Peculiar Honors
Title | Peculiar Honors PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Cumberland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780930773991 |
Peculiar Honors is a collection of poems about how things appear to be one way, then surprise us by being something else. There is an alternative reality that becomes visible only through the lens of poetry. What seems to be an egg, or a crossing signal, or a child sitting in a shopping cart turns out to be a portal into the unexpected. These poems are about things that seem dire or misconceived-a nephew's death, a detour into the wrong profession-but which are redeemed through reconstruction in poetry. Organized around quotes from Isaac Watts, the poems tackle big questions and small oddities with equal force, starting with Watts' prayer to Let every creature rise and bring/peculiar honors to our King. Each poem is a peculiar honor - a look through the ordinary to those strange, difficult, and triumphant things that poetry reveals.
Civil War Poetry
Title | Civil War Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Negri |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2012-06-07 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486112179 |
A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War features more than 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, and many others.
Southern Poetry Review
Title | Southern Poetry Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Cumberland Tales
Title | The Cumberland Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Wayne |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2017-10-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781973838395 |
As a child and adolescent, we all have memories that are imprinted in our minds. The tales within this book, germinated from a few scattered images, grew to include aspects of magic realism and reality. Thus it is a work of fiction. I remember the old Chinatown, the characters and the feel of the Cumberland that was, and, I suppose, like all adults, we have a nostalgia for the old days. It was my intention to give the town, as a whole, a voice, and for the reader to come out with a feel for the old days of Cumberland, which, I realize, is not that old because her history goes back much farther than these pages portray. There are many more stories, untold, but these few were, and are, felt by this writer.
The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country
Title | The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country PDF eBook |
Author | Sidney Gilpin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
Pattern Evidence
Title | Pattern Evidence PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Riley |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1532679041 |
In Pattern Evidence, his final collection, Michael D. Riley sifts through the evidence of ordinary life in search of the patterns that lend shape and meaning to our days. Like a forensic scientist in search of the telling clue, the poet scrutinizes his loves and his losses, and like a trial attorney in pursuit of the truth, he interrogates and cross-examines participants in his own past and in the drama of human existence. Set largely in the suburban world outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Riley’s pages are filled with friends and neighbors, lovers and grandmothers, pines and pin oaks, lawn mowers and snow blowers, all of which body forth the mystery of daily-ness. This book documents Riley’s evolution as an artist, offering poems that span his career from early to late, demonstrating the poet’s characteristically broad range of interests and, simultaneously, his constant return to those things that matter most, namely, family, faith, and his devotion to his art. Pattern Evidence constitutes the summation of a lifetime of close and careful observation, and showcases Riley’s gifts as a poet: his keen eye, his sharp wit, his capacious mind, his practiced hand, and his large heart. This book is a final farewell to and a celebration of a life well-lived and well-loved.
Strange Wood
Title | Strange Wood PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin D. Prufer |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1998-03-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780807123508 |
Strange Wood contains verse remarkable for its fearless insight. The first poems in this lush, lyrical collection are populated with infants and adolescents, while the middle section gives way to bewildered, misguided adults, who are futilely attempting to understand and conquer the myriad difficulties of modern life. The last poems are concerned with deaths — in the family, in history, and in the abstract. In this astounding debut, Prufer reminds us of the fragility of life in a world where “everything’s / the chance for flying / failing somehow,” and loss is the hardest truth of all—“the body blooms, unfolding / then is gone.”