Able Muse - v8 https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/564/564? en All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rebecca-foust/all-gorgeous-pitiless-song? <!--paging_filter--><p>Poetry. "Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet's emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes a whole world palpable. A superb poet and a tremendous book"--Peter Campion.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rebecca-foust/all-gorgeous-pitiless-song?#comments Books all that gorgeous pitiless song poems poetry book rebecca foust v8 v9 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:39:29 +0000 Administrator 756 at https://www.ablemuse.com Bertha Rogers https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers? <p>More than 250 of Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies, including <em>Barrow Street, The MacGuffin, Nimrod International Journal, The Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, ONTHEBUS, The Same, Rattapallax, Pivot</em>, <em>BigCityLit</em>, and others. Her collections include <em>Even the Hemlock: Poe</em>(chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004); <em>A House of Corners</em> (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, 2000); and <em>&nbsp;Sleeper, You Wake</em> (Mellen, NY 1991).<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers?#comments Bios anglo-saxon bertha rogers bio poems poetry translation riddle 29 riddle 15 riddle 24 riddle 27 riddle 37 riddle-poems riddles v8 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:42:10 +0000 Administrator 614 at https://www.ablemuse.com Jigsaw https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/jigsaw? <!--paging_filter--><p>Watkins is a poet's poet, a masterful writer of metrical verse-rhymed and blank-but one whose free verse is as good as his formal, a rare achievement""-Timothy Murphy. The poems and few translations (Hugo, Heine, Rilke) included in this collection were written over a period of more than twenty years, and are set in a variety of landscapes, including the poet's native Yorkshire, and locations across Europe.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/jigsaw?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/jigsaw?#comments Books clive watkins Jigsaw poems poetry book v8 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:43:29 +0000 Alex Pepple 585 at https://www.ablemuse.com Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/w-d-snodgrass/not-specialists-new-and-selected-poems? <!--paging_filter--><p>Until the late 1970s, W.D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man-a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/w-d-snodgrass/not-specialists-new-and-selected-poems?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/w-d-snodgrass/not-specialists-new-and-selected-poems?#comments Books chris childers new and selected poems not for specialists poetry book v8 w.d snodgrass waywiser press Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:38:55 +0000 Administrator 584 at https://www.ablemuse.com Helen Pinkerton Trimpi Reads and Comments on Favorite Turner Cassity Poems https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/essay/helen-pinkerton-trimpi/pinkerton-trimpi-reads-favorite-turner-cassity-poems? <h2> <p>Helen Pinkerton Trimpi Reads and Comments on Favorite Turner Cassity Poems</p> </h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Poetry reading and commentary video from Helen Pinkerton Trimpi.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/essay/helen-pinkerton-trimpi/pinkerton-trimpi-reads-favorite-turner-cassity-poems?#comments Poetry commentary comments helen pinkerton trimpi reads poem poetry reading video tribute v8 video Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:47:22 +0000 Administrator 582 at https://www.ablemuse.com Selected Poems Of Yvor Winters https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/helen-pinkerton-trimpi/selected-poems-yvor-winters? <!--paging_filter--><p>Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky. This retrospective of one hundred poems, edited by the poet and publisher R. L. Barth, is compiled from Winters's published and unpublished work and features an introductory overview of his life and career by Helen Pinkerton Trimpi, a former student of Winters's and a distinguished scholar of American literature.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/helen-pinkerton-trimpi/selected-poems-yvor-winters?#comments Books helen pinkerton trimpi poems poetry book selected poems of yvor winters turner cassity turner cassity tribute v8 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:48:30 +0000 Administrator 581 at https://www.ablemuse.com Helen Pinkerton Trimpi https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/bio/helen-pinkerton-trimpi? <p>Helen Pinkerton Trimpi (born in 1927 in Butte, Montana) ) is a poet, essayist, and scholar of American literature and history. She has taught at Stanford, College of Notre Dame, University of Alberta and Michigan State University. She has published five volumes of poetry, including her selected poems, <em>Taken In Faith</em>, in 2001. Her critical essays include studies of Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, John Finley, and Catherine Davis. In American studies, she published <em>Melville's Confidence Men and American Politics In the 1850s</em>, in 1987.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/bio/helen-pinkerton-trimpi?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/bio/helen-pinkerton-trimpi?#comments Bios bio essay favorite turner cassity poems helen pinkerton trimpi poetry reading tribute turner cassity v8 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:39:56 +0000 Administrator 580 at https://www.ablemuse.com Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum) https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/w-d-snodgrass/not-specialists-new-and-selected-poems-american-poets-continuum? <!--paging_filter--><p>Until the late 1970s, W. D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man-a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/w-d-snodgrass/not-specialists-new-and-selected-poems-american-poets-continuum?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/books/w-d-snodgrass/not-specialists-new-and-selected-poems-american-poets-continuum?#comments Books boa editions chris childers new and selected poems not for specialists poetry book v8 w.d snodgrass Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:16:19 +0000 Administrator 578 at https://www.ablemuse.com Book Review of Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems by W.D. Snodgrass https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/book-review/chris-childers/not-specialists-poems-snodgrass? <script>$(function(){$("#main-inner").addClass("bg-filler"); });</script> <h2 align="center"> <p>Book Review &mdash;</p> <p>W.D. Snodgrass: <em> Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems</em></p> </h2> <p align="center"><strong>(Waywiser Press, 2009))</strong><br /> ISBN 978-1904130352</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In &ldquo;Disguised as Humpty-Dumpty, W.D. Practices Tumbling&rdquo; we read:</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/book-review/chris-childers/not-specialists-poems-snodgrass?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/book-review/chris-childers/not-specialists-poems-snodgrass?#comments Book Reviews chris childers new and selected poems not for specialists poems v8 w.d. snodgrass Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:04:54 +0000 Administrator 577 at https://www.ablemuse.com Chris Childers https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/bio/chris-childers? <p>Chris Childers teaches Classics and Creative Writing and coaches squash and tennis at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v8/bio/chris-childers?#comments Bios bio book review chris childers critique new and selected poems not for specialists v8 w.d. snodgrass Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:50:08 +0000 Administrator 576 at https://www.ablemuse.com