Poetic Expressions Volume II is an addition to Poetic Expressions; including new poems of different styles of writing. This book includes a Poets' Purpose feature, A Tribute to my Parents, and new goals of writing that Carl McKever is trying to obtain. After 5 years of successful writing of poetry, Carl still remains active in Florida State Poets Association, Iowa Poetry Association, Dubuque Area Writers' Guild, and Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Daily, he is reaching out to his local community and library (Carnegie Stout Public Library) to recruit others who have a passion and burden for poetry; as well as new-beginning poets.
Carl McKever wants to thank you, the audience, for his success in creating Poetic Expressions Vol. V. The foreword has been excluded from this book to prevent misuse of information security. In this book, you will find short stories filled with laughter and excitement. Carl's future goals are displayed in the final remarks of this book and you can learn about his great accomplishments by reading the preface of this book. We are happy and delighted to inform you of Carl McKever's 6th commemoration of being a poet and now, creative writer. Six years of due diligence in promoting and appreciating the passion towards poetry!
Poetic Expressions Vol. IV is a book of poetry centered among the theme of life struggles, such as addictions, homelessness, and loneliness. The foreword was written by Timothy Rick Miller and book credits were done by Ramona Wink. Carl includes his transitioning back from Iowa to Florida in the preface of this book. His goals for 2013 are included in the final remarks and he hopes to attend the AWP Writer's Conference in Boston, MA in March 2013. One the lyrical poems included in this book, O' Mississippi!, is now being played throughout the entire state of Mississippi.
Poetic Expressions Vol. VI is comprised of new poems written by Carl McKever and his writing goals for 2013 and 2014 (Chicago School of Poetics). Carl would like you to know how book reviews are handled and this book will explicitly explain that process for you. Romantic poems, personal poems, short stories, and riddles are all contained in this book.
Carl McKever continues with new styles of poetry in his third volume of Poetic Expressions. In this book, an afterword and foreword is included; written by Anna Maria Clark. New features can be found and once Carl returns from his break in September, he will working on Volume 4. Hope you enjoy this volume more, since it has sonnets and quatrains.
A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare. The interface between cultures – at the moment especially between the Occident and Islam – presents challenges to mutual understandings and calls for restoring the resources of our human beings forgotten in the struggle of competition and rivalry at the vital spheres of existence. In the evolutionary progress of the living beings the strictly vital concerns, emotions, attributes become sublimed and elevated to the spiritual sphere at which human beings encounter each other and share. Studies presented here bring forth sublimity, generosity, forgiveness, beauty, and are exalting the quest after ciphers and symbols which lead to our sharing the common deepest stream of fraternal reality.
This volume is the Poetry In Expression Series thus far with the exclusion of Growth In Expression: Modern Christian Poems. This poetry celebrates love, life, people, cinema, heritage, and concepts generally, in both rhyme and free verse.
This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War—reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation—ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America’s newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children’s verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible to all. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat”). An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available—some for the first time since their initial publication—an astonishing range of translations and adaptations: Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America’s rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
