The Triggering Town

Author : Richard Hugo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393077446
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."—James Dickey Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

Author : Richard Hugo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393044904
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 31 Letters and 13 Dreams: Poems written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1977-11-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer has called” one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poets living,” here offers an extraordinary collection of new poems, each one a “letter” or a “dream.” Both letters and dreams are special manifestations of alone-ness; Hugo’s special senses of alone-ness, of places, and of other people are the forces behind his distinctively American and increasingly authoritative poetic voice. Each letter is written from a specific place that Hugo has made his own (a “triggering town,” as he has called it elsewhere) to a friend, a fellow poet, an old love. We read over the poet’s shoulder as the town triggers the imagination, the friendship is re-opened, the poet’s selfhood is explored and illuminated. The “dreams” turn up unexpectedly (as dreams do) among the letters; their haunting images give further depth to the poet’s exploration. Are we overhearing them? Who is the “you” that dreams?

Author : Richard Hugo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393042251
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir: Poems written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1973-01-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Hugo's concern is the unenviable, the unvisited, even the uninviting, which he must invest with his own deprivations, his own private war. The distinctiveness of impulse int he language, the movement organized in single syllables by the craving mind, this credible richness is related to, is even derived from, the poverty of the places, local emanations, free (or freed) to be the poet's own." --Richard Howard "Richard Hugo is such an important poet because the difficulties inherent in his art provide him a means of saying what he has to say. It is no accident that he must develop a negative in order to produce a true image." --Richard Howard

Author : Stephen Dunn
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 193816072X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Light written by Stephen Dunn and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn discusses the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing poetry, and the necessity for surprise and discovery when writing a poem. Humorous, intelligent and accessible, Walking Light is a book that will appeal to writers, readers, and teachers of poetry. Stephen Dunn is the author of eleven collection of poetry. He teaches writing and literature at the Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey, and lives in Port Republic, New Jersey.

Author : McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780072484427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems Worth Reading written by McGraw-Hill Education and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be Your Own Guide: Explore Literature with The Hudson Series. The Hudson Series is dedicated to providing the best literature - without commentary or interpretation - at a student-friendly price.

Author : Sandford Lyne
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402254202
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Poetry from the Inside Out written by Sandford Lyne and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding that poetry is an art form open to everyone. We all can-and should-write poetry. In this enchanting and inspiring volume, Lyne will introduce you to the pleasures and surprises of writing poetry, and his methods and insights will help you tap into your own unique voice and perspective to compose poems of your own in as little as a few minutes. Whether you are an experienced writer looking for new techniques and sources of inspiration or a novice poet who has never written a poem in your life, Writing Poetry from the Inside Out will help you to craft the poems you've always longed to write.

Author : Richard Hugo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039330860X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-06-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Richard Hugo's Making Certain It Goes On, David Wagoner has written: "Richard Hugo spared himself (and us) no pains or joys in making the wonderful, vigorous original poems brought together in this single collection. His was and is a very important voice in modern American poetry." Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essays have been assembled and arranged by Ripley Hugo, the poet's widow and a writer and teacher, and Lois and James Welch, writers and close friends of the poet. Together the essays constitute a compelling autobiographical narrative that takes Hugo from his lonely childhood through the war years and his working and creative life to an interview just before his death in 1982. William Matthews, also a friend of Hugo's, has written an introduction.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259782
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry Home Repair Manual written by Ted Kooser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.

Author : Richard Hugo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the Good Life written by Richard Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press Al Barnes is a good but admittedly "mushy hearted" homicide cop who trades his stressful Seattle beat for a small-town deputy's life in rural Montana. The peace is disrupted when a local fisherman and a mill owner are found gruesomely axed. Barnes is drawn into a twenty-year-old unsolved case near Portland, adding to an already puzzling search through murky secrets and sweeping him up in the decadent "good life" of his suspects.

Author : Robert Wrigley
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781946482501
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nemerov's Door: Essays written by Robert Wrigley and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In his youth, Robert Wrigley had little interest in poetry; you even could call it an active disinterest. Then, at the age of twenty-one, after being drafted into the army during the Vietnam War, after receiving an honorable discharge on the grounds of conscientious objection, and feeling otherwise adrift, he took, on a lark, a class in poetry writing, and that class altered the trajectory of his life. Nemerov's Door is the story of a distinguished and widely celebrated poet's development, via episodes from his life, and via his examinations of some of the poets whose work has helped to shape his own. The book is a testament to what matters most in this particular poet's life: love, nature, wild country, music, and poetry. Essays on James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Etheridge Knight, Howard Nemerov, Sylvia Plath, and Edwin Arlington Robinson are interwoven with essays about the sources of poetry; arrowheads; wild rivers; and the lyrics of a song from My Fair Lady, among other things. In the essay about Richard Hugo, Wrigley engages with a single poem by his great mentor, whose influence on Wrigley and many other poets of his generation has been enormous. "The Music of Sense" extrapolates from Frost's notion of the "sound of sense," and fuses it with Hugo's notion that the poet, forced to choose between music and meaning, must always choose music. As though to offer his own proof of that notion, one of Wrigley's other essays here is a poem.