Poetry category: 46548 books
Thick and Dazzling Darkness
Religious Poetry in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and...
My Silver Planet
A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry’s relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry—a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and fraudulence. Daniel Tiffany reactivates and fundamentally...
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing...
by Dr Debbie Pullinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new...
by Najat Ismaeel Sayakhan
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Teachers often complain that students find poetry difficult and intimidating. Some undergraduate students arrive at university with little or no interest in poetry. They confess that they do not know how to read it and therefore cannot understand or appreciate it. The distinctive features of poetry...
by Robert Alden Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2007
Following the success of Poetry Out Loud (now in its eighth printing), an affectionate celebration of the declaimed poem, Love Poetry Out Loud now turns to the choppier waters of affection itself. From Hello, I Love You to Pleasures of the Flesh to Loves Me Not, this collection of one hundred poems...
The Parliament of Poets
An Epic Poem
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
“Gazing from the moon, we see one Earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.”
Thirty years in the making, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, by Frederick Glaysher, takes place partly on the moon, at the Apollo 11 landing site, the Sea of Tranquility,...
Songs of Degrees
Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Songs of Degrees brings together 19 related essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989, by poet and theorist John Taggart. Over the past two decades, Taggart has been a significant intellectual and artistic force for a number of major American...
Elan Vital Orient Poetry
A Chapbook of Oriental Poetry and Sumi-e Painting
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
This book of classic Asian poetry and ink brush paintings is an important piece of cultural history and a wonderful addition to any collection of Asian art and poetry.
With the creation of the Asian poetry and sumi-e paintings within this volume, the artist and author have attempted to convey...
Poetry and Mindfulness
Interruption to a Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These...
by Lord Byron
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Lord George Gordon Byron was the flamboyant aristocratic poet who is as renowned for his personal life as he is for his poetry. The victim of an untimely death, Lord Byron lived from 1788 to 1824. Despite this relatively short life he still managed to create a volume of poetry that achieved him the...
Beautiful Enemies
Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession...
Beyond Your Life Is Poetry: Every Motion, Every Pulse, Is Poetry in the Making
Every Motion, Every Pulse, Is Poetry in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
I am a writer of many different areas, Im currently working on my next book called How A Man Should Treat His Woman This book will have a lot of thing to take a relationship to another level as well as it will have a little surprise at the end for all my reader; Leading into my next following book....
by Stephen Liddell
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
They say there is no money in poetry, but there is no poetry in money. Some things though are more important than money, like one's soul.Though there is much in the way of poetry about the positives in life, happiness, love and friendship, not everyone is fortunate to be in a position...