McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets
Author: Dominic Luxford
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures a collection of one hundred poems.
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McSweeney's Issue 22
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2007-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780241143766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new and brilliant issue of McSweeney'scomes in three parts, held together by a magnet. In the first, poets including Michael Ondaatje and Denis Johnson initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet, who then does the same, and so on. In the second, F. Scott Fitzgerald provides unused story premises first catalogued in The Crack-Up; his mission is completed by new writers. In the third, the president of France's legendary Oulipians offers a rare glimpse into his group's current experiments with linguistic constraint. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose . . .
The Commandrine and Other Poems
Author: Joyelle McSweeney
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brilliance of Joyelle McSweeney's poems is a given; what remains delightfully open to negotiation are its methodologies and its mien. Is she an earnest relator, using wit and gesture to tell the story faster? Or does she take the piss of her subjects, using perfected skills of mimicry and divination to exploit, spot on, their errant humanities? In her second book McSweeney finds her subjects in the long form; "The Commandrine" is a verse-play that in nine scenes tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, and Irish, and their watery run-in with the Devil. "The Cockatoos Morose" stirs Eliotic grandeur with Stevensian absurdity for a cocktail of delirious observation and rigorous leaps of the sort McSweeney is certain to become famous for. "Crusade-dream flips like a standard. The standard / narrows to a point. And points. / Then it dips like a fern."
The Boss
Author: Victoria Chang
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938073588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boss is an exploration of contemporary American culture, power structures, family life, and ethnic and personal identity. G.C. Waldrep writes that [The Boss] is part meditation on corporate life, part exploration of mother- and daughterhood, part elegy for a father who has not yet died.
Romey's Order
Author: Atsuro Riley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0226719456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomey's Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records--and tries to order--the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his "blood-home" and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform "every burn-mark and blemish," to “bind our river-wrack and leavings," Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley's poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.
It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
Author: Colin Nissan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1797214756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.
The Emily Dickinson Reader
Author: Paul Legault
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781936365982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents humorous retellings of each of Emily Dickinson's nearly eighteen hundred poems.
McSweeney's Issue 46
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1940450411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle—swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse. Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countries—including Alejandro Zambra, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Andres Ressia Colino, Mariana Enriquez, and many more—McSweeney’s 46 offers an essential cross-section of the troubles and temptations confronting the region today. It’s crucial reading for anyone interested in the shifting topography of Latin American literature and Latin American life, and a collection of writing to rival anything we’ve assembled in years.
Open the Door
Author: Dorothea Lasky
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938073298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute 'Poets in the world' series editor Ilya Kaminsky."
The Incredible Sestina Anthology
Author: Daniel Nester
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2014-08-22
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1938912373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.
