Field Music

Field Music
Author: Alexandria Hall
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0063008394

A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger, intimacy and isolation, playfulness and seriousness, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience. Incisive and tender, Field Music is a thoughtful and alert collection from a major emerging voice.

Under the Music

Under the Music
Author: Maxine Chernoff
Publisher: Madhat, Incorporated
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781941196854

Under the Music is cause for celebration, as it gathers over forty years of Maxine Chernoff's brilliant exploration of a single form: the prose poem. Her pieces abound in witty dialogue, absurdist jokes, sage advice, and a gallery of eccentric characters like "The Man Struck Twenty Times by Lightning," or "The Woman Who Straddled the Globe."

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics
Author: Charlotte Pence
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617031569

Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard

Walking on the Boundaries of Change

Walking on the Boundaries of Change
Author: Sara Holbrook
Publisher: Wordsong
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Between youth and adulthood, kids are faced with complex questions and equally difficult answers. Transition is a daily theme. This honest and insightful book includes poems for young adults that confront and question issues of transition, new experiences, difficult choices, and a search for truth.

Wayside Shrines

Wayside Shrines
Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2009
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9781852354794

Limited Signed Edition New Poems, with paintings and drawings by Keith Wilson. Limited edition of 400 numbered, clothbound copies, of which 350 are for sale. Signed by the author. Two new extended poems by one of the most exciting writers at work, enhanced by the understated and evocative art of one of Ireland s finest young painters. This handsome edition features pencil drawings and full colour reproductions of paintings by Keith Wilson specially created in response to this work. Printed on Rives Artist and hardbound in linen with blind embossed title and in a Pergamenata wraparound. Wayside Shrines is the fourth title in this greatly admired series.

I Live in Music

I Live in Music
Author: Ntozake Shange
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Shange's lyrical poem is a tribute to the language of music and the magical, often mystical, rhythms that connect people. Music defines who we are as individuals, the places where we live, and how we exist within our communities. Music is life.Written in a syncopated style that has its own melody, the poem is perfectly married to twenty-one extraordinary and diverse works from Romare Bearden who once said, "I paint in the tradition of the blues."Here is a unique and visionary book that speaks, indeed sings, to both children and adults and is, at once, compelling, profond, and entertaining.

The Poem in the Story

The Poem in the Story
Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0299182134

Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area—where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces—that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story. In a career devoted to exploring the art of the African storyteller, Scheub has conducted some of the most interesting and provocative investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling, the complex relationship between artist and audience, and, most dramatically, the role played by poetry in storytelling. This book is his most daring effort yet, an unconventional work that searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical center that Scheub calls "the poem in the story." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in southern Africa and decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Scheub develops an original approach—a blend of field notes, diary entries, photographs, and texts of stories and poems—that guides readers into a new way of viewing, even experiencing, meaning in a story. Though this work is largely focused on African storytelling, its universal applications emerge when Scheub brings the work of storytellers as different as Shakespeare and Faulkner into the discussion.