The Classic Book of Best-loved Children's Poems
Author: Virginia Mattingly
Publisher: Courage Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780762401000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK45 short poems with original illustrations (in color).
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Virginia Woolf and Poetry
Author: Emily Kopley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0192591444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirginia Woolf's career was shaped by her impression of the conflict between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured as one between masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free. In large part for feminist reasons, Woolf promoted the triumph of the novel over poetry, even as she adapted some of poetry's techniques for the novel in order to portray the inner life. Woolf considered poetry the rival form to the novel. A monograph on Woolf's sense of genre rivalry thus offers a thorough reinterpretation of the motivations and aims of her canonical work. Drawing on unpublished archival material and little-known publications, the book combines biography, book history, formal analysis, genetic criticism, source study, and feminist literary history. Woolf's attitude towards poetry is framed within contexts of wide scholarly interest: the decline of the lyric poem, the rise of the novel, the gendered associations with these two genres, elegy in prose and verse, and the history of English Studies. Virginia Woolf and Poetry makes three important contributions. It clarifies a major prompt for Woolf's poetic prose. It exposes the genre rivalry that was creatively generative to many modernist writers. And it details how holding an ideology of a genre can shape literary debates and aesthetics.
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
Author: Molly McCully Brown
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0892554789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the emergence of a poet of exceptional poise and compassion, who grew up in the shadow of the Colony itself.
White Blood
Author: Kiki Petrosino
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1946448559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South. From a stunning double crown sonnet, to erasure poetry contained within DNA testing results, the poems in this collection are as wide-ranging in form as they are bountiful in wordplay and truth. In her poem 'The Shop at Monticello,' she writes: 'I’m a black body in this Commonwealth, which turned black bodies/ into money. Now, I have money to spend on little trinkets to remind me/ of this fact. I’m a money machine & my body constitutes the common wealth.' Speaking to history, loss, and injustice with wisdom, innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth, White Blood plants Petrosino’s name ever more firmly in the contemporary canon.
The Virginia Woolf Poems
Author: Jackson Mac Low
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncarnadine
Author: Mary Szybist
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1555976352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from "The Troubadours etc." In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist.
History and Other Poems
Author: Brenda Marie Osbey
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781568091792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. African American Studies. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS takes as its task nothing less than an examination and mapping of the never-ending evil of history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the still-palpable effects of European and American colonialism some seven centuries after the making of the New World. Making, breaking and rebuilding language and languages to suit the needs of her characters and the worlds they struggle to survive in and against, Brenda Marie Osbey has created a compelling study of human will and the determination to wrest life and liberty from destinies long ago written out of history as we know it. Aided by an extensive glossary and notes, this volume takes the reader on a series of gruesome journeys across the Americas, from Columbus's first encounter with the Guanahani Indians to the author's native New Orleans, trailing violence, destruction and oppression with every step, marking the geography of evil on the map of this New World. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS moves from present to past and back again to reveal the trauma of hearts and lives broken even as it underscores the heroic endurance, resilience and agency of the enslaved and their descendants.
The English River
Author: Virginia Astley
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781780371955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirginia Astley has been a much admired songwriter and musician since the 1980s, known for her engaging lyrics as well as for her melodious style. 'The English River' is her first book-length poetry collection, showing many new sides to this multi-talented artist: as poet, nature writer, storyteller and photographer.
Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Virginia Cox
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2013-07-31
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1421408880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.--Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650
Forlorn Light
Author: Nazifa Islam
Publisher:
Published: 2021-08-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781848617841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo write these poems, I select a paragraph from a Woolf novel-The Waves or Mrs. Dalloway-and only use the words from that paragraph to create a poem. I essentially write poems while doing a word search using Virginia Woolf as source material. I don't allow myself to repeat words, add words, or edit the language for tense or any other consideration. These poems are simultaneously defined by both Woolf's choices with language as well as my own. They feel like an homage to this writer I so admire as well as a way of authentically expressing my lived experience.
