[PDF] Looking For Poetry eBook

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Publisher : Knopf
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade, one of the most revered Brazilian poets of the twentieth century, was born in 1902 in a small mining town; he died in Rio de Janeiro in 1987. His poems are, for the most part, bittersweet evocations of a small-town childhood, or, more emblematically, remorseful accounts of a lost world or simply discreet and sometimes ironic views of the way things are. Songs from the Quechua are translated from Spanish version of the folk poetry of the Quechua Indians of South America, collected and transcribed in the nineteenth century by priests and, more recently, by anthropologists. They convey a degree of tenderness that is unusual in any poetry. Rafael Alberti was born in 1902 in Spain and was in exile in Argentina during the Spanish Civil War. He died in 1999. These fifty poems provide an ample introduction to one of the twentieth century's great poets. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Kathryn Petras
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0679776222

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Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

Author : Michael Francis Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781912587285

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Harry Chapin was an incredibly gifted singer-songwriter, who, in a successful career lasting a little over ten years, carved for himself a place in music history that, even to this day, is hard to define. His thought-provoking, soul-searching and heart-breaking story-songs, such as Cat's in the Cradle and Taxi, now well embedded in American lore.

Author : Anthony Hecht
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307598977

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Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series. Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and experienced the best and worst of the twentieth century. Readers of this volume—the first selected poems to be made from Hecht’s seven individual volumes—will be captivated by Hecht’s dark music and allusions to the literature of the past. As J. D. McClatchy explains in his introduction, Hecht was a poet for whom formal elegance was inextricably bound up with the dramatic force, thematic ambition, and powerful emotions in each poem. The rules of his art, which he both honored and transformed, are “moral principles meant finally to reveal the structure of human dilemmas and sympathies.” This elevated sense of what poetry can accomplish defines our experience of reading Hecht, and will ensure his place in the canon for years to come. Adam and Eve knew such perfection once, God’s finger in the cloud, and on the ground Nothing but springtime, nothing else at all. But in our fallen state where the blood hunts For blood, and rises at the hunting sound, What do we know of lasting since the fall? Who has not, in the oil and heat of youth, Thought of the flourishing of the almond tree, The grasshopper, and the failing of desire, And thought his tongue might pierce the secrecy Of the six-pointed starlight, and might choir A secret-voweled, unutterable truth? —from “A Poem for Julia”

Author : Alice Notley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1101502037

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A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert. Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley "has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be" (The Boston Review).

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0307267644

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A poetic epic chronicles the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave ship Amistad through different voices, from an interpreter for the rebels to inmates in a New Haven jail who appealed to John Quincy Adams.

Author : Wendy Bishop
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780321011305

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Thirteen ways of Looking for a Poem encourages students to enrich their writing by actively studying and practicing poetic form. Using a unique textbook/anthology format, which includes poems by both emerging and well-known poets, Wendy Bishop demonstrates how various poetic forms offer insight into the often hidden inner mechanics of poem-building, strengthening writing skills and poetry interpretation at the same time.

Author : Nina Luong
Publisher :
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781095507940

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In this poetry book, immerse yourself into a romanza as if it is an entanglement of your own. When I Look at You is a collection of poems and letters that emerge together to illustrate a fresh and original love story. Laughter. Heartbreak. Flaws and all. When I Look at You explores every aspect of love -- all that makes love real and true.

Author : Rickey Strachan
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
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Things Cupid Whispered is a collection of love poetry by upcoming poet Rickey Strachan, who uses different scenarios and analogies to try and describe or at least create an understanding of his ever changing outlook on love. The poems range from sonnets trying to capture a heart to sonnets about how it feels to lose one. Within 100 pages Rickey challenges the reader to really ask themselves how they understand love in general.. and if Cupid is really worth blaming at all.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571225837

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A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.