Jason Shinder

The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, "one of the finest of our new poets" (Gerald Stern) I close my eyes and try to remember when I was unopposed, when I started to die, buoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love. —from "Before" Jason Shinder's last poems are his moving testimonies to poetry, love, and friendship. With power, clarity, and disarming humor, the poems confront grief and mortality with a humility and fortitude that come only "with hope, stupid hope." Stupid Hope is Shinder's wry, penetrating, and wise farewell.

Poems

Stupid Hope

Peter Bogdanovich

A second edition of a popular series collecting the year's most noteworthy writing about the art of film includes works by directors, including Steven Spielberg; historians, including Douglas Brinkley; and novelists, such as Gore Vidal; along with other features. Original.

The Best American Movie Writing 1999

John Landis

The Best Movie Writing 2001 is dedicated to collecting the best writing about our most influential medium, our most popular, evocative and hotly debated art and mode of storytelling, and includes several new features: introductions of each piece by the guest editor; comments by the contributors on their pieces: and a catalog of America's most important movie magazines. Discussions are not limited to individual films, actors and directors but range from the racial politics of Gone With the Wind to the protest surrounding the 1999 adaptation of the book American Psycho; from how the MPAA rates independent films, to the battle between proponents of film and the new digital technology. Includes selections from Ian Buruma, Molly Haskell, Michael Herr, John Irving, Lawrence Kasdan, Jack Kerouac, Stuart Klawans, Stanley Kubric, and others.

The Best American Movie Writing 2001

Every Room We Ever Slept In

In Among Women, Shinder courageously explores men's fear of sexual intimacy using a personal, very private voice that whispers from the mire of lived human experience. In crisp, clean lines, the poems accurately convey the vulnerability, longing, and shame associated with the fear of human contact and communication. Sometimes achingly sensual, though never sentimental, Shinder treats this subject with daring and originality.

Among Women

A tribute to Ginsberg's signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion. In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and-white cover. The original edition cost seventy-five cents, but there was something priceless about its eponymous piece. Although it gave a voice to the new generation that came of age in the conservative years following World War II, the poem also conferred a strange, subversive power that continues to exert its influence to this day. Ginsberg went on to become one of the most eminent and celebrated writers of the second half of the twentieth century, and "Howl" became the critical axis of the worldwide literary, cultural, and political movement that would be known as the Beat generation. The year 2006 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "Howl," and The Poem That Changed America will celebrate and shed new light on this profound cultural work. With new essays by many of today's most distinguished writers, including Frank Bidart, Andrei Codrescu, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Robert Pinsky, and Luc Sante, The Poem That Changed America reveals the pioneering influence of "Howl" down through the decades and its powerful resonance today.

"Howl" Fifty Years Later

The Poem That Changed America

Michael O'Keefe

Lili Taylor

This anthology of classic and modern poetry features works selected and read by celebrated American movie actors and directors.

Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them

The Poem I Turn To

Father and Son Poems--A Twentieth-Century American Anthology

Divided Light

Gathers poems about American films by Delmore Schwartz, Amy Clampitt, Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Sam Shepard, and Bruce Springsteen

American Movie Poems the First Hundred Years

Lights, Camera, Poetry!

Jeff Herman

Amy Holman

The official resource used by the AWP (Associated Writing Program) and the YMCA National Writers Voice offers first-time authors an arsenal of innovative tools, advice, stories, and a complete listing of resources to make their dreams a reality.

And Make it a Success

Get Your First Book Published

Gathers poems about the father-daughter relationship by T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ntozake Shange, and Mark Strand

Father & Daughter Poems : a Twentieth-century American Selection

More Light

Capturing the joys, rituals, challenges, and celebration associated with birthdays, an anthology of classic poetry features the works of Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Bob Dylan, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plath, Ishmael Reed, Sharon Olds, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, and other notables. Original.

A Celebration

Birthday Poems

Reflections from America's prominent writers on the seminal poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg, on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary.

Jason Shinder

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