Poems of the American West
Poems of the American West

Author: Robert Mezey

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2002-09-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0375414592

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In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like “The Streets of Laredo,” from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as Bertolt Brecht and Zbigniew Herbert. Here is the West in all its rich variety–the harsh life of farms and ranches; man’s destructive invasion into forest and desert solitudes; the bars and bistros of San Francisco and Hollywood; Pacific surf and endless highways; the ghost towns, the poverty, and the legendary world of cowpunchers and gunslingers. From Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” to Charles Bukowski’s “Vegas,” from Fred Koller’s “Lone Star State of Mind” to Thom Gunn’s “San Francisco Streets”–the West is evoked in all its incarnations, both actual and mythic.

West Wind
West Wind

Author: Mary Oliver

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780395850855

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A collection of forty poems that explore the transformation of love and nature over time.

Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New
Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New

Author: Bob Frost

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-10-30

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1440170126

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In his first poetry book, A Sweet Place to Play, Author Bob Frost compiled his collection of work from over thirty years. Cowboy Poems about the Old West and New is a collection of original poems the author wrote as he explored the west and rode with the Verde Vaqueros of Scottsdale, AZ. Bob tries to imagine what it must have been like in the old west. He wondered what they thought about and what humorous events might have taken place. Some of the poems are simple stories with a surprise humorous ending, while others take on a more serious pondering. In Chapter three he shares a different style in some of the poetry; some are more descriptive, others, metaphorical and even mystic. Living in Scottsdale, Arizona for almost forty years has given the author close ties and interest in the old west as well as experience in the new. In addition to being a poet, he is an auctioneer, enjoys golf, fishing and music.

Mr. West
Mr. West

Author: Sarah Blake

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2015-03-09

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0819575186

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Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader's companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.

Tall Tales of the Wild West
Tall Tales of the Wild West

Author: Eric Ode

Publisher: Meadowbrook

Published: 2007-06-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781416936770

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A collection of funny tall tales featuring cowboys, cowgirls, and other characters from the Wild West.

Once in the West
Once in the West

Author: Christian Wiman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0374713545

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One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets Memories mercies mostly aren't but there were I swear days veined with grace —from "Memory's Mercies" Once in the West, Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets—from the "suffering of primal silence" that it plumbs to the "rockshriek of joy" that it achieves and enables. Readers of Wiman's earlier books will recognize the sharp characterizations and humor—"From her I learned the earthworm's exemplary open-mindedness, / its engine of discriminate shit"—as well as his particular brand of reverent rage: "Lord if I implore you please just please leave me alone / is that a prayer that's every instant answered?" But there is something new here, too: moving love poems to his wife, tender glimpses of his children, and, amid the onslaughts of illness and fear and failures, "a trace / of peace."

Poetry of the American West
Poetry of the American West

Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780231103879

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One hundred fifty poems by seventy-five poets offer an inclusive collage of voices--protest poems of the Chicano farmworkers' movement, campfire cowboy songs, sacred Native American songs, and works by Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and other canonical figures--from a land where cultural collision is part of the rugged landscape.

The Oxford Book of American Poetry
The Oxford Book of American Poetry

Author: David Lehman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1193

ISBN-13: 019516251X

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Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.

The Poems of Sidney West
The Poems of Sidney West

Author: Juan Gelman

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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This translation offers to English readers for the first time the splendid verse of imaginary American author Sidney West, created by Juan Gelman, one of the greatest living poets of the Hispanic world. These laments question Western assumptions surrounding death, erase boundaries between poetry and narrative, privilege the magical as a vital aspect of reality and seek the transformation of the lyric persona.