An utterly delightful collection of responses to poems written across the centuries, these modern poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.
Lua offers a wide range of features that you can use to support and enhance your applications. With this book as your guide, you'll gain a thorough understanding of all aspects of programming with this powerful language. The authors present the fundamentals of programming, explain standard Lua functions, and explain how to take advantage of free ...
This book presents some of the best lectures first delivered to the small but passionate audiences that attend the many writers' conferences held each year around the country.
Now writers or would-be writers can read the most provocative and the most useful lectures on life and craft presented at select conferences like Bread Loaf, the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. In these addresses, Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate ...
Featuring a transcript of the never-before-published interview with William Matthews by David Wojahn and James Harms, this book celebrates the life and work of poet William Matthews through his own language, that of poetry. While poems of William Matthews are well known and remembered, this collection of poems ensures that the world will remember ...
Deep in the concrete canyons of even the largest cities, nature lurks. Its unpredictable energies animate not only squirrels and microorganisms, not only ginkgoes, roots, and rivers, but also the engines of human desire. Urban Nature captures the many faces of wildness in the city with poems by more than 130 emerging and recognized poets. Rather ...
The first in the new Tupelo Press Masters series In this collection, Kurt Brown pays tribute to twenty-four leading poets through a masterful act of literary ventriloquism. Channeling the personas of luminaries Robert Bly, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, and others, the author's razor wit playfully illumines each poet's style and celebrates their ...
Kurt Brown muses acerbically on nostaligia for a prior pop culture, as well as on the new fixations of aging Americans: "gods have names like Metamucil, Zantac, / Rogaine, Viagra," and "Perhaps it's our irrepressible American spirit, / the soul of P.T. Barnum invading our chests: heart attacks as huge as the Rockies or the heads / at Mount ...
Essays of discovery on the curious relationship - and fascinating debate - between science and poetry Though the interests of science and art frequently seem to inhabit opposite poles, The Measured Word assembles a brilliant anthology of twelve essays that illumine the historic - and evolving - relationships between the poetic and scientific ...
What icon better defines America's experiences, dreams, foibles, escapes, and obsessions than the automobile? And what experience more perfectly captures the American spirit - moving on, westering, wandering - than driving? In this anthology, editor Kurt Brown collects the best of the innumerable poems that have made driving their emblem during ...
In his first book for children, Kurt Warner, Super Bowl XXXIV Champion quarterback for the St. Louis Rams, shares an inspiring collection of stories from his life and pro football career. Color photos & illustrations throughout.
This is the third full-length collection of poetry by the editor of well-known annuals from Graywolf Press and Beacon Press. From "Future Ship" "The deeper we move into the future, the more we disappear into the past, that ghost ship manned by family and friends, whole neighborhoods, villages, vast cities or hunks of them like waxen combs broken ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Aspen Leaves, Inc.
Date Published: 1978
Description: Very Good. 5 3/4" x 9" TRADE PAPERBACK An anthology of fiction, articles, interviews and poetry. Wear at edges, a few small creases on book, former owners name and address sticker on first page, light soiling. read more
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Cherkes, Joseph K. (Editor) (Arthur Kraft; Ace Boggess; Michael Milardo; Rick D. Stuart; Susan Spilecki; Kurt J. Brown; David...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Nightshade Publications
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very Good- 12mo. Signed by Author 95 pp. Digest. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine but with a short slice on the lower edge of the front cover that extends inwards a few pages. This issue contains: The Accent by Arthur Kraft; Scents (verse) by Ace Boggess; Beasts by Michael Milardo; Reflections on the French Revolution by Rick D. Stuart; The Ghost of the Charlesgate Hotel (verse) by Susan Spilecki; The House Above the Vale by Kurt J. Brown; Darke Traffick by David Hollier; ... read more
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(Salamander) [Jennifer Barber, Editor] [Cover Art By Karen Klein] [Rita Gabis, Jean A. McDonough, Kurt Brown, Elise Paschen,...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Salamander [1996]
Date Published: 1996
Description: Very Good. First edition. Magazine. 76 pages plus ads, illustrated. This issue features a section on Punjabi literature in translation. Some ring-imprints to front cover mar an otherwise Near Fine copy. read more
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