What is "American poetry?" Is there truly such a thing as an American poetic tradition, spanning nearly 400 years from colonial times to the 20th century? This volume is an authoritative survey of the elusive category that is the poetry of the American people. The reference work covers all of the major American poets, from the colonial to the ...
Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. Undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured by our clamorous culture: without poetry, we live only ...
Passage to Liberty" recaptures the drama of 19th- and 20th century Italian immigration to America through photos, letters, and other firsthand artifacts--uniquely replicated in three-dimensional facsimile form, printed in color with special pull-out features. Color photos & illustrations.
Parini examines the life and times of 13 books that have changed America. Each of the books has been a watershed, gathering intellectual currents and marking a turn in American life and thought. The 13 books range from "Of Plymouth Plantation" to "The Feminine Mystique."
A biography of the American poet Robert Frost. Recounting Frost's meeting with Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie and Edward Thomas on his visit to England in 1912 where he gained recognition as a major young poet. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer prize four times. Includes interviews with those who knew Frost throughout his life.
Unlike most other poetry anthologies, arranged only chronologically or limited to the exploration of one type of poem, Jay Parini's WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY collects 24 smaller, more accessible anthologies in one volume. With the guidance of an editorial board of pre-eminent literary scholars and world-renown poets, Parini has managed to ...
Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching , writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft.
Set on the isle of Capri in the '70s, Parini's coming-of-age novel sends its protagonist, young Alex, to the island as an aide to a poet named Rupert Grant (a stand-in for the poet Robert Graves, who lived on Majorca). Featuring real characters (Graham Greene, Gore Vidal), the novel pits Alex against the poet as they vie for the various women in ...
More than three dozen voices offer diverse expressions of the dynamic interaction between subculture and the American consciousness, and many answers to the question of how to "construct a 'self' from the materials of life in our contentious and often incoherent culture."
The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey coursea1492 to the present. Each carefully edited booklet centers on a core issue of the period with attention ...
Starkly honest, gritty, and at times darkly humorous, the 12 stories in Duval's debut collection feature blue-collar workers, lapsed Catholics, bullies, and smalltime thieves struggling with their jobs, their relationships, and their families.
Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible struggles.
Unlike most other poetry anthologies, arranged only chronologically or limited to the exploration of one type of poem, Jay Parini's WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY collects 24 smaller, more accessible anthologies in one volume. With the guidance of an editorial board of pre-eminent literary scholars and world-renown poets, Parini has offers a ...
In "The New York Times Book Review," Gay Talese raised the question. 'Where are all the Italian American writers?' Ciongoli and Parini respond convincingly with this anthology of essays by 23 Italian American writers. Memoirs in the first section reveal the truths of the people and relationships behind the stereotypes. Whether reflecting on rosary ...
These poems by New Englanders--including Mark Doty, Carol Frost, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Rosanna Warren--draw a portrait of a New England that sparkles with small-town charm, snow storms, and the ghost of Dickinson.
LIKE EMILY DICKINSON and Walt Whitman, Robert Frost looms large in the American literary landscape, straddling the 19th and 20th centuries like a poetic colossus: whosoever desires passage must, at some point, contend with the monolithic presence of Robert Frost. As they did in Visiting Emily and Visiting Walt, in Visiting Frost, Sheila Coghill ...
In this sixth volume of his verse, Axinn, who was once a pilot, starts observing the earth and rises from there, meditating on place, time, and relationships.
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