Close Calls With Nonsense
DOWNLOAD
Download Close Calls With Nonsense PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Close Calls With Nonsense book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Close Calls With Nonsense
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephanie Burt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-03-31
Close Calls With Nonsense written by Stephanie Burt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido) Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary poets whose complexities make them challenging, original, and, finally, readable. Burt's intelligence and enthusiasm introduce both tentative and longtime poetry readers to the rewards of reading new poetry. As Burt writes in the title essay: "The poets I know don't want to be famous people half so much as they want their best poems read; I want to help you find and read them. I write here for people who want to read more new poetry but somehow never get around to it; for people who enjoy Seamus Heaney or Elizabeth Bishop and want to know what next; for people who enjoy John Ashbery or Anne Carson but aren't sure why; and, especially, for people who read the half-column poems in glossy magazines and ask, ‘Is that all there is?'"
We Need To Talk
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Theune
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2017-10-24
We Need To Talk written by Michael Theune and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
We evaluate poems constantly: as workshop leaders, competition judges and journal editors. But how do we judge the success of verse in these contexts? The authors propose an innovative method by which anyone involved in the assessment of poetry can be more transparent about how they value verse. This book foregrounds the ethical and professional obligations of poets, teachers and critics to conduct axiological inquiry so they can discover and publish what they value. We Need to Talk suggests why and how people who care about poetry should communally explore and document their shared (and conflicting) values. This is the first book to provide the background and theory, as well as a practical, working model, for the communal, empirical evaluation of creative writing.
Lyric Shame
DOWNLOAD
Author : Gillian White
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
Lyric Shame written by Gillian White and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. Favored particularly by modern American poets, lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writer’s innermost thoughts and feelings. But by the 1970s the “lyric I” had become persona non grata in literary circles. Poets and critics accused one another of “identifying” with lyric, which increasingly bore the stigma of egotism and political backwardness. In close readings of Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, Bernadette Mayer, James Tate, and others, White examines the social and critical dynamics by which certain poems become identified as “lyric,” arguing that the term refers less to a specific literary genre than to an abstract way of projecting subjectivity onto poems. Arguments about whether lyric poetry is deserving of praise or censure circle around what White calls “the missing lyric object”: an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere, and which is the product of reading practices that both the advocates and detractors of lyric impose on poems. Drawing on current trends in both affect and lyric theory, Lyric Shame unsettles the assumptions that inform much contemporary poetry criticism and explains why the emotional, confessional expressivity attributed to American lyric has become so controversial.
The Poem Is You
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephanie Burt
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-12
The Poem Is You written by Stephanie Burt and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture.
Contested Records
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Leong
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2020-05-13
Contested Records written by Michael Leong and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? Contested Records analyzes how some of the most well-known twenty-first century North American poets work with fraught documents. Whether it’s the legal paperwork detailing the murder of 132 African captives, state transcriptions of the last words of death row inmates, or testimony from miners and rescue workers about a fatal mine disaster, author Michael Leong reveals that much of the power of contemporary poetry rests in its potential to select, adapt, evaluate, and extend public documentation. Examining the use of documents in the works of Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Amiri Baraka, Claudia Rankine, M. NourbeSe Philip, and others, Leong reveals how official records can evoke a wide range of emotions—from hatred to veneration, from indifference to empathy, from desire to disgust. He looks at techniques such as collage, plagiarism, re-reporting, and textual outsourcing, and evaluates some of the most loved—and reviled—contemporary North American poems. Ultimately, Leong finds that if bureaucracy and documentation have the power to police and traumatize through the exercise of state power, then so, too, can document-based poetry function as an unofficial, counterhegemonic, and popular practice that authenticates marginalized experiences at the fringes of our cultural memory.
Advice From The Lights
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephanie Burt
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Advice From The Lights written by Stephanie Burt and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Poetry categories.
“The brightest and most inviting of Burt’s collections for readers of any, all, and no genders.”—Boston Review Advice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a series of looks at a formative past. It’s part nostalgia, part confusion, and part an ongoing wondering: How do any of us achieve adulthood? And why would we want to, if we had the choice? This collection is woven from and interrupted by extraordinary sequences, including Stephanie poems about Stephen’s female self; poems on particular years of the poet’s early life, each with its own memories, desires, insecurities, and pop songs; and versions of poems by the Greek poet Callimachus, whose present-day incarnation worries (who doesn’t?) about mortality, the favor of the gods, and the career of Taylor Swift. The collection also includes poems on politics, location, and parenthood. Taken all together, this is Stephen Burt’s most personal and most accomplished collection, an essential work that asks who we are, how we become ourselves, and why we make art.
Skyracer
DOWNLOAD
Author : Anna Kenna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-06-20
Skyracer written by Anna Kenna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-20 with categories.
When Harry 'borrows' his dad's mobile phone, the result is a disastrous sequence of events involving Harry, his dad, and Harry's pet rat. Age 8+. Pack of 6. Collins Skyrider is a new guided reading series of 96 chapter books for ages 7-11. Skyrider is a new guided reading series for children aged between 7and11. With 24 chapter books at each year level (12 fiction and 12 nonfiction) it provides a wide range of action-packed books to enthuse and motivate. Ever wanted to find out what it's like to live in the Antarctic? To compete in a race across the harsh desert? To jump from a plane and break a record? Or maybe you love reading traditional tales, science fiction or graphic novels? Whatever your guided reading groups like to read about, Skyrider has books for you. The 96 chapter books are packed full of punchy storylines, fascinating facts and attention-grabbing issues. At between 32-48 pages long, the books are easy to manage in your guided reading session with even your average ability readers, and guaranteed to capture their attention. All fiction is illustrated in high-quality black and white artwork to give a maturer feel, while the inspiring nonfiction is illustrated in full
Living In History
DOWNLOAD
Author : Luke Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Living In History written by Luke Roberts and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with categories.
Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions, Living in History begins by examining the legacies of empire and exile in the work of Kamau Brathwaite, J. H. Prynne, and poets associated with the Communist Party and the African National Congress. It then focuses on the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Denise Riley, Anna Mendelssohn and others, in the development of liberation struggles around gender, race and sexuality across the 1970s. Tracking the ambivalence between poetic ambition and political commitment, and how one sometimes interferes with the other, Luke Roberts troubles the exclusions of 'British Poetry' as a category and tests the claims made on behalf avant-garde and experimental poetics against the historical record. Bringing together both major and neglected authorships and offering extended close readings, fresh archival research and new contextual evidence, Living in History is an ambitious and exciting intervention in the field.
Edward Lear And The Play Of Poetry
DOWNLOAD
Author : James Williams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-28
Edward Lear And The Play Of Poetry written by James Williams and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of nonsense, Lear has also shaped the evolution of modern literature, and his work continues to influence and inspire writers and readers today. This collection of essays-the first ever devoted solely to Lear-builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest and asks how it is that the play of Lear's poetry continues to delight, and to challenge our sense of what poetry can be. These seventeen chapters, written by established and emerging critics of poetry, seek to explore and appreciate the playfulness embodied in the poems, and to provide contexts in which it can be better understood and enjoyed. They consider how Lear's poems play off various inheritances (the literary fool, Romantic lyric, his religious upbringing), explore particular forms in which his playful genius took flight (his letters, his queer writings about love), and trace lines of Learical influence and inheritance by showing how other poets and thinkers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played off Lear in their turn (Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Auden, Smith, Ashbery, and others).
In The Frame
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jane Hedley
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2009
In The Frame written by Jane Hedley and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
The subject of In the Frame is poetic ekphrasis: poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. The authors of these sixteen essays, several of whom are poets as well as critics, have a twofold purpose: calling attention to the contribution women poets have made to this important genre of poetic writing and re-thinking ekphrastic poetry's motives and purposes. From Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop to Mary Jo Salter, C. D. Wright, and Susan Wheeler, many of our best women poets have done important work in this genre, and when they describe, confront, or speak for an image that is itself wordless, their motives are not only formal but aesthetic. Their poems also raise important questions, from a perspective that is often, but not always, gender-inflected about how art is made and displayed, experienced and valued, celebrated and commodified. Jane Hedley is K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, and editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review. Nick Halpem is an associate professor in the English Department at North Carolina State University.