Peculiar Honors

Peculiar Honors
Title Peculiar Honors PDF eBook
Author Sharon Cumberland
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2011-11
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780930773991

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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

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

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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

Southern Poetry Review
Title Southern Poetry Review PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 512
Release 1994
Genre
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The Cumberland Tales

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

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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

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

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Pattern Evidence

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

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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

Strange Wood
Title Strange Wood PDF eBook
Author Kevin D. Prufer
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 68
Release 1998-03-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780807123508

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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.”