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Come on All You Ghosts

Author	: Matthew Zapruder
Publisher	: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date	: 2013-10-10
ISBN 10	: 9781619320604
Pages	: 96 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (26 users)

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Download or read book Come on All You Ghosts written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the country's leading younger poets, "Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty, they attain it."--"Boston Review"

You, Too, Could Write a Poem

Author	: David Orr
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2017-02-07
ISBN 10	: 9780698403338
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book You, Too, Could Write a Poem written by David Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, conversational, and edifying best. Whether he is considering the careers of contemporary masters, such as Louise Glück or Frederick Seidel, sizing up younger American poets, like Matthea Harvey and Matthew Zapruder, or even turning his attention to celebrities and public figures, namely Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Fry, when they choose to wade into the hotly contested waters of the poetry world, Orr is never any less than fully persuasive in arguing what makes a poem or poet great—or not. After all, as Orr points out in his introduction, “Poetry is a lot like America, in the sense that liking all of it means that you probably shouldn’t be trusted with money, or scissors.” Orr’s prose is devoted to common sense and clarity, and, in every case, he brings to bear an impeccable ear, an openhandedness of spirit, and a deep wealth of technical knowledge—to say nothing of his shrewd sense of humor. As pleasurable as it is informative, Orr’s journalism represents a high watermark in the public discussion of literature. You, Too, Could Write a Poem is at heart a love note to poetry itself.

Heart's Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec's Images Responding to Emily Dickinson

Author	: Richard Jackson
Publisher	: Wings Press
Release Date	: 2017-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9781609405373
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (53 users)

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Download or read book Heart's Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec's Images Responding to Emily Dickinson written by Richard Jackson and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed Slovian artist Metka Krašovek created a suite of drawings inspired by the poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Richard Jackson began gathering poems created in response to the drawings — fascinating and insightful examples of double ekphrasis. The Heart's Many Doors is a rich, cross-genre combination of writing and art that functions as a multi-faceted commentary on Dickinson, art and the creative process. 41 American poets contributed poems written in response to the artwork.

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry

Author	: Deborah Ager
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2013-09-26
ISBN 10	: 9781441183040
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (83 users)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry written by Deborah Ager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes. This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating insight into Jewish cultural and religious topics and Jewish identity. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, it includes poems by Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Jacqueline Osherow, Ira Sadoff, Philip Schultz, Alan Shapiro, Jane Shore, Judith Skillman, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.

Fairy Tale Review

Author	: Kate Bernheimer
Publisher	: Wayne State University Press
Release Date	: 2015-06-08
ISBN 10	: 9780814341759
Pages	: 186 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (417 users)

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Download or read book Fairy Tale Review written by Kate Bernheimer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all fairy tales, the story of Little Red gets strength from its multitudes. It is a moving hive, a travelling pack of translations and interpretations too numerous to catalogue. It manages to examine our most salient tropes in binaries, and the equators formed in this contrast are tangential contradictions: The tale is at once innocent and sexual. It mingles the vulnerable with the predatory, and overlaps captivity with freedom. It is both fable and fairy tale, and a horror story to boot: a naïve individual walking into a den of trickery. Then comes that eerie, parsed-out realization when our girl comes to terms with what the readers have known all along: things are not as they seem. What a fright, when something categorized as safe becomes compromised and inverted, when the familiar is replaced with the unknown. In this issue, we add new footprints to the path through the woods. Some of these pieces retell the tale; others explore its place in our minds and our culture.

Best American Poetry 2017

Author	: David Lehman
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2017-09-05
ISBN 10	: 9781501127632
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (276 users)

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Download or read book Best American Poetry 2017 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky). Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Marilyn Nelson says “the wide scope of Trethewey’s interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics both elegant and necessary.” With her selections and introductory essay for The Best American Poetry 2017, Trethewey will be highlighting even more “elegant and necessary” poems and poets, adding to the national conversation of verse and its role in our culture. The Best American Poetry is not just another anthology; it serves as a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry and is an eagerly awaited publishing event each year. With Trethewey’s insightful touch and genius for plumbing the depths of history and personal experience to shape striking verse, The Best American Poetry 2017 is another brilliant addition to the series.

The Final Hours of Darkness

Author	: Keith Grossl
Publisher	: AuthorHouse
Release Date	: 2014-06-06
ISBN 10	: 9781496916761
Pages	: 96 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (167 users)

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Download or read book The Final Hours of Darkness written by Keith Grossl and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the author on an in depth investigation of the paranormal that will lead you through the darkened corridors of a haunted insane asylum that is said to have been the sight of satanic rituals. Two abandoned prisons, both of which house not only the murderous souls of the convicts who were once incarcerated there, but also the place memory of their evil deeds. In this true account of a paranormal investigation you will visit many other locations that are said to be haunted. And discover the truth behind the shadow man who turned the author’s childhood dreams into nightmares.

Yokohama Threeway

Author	: Beth Lisick
Publisher	: City Lights Books
Release Date	: 2013-09-18
ISBN 10	: 9780872866263
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (662 users)

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Download or read book Yokohama Threeway written by Beth Lisick and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, a collection of one woman's most humiliating moments, revealed with wit and gusto.

Todd, The Cedar Cove Chronicles Book One

Author	: Cynthia Ulmer
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2012-04-07
ISBN 10	: 9781329034242
Pages	: 382 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (342 users)

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Download or read book Todd, The Cedar Cove Chronicles Book One written by Cynthia Ulmer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1943, ten year old Todd Jansan and his family live on a tobacco farm in the small community of Cedar Cove, North Carolina . The closest neighbor is a cruel man who punishes his children by holding them over a well, [threatening] to drop them to their deaths. When their neighbor becomes more involved in their lives, the Jansans face things they never imagined."--Back cover

Please Excuse This Poem

Author	: Brett F Lauer
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2015-03-10
ISBN 10	: 9781101615386
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (153 users)

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Download or read book Please Excuse This Poem written by Brett F Lauer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now—full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke”; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it. Editors Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick have crafted a book that is a must-read for those wanting to know the future of poetry. With an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché, Please Excuse This Poem has the power to change the way you look at the world. It is The Best American Nonrequired Reading—in poetry form.

The Best American Poetry 2013

Author	: David Lehman
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2013-09-10
ISBN 10	: 9781476708140
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (81 users)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2013 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited this year by beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bear on her choices for The Best American Poetry 2013. These acts of imagination—from known stars and exciting newcomers—testify to the vitality of an art form that continues to endure and flourish, defying dour predictions of its demise, in the digital age. This edition of the most important poetry anthology in the United States opens with David Lehman’s incisive “state of the art” essay and Denise Duhamel’s engagingly candid discussion of the seventy-five poems that made her final cut.

The Best American Poetry 2022

Author	: David Lehman
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2022-09-13
ISBN 10	: 9781982186708
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (867 users)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2022 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.

This American Autopsy

Author	: José Antonio Rodríguez
Publisher	: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date	: 2019-08-15
ISBN 10	: 9780806165899
Pages	: 77 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (658 users)

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Download or read book This American Autopsy written by José Antonio Rodríguez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful collection of free-verse poetry, immigrant, poet, and memoirist José Antonio Rodríguez encapsulates the experiences of an artist and citizen caught between two worlds. At once deeply personal and thematically expansive, these works offer a bracing look at the darker impulses of contemporary America. Saturated with allusions to family, immigration, sexuality, and violence, This American Autopsy is also an unsettling meditation on life and death. With its provocative title, the collection calls to mind an image of our nation as a body awaiting examination to determine the cause of death. In this scenario the poet vacillates between various roles: coroner, pathologist, and the body itself. Some of the poems in this collection look to the past: events such as the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion or the author’s first trip to an American grocery store. Others muse on more recent tragedies, including the racial violence in Ferguson, Missouri, and the illicit drug trade. A few of the poems are written in Spanish, and the volume concludes with two English translations of these poems, which the author originally wrote in his native language. Even as he paints a vivid picture of American diversity, Rodriguez exposes the deterioration of our nation—broken promises, failed prosperity, the shattering of dreams. Intimate and urgent, these timely dispatches from the Texas-Mexico border reveal the tensions and contradictions of today’s America.

Attacked from Beneath by Carp and from Above by Seagulls

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Publisher	: McSweeney's
Release Date	: 2015-07-08
ISBN 10	: 9781940450889
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book Attacked from Beneath by Carp and from Above by Seagulls written by and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past twelve years, out of a tiny but well-lit corner of the McSweeney’s offices in San Francisco, The Believer has published essays and interviews that are great for all seasons. But this collection is not interested in 75 percent of those seasons. Included in this eminently beach-tote-able digital edition are interviews, essays, poetry, and reviews that cover all the staples of summer—beach houses, amusement parks, surfing, road trips, honeymoons, failed Gen X sodas, and Taylor Swift. Judy Blume and Lena Dunham discuss Fifty Shades of Grey; Sarah Silverman makes her grandma cry; Peter Schjeldahl shares secrets from his annual fireworks display; Simon Rich wins an epic basketball game; and a lake in Lago Vista, Texas named “Fun" reveals itself to be anything but. Perfect for long, lazy days, this issue represents the best of The Believer’s buoyant (and slightly sunburned) side.

Lost Wax

Author	: Jericho Parms
Publisher	: University of Georgia Press
Release Date	: 2016
ISBN 10	: 9780820350158
Pages	: 169 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (51 users)

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Download or read book Lost Wax written by Jericho Parms and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written largely within the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lost Wax is an inquiry into the ways we curate memory and human experience despite the limits of observation and language.

Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges

Author	: Frank Stewart
Publisher	: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date	: 2019-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9780824883287
Pages	: 235 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (832 users)

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Download or read book Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges written by Frank Stewart and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges presents nearly 100 poets and translators from China and the U.S.—the two countries most responsible for global carbon dioxide emissions and the primary contributors to extreme climate change. These poetic voices express the altered relationship that now exists between the human and non-human worlds, a situation in which we witness everyday the ways environmental destruction is harming our emotions and imaginations. “What can poetry say about our place in the natural world today?” ecologically minded poets ask. “How do we express this new reality in art or sing about it in poetry?” And, as poet Forrest Gander wonders, “how might syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an ecological ethics?” Eco-poetry freely searches for possible answers. Sichuan poet Sun Wenbo writes: ... I feel so liberated I start writing about the republic of apples and democracy of oranges. When I see apples have not become tanks, oranges not bombs, I know I've not become a slave of words after all. The Chinese poets are from throughout the PRC and Taiwan, both minority and majority writers, from big cities and rural provinces, such as Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Xinjiang Uyghur, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions. The American poets are both emerging and established, from towns and cities across the U.S. Included are images by celebrated photographer Linda Butler documenting the Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on the Mississippi River Basin.

Starting Today

Author	: Rachel Zucker
Publisher	: University of Iowa Press
Release Date	: 2010-04-09
ISBN 10	: 9781587298714
Pages	: 210 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (987 users)

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Download or read book Starting Today written by Rachel Zucker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects one hundred poems that were written about Barack Obama's first hundred days in office, documenting political and personal events that occured during that time.