New Poetry Of The American West
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Author | : Alison Hawthorne Deming |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231103879 |
One hundred fifty poems by seventy-five poets offer an inclusive collage of voices--protest poems of the Chicano farmworkers' movement, campfire cowboy songs, sacred Native American songs, and works by Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and other canonical figures--from a land where cultural collision is part of the rugged landscape.
Author | : Lowell Jaeger |
Publisher | : Many Voices Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780979518546 |
New Poets of the American West is a panoramic (and revealing) view of the West through the eyes of more than 250 poets and 450 poems, including poems in English, Spanish, Navajo, Salish, Assiniboine, and Dakota languages. In these pages you will visit flea markets, military bases, internment camps, reservations, funerals, weddings, rodeos, nursing homes, national parks, backyard barbecues, prisons, forests, meadows, rivers, and mountain tops. In your ¿mind¿s eye,¿ you will meet a simple-minded girl who gets run over by a bull, two mothers watching a bear menacingly nosing toward unsuspecting children, and children who ¿have yet to be toilet trained out of their souls.¿ You will learn to ¿reach into the sacred womb, / grasp a placid hoof / and coax life toward this certain moment.¿ You¿ll teach poetry to third graders, converse with hitchhikers, lament for an incarcerated brother ¿trying to fill the holes in his soul / with Camel cigarettes / and crude tattoos.¿ You will sit at the kitchen table where perhaps the world will end ¿while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.¿ In the short time each of us has in this world, here¿s your chance to experience life widely and to reflect on your experiences deeply.
Author | : Robert Mezey |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-09-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0375414592 |
In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like “The Streets of Laredo,” from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as Bertolt Brecht and Zbigniew Herbert. Here is the West in all its rich variety–the harsh life of farms and ranches; man’s destructive invasion into forest and desert solitudes; the bars and bistros of San Francisco and Hollywood; Pacific surf and endless highways; the ghost towns, the poverty, and the legendary world of cowpunchers and gunslingers. From Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” to Charles Bukowski’s “Vegas,” from Fred Koller’s “Lone Star State of Mind” to Thom Gunn’s “San Francisco Streets”–the West is evoked in all its incarnations, both actual and mythic.
Author | : Linda M. Hasselstrom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
The West found in Linda Hasselstrom's poems is neither the mythical Old West nor the New West of ranchettes and trophy homes. Hasselstrom's aria is set to the rhythms of the authentic West, laced with lyrical realism, and distilled to the sharp crispness of a plains morning. Here you'll find the night heron whose "slender beak descends, a sudden hammer on a silver spine." You'll "give yourself sunsets]]in shades of pink and gold" while "long tatters curl eastward like discarded ribbons."
Author | : Peter Wild |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780937406212 |
Author | : Clark Crouch |
Publisher | : Clark Crouch |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0962443875 |
Eight contemporary poets share their varied views about the Great American West. Poems reflect the realism of the Siege of Vicksburg, which prompted some to join the great westward movement, to cowboys and their horses, the raw Southwest, tall tales of magic boots, and a cowboy's view of history. It's all captured in western poetic style. Featured poets are: Kenneth Garcia, Debra Meyer, Del Gustafson, Steve Dickson, Virginia Cook, Stephen Foster, J. Wesley Taylor Sr., and Clark Crouch.
Author | : Angus FLETCHER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0674037014 |
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
Author | : April Lindner |
Publisher | : Boise State University Western Writers Series |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Study of Dana Gioia, Mark Jarman, Robert McDowell, David Mason, Timothy Steele, and other new formalist and new narrative poets with ties to the western U.S.
Author | : Guiseppe Getto |
Publisher | : Finishing Line Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781635340433 |
In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales, Familiar History "expertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives." The poems in these pages take an unflinching look at rural life in the Desert Southwest and reveal a world composed of harshly beautiful scenery, as reflected in the poem "Burning Wishes" Someone said they never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. Me neither, but it seemed sometimes like they ought to be. The bark beetles that crunch in and out of their white fir tunnels and branch outward until each thorax, leg, and instinct intersects, becoming a web meaning nothing. A cold snap couples indeterminately with wind velocity and the fracture lines of ice particles, killing only incidentally. The message is clear: in the universe of these poems, nature doesn't care about you or the meaning you give it. The book also reveals the child abuse, violence, racism, and poverty endemic to much of this region through the eyes of someone who spent nearly 30 years there. In the title poem, the narrator speaks directly to this relationship between the memories carried in human bodies and those held by the landscapes they inhabit: I will learn to seal everything up inside. We all will. In 1969 the desert will swallow an atom bomb whole. In 1969 my grandmother's pancreas will swallow too much of the awful light from a safe distance inside a bus. After awhile you begin to realize light in the desert can penetrate anything. A 1951 description of the Nevada Test Site, included in an Army brochure for the Camp Desert Rock soldiers, tells them that the desert is a damned good place for disposing of used razor blades. It is. Familiar History is equal parts a lyrical reflection on the relationship between humanity and the natural environment and a deeply personal revelation of the secrets of a family of malcontents. The narrator's story is the story of rural America: a bitter tonic of regret, euphoria, and the search for salvation.
Author | : Levette Jay Davidson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Poetry of places |
ISBN | : |