The Contemporary Narrative Poem

Author : Steven P. Schneider
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381254
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Narrative Poem written by Steven P. Schneider and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, narrative poems have made a comeback against the lyric approach to poetry that has dominated the past century. Drawing on a decade of conferences and critical seminars on the topic, The Contemporary Narrative Poem examines this resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it. Gathering ten essays from poet-critics who write from a wide range of perspectives and address a wide range of works, the collection transcends narrow conceptions of narrative, antinarrative, and metanarrative. The authors ask several questions: What formal strategies do recent narrative poems take? What social, cultural, and epistemological issues are raised in such poems? How do contemporary narrative poems differ from modernist narrative poems? In what ways has history been incorporated into the recent narrative poetry? How have poets used the lyric within narrative poems? How do experimental poets redefine narrative itself through their work? And what role does consciousness play in the contemporary narrative poem? The answers they supply will engage every poet and student of poetry.

Author : Özlem Görey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891762
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Narrative Poetry written by Özlem Görey and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry, by definition, is voice, which here includes the worlds of both sound silence in which the poem exists. Voice in poetry represents the way in which individuals articulate themselves as subjects. English Narrative Poetry: A Babel of Voices explores how poets in different periods of English literature have manipulated voice in their verse narratives. This book, devoted to voice, explores narrative poems ranging from the Renaissance to the contemporary. Starting from Shakespeare, it journeys through Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, Rossetti, Browning, H. D., Ted Hughes, Jackie Kay, and Bernardine Evaristo in the light of narrative theory. The multiplicity of voice attests to the fact that narrative poetry can present itself as a ‘representation’ of real life by ‘mimicking’ the voices of women and men, creating what, taken together, comprises a babel of voices.

Author : John Bricuth
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882456
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Long as It's Big written by John Bricuth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O for a muse of napalm... Years in the making, As Long As It's Big is a stunning and unique poetic achievement. By turns rollicking, funny, and deeply moving, this dramatic poem tells a tragic story - the collapse of a marriage after the suicide of a child - within the topsy-turvy venue of a divorce court ruled by an alternately cynical and sentimental judge. John Bricuth cleanly balances sensitive portrayals of painful lives with hilarity, chaos, and occasionally ribald caricatures. Hugely entertaining and immensely readable, Bricuth's verse narrative will absorb anyone seeking to unravel the truths of modern family life.

Author : John Bricuth
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585674008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Let Me Say This About That written by John Bricuth and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As strong and moving, funny and high-energetic and horrifically splendid a long poem as our language has been lately blessed with" (John Barth), "Just Let Me Say This About That" "propounds an important vision of who and where we all are now" (John Hollander).

Author : Penelope Scambly Schott
Publisher : University of Central Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813016382
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penelope written by Penelope Scambly Schott and published by University of Central Florida. This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penelope Scambly Schott has researched facts and woven them into this poem. She cites her sources and points out fact from fiction. The poems take the reader directly into the mind and heart of a strong woman, who is extraordinary partly because she thinks she is ordinary. This brilliant tour-de-force narrates the life of a woman shipwrecked in the 1640s on the shores of modern-day New Jersey, axed in the belly, half-scalped and left for dead by the Lenape Indians, then nursed back to health by them and taken into the tribe. And that’s only the beginning. Penelope Scambly Schott has carefully researched the facts and woven them into a poetic page-turner. She cites her sources, provides a glossary and, best of all, indicates what is fact and what is fiction. Her technique is well chosen: the interior monologues, mostly of the heroine, Penelope Kent van Princis Stout, and, in a few poems, those of her namesake, the author. A more distant Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is also invoked. The poems take us directly into the mind and heart of a strong woman, who is extraordinary partly because she thinks she is ordinary. With craftsmanship and feeling, Schott has limned unforgettable characters whose lives transcend the mostly ignoble history of settler-Native American relations.

Author : Elisabeth A. Frost
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294346
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry written by Elisabeth A. Frost and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s and asserts an alternative tradition to the predominantly male-dominated avant-garde movements. Elisabeth Frost argues that this alternative lineage distinguishes itself by its feminism and its ambivalence toward existing avant-garde projects; she also thoroughly explores feminist avant-garde poets' debts and contributions to their male counterparts.

Author : Sholeh Wolpé
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682261980
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abacus of Loss written by Sholeh Wolpé and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Sholeh Wolpé's memoir in verse, the poet wields an abacus as an instrument of remembering. Bead by bead, she takes the reader on a journey of love and exile, loss and triumph"--

Author : Stephanie Morrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732880825
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Go Teen Writers written by Stephanie Morrill and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a story to tell, don't you? Or maybe you simply want to try your hand at fiction writing. Perhaps you've given it your best effort, but simply didn't have enough tools in your tool box to finish that first draft. Wherever you're at with this novel-writing thing, popular bloggers Stephanie Morrill, Jill Williamson, and Shannon Dittemore totally understand. They know it's hard to finish a first draft. To stay motivated until the end. To feel like a "real" writer. They know because they've been there too. In Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel, you'll learn: There is no such thing as one right way to write a novel. How to take an idea and give it a beginning, middle, and end. What story structure means and how it strengthens a book. Different approaches to plotting a novel. How to develop characters worth reading about. Strategies for creating memorable storyworlds and settings. What theme is and how to use it to enrich your story. What to do when your first draft is finished. There's no doubt about it. Learning to write a novel from beginning to end is a challenge. But with this book as your guide, you'll see that when you're in possession of the right tools, you're capable of finishing what you start. You'll be empowered and encouraged-as if you had a writing coach (or three!) sitting alongside you.

Author : Robert McDowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781586540579
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diviners written by Robert McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet's first full-length collection, Quiet Money's New Edition consists almost exclusively of longer narrative poems, including the title poem about a bootlegger/pilot who flew the Atlantic solo before Charles Lindbergh. This piece is often cited as one of the most important poems of the 1980s and the movement to revive storytelling in verse.

Author : Sonny Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story Hour written by Sonny Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology presents array of poems published from the late 1950s to the present, reflecting the many voices of the American experience. Beginning with Robert Penn Warren and Elizabeth Bishop, Story Hour features a variety of poetic style. It chronicles the increased interest in the form during the seventies, the New Narrative movement that began in the eighties, and the growing audience for stories in verse in such venues as cowboy poetry gatherings, demonstrating that narrative poetry continues to be an important and vital art form. Included is an appendix that provides summaries of long narrative poems, epic poems, and novels in verse."--BOOK JACKET.