Poetry and Commitment
Title | Poetry and Commitment PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 2011-02-07 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393079724 |
In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world. "I hope never to idealize poetry—it has suffered enough from that. Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard."
Commitment to Poetry
Title | Commitment to Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | James Reeves |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
Poems of Love and Commitment
Title | Poems of Love and Commitment PDF eBook |
Author | Marlen Vesiroos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-01-19 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9789916396612 |
With lyrical grace and a poet's keen insight, she explores the intricate tapestry of love and commitment that weaves through the fabric of our lives.
The Hatred of Poetry
Title | The Hatred of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Lerner |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0865478201 |
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Commitment to Poetry
Title | Commitment to Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010
Title | Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2011-01-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393075281 |
Relationships—partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal—are the deep fabric of this forceful work. In the intimate address of "Axel Avákar," the black humor of "Quarto," and the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation," compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, "I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book." from "Ballade of the Poverties" There's the poverty of wages wired for the funeral you Can't get to the poverty of bodies lying unburied There's the poverty of labor offered silently on the curb The poverty of yard sale scrapings spread And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on street Prince let me tell you who will never learn through words There are poverties and there are poverties.
Poems of Ambivalence and Commitment
Title | Poems of Ambivalence and Commitment PDF eBook |
Author | D. S. Frenkel |
Publisher | Whitby, Ont. : Plowman |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780929002347 |