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2. Papermaking prosody.
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Bottiglieri, Janice
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POETRY (Literary form) ,PAPER industry ,PULP mills ,PUBLIC opinion - Abstract
The author points out the effectiveness of applying poetic style in writing research papers specially when they are about the pulp mills and paper industry. She said that most people just ignore poetry because, just like coating chemistry, they find it uninteresting. The author has mentioned the celebration of April as the National Poetry Month in the U.S., thus, she added, that poetry is already a part of people's daily lives.
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- 2006
3. Poetry as a Healing Modality in Medicine: Current State and Common Structures for Implementation and Research.
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Kwok, Ian, Keyssar, Judith Redwing, Spitzer, Lee, Kojimoto, Gayle, Hauser, Joshua, Ritchie, Christine Seel, and Rabow, Michael
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HEALTH policy , *HEALING , *RESEARCH implementation , *POETRY (Literary form) , *PALLIATIVE medicine , *HOSPICE nurses , *HOSPICE care , *GRIEF - Abstract
In healthcare institutions across the country, the role of poetry continues to emerge within the liminal spaces between the medical humanities and clinical care. While the field of narrative medicine is well-developed generally, formal review of the state of poetry as a healing modality is limited. Poetry in the medical humanities literature has often been described by its indefinability as much as by its impact on healing. The power of poetry in healthcare is thought to be multi-faceted and deserves to be explored further. Poetry can be medicine for both patient and clinician. "Poetic Medicine" is a modality that has been utilized for the healing of grief, loss, wounds of the psyche and spirit, and as a process for expanding resiliency in healthcare-applications that are particularly relevant to the practice of hospice and palliative medicine-for patient and clinician alike. While numerous approaches share common themes, current programs bringing poetry into healthcare have been operating largely in isolation from each other-with a lack of national consensus on definitions or structures of interventions. Such isolation is a major restriction to the study and growth of Poetic Medicine. While it is not known with certitude, the number of Poetic Medicine programs in healthcare in the United States appears to be growing. In this paper, we propose an initial framework to define the role and impact of poetry in healthcare and then describe two different, well-established Poetic Medicine programs in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. "Mr. Health" Struggles with Medicare: Sen. Lister Hill's Role in Forging Compromise NHI Legislation.
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MARKLEY, GREGORY MICHAEL
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MEDICARE , *NATIONAL health insurance , *POETRY (Literary form) ,UNITED States politics & government - Abstract
This paper studies the Medicare debate through the eyes of U.S. Sen. Lister Hill (D.-AL). His reaction to national health insurance bills was common among Southern liberals. Yet as Mr. Health, Hill found himself in a uniquely powerful role. Many Southerners were willing to dispense with relatively inexpensive health care offered them because they feared âsocialized medicine.â During the Great Depression, Hill developed his advocacy for federal government aid to include unemployment relief, old age pensions, and especially medical assistance. Still, his efforts on behalf of his constituents were widely criticized as Alabamians were averse to a big government financed with big taxes. By the late 1950s, Hill had to become more conservative regarding race, or his liberalism would haunt him. Yet he continued to have a wide progressive imprint, notably in hospital construction and medical research. Why did he vote for a bold scheme like Medicare despite knowing many considered it âsocialism?â Certainly, Lister Hillâs relationships with so many doctors colored his appraisal of legislation like Medicare. He struggled to find a middle ground on national health insurance even as he sought to provide government medical care for his poor constituents. Hill welcomed new ideas but did not want to endanger the private medical communityâs status as key provider of health care. Over time his views evolved so he felt comfortable enough with the governing mechanisms and compromises in the Medicare bill to support it. The senator came to believe Medicare was not âsocialized medicineâ in any nefarious form. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
5. Poets House Showcase: selected titles 2011.
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Harris, Reginald and Bartlett, Byron
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LIBRARY special collections ,POETRY (Literary form) ,COLLECTION development in libraries ,LIBRARIES ,TRADE shows - Abstract
Purpose – Poets House, a poetry special collection in New York, hosts an annual exhibit of the preceding year's poetry publications in the USA. This paper aims to offer a selection of recommended titles that reflect the range of poetry titles including single-author works, anthologies, and prose about poetry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper researched and requested donations of 2010-2011 poetry titles from US poetry publishers to assemble and display a comprehensive collection of poetry publications, from which a selection of 50 titles was made. The selections should appeal to a range of poetry readers, from novices and students to poets looking to access the latest work from their peers. Findings – Over 2,500 poetry titles were published and/or available to readers in the USA between June 2010 and June 2011. These titles range from mainstream publishers to independent presses to artists' collectives publishing works from established poets as well as emerging and international poets. Research limitations/implications – Without a budget for collection development, the exhibit and resulting titles represent those which publishers have opted to donate to the library. Every effort is made to be all-inclusive, with the understanding that publishers may send only a selection of their list. The selected titles herein are based on the titles received for the exhibition. Practical implications – For 19 years Poets House's annual Showcase has been the main collection-development tool. Publishers donate copies of their titles, which are arranged by publisher for a month-long exhibition. This approach enriches the poetry special collection, a unique poetry library built on community participation. The all-inclusive collection-development approach results in a full representation of poetry publishing. Originality/value – A selection made from a comprehensive collection of the year's poetry titles offers a sample of poetry publishing from large to small presses and the self-published in the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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6. When I Am Asked: Lisel Mueller's Beginning in Poetry.
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CORDOVA, JUSTIN C. and YOUNG, JAMES B.
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NATIONAL Book Awards ,POETRY (Literary form) ,POETRY collections ,NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 ,PULITZER Prizes - Abstract
Why does anyone write poetry? Lisel Mueller (1924-2020) was a poet, author, and translator with a long and much-decorated career. She and her family fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and emigrated to the United States, where she would establish herself as a writer. The poem "When I Am Asked" describes the beginning of her journey into poetry, undertaken during a period of grief after the death of her mother. Her writing would come to include nine collections of poetry and myriad accolades, including the 1981 National Book Award and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Though her ouvre is filled with evocative works, this piece stands out as particularly relevant to physicians and other writers who find solace by expressing themselves through the art of poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Seeing the city through the lens of newspaper poetry: An analysis of Milwaukee, 1967–73.
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Paniagua Guzman, Antonio
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CITIES & towns ,CONTENT analysis ,POETRY (Literary form) ,PUBLIC spaces - Abstract
There is a strong connection between cities and literature; they inhabit and shape each other. Sociologists have studied the relationship between them, looking at how literary meaning is developed and how it shapes urban and social milieus. While there is a large body of poetry-based research, newspaper poetry remains largely unexplored in the United States. Drawing on discourse and content analysis of a new and never-used set of poems published in Milwaukee's two major alternative newspapers between 1967 and 1973, this article analyses poetic representations of Milwaukee's social, institutional and urban dimensions. Additionally, it examines variability and continuity in the focus of these poems, as well as the factors that might shape these patterns. The results show multiple technical and rhetoric mechanisms used by poets when representing that historical period poetically and reveal that even in periods of intense social upheaval, 'love' and 'death' appear to be the primary themes in which poets focus on. This article also devotes particular attention to the relationship between poetry and the urban space, and the implications of platforms of distribution and consumption in poetic representations of cities' historical periods and change building on literature on the connections between local environment and cultural production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy.
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Seligman, Rebecca
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PRACTICAL politics ,EVIDENCE-based medicine ,MENTAL health ,METAPHOR ,EXPERIENCE ,COMMUNICATION ,MENTAL depression ,POETRY (Literary form) ,EMOTIONS ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,COGNITIVE therapy - Abstract
This article explores the relationship between metaphors and emotion in the context of adolescent distress and psychotherapeutic treatment. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of Mexican American adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems, the article examines what I call "prescribed" metaphors deployed in mainstream, manualized child and adolescent Cognitive Behavioral Therapies commonly used in mainstream clinical contexts. I explore the models of emotion communicated to youth by one such metaphor, youth responses to this metaphor, and the potential implications for young people as they take up the underlying models and affective practices embedded in the metaphor. Specifically, I examine how youth respond to messages about emotion metacognition and emotion regulation embedded in a metaphor that equates feelings with temperatures that can be monitored and objectively measured. I find that youth are at once convinced that abstract knowledge about internal states is inherently valuable because it is linked to desired forms of personhood, but also concerned about the limits of technical metaphors to capture aspects of lived experience and the flattening and homogenization of affect that might accompany the practices such metaphors help to enact. I analyze alternative interpretations of prescribed metaphors as well as the spontaneous metaphors used by youth to talk about their emotions and experiences of distress, in an effort to think through the politics and poetics of emotion metaphors in the context of an evidence-based psychotherapy for young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. JESUS WAS A CARPENTER: Labor Song-Poets, Labor Protest, and True Religion in Gilded Age America.
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Halker, C.
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LABOR ,POETRY (Literary form) ,SOCIAL movements ,LABOR unions ,LABOR movement - Abstract
The article examines the use of song-poetry as a vital element in the labor movement in the period 1865-1895. Karl Reuber is not a name scholars are likely to recall. Reuber earned his livelihood polishing furniture and pianos in Pittsburgh in the decades surrounding the Civil War. Like most working-class Americans, he did not leave behind personal papers or memoirs. He was simply one of the millions of workers who owed their survival to the nation's burgeoning industrial base. However, Reuber also joined those who repeatedly rose in protest against the abuses of the rising capitalist elite from 1865 to 1895 and who sought to check capitalist domination by joining fellow workers in a movement for collective redress. Worker gatherings featured song-poetry as a regular part of their agenda, while labor "bards" engendered considerable followings with skills of composition and declamation. The majority of these bards emerged from the ranks of the nation's burgeoning workforce, iron molders, coal miners, coopers, machinists, printers, shoemakers, bakers, railroad brakemen and engineers. This lore and song certainly deserves study in its own right. However, the greatest value of song-poetry may derive from its examination as cultural artifacts and historical documents.
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- 1991
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10. Eyes on the Prize?
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Selman, Robyn
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AWARDS ,BOOKS ,POETRY (Literary form) ,WOMEN authors - Abstract
The article presents information on the some book prizes awarded to young women writers. There are very few first-book prizes available in the United States, and only two are: Barnard's New Women Poets Series and the Eighth Mountain Press Prize are awarded solely to women. Patricia Storace, herself a Barnard Storace can begin a poem from a place as external as a light-house and end, quite beautifully, with the murmurs of interior heredity graduate, was the first winner of the prize. Dorothy Barresi's"All of the Above,"on the other hand, the fifth collection in the Barnard Series, resides in the commonplace tradition of poetry.
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- 1990
11. Origins and Development of Translations of Chinese Classical Chan Poetry in the United States.
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Qin Si
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CHINESE poetry ,TRANSLATIONS of poetry ,ENGLISH poetry ,LITERATURE translations ,POETRY (Literary form) ,TRANSLATING & interpreting - Abstract
Since around the 1970s, the United States has published numerous collections of translated Chinese Chan poetry and single volumes of poems by Chan hermit poets, gradually forming a prominent feature and a sub-field of translation poetry in the introduction of Chinese classical poetry into the US. Chan poetry translation can be classified as literature translation, poetry, as well as religious text. The author intends to trace and sort out the historical context of the formation of the field of Chan poetry translation in the United States from three aspects: religion, literature, and poetry translation at the time of the occurrence of Chan poetry translation in English, and to reproduce the origin and development of Chan poetry translation in the United States. Ultimately, the formation and establishment of Chan poetry translation stems from the historical interaction and fusion of religion, literature, and translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
12. Poetry as a Form of Dissent: John F. Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, and the Politics of Art in Rhetorical Democracy.
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St. Onge, Jeffrey and Moore, Jennifer
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POETRY (Literary form) , *DISSENTERS , *ART & politics - Abstract
Rhetoric and poetics have a long historical relationship; however, there is a dearth of literature in contemporary rhetorical studies that analyzes poems as forms of democratic dissent. This article begins with an assessment of John F. Kennedy’s eulogy of Robert Frost, followed with an analysis of Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art,” a poem that both supports and challenges Kennedy’s defense of poetry. Ultimately, this paper makes an argument for why critics might pay closer attention to poetry as both a medium for expressing dissenting messages and as an example of how language play itself can function as valuable democratic dissent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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13. Favoring Nature: Herman Melville's “On the Photograph of a Corps Commander”.
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MILLER, ANDREW
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LITERARY criticism ,LITERATURE & photography ,MASCULINITY in literature ,AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
This paper involves a close reading of Herman Melville's poem “On the Photograph of a Corps Commander,” published in Melville's 1866 collection Battle-Pieces. Realizing that Melville's poem is one of the first descriptions (ekphrases) of a photograph in verse, the paper explores how Melville's poem uses physiognomy to describe the subject of the photograph: an American Civil War general, who is only identified as “the Corps Commander.” In this way, Melville's poem reflects the nineteenth-century philosophical and popular notions of photography. These notions came to regard photography as a Neoplatonic medium capable of recording and revealing the inner character of its subjects. Relying on these conceptions of photography, Melville's poem describes the photograph of the Corps Commander as having the power to reveal the Platonic absolute of American masculinity, and thus it comes to hail the photograph as a semi-sacred image that has the power to draw Anglo-Saxon American men into a common brotherhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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14. The Unified Vision of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
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coleman, McGregor
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HUMAN rights , *FICTION , *POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
The paper I will present is on the nineteenth century figure Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Her career as educator, lecturer, abolitionist, feminist, suffragist, essayist, poet, and novelist follow a unified path in the struggle for human rights in the United States. Rather than explore the aesthetic qualities of these different aspects of her professional life, I will discuss the political, economic, and philosophical impact of her work within her social, political and historical contexts. The plan is to analyze her novels: Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph, and of course, Iola Leroy in terms of how they illuminate her views. In addition I will discuss the poems "Rizpah, the Daughter of Ai," "Vashti," "Moses: A Story of the Nile," and the collection Sketches of Southern Life as well as other poems and their contributes to understanding her political, social, and economic ideas. A selection of her essays will provide the last pieces of evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
15. NT Behind the Scenes: FloweTry: A Collection of 108 Poetic Flows on Life, Love, and Liturgical... Dr. Kimberly Hillyer and Dr. Tiffanie Tate Moore.
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Hillyer, Kimberly
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DRUG addiction ,ADVERSE childhood experiences ,LIFE change events ,VOCATIONAL guidance ,SPIRITUALITY ,MILITARY medicine ,RITES & ceremonies ,GYNECOLOGY ,SHOOTINGS (Crime) ,OBSTETRICS ,CRIME victims ,EXPERIENCE ,QUALITY of life ,BOOKS ,ACCIDENTAL falls ,LOVE ,POETRY (Literary form) ,PHYSICIANS ,WRITTEN communication ,FAMILY relations ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation ,AUTHORSHIP ,PARENTS ,PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience ,PSYCHOLOGICAL stress - Abstract
An interview with Dr. Tiffanie Tate Moore, author of "FloweTry: A collection of 108 poetic flows on Life, Love, and Liturgical issues" is presented. Topics discussed include influence of Dr. Moore's life journey on the poems and influence of poems on her life, numbers of poem in her book, and poem that inspired the most joyful memories in her life.
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- 2022
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16. WHITMAN I AMERYKA MIŁOSZA.
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ZACH, JOANNA
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LYRIC poetry ,POETRY (Literary form) ,EXILES - Abstract
This paper investigates the ambiguous process of Czesław Miłosz’s integration with America (both its nature and culture) in the context of his literary commitments and“private obligations” to American poetry. It was a long and painful process, a constant struggle with the condition of exile, feelings of homelessness and uprootedness that finally revealed to the poet a “new identity” of the modern man, bound to recognize his unstable, shaky position in space and time. According to Miłosz, America was the testing ground for all mankind, and the very core of American literature had always been the question: “Who am I?”. Thus, Miłosz’s serious involvement in American history and culture gave him a new perspective on global civilization; it helped to recreate his own identity and to achieve a balance between homelessness and belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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17. A.D. HOPE'S ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN LITERATURE.
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WELLS, DAVID N.
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RUSSIAN literature ,LITERARY criticism ,POETRY (Literary form) ,ARCHIVAL research ,LITERATURE appreciation - Abstract
The article explores the engagement of Australian poet A. D. Hope with Russian literature and argues for its centrality in Hope's thinking in the last three decades of his poetry. The author discusses Hope's essays, epistolary correspondences, and the notebooks archived at the National Library of Australia to trace Hope's familiarity with the Russian language, his translation projects, and the Russian essays Hope includes in his book "The New Cratylus: Notes on the Craft of Poetry."
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- 2010
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18. “Still, she didn't see what I was trying to say”:Towards a history of framing Navajo English in Navajo written poetry.
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WEBSTER, ANTHONY K.
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POETRY (Literary form) , *NATIVE Americans , *DIALECTS , *LANGUAGE & languages - Abstract
This paper outlines the ways that Navajo poetry was framed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as “unsophisticated” and non-literary by the introductory materials written by non-Native Americans for collections of Native American poetry. At issue was a view that saw the use of Navajo English, a distinctive vernacular dialect, as a deficient form of language use and the ways this was iconically read as an exemplar of the “inarticulate” Indian stereotype. I analyse the way that T.D. Allen presents Navajo poet Blackhorse Mitchell's first written poem and I contrast that with the ways that Mitchell described the motivations for the writing of the poem, the meaning of the poem, and the ways that in performing the poem in 2008 he changes the tense system that was imposed by Allen onto the poem back to a Navajo English aspectual system. Mitchell reasserts his authorship over this poem and the expressive potential of that poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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19. "Beyond My Outrage or My Admiration": Postnational Critique in Robert Pinsky's "An Explanation of America."
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Gwiazda, Piotr
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POETRY (Literary form) , *MULTICULTURALISM , *PATRIOTISM , *CONSCIOUSNESS , *RESEMBLANCE (Philosophy) - Abstract
This paper examines Robert Pinsky's book-length poem "An Explanation of America" (1979) through the lens of postnational critique. Although at first glance the poem embodies Pinsky's commitment to the unitary idea of American nation and culture, it also provides a useful vantage point from which to explore late twentieth-century poetry's engagements with global and local frameworks. "An Explanation of America" upholds the value of patriotism as a form of social attachment, but also acknowledges the role of cosmopolitan consciousness in the construction of American identity. In doing so, the poem clarifies the issues of identity, alterity and multiculturalism at the heart of current conversations about American postnation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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20. “They Answered Him Aloud”: Popular Voice and Nationalist Discourse in Melville's Battle-Pieces.
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Barrett, Faith
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CRITICISM ,NATIONALISM in literature ,AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
The article presents a literary criticism of the poetry collection "Battle-Pieces," by Herman Melville, analyzing the treatment of nationalism in their poetic voicing. The literary debate over Unionism in the post-Civil War era of the United States is highlighted. The author asserts that Melville intentionally utilized the influence of poetry as a form of political discourse.
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- 2007
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21. Standing Up Against the Giant.
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Benson, Diane E.
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INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas ,NATIVE American college students ,POETRY (Literary form) ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Relates the experiences of an Alaska Indian college student while studying at the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the public outcry of Alaska Indians over the poem "Indian Girls." Inequality in the university; Information on the conflict between the Indian student and a poetry professor; Description of the poem.
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- 2003
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22. Tangents 82-98.
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Boykoff, Jules
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POETS ,POETS laureate ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
The article presents information on tangents from number 82 to tangent number 98. According to tangent number 84 the new poet laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, said about his $35,000-a-year position, "This is really an apolitical position, and I think it ought to stay that way." Poetry is sort of a small piece of order. 85 number tangent says 1960s Daniel Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and a consultant to both the Department of Defense and the White House. In this time period he worked on a top-secret study of US decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68-the study later came to be known as the "Pentagon Papers."
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- 2005
23. News and Comments.
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Hodson, Sara S.
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POETRY (Literary form) ,LITERARY prizes ,EDUCATIONAL programs ,ORAL interpretation of poetry ,SOCIETIES - Abstract
Presents updates concerning the Wallace Stevens Society in the U.S. as of Fall 2001. Literary award received by poetry editor Joseph Duemer from the Ohio State University; Papers that will be presented at the Wallace Stevens Society program in New Orleans, Louisiana; Initiation of the fourth annual Wallace Stevens Memorial Poetry Reading in West Hartford, Connecticut.
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- 2001
24. Preface.
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Scodel, Ruth
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,POETRY (Literary form) ,CLASSICAL poetry - Abstract
Provides an overview of the papers presented at the conference "Greek at a Slight Angle: Cavafy and Classical Poetry," held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 2002. Aim of the conference; Theme of the "Cavafy's Poetry of the Lost," by Daniel Mendelsohn; Focus of the conference.
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- 2003
25. Los Recuerdos de la Maestra Turned PhD Student.
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Snyder, Rachel
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ELEMENTARY school teachers ,BILINGUAL education ,BILINGUAL teachers ,POETRY (Literary form) ,ENGLISH language ,SPANISH language - Abstract
This poem reflects on my work as an elementary level bilingual teacher. In the poem I highlight poignant moments shared with my Latinx students. I also explore my positionality and its significance in my work as a teacher. The poem uses a fluid mixture of English and Spanish to represent the daily linguistic culture of our shared classroom life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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26. How Clown Behavior is Affecting Classroom Instruction.
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Carrier, Naomi
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AFRICAN American students , *UNITED States education system , *POETRY (Literary form) , *CLOWNING , *WIT & humor - Abstract
Today, we can choose whatever school we want to send our children to, however, at the schools in our neighborhood, where mis-education was once a tool of the oppressor our children are now being mis-educated because they refuse to listen. I wrote this poem based on my observations of black students: Laugh at me. Ain’t I funny? I’m a jungle bunny I’m a clown And I can bring yo laughter down. It is necessary to bring your attention to this clown behavior syndrome because our kids are watching too much MTV and BET and these shows daily reinforce funniness and ‘clown behavior’. Although laughter was once a defense mechanism for the enslaved, a way to bring joy into a situation where there was none, now that we are ‘free,’ joking and clowning has become a way of life, acceptable social behavior, to the extent black folks are expected to be funny, in fact they are the funniest. It is okay to laugh at black folks, just like back in the days of black face minstrels, blacks on TV will do anything to get a laugh, including but not limited to, talk about their mamas, wear crazy clothes, pull their clothes off, dance vulgar, say the nastiest things they can imagine–emotional, immature, irresponsible, childish behavior–void of education or refinement–the exact opposite of where we are trying to go in an American classroom. Teachers of other races who cannot or do not care to understand this phenomenon, simply do not want to teach black students because they require too much attention and have too many issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
27. Writing as defamiliarization processes: An alternative approach to understanding aesthetic experience in young children's poetry writing.
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Hong, Huili
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AESTHETICS ,ART ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,CONVERSATION ,CREATIVE ability ,DISCOURSE analysis ,ELEMENTARY schools ,IMAGINATION ,LANGUAGE acquisition ,LITERACY ,TEACHER-student relationships ,WRITING ,ETHNOLOGY research ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
This article provides a unique lens for understanding young children's poetry writing. It focuses on defamiliarization as a cultural tool and practice to engage students' imagination, playfulness, creativity and aesthetic experience into their poetry writing and to experience the world differently and aesthetically. The research aims of this article are (a) to examine how familiar things were defamiliarized in children's poetry writing process and poems and (b) to explore what and how aesthetic experiences could result from the defamiliarization process. More specifically, three key literacy events were selected from different writing units during one academic year. Ethnographic discourse analysis was adopted to examine the teacher–student interactive conversations in poetry writing when they defamiliarized their familiar things, places and situation. The data analysis showed that the defamiliarization process made an important contribution to the young writers' development of language, literacy and their sense of self as a writer. The results exemplified defamiliarization processes as a way to promote the teaching and learning of writing for aesthetic experience beyond linguistic text production. Furthermore, the article provides critical indicators that link children's writing and multilayered aesthetic experience, and it highlights the critical role of an adult/teacher in channelling children's affinity with play, imagination, creativity and aesthetic experience into their poetry writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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28. "O YOU SINGER SOLITARY": WALT WHITMAN ON THE CLOSET.
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SCHMIDGALL, GARY
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POETRY (Literary form) ,19TH century history ,CULTURE - Published
- 2019
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29. Even he wrote teen-angst poems.
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Silver, Marc
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POETRY (Literary form) ,SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 ,POETS laureate - Abstract
Interviews Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate. Stir that his poem about the September 11th terrorist attacks caused; Details of his new book, 'Nine Horses'; Why his popularity dismays some critics.
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- 2002
30. WORSHIPPING WALT.
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Robertson, Michael
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AUTHORS ,POETS ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
Presents information on the Bolton Whitmanites, a group formed by John Johnston and J. W. Wallace of Bolton, England whose mission was to promote poet Walt Whitman of the U.S. Start of the correspondence between Whitman and the group; Profile of Johnston and Wallace; Examples of the poems of Whitman.
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- 2004
31. Ford and the Fuhrer.
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Silverstein, Ken
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POETRY (Literary form) ,BUSINESS enterprises ,LAW firms - Abstract
The article presents a poem, which ran in an in-house magazine published by Ford Motor Co.'s German subsidiary in April of 1940. Titled "Führer," the poem appeared at a time when Ford maintained complete control of the German company and two of its top executives sat on the subsidiary's board. The poem was among thousands of pages of documents compiled by the Washington law firm of Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, which sought damages from Ford on behalf of a Russian woman who toiled as a slave laborer at its German plan. Ford argues that company headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, lost control of its German plant after the United States entered the war in 1941. Hence, Ford is not responsible for any actions taken by its German subsidiary during the World War II.
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- 2000
32. Archive Offers a New Look at the Lives of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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Ingalls, Zoe
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ARCHIVES ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
Focuses on the Ted Hughes Papers at Emory University. Archive that opens a window on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's life and art; Poems, `Birthday Letters,' by Hughes; Comments by Stephen Enniss, curator of the literary collections at Emory; Contents of the archive; Focus on the two poets' seven-year marriage.
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- 1999
33. GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra.
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AUTHORS ,ISOLATIONISM ,POETRY (Literary form) ,HOMOSEXUALITY - Abstract
The article offers information on writer Gore Vidal. It says that Vidal entered Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1940 and joined the school's America First movement, showing his interest with his grandfather's fierce isolationism. Vidal has a better profile during debates and publishes poems and stories in the school. However, Vidal dropped his isolationism and joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army on July 30, 1943. It mentions that Vidal joined the class of various notable persons including Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, and James Jones. He published "The City and the Pillar" in 1948 which was a story of homosexuality and became a bestseller. It adds that writing "The Best Man" had encouraged him to be the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York.
- Published
- 1976
34. Fall 2004 Hardcovers: Poetry.
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Dahlin, Robert, Danford, Natalie, Hix, Charles, Riippa, Karole, and Riippa, Laurele
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BOOKS ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
Presents a list of books on poetry available in the U.S. as of fall 2004. "Mercy," by Lucille Clifton; "A Second Space," by Czeslaw Milosz; "Unrecounted," by W.G. Sebald.
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- 2004
35. hardcovers: Poetry.
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Riippa, Laurele, Dahlin, Robert, Danford, Natalie, Hix, Charles, and Riippa, Karole
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BOOKS ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
Presents a list of poetry books available in the U.S. starting March 2004. "The Woman I Kept to Myself," by Julia Alvarez; "Rampant," by Marvin Bell; "The Long Meadow," by Vijay Seshadri.
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- 2004
36. The Counter Text Interview: Stephanie Strickland.
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Strickland, Stephanie, Aquilina, Mario, and Callus, Ivan
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POETRY (Literary form) ,HYPERTEXT literature ,KNOWLEDGE acquisition (Expert systems) ,WOMEN authors - Abstract
An interview with U.S. writer Stephanie Strickland is presented. She states her interest in code, mathematics, and poetry as languages. She notes that electronic literature does not tends towards fragmentation and reading and knowledge acquisition make use of fragment in number of ways. She mentions that one cannot control proprietary obsolescing of platforms and commercial refusal to agree to common standards.
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- 2016
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37. Unguessed Gestures in Effective Institutions: Poetry's Threats to Urban Schooling.
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PINDYCK, MAYA
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HIGHER education ,TEACHING ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
The article discusses the connection of poetry on the role of classroom teachers at the higher education in the U.S.
- Published
- 2016
38. A Poetry Portfolio: Reflections on Hmong American Exile and a Literary Future.
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Vang, Mai Der
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HMONG (Asian people) ,HMONG Americans ,HMONG literature ,POETRY (Literary form) ,AUTHORS - Published
- 2017
39. CONVERSATION BETWEEN MEENA ALEXANDER AND TIMOTHY GREEN.
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POETS ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
An interview with American poet and author Meena Alexander is presented, wherein she talks about the use of poetry, how she get started writing poetry, and her memories of growing up in India.
- Published
- 2016
40. Fear of poetry.
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Myles, Eileen
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POETRY (Literary form) ,SOCIALISM ,WAR ,INFANTS - Abstract
The article presents information on the book "The Life of Poetry," by Muriel Rukeyser. Like most of Muriel Rukeyser's work, The Life of Poetry has been out of print for twenty years, so its reappearance is a genuine cultural event. Mainly it's a collection of talks Rukeyser gave in the forties, in America at a time of war. Written in an expansive prose-poetic style, it's a scarily beautiful book, almost disorienting in its clarity. The book is in part a response to the New Critics of the forties and fifties, who rejected her socialist leanings, her need to write poems about crying babies and unreconstituted nature, and even the occasional remark from God.
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- 1997
41. Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism.
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Keyser, Catherine
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PHARMACOLOGY ,POETRY (Literary form) ,POPULAR culture ,SODA fountains - Abstract
The article analyzes the pharmacological racial imagination of the late poet and novelist Jean Toomer. Topics discussed include allusions to the modernist soda fountain to American popular culture, identity as a bubbling fluid in the novel "Cane," and literary modernism linking pathology and pain with the fragmented aesthetic in Toomer's narratives.
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- 2015
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42. Poetry in the Democratic Age: Tocqueville, Dickinson and Whitman.
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Krall, Lorraine
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POETRY (Literary form) , *DEMOCRACY , *ARISTOCRACY (Political science) , *POETS , *AMERICAN poetry - Abstract
In Democracy in America, Tocqueville distinguishes between poetry in the aristocratic age and poetry in the democratic age. While poetry in the aristocratic age is concerned with the past and with the supernatural in its relationship to the world, poetry in the democratic age is concerned with dreams of the future and with the divine in itself and only in ecstatic relationship to persons. According to Tocqueville, poetry in the democratic age needs new springs, which he identifies as the poets themselves—poets will draw their inspiration from their humanity. This focuses poetry on the human race in a way that it had not been in the past, and this may, in fact, help poetry reach its highest form of representing the ideal, according to Tocqueville.By considering Tocqueville’s comments on poetry in connection with American poetry that was contemporary to Tocqueville, particularly the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, it will be possible to trace out the themes to which Tocqueville pointed. Whitman is a close fit with Tocqueville’s insightful assertion of ecstatic relationship to the divine, as well as a focus on humanity. Dickinson, on the other hand, integrates aristocratic tendencies with democratic tendencies. We see this in her reliance on the natural world for subject matter and in her emphasis on the relationship of the divine to us through that world. Through Dickinson and Whitman’s poetry, we can further probe the question of what, if anything, can restrain and moderate the poetry of the democratic age. Furthermore, we can examine the implications of new forms of poetry for the political and social order and the relationship between the changes occurring in poetry and the changes occurring in the rest of society. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2009
43. Poetry, Politics and the Public Sphere: How Race Structures Public Discoure in Spoken Word Venues.
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Fleming, Crystal
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RESEARCH ,RACISM ,POETRY (Literary form) ,CRIMINAL procedure - Abstract
Research on the public sphere tends to characterize counterpublics as spaces for marginalized groups to freely express counterdiscourses, yet few studies examine precisely how and why individuals navigate between 'enclaves' and wider forums. This qualitative study aims to shed light on these processes by assessing the role of racial context in structuring discourse in predominately black and predominately white poetry venues. Since the mid 1980s, spoken word poetry has emerged as a popular form of cultural (and often political) expression, primarily due to the wide diffusion of 'poetry slams' and 'open-mics'. Through in-depth interviews with poets and participant observation at performances, I show that racial context structured public discourse through the mechanism of double consciousness. Perceptions of white attitudes compelled some poets to engage in audience segregation by limiting certain discourses to predominately black (or racially mixed) settings while others consciously challenged white expectations through intentional subversion. Significantly, very few African-Americans expressed discomfort with critiquing whites and racism in predominately white settings. Blacks most often explained self censorship in wider forums as an effort to maintain positive group representations of African-Americans â?”not as the product of being unable to critique dominant discourses. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
44. Introduction: Poetry in the Age of Tin.
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POETRY (Literary form) ,LITERARY criticism ,AMERICAN poetry ,CRITICISM ,AMERICAN literature - Abstract
The article explores the fall of poetry criticism and lost of audience in the U.S. It cites a study which reveals that one half of the adult population have not read a poem, play or novel. The author considers these adults as deprived of the joys of reading. The author expresses that students are taught that what was written is a text of equal value which must be deconstructed.
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- 2005
45. EUREKA DEPT.: THE SUICIDE POEM.
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Shenk, Jeshua Wolf
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POETRY (Literary form) ,SUICIDE in literature - Abstract
Focuses on the discovery of the lost suicide poem of Abraham Lincoln entitled "The Suicide's Soliloquy" published in the August 25, 1838 issue of "Sangamo Journal" in Springfield, Illinois. Reasons behind the popularity of the poem in the new era; Reputation of the poem; Connection between the suicide poem and death of Abraham Lincoln in the year 1865.
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- 2004
46. Literature as a Network: Creative-Writing Scholarship in Literary Magazines.
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Green, Harriett E.
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UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,ABSTRACTING & indexing services ,ART ,COLLECTION development in libraries ,COLLEGE teachers ,ELECTRONIC journals ,LITERATURE ,SERIAL publications ,WRITING ,ACCESS to information ,CITATION analysis ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
This article presents a study which analyzes citations from 19 leading print and digital literary journals in North America over a ten-year-period to examine the publication frequencies of academically affiliated writers as well as these writers' strength in various literary genres. It notes the increase in undergraduate and graduate programs for creative writing at universities in North America.
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- 2014
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47. David Humphreys' "Life of General Washington" with George Washington's "Remarks.".
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Fritz, Harry W.
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HISTORY of war ,WAR ,POETRY (Literary form) - Published
- 1991
48. The Reality in Langston Hughes' Poems.
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Ekanath, Nila
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POETRY (Literary form) ,HARLEM Renaissance ,AFRICAN American authors ,SLAVERY - Abstract
This paper discusses the real depiction of society in the Harlem poems of Langston Hughes. The introduction deals with the origin of slavery and the beginning of Harlem Renaissance. The African Americans begin to understand their significance in America. The Black writers of the twentieth century started to express this newborn feeling of having significance in society, the need for social equivalence, protesting against injustice, wanting to go in search of African roots and the feeling of belongingness in America. Langston Hughes especially, among many other writers took to freezing history in the lines of his poems. The most remarkable pieces of work are the poems that deal with the happenings in Harlem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
49. “A Radiant and Productive Atmosphere”: Encounters of Wallace Stevens and Stanley Cavell.
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KELLY, ÁINE
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PHILOSOPHY & literature ,PHILOSOPHY ,POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
Writing on such diverse works as Shakespeare's King Lear, Wallace Stevens's “Sunday Morning” and Vincente Minnelli's The Bandwagon, Stanley Cavell is a philosopher consistently moved to philosophize in the realm of the aesthetic. Cavell invokes Stevens, particularly, at moments of his oeuvre both casual and constructive. In a commemorative address of the “Pontigny-en-Amérique” encounters at Mount Holyoke College in 2006, Cavell takes Stevens as his direct subject. During the original Pontigny colloquia, held during the wartime summers of 1942–44, some of the leading European figures in the arts and sciences (among them Hannah Arendt and Claude Lévi-Strauss) gathered at Mount Holyoke with their American peers (Stevens, John Peale Bishop and Marianne Moore) for conversations about the future of human civilization and the place of philosophy in a precarious world. Stevens suggested at the Pontigny meeting that the philosopher, compared unfavourably to the poet, “fails to discover.” As it is precisely Cavell's acknowledgement of the accidental or the unexpected as displaced from philosophy that draws him to the writings of Stevens, the Mount Holyoke encounters promise an illuminating dialogue between the two. The affinity between such central champions of the poetic dimension of American philosophy is sometimes obvious, more times in question. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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50. from "The Poet" (1844).
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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POETS ,POETRY (Literary form) ,DEBATE - Abstract
An essay is presented on the role and representation of poets and poetry. It explores qualities of being a poet, including a sayer, being sovereign, and someone who can stand among partial men for the complete man. It also discusses the lack of poets in the U.S., the metre-making argument on poetry, and the inwardness and mystery of being a poet.
- Published
- 2012
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