the Bourgeois Poet
Author: Karl Shapiro
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
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The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 1079
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1935639781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Walt Whitman's iconic Leaves of grass has earned a reputation as a sacred American text, so it's fitting that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has illuminated--like the holy scriptures of medieval monks--the core of Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of myself". Crawford's handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that's both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem--exuberant, rough, and wild."--Book jacket.
Now, Now, Louison
Author: Jean Frémon
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0811228533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinancial Times Book of the Year The extraordinary artist, the spider woman, the intellectual, the rebel, the sly enchantress, and the “good girl” sing together in this exuberant, lithe text beautifully translated by Cole Swensen. This brilliant portrait of the renowned artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) shows a woman who was devoted to her art and whose life was also that of her century. The art world’s grande dame and its shameless old lady, spinning personal history into works of profound strangeness, speaks with her characteristic insolence and wit, through a most discreet, masterful writer. From her childhood in France to her exile and adult life in America, to her death, this phosphorescent novella describes Bourgeois’s inner life as only one artist regarding another can. Included as an afterword is Frémon’s essay about his own “portrait writing” and how he came to know and work with Louise Bourgeois.
The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
Author: Franco Moretti
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 178168085X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho – and what – are the Bourgeois? “The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,’ wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois ‘opinions and ideals’—what are they?” Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature—a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti’s gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords—“useful” and “earnest,” “efficiency,” “influence,” “comfort,” “roba”—and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the “working master” of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the “national malformations” of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen’s twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance.
The Bourgeois Empire
Author: Evie Christie
Publisher: ECW/ORIM
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1554907012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A carnivalesque romp through middle age, addressing the menace of mortality while lampooning comic stereotypes . . . Pulses with life” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). In this sharp-witted tale of desperation and decadence, a middle-aged man tries to escape the anxieties of failure and grueling reality of everyday existence with a wide range of distractions—from an opulent home renovation to torrents of pornography to alcohol and pills and fast cars. He’s been told again and again that asceticism and a bit of restraint might serve him better, spiritually speaking. But temptation seems to follow him everywhere—and soon the house of cards he’s been building may completely collapse. “Unconventional . . . That the book works so well is testament both to Christie’s wonderfully alert writing and the way she maintains a perfectly balanced moral tone throughout.” —National Post
My Poets
Author: Maureen N. McLane
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-06-19
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0374217491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell "Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in My Poets not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Glück to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's mind," as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude. In a poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an "erotics of interpretation": this is it. Part Bildung, part dithyramb, part exegesis, My Poets extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.
Articulated Lair
Author: Camille Suzanne Guthrie
Publisher: Subpress Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781930068575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. In her third collection of poetry, Camille Guthrie engages with Louise Bourgeois's deeply personal sculptures, paintings, and drawings in her own taut, emotive abstractions, carving new meaning out of a body of work central totwentieth-century art. The poet converses with the artist's preoccupations with love, alienation, sex, death, and identity. These poems offer a formally precise, playfully intense perspective an essential vocabulary for monumental works. As Susan Wheeler observes, "Like Louise Bourgeois, Camille Guthrie makes great art from great discomfort. ...] The rigor of Bourgeois's inner life and studio practice supports these beautiful improvisations like an armature over which a billowing fabric drapes."
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish
Author: David Rakoff
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0385676174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
The Hornes
Author: Gail Lumet Buckley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781557835642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.
