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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days ""One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."" Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools. ""Art is our defense against hysteria and death."" With the assistance of Roethke's widow, this volume has been edited to include the finest selections from out of print collections of prose and journal entries. Focused on the making and teaching of poetry, "On Poetry and Craft" will be prized in the classroom-and outrageous Roethke quotes will once again pepper our conversations. ""You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is."" Theodore Roethke was of an illustrious generation of poets which included Sexton, Plath, Lowell, Berryman, and like them he received nearly every major award in poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize and twice the National Book Award. In spite of his fame, he remained a legendary teacher, known for the care and attention he gave to his students, poets such as James Wright, Carolyn Kizer, Tess Gallagher, and Richard Hugo. Roethke died on August 1, 1963, while swimming in a friend's pool. ""But before I'm reduced to an absolute pulp by my own ambivalence, I must say goodbye. The old lion perisheth. Nymphs, I wish you the swoops of many fish. May your search for the abiding be forever furious."" On Poetry and Craft I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods. We can't escape what we are, and I'm afraid many of my notions about verse (I haven't too many) have been conditioned by the fact that for nearly 25 years I've been trying to teach the young something about the nature of verse by writing it--and that with very little formal knowledge of the subject or previous instruction. So it's going to be lik Features Summary Roethke's prose teems with fierce intelligence and outrageous quoteable quotes. Author Theodore Roethke (Author), Carolyn Kizer (Foreword by) Publisher Copper Canyon Press Release date 20010401 Pages 210 ISBN 1-55659-156-X ISBN 13 978-1-55659-156-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Keith Althaus has the kind of straightforward voice that commands attention: He makes a series of seemingly calm statements and wham, you're hit by the fact that he's telling the truth, the beautiful truth of what it's like to be alive right now."--Alan Dugan Keith Althaus published his first book ("Rival Heavens," Provincetown Arts Press) in 1993 and has been working in relative obscurity ever since. "Ladder of Hours "gathers poems written over four decades, a selection that teaches us how insight into everyday life can transform the world. Composed in language that is spare, almost skeletal, yet lacking nothing, "Ladder of Hours "investigates the subtleties of moments we might otherwise overlook. Althaus is interested in everything, from the label on a whiskey bottle to the distance between emotion and idea. His poems explode "ordinary" moments of perception, revealing unexpected meaning and resonance, and they do so in a way that seems strangely without ego, bent entirely on extracting and capturing the essence of his discoveries. "Ladder of Hours "takes us into numinous territory we didn't know was there. "Lullaby" "The painful series of operation that culminate in death: becoming forty, eighty, neither one. Dying young or old, awake or drugged, or pleasantly unaware in sleep as they say Auden wanted to and did, with just the slightest sensation, like a sleeping baby handed from one pair of arms into another." Keith Althaus has published poems in "The New Yorker," "The American Poetry Review," "Poetry," and numerous other magazines. He has worked at many jobs, including carpentry, tree planting, loft renovation, and clerical work, and now runs a gallery with his wife, the artist Susan Baker. They live in North Truro, Massachusetts. Features Summary Minimal yet full of mystery, Althaus poems explore complexities and subtle moments of everyday experience. Author Keith Althaus Publisher Ausable Press Release date 20050901 Pages 176 ISBN 1-931337-27-6 ISBN 13 978-1-931337-27-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Clark Coolidge Publisher Barrytown Limited Release date 20170127 Pages 492 ISBN 1-58177-149-5 ISBN 13 978-1-58177-149-7

  Author(s): Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected and edited by W.H. Gardner  Title:      Poems and Prose  ISBN: 0 14 042015 0  Publisher: Penguin  This Edition: first of this selection, 6th reprint of 1985  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1953  Binding: paperback Number of pages: 254  Weight: 166g  Condition:   Very good   

  REALITIES, 2001. Book Condition: Very Good Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page.  Previous owner inscription on front free end paper. Struggle poetry where solitary confinement could not take away from him his ability to turn words into poems.  Struggle poetry. 55 pp. 

  Author(s): Bremer Hofmeyr  Title:      Poems of Trial and Triumph  ISBN: 0 620 06654 7  Publisher/place: Grosvenor Books, Johannesburg  This Edition: first  Year of Publication: 1983  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  56  Weight:  127g  Condition:   Good  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.  

  Author(s): W.H. Auden  Title:      Tell Me The Truth About Love, 10 Poems by W.H. Auden  ISBN: 0 571 17444 2  Publisher/place: Faber and Faber, London  This Edition:  first of this selection, 8th printing  Year of Publication: 1994 First Published:  1991 (in "Collected Poems")  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  29  Weight: 53g  Condition:   Very good  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.    

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Al Purdy (Author), Steven Heighton (Introduction by) Publisher House of Anansi Press Release date 20130326 Pages 104 ISBN 1-77089-260-5 ISBN 13 978-1-77089-260-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author James Thomas Fields Publisher Wentworth Press Release date 20190220 Pages 106 ISBN 0-353-98127-3 ISBN 13 978-0-353-98127-0

Paperback. English. Brandl & Schlesinger. 2000. ISBN:. 73pp. In good condition. Book No: 45653

Paperback. English. Faber & Faber. 1980. 136pp. In fair/good condition. Some pencilled notes inside.

Paperback. English. ISBN: 1874923019. Publisher: Snailpress. 1992. First Edition. In good condition.

Paperback. English. Bodhi Books/Botsotso. 2009. In good condition.