Boss Cupid

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706050
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boss Cupid written by Thom Gunn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great poet's freshest, most provocative book. He dreams at the center of a closed system, Like the prison system, or a system of love, Where folktale, recipe, and household custom Refer back to the maze that they are of. --from "A System: PCP, or Angel Dust" Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the quintessential craftsman and quintessentially a love poet, though not of quintessential love.Variations on how we are ruled by our desires, these poems make a startling and eloquent gloss on wanton want, moving freely from the story of King David and Bathsheba to Arthur Rimbaud's diet to the tastes of Jeffrey Dahmer. As warm and intelligent as it is ribald and cunning, this collection of Thom Gunn's is his richest yet.

Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boss Cupid written by Thom Gunn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bert C. Rawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stupid Cupid written by Bert C. Rawley and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wootten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381631
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alvarez Generation written by William Wootten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of 'movement' poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez's classic anthology 'The New Poetry', take poetry 'beyond the gentility principle'. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. Here, author William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common - their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences - and locates what was new and valuable in their work.

Author : Kate Richards O'Hare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.YM/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sorrows of Cupid written by Kate Richards O'Hare and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Carter
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738729957
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cupid War written by Timothy Carter and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky Fallon had decided not to kill himself after all—moments before accidentally slipping off a bridge and plunging to his death. Now he’s a Cupid in the afterlife, helping high school students fall in love. The job would be cool if it weren’t for the dorky pink bodysuits, his jerky boss, and attacks from joy-sucking shadowy entities called Suicides. When Fallon discovers a dangerous new Suicide in human form, a terrific battle erupts. Before the Suicide can become too powerful, Fallon has to convince his fellow Cupids of the extraordinary threat, protect the girl he’s falling for . . . and foil the Suicides’ evil scheme to spread despair to all humanity. Timothy Carter’s Evil? was named to ALA’s 2010 Rainbow Project list for GLBTQ Books for Children and Teens Praise: “Full of funny scenes, humorous dialogue, an interesting cast of characters, and plenty of entertainment. Once again, Timothy Carter has penned a winner.”—CM: CANADIAN REVIEW OF MATERIALS

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822329671
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Americas written by Paul Giles and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA discussion on the ways in which representations in the U.S. have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era./div

Author : Jennifer Love Hewitt
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 140139504X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day I Shot Cupid written by Jennifer Love Hewitt and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any woman who has ever bought a self-help book and wondered why she bothered. (P.S. Now that I know he's just not that into me, where do I go from there? Yeah, thanks for that advice.) Jennifer Love Hewitt is a self-proclaimed "love-aholic" and hopeless romantic (her middle name is Love, after all!). She has been lucky and unlucky in love, and lived to tell -- and she's done it all in the spotlight. Much has been written about her love life--some true, most made up to sell magazines. Now Hewitt shares the real story of what she's learned navigating the dangerous dating waters. In The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt offers her hard-won wisdom and tells us how to embrace love with both feet on the ground. First, we have to shoot Cupid. We have to believe that happily-ever-after is hard work -- it's not all flowers and symphonies and floating hearts. Wise and wry and refreshingly honest, Hewitt talks about how to pick the right guy and how to know when to let the wrong ones go free, and she offers some surprising truths about the opposite sex. From twenty things to do after a breakup, to ten things to do before a date, to the perils of text flirting (Note: You are waiting. By the phone. For his response.), Hewitt uses stories and dating secrets to illustrate the idiotic, romantic, crazy, depressing, hilarious, awkward, glorious moments we all experience in relationships. Funny, quirky, and empowering, The Day I Shot Cupid deserves a place on every woman's nightstand, bookshelf, or coffee table, or tucked inside her oversized designer handbag.

Author : Joshua Weiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226890376
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Barriers written by Joshua Weiner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929–2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. To critics in the UK and US alike, Gunn demonstrated that formal poetry could successfully include new speech rhythms and open forms and that experimental styles could still maintain technical and intellectual rigor. Along the way, Gunn’s verse captured the social upheavals of the 1960s, the existential possibilities of the late twentieth century, and the tumult of post-Stonewall gay culture. The first book-length study of this major poet, At the Barriers surveys Gunn’s career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks, bringing together some of the most important poet-critics from both sides of the Atlantic to assess his oeuvre. This landmark volume traces how Gunn, in both his life and his writings, pushed at boundaries of different kinds, be they geographic, sexual, or poetic. At the Barriers will solidify Gunn’s rightful place in the pantheon of Anglo-American letters.

Author : Stefania Michelucci
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786436875
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Thom Gunn written by Stefania Michelucci and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thom Gunn served as a mouthpiece for his time, illustrating the social, cultural, and historical transformations that have characterized western civilization from World War II until today. Starting with theoretical premises drawn from philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, this work examines Thom Gunn's entire poetic career. In Gunn's early poetry, the author argues, the predominant theme is the desire for freedom from the painful prison of the intellect and from the masks that the individual feels compelled to wear even in his sexual relationships. In Gunn's later poetry, the author notes a gradual opening to human relationships and to Nature, which is also Gunn's vindication and reevaluation of his own nature and the liberation of his long repressed and hidden homosexuality.