I Speak of the City - 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 I Speak of the City write by Stephen Wolf. This book was released on 2007. I Speak of the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of Hudson's arrival, Stuyvesant's prejudice, and the city's astonishing growth and gentrification. They speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements. They portray the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and the decay, fear, and unexpected kindness on a subway ride. They take place on sidewalks, bridges, and docks; in taxis, buses, and ferries; and even within nature. The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, and other familiar landmarks are recast through the prism of individual experience yet still reflect the seeming invincibility of New York and its status as a cultural magnet for the freethinking and experimental. While certain subjects and themes can be found in all urban verse, poems about New York have their own restless rhythm and ever-changing style, much like the city itself. Whether writing sonnets, epics, or experimental or imagistic verse, each of these poets has been inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.
Wild in the Streets
Wild in the Streets - 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 Wild in the Streets write by Marilyn Singer. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Wild in the Streets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beautifully illustrated book pairs poetry with nonfiction, telling the fascinating stories of the animals who have found homes in our city landscapes across the world, from the pythons traveling Singapore's sewers to the monkeys living in India's temples. Humans may have built towns and cities, but we aren’t the only ones who live in them. Given the smallest chance—a park, a garden, a window box; a basement, a subway tunnel, a bridge—wildlife manages to survive in the city. Among colorful illustrated pages buzzing with city life and animal activity, you'll discover the host of wild animals who live among humans: butterflies, bats, spiders, honeybees, coyotes, and more. Each animal’s story is told through a short poem accompanied by an informational paragraph. Some poems are comical, some poignant, and all make the reader see the world in a different way. After a rousing exploration of animal life, find definitions of the various types of poetry forms used in the book: haiku, cinquain, sonnet, terza rima, villanelle, triolet, reverso, acrostic, and free verse. Look around—you may discover neighbors you didn't know you had!
Sky Scrape/City Scape
Sky Scrape/City Scape - 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 Sky Scrape/City Scape write by Jane Yolen. This book was released on 1996-06. Sky Scrape/City Scape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthology of poems by Langston Hughes, Jane Yolan, Rachel Field, and others depicts the sights, sounds, and energy of the city.
Floating City
Floating City - 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 Floating City write by Anne Pierson Wiese. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Floating City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.
The City in Which I Love You
The City in Which I Love You - 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 City in Which I Love You write by Li-Young Lee. This book was released on 2013-12-20. The City in Which I Love You available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must Sing Here I Am A Final Thing V. The Cleaving
