Books on Display at HPL

April is Poetry Month!

The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide to Style, Structure, Form, and Expression By Eliopulos, Tina D. Author Moffett, Todd Scott 2005-07 - Adams Media Corporation 1593373228 Check Our Catalog The Everything Writing Poetry Book features: - Exercises that help readers hone their skills - Guidance on following basic poetic structure - Information on how to start a poetry group - Valuable advice for getting published …More

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets By Kooser, Ted 2005-02 - University of Nebraska Press 0803227698 Check Our Catalog Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of "The Poetry Home Repair Manual," Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets--aspiring or practicing--can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry's ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend--a friend who is willing to share everything he's learned about the art he's spent a lifetime learning to execute so well. …More

Poetry for Dummies By Poetry Center Joint Author Timpane, John With Watts, Maureen 2001-05 - For Dummies 0764552724 Check Our Catalog "Wonderful.... This book demystifies poetry for all." --Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet & painter, and co-founder of City Lights Books Praise for Poetry For Dummies "Poetry For Dummies is a pleasant romp...with tons of information, informally and intelligently presented.... A fine introduction to poetry." --Willis Barnstone, author of "Sappho: A New Translation and Algebra of Night" "Amaze and delight your friends at coffee houses or cocktail parties! Nobody who reads this welcoming and enlightening introduction to poetry from Sappho to slams will be a dummy about poetry anymore." --Ed Taylor, Executive Director, just buffalo literary center Get expert tips on writing your own poems Understand and appreciate the pleasures of poetry Can't tell the difference between an iamb and a trochee? Don't worry! This friendly guide demystifies all that complicated jargon and explains how to truly enjoy poetry. The authors walk you through poetry's history, show you where to find exciting contemporary readings, and provide easy exercises to stimulate your own poetic juices. Discover how to: Understand the language and forms of poetry Interpret a poem's possible meanings Get a handle on poetry through the ages Find poetry readings near you Write your own poems Get smart! www.dummies.com Sign up for daily eTips at www.dummiesdaily.com Choose from among 33 different subject categories Get news you can use on everything from money to health to computers …More

E.E. Cummings: A Biography By Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher 2004-10 - Sourcebooks 1570717753 Check Our Catalog Using thousands of primary sources including diary entries and notes from psychoanalysis, noted biographer Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno paints a dynamic portrait of the life and art of American poet e.e. cummings. …More

Wise Poison: Poems By Rivard, David 1996-10 - Graywolf Press 1555972470 Check Our Catalog "I love these intense, brilliantly crafted poems. "Wise Poison" is perfectly pitched and uniquely American, a beautiful, angry, heartbreaking, celebratory, and powerful book."--Thomas Lux In "Wise Poison" David Rivard gives us a mind hard at work on the most vital questions: Who am I? What do I love? What can be trusted? At issue in these passionate arguments with the self are the "curious forces" that surround us in every part of our lives. In an airport lounge in the Yucatá n, in the song of a street musician, or simply in the pulsing of skin along the neck, Rivard finds connections and doubt, and reason for both comfort and rage. "The poems in David Rivard's compelling and delicious new book do not smother you with grandiosity nor come creeping towards you bowed down in self-effacement. These are poems of a human scale; they are complicated, muscled with irony, and their wonderful voice is startling in its power to move, interest, delight."--Lynn Emanuel David Rivard's first book, "Torque," won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series. "Wise Poison" is the recipient of the 1996 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Tufts University and in the M.F.A. Writing Progarm at Vermont College. …More

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems By Giovanni, Nikki 1996-04 - Henry Holt & Company 0805034943 Check Our Catalog CCBC Choices - 1996 In the 1920s, African-American poets living in Harlem used words to make a revolution. Their groundbreaking poetry not only reshaped American literature but redefined what it meant to be African American. This book is both an anthology of some of the best writing of our time and a witty guide that shows readers the beauties and the truths of those who were born in those splendid Harlem days. …More

Poetry Speaks Expanded By Paschen, Elise Editor Mosby, Rebekah 2007-10 - Sourcebooks Mediafusion 1402210620 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Presenting a diverse cross-section of the 20th century's best poets, this classic poetry anthology has now been revised with added essays and poems. Includes three audio CDs with recordings of each poet reading his or her work. …More

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Angelou, Maya 2002-03 - Random House 0375507892 Check Our Catalog In the first volume of an extraordinary autobiographical series, one of the most inspiring authors of our time recalls--with candor, humor, poignancy and grace--how her journey began.... "From the Trade Paperback edition. …More