This is a reprint of a seminal anthology, one which collected the poetry of future greats John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson before they were the household names (for poets, at least) they later became.
This anthology reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s, to the years before his accidental death at 40, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective. It is a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, ...
Perl is used for all types of development: system admin tasks, database access, graphical programming, and networking. Companies of all types use Perl for their websites. Perl is the leading language for Unix developers, and has made big inroads into the mainstream. Interest in and use of Perl is on the rise.
"Sourcebook for Research in Music", essentially a bibliography of bibliographies, is designed to aid students and scholars in keeping abreast of the vast proliferation of resource materials. The opening chapter contains valuable introductory material: definitions of common bibliographical terms in English and their equivalents in German and French ...
This book explores the frightening ways our prisons mirror the worst aspects of society-wide gender relations. It is part of the growing research on men and masculinities. The collection is unusual in that it combines contributions from activists, academics, and prisoners. The opening section, which features an essay by Angela Davis, focuses on ...
Other than seeing them in popular movies such as Jurassic Park, how do people today know what dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals looked like? Only their bones remain, but thanks to paleoartists, whose work is found in books and museums, most people have a good idea of what these creatures looked like. The world of paleoart and its artists are ...
In this previously uncollected series of magazine pieces, Kerouac discusses the Beats and their origins, his writing principles, other writers, and describes several trips and sporting events.
This is the sixth in a series which aims to show the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. It offers representative poems of three poets, Samuel Menashe, Allan Curnow and Donald Davie, who chose the poems themselves.
This is a reprint of a seminal anthology, one which collected the poetry of future greats John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson before they were the household names (for poets, at least) they later became.
The definitive edition of poet Charles Olson's prose, this volume includes his seminal essay "Projective Verse," which argued for an equation of the poetic phrase with the human breath, and his groundbreaking critical study, "Call Me Ishmael," an unconventional exploration of the method and meaning of MOBY-DICK. Also included are short, previously ...
Headteachers, school leaders, and the educational community are currently being inundated with information from multiple sources about the "child obesity epidemic," along with demands that schools provide healthier meals, snacks, and more time for physical activity during the school day. What school leaders have not had until now, however, is a ...
This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained preeminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects an entirely new way of looking at and structuring reality. United by their "postmodernist" concerns with spontaneity, "instantism," formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the ...
This account of the world of dance moves chronologically through the milestones of the dance world. It looks at major companies, choreographers, productions and dancers, from Pepita and Pavlova to Cunninghan and Michael Clark. It is designed for use as a reference tool and covers all aspects of dance right up to the 1980s. It is suitable for all ...
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