American Book of the Dead: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Barnes, Jim

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

AMERICAN BK OF THE DEAD: Poems

Visiting Picasso (Illinois Poetry Series)

Jim Barnes’s familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In Visiting Picasso he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history that ties European culture together, sometimes darkly. A heightened sense of place and purpose infuses the poems of Visiting Picasso with meaning drawn from actual landscapes, events, and observations.

Few poets in America today can write as solemnly and truthfully as Jim Barnes about the heritage of America, a heritage as wide as the continent itself. Jim Barnes's aesthetic is vivid throughout these poems. A high sense of loss pervades the book, but Barnes's strong-willed persona never regrets what has passed. Instead, the persona gains strength from it. What has come to be his signature in four earlier books of poetry and remains his mark in The Sawdust War is essentially where his art lies, a strong sense of loss, of redemption coming out of loss, of place both geographical and spiritual.

The Sawdust War: POEMS

Paris: Poems

Jim Barnes's familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In Visiting Picasso, he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history that ties European culture together, sometimes darkly. A heightened sense of place and purpose infuses the poems of Visiting Picasso with meaning drawn from actual landscapes, events, and observations.

On Native Ground, Jim Barnes's splendid memoir in poetry and prose, takes us from his boyhood in rural southeastern Oklahoma during the Depression and World War II through his mature years as an internationally recognized poet.In the first part of the memoir, Barnes recalls places, people, and events from his childhood. He singles out forgotten landmarks that have been damaged or destroyed through the passage of time. While lamenting their loss, Barnes celebrates the capacity of art to keep in memory what is otherwise forgotten. To that end, Barnes's exquisitely crafted poems memorialize moments, scenes, or emotions from a past that is at once personal and collective. In the memoir's second part, Barnes chronicles more recent experiences in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, evoking vividly the sights, sounds, and moods of the places from which he draws new inspiration for his art.Throughout, Barnes comments incisively on writing, the universality of art, and contemporary literary issues. Above all, by his own example, he shows how a writer can be firmly rooted in the land while transcending any limitations implied by ethnic or regional labels.

On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barnes’s boyhood in rural southeastern Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II through his mature years as an internationally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and Welsh ancestry, Barnes is often identified as a Native American poet. He emphasizes his desire to be recognized for his art, not his blood. Yet he speaks eloquently here of his attachment to his “native ground,” the Choctaw region in Oklahoma—for him “the land where memory dwells.” This edition features a new postscript by the author.

On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions (Volume 23) (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)

University of Oklahoma Press

Book by Berry, Wendell, Dillard, Annie, Barnes, Jim, Sanders, Scott

From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest (Midwest Writers Ser. : No. 1)

DILLARD, ANNIE

BERRY, WENDELL

Sanders, Scott

Bottom Dog Pr

This book examines the uses of myth and symbol in Lowry and Mann's major works and finds some remarkable similarities that exist because of structural tradition. Both authors are consciously and unconsciously continuing a tradition that can be traced to the beginning of literature in the Western world. Contents: Introduction; Lowry's Under the Volcano and Mann's ^IThe Magic Mountain; Recurrence of Patterns and Parallels in Other Works of Lowry and Mann; The Monomyth in Other Works of Lowry and Mann: A Non-Comparative View; Lowry and Mann within the Context of the Modern Novel.

Fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann: Structural Tradition

History & Criticism

Truman State University Press

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American Book of the Dead: Poems

AMERICAN BK OF THE DEAD: Poems

Visiting Picasso (Illinois Poetry Series)

The Sawdust War: POEMS

Paris: Poems

Visiting Picasso (Illinois Poetry Series)

On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions (Volume 23) (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)

From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest (Midwest Writers Ser. : No. 1)

Fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann: Structural Tradition