The one-sentence poem has proven to be a compelling and persistent poetic device through the ages. This anthology offers strategies and prompts for using the single sentence as a principle of poetic structure, a rhetorical tool, and a stimulus. The book includes an extraordinary array of one-sentence poems from a wide range of historical periods, poetic perspectives, and lengths--from epigrams and aphorisms to sonnets, lyrics, and narratives that range over several pages. More than 80 poets are represented, from Shakespeare to Kay Ryan.
The one-sentence poem has proven to be a compelling and persistent poetic device through the ages. This anthology offers strategies and prompts for...
"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in the telling, austerely beautiful."--Jay Parini
"There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes--the capturing of small, daily miracles."--Dorianne Laux
Gary Young is one of the country's best known prose poets and his unique, sinuous, brief style has a flavor all its own. This collection includes work selected from six previously published volumes and two...
"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has ...
A book of beautiful thoughts gathered from the minds of great people, combined with beautiful images of nature in the Western United States and Canada. Designed to inspire the reader, and help them to grow as individuals and spiritual beings.
A book of beautiful thoughts gathered from the minds of great people, combined with beautiful images of nature in the Western United States and Canada...
Pablo Neruda's "Alturas de Macchu Picchu / Heights of Macchu Picchu, "as translated by poet David Young, is a new look at Neruda's long narrative poem, originally featured as Book 2 of his monumental "Canto. " David Young's new translation sensitively captures the journey of Neruda's persona through the ruins of the Inca city, Machu Picchu, the high ground where the Inca tribe endeavored to escape the conquest of Spanish invaders. In the 21st Century, where high ground seems less and less accessible and our escapes less possible, Young's translation and the drawings accompanying the...
Pablo Neruda's "Alturas de Macchu Picchu / Heights of Macchu Picchu, "as translated by poet David Young, is a new look at Neruda's long narrative poem...
There are worlds occupied with those in the legal field and there are worlds occupied by those who enforce the law. Combine these with the worlds occupied by those who commit crimes great and small and those affected by such crime. The overlaps, which are inevitable, produce changes.
There are worlds occupied with those in the legal field and there are worlds occupied by those who enforce the law. Combine these with the worlds occu...
