Poetic Mixture

Author : Cynthia Bell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664193073
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Mixture written by Cynthia Bell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open this “Poetic Mixture;” and see what’s inside, Allow my God given talent to take you for a ride. Don’t judge this book by the very first poem. Please! Dig a wee bit deeper. Once you’ve thumbed through where my mind have gone, I’m for certain you’ll want to keep her. You know sometimes when you hear a song, Or a thought may come to mind. Someone may say something that just sticks, And it ends up being a rhyme. Everything is not just poetry, There is laughter, private thoughts, and plenty of praise. In addition there are some things that I’ve recollected, From way back in the days. With a twist right here and a turn over there, This was written for your delight. But all things are not so amusing, When you have to take a stand and fight. No, I haven’t always been Christ-like, And many struggles I tastefully share. But don’t get so holy and shut this book, Like your mind have never been there. Check it out! You’ll be inspired! Enjoy this hearty treat! The whole shebang was purposely designed, To touch your heart and make you think.

Author : Wolfram Schmidgen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207181
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exquisite Mixture written by Wolfram Schmidgen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain is rarely credited with tolerance of diversity; this period saw a rising pride in national identity, the expansion of colonialism, and glorification of the Anglo-Saxon roots of the country. Yet at the same time, Wolfram Schmidgen observes, the concept of mixture became a critical element of Britons' belief in their own superiority. While the scientific, political, and religious establishment of the early 1600s could not imagine that anything truly formed, virtuous, or durable could be produced by mixing unlike kinds or merging absolute forms, intellectuals at the end of the century asserted that mixture could produce superior languages, new species, flawless ideas, and resilient civil societies. Exquisite Mixture examines the writing of Robert Boyle, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and others who challenged the primacy of the one over the many, the whole over the parts, and form over matter. Schmidgen traces the emergence of the valuation of mixture to the political and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century. The recurrent threat of absolutism in this period helped foster alliances within a broad range of writers and fields of inquiry, from geography, embryology, and chemistry to political science and philosophy. By retrieving early modern arguments for the civilizing effects of mixture, Schmidgen invites us to rethink the stories we tell about the development of modern society. Not merely the fruit of postmodernism, the theorization and valuation of hybridity have their roots in centuries past.

Author : Howard Grant
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524625612
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mixture of Poetry written by Howard Grant and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has a lot of heartwarming poetry in expressing love. Love is what i feel, love is what I cherish.

Author : Mary Jo Salter
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385349807
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing by Design written by Mary Jo Salter and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of verse––both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative––from one of our most admired poets. The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter’s villanelle “Complaint for Absolute Divorce,” in which we’re asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as “Our Friends the Enemy,” about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; “The Afterlife,” in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and “Voice of America,” where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled “Bed of Letters,” in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.

Author : Craig Dworkin
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287998
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Poetics written by Craig Dworkin and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde literature is nonsensical, meaningless, or impenetrable. When read from the right perspective, passages that at first appear to be discontinuous, irrational, or hopelessly cryptic suddenly appear logically consistent, rationally structured, and thematically coherent. Following a methodology of “critical description,” Dictionary Poetics maps the material surfaces of poems, tracing the networks of signifiers that undergird the more familiar representational schemes with which conventional readings have been traditionally concerned. In the process, this book demonstrates that new ways of reading can yield significant interpretive payoffs, open otherwise unavailable critical insights into the formal and semantic structures of a composition, and transform our understanding of literary texts at their most fundamental levels.

Author : Avan Jogia
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524856428
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mixed Feelings written by Avan Jogia and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mixed Feelings, Avan Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race, identity, religion, and family through poetry and imagery. Drawing on the author's own life story as well as interviews he's conducted with friends and strangers, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue starter for difficult topics that now, more than ever, need to be discussed.

Author : Bob Raczka
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1626727163
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wet Cement written by Bob Raczka and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes another clever collection that shows kids how to look at words and poetry in a whole new way.

Author : Ronald J. Friis
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754924
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows written by Ronald J. Friis and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : William John Courthope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Poetry: Law in Taste written by William John Courthope and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478201
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--