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Poetry, on the other hand, is like honey, in that it is "a sweetener that sugarcoats the bitter medicine of Epicurean philosophy and entices the audience to swallow it." [16] [17] (Of note, Lucretius repeats these 25 lines, almost verbatim, in the introduction to the fourth book.) [18]
To handle book marketing and sales, he hired William E. Wood, a publicist with Hale Brothers department stores in San Jose. Wood knew a little about the book business because he had once worked for a San Francisco bookstore. Sterling published his book The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems under Wood's name in November 1903. On Christmas ...
Sight Lines is the tenth poetry collection by Arthur Sze. It was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 9, 2019. [1] The collection won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry (USA). [2] Judges of the prize praised Sze's "quiet mastery which generates beautiful, sensuous, inventive, and emotionally rich poems." [3]
The tail lines, i.e. the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth, each have three stresses, and all others have four. [17] With two exceptions, both in the first stanza, each line in the poem includes two or more alliterating words, [18] linking the two halves of each line together and also connecting the tail line with the preceding line. [19]
The result of Eberhart's visit was an article published in the September 2, 1956 New York Times Book Review titled "West Coast Rhythms". Eberhart's piece helped call national attention to "Howl" as "the most remarkable poem of the young group" of poets who were becoming known as the spokespersons of the Beat generation. [88]
All of which makes for a rarity in contemporary poetry: It's what book clubs call "readable."" [6] David Kirby of The New York Times likened the "whimsy" of Actual Air to the works of poets Mark Halliday and Campbell McGrath , but felt "In their poems, though, whimsy always leads to serious ideas and emotions that don't consistently materialize ...
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a biannual literary journal that publishes contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, and book reviews. It was founded by undergraduate students at the University of Central Missouri in 1981. [1]
Lines Review was a Scottish poetry journal founded by the publisher Callum Macdonald in 1952. [1] Its original editorial board included the Scottish poets Sydney Goodsir Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean and Denis Peploe. [2] Latterly its individual editors included the poets Robin Fulton and Tessa Ransford.