Nocturnal activities, poems as trees.pdf

Quintessential Fine Books, 2021

Philosophical poetry on the human condition.

2009

This dissertation seeks to provide firmer grounding for the study of metapoetics in Roman poetry by investigating Vergil's use of metapoetic narrative, symbolism, and metaphor in the Eclogues and Georgics. I argue that Vergil's patterning of characters in the Eclogues after existing narratives, his discussion of farming in the Georgics, and the related references to trees and shade in the Eclogues, can be read as reflecting metaphorically on the theory and practice of poetry in Rome in the late first century BCE. By comparing Vergil's discussions of trees and farming with passages of explicit literary criticism in Horace, Cicero, and others, I show that Vergil structures the Eclogues and Georgics in a way that allows references to agriculture and the natural world to be read as metaphors not only for life, as some Georgics scholars have shown, but also for poetry. My first chapter demonstrates my method by discussing a specific, pointed allusion to Aratus and his Helleni...

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Poetry and prose by Thom Conroy, Aaron Chapman, Andrew Leggett

2024

Essential projection if trees are to become ancient few insistences slower than old trees Accrued niching at bodged clearances an irreplaceable is sapping human speeds Invasive afforestation, lodge it with pines, engross the uplands nothing sparse about the correctness offered its pole pressure Any tree-total upland is tireless, swathed in indurate spoil, horizontal furling, sitka comprehensives Peter Larkin contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. Harriet Tarlo (2011). A symposium on his work was held at Warwick University (UK) in 2018, the proceedings of which appeared in the Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry. Among recent collections are Trees Before Abstinent Ground (2019) and Encroach to Resume (2021). A set of 100 twoto three-line poems, Sounds Between Trees appeared in 2022 from Guillemot Press. His newest collection is If Trees Allay an Earth Retrialling (Shearsman, 2023).

ARC Poetry Magazine, 2013

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the screeching of anarchic cats, a child crying, a voice from somewhere could be of pleasure or anguish. At dawn, exhausted fences lean inwards, over palings where fruit-tree branches hang, dry thickskinned lemons, sun-hardened, bird-picked. Wind gusts drift papers and grit into corners. On a back step, a pot of scarlet bougainvillea-the pavement gives way to soft purple flowers of clover their intimacy of a naked inner wrist exposed by a dressing-gown sleeve pushed back from wet soapsuds in a sink: back in alleys there's a thrumming, like heartbeatsit thuds and blossoms and roars.

Configurations

International journal of scientific and research publications, 2017

This paper aims to analyze Joyce Kilmer’s poem entitled “Trees” for the perspective of stylistic analysis. The analysis is made under the aspects of phonological, morphological, graphological, and lexico-syntactic levels. This research is helpful in understanding the basic concepts, literal and hidden meanings of the poem.

Yale Review, 2009

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Creative works by Dominique Hecq, Rachel Hennessy, Lynn Davidson, Toni Roberts, Jane Downing, Craig Jordan-Baker