Beautiful & Pointless

Beautiful & Pointless

Author: David Orr

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0062079417

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"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.


Strong Words

Strong Words

Author: W. N. Herbert

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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As well as representing many of the most important poets of the last 100 years, Strong Words charts many different stances and movements, from modernism to postmodernism, from futurism to the future theories of poetry.


How Poets See the World

How Poets See the World

Author: Willard Spiegelman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-06-23

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0190291834

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Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.


Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Author: Cary Nelson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1249

ISBN-13: 9780195122701

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Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.


Modern Poets of France

Modern Poets of France

Author: Louis Simpson

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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In this bilingual anthology, editor and translator Simpson selects those masterpieces of French poetry that formed the taste of generations of readers throughout the world. Here are the moderns of 1848, the Symbolist poets of the turn of the century, the Dadaists, and the Surrealists who flourished in the 1930's. Also included are biographies of the poets and descriptions of main literary movements. --Story Line Press.


Modern Poets

Modern Poets

Author: Lilio Gregorio Giraldi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-05-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674055756

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Lilio Gregorio Giraldi authored many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, translated here into English for the first time. The work gives a panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, concentrating above all on Italy.


Modern Black Poets

Modern Black Poets

Author: Donald B. Gibson

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Twelve critical essays sketch the tradition of black poets in the U. S. from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the black rage of the 1970's. Separate critiques are devoted to the work of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Melvin B. Tolson, Robert Hayden, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.


Modern French Poets

Modern French Poets

Author: Wallace Fowlie

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780486273235

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Treasury of poems and prose extracts by Max Jacob, Saint-John Perse, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Jean Cocteau, five more. Excellent English translations on facing pages.