Author | : Michael Van Walleghen |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252005701 |
Author | : Michael Van Walleghen |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252005701 |
Author | : Gene Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1995-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780671519520 |
After a terrifying incident of child abuse, Ruth Finley, as an adult, suffers from suicidal depression and dissociative behavior.
Author | : Michael Van Walleghen |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004-05-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252071782 |
The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.
Author | : Robert Headley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1996-12-01 |
Genre | : Wichita (Kan.) |
ISBN | : 9781888219043 |
Author | : William Carlos Williams |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252027482 |
Before William Carlos Williams was recognized as one of the most important innovators in American poetry, he commissioned a printer to publish 100 copies of Poems (1909), a small collection largely imitating the styles of the Romantics and the Victorians. This volume collects the self-published edition of Poems, Williams's foray into the world of letters, with previously unpublished notes he made after spending nearly a year in Europe rethinking poetry and how to write it. As Poems shows his first tentative steps into poetry, the notes show him as he prepares to make a giant transformation in his art. Shortly after Poems appeared, Williams went through a series of experiences that changed his life--a trip to Europe, a marriage to the sister of the woman he genuinely loved, and the establishment of his medical practice. In Europe he was introduced to a consideration of an unlikely trio: Heinrich Heine, Martin Luther, and Richard Wagner, resulting in an exposure that subsequently influenced his developing style. Williams looked back on Poems as apprentice work, calling them, "bad Keats, nothing else--oh well, bad Whitman too. But I sure loved them. . . . There is not one thing of the slightest value in the whole thin booklet--except the intent," and never republished the collection. Now that Williams's work is widely read and appreciated, his reputation secure, his development as a poet is a matter worth serious study, Poems can be seen as a point of departure, a clear record of where Williams began before his life and ideas about poetry made seismic shifts. Virginia M. Wright-Peterson's succinct introduction puts Poems in the context of his life and times, discusses the reception of the volume, his reconsideration of the poems, and what they reveal about his poetic ambitions.
Author | : Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | : Wave Books |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1933517034 |
An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.
Author | : William Stanley Merwin |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 155659139X |
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Author | : Ted Kooser |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2004-05-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320053 |
"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?
Author | : Danny Caine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781948742627 |
El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast food poetry. In "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)" and other poems, Caine "reviews" chain restaurants, taking on topics such as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and chicken fingers along the way. Caine's funny, deceptively accomplished poems are paired with Tara Wray's color-drenched photos. The result is a literary yet goofy book about American food and identity, set in a Midwestern landscape where people eat at chain restaurants, even when they know better.