searching for—and finding—a cadence to suit life as it's lived today. Kleinzahler's verses are, as noted in the judges' citation for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize (which he won for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep), "ferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers." The Hotel Oneira finds Kleinzahler at his shape-shifting, acrobatic best, unearthing the "moments of grace" buried under the detritus of our hectic, modern lives.