The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320592
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster Loves His Labyrinth written by Charles Simic and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist "As one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume, there is the definite sense that we are getting a rare glimpse into several decades worth of private journals--and, by extension are privy to the tickings of an accomplished and introspective literary mind."—Rain Taxi Written over many years, this book is a collection of notebook entries by our current Poet Laureate. Excerpts: Stupidity is the secret spice historians have difficulty identifying in this soup we keep slurping. Ars poetica: trying to make your jailers laugh. American identity is really about having many identities simultaneously. We came to America to escape our old identities, which the multiculturalists now wish to restore to us. Ambiguity is the world’s condition. Poetry flirts with ambiguity. As a “picture of reality” it is truer than any other. This doesn’t mean that you’re supposed to write poems no one understands. The twelve girls in the gospel choir sang as if dogs were biting their asses. What an outrage! This very moment gone forever!

Author : Lucille Recht Penner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375856757
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters written by Lucille Recht Penner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide to monsters of all shapes and sizes, including the minotaur and the kraken, with a review of their menacing homes, stories about them, and the damage they have wrought on humans both on land and by sea.

Author : Meredith Tate
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1635830354
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Labyrinth written by Meredith Tate and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save her kidnapped best friend and crush, Zadie must complete an enchanted deadly labyrinth riddled with illusions. Her only hope of survival depends on forming an alliance with the only person who knows the safe path through—a murderous boy she can’t trust.

Author : John E WordSlinger
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304119785
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry Train America written by John E WordSlinger and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-09 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful combination of storytelling, poets, poetry, and railways presented using America's fifty states as a backdrop. 3 men who travel the U.S.A. in the year of 2012... To write a written documentary on Poets and the Railroad in our times... When they sleep they get taken back in time to the 19th Century, when the roads were built, and they have such great experiences, and meet key Poets, and figures... Upon waking they have conversations about Poets from the 20th Century, and RxR events... Then it goes into their written documentary on Poetry and Poets now... Main Characters that Andy and Red and Train Marshal Charlie journey within their Dreams, and they are Alphonso G. Newcomer, Mad Bear, Jung Hem Sing, Mr. Welchberry, Patrick O'Hara, Jimmy New Orleans, and many more

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 184983914X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Ordinary written by Michael Foley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think. Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life. 'A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal… ' Scotsman

Author : Donovan McAbee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100003898X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty written by Donovan McAbee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty provides the first full account of the poetics of the former US Poet Laureate, who is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed English-language poets writing today. The book argues for uncertainty as the center of Simic’s poetics and addresses the ways that his poetry grows from and navigates various forms of uncertainty. Donovan McAbee addresses uncertainty regarding the national character of Simic’s poetry and how this is complicated by Simic’s identity as a Yugoslavian refugee to the United States. The book assesses the theological and linguistic uncertainties of Simic’s poetry and explores the ways that Simic articulates the aesthetic space created by poems, as a safe place of encounter for the reader. The book argues for the role of humor as a primary mode that holds together the uncertainties of Simic’s poetry, and finally, it articulates the way that within these uncertainties, Simic develops a deeply humane political poetry of survival. Along the way, Simic’s work is placed in conversation with key influences and other important American and international poets and writers, including James Tate, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Nicanor Parra, Vasko Popa, and others.

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451658877
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of the Best American Poetry written by Robert Pinsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series.

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439181497
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2011 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062364723
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Images written by Charles Simic and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America’s most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years. A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy, photography to Simic’s childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, each work demonstrates the qualities that make Simic’s poetry so brilliant yet accessible. Whether he is revealing the influence of literature on his childhood development, pondering the relationship between food and comfort, or elegizing the pull to return to a homeland that no longer exists, the legendary poet shares his distinctive take on the world and offers an intimate look into his remarkable mind.

Author : Annabelle Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949654011
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radley's Home for Horny Monsters written by Annabelle Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mike Radley inherited a mysterious house from a long-lost relative, he wasn't sure what to expect.He didn't expect a sexual encounter with the water spirit living in his bathtub.He really didn't expect the rooms to be occupied by other mythical creatures.And he definitely didn't expect to become the target of a secret society bent on stealing the powerful magic within its halls.Welcome to the Radley House. Expect the unexpected.