Between Earth and Sky
Title | Between Earth and Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Heath Widmark |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1996-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780393315653 |
A collection of poetry, profiles, and photographs celebrates the lives and work of twelve cowboy poets of the West
Poems of the American West
Title | Poems of the American West PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Mezey |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2002-09-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0375414592 |
In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like “The Streets of Laredo,” from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as Bertolt Brecht and Zbigniew Herbert. Here is the West in all its rich variety–the harsh life of farms and ranches; man’s destructive invasion into forest and desert solitudes; the bars and bistros of San Francisco and Hollywood; Pacific surf and endless highways; the ghost towns, the poverty, and the legendary world of cowpunchers and gunslingers. From Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” to Charles Bukowski’s “Vegas,” from Fred Koller’s “Lone Star State of Mind” to Thom Gunn’s “San Francisco Streets”–the West is evoked in all its incarnations, both actual and mythic.
The Poets and Poetry of the West
Title | The Poets and Poetry of the West PDF eBook |
Author | William Turner Coggeshall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Poets and Poetry of the West
Title | The Poets and Poetry of the West PDF eBook |
Author | William T. Coggeshall |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 2022-08-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 337510538X |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
West Wind
Title | West Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Oliver |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780395850855 |
A collection of forty poems that explore the transformation of love and nature over time.
The Poets and Poetry of the West
Title | The Poets and Poetry of the West PDF eBook |
Author | William Turner Coggeshall |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781418134990 |
Once in the West
Title | Once in the West PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Wiman |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2014-09-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374713545 |
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets Memories mercies mostly aren't but there were I swear days veined with grace —from "Memory's Mercies" Once in the West, Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets—from the "suffering of primal silence" that it plumbs to the "rockshriek of joy" that it achieves and enables. Readers of Wiman's earlier books will recognize the sharp characterizations and humor—"From her I learned the earthworm's exemplary open-mindedness, / its engine of discriminate shit"—as well as his particular brand of reverent rage: "Lord if I implore you please just please leave me alone / is that a prayer that's every instant answered?" But there is something new here, too: moving love poems to his wife, tender glimpses of his children, and, amid the onslaughts of illness and fear and failures, "a trace / of peace."