[PDF] When I Was A Poet eBook

Author : Natalie S. Bober
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805094075

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Papa Is a Poet: is a picture book about the famous American poet Robert Frost, imagined through the eyes of his daughter Lesley. When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.

Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1619320932

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An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.

Author : Karin Roffman
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374293848

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"A biography focusing on the poet John Ashbery's early life"--

Author : Rayna Hutchison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1507208359

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Offering a variety of advice for tapping into your creative voice, sharing your work online, and honing your writing skills, You/Poet shows you how to express yourself creatively through the art of poetry. You may think that writing poetry requires a specific set of skills. You may have read books on writing poetry that were stuffy and full of strict rules and regulations. But You/Poet proves that all you need to be a poet is the desire to share your inner thoughts and emotions with the world. Let HerHeartPoetry—an online poetry community, Instagram, digital zine, and poetry press—take you on a journey of self-discovery and surprise, and show you how to embrace the world of writing poetry with arms wide open. Writing poetry is an act of bravery. It’s just you, your thoughts and feelings, and the words you choose to express them. You/Poet can help you do just that. With encouragement and advice on poetry writing basics, how to identify your unique creative voice, and prompts and exercises to help you channel your thoughts and emotions through writing, this all-in-one guide will help you share your talent with the world.

Author : Douglas Kearney
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1950268624

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2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.

Author : Quan Barry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804171300

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Radiant, lyrical, and deeply moving, this is the unforgettable story of one woman’s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while also carving out a place for herself within it. Vietnam, 1972: under a full moon, on the banks of the Song Ma River, a baby girl is pulled out of her dead mother’s grave. This is Rabbit, who is born with the ability to speak with the dead. She will flee from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. As Rabbit channels the voices of the dead, their chorus reconstructs the turbulent history of a nation, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations to the chaos of postwar reunification.

Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1627794956

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From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

Author : Ariana Reines
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1947793330

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Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." —Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674010246

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With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.

Author : Penelope Niven
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 9780152046866

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Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.