The book focuses on concise, human-voiced instruction in poetry, the short story, and the short creative nonfiction essay. Emphasis on short forms allows the beginning student to appreciate lessons in craft without being overwhelmed by lengthy model texts; diverse examples of these genres are offered in the anthology.
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Be the first to start one ». About Elizabeth Renker. Elizabeth Renker. It is also remarkably capacious, offering selections from a wide array of poets. Alongside canonical writers from Chaucer to Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney, the editor has included recently recovered work by women and African American writers. Popular songs make up part of the selection. A substantial selection of poetry by writers working today are included. The headnotes are succinct and well-informed. Glosses of unfamiliar words and spare but necessary notes help without bogging down the reader.
The broad array of materials offers maximum flexibility to instructors in syllabus design. This book provides everything necessary for introductory poetry classes and undergraduate poetry classes more generally. It will be a pleasure to use for both students and instructors. Poems: A Concise Anthology inspired me to revitalize a course that was becoming predictable. I know of no other comparable textbook that offers a teacher a chance to draw upon the most resonant examples of canonical poetry, and simultaneously engenders discussions of the social roles that poetry might play in mobilizing literate communities still in a formative stage.
Elizabeth Renker's astute editorial touch honors the metrical tradition, even as she expands the ground conditions of material and popular culture for lyrical praxis.
Its survey of practitioners of avant-garde practitioners, in particular, usefully goes beyond mere token recognition and enables my current syllabus to recognize the full amplitude of contemporary poetry. She is the recipient of many teaching awards and has published widely on nineteenth-century American poetry. In , The Princeton Review named her one of the top professors in the nation, across all universities and disciplines.
Get Free Random Poems Textbook and unlimited access to our library by created an account. Fast Download speed and ads Free! This is a collection of poems written through the course of many years.
From magic to reality, from myths to legends, this collection of poems is a unique way to explain so many emotions and so many beliefs. Long and short, they signify all that is hidden and all that is shown, fantasies that is needed from time to time. About the Book: This collection of poems was inspired by a number of his patients undergoing challenges and powerful emotions: loss, abuse, betrayal, grief, anger, grudge, fear, and resentment, to be precise. He used some of the poems to aid patients to get in touch with their feelings while some of the poems were aimed at effecting a positive change.
Other poems were based on views and observations. About the Author: Prakash Gangdev was born in Mumbai where he trained in psychiatry. Over the years, he has worked in diverse ethnic and cultural communities in a number of countries, and he continues to practice psychiatry in Canada.
Besides publishing papers in psychiatry journals, he has published short stories in Gujarati and English, and also educational articles on psychiatry for the public, in Gujarati and English. Malaysian writing in English has had a history of over five decades since Malaysia attained independence.
This anthology of Malaysian poetry in the English language represents the most complete single collection of poems by veteran as well as new authors to be released in recent decades. In keeping with general trends in poetry, the poets presented in this volume begin with themselves as centres of their own little worlds and then move outwards to those still close to them in different kinds of situations and relationships.
They touch upon individual growth and experiences before taking the world and its concerns into their purview. Other poems explore religious and spiritual consciousness. The potential that Man has on his journey of life leads beyond his daily obsessions and takes him into realms of expanding consciousness, with the final stages of the long journey reaching the transcendental and mystical. Altogether, while providing a spectrum of recent Malaysian poetry in English, this collection also gives the reader insights into the unique voices of several generations of Malaysian poets dealing with a whole range of themes connected with their lives, universal issues and concerns.
Excerpt from Random Poems On various subjects. Among these are a few breathing forth a patriotic or national sentiment. A larger num ber political in their character, and a half dozen of his best sonnets. To preserve these in a more permanent form and at the same time to give a little wider cir culation than a single well-worn scrap-book affords, it has been deemed wise to publish the larger portion of them along with the Anonymous Poems in a sort of memorial edition.
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