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Author: Harold Schweizer
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780838752098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The nine essays in this volume, presented at a symposium on Irving Feldman at Bucknell University, are about how Feldman spans stylistic differences, how he weaves thematic narratives, builds conceptual topoi, develops motifs, and consigns moral values. Illustrated.
Author: Irving Feldman
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2009-01-16
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 030751790X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Irving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman’s rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational, his Yiddish flair for the comic, his profound social insight and lucidity. He writes about everything from the Coney Island days of his childhood and his bohemian years in postwar New York to the art of Picasso and George Segal, from the Holocaust to its aftermath—in narrative and dramatic poems and personal lyrics that are by turns ardent, witty, biting, ecstatic, and heartbreaking. Long a favorite among his fellow poets (John Hollander has called his work “amazing in its moral intensity”), Feldman has remained true to the soul’s deepest callings: I have questioned myself aloud at night in a voice I did not recognize, hurried and disobedient, hardly brighter. What have I kept? Nothing. Not bread or the bread-word. What have I offered? Rebel in the kingdom, my gift has wanted a grace. This glorious gathering of poems displays Feldman’s entire career in all its variety and passion, and confirms his place among the great poets of our time.
Author: Irving Feldman
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 0802196543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume from the two-time National Book Award-finalist offers “splashes of beauty, yes–but also a fountain of shameless knowing and inspired telling” (Cynthia Ozick). This tenth collection of Irving Feldman’s poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized to be a body of work singular in its extravagant wit, powerful storytelling, variety of voices and range of feeling—playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things: the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of “Funny Bones’ duels with death in Florida; in “Oedipus Host,” Oedipus arrives from his millennia-long trek to host a TV talk show; and the plucky, feminist heroine of “Heavenly Muse” visits yet another barely worthy male poet. In the tragicomic title poem, “translation” comes to stand for the dilemmas of expression in a culture that sucks up language and spews it back. The renowned poet J. D. McClatchy called Feldman “our best fabulist, Franz Kafka’s imagination combined with S. J. Perelman’s ear, and everywhere his own buoyant, driving line.” The poems collected here demonstrate why the Guggenheim Fellow and National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist is deserving of such high praise.
Author: Willard Spiegelman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-06-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0190291834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.
Author: Irving Feldman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781417722907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices and range of feeling -- playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things, the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of "Funny Bones" duels with death in Florida; in "Oedipus Host, " Oedipus arrives from his millennia-long trek to host a TV talk show; and the plucky feminist heroine of "Heavenly Muse" visits yet another barely worthy male poet. In the tragicomic title poem, "translation" comes to stand for the dilemmas of expression in a culture that sucks up language and spews it back.
Author: Irving Feldman
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781904130994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Literary Nonfiction. Irving Feldman is one of the USA's finest poets. Approaching his 91st year, he has brought together a collection of aphorisms he has been at work on for several years. "Irving Feldman writes with an immediacy, vigor, and precision of insight that make this book an exhilarating achievement. Again and again, one is brought to consider the claim of unwelcome doubts as well as unsolicited truths. His discipline and economy of phrase can survive comparison with the masters of the aphorism."--David Bromwich "Aphorisms, shrewd observations, rules to live by and rules to resist--such are Irving Feldman's USABLE TRUTHS. Some produce short, sharp shocks of recognition; others need to be lingered over and lived with, unpacked like a line of metaphysical poetry. In each the fewest words enfold the fullest meaning. Like aphorists before him, Feldman looks at love and age and the way we live now, but he brings a poet's touch to even his most philosophical insights. USABLE TRUTHS is thus what the French call a perfect livre de chevet, a book to keep on a bedside nightstand, ideal for those moments before sleep when we reflect on the strange turnings, the hits and misses, in our own lives."--Michael Dirda "'Usable' because these aphorisms invite us to trace--with mordant wit but also pity, and a strange courtesy--the secret life of our loves, hatreds, wonders, lies, and vanities, our forms of praise and styles of doubt, to trace their secret gifts and secret wounds, wherein we and others around us may gain and lose more than we think. They ask you to work on your creaturely listening."--Kenneth Gross "USABLE TRUTHS is an aphoristic treasure chest. It invites the reader to reach in up to the elbows, certain to retrieve marvels of insight, satire, deflation of our vanities, celebration of our generosities, wordplay for the play's sake, sentences built to please, provoke, press us into self-knowledge."--Alicia Ostriker "In USABLE TRUTHS, Irving Feldman joins Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Blake, Emerson and a handful of other epigrammatists who alert us, with their laconic wit and wisdom, to the mansions that the mind can build in and from the smallest rooms of incisive thought. These nuggets contain a trove of riches."--Willard Spiegelman
Author: Irving Howe
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.
Author: Stephen Wolf
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780231140652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of Hudson's arrival, Stuyvesant's prejudice, and the city's astonishing growth and gentrification. They speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements. They portray the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and the decay, fear, and unexpected kindness on a subway ride. They take place on sidewalks, bridges, and docks; in taxis, buses, and ferries; and even within nature. The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, and other familiar landmarks are recast through the prism of individual experience yet still reflect the seeming invincibility of New York and its status as a cultural magnet for the freethinking and experimental. While certain subjects and themes can be found in all urban verse, poems about New York have their own restless rhythm and ever-changing style, much like the city itself. Whether writing sonnets, epics, or experimental or imagistic verse, each of these poets has been inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.
Author: Irving Feldman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-10-17
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780226240671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reflections on life from a perspicacious observer, the subjects ranging from love to murder. In Theme Park America, he writes: "it's interesting / he's not screaming now / he's doubled over / and we don't have to worry / what it means / nothing is supposed to mean / that will come later / when there's more information / about the information."
