Author : E. These new interviews provide insights into the poets and their poems without losing any of their mystery. Whether you're looking for deeper understanding of your favorite poets or simply interested in the lives of contemporary artists, Passwords Primeval reveals the interconnectedness of these masters whose voices echo each other from opposite ends of the same canyon.
Author : Teresa V. Best American Poetry is a good indicator of the direction of American poetry. It reflects the changes in society both good and bad and how America is seen from the inside. Although Lehman warns of the apocalyptic feelings of the times there is hope and lightness still to be found in American poetry. Sep 21, Gaetano Venezia rated it really liked it Shelves: poetry. Another solid installation in the series. The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensit Another solid installation in the series.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. And what rough best, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? He gives an overview of what poetry is and how contemporary poetry fits within the history of the genre especially in relation to the last years of Modernism and Postmodernism. There's nothing new or all that insightful here. Maybe the desire of others only simplifies me, seems generous that way.
And some of it catches. Spiralized lines, pulsing globules, tiny sacs filled with aspic. Alias, alas, A lass alike alone and at a loss. Both things are true. Apr 11, Marc rated it liked it Shelves: poetry , owned. Edward Hirsch's inspiring introduction to this collection deserves five stars alone!
The collection itself was quite varied and had more than a few standouts, but I felt like simply listing them in order by author's last name kind of worked against the writing. And the ones that didn't speak to me really didn't speak to me. The authors not only each get a brief paragraph bio in the back of the book, but also a paragraph to discuss the poem that made it into the collection thereby providing the r Edward Hirsch's inspiring introduction to this collection deserves five stars alone!
The authors not only each get a brief paragraph bio in the back of the book, but also a paragraph to discuss the poem that made it into the collection thereby providing the reader a little more context and meaning for each piece.
Bear in mind, I don't read a lot of contemporary poetry or older poetry for that matter. Feel free to share some of your favorite poems or poets in the comments below. Some were eating lunch. Others, like me, were just standing around doing nothing, just taking in the scene. I saw a dozen ducks fly over low on their way to the pond. A policeman walked by swinging his club. The firemen were washing their fire truck. Margie walked out of a shoe store and saw me. She walked up to me and said, "Have you heard the news?
Rosie and Larry broke up. They were the best darn couple I knew," I said. They had everything going for them," she said. He eats insects and mud and dug a burrow in the back of the house," she said. I thought he was a very good-looking guy, always very nice to me," I said.
The were always such fun," she said. I walked over to the drugstore and bought myself some toothpaste.
When I came out, a light spring rain had started. The pigeons on the bank took off and flew in circles around the town. A man walked up to me and said, "Do you know where the Dome of the Hidden Temple is? It's a secret. Jan 04, Kenton Yee rated it really liked it. Glad I read this volume. In his Introduction, Hirsch admits this, asserting that avant-garde poets have displaced subject matter "with a theory of language as an entirely self-referential system.
Poetry becomes free play. It courts meaninglessness. I do not see even one previously undiscovered young poet without a lengthy and traditional literary resume in the entire volume! So I'm left with the scary impression that Best American Poetry and the field of lyric poetry in general has been institutionalized into a polished product of a closed, elitist, and fossilizing community cloistered around American academic and MFA programs.
That said, as an outsider and newbie, I was introduced to dozens of impressive lyrical voices, including Charles Fort, James Tate, Jorie Graham, and others. Though this isn't a recent poem Levis' died in , its subject matter - drugs, religion, and coming of age - is as relevant as always.
Mar 23, Laurie rated it really liked it. As I wrote in an early review of a Best American volume for the same year, it's always a crapshoot to read through a "Best of" anything anthology, because at best the "Best" is a moving target and at worst it's on another planet. But this iteration of the work is edited by Edward Hirsch, whose poetry I seem to recall lingering on firm and sometimes luscious imagery and no stranger to narrative, overt or implied.
There was a decade or two when such couldn't be said for the poems in any "Best" anth As I wrote in an early review of a Best American volume for the same year, it's always a crapshoot to read through a "Best of" anything anthology, because at best the "Best" is a moving target and at worst it's on another planet.
There was a decade or two when such couldn't be said for the poems in any "Best" anthology. Like linguistic puzzles intended for the insider elite, they fueled themselves with French philosophies of disintegration and buzzed outside my poetry screens like hornets.
Sometimes I felt stung by their very presence. Something out there must have shifted. I found in this volume a lot to inspire and admire. I particularly like the tone the volume creates with its whole -- a melancholy look at the present moment, a nostalgic lingering on a past that, even though golden, remains somewhat bitter for all of that, on the verge or just past of spoiling. There's a held-breath feeling for the future, a nervous anticipation without much form.
Perhaps the volume is fueled, in part, by anxiety. By a feeling of anxious malaise. A nervous "What next? And since that matches not only the national feeling but my particular bent of late, I appreciate the way these poems -- in their brevity, their concrete and abstract steps toward that unknown -- hit the ear and eye, and linger in the unconscious. Stallings, Eleanor Wilner But don't listen to me. My taste could reside on another planet from yours. Nov 28, Erin rated it really liked it Shelves: poetry.
Edward Hirsch likes a narrative bend in the poem, despite his introductory essay extolling the virtues of the lyric. Williams "Hog" I guess I like the turn to the narrative as well! Apr 21, Amy Smith rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry. This anthology was a sort of gateway into new American poetry for me. The poetry mix tape I didn't know I needed. Simple Way to read an ebook of The Search for Author by His specials, this book is free, legal, and much can be taken without having to register on the web provider.
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