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The Gods of Winter (1991), Gioia’s dark second collection, contains poems written after the death of his first son. Published in the U.S. and U.K, the British edition was chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their main selection.
National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed; Poet Laureate of Virginia: Grace Simpson, two year appointment 2000 to 2002 [56] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
Wiman's poetry is characterized by multiple possible and intended readings, and metaphors which either are derived from an absence or space or undergo an evolution throughout the poem. One technique Wiman uses to communicate dual intended readings, is through repetition and scrupulous variation of punctuation and line-breaks.
She has been called "the black woman's poet laureate", and her poems have been called the anthems of African Americans. [1] Angelou studied and began writing poetry at a young age, and used poetry and other great literature to cope with trauma, as she described in her first and most well-known autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Modernist poetry is a broad term for poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernist literature. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Schools within it include already 20th-century Acmeist poetry , Imagism , Objectivism , and the British Poetry Revival .
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. [4]
B'nai Mitzvah Academy recommends the following prayer for the inaugural night of Hanukkah: "Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought ...
Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Leslie Scalapino, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999–2006 (Green Integer) Grace Schulman, The Broken String [9] W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions; David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965–2006 (Overlook Press)