In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent, non-vocational labor as a necessary sacrifice that frustrates the righteous progress towards realizing that seemingly purest of callings: Poet. Incorporating the often overlooked or excluded workaday ephemera of three canonical US Romantic poets--Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Hart Crane--this volume offers new archival insights that call for a re-examination of celebrated literary careers and disputes their status as renowned or tragic icons of creative vocation. The poetry of Whitman the real estate dealer, Melville the customs inspector, and Crane the copywriter, Riley contends, does not constitute the formal inscription of an antagonistic or discreet poetic labor struggling against quotidian work towards the fulfilment of exceptional individual callings. Instead, the distracted forms of their poetry are always already intermingled with a variety of apparently lesser labors. Ousting poetic production from its default sanctuary of privileged exemption or transcendent repose, the volume refigures the work of the poet as a living sensuous activity that transgresses labor's various divisions and hierarchies. It consequently recasts the poet as a figure who actually unfastens the 'right of passage' vocational logic that does so much to secure and reproduce the current neoliberal paradigm.

Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation

Literature & Fiction

Riley, Peter

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This study of the Earth's rotation is one of a series which considers aspects of science through its rhythms and cycles. Providing a simple framework for explaining concepts of astronomy, biology, physics and chemistry, the series aims to show how different areas of science are connected.

The Spinning Earth (Cycles in Science)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann Educational Books - Library Division

This study of food cycles is one of a series which considers aspects of science through its rhythms and cycles. Providing a simple framework for explaining concepts of astronomy, biology, physics and chemistry, the series aims to show how different areas of science are connected.

Food Cycles (Cycles in Science)

Light and Color (Straightforward Science)

Introduces the scientific principles of light and color, including explanations of where light comes from, reflected light, colors in nature, and how the eye works.

Light and Color

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Bt Bound

For more than 50 years, Peter Riley's creative and critical voice has given shape and substance to modern English-language poetry as a prize-winning poet and editor and writer of imaginative prose. For the last few years, he has served as poetry editor of The Fortnightly Review, whence these critical notices come. Denise Riley, John Burnside, Peter Hughes, Alistair Noon, Andrew Jordan, Sandeep Parmar, Kelvin Corcoran, Anthony Barnett, Barry Tebb, Ed Dorn, Barbara Guest, Joseph Ceravolo, James Schuyler, Simon Smith, Carherine Hales, John Welch, Anthony Mellors, Andrew McMillan and Robert Duncan are among the more than two dozen poets surveyed here.About Peter Riley: Peter Riley is a former co-editor of The English Intelligencer, the former editor of Collection, and the author of fifteen books of poetry - and some of prose. A recipient of a 2012 Cholmondeley Award for poetry, his latest book is Due North (Shearsman Books 2015), which has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2015. After many years in Cambridge, he now lives in Yorkshire. 'Coming under the scrutiny of Peter Riley's mind is to feel the weight of a lifetime's commitment to Anglophone and French-language poetry, to encounter tastes formed by long questioning, reflecting, and understanding, and to hear, as good poets and readers must, how judgment of success in composition is no respecter of blanket denigration, sacred cow, or cult reputation. It is to be understood by an expert. Allowed the space by The Fortnightly Review to explore a host of ideas on his art, in direct engagement with others' contributions, Riley remains his own man. Reading these review-essays is to be apprised through sustained inquiry of benefits and challenges in a broad swathe of recent poetry. Where product placement, measurable usefulness, compliance and craven correctness are prevalent, his critical intelligence is essential to such a society's real culture.' - Peter Robinson

The Fortnightly Reviews: Poetry Notes 2012-2014 (Odd Volumes)

Odd Volumes

Physics Now! 11-14 is one of three Pupil's Books that cover the requirements of the National Curriculum for science at Key Stage 3, the Common Entrance Examination at 13+ syllabus and equivalent junior science courses. Based on Physics Now! 11-14, the clear text and colourful illustrations and photographs fully explain the concepts and encourage background reading. Boxed sections are used to show how scientific ideas have developed and how they are applied in today's world. Throughout there are numerous questions that test a range of skills including comprehension, application, analysis and evaluation. These may be used as a basis for classwork or homework. There are also 'For discussion' sections to encourage group discussion. In this new edition, the Chapters have been reorganised to reflect the QCA Scheme of Work and there is additional information of fuses and circuit breakers, energy transfers and transmitting electricity, the effects of gravity and ways of measuring speed. There is also an expanded Chapter on the Solar Sysytem. Each book has a glossary and is supported by a Teacher's Resource Book that contains details of practical work.

Physics Now! 11-14 Teacher's Resource

Science & Math

Hodder Murray

Chapters are presented in the same order as topics in the Checkpoint Chemistry Scheme of Work; Chapters 1-5 are for Year 1, Chapters 6-10 for Year 2 and Chapters 11-15 for Year 3. The clear text and colourful illustrations and photographs fully explain the concepts and encourage background reading. Boxed sections are used to show how scientific ideas have developed over time and how they are applied in today's world. Questions throughout encourage pupils to extract relevant information from text and think more deeply about the topics. 'For discussion' boxes are designed specially to stimulate class or group discussions and can be used in work on science and citizenship. The extensive glossary contains all key syllabus words for chemistry and helps to build pupils' scientific vocabulary. The accompanying Teacher's Resource Book provides full support, including details of practical work, answers to all questions in the Pupil's Book and suggestions for the use of ICT.

Checkpoint Chemistry Pupil's Book

Chemistry

Chapters are presented in the same order as topics in the Checkpoint Biology Scheme of Work; Chapters 1-5 are for Year 1, Chapters 6-10 for Year 2 and Chapters 11-15 for Year 3. The clear text and colourful illustrations and photographs fully explain the concepts and encourage background reading. Boxed sections are used to show how scientific ideas have developed over time and how they are applied in today's world. Questions throughout encourage pupils to extract relevant information from text and think more deeply about the topics. 'For discussion' boxes are designed specially to stimulate class or group discussions and can be used in work on science and citizenship. The extensive glossary contains all key syllabus words for biology and helps to build pupils' scientific vocabulary. The accompanying Teacher's Resource Book provides full support, including details of practical work, answers to all questions in the Pupil's Book and suggestions for the use of ICT.

Checkpoint Biology Pupil's Book

Biological Sciences

Checkpoint Biology is one of three books that cover the requirements of the University of Cambridge International Examinations Checkpoint tests and other equivalent junior secondary science courses. The Pupil's Book is supported by this Teacher's Resource Book which contains: - the answers to the questions in the Pupil's Book - practical activities and investigations with notes for the teachers and technicians - photocopiable worksheets to support some activities - end-of-chapter tests with answers - past Checkpoint exam questions with marking guidance - ICT activities to support each topic.

Checkpoint Biology Teacher's Book

Chapters are presented in the same order as topics in the Checkpoint Physics Scheme of Work, with the one exception of Measurement which has been placed as Chapter 1. The clear text and colourful illustrations and photographs fully explain the concepts and encourage background reading. Boxed sections are used to show how scientific ideas have developed over time and how they are applied in today's world. Questions throughout encourage pupils to extract relevant information from text and think more deeply about the topics. 'For discussion' boxes are designed specially to stimulate class or group discussions and can be used in work on science and citizenship. The extensive glossary contains all key syllabus words for physics and helps to build pupils' scientific vocabulary. The accompanying Teacher's Resource Book provides full support, including details of practical work, answers to all questions in the Pupil's Book and suggestions for the use of ICT.

Checkpoint Physics Pupil's Book

Physics

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