Best Words, Best Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Best Words, Best Order write by S. Dobyns. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Best Words, Best Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.
The Loom of Language
The Loom of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Loom of Language write by Frederick Bodmer. This book was released on 1985. The Loom of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
Words That Sound Offensive But Aren't
Words That Sound Offensive But Aren't - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words That Sound Offensive But Aren't write by Orty Ortwein. This book was released on 2013-12-26. Words That Sound Offensive But Aren't available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have you ever slapped anyone for offering you a piece of rapecake? Ever joined a torch-wielding mob because someone used the word niggardly? This book seeks to clear up misunderstandings. It's a simple list of words that sound gross, offensive, or just plain mean, but aren't. For dikephobes and spermologers everywhere!
The Tradition
The Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tradition write by Jericho Brown. This book was released on 2019-06-18. The Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book Review One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021 "By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."—Craig Morgan Teicher, “'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Preview” for NPR “A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a poem.“—Rita Dove, in her introduction to Jericho Brown’s “Dark” (featured in the New York Times Magazine in January 2019) “Winner of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Brown's hard-won lyricism finds fire (and idyll) in the intersection of politics and love for queer Black men.”—O, The Oprah Magazine Named a Lit Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” One of Buzzfeed’s “66 Books Coming in 2019 You’ll Want to Keep Your Eyes On” The Rumpus poetry pick for “What to Read When 2019 is Just Around the Corner” One of BookRiot’s “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections of 2019” Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.
Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar
Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar write by Elizabeth Verdick. This book was released on 2009-04-01. Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With gentle encouragement, this book teaches children that they can think before speaking, choose what to say and how to say it, and find positive ways to respond when others use unkind words. The importance of saying “I’m sorry” is reinforced. Includes tips for parents and caregivers.
