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The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor, Slason Thompson, changed the penultimate line ("That they have never seen our Little Boy Blue") to its present form. The poem was republished by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1889 in Field's The Little Book of Western Verse.
The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents Nelson's multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. [1] [2] It was written between 2003 and 2006. [3] [4] The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude.
Francis Miles Finch was born on June 9, 1827, in Ithaca, New York.He was educated at Yale University, where, according to a contemporary, he was a "thoughtful scholar in the class-room, a prizeman in the essay competitions, an influential editor of the Yale Lit an impressive speaker in the Linonian Society, hail-fellow-well-met on the campus, sedate, impulsive, big-hearted, wise, witty ...
The Next Room of The Dream: Poems and Two Plays (1962) The Blue Swallows (1967) The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (1968) Gnomes & Occasions: Poems (1973) University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-57252-8; The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977) ISBN 978-0-226-57259-8 — winner of the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and Bollingen Prize
Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017 [1]) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. [2]Her best known works include the novels Zennor in Darkness, A Spell of Winter and The Siege, and her last book of poetry Inside the Wave.
The Raucous Auk: A Menagerie of Poems (1973) Nuts to You & Nuts to Me: An Alphabet of Poems (1974) I Like Old Clothes (1976) Bugs (1976) A House is a House for Me (1978) Yellow Butter, Purple Jelly, Red Jam, Black Bread (1981) The Cozy Book (1982) Mr. and Mrs. Muddle (1988) Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems (1991)
Her follow-up book, World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), was selected by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker as a best poetry book of the year. [3] McLane achieved literary celebrity with the publication of her hybrid criticism-biography My Poets , which Paris Review editor Lorin Stein called "the survey course of my dreams."
Young is working on two books: a non-fiction book called Bunk on the U.S. history of lies and hoaxes, and a poetry collection that he has described as being "about African American history and also personal history, growing up in Kansas, which has a long black history including Langston Hughes and others."