13 Ergebnisse.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.  Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, i...

Each chapter... is a profile in imaginative courage. -- William Matthews

In this fresh poetry collection, Kevin Stein tussles with the current American moment's skewed notions of social and aesthetic value. His gallery of subjects is bracingly contemporary, including Gold Star Mothers who've lost a child to war, nightshift factory workers, estranged veterans, guitarist Les Paul, one couple's yard sale romance, a dog's Valentine poem, and even riffs on toilet paper, Herodotus, congressional discord, and league bowle...

Los personajes claves de la saga Dragonlance se reúnen en El Último Hogar para despedirse antes de que cada uno inicie su viaje en busca de aventuras y fortuna. Allí están Caramon, Raistlin, Kitiara, Sturm, Flint, Tanis y Tas, y todos se comprometen a reunirse otra vez en el mismo lugar al cabo de cinco años.

Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from traditional to more experimental forms, few have noted also the elements of constancy in the evolution of his poetry. This book traces the unified growth of Wright's poetry.

Kevin Stein's first book since being named poet laureate of Illinois.

In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--"ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--"explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture. Stein embraces subjects as various as his father's death, magazine sex surveys. Kandinsky's theory of art, the dangling modifier, Jimi Hendrix's flam...

Keine Beschreibung.

Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate.Often improvisational and always lyrical, Stein's poems move effortlessly through the art of Beckmann and Degas, the music of Bob Marley and garage bands, and the pathos of cancer patient...

Stein's poems reveal the constancy of the American quest for work, family, and dignity, even as they evoke the bruised but still redemptive fruit of human compassion.

Poems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois

Poems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois

At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy Acts the way a particular group of diverse poets have manifested their communal concerns. As Choice wrote, "Stein's graceful text is a primer on the relationship of the (American) poetic to the political".Looking through the lens of the careers of Robert Lowell, James Wright, Frank O'Hara, Adrienn...