Poetry of the American West

Poetry of the American West
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.

W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats
Author: W.B. Yeats
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2022-10-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1474625665

'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of a Nobel prize, he was also a political figure, and, as is evident from his earlier work, fascinated by Irish folklore and the occult. He was also deeply affected by the First World War and the Anglo-Irish and Irish civil wars. It is a testament to the greatness of Yeats' poetry that he attempts to bear witness to these emotional and historical forces. This perfectly pitched collection includes some of the greatest poetry of the 20th century.

Gary Soto

Gary Soto
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1995
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811807586

Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.

Talk Poetry

Talk Poetry
Author: David Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1610754972

What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.

W.B. Yeats Collected Poetry

W.B. Yeats Collected Poetry
Author: W.B. Yeats
Publisher: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781839642197

• Marketing activity is focused on visibility in-store and online • Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, national and regional magazines, • Major focus on gift, travel, tourist sector • Mailings and promotion to Museums and galleries and local exhibitions. A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. The poetry of W.B. Yeats is among the most-loved literature of the twentieth century. At times dream-like, at others political, his verse has a rich sense of identity, infused with myth, mysticism and lyrical skill. This gift edition of Collected Poetry gathers some of the finest works by the Irish poet, including ‘The Lake of Innisfree’, ‘The Stolen Child’, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’, ‘The Song of the Happy Shepherd’, and ‘Easter, 1916’. The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose
Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811208239

The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.