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Kirby was raised in "the rural south" [1] by a polyglot "medievalist college professor" father [2] with an obsessive passion for the works of Chaucer [3] and a "farm-girl" mother [4] turned elementary school teacher [3] who "taught him how to shoot her single-shot .22 and paid him ten cents for every cottonmouth moccasin he knocked off" in aid of protecting the horses and sheep [4] on their ...
The Davidiad is an epic poem that details the ascension and deeds of David, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.. The Davidiad (also known as the Davidias [1]) is the name of an heroic epic poem in Renaissance Latin by the Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist Marko Marulić (whose name is sometimes Latinized as "Marcus Marulus").
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 ...
First edition. The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories by David Lodge.. The collection was initially published in 1995 by the Zurich-based publisher Haffmans Verlag entitled Sommergeschichten – Wintermärchen (Summer Stories - Winter Tales) then in 1998 a limited edition was published by his friend Tom Rosenthal at Bridgewater Press, entitled ...
David McCord, ed. (1945). What Cheer: An anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction . New York: Coward-McCann.
In the late 1960s, Antin began performing extemporaneously, improvising "talk poems" at readings and exhibitions. In the late 1960s Antin moved with his wife, the writer and performance artist Eleanor Antin, to Southern California to take up a post at the University of California, San Diego, in the newly formed and experimental Visual Arts Department.
David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". [ 1 ]
David Wolf Budbill was born on June 13, 1940, in Cleveland, Ohio.He studied philosophy and art history at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. In 1967, he graduated from college with a degree in theology, and from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he was influenced by the writings of Thomas Merton.