The pattern for capital punishment laws is equally stark. The states dominated by Deep South, Greater Appalachia, Tidewater, and the Far West have had a virtual monopoly on capital punishment. They account for more than ninety-five percent of the 1,343 executions in the United States since 19...
– "Sly, spry, and often touching, Keillor’s 31st book mounts a spirited revival of the art of light verse, as the bard of Lake Wobegon offers poems stripped of pretension but still sharply crafted, alive with feeling, and forever waltzing with readers’ anticipation of the next rhyme......
Bahut dinon se main tum peSahirse jaadu tone kara raha hoon. I am Jaan Nisar Akhtar (poet and lyricist 1914 – 1976) on you, I swear by Munshi Fida Ali (a Lucknow poet), Since many days I am trying Sahir’s (Sahir Ludhainvi 1921 – 1980) magic and black magic on you. Agar ...
It offers deeply spiritual ruminations on poems (many which you may know, others which you may not) and asks if these well-worded lines and phrases could actually be used as prayers. There are two dozen select “prayer-poems” to learn from and live with. As the publisher puts it, “Po...
In 1711, for example, Joseph Addison dismissed some poems as “nothing else but a Tissue of Epigrams.” In 1762, Oliver Goldsmith referred to the history of Europe as “a tissue of crimes, follies, and misfortunes.” And in 1820, Washington Irving complained about a “tissue of mis...
PoetWilliam S. Burroughscoined a cut-up method of writing where he scrambled words on scraps of paper and then assembled the jumble into new poems. If poetry seems too high-minded to connect with a game rooted in pulp fantasy, then consider this: Rock musicians likeCurt Cobain,Thom York, ...
(First Am.Compl. ¶ 16.) From this, Papa's-June argues that McLean did not intend that his "poems" would be used as lyrics when he created them, and could not have intended that he and Connick would be joint authors of the songs on the "She" album. However, the complaint also ...
their accessible lyricism, facilitating their frequent use in music. For the Antichamber Music project, the poems aren’t necessarily used in order of the collection, or in full, or even linearly. They can be sung, spoken, or perhaps just intimated. This freedom in...
With my first book,Happy You Are Here, I began to wrestle with geography and humanness in my poems. Canadian poet Suzanne Buffam called Happy You Are Here “tender and intimate” and Heather Birrell said “Ayaz Pirani positions himself as a kind of plainspoken anti-prophet, bringing human no...
We Western people: we have to learn how to inhabit again. We have to learn how to live sanely in our lands. How to write poems and walk in the woods and love our neighbours. How to have the time to even notice them. How to take an interest in the parts without detaching them from...