american poet: a novel NEW YORK -- A Chicago-based writer and activist has received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. This compilation of seventy-eight new poems ... A collection of contemporary American poetry on numerous topics. Just a moment while we sign you in ...
Lehman illustrates the poet’s nearly selfless concern for his peers, pointing out that dozens of people emerged after the poet’s death, each claiming to be his closest friend. Lehman closes his discussion of O’Hara with a provocative reading of "The Day Lady Died," the stunning elegy fo...
Born in Haifa, Israel, Simmons immigrated to the United States with his mother at the tender age of eight. His passion for music was ignited during his teenage years, and his fascination with comic book superheroes and theatrics would later become a significant influence in his career. ...
Frost's works are commonly considered to be associated with the landscape of rural New England.However,this does not mean that the poet is a regional or minor poet.The poet's mastery of traditional verse forms and metrics,his adherence to common colloquial language and traditional forms,the gre...
(1) His best work has become part of the common property of Western culture. (2) He took over Whitman’s vision of the poet-prophet and poet-teacher and recast it in a more sophisticated and Europeanized mood. (3) He has been compared to a mountain in American literary history. ...
But as the real Cohen noted in liner notes to the 1975 collection The Best of Leonard Cohen, the blue raincoat was his. “I had a good raincoat then, a Burberry I got in London in 1959….It hung more heroically when I took out the lining, and achieved glory when the frayed sleeves...
Musician, Artist, Writer and Poet, Will Carruthers No, I most certainly don’t want to give up hope and I also don’t want to give up reviewing art, music and literature either because it brings me a lot of joy and connects me to many wonderful people. I do feel, however, that my...
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Daniel Nesteris an essayist, poet, journalist, editor, teacher, and Queen fan. He is the author most recently ofShader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects. His previous books includeHow to Be Inappropriate(Soft Skull, 2010),God Save My Qu...
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet and biographer of Emily Dickinson who was much admired for her lyric verse that deftly and passionately mingles intellectual, personal, social, and aesthetic concerns. From 1896 Taggard grew up in Hawaii, where her