Poems, Poets, Poetry
Author | : A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Bedford Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781457652196 |
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Author | : A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Bedford Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781457652196 |
Author | : David Baker |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1610754972 |
What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.
Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0674044622 |
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Author | : Kwame Alexander |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1536221694 |
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
Author | : Carmela Ciuraru |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 0684864398 |
Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.
Author | : Gary Soto |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780811807586 |
Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.
Author | : Mr. John Lithgow |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-11-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0446501999 |
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to appeal to readers new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dylan Thomas are just a few names among Lithgow's comprehensive list of poetry masters. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud." This unique package provides a multimedia poetry experience with a bonus MP3 CD of revelatory poetry readings by John and the familiar voices of such notable performers as Eileen Atkins, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Billy Connolly, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Lynn Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, and Sam Waterston. Every reader will enjoy reciting or listening to these poems with the entire family, appreciating how each one comes to life through the spoken word in this superlative poetry collection.
Author | : Rita Dove |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 0143106430 |
An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.
Author | : Jane Yolen |
Publisher | : Walker |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
ISBN | : 9781406327113 |
An illustrated first book of poetry, 'Here's a Little Poem' contains over 60 verses from noted English and American authors, including Wendy Cope, Roger McGough, John Agard and Grace Nichols.