Poems for Ordinary People
Author | : Carol Allis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780878395828 |
"Poems for and about ordinary people and the things that mean the most to us--"--Page 4 of cover.
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Author | : Carol Allis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780878395828 |
"Poems for and about ordinary people and the things that mean the most to us--"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Lauren Elkin |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1635901537 |
A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital. Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. --Paris bus public notice In fall 2014 Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iPhone 5c, writing down the interesting things and people she saw in a Perecquian homage to Bus Lines 91 and 92, which she took from her apartment in the 5th Arrondissement to her teaching job in the 7th. Reading the notice, she decided to be vigilant when using her phone: she would carry out a public transport vigil, using it to take in the world around her and notice all the things she would miss if she continued using it the way she had been, the way everyone does--to surf the web, check social media, maintain her daily sense of self through digital interaction. Her goal became to observe the world through the screen of her phone, rather than using her phone to distract from the world. During the course of that academic year, the Charlie Hebdo attacks occurred and Elkin had an ectopic pregnancy, requiring emergency surgery. At that point, her diary of dailiness became a study of the counterpoint between the everyday and the Event, mediated through early twenty-first century technology, and observed from the height of a bus seat. No. 91/92 is a love letter to Paris, and a meditation on how it has changed in the two decades the author has lived there, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital.
Author | : Wendell Berry |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1582438676 |
A “superb study” that “reminds us that Williams remains our contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his example” (The Sewanee Review). Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a provincial part of the country without an established literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams. In Williams’ commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey, Berry found an inspiration that inevitably influenced the direction of his own writing. Both men would go on to establish themselves as respected American poets, and here Berry sets forth his understanding of that evolution for Williams, who in the course of his local membership and service, became a poet indispensable to us all. “Generously quoting many of Williams’ best lines . . . Berry produces a work of aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique.” —Booklist
Author | : Marie Howe |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2009-09-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0393346986 |
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those apparently unmiraculous periods of everyday trouble and joy?
Author | : Kathryn Cowles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781571315021 |
"Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection of poems about memory, place, and distance between reality and its transcriptions"--
Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1913724263 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author | : Judith Guest |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1982-10-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140065176 |
One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore In Ordinary People, Judith Guest’s remarkable first novel, the Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain, and ultimate healing. Ordinary People is an extraordinary novel about an "ordinary" family divided by pain, yet bound by their struggle to heal. "Admirable...touching...full of the anxiety, despair, and joy that is common to every human experience of suffering and growth." -The New York Times "Rejoice! A novel for all ages and all seasons." -The Washington Post Book World
Author | : Tony Trigilio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780996991230 |
" Challenging us to take responsibility for why we yearn to believe, or if not-- what to expect." - Susan Howe
Author | : Ezra Pound |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780811201513 |
Ezra Pound's classic book about the meaning of literature.