Poetry Speaks Expanded

Poetry Speaks Expanded PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Presenting a diverse cross-section of the 20th centurys best poets, this classic poetry anthology has now been revised with added essays and poems. Includes three audio CDs with recordings of each poet reading his or her work.

Poetry Speaks Expanded

Poetry Speaks Expanded PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Book Description
Presenting a diverse cross-section of the 20th centurys best poets, this classic poetry anthology has now been revised with added essays and poems. Includes three audio CDs with recordings of each poet reading his or her work.

Poetry Speaks

Poetry Speaks PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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[Ask for CD at desk].

Poetry Speaks to Children

Poetry Speaks to Children PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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A collection of 95 remarkable poems by the poets and a few close friends.

Poetry Speaks

Poetry Speaks PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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[Ask for CD at desk].

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems PDF Author: Samuel Menashe
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 159853355X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Prize in 2004 and this volume was published in conjunction with that award. Born in New York City, Menashe practiced his art of "compression and crystallization" (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in poems that are brief in form but startlingly wide-ranging and profound in their engagement with ultimate questions. Dana Gioia has written: "Menashe is essentially a religious poet, though one without an orthodox creed. Nearly every poem he has ever published radiates a heightened religious awareness." Intensely musical and rigorously constructed, Menashe's poetry stands apart in its solitary meditative power. But it is equally a poetry of the everyday, suffused, in the words of Christopher Ricks, with "the courage of comedy, flanked by the respect of innocence." The humblest of objects, the minutest of natural forms here become powerfully suggestive, and even the shortest of the poems are spacious in the perspectives they open.

Poetry Like Bread

Poetry Like Bread PDF Author: Martín Espada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 300

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An anthology of political poems by 33 poets from around the world. They write on war, poverty and hunger, as well as love of fellow man and the loneliness of revolutionary life.

Who Reads Poetry

Who Reads Poetry PDF Author: Fred Sasaki
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650476X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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In 2012, to celebrate the centennial of Poetry, the Press published The Open Door:100 Poems,100 Years of Poetry Magazine, edited by Share and Wiman; that is the model for this new anthology of fifty essays about reading poetry. All were commissioned by Poetry for a column called The View From Here, in which people "from outside the world of poetry" are invited to describe when and why they read poetry. The editors sought contributions from philosophers and journalists, musicians and artists, doctors and soldiers, an iron-worker, a lawyer, anthropologist, economist, and politician. Contributors include Neko Case, Roger Ebert, Richard Rorty, Rhymefest, Lynda Barry, Daniel Handler, and Alex Ross. They have arranged the essays in groups and pulled out quotes to open each of the eight sections as a way to suggest themes without trying to prescribe how the pieces should be read. Each essay retains its own voice, and many are surprising, provocative, touching, or funny.

The Eloquent Poem

The Eloquent Poem PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892555009
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A groundbreaking poetry anthology for readers, writers, students, and teachers, with original poems from some of America’s greatest living poets. From the New York Times best-selling anthologist, Elise Paschen, comes The Eloquent Poem, a groundbreaking collection of new poems by 128 contemporary poets, including Mary Jo Bang, Marilyn Chin, Billy Collins, Cornelius Eady, Martîn Espada, Kamiko Hahn, Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Major Jackson, Laura Kasischke, Joy Ladin, Randall Mann, Paul Muldoon, Marilyn Nelson, Aimee Nezhukmatathil, Stanley Plumly, Rosanna Warren, and many others. This extraordinary volume is divided into sections by poetic approach—some formal, some occasional, and some thematic—and includes illuminating micro-essays from the contributors on how each poem came to be.

Bestiary

Bestiary PDF Author: Elise Paschen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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"The ... third volume from Paschen ... pursues the likenesses between human beings and other sorts of beasts: Paschen watches domestic animals, visits zoos and backyards, and records the instincts that animate her, as lover, mother, daughter and citizen. Husband and wife “share a wedded habitat”; a mother breastfeeding her daughter “would like to buzz / into the orchid of your ear,” while a manatee looks to the poet like “a mistaken mermaid, / on the brink of vanishing from sight.” Paschen offers sonnets, villanelles and even a ghazal, in which butterflies in an exhibit “invent a sky beneath the dome.” Readers might remember not the moments of pure description, but the difficult emotions Paschen describes in her poems about marital love, motherhood and finally a daughter’s grief. The urn with her father’s ashes dominates one poem, and her mother’s career as a ballet dancer takes over another: “Mother, when I was young, I watched / you from the wings and saw the sweat,” Paschen writes, saw “your gasp / for breath. I thought it was your last.” If we are animals, Paschen suggests, we are the animals who look hard at one another, the animals who remember and who mourn"--From Publisher's weekly, January 2009.

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes PDF Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 067972818X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.