Elegiac Feelings American
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780811200264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.
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Elegiac Feelings American: Poetry
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1970-01-17
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0811225666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten sheets, his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs are included. The balance of the book is drawn from his shorter poems. Corso's reputation as a leading poet and co-founder of the Beat movement is clearly upheld in these poems. His instinct for integrated lyrical statement, his special contribution to Beat poetry, is as strong as ever; his sense of humor and sexuality have not diminished. But he has added a wider-ranging moral urgency and a new depth of humane solicitude that hold even his strangest visions close to the heart of contemporary feeling.
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780811208192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorso, Herald of Autoc. Spirit. Poetry heralding "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values"
The Happy Birthday of Death
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780811200271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Accidental Autobiography
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780811215350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read.".
Mindfield
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780938410966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGregory Corso's an aphoristic poet, and a poet of ideas. What modern poets write with such terse calrity that their verses stick in the mind without effort? Certainly Yeats, Pound, Williams, Eliot, Kerouac, Creeley, Dylan, & Corso have that quality. --from the Preface titled "On Corso's Virutes," by Alan Ginsberg
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-12-28
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0060099534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA resonant, powerful collection from one of America’s preeminent poets. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with cancer, the relationships between mothers and daughters, the state of the nation, and more.
City of Bones
Author: Kwame Dawes
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2017-01-15
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0810134632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.
Recollections of My Life as a Woman
Author: Diane di Prima
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-03-26
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0140231587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
Elegy On Toy Piano
Author: Dean Young
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2005-03-13
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 0822991047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black. As in the agitated "Whirlpool Suite": "Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline." In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.
