Slow Trains Overhead
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Slow Trains Overhead
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Author : Reginald Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-22
Slow Trains Overhead written by Reginald Gibbons and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-22 with Fiction categories.
Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet’s eye, and capture what it’s really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience—a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O’Hare, and much more—these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has rendered a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city’s people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, Slow Trains Overhead evokes and commemorates human life in a great city.
Last Lake
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Author : Reginald Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-10-10
Last Lake written by Reginald Gibbons and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-10 with Poetry categories.
From Ritual A slow parade of old west enthusiasts, camp song and hymn, came in along the winding way where rural declined to suburban, slow riders and wagoners passing a cow staked to graze, some penned cattle looking vacantly up—not in vacant lots the ancient icons of wealth they had been in odes, prayers and epics, in sacrifices and customs of bride-price or dowry. (It’s good people no longer make blood sacrifices, at gas stations and stores, for example, and in the crunching gravel parking lots of small churches—oh but we do.) “The evening forgives the alleyway,” Reginald Gibbons writes in his tenth book of poems—but such startling simplicities are overwhelmed in us by the everyday and the epochal. Across the great range of Gibbons’s emblematic, vividly presented scenes, his language looks hard at and into experience and feeling. Words themselves have ideas, and have eyes—inwardly looking down through their own meanings, as the poet considers a lake in the Canadian north, a Chicago neighborhood, a horse caravan in Texas, a church choir, a bookshelf, or an archeological dig on the steppes near the Volga River. The last lake is the place of both awe and elegy.
How Poems Think
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Author : Reginald Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-09-23
How Poems Think written by Reginald Gibbons and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry’s stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry’s ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets—Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.
Slow Trains To Simla
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Slow Trains To Simla written by Paul Theroux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Asia categories.
How Poems Think
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Author : Reginald Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-09-23
How Poems Think written by Reginald Gibbons and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Reginald Gibbons collects here a lifetime s worth of thoughts on composing and translating poetry. Not a manifesto or a general theory of the lyric, rather, the book explores how a poem thinks: that is, what results from the circumstances of a poet s native language, choice of words and topics, the mentality that the poet shares with other writers, and the range of poetic possibilities (and limitations) in a given language. Through exemplary case studies taken from his own experience in writing poetry, as well as in translating poetry from languages ranging from Sophocles s and Pindar s ancient Greek to their contemporary French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish successors, Gibbons traces the curious persistence of classical modes and images into the twenty-first century. He shows how the very language used in composing a poem, be it ancient Greek, Renaissance English, or contemporary Russian, both limits and enables how a poet thinks and what the poet can say. Even in describing difficult poetic concepts and operations, Gibbons writes in a clear, companionable style, entirely accessible not just to practicing poets, but also to general readers interested in poetry, and to writers of various stripes interested in the way our native language can often circumscribe what and how we think poetically, and affect how we compose poetry and prose. This book joins other titles by this award-winning writer on the Press s list."
The Golden Shovel Anthology
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Author : Peter Kahn
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2017-01-15
The Golden Shovel Anthology written by Peter Kahn and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-15 with Poetry categories.
A Parable of Sorts - Malika Booker
The Rag Picker S Guide To Poetry
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Author : Eleanor Wilner
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-11-11
The Rag Picker S Guide To Poetry written by Eleanor Wilner and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of: Betty Adcock Joan Aleshire Debra Allbery Elizabeth Arnold David Baker Rick Barot Marianne Boruch Karen Brennan Gabrielle Calvocoressi Michael Collier Carl Dennis Stuart Dischell Roger Fanning Chris Forhan Reginald Gibbons Linda Gregerson Jennifer Grotz Brooks Haxton Tony Hoagland Mark Jarman A. Van Jordan Laura Kasischke Mary Leader Dana Levin James Longenbach Thomas Lux Maurice Manning Heather McHugh Martha Rhodes Alan Shapiro Daniel Tobin Ellen Bryant Voigt Alan Williamson Eleanor Wilner C. Dale Young
Hyper
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Author : Timothy Denevi
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-09-22
Hyper written by Timothy Denevi and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author describes his struggles with ADHD, discussing the history of the disease, treatments and therapies, and its possible causes.
Turbophysics Grade 12
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language : en
Publisher: Sudan Hansraj
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Turbophysics Grade 12 written by and has been published by Sudan Hansraj this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Fire And Rescue Service Operational Guidance Railway Incidents
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Author : Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2012-04-27
Fire And Rescue Service Operational Guidance Railway Incidents written by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Fire and Rescue Service Operational Guidance - Railway Incidents presents a framework for a safe system of work for operations at incidents involving railways. It provides robust yet flexible guidance that can be adapted to the nature, scale and requirements of the incident. Incidents involving railways may generate intense media attention where the operations of the emergency services are rigorously scrutinised. Whilst much of this attention is approving it will invariably focus on the preparedness of the emergency services and their operational effectiveness. Such incidents may place significant demands on local fire and rescue services and often require a national co-ordinated response from across the country