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What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem--including its diction, form, imagery, and rhythm--and construct an interpretation of its meaning. Using guided close readings and nearly 40 creative and critical experiments, this book shows how a poem takes shape through the intersection of all its lyric elements. Drawing on the work of poets from William Shakespeare to Jericho Brown, Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens reveals how to read and write critically, and how to appreciate--and achieve--the exhilarating craft of poetry.
Welcome to the most comprehensive compilation of English poetry in a single volume.
Explore a world of timeless verse featuring the most famous English poems ever written, all within the pages of this remarkable poetry book. If you're seeking a literary treasure that encompasses centuries of poetic excellence, you've found it.
The following 30 poems are a selection from the book's contents:
This remarkable English Poetry Anthology is a treasury of 150 of the Most Famous Poems spanning the centuries, from the enchanting verses of the Middle Ages to the timeless elegance of the 20th century. These celebrated poems stand as enduring masterpieces of English Literature, their profound words inspiring and resonating with people from every corner of the globe.
And there's more to this treasure-beyond its exceptional content. This poetry compilation also comes in a substantial 8x10-inch (20.32 x 25.4 cm) format, making it an ideal gift for poetry lovers, literature students, and teachers, or an impressive addition to your personal book collection.
The following renowned poets are featured in this book:
Matthew Arnold - William Blake - Anne Bradstreet - Rupert Brooke - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning -William Cullen Bryant - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lewis Carroll - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - E.E. Cummings - Walter John de la Mare - Emily Dickinson - John Donne - Paul Laurence Dunbar - T. S. Eliot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Robert Frost - Mary Elizabeth
Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance, wrote Alexander Pope. The dance, in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work--and enables readers, as only she can, to enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure.
With an anthology of fifty poems representing the best metrical poetry in English, from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop.
11:11 is a poetry/prose book about love and lust, traumas, healing, and new beginnings. It is separated into these four chapters and each one contains poems and musings about my personal life experiences with abuse, coming from a broken home, and people and places I've encountered that inspired or impacted me in some sort of way. Ultimately it is meant to be inspiring and uplifting as I also talk about my journey of healing, growth, and becoming who I am today. It is very introspective and gives a glimpse into my inner world, thoughts, and feelings.
More than 30 acclaimed writers--including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy--reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit.
How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world.
For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a poem or story or character? How do Black writers, when faced with questions of authenticity, dive deep into the essence of their lives and work to find the inherent truth? How We Do It addresses these profound questions. Not a traditional how to writing handbook, it seeks to guide rather than dictate and to validate the complexity and range of styles--and even how one thinks about craft itself.
An outstanding list of contributors offer their insights on a range of important topics. Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown explores the lives personified in poetry, while Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey explores decolonizing enduring metaphors. National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy illuminates the pain of grief in all forms and how it can be revealed in the act of creation, and iconoclast Nikki Giovanni offers an elegiac declaration on language.
New and previously published essays and interviews provide encouragement, examples, and templates, and offer lessons on everything from poetic form and plotting a story to the lessons inherent in the act of writing, trial & error, and finding inspiration in the works of others, including those of Toni Morrison, Shakespeare, and Edward P. Jones. A handbook and a reference tool, How We Do It is a thoughtful and welcome tool that offers direction to help Black artists establish their own creative practice while celebrating and widening the scope of the Black writer's role in art, history, and culture.
Contributors include Daniel Omotosho Black, Jericho Brown, Breena Clark, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, W. Ralph Eubanks, Curdella Forbes, Angela Flournoy, Ernest Gaines, Nikki Giovanni, Marita Golden, Ravi Howard, Terrance Hayes, Mitchell S. Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Charles Johnson, Tayari Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Tony Medina, E. Ethelbert Miller, Elizabeth Nunez, Carl Phillips, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Rion Amilcar Scott, Evie Shockley, Natasha Trethewey, Frank X Walker, Afaa M. Weaver, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacqueline Woodson, Tiphanie Yanique.
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. This structure--this architecture--is the essential drama of the poem's composition, she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of America's best and most influential poets and teachers.
I believe that my life was a happy one, because I always saw the positive side of things. (PT Barnum)
When my brother passed away from brain cancer in 2020, I started questioning life's purpose. Imagine my surprise when I started finding answers within my brother's old photographs.
This empowering book of poetry will inspire you to look within yourself and strengthen your faith so that you can turn challenging life events into enriching learning experiences. A portion of book sales will be donated to charity.
Her unexpected journey included:
What she learned from it all:
Your strength comes from the storms you walk through in life. No rain, no flowers.
It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . . Doty finds refuge in the sensory experience found in poems by Blake, Whitman, Bishop, and others. The Art of Description is an invaluable book by one of America's most revered writers and teachers.
Fully revamped and expanded, this second edition offers a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. Mapping out 38 foundational elements of poetry including image, line, point of view, metaphor, movement, and music, authors Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing prompts. The book guides readers through a range of poetic modes and styles such as:
o Elegies and Odes
o Found poems
o Aubades and Nocturnes
o Documentary and Protest poems
o Ars Poetica
o Lyric and Narrative poems
o Personas and Portraits
With a focus on contemporary poems, the anthology features a truly diverse and global line-up of poets and poems to illustrate the elements and craft discussed in the book. Featuring all-new chapters on traditional poetic forms, prosody, writing poems that engage the current moment, and the value and ethics of imitation, this is the ultimate companion to studying and practicing the craft of poetry.
In this poetry collection you can wander into an enchanted forest and be immersed in it. You can read relatable poems about mental health and impostor syndrome. You can also fall in love and then have your heart broken. You can read about God's grace, love, and forgiveness. You can read about the joys and struggles of being a mom. Finally, you can be captivated by different seasons.
Symmetry
What is beautiful?
When we are completely
Symmetrical?
If so, who at all has beauty?
Anyone?
How boring would life be
If we were all just
Symmetry?
From the Struggle to the Win
The human struggle is real.
Hope propels you to purpose.
Ordinary power is not enough.
A collision between the physical and spiritual certain.
Breakthrough is within your reach.
Riveting. This book is filled with positive influences from God's Holy Word, letting people know they don't have to remain hopeless in the dark as they journey through life. -Dr. Laura Hunt, Doctor of Biblical Study
Mittie brilliantly allows the reader to experience God's presence. You can't help but be encouraged and see how God is always close. Thank you for showing we can overcome even when life gets hard. -Paula Breaux, Director of Enterprise Application Services University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Mittie captured that the spiritual journey is not always smooth sailing. But with mind, ears, and eyes fixed on Jesus, you will get to the breakthrough. -Lionel Wiltz, Interstate Equipment Transfer Technician
The author brought to my life a ray of light, spiritual strength, hope, and inspiration. -Ellen D. Bogues BSN, LSU Medical Center
THE SHAHNAMEH was completed in the year 1010 by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. A monumental undertaking encompassing ancient myths, legends, and history, it is one of Iran's most cherished works of literature. This is a chronicle of kings and heroes, of battles and deeds, written in verse that is compelling, lyrical, and evocative. Ferdowsi sought to capture an ancient civilization through its myths and legends. He created a framework that is steeped in the inherent universal wisdom of humanity, exploring its continuum from one generation to another, from one dynasty to another. Josiane Cohanim's translation in simple, modern, non-rhyming verse, makes the epic poem accessible to contemporary readers.
The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they already know but don't really know.
Donald Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, Revell writes. Beginning in the senses, imagination senses farther, senses more. Using examples from his own poetry