The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls

The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls
Title The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls PDF eBook
Author Tony Hoagland
Publisher
Total Pages 165
Release 2019
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0472037579

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Tony Hoagland's essays, full of sharp wit and astute observations, draw out the poetry hiding everywhere in American culture.

The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls

The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls
Title The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls PDF eBook
Author Tony Hoagland
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Total Pages 165
Release 2019-10-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0472126164

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The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls collects 16 essays by late Tony Hoagland. Gathered by Hoagland himself into a volume for the Poets on Poetry series, these pieces grapple with an expansive range of poetic and cultural concerns—and the surprising and necessary knowledge to be found where they cross paths. His trademark humor and irony, at once approachable, thoughtful, and sophisticated, lead the way toward clear-eyed, sometimes difficult, considerations of contemporary American culture. Through his curiosity, he elevates the seemingly quotidian into a profound subject worthy of close consideration. Hoagland’s generosity of spirit imbues his work with empathy for experiences beyond his own, and his honesty allows him to turn a critical eye on himself and to acknowledge the limits of his understanding. This collection will be rewarding not just for readers of contemporary poetry, but for anyone who wants to step back, take a look at our American reality, and know we’ll be okay.

The Best American Poetry 2020

The Best American Poetry 2020
Title The Best American Poetry 2020 PDF eBook
Author David Lehman
Publisher Scribner
Total Pages 304
Release 2020-09-08
Genre Poetry
ISBN 198210659X

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The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.

Turn Up the Ocean

Turn Up the Ocean
Title Turn Up the Ocean PDF eBook
Author Tony Hoagland
Publisher Graywolf Press
Total Pages 99
Release 2022-07-12
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1644451808

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The final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, “one of the most distinctive voices of our time” (Carl Dennis). Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems in Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humor the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoagland’s signature wit and unparalleled observations take in long-standing injustices, the atrocities of American empire and consumerism, and our ongoing habit of looking away. In these poems, perseverance depends on a gymnastics of skepticism and comedy, a dogged quest for authentic connection, and the consolations of the natural world. Turn Up the Ocean is a remarkable and moving collection, a fitting testament to Hoagland’s devotion to the capaciousness and art of poetry.

Ghosts and the Overplus

Ghosts and the Overplus
Title Ghosts and the Overplus PDF eBook
Author Christina Pugh
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Total Pages 202
Release 2024
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0472039601

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Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

From the Valley of Bronze Camels
Title From the Valley of Bronze Camels PDF eBook
Author Jane Miller
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Total Pages 161
Release 2022-07-26
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0472055429

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"Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem. Miller explores the use of the question mark in the history of poetry and its function as a revelation of poetic voice. She considers the positive and negative aspects of surrealism on the contemporary poem, its anti-feminist origins in France, its contemporary usage, and the benefits of Super-Real images. Miller examines how identity politics might affect the imagination. She describes ancient Chinese musical instruments to show how their sounds resonate off/in American poems and on the aural integrity of the lyric poem. She interrogates the political implications of language and the degeneration and regeneration of words. Finally, in an essay about what she dares not say about poetry, she comes out against forms of surrealism, narrative, jargon, rhetoric, irony, and appropriation. This masterful work can be read as advice to a young writer, but it also invites us into the mind of a writer who has developed her craft through the course of a lifetime of writing, reading, and exploring the world, showing not only the ideas that influenced her-feminist, lesbian, and international works-but also how Miller has, in turn, influenced ideas"--

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
Title Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It) PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Perry
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Total Pages 157
Release 2024-07-09
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0472221787

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Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting—what poems and poets might teach us about parenting, what parenting might teach us about poetry, and also, what either of those things might have to teach us about simply being a relatively successful human being. While other poets have written about parenthood, few books consider how parenthood and poetry themselves intersect. The essays are affable and never technical, but take seriously the idea that thinking about poems might help us all think about our other roles in life, as parents, lovers, citizens, and friends. The book, in the end, imagines that this kind of insight is maybe one of the things most useful about poetry. It isn't, or at least doesn't have to be, always about itself; it can instead, surprisingly and wonderfully, be about us. Each of the twelve essays considers a different poet—Edward Thomas, Henry W. Longfellow, George Scarbrough, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, Primus St. John, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost, E.A. Robinson, and Belle Randall—and, alongside them, different concerns of parenting and living. Organized in chronological order, they track the growth of Nathaniel Perry’s own children who pop up from time to time in a believable way. Essays consider the idea of devotion and belief, the idea of imperfection, the small details we can focus on as parents, and the conceptions of the world we pass along to our children. Together these essays not only represent the author's personal canon of poets who have been important to him in his life and work, but also present a diverse slice of American poetry, in voice, form, identity, origin, and time period.