Tag: Poem

Kapusta a play-poem-ash, a cabaret


Free Download Erín Moure, "Kapusta: a play-poem-ash, a cabaret"
English | 2015 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1770899839, 1770894810 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure’s poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.

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Nature Poem


Free Download Tommy Pico, "Nature Poem"
English | 2017 | pages: 88 | ISBN: 1941040632 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.

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The Red List A Poem


Free Download Stephen Cushman, "The Red List: A Poem"
English | 2014 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0807156892 | PDF | 1,0 mb
The "red list" of Stephen Cushman’s new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge of extinction. The volume marks the inevitability of such changes, from danger to safety, from certainty to uncertainty, from joy to sadness and back again. In a single poem that advances through wordplay and association, Cushman meditates on subjects as vast as the earth’s fragile ecosystem and as small as the poet’s own deflated fantasy of self-importance: "There aren’t any jobs for more Jeremiahs."

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The Lyric Poem Formations and Transformations


Free Download The Lyric Poem: Formations and Transformations By Thain, Marion(Editor)
2013 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 1107010845 | PDF | 4 MB
As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre.

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