The Uncommon Speech of Paradise: Poems on the Art of Poetry

Herausgeber: Hedin, Robert; Lenfensty, Jim

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Produktbeschreibung

The Uncommon Speech of Paradise allows poets themselves to speak through their poems about the art they practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: WHITE PINE PRESS
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781945680489
• ISBN-10: 1945680482
• Artikelnr.: 61220818

Autorenporträt

Robert Hedin is the author, translator, and editor of more than two-dozen books of poetry and prose. The recipient of many honors and awards for his work, including three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships as well as fellowships from the Bush, McKnight, and Yaddo Foundations, he has taught at the University of Alaska, the University of Minnesota, St. Olaf College, and Wake Forest University. He is co-founder (with his wife, Carolyn) and former director of the Anderson Center, a residential artist retreat in Red Wing, Minnesota. James Lenfestey is a former college professor, administrator, and award-winning editorial writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He is the author of the memoir, Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain, a book of personal essays, as well as seven collections of poetry. He has also edited two poetry anthologies and co-edited Robert Bly in the World. As a journalist, he covers education, energy policy, and climate science. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

I. In the Beginning Gary Snyder,
Riprap
William Carlos Williams,
A Sort of a Song
Alberto Rios,
An Instruction to Myself
Franny Choi,
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had
Rita Dove,
Ö
Joyce Sutphen,
It
s Amazing
Anne Sexton,
Words
Mona Säudi,
Why Don
t I Write
W. S. Merwin,
The Unwritten
Richard Foerster,
Early and Late
Jack Gilbert,
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
Linda Hogan,
First Language: Sandhill Cranes
Francisco Aragón,
Poem with Citations from the O. E. D.
Heid Erdrich,
Offering: Words
Julia Alvarez,
I, Too, Sing Americä Victor Hernández Cruz,
Lunequisticos
Sandra M. Castillo,
Letter to Yeni on Peering into Her Life
Albert Goldbarth,
Before
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,
The Language Issue
Linda Gregg,
Searching for the Poem
II. Away from the World T. S. Eliot, from
East Coker
Adrienne Rich, from
Origins and History of Consciousness
Ted Hughes,
The Thought-Fox
Seamus Heaney,
Digging
Gerald Stern,
Making the Light Come
Robert Bly,
Words Rising
Ursula Le Guin, from
Coming of Age
Li-Young Lee,
In His Own Shadow
Denise Levertov,
Writing in the Dark
Mary Oliver,
At Great Pond
Stanley Kunitz,
The Round
Ray Carver,
At Least
III. The Knock at the Door Juan Ramón Jiménez,
At First She Came To Me Pure
Eleanor Wilner,
The Muse
John Berryman,
Images of Elspeth
Laura Kasischke,
The Enormous Cage
Meena Alexander,
Muse
Anna Akhmatova,
The Muse
Carolyn Kizer,
A Muse of Water
Paul Mariani,
Following the Light
Medbh McGuckian,
Killing the Muse
Louise Gluck,
Lute Song
IV. Putting Things Right Jaroslav Seifert,
To Be a Poet
Carolyn Kizer,
Singing Aloud
James Tate,
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems
Hu Xudong,
Mama Ana Paula Also Writes Poetry
James Lenfestey,
Steady Work
Dana Levin,
Ars Poeticä Zhang Shuguang,
To Xuefei
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Constantly Risking Absurdity
Kimiko Hahn,
The Apiculturalist
Wallace Stevens,
The Man on the Dump
Elizabeth Spires,
The Woman on the Dump
Pablo Neruda,
Ars Poetica (1)
Cornelius Eady,
Dance at the Amherst County Public Library
Ellen Bryant Voigt,
Dancing with Poets
Patricia Hampl,
Mother-Daughter Dance
Sharon Olds,
I Go Back to May 1937
Lisel Mueller,
When I Am Asked
Tess Gallagher,
I Stop Writing the Poem
Ed Bok Lee,
Woke
Marilyn Nelson,
Bali Hai Calls Mamä V. All This Fiddle Marianne Moore,
Poetry
Wislawa Szymborska,
Some People Like Poetry
Dean Young,
Singing Underwater
James Scully,
What Is Poetry
Elizabeth Alexander,
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
B. H. Fairchild,
What He Said
Czeslaw Milosz,
Ars Poetica?
Eleanor Wilner,
Ars Poeticä Tracy K. Smith,
An Old Story
Louis Simpson,
The Unwritten Poem
Sheryl Luna,
Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps
Terrance Hayes,
Ars Poetics with Bacon
Layli Long Soldier, from
Vaporative
Larry Levis,
The Poem You Asked For
Tomas Tranströmer,
Morning Birds
Stephen Dobyns,
Passing the Word
Archibald MacLeish,
Ars Poeticä George Oppen,
The Poem
Galway Kinnell,
The Bear
VI. The Real Work Jacques Prévert,
To Paint the Portrait of a Bird
William Carlos Williams,
Tract
Moira Linehan,
Ars Poeticä Dorianne Laux,
Dust
Olav H. Hauge,
Don
t Come to Me with the Entire Truth
Mahmoud Darwish,
Don
t Write History as Poetry
Gonzalo Rojas,
Don
t Plagiarize Pound
Carlos Drummond de Andrade,
In Search of Poetry
John Yau,
In the Kingdom of Poetry
Louise Erdrich,
Advice to Myself
Betty Adcock,
Ars Poetica on an Island in the Cyclades
Marianne Boruch,
The Art of Poetry
Carolyn Forché,
Prayer
Keki N. Daruwalla,
On a Bed of Rice
Blaga Dimitrova,
Ars Poeticä Martin Espada,
Barbaric Yawp Big Noise Blues
Yusef Komunyakaa,
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel
lucille clifton,
study the masters
Robert Bly,
The Gaiety of Form
Quincy Troupe,
What the Poetic Line Holds
Billy Collins,
Sonnet
Linda Pastan,
Prosody 101
Kim Addonizio,
Prosody Pathétique
Todd Boss,
Ars Poeticä Thomas Lux,
Render, Render
VII. Lines Stitching Here to There Rebecca Seiferle,
Poetic Voice
Ishmael Reed,
Beware: Do Not Read This Poem
Nikki Giovanni,
Kidnap Poem
John Ashbery,
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
June Jordan,
These Poems
Hayden Carruth,
The Impossible Indispensability of the Ars Poeticä Pattiann Rogers,
All the Elements of the Scene
Lynn Emanuel,
Then, Suddenly
Eavan Boland,
The Oral Tradition
Nikky Finney,
The Girlfriend
s Train
Natasha Trethewey,
At Dusk
VIII. Letters to the World Michael Waters,
Creation
Emily Warn,
The Word Between the World and God
William Stafford,
Vocation
Adam Zagajewski,
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Joy Harjo,
Remember
Jane Hirshfield,
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen
Gregory Orr, from
How Beautiful the Beloved
Wallace Stevens,
The Idea of Order at Key West
About the Editors Acknowledgments Index of Poets, Titles, and First Lines