Poems For Thinking

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627814X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Poems Think written by Reginald Gibbons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry’s stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry’s ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets—Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.

Author : Robert Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898255154
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems for Thinking written by Robert Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georgia Heard
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250244676
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Thoughts Are Clouds written by Georgia Heard and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection that both illustrates what mindfulness is and encourages young, growing minds to be present, from poet and educator Georgia Heard, with art by Isabel Roxas. Poets have long observed the world in a mindful way. They point out beauty we might have missed, draw our attention to our inner thoughts, and call us to see our society in new ways. But as daily life become more and more chaotic, children grow distracted. According to the CDC, 9.4% of children have ADHD and 7% have anxiety/depression. And these numbers continue to climb. As treatment doctors recommend healthy eating, physical activity, plenty of sleep, and mindfulness techniques. Georgia Heard is a poet and educator—and she has long had her own meditation practice. In My Thoughts Are Clouds, she uses poetry to demonstrate what mindfulness is and gives kids—and their parents and teachers—accessible ways to learn mindfulness tools.

Author : Matt Goodfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913074654
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Me written by Matt Goodfellow and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three gifted poets team up with a collection of poems dealing with worries and anxieties and find ways to develop empathy and mindfulness. Read about the Land of Blue, where it's ok to feel sad, find ideas for what to do with worries, or how to slow down when your head is full of hurry. Give yourself time to chill out, find quiet voices in noisy places, and discover kindness in yourself and others. Then maybe your own special thought machine will tell you, "This is going well. You're doing great. You've got this!" And you have! This important and unique anthology of 45 poems by three leading poets, well known for their empathy and perception, speaks to the heart of what children think and care about, offering understanding, support, and encouragement.

Author : Dale Taylor
Publisher : Assetvault LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781942661993
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems to Ponder written by Dale Taylor and published by Assetvault LLC. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale Taylor wrote this book in the hope that these poems will inspire the reader to slow down and take some time to reflect upon life, death, relationships, nature, and their beliefs.

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044622
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets Thinking written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.

Author : Mark S. Bauer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195336402
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mind Apart written by Mark S. Bauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: --Book Jacket.

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880589
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dream of Mind written by C. K. Williams and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenging, exhilarating collection in A Dream of Mind represents an important stage in the evolution of C. K. Williams' work. It is dominated by the long title poem, which explores the materials and qualities of states of consciousness with enormous flexibility and suppleness. Other poems explore jealousy, psychology, family relationships and intellectual constructs.

Author : Wylondria Jefferson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497493063
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poem for Your Thoughts written by Wylondria Jefferson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poem for Your Thoughts is a book of poems that takes a walk in your inner most thoughts. You as a reader will feel as if we have had several conversations through what you will read and how you can relate to what I have written. You will be surprise, shed tears, laugh, and feel loved. The experience of reading these poems will not only having you thinking, but also provide you a solution to your problems. The love, relationships, loss...will have a morale and lesson that will put you at ease. Enjoy this mind and thought provoking experience, because you too can relate.

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307761959
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Work Is written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel’s Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely their jobs. They are unusually artistic, living ‘at the borders of dreams.’ One reads The Tempest ‘slowly to himself’; another ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn by his teacher to suggest a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of ‘the dark from the dark.’ What Work Is ranks as a major work by a major poet . . . very accessible and utterly American in tone and language.” —Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal