[PDF] Poem Opera eBook

Author : Allen Walker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0595510132

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Poem Opera is a unique compilation of poetry inspired by great writers such as T. S. Elliot and W. H. Auden. The poetry depicts human emotions, rage, loss, love in abundance, unrequited love, deception, faith, and many other analogies in the lives of others. This book also includes the play Dilaphadese which takes place in the 1920's. It involves a famous artist named Dilaphadese who happens to be mulatto and his love affair with the daughter of a prominent aristocrat Mr. Hookstone. Their secret love revealed leads to the downfall of a family empire as they knew it. This play is sure to keep the reader tangled in the many webs of the lives of its characters which are painted so vividly.

Author : Danusha Laméris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822987287

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Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake. Excerpt from “Bonfire Opera” In those days, there was a woman in our circle who was known, not only for her beauty, but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera. And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea, and everyone had drunk a little wine, she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight, the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.

Author : Philip Metres
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938584236

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Using techniques of erasure, Metres seeks rhythm or language within the spare, bleak testimonies of those tortured at Abu Ghraib.

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307517942

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In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world around her, bidding an exhausted farewell to the twentieth century and singing an "electronic breakdown blues" for the twenty-first. She memorializes movingly those who, like los desaparecidos and the victims of 9/11, disappear suddenly and without a trace. She writes an elegy for her mother, a woman who struggled with a deadening round o fhousework, washin gon Monday, ironing on Tuesday, and so on, "until stroke broke/her open." She remembers the scraps of lace, the touch of velvet, that were part of her maternal inheritance and fist aroused her sensual curiosity. Here are paeans to the pleasures of the natural world (rosy ripe tomatoes, a mating dance of hawks) as the poet confronts her own mortality in the cycle of seasons and the eternity of the cosmos: "iam hurrying, I am running hard / toward I don't know what, / but I mean to arrive before dark." Other poems--about her grandmother's passage from Russia to the New World, or the interrupting of a Passover seder to watch a comet pass--expand on Piercy's appreciation of Jewish life that won her so much acclaim in The Art of Blessing the Day. Colors Passing Through Us is a moving celebration of the endurance of love an dof the phenomenon of life itself--a book to treasure.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher :
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780224079266

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"In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates decreation an activity described by Simone Weil as undoing the creature in us an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start? Anne Carson s Decreation starts with form the undoing of form. Form is various here- opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, list, montage. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe. By turns exhilarating and bewildering, lucid and hermetic, Anne Carson is a maverick with a thrilling range of skills. As Charles Simic says, Carson takes risks, subverts literary conventions, and plays havoc with our expectations. She is a wonder- an unconventional, often difficult poet who has a huge following among today s readers of poetry and whose work has been honoured with our most prestigious literary awards.

Author : Danusha Lameris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781932870954

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Winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. This stunning debut collection explores family culture, motherhood, and memory.

Author : Kevin Simmonds
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810143747

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Overture -- Performance -- Postlude.

Author : Don Mee Choi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781940696218

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Documents of war by Choi's father fuel her second collection of poetry, a passionate and personal defiance of nationalism.