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A very special tribute in honor of a very special person, Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman, b. 1915-d. 1987 - poems, essays, letters by and to Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman Margaret T. Burroughs, editor (1988) His name was Du Sable and he was the first (1990) Africa name book (1994)
“Where the Sidewalk Ends”, the title poem and also Silverstein’s best known poem, encapsulates the core message of the collection. The reader is told that there is a hidden, mystical place "where the sidewalk ends", between the sidewalk and the street. The poem is divided into three stanzas. Although straying from a consistent metrical ...
This poem expresses fear, frustration, and faint hope of the colonial poet who had to live in a heartbreaking period of anxiety and fear in the paradoxical situation of 'dead end' and 'open end'. There are various analysis of the '13' children. One of the most common analysis of the number is that it represents the 13 people at the Last Supper.
In 2023, The Offending Adam published a digital chapbook of poems titled Jane / La Segua. The poems reinvent La Segua , a colonial myth rooted in racism and class from Costa Rica. Quesada has been involved in various literary organizations and initiatives, including serving as an advisor for Maps to the Next World, a literary initiative from ...
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley is a semiautobiographical poetry collection or "novel in verse" [1] written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published in 1987. [2] Contents of the book include an introduction by Denise Levertov, (poetry editor at Mother Jones to whom Baca sent his early poems while in prison [3]), Martín, an epic poem in nine parts, Meditations on the South Valley, a ...
"Danny Deever" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his ...
Michael George Longley CBE (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ...
For example, in Hall's 1995 Teubner edition, poems 1.5, 1.9, 3.4, 4.4, 5.2 and 5.7 are each split into two separate poems, which in most manuscripts each appear to be a single poem. [5] Taking this division into account, book 1 has 13 poems, book 3 has 15, book 4 has 11, book 5 has 16. Book 2, as noted above, is one single poem.