The selected letters of John Ciardi
Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781610753708
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Collected Poems of John Ciardi (p)
Author: Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9781610751032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Twenty Books of Verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment; poems of the natural world that reveal humanity's kinship to spiders and nebulae, oceans and thickets; and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.
Poems of Love and Marriage
Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781557280541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems deal with intimacy, memories, dreams, spring, mortality, jealousy, and shared lives.
John Ciardi: a Biography (p)
Author: Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781610752169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concern, passion, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters. With care and penetrating detail, Cifelli evokes Ciardi's early childhood in Boston, his Italian heritage, his service as a gunner on a B-29 during World War II, and his years teaching at Harvard and Rutgers. Illuminated here are Ciardi's widely read contributions as an editor of Saturday Review and World magazines, as well as his tireless effort to bring an awareness and love of language and poetry to America through radio, television, the lecture circuit, and his twenty-six years on the staff of the famous Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a gathering he directed for seventeen years.
Echoes
Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781557280633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems consider the past, parenthood, mortality, success, misunderstanding, sleep, love, and travel
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 867
ISBN-13: 131776322X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Flowers as Mind Control
Author: Laura Minor
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781943491308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"These poems, which range across rural Florida and Georgia as well as Los Angeles and New York City, include considerations of homesickness, memory, music, alcohol, love, and loss. Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by John Hodgen"--
May Sarton
Author: Margot Peters
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1998-06-23
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0449907988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom acclaimed writer Margot Peters comes the first, completely authorized biography of novelist, poet, and feminist May Sarton. Granted unprecedented access to personal papers and diaries, Peters gives us a compelling look at the woman who influenced a legion of readers with rich and intimate writings, and reveals the fascinating life that Sarton herself kept hidden. Beginning with a young Sarton largely ignored by her parents, Peters traces the compulsive quest for recognition and artistic inspiration that would characterize most of Sarton's life. We witness her at nineteen as she chooses a life in the theater, only to discover later her real passion: writing. As her literary career takes shape, we watch her personal and professional struggles for acceptance, her intense relationships with such learned friends as Muriel Rukeyser and Louise Bogan, and her secret turmoil over her sexuality. But ultimately, we see Sarton begin to create in her works the image of a strong, independent woman who lived peacefully with solitude--an image that often contradicted the reality of her life.
Mobile Home
Author: Megan Harlan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0820357936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family’s extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan’s globe-wandering childhood—during which she lived in seventeen homes across four continents, ranging in location from the Alaskan tundra to a Colombian jungle, a posh flat in London to a doublewide trailer near the Arabian Gulf—Mobile Home maps the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home. In ten interconnected essays, Harlan examines cultural histories that include Bedouin nomadic traditions and modern life in wheeled mobile homes, the psychology of motels and suburban tract housing, and the lived meanings within the built landscapes of Manhattan, Stonehenge, and the Winchester Mystery House. More personally, she traces the family histories that drove her parents to seek so many new horizons—and how those places shaped her upbringing. Her mother viewed houses as a kind of large-scale plastic art ever in need of renovating, while her father was a natural adventurer and loved nothing more than to travel, choosing a life of flight that also helped to mask his addiction to alcohol. These familial experiences color Harlan’s current journey as a mother attempting to shape a flourishing, rooted world for her son. Her memoir in essays skillfully explores the flexible, continually inventive natures of place, family, and home.
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2024-02-27
Total Pages: 1073
ISBN-13: 0593730070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.
