That Peculiar Affirmative
DOWNLOAD
Download That Peculiar Affirmative PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get That Peculiar Affirmative 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
That Peculiar Affirmative
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jonathan Farmer
language : en
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Release Date : 2019
That Peculiar Affirmative written by Jonathan Farmer and has been published by Stephen F. Austin University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary Criticism categories.
Poems are social. They reach out, however crookedly, to another person, however imperfectly imagined. And sometimes they not only embody but enact those things that we might value in the other parts of our social lives--kindness, for example, or joy--as well as the complications those values entail. Looking closely at poems from Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Terrance Hayes, Spencer Reece, Robert Pinsky, Claudia Rankine, Jericho Brown, Patricia Lockwood, Ross Gay, Paisley Rekdal, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and many others, That Peculiar Affirmative tries to understand what it means for a poem to be humble or humorous, decorous or confident, and what that tells us not only about poems, but also about the larger world of social virtues, personal vulnerabilities, and political problems that define so much of our time together and apart. "If I had to imagine an ideal reader or critic of poetry it would be Jonathan Farmer, and his soulful book of essays, That Peculiar Affirmative, would be my ideal book. These essays constitute more than a series of discrete engagements with modern and contemporary poets; together they conduct nothing less than a spiritual autobiography that tracks the growth of the writer's moral and aesthetic imagination. There is no book like this in its combination of personal revelation and writerly attention to technique, in its thrilling recreation of the mind through poetry redefining what it thinks and feels." --Alan Shapiro "Along the front line of a new generation of poetry commentators, I place Jonathan Farmer beside Meghan O'Rourke, Philip Metres, and Solmaz Sharif. It's a very fertile moment for poetry, and Farmer is one of the first critics I look to now for clarity and depth. His readings in That Peculiar Affirmative are uniformly brilliant, unswayed by partisan aesthetics, and marked by real joy in intellectual and social engagement with the lyric poem. Even his subtitles point to this rare odic impulse; he writes "on" decorum and humility, "on" politics and humor, even as he applies contemporary issues of racial and sexual identity, for instance, to an old-school devotion to close reading. His touchstones--Sidney and Shakespeare, Kristeva and Durrell--are as aptly rangy as his contemporary subjects, from Brooks and Bishop to Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, or Claudia Rankine. I greet this critic and his book with celebratory gratitude." --David Baker "That Jonathan Farmer writes in his introduction that in this book, he 'has tried to make something worth your time' is characteristic of the critical voice you will find in this thoughtful, probing, and reflective book of essays. The 'I' of That Peculiar Affirmative is modest while its eye is expansive and inclusive; Farmer's curiosity is palpable, both in the questions he poses and the questions he hears in the poems he reads. In beautiful and generous essays on subjects of perennial poetic relevance and contemporary sociopolitical relevance, Farmer rethinks topics like joy, decorum, humility, kindness, humor, and political discourse itself through insightful readings of contemporary poets as varied as Ross Gay, Patricia Lockwood, Paisley Rekdal, Jill McDonough, Mary Syzbist, Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and more, as well as a vast array of interlocutors across time, such as Hamlet, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop (whose phrase gives this book its title), Lucille Clifton, and even Allie Brosh of the iconic web comic Hyperbole and a Half. As befits an exploration of the social life of poetry, That Peculiar Affirmative is a book that will not only speak to you about poetry, affect, and politics, but will speak with you. Farmer has met his goal and then some: this book is dazzlingly and rewardingly worth your time." --Sumita Chakraborty
The Six Ways Of Knowing
DOWNLOAD
Author : D. M. Datta
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The Six Ways Of Knowing written by D. M. Datta and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
This book deals with the Vedanta standpoint, according to which there are six sources of knowledge. The conceptions of these different kinds of knowledge, with all the arguments given by the Vedantins to prove their independence and ultimacy, are critically discussed here in the light of modern Western concepts, and the attempt has been made to present the conclusions to students of Western Philosophy in a clear and lucid form. As the purpose of this work is to bring the problems, concepts and theories of the Vedantins within the focus of modern Western thought, the method adopted is one of critical analysis, comparison issues from extraneous aspects with which they are often associated.
Things Might Go Terribly Horribly Wrong
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kelly G. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Release Date : 2010
Things Might Go Terribly Horribly Wrong written by Kelly G. Wilson and has been published by New Harbinger Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Psychology categories.
Wilson and Dufrene help readers foster the flexibility they need to keep from succumbing to the avoidable forces of anxiety, and open themselves to the often uncomfortable complexities and possibilities of life.
Regions Of Unlikeness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas Gardner
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Regions Of Unlikeness written by Thomas Gardner and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Regions of Unlikeness Thomas Gardner explores the ways a number of quite different twentieth-century American poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Robert Hass, Jorie Graham, and Michael Palmer, frame their work as taking place within, and being brought to life by, an acknowledgment of the limits of language. Gardner approaches their poetry in light of philosopher Stanley Cavell?s remarkably similar engagement with the issues of skepticism and linguistic finitude. The skeptic?s refusal to settle for anything less than perfect knowledge of the world, Cavell maintains, amounts to a refusal to accept the fact of human finitude. Gardner argues that both Cavell and the poets he discusses reject skepticism?s world-erasing conclusions but nonetheless honor the truth about the limits of knowledge that skepticism keeps alive. In calling attention to the limits of such acts as describing or remembering, the poets Gardner examines attempt to renew language by teasing a charged drama out of their inability to grasp with certainty. ø Juxtaposed with Gardner?s readings of the work of the younger poets are his interviews with them. In many ways, these conversations are at the core of Gardner?s book, demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the struggles and mappings enacted in the poems. The interviews are themselves examples of the charged intimacy Gardner deals with in his readings.
Without My Asking
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Cording
language : en
Publisher: Notable Voices
Release Date : 2019
Without My Asking written by Robert Cording and has been published by Notable Voices this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Poetry categories.
In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psalms 90's petition--"teach us to number our days." That biblical sense of limits--of what we can know and not know--and, ultimately, the mystery of before and after that encloses our existence is the center around which these poems turn, both seasonally and from day-to-day. In poems that attend to the events of our lives--from the deaths of parents to hummingbirds at a bird feeder--these poems work to utter "Yes" to all that happens, that "peculiar affirmative" that recognizes, as Elizabeth Bishop says, "Life's like that . . . also death."
The Grammar Of English Grammars
DOWNLOAD
Author : Goold Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Grammar Of English Grammars written by Goold Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with English language categories.
The Grammar Of English Grammars With An Introduction Historical And Critical
DOWNLOAD
Author : Goold Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
The Grammar Of English Grammars With An Introduction Historical And Critical written by Goold Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with English language categories.
Elizabeth Bishop
DOWNLOAD
Author : Brett C. Millier
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993
Elizabeth Bishop written by Brett C. Millier and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop that pieces together the compelling and painful story of her life and traces the writing of her poems.
Time And Uncertainty
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paul André Harris
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004-05-01
Time And Uncertainty written by Paul André Harris and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with Science categories.
The essays in this volume all originated at the 2001 conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The theme 'Time and Uncertainty' sounds redundant, but the contributions try to come to terms with the irreducible openness of time and the impermanence of life.
Plato And The Other Companions Of Sokrates
DOWNLOAD
Author : George Grote
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Plato And The Other Companions Of Sokrates written by George Grote and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Philosophy, Ancient categories.