Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft – serie
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Flexible Lyric
Häftad, 1999
514 kr
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These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric …
Poetry as Persuasion
Av Carl Dennis
Häftad, 2001
495 kr
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Focusing on the relation of the poet to the reader, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of persuasion and that the strength of a poem's speaker is the key to winning the reader's sympathetic attention. Dennis identifies the qualities of passion, discrimination, and inclusiveness as essential …
God and the Imagination
On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable
Av Paul Mariani
Häftad, 2002
514 kr
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Poet, critic, biographer, and Catholic intellectual Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. As a man of faith in a secular world, Mariani brings to light issues surrounding spirituality and poetry through discussions of …
Poetry as Survival
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2002
514 kr
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Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of …
Muse in the Machine
Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic
Av T. R. Hummer
Häftad, 2006
495 kr
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Music, race, politics, and conscience. In these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. Hummer writes about the suicide …
God and the Imagination
On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable
Av Paul Mariani
Inbunden, 2017
1638 kr
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Poet, critic, biographer, and Catholic intellectual Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. As a man of faith in a secular world, Mariani brings to light issues surrounding spirituality and poetry through discussions of …
Poetry of Two Minds
Häftad, 2000
509 kr
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In his long-awaited first book of prose, poet and essayist Sherod Santos takes a compelling look into some of poetry’s deepest secrets, an investigation that leads him to the surprising conclusion that poems have minds of their own, minds often inaccessible even to the one who composed them.In …
Difficult Grace
On Poets, Poetry, and Writing
Av Michael Ryan
Häftad, 2000
561 kr
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“[In] preliterate societies, even those as late as ancient Greece and Anglo-Saxon England, the poet is the ideologue, historian, theologian, philosopher, TV, newspaper, Internet, and megamultiplex cinema rolled into one”—so begins Michael Ryan’s lively description of the cultural context of ancient …
