Why Poetry, Paperback

Reducere. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Ed...

Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in pop...

Reducere. Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words ``poetry`` and why these arouse ``aesthetic imagina...

Reducere. Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist. Why I Am Like Tequila is a collection of poetry spanning a decade of writing and perf...

Kelly recalls her story of battling depression and acute anxiety, and how the power of poetry helped her through. Analyses why poetry can be one an...

Reducere. This is the book that people are talking about. Read The Poetry of Alabaster Bosoms and find out why. One word of warning, though: Once you read th...

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turne...

Reducere. Immerse yourself in the poetry of one of Australia's foremost Indigenous artists My People is a compilation of the poetry of Oodgeroo, of the tribe...

Reducere. "This is a book for anyone, " Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe tradition of the poet warrior endures throughout human history, finding expression in the Bible's King David, the Vikings of Iceland...

Reducere. The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to MeMeanness, the very thing that is ...

'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one' - how the works of John Ruskin can teach us how to see our own world more clearly

Publisher: Verve Poetry PressAuthor(s): Nicki HeinenNumber of pages: 76Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 243 x 152 x 10Cover type: Paperback / soft...

This book examines the ways in which we find meanings in nature which can act to constrain us, and looks at science and culture, including environm...

Reducere. Description"What is poetry? Poetry is art made with words. The rest of this book is about what that means."Speak Like Rain goes through the artisti...

Reducere. I believe the compassion that comes from within the very depths of my heart and soul that God has given me was also poured into my poetry through G...

Poetry and short-fiction are, Miss Bostic's forte. Sheis her own kind of writer. Loving creatures of Natureas subjects, and rhyme in her poetry. Ra...

Reducere. This book is the most complete, up-to-date collection of aviation poetry ever published. Its sole purpose is to consolidate all of the best in avia...

Discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Bate looks at the three major kinds...

Reducere. In Bread in the Wilderness, Merton looks at the psalms as poetry; in this book he regards them as prayer. Guiding the reader through the more repre...

An authoritative and accessible account of French literature from medieval romance to avant-garde poetry. It explores the medieval roots of modern ...

Reducere. Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students...

Reducere. Spain's great lyric poet, Gustavo Adolfo B cquer (1836-1870), is famed both for his poetry and his fiction. B cquer's celebrated Rhymes consists of...

Like the landscape of his native Chile, Neruda's poetry encompasses great extremes-peak and prairie, deluge and drought-all connected by a spine of...

This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary...

Reducere. Write poetry in the great metrical tradition of Dante, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Frost, and the poets of the current Formalist revival. In this conte...

Reducere. A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history o...

Reducere. Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, bringing ...

An intimate collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry that uncovers the various reasons people send nudes. Some touch on feminist issues, while ...

Reducere. I'm writing for all of you.Broken heart only to share the pieces.The pain is presented with love. I give you my all.Why me? Well, why not?Because I...

The framework of these short volumes introduces the reader to the specific focus of the book. The accompanying poems and images offer an aesthetic ...

Reducere. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 ...

Reducere. Layla Robinson is not crazy. She is suffering from unrequited love. But it's time to move on. No more stalking, no more obsessive calling. What she...

Reducere. Awards🏆Finalist (2014) - Lambda Literary Awards - (Anthology)Contributor(s): Author: Regie CabicoWith: Brittany Fonte"We sometimes can browse the w...

Reducere. With a wide range of subjects and drawing from events in her life and the Bible, Norah Ranck has written a heartwarming collection of inspirational...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN New England, poetry Bastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. ...

Reducere. There is nothing in the universe like water. It is unique and beautiful and without it there could be no life on earth. Little wonder, then, that p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from an amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad th...

Reducere. Awards🏆Finalist (2008) - Connecticut Book Awards - (Poetry)Contributor(s): Author: Aracelis GirmayWinner, 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry Stunning, h...

Fiction. Edited by George Fragopoulos. Introduction by Mark Jacobs and George Fragopoulos. A nearly impossible text to categorize--is it a collecti...

DescriptionDiscover a more natural way of being in the world, inspired by the ways of nature. This beautiful interpretation of the Tao te Ching pre...

In this shining and unsparing new collection, celebrated poet Luisa A. Igloria draws from her own childhood memories, relationships, and keen senso...

Bridgett Devoue takes you on a journey into the transformative world of love, lust, heartbreak, and abuse, and discovers the steps to finding lesso...

Reducere. Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of the world's best writers and artists to inspire and impac...

With grace, poetry, clarity, and expert knowledge, artist Etienne Appert brings us a book about the very origins of the art of illustration--what i...

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Publisher: Nine Arches PressNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Ian Hump...

A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry Hyakunin Isshu is the most famous and popular collec...

Reducere. "In the old old days, Ryka Aoki would be tagged as some kind of prophet, and the thumbsucking masses, bewildered & flummoxed by her talking stories...

Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hamm...

"What is my life? What is in my life? Why now do I understand rest, and the connection between body and mind?" "Do I still believe I can find color...

Reducere. You never planned on being here in this season experiencing the pain of loss and heartbreak. You had high hopes only to fall into the depths of des...

Reducere. Olga Rosales Salinas is a poet and nonfiction writer interested in the intersectionality and ambiguity of the various roles she plays as mother, da...

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Reducere. R. Scott Yarbrough has combined his talents as poet and as painter to produce a truly unusual book of art and poetry. The poems are lyric in that t...

Reducere. This is not your average book about a dog, or a pet, or a relationship between man and beast, or even a "how to" book. This book is about dogs that...

This book's Italian title, Dimenticare Darwin, means Forget Darwin, and its prologue bears the title Evolution is dead The author, Dr. Giuseppe Ser...

Reducere. Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to ""take up, read, and inwardly digest"" these b...

Reducere. Everything is done in pairs or unions. This Universe is a perfect balance of a mixing of chemicals (or elements) as on the periodic table. The mixi...

Reducere. But he only takes the wild ones, Ne'er-do-wells and rascals, too.Ones that kick balls over fences.Hm, does that apply to you? Perfect for fans of S...

Reducere. This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and communi...

Mock Orange is a collection of poems in which Anne Osbourn attempts to order her life and her origins and to try to understand how and why she beca...

DescriptionFrom Chapter 1: Ten years ago, I was a psychoanalyst in a beautiful coastal community. Often, I was struck by an awareness of the abyss ...

How do you create an active reader? Why is reading good for creativity? Why is it vital for teaching the next generation resilience and positive me...

A classic, smart comedy in which a college professor attains mankind's oldest dream: the ability to fly...sort of... George Entmen just turned fort...

"A subversive volume that translates a series of complex works of literature into a single-page illustration...A variety of artists rise to a uniqu...

Reducere. In a work portraying the brilliance of God, the elements of the cross are personified in their role of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Together, W...

Become inspired, find your voice, and create work that matters. Why are human beings driven to make? It's as if we collectively intuited, long befo...

Reducere. Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and th...