The Compendium of Poetic Machines Volume 1

The Compendium of Poetic Machines Volume 1
Author: Ted Shelton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0557226570

This book describes Poet Tech, a seminar offered at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and design in the fall of 2009. Students were charged with designing poetic machines.

Machine Poems

Machine Poems
Author: Jill Bennett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780192763433

In this delightful book for young children, machines rattle and bang, whirr and purr, scoot along, clutter and mutter. Machines are everywhere - from the kitchen to outer space! Illustrated with great humour by well-known artist Nick Sharratt, these poems will get every reader raring to go. Poets include John Foster, Charles Causley and Barbara Ireson.

Sad Little Breathing Machine

Sad Little Breathing Machine
Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781555973964

Explores the strange and intricate mechanics of human systems-of the body, of thought, of language itself. These are the engines, like poetry, that propel both our comprehension and misunderstanding. "If you're lucky, " Harvey writes, "after a number of / revolutions, you'll / feel something catch."

Poet Anderson ...Of Nightmares

Poet Anderson ...Of Nightmares
Author: Tom DeLonge
Publisher: To The Stars
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1943272026

Jonas Anderson and his older brother Alan are Lucid Dreamers. But after a car accident lands Alan in a coma, Jonas sets out into the Dream World in an attempt to find his brother and wake him up. What he discovers instead is an entire shared consciousness where fear comes to life as a snarling beast called a Night Terror, and a creature named REM is bent on destruction and misery, devouring the souls of the strongest dreamers. With the help of a Dream Walker—a guardian of the dreamscape, Jonas must face his fears, save his brother, and become who he was always meant to be: Poet Anderson.

Madness, Rack, and Honey

Madness, Rack, and Honey
Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781933517575

Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir--a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

The Book of Frank

The Book of Frank
Author: CAConrad
Publisher: Wave Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1933517492

A portrait equal parts hope and cruelty, this searing, compelling book is an enduring fan favorite by Philadelphia-based poet CAConrad.

The Book of Funnels

The Book of Funnels
Author: Christian Hawkey
Publisher: Wave Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

This book marks the debut of a startling new voice that restlessly transforms self and surroundings in every poem.

Sweet Machine

Sweet Machine
Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0061755028

Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in Sweet Machine see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body's "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb, but also as a vibrant, sensual, living thing. These poems are themselves "sweet machines"—lyrical, exuberant and joyous—and they mark yet another milestone in the extraordinary career of one of our most distinguished and accomplished poets.

The Miracle Machine

The Miracle Machine
Author: Matthew Pennock
Publisher: Gival Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781940724294

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award "A 19th-century automaton and other museum exhibits narrate this collection of poems . . . . Uncanny, heart-wrenching, and beautifully crafted poems by an original voice." -Kirkus Reviews, August 5, 2020, starred review "Vast in scope, passionately imagined, and constructed with as much ingenuity as the famed contraption at its narrative's heart, Matthew Pennock's second book hints at serious ontological questions as it invents its hero's journey from automaton to autonomy. Like all contrivances that simulate human life, Pennock's synthetic boy compels us to interrogate our own materiality, and to ask, if we are all just portions of the twisting / stew of particles and light assembled by mechanical chance, then what puts the lonely in us? Packed with insight and wit and told by a congress of oddities-the narration travels back and forth in time and juggles various perspectives, including that of a trained seal, a fortune teller machine, and both halves of P.T. Barnum's bogus mermaid-The Miracle Machine is an irresistible, at times provocative, and often powerfully affecting book." -Timothy Donnelly, author of The Problem of the Many