... poles. She transferred to the Ministry of Munitions where she spent her time “typing endless huge sheets of figures” that “went up every night to Winston Churchill personally.” In her spare time Iris continued to write poetry. She also became aware of the domestic effects of World War I, including...

... Woolf, and their Bloomsbury friends. After serving for two winters as a secretary to William Butler Yeats and gaining sufficient status to be able to “correct” his poetry, Pound became an adjunct of Yeats, marshaling aspirants to evenings with the great man and holding forth in various restaurants...

...This chapter focuses on the siege of Tanabe Castle and the battle of Sekigahara in the year 1600. Upon his return to Kyoto, Nakanoin Michikatsu made his first appearance before Emperor GoYōzei and exchanged poems with him. A succession of celebratory poetry parties took place at the palace...

...This chapter concerns the author's musings on his poetry at fifteen years of age—when he had achieved a sound grasp of form, but had yet to capture the ever-elusive art of meaning in his works. With a retrospective look into the death of a cousin some years previous, the author reflects...

...This chapter is a collection of the author's poetry, written during the late 1950s. The subjects vary, touching upon such topics as myths and nature and sundry, and are spread across a rough five-year period. The poems are as follows: The Wind Goes Back (1956), 8:13 p.m...

... lyrics of Su Shi. This chapter examines how Fei, with the inspiration of Mei, negotiated a new way of screening China and offered a radical manifestation of cinematic “Chineseness” where it was least expected. By bringing traditional Chinese poetry to bear on his cinematic vision, Fei calls forth...

... noise “Rhapsody on Contemplating the Waves” "Guan lan fu" Cao Zhilian sound Jakobson Roman phonetic scripts poetry neographs pictographs seal script Yang Lian 楊煉 Yi Yang Lian Yijing Zhouyi Book of Changes Chen Li 陳黎 “Difficult Poem That Is Easy to Read A” "Yi shou rongyi du de nan shi" Chen...

... an inclination of the promise he would develop into a writer. These are his oldest surviving writings. He did not compose his poetry in Japanese. Shiki entered middle school in 1880. The Matsuyama Middle School was founded in 1876 with Kusama Tokuyoshi as its first principal. In October 1881 Emperor Meiji issued...

... of A Six-Foot Sickbed are in the spoken language, making them seem particularly immediate and moving. From this time on, the prose writings that he published would be mainly in this style, although he continued to use classical Japanese in his poetry. Shiki insisted on the importance...

... is that it manages to convey the urgency of a politics of antidiscrimination while remaining a work of serious literature. immigration racism teaching poetry poem Janice Mirikitani Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act? inequality racial discrimination I began my career as a scholar at a moment when many...

...This chapter presents the author's thoughts about criticism and literature. Among these are that people have ideas and experiences, and these ideas and experiences are subjects of immediate and sustained interest in literary writing; that there are kinds of poetry, and in particular a kind or super...

..., expressed in narrative passages of retrospective reflection. The other is the saving—or at least consoling—powers of literature, which emerges implicitly from lyrical passages centered on poetry. This chapter also examines the long sequence of lyrical passages known as the “Higashiyama record” and how...

... hospitality known as poetry, thought, translation, and publishing. American feminism Des Femmes publishing house Poethics Psychanalyse et Politique Psychoanalysis and Politics Translation policy Women’s Alliance for Democracy Alliance des femmes pour la démocratie Creation Ducrocq Françoise Ethics...

..., these figures injected into mid-century Chinese and world cultural politics a poetic thrust, the so-called lyrical in epic time. Case studies ranging from Shen Congwen's literary and archaeological endeavor to Feng Zhi's and He Qifang's poetry, Hu Lancheng's prose, Lin Fengmian's painting, Jiang Wenye's music...

... attempt to provide an equivalent of Pushkin's poetry, his perfect placement of words, his seemingly effortless mastery of rhythm and rhyme. It then looks at Nabokov's work before 1951 as a translator of verse into verse and goes on to discuss his translation of his old Russian novels. It also analyzes...

...This chapter examines radio poetry from two perspectives: the radio host who served as a link between public and corporate interests, and the audience with whom the host is in constant collaboration. Radio personalities like Ted Malone and Tony Wons were compelled to balance relationships...

...This chapter focuses on the Burma-Shave poems, a form of advertising technique by the Burma-Vita Company in which they posted humorous rhyming poems along highways to promote their shaving cream, Burma-Shave. The Burma-Shave poems exemplified the commodification and for-profit use of poetry...

..., which analyzes how the institutionalization of creative writing has affected American fiction, as well as the works of Engle in order to show how the popular poetry organized a relationship between two institutions of literary influence in Cold War America: the university-based creative writing workshop...

... by sending single-space letters, sometimes poetically describing her day, other times using excerpts from literary texts—for instance, Richard Monckton Milnes' “The Brookside”—to conclude her day's letter. In the letter, Danny treats “The Brookside” as a public resource that popular poetry appears to have...

... Marie Rawson Joanna Ashbery John poets poetry Charles Bukowski Franz Wright Beth Ann Fennelly Marie Ponsot Joanna Rawson John Ashbery reviews Charles Bukowski died of leukemia in 1994, but you’d hardly know it. In the years since, his longtime editor has overseen publication of a shelf...