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How Poems Get Made

2018-08-28 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2018-08-28
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Book Synopsis How Poems Get Made by : James Longenbach

Download or read book How Poems Get Made written by James Longenbach. This book was released on 2018-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to writing or reading poetry, by “one of our most lucid and important critics” (American Academy of Arts and Letters). Why does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson, and Moore, to a variety of poets making poems today. In each chapter of How Poems Get Made, Longenbach examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium—including Diction, Syntax, Rhythm, Echo, Figure, and Tone—and shows how a poet may manipulate these most basic elements to bring a poem to life.

What Are Big Girls Made Of?

1997-03-04 Poetry
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Release : 1997-03-04
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis What Are Big Girls Made Of? by : Marge Piercy

Download or read book What Are Big Girls Made Of? written by Marge Piercy. This book was released on 1997-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the Day." 160 pp.

Earthling: Poems

2017-11-28 Poetry
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Release : 2017-11-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Earthling: Poems by : James Longenbach

Download or read book Earthling: Poems written by James Longenbach. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Earthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gifts" (American Academy of Arts and Letters). "Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at his little patch of earth and at the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Beginning with the death of the earthling’s mother and ending with a confrontation with his own mortality, the poems within Earthling resist complaint or agitation. In them, the real and the imagined, the material and the allegorical, intersect at shifting angles and provide fresh perspectives and lasting consolation.

Forever: Poems

2021-06-22 Poetry
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Release : 2021-06-22
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Forever: Poems by : James Longenbach

Download or read book Forever: Poems written by James Longenbach. This book was released on 2021-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lucid, elegant poems, Forever contemplates love against the pressing question of mortality after a diagnosis of cancer. Praised for a voice with "the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet" (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his sixth collection. These luminous, lyrical poems pose a question: Why did this poet once live as if he would live forever? And what does it mean to know that we will not? Forever explores the meaning of love, from its discovery in the first poem, "Two People," to its maintenance in the last, "Forever." In between, the volume explores the precariously imminent demise of all that we love—the finite lives of other people, the mortal beauty of Venice—all thrown into urgent relief by the poet’s own cancer diagnosis. Evoking "the vivid dailiness of domestic life…and the specificity and poignance" of memories, "these lyrics are intimately personal, achingly autobiographical" (Langdon Hammer, American Scholar). Forthright, moving, and wry, the poems in Forever look back gratefully—excitedly—on a lifetime of self-making and self-shattering events.

A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated)

2020-03-10 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2020-03-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated) by : Michael Driscoll

Download or read book A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated) written by Michael Driscoll. This book was released on 2020-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful, interactive journey through the history of the world's poetry now includes a removable poster and access to downloadable audio, allowing kids to listen and learn as they experience the magic of the spoken word. Poetry can be fun -- especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history -- from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou -- and provides excellent examples of their work and commentary on what makes it so special and everlasting. The book covers every style of poem, from epics and odes, to nonsense verse and haikus, and is filled with examples of each one. This multimedia package encourages children to listen, read, and learn, and opens the door to a lifetime of appreciation of a rich literary tradition. Also included is a removable, fold-out poster of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, one of history's most iconic poems.

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