Letters from a Father, and Other Poems
Title | Letters from a Father, and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Van Duyn |
Publisher | Atheneum Books |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Letters from a Young Father
Title | Letters from a Young Father PDF eBook |
Author | Edoardo Ponti |
Publisher | Red Hen Press |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1939096065 |
The Italian poet and film director shares a series of loving letters to his unborn child in this intimate and reflective poetry collection. Becoming a parent changes everything. Fear and love live together. An expectant father desperately want to give his child happiness and safety—two qualities of life that are often at odds with each other. Letters from a Young Father comprises forty letter-poems written by award-winning film director Edoardo Ponti to his unborn child during the forty weeks of his wife’s pregnancy. These poems are gifts, lessons, slices of joy, blueprints for building a life, and insights into how we work, learn, love, and remember.
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
Title | Letters of James Agee to Father Flye PDF eBook |
Author | James Agee |
Publisher | Melville House |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1612193625 |
“I’ll croak before I write ads or sell bonds—or do anything except write.” James Agee’s father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Death in the Family. Three years later, Agee’s mother moved the mourning family from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the campus of St. Andrew’s, an Episcopal boarding school near Sewanee. There, Agee met Father James Harold Flye, who would become his history teacher. Though Agee was just ten, the two struck up an unlikely and enduring friendship, traveling Europe by bicycle and exchanging letters for thirty years, from Agee’s admission to Exeter Academy to his death at forty-five. The intimate letters, collected by Father Flye after Agee’s death, form the most intimate portrait of Agee available, a starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured twentieth-century genius. Agee candidly shares his struggles with depression, professional failure, and a tumultuous personal life that included three wives and four children. First published in 1962, Letters of James Agee to Father Flye followed the rediscovery of Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the posthumous publication of A Death in the Family, which won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize and became a hit Broadway play and film. The collection sold prolifically throughout the 1960s and ’70s in mass-market editions as a new generation of readers discovered the deep talents of the writer Dwight Macdonald called “the most broadly gifted writer of our American generation.”
Letters to a Stranger
Title | Letters to a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2008-06-24 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
A collection of the late poet's only published book is joined with thirteen uncollected poems, with themes of transformation, suicide, and the eternal.
Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems
Title | Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Jimmy Carter |
Publisher | Crown Archetype |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0812924347 |
A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter's private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Birthday Letters
Title | Birthday Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Hughes |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374525811 |
The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.
Letters Written and Not Sent
Title | Letters Written and Not Sent PDF eBook |
Author | William Louis-Dreyfus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9781597098694 |
Letters Written and Not Sent is the lifetime work of poet William Louis-Dreyfus, written over decades, culminating a passion for poetry, art and social justice. He passed away just days after the book was completed. Like paperweights, his lyrics are both small and hefty. His subjects range from race relations to trees, from secrets to parenthood, from ideas of god to kissing, from sons and mothers to fate, and of course, to poetry itself. Never afraid of the big questions of why human beings are alive, and what hope and justice are for, Louis-Dreyfus could take decades to finish a poem. A perfectionist, a thinker, and always inspired by visual art, he fought with himself over how to say what he wanted to say best. Like the French-Uruguayan businessman poet Jules Supervielle, whom Louis-Dreyfus translated, he felt the tug of the financial world against the pull of the lyricism of poetry, and the division marked his life and sparked ideas for his finest poems. As the heart condition that seized him made it absolutely imperative, finishing Letters Written and Not Sent literally became a life-or-death matter. This is the book that he wished to send into the world.