Jim Barnes's familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In "Visiting Picasso", he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history that ties European culture together, sometimes ...
Few poets in America today can write as solemnly and truthfully as Jim Barnes about the heritage of America, a heritage as wide as the continent itself. Jim Barnes's aesthetic is vivid throughout these poems. A high sense of loss pervades the book, but Barnes's strong-willed persona never regrets what has passed. Instead, the persona gains ...
Winner of the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award (judged by Philip Levine), and the Oklahoma Book Award, Jim Barnes has been hailed as "a masterful poet, a most worthy voice for his generation" (Samuel Maio) and "one of the finest poets now writing in the United States" (David Ray). This generous ...
Many of the poems are set in a recognizable epoch, those years of World War II, on the home front, and after. Notable in these poems is a high sense of loss that has been rendered tenable by the kind of lyric narrative that Yeats knew so well. The poet affirms for us the passing of the many things we never really held, though we may have thought ...
These poems are filled with the sadness of loss that is ultimately gained in the psyche of one unerring voice. Each poem is jewel-sharp and distinct, yet many-faceted in its knowledge of light and dark. This book is ideal for classes in translation and in world literature, because the original German text and the English translation are on facing ...
This text has been written to support the ongoing professional development of newly-qualified and practising design and technology teachers. The book covers key topics that relate to teaching practice including: practical issues such as running successful workshops, managing resources and modelling; and philosophical issues such as values in ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Northeast Missouri State University
Date Published: 1994
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In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
