Compiled by the editors of the award-winning Clackamas Literary Review, this anthology of twenty short stories and fifty poems gives readers the opportunity to read from a broad range of styles, perspectives, and generations spanning the last century. The anthology is not separated by genre, as are most literature anthologies available today (but rather loosely co-mingles poems and stories according to gradually developing themes); and places canonized writing, and some lesser known yet accomplished writing, together under the same cover. Includes Writer biographies. Features works by James Joyce, Alice Munro, Alice Walker, Gracey Paley, Tim O'Brien, Jamaica Kincaid, Bobbie Ann Mason, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Melissa Pritchard, Jorge Luis Borges, John Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov, Carolyn Forche, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Robinson, Gary Soto, Sharon Olds, Joy Hado, Rohert Hayden, Gary Thompson, Wiliam Stafford, Walt McDonald, Alberto Rios, Theodore Roethke, Marilynne Chin, Gary Snyder, Linda Hogan, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Anne Sexton, Daisy Zamora, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Octavio Paz, James Haggard, Lanston Hughes, Rita Dove, Carolyn Kizer, Naomi Shihab Nye, Donald Hall, Jimmy Santiago Boca, Maya Angelou, Claribe Alegria, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, James Wright, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost. For anyone interested in Twentieth-Century short stories or poems or Creative Writing (fiction and poetry).

A Writer's Country: A Collection of Fiction and Poetry

Arts & Photography

Knorr, Jeff

Schell, Tim

History & Criticism

PRENTICE/HALL

Breaking barriers and cultivating a lifelong love of poetry, this practical guide to reading poetry is set up to provide a background in analyzing poems, applying literary theory, forming opinions and offers approaches to discussing and writing about poetry. The volume teaches readers how a writer works so that they can feel more comfortable reading poems. The author examines survivalist poetics, how readers and writers work, literary criticism, how a poem is built; metaphor, symbol, and point of view, sound and the poem, shaping the currents of poetry, reading a poem, writers on writing, and provides poems for further reading. For those looking for an accessible introduction to poetry.

An Introduction to Poetry: The River Sings

Literature & Fiction

Pearson

This guide to creative writing explores the two genres of poetry and fiction, and defines the basic elements of each. It offers a hands-on approach to writing, and includes essays from noted authors that enable readers to witness the creative evolution of poems and stories. Clearly written and organized, it also contains student writing samples and an easy-to-use guide to the workshop. The section on poetry covers such topics as imagery, lines and stanzas, sound, rhyme and meter, voice, and point of view. The fiction section looks at point of view, plot, character, setting, dialogue, style, tone, voice, and theme. For aspiring writers who view the writing process as a dynamic one, and are looking to improve their editing and critiquing skills.

Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Poetry. Essays. n this mingling of essays and poems Jeff Knorr takes us on metaphoric journeys down rivers, to lakes, and across fields hunting for pheasant. KEEPER explores childhood memories fishing with his grandfather, his own father, and what it means to raise a boy of his own. In these captivating writings, our heartaches and memories are cast out against the placid surface of the water only to retrieve what is important to us--to teach the younger generation through our stories and actions, weaving a beautiful pattern of life and living.

Keeper

Poetry

Mammoth Books

In deceptively simple language (consider the nuances of the title), these brief and quiet poems probe the common dichotomies of our lives--the fractured either/or way we position ourselves in the western world: present/past, song/silence, man/nature, alive/dead, awake/asleep, day/night.  At their best, the poems in Standing Up to the Day celebrate those joyous moments when we forget the fracture and feel the wholeness of our lives, and mostly "it's the small things we feel."  Knorr has an eastern-like knack for observing those small things.  One of my favorites: "The chicks sing/through the morning./ They are the morning."  These are fine poems--subtle, intelligent, and best enjoyed during our quietest hours.--Gary Thompson

Standing Up to the Day

Pecan Grove Pr

The graceful lyrics of Jeff Knorr's The Third Body are poems of longing--longing for connection with the natural world, and longing for human connection: I look for Orion's belt you showed me years ago, for the bear, because I call our son Osito, and hope that across this canyon of night our eyes might turn in the same direction, reflect, become a moment of gravitational love. Suffused with a sense of the spirit, Knorr's poems quietly, yet insistently, call the reader into their luminous presence.

The Third Body

Cherry Grove Collections

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