Confessions of a Poet Laureate - 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 Confessions of a Poet Laureate write by Charles Simic. This book was released on 2010-12-28. Confessions of a Poet Laureate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us from his rattling house on a stormy New Hampshire night, to a park bench in Washington Square where two old men sit discussing the women they've known, to a business convention in Topeka where he reads a poem, to the vanished subterranean jazz clubs of old New York, and beyond. Part autobiographical fragment, part waking dream, these pieces are marked by Simic's characteristic wit, audacity, and awe before life's strangeness. Contents include: --Reminiscing about the Night Before --Strangers on a Train --Confessions of a Poet Laureate --The Blustering Blast --The Buster Keaton Cure --On Losing --On the Couch with Philip Roth, at the Morgue with Pol Pot
CONFESSIONS OF A POET
CONFESSIONS OF A POET - 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 CONFESSIONS OF A POET write by Robert D. Edmonson. This book was released on 2012-05-16. CONFESSIONS OF A POET available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. " CONFESSIONS OF A POET " is a story of love. In this book you will find happiness, despair, humor, sadness and maybe just a little bit of yourself; what I have learned is: THERE REALLY IS LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS AND THE HUMAN HEART, WHILE SOMETIMES FRAGILE, BEATS STRONGEST WHEN YOU DARE TO DREAM! This collection is my legacy; a gift I choose to share...finally. I open my heart, once more, to let you in.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction - 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 Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction write by Alan Jacobs. This book was released on 2011-05-26. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
Poetically Speaking: Confessions of a Soul Untamed
Poetically Speaking: Confessions of a Soul Untamed - 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 Poetically Speaking: Confessions of a Soul Untamed write by Tychena Sanders. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Poetically Speaking: Confessions of a Soul Untamed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A book filled with poetry that soothes the soul. The journey starts and goes full speed ahead to highlight love, the journey to maturity and the happiness that lies at the end of the tunnel. Poetry from the Soul of a Southern Belle to countless hearts throughout the world of literature.
True Confessions & New Cliches
True Confessions & New Cliches - 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 True Confessions & New Cliches write by Liz Lochhead. This book was released on 2003. True Confessions & New Cliches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In True Confessions & New Cliches, Liz Lochhead has brought together a selection of the best of her raps, songs, sketches and monologues from her plays and revues. She pokes fun at the seriousness with which we deal with everyday events in touching and hilarious ways. For a poet who believes so much in poetry belonging to the voice, these works hold a special place and they have become firm favorites with the many fans who attend her public readings.
