Slow Trains Overhead

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647884X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Trains Overhead written by Reginald Gibbons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet’s eye, and capture what it’s really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience—a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O’Hare, and much more—these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has rendered a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city’s people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, Slow Trains Overhead evokes and commemorates human life in a great city.

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641759X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Lake written by Reginald Gibbons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ritual A slow parade of old west enthusiasts, camp song and hymn, came in along the winding way where rural declined to suburban, slow riders and wagoners passing a cow staked to graze, some penned cattle looking vacantly up—not in vacant lots the ancient icons of wealth they had been in odes, prayers and epics, in sacrifices and customs of bride-price or dowry. (It’s good people no longer make blood sacrifices, at gas stations and stores, for example, and in the crunching gravel parking lots of small churches—oh but we do.) “The evening forgives the alleyway,” Reginald Gibbons writes in his tenth book of poems—but such startling simplicities are overwhelmed in us by the everyday and the epochal. Across the great range of Gibbons’s emblematic, vividly presented scenes, his language looks hard at and into experience and feeling. Words themselves have ideas, and have eyes—inwardly looking down through their own meanings, as the poet considers a lake in the Canadian north, a Chicago neighborhood, a horse caravan in Texas, a church choir, a bookshelf, or an archeological dig on the steppes near the Volga River. The last lake is the place of both awe and elegy.

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807133175
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creatures of a Day written by Reginald Gibbons and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ode : Citizens -- In cold spring air -- Rich pale pink -- Where moon light angles through -- In an old cabinet -- Ode : At a twenty-four-hour gas station -- The young woman did office work -- On sad suburban afternoons of autumn -- Celebration -- Ode: Sometimes there's neither sun nor shadow -- My Herakleitos -- Enough -- Sleepless in the cold dark -- Ode : Samaritan -- These sideways leaps, remembering -- Confession -- An aching young man -- Ode : I had been reading ancient Greeks -- Fern-texts.

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 : South Australia. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627800X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( 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: Reginald Gibbons collects here a lifetime s worth of thoughts on composing and translating poetry. Not a manifesto or a general theory of the lyric, rather, the book explores how a poem thinks: that is, what results from the circumstances of a poet s native language, choice of words and topics, the mentality that the poet shares with other writers, and the range of poetic possibilities (and limitations) in a given language. Through exemplary case studies taken from his own experience in writing poetry, as well as in translating poetry from languages ranging from Sophocles s and Pindar s ancient Greek to their contemporary French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish successors, Gibbons traces the curious persistence of classical modes and images into the twenty-first century. He shows how the very language used in composing a poem, be it ancient Greek, Renaissance English, or contemporary Russian, both limits and enables how a poet thinks and what the poet can say. Even in describing difficult poetic concepts and operations, Gibbons writes in a clear, companionable style, entirely accessible not just to practicing poets, but also to general readers interested in poetry, and to writers of various stripes interested in the way our native language can often circumscribe what and how we think poetically, and affect how we compose poetry and prose. This book joins other titles by this award-winning writer on the Press s list."

Author : Peter Kahn
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682260240
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Shovel Anthology written by Peter Kahn and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Parable of Sorts - Malika Booker

Author : Eleanor Wilner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052039
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry written by Eleanor Wilner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of: Betty Adcock Joan Aleshire Debra Allbery Elizabeth Arnold David Baker Rick Barot Marianne Boruch Karen Brennan Gabrielle Calvocoressi Michael Collier Carl Dennis Stuart Dischell Roger Fanning Chris Forhan Reginald Gibbons Linda Gregerson Jennifer Grotz Brooks Haxton Tony Hoagland Mark Jarman A. Van Jordan Laura Kasischke Mary Leader Dana Levin James Longenbach Thomas Lux Maurice Manning Heather McHugh Martha Rhodes Alan Shapiro Daniel Tobin Ellen Bryant Voigt Alan Williamson Eleanor Wilner C. Dale Young

Author : Timothy Denevi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476702586
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hyper written by Timothy Denevi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his struggles with ADHD, discussing the history of the disease, treatments and therapies, and its possible causes.

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737513421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweetbitter written by Reginald Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award"Reginald Gibbons's first novel takes place in east Texas in 1910 during the time of white rule?not by law but by lynch mob. Amid the suffocating racism and fear, half-Choctaw, half-white Reuben Sweetbitter and Martha Clarke, a white woman, fall in love. . . . Reuben and Martha's love is strong, but, dishearteningly, racism is stronger. Timely in the subject of interracial love, this authentic, richly -detailed novel plumbs sacrifice, fear, and the loss of one's identity, bringing the -anguish of the two young lovers to life. Highly recommended."?Library Journal