Narrow River to the North: Poems & Prose of the Penobscot Watershed by Kathleen Ellis; Amapola Books, Bangor, Maine, 2011; color photos; 38 pages, odd-sized glossy paperback, $12.95. University of Maine adjunct professor Kathleen Ellis Narrow River to the North differs from her previous, more traditional collections of verse by the inclusion of some nice color photographs of Maine, around which short poems and bits of prose are arranged. The book is an expression of appreciation and indeed love for what the poet describes as her homeplace, and those feelings are made abundantly clear throughout.
From time to time, students and parents send notes, letters, poems and even drawings to Youth First's school social workers to share appreciation for the support these professionals provide during difficult times. A third-grader summed up her gratitude in one of my favorite notes, which read, "You make my heart feel good.
April is National Poetry Month. If you have an appreciation for poetry and poets, then you might wish to check out some recent titles. The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing
Falbo focuses on a specific archive that reveals about the connection between an emerging literary discourse--the discourse of Romanticism--and representations of literature as a special, a-historical, category of writing. But looking closely at these early editions of Samuel Taylor Colridge's "The Ancient Mariner" also says something about how the teaching of literature came to be separated from the teaching of reading and writing.
... students who would have encountered his poems-or excerpts from them-in a range of school texts. ..., would be more likely to lead to an appreciation of the sweetness and loveliness of poetry, and to ...
Others have a social and historical or political dimension, which allies them with her series of longer poems on the American Civil War, one of which was awarded the Allen Tate Poetry Prize as the best poem published by the Sewanee Review in 1999.5 Yet this sequence has its own independent force and coherence, and although the absence of the accompanying illustrations hampers a full appreciation, the sense of an on-going dialogue justifies close attention to the collection as we have it. Part of the charm of the poem is the way it re-animates the subject with the methods appropriate to poetry, taking us from the "geometric form" to that personification of singers, Homer, or one of his predecessors, his words active in the past and in the present, composing the order of his own soul a...
... it aims to promote understanding and appreciation of these diverse poems by situating them within a ...
It's possible that nonfiction, as a label for an entire literary genre, has outlived its usefulness. It seems more and more readers (and some critics) are on a passionate, hellbent pursuit of truth in their reading materials -hence the rise of the memoir over the tried- and-true novel on bestseller lists. And though memoirists and authors of other creative nonfiction have always taken liberties with character, time, and place - sometimes to protect the innocent, but just as often for dramatic purposes - in this era of reality television and instant gratification, the masses are no longer likely to accept "but it's art" as an excuse for what they define as lying. See, for instance, the unprecedented outcry after it was revealed that author James Frey had exaggerated and confabulated port...
..., an expression of gratitude or appreciation, and praise." See "Cao Zhi's Symposium Poems," 7. ...
...Pinsky and Simic will choose a number of poems by Bishop to read along with their own works. . Bi... it, and have your perceptions/appreciation/ enjoyment of her poetry changed with time? . Simi...
The book is full of moments like this that are both puzzling and enjoyable: "The wasp is not thinking"; "Seeds/ wait for conditions to germinate." Occasionally the poems will give the reader very direct commands: "Stop reading here and do something else for 45 minutes." I actually found myself listening to this command, though at first I didn't intend to. The collection as a whole is a serious wrestling with definitions and a complex rumination on what it means to use language, so much so mat it seems the book's intended readership might be other poets, or perhaps linguists. But maybe it is for anyone who uses language, who might have an appreciation for such clever phrases as "unfulfilled self-fulfilling prophecies" or "meaninglessnesslessness.
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