Word: poet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of her presentation, Hawaiian poet and activist Haunani-Kay Trask asked to see how many in attendance had been to Hawaii as tourists. About 10 raised their hands...
Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints, the newest work from Chicana poet Pat Mora, is an attempt to create a literature to accompany the particular religious traditions of New Mexico. Overflowing with luscious color photographs of religious folk art (everything from pine wood statuettes of Jesus to napkins embroidered with the images of saints), Mora's book consciously tries to capture the combination of humility and religious pride that makes folk art so captivating. She attempts to give a voice to the shaky hands that manifested their faith through carving and sewing and painting...
Winter Hours stands alone as a thought-provoking collection of opinions on writing about the natural world, a hodgepodge of different forms and topics, tied loosely together as the thoughts of Mary Oliver, poet. To a reader unfamiliar with Oliver's work, Winter Hours could seem insufficiently structured, its components only loosely related and its subject matter too concerned with Oliver's personal writing experience. But to one familiar with Oliver's poems, the book is a valuable window into the author's character and motivation. And regardless of the coherence of the book as a whole, each...
Only 39, Glyn Maxwell is an accomplished poet, being likened to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost. He is the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forester Prize, and The Breakage is on the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist for 1998. Now a professor at Amherst College, Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England. His British heritage, apparent in his writing, dominates many of his poems concerned with historical events in English history or merely sprinkles his other poetry with British lingo and allusions...
Eleven verse letters to Edward Thomas, a British poet who was killed in World War I, anchor this collection of poetry. These intensely poignant letters bridge the distance of time, conveying sorrow at the loss of a talented young poet but also conveying the devastation and tragedy of war itself. Filled with hopelessness, the author of these letters is aware that Thomas will never read them, yet he cannot suppress the deep affinity he feels for this man. At times, Maxwell's reverence for Thomas is so overwhelming that he drops his detached voice of authorship and allows...