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Ensemble: All the Parts Working Together (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Ross LaneThrough the writing of this collection I became fixated upon the concept of an ensemble, how it was all the parts of a thing taken together for consideration in relation only to the whole. This expanded my subject matter and areas of life that I wanted to explore. I loved the concept that even the tiniest pieces of memory and life had a significant impact on who we are as a whole, who we have become and who we aspire to be. It is a selection of poetry that gets away from the "headlines" of an individual and instead begins to peel back the layers that create the whole, the tones of our parts that create the orchestra of our souls.
A Tilted View: A Collection of Poetry (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Lis McDermottA Tilted View is a collection of poems some funny, some thoughtful, based on my view of the world and issues that are important to me. Some poems I wrote between the ages of 18 and 21, as a music student in the 70s. The others were written this year, 2018. I very much enjoyed writing them and I hope you enjoy reading them.
Problems and Polemics: A Discourse on Mental Ill-Health (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Sam SmithProblems and Polemics is intended to be a critical (sceptical) look at what passes for current mental health practice within ‘the community’. Throughout the mental health field now, both with those diagnosed unwell and with their ‘treatments’, there are many disagreements over, and holes in, the reasoning processes of the professionals – purported ‘cures’ often being as illogical as the ‘illnesses’, the human fallibility of the professionals at odds with the ‘therapeutic environments’ that they are supposed to maintain. And it is because of the disparate nature of mental health practise that I have found that poetry (or prose poetry if you’d prefer) conveys, in book form, far more accurately the fragmentary realities of the world of mental ill-health – carers & cared-for – rather than straightforward prose, with its temptations to argue a singular point of view, subjecting all to the author’s template.
Rooms: A Collection of Poetry (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Sam SmithAs our world has become segregated, separated; as our daily lives have become fragmented, subdivided into a variety of sub-contexts, so have our thoughts and thought processes. Now, much as political cartoons bring together two topical events for wry humour's sake, so does poetry (a school of) bring together two, or more, unrelated and apparently disparate images, or ideas, in the attempt to make a single whole poem. This method has been the self-confessed modus operandi of the psychologist-poet Tomas Tranströmer. Part of the pleasure in reading him, for me, has been to try to separate out the two foundation ideas/images, then to see how he crafted them together to make something other. Using this working method Tomas Tranströmer is usually successful (or he only publishes his successful attempts.) All too often, however, when other poets try to forge connections where there are none it leads only to non-sequitor poetry; which may be of great creative delight to their author, but can be as meaninglessly tedious as any other list for their reader. Because, although the world's images may come to us piecemeal, fragmented, still we have a sense of where we are in relation to those images; and we, each of us, imposes our own order-perception upon them. Which is why fractal poetry has a false causa loci - it is not how we perceive. My intention with the 'Room' poems, with each poem and with the series as a whole, was to emphasise the insularity of each our lives and each part of our lives, and to do it transparently, having within each poem's frame distinctly separate and different images and concepts, the contents/activities described within the room set against the 'notes for reading' at their end. My hope was that some synergistic other would emerge out of this pairing. That didn't happen. Instead it led to something else, which can best be described by referring to Damien Hirst's use of titles for some of his works. One looks at the object he has made for display, then down to the title that Hirst has given it, then back to the object to see what he could have meant by applying such a title to such a work. Something similar seems to happen with the reading of the 'Room' poems. One reads the description of the room's contents/activities, then the 'notes for reading'; and, the mind wanting to make sense of the pairing, one's eye is almost forced back up the page to re-read. So much for the creative process and outcome. Regards the process of publication.... The Room poems have been widely published in magazines. Although some editors didn't understand that the 2 parts formed a whole and insisted on publishing only the room part, while one wanted to publish only a batch of the 'notes for reading'. While yet others enthusiastically published batches of the whole poems; and the late, and much missed, Ian Robinson, put out an Oasis broadsheet of 11 Rooms. Before that, however, Stuart Rosamond had invited me to give a talk on the Room poems (and others) to Fine Art students at the Somerset College of Arts and Technology. The students then mounted an exhibition of the work of theirs that had grown out of the talk/reading. Which led, several years later, to Sarah Ward, now studying print at Cardiff University, to contact me through another publisher seeking my permission to use some of the Room poems as a basis for some of her final year work. It didn't stop there of course. The collaboration once begun led to other poems being considered for other of her projects, a touring exhibition/reading... And, given the stimulus provided by Sarah's interest, I began writing more Room poems. I also decided that it was about time all the Room poems were gathered together in a collection.
Home Truths: A collection of poetry (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Philip JohnHome Truths will unplug you from the distractions of modern society so that you can truly admire the world we have been gifted with and the potential consequences of the inherent greed of the human race. Reflecting on our journey so far and taking time to appreciate what we have, the poems will challenge the way you view the world and encourage you to think about the way you live your own life.
Gathering: Anthology / Collection / Ensemble - Together As One (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Ross LaneAnthology - Poems by my Several Selves: 'An anthology of poetry is traditionally a collected work by various writers and, in a sense, that is exactly what this book is. We are all different people at many junctions in our lives. We are moulded and shaped by the people, places and events that leave their fingerprints and footprints on our souls, and as such we change and evolve, losing sometimes our perspective but at the same time gaining another.' Collection - An Intentional Collection of Poetry: 'There is rarely an end to a collection, itself being the action or process of collecting someone or something into a place to be cherished, observed, reviewed and displayed. This is my first intentional collection of poetry, a selection of work that gathers further memories of people, places, events and dreams.' Ensemble - All the Parts Working Together: 'Through the writing of this collection I became fixated upon the concept of an ensemble, how it was all the parts of a thing taken together for consideration in relation only to the whole. This expanded my subject matter and areas of life that I wanted to explore. I loved the concept that even the tiniest pieces of memory and life had a significant impact on who we are as a whole, who we have become and who we aspire to be.'
Our Voice: A Collection of Poetry by Cardiff YMCA Residents (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Various AuthorsThis book is a result of residents’ work writing about their experiences as part of weekly poetry writing sessions, and features the work of the following poets: Ahmed Ali Drew Mckeown Lisa Gonzalez Patrick Boyland Neil Elkins Nichola Marie Curtis Omima Mustapha Michelle Clissold Jason Owen Jim Chapman All royalties earned from the sale of this title will be donated to YMCA Cardiff to support their work. To find out more about the work YMCA Cardiff undertake, please visit: www.ymcacardiff.wales
Poems of American Patriotism (Wordcatcher Classics)
by Brander MatthewsEDITOR'S PREFATORY NOTE (1882) An attempt has been made in the present collection to gather together the patriotic poems of America, those which depict feelings as well as those which describe actions, since these latter are as indicative of the temper of the time. It is a collection, for the most part, of old favorites, for Americans have been quick to take to heart a stirring telling of a daring and noble deed; but these may be found to have gained freshness by a grouping in order. The arrangement is chronological so far as it might be, that the history of America as told by her poets should be set forth. Here and there occur breaks in the story, chiefly because there are fit incidents for song which no poet has fitly sung as yet. The poems have been printed scrupulously from the best accessible text, and they have not been tinkered in any way, though some few have been curtailed slightly for the sake of space. In a few cases, where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this volume, only a fragment is here given. When this has been done, it is pointed out. Brief notes have been prefixed to many of the poems, making plain the occasion of their origin, and removing any chance obscurity of allusion. NEW YORK, November, 1882.
Voices of Immigrants: Vol. 18 - Poetry (Creative Portfolio Series #18)
by Anusha V. R.In today's world, everyone has an opinion on immigration. But what do the immigrants have to say? These poems reflect the voices of immigrants the poet has heard during her travels across the world.
Spoken Emotion: A Collection Of Poetry About Adoption (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Elizabeth Archer Oliver ArcherA collection of poetry about adoption In this collection, mother and son Elizabeth and Oliver, explore the emotions and feelings inherent in family life. From this unique perspective of adult and child, this collection views the things said and unsaid that go on in a family with an adopted child. Elizabeth, through her words, encompasses the feelings many other families may feel; whether through adoption, fostering or just living life. Their poetry is about the light and shade of family life; the emotional journeys we take, which will resonate with many families.
Art of Rescue: An anthology of poetry, prose and illustrations (Creative Portfolio Series #17)
by Various AuthorsEight writers weave words about their rescue pet, in poetry or prose. I hope in bringing together my drawings of adopted pets and their stories, we can demonstrate how wonderful shelter pets are. All author royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the animal shelter EPAT.
Nearly 30: 29 poems on turning 30 (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Joe WoodhouseDrawing on experiences lived before a landmark birthday, Nearly 30 is Joe Woodhouse's exciting debut poetry collection. The digital revolution and the way it has fundamentally changed human existence; modern love, relationships and sex; the lasting effects of religion on society and the inescapable effects of ageing are all given moments in this structurally varied collection of poems from a striking new voice on the British poetry scene.
Blossoms of Decay: A collection of poetry (Wordcatcher Modern Poetry)
by Gary BeckDirect, cutting, and visceral.’ Gary Beck takes no prisoners and writes in an uncompromising style. His subjects include politics, the state of America, and teenage bullying. Love or hate his views, you will certainly know where you stand. His style makes compulsive reading and you will move from poem to poem as if in a tunnel pursued by a runaway train. Be sure to jump clear so you can return to enjoy his writing more deeply. An established and prolific author, Gary has many more titles to come with Wordcatcher Publishing. Gary lives in New York.
A Song of the English: and other poems (Wordcatcher Classics)
by Rudyard KiplingFirst published in the English Illustrated Magazine in May 1893, A Song of the English was supplemented by an additional six poems. It is certainly a work of its time – the late-Victorian era and the British Empire. It reflects the feeling of the time – that of the special nature of the English as a chosen people. This was obviously not a new or unfamiliar concept having Biblical roots, and earlier. As the Empire spread across the globe there was growing belief that the English were somehow above other races. The combination of Victorian principles, a defined class structure, and a strong sense of Christian identity, were grounds to believe in a white, English, world supremacy. The British Empire left its marks across the planet, with influences still today. Not all good, not all bad. Viewed through the eyes of a twenty-first century author, this attitude now seems as arrogant, self-indulgent, racist, and callous. Writing of this time reflected the national identity, and so it is with this piece. Its roots are religious, and support the ‘chosen people’ stance, which is unsurprising given Rudyard Kipling’s status in society at that time as a leading author. What is contradictory, however, is that Kipling was an Agnostic. His support of the religious tenor was not necessarily theological or spiritual, but more as the basis of the structure of English society, and therefore the blueprint for the ‘civilisation’ of the Empire.
Can You Hear Me?
by Yami GrayCan You Hear Me? is a collection of poetry showing a view of life through the eyes of a teenager during those angst years of puberty. Some of the poems are matched will illustrations, created by Yami, that visually express her poetry. A voice for the future, Yami is a talent to watch out for.
The Colossus and Other Poems: And Other Poems (Vintage International)
by Sylvia PlathWith this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Flower Children: The Little Cousins of the Field and Garden
by Elizabeth GordonPansies like the shaded places; With their little friendly faces, Always seem to smile and say: "How are all the folks to-day?" Nostalgia enthusiasts of all ages will treasure this illustrated collection of eighty-four flower poems. Originally published in 1910, the colorful book features cute anthropomorphic images of blossoms, presented in the order of their bloom cycles. Catchy rhymes about an eager daffodil, pretty honeysuckle, and other blooms offer children a wonderful introduction to nature's beauty.
The Garden of Heaven: Poems of Hafiz (Dover Thrift Editions)
by HafizPoetry is the greatest literary form of ancient Persia and modern Iran, and the fourteenth-century poet known as Hafiz is its preeminent master. Little is known about the poet's life, and there are more legends than facts relating to the particulars of his existence. This mythic quality is entirely appropriate for the man known as "The Interpreter of Mysteries" and "The Tongue of the Hidden," whose verse is regarded as oracular by those seeking guidance and attempting to realize wishes.A mere fraction of what is presumed to have been an extensive body of work survives. This collection is derived from Hafiz's Divan (collected poems), a classic of Sufism. The short poems, called ghazals, are sonnet-like arrangements of varied numbers of couplets. In the tradition of Persian poetry and Sufi philosophy, each poem corresponds to two interpretations, sensual and mystic.This outstanding translation of Hafiz's poetry was created by historian and Arabic scholar Gertrude Bell, who observed, "These are the utterances of a great poet, the imaginative interpreter of the heart of man; they are not of one age, or of another, but for all time."
The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
by Paula R. Feldman Brian C. CooneyMary Blachford Tighe (1772;€“1810) was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. Her influential six-canto epic, Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805), along with her shorter poems, engaged the central issues of the period, often in advance of writers now considered canonical. With remarkable vitality and virtuosity, Tighe wrote about the tensions between love and loss, duty and desire, the spiritual and the sensuous, nation and family, and the Irish and the British, all while struggling with the debilitating illness that eventually claimed her life. This scholarly edition collects for the first time dozens of recently discovered poems, accompanied by Tighe;€™s own illustrations, and identifies eight false attributions. A historical and biographical introduction from editors Paula R. Feldman and Brian C. Cooney discusses Tighe;€™s work within a larger social and political context, placing renewed emphasis on the conflicts she experienced as a Methodist with Anglo-Irish roots. Editorial annotations shed new light on Tighe;€™s life, revealing for the first time, for example, that her songs were performed during her lifetime on the Dublin stage.Meticulously edited, this volume builds on recent pioneering scholarship to restore and burnish Tighe;€™s reputation as a major Romantic-era poet.
The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
by Paula R. Feldman Brian C. CooneyMary Blachford Tighe (1772;€“1810) was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. Her influential six-canto epic, Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805), along with her shorter poems, engaged the central issues of the period, often in advance of writers now considered canonical. With remarkable vitality and virtuosity, Tighe wrote about the tensions between love and loss, duty and desire, the spiritual and the sensuous, nation and family, and the Irish and the British, all while struggling with the debilitating illness that eventually claimed her life. This scholarly edition collects for the first time dozens of recently discovered poems, accompanied by Tighe;€™s own illustrations, and identifies eight false attributions. A historical and biographical introduction from editors Paula R. Feldman and Brian C. Cooney discusses Tighe;€™s work within a larger social and political context, placing renewed emphasis on the conflicts she experienced as a Methodist with Anglo-Irish roots. Editorial annotations shed new light on Tighe;€™s life, revealing for the first time, for example, that her songs were performed during her lifetime on the Dublin stage.Meticulously edited, this volume builds on recent pioneering scholarship to restore and burnish Tighe;€™s reputation as a major Romantic-era poet.
That Swing: Poems, 2008;€“2016 (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
by X. J. KennedyIn this, his ninth book of poetry, lyric master X. J. Kennedy regales his readers with engaging rhythm fittingly signaled by the book;€™s title, which echoes Duke Ellington;€™s jazz classic "It Don;€™t Mean a Thing (If It Ain;€™t Got That Swing)." Kennedy;€™s poems, infused with verve and surprise, are by turns irresistibly funny and sharply insightful about life in America.Some poems are personal recollections of childhood and growing up, as in "My Mother Consigns to the Flames My Trove of Comic Books." "Thomas Hardy;€™s Obsequies" tells the bizarre true account of the literary giant;€™s burial. Other poems portray memorable characters, from Jane Austen ("Jane Austen Drives to Alton in Her Donkey Trap") to a giant land tortoise ("Lonesome George") to a slow-witted man hired to cook for a nudist colony ("Pudge Wescott"). Kennedy is a storyteller of the first order, relating tales of travel to far-reaching places, from the Gal;¡pagos Islands and Tiananmen Square to the hectic back streets of Bamako, Mali. This wise and clever book is rounded out with adept translations of work by Charles Baudelaire, St;©phane Mallarm;©, Arthur Rimbaud, and others.
That Swing: Poems, 2008;€“2016 (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
by X. J. KennedyIn this, his ninth book of poetry, lyric master X. J. Kennedy regales his readers with engaging rhythm fittingly signaled by the book;€™s title, which echoes Duke Ellington;€™s jazz classic "It Don;€™t Mean a Thing (If It Ain;€™t Got That Swing)." Kennedy;€™s poems, infused with verve and surprise, are by turns irresistibly funny and sharply insightful about life in America.Some poems are personal recollections of childhood and growing up, as in "My Mother Consigns to the Flames My Trove of Comic Books." "Thomas Hardy;€™s Obsequies" tells the bizarre true account of the literary giant;€™s burial. Other poems portray memorable characters, from Jane Austen ("Jane Austen Drives to Alton in Her Donkey Trap") to a giant land tortoise ("Lonesome George") to a slow-witted man hired to cook for a nudist colony ("Pudge Wescott"). Kennedy is a storyteller of the first order, relating tales of travel to far-reaching places, from the Gal;¡pagos Islands and Tiananmen Square to the hectic back streets of Bamako, Mali. This wise and clever book is rounded out with adept translations of work by Charles Baudelaire, St;©phane Mallarm;©, Arthur Rimbaud, and others.
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence
by John T. IrwinWeldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days prior to picking up and moving to Mexico, none of his poetry, art, or criticism has since surfaced either north or south of the Rio Grande. Kees’s vanishing has led critics to compare him to another American modernist poet who met a similar end two decades priorâ€�Hart Crane. In comparison to Crane, Kees is certainly now a more obscure figure. John T. Irwin, however, is not content to allow Kees to fall out of the twentieth-century literary canon. In The Poetry of Weldon Kees, Irwin ties together elements of biography and literary criticism, spurring renewed interest in Kees as both an individual and as a poet. Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to make sense of Kees’s fascination with death, disappearance, and the lasting interpretation of an artist’s work. Arguing that Kees’s apparent suicide was a carefully plotted final aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet’s disappearance as a lens through which to detect and interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poemsâ€�as the author intended. The first rigorous literary engagement with Weldon Kees’s poetry, this book is an astonishing reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence
by John T. IrwinWeldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days prior to picking up and moving to Mexico, none of his poetry, art, or criticism has since surfaced either north or south of the Rio Grande. Kees’s vanishing has led critics to compare him to another American modernist poet who met a similar end two decades priorâ€�Hart Crane. In comparison to Crane, Kees is certainly now a more obscure figure. John T. Irwin, however, is not content to allow Kees to fall out of the twentieth-century literary canon. In The Poetry of Weldon Kees, Irwin ties together elements of biography and literary criticism, spurring renewed interest in Kees as both an individual and as a poet. Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to make sense of Kees’s fascination with death, disappearance, and the lasting interpretation of an artist’s work. Arguing that Kees’s apparent suicide was a carefully plotted final aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet’s disappearance as a lens through which to detect and interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poemsâ€�as the author intended. The first rigorous literary engagement with Weldon Kees’s poetry, this book is an astonishing reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.
Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Hopkins Studies in Modernism)
by Mark StevenIn Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned;¢;‚¬;€?and aesthetically responsive;¢;‚¬;€?to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem.Focusing on three of the most significant figures in modernist poetry;¢;‚¬;€?Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky;¢;‚¬;€?Steven provides a theoretical and historical introduction to modernism;€™s unique sense of communism while revealing how communist ideals and references were deeply embedded in modernist poetry. Moving between these poets and the work of T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and many others, the book combines a detailed analysis of technical devices and poetic values with a rich political and economic context. Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.