American Poet! Poems: Living the Dream Volume 4

American Poet! Poems: Living the Dream Volume 4
Author: Cassandra Wilson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1669812294

"American Poet! poems Volume 4". empowers the American woman to reach up and step out and conquer her ambitions and inspires the American man to dream the undreamt dream and conquer the impossible dream today and the fusion of color, nationalities, and cultures that make our differences our strengths to come together under one nation and one God through poetry. "American Poet! Volume 4" relishes the joy of freedom with poems that unite us through our history and love poems that inspire the essence of the American family; their love for romance and the feeling and joy that comes from being loved. ..American Poet! Poems Volume 4 is a paradigm for the righteous and young at heart with Godly praises to inspire the spirit of God and the American Poet within you to discover the American Dream today.....

Lives

Lives
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1999-04-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 006027767X

Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521301084

This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Shira Wolosky provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, as well as a close appreciation of African-American poets, including the collective folk authors of the Negro spirituals. She also illuminates the major works of the period, from Poe through Melville and Crane, to Whitman and Dickinson. The authors of this volume discuss this extraordinary literary achievement both in formal terms and in its sustained engagement with changing social and cultural conditions. In doing so they recover and elucidate American poetry of the nineteenth century for our twenty-first century pleasure, profit, and renewed study.

Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 4

Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 4
Author: Joan R. Sherman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1988-07-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780195052565

These four volumes collect the works of eleven poets writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 presents two collections by Mary E. Tucker Lambert--Loew's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl, a poet's-eye view of lower Manhattan just after the Civil War, and Poems--and Infelicia, a dramatic work by the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 contain works by nine other poets, all of which were published between 1895 and 1910, a particularly brutal era for blacks. But, surprisingly, only one of these women (Lizelia Moorer) protests the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The remaining eight poets all conformed to the ethos of most black writers of the time, "whitewashing" their art while educating and uplifting their people. Their themes are traditional--love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, and family--and are for the most part couched in conventional forms and language. As interesting for the themes that they address as for those that they ignore, these selections offer a unique sampling of poetic voices that, until now, have gone largely unheard.

Application for Release from the Dream

Application for Release from the Dream
Author: Tony Hoagland
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1555979084

The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me The parade for the slain police officer goes past the bakery and the smell of fresh bread makes the mourners salivate against their will. —from "Note to Reality" Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions with the hobnailed abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of twenty-first-century America can stay human. With whiplash nerve and tender curiosity, Hoagland both surveys the damage and finds the wonder that makes living worthwhile. Mirthful, fearless, and precise, these poems are full of judgment and mercy.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry
Author: Craig Svonkin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350062510

With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as: · Major histories and genealogies of post-war poetry – from the language poets and the Black Arts Movement to New York school and the Beats · Poetry, identity and community – from African American, Chicana/o and Native American poetry to Queer verse and the poetics of disability · Key genres and forms – including digital, visual, documentary and children's poetry · Central critical themes – economics, publishing, popular culture, ecopoetics, translation and biography The book also includes an interview section in which major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, and Claudia Rankine reflect on the craft and value of poetry today.

Night Garden

Night Garden
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-11-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781416968160

In 15 poems, Wong records some of the many dreams--from the familiar to the outlandish and everywhere in between--that she or her friends have had. With Paschkis's paintings, which reflect the glowing colors of dreams, these nighttime visions create a garden, tempting to explore and evocative of dreams of our very own. Full color.

The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs
Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466879637

The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.