T.E. Hulme - Fragments & Other Poems

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Adelaide Crapsey - Cinquains & Other Verse Public Domain Poets #6 Cinquains & Other Verse contains a generous selection of Adelaide Crapsey's cinquains, and various other poems, originally published in her posthumous volume of poetry, Verse (1915), with a preface by Jean Webster, and William Stanley Braithwaite. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. The Sun-Dial Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, By their shadows. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Vassar College, where she was class poet three years in a row. After graduating, Crapsey taught history & literature at Kemper Hall in Wisconsin, and then studied at the School of Archaeology in Rome. I know Not these my hands And I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these. Around this time, she began writing 'free verse', drawing inspiration from the French 'vers libre', Japanese hokku and tanka, and the work of Yone Noguchi, among other things. This led to Crapsey developing an English-language 5-line poetic form called the 'cinquain', modeled in part on tanka, which led to some of her most memorable verses (written between 1911 and 1913). Listen . . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees, And fall. Unfortunately, Crapsey's life was plagued with illness, and she died in 1914 at the age of 36. While leaving behind a single slim volume of poetry, Crapsey's terse, unrhymed poems would go on to inspire a number of poets central to the post-1913 'new verse' movement, including Marianne Moore, Lola Ridge, Yvor Winters, and Carl Sandburg (et al.). These be Three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of one Just dead. Public Domain Press is dedicated to producing contemporary editions of out-of-print poets and poetry collections, particularly with regard to compressed and fragmented "free" verse from the late-1800s and early-1900s. All poems start as facsimiles - to preserve the original fonts - which are then cleaned up, edited for consistency, and spaciously laid-out, adorned with borders, illustrations, and ornaments from the books and magazines they originally appeared in. These are not "reprints" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collection, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.

Adelaide Crapsey - Cinquains & Other Verse

Adelaide Crapsey

Mina Loy - Songs to Joannes & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #7 Containing the entire 34 song sequence, Songs to Joannes, and a generous selection of Loy's other verses (originally published 1914-1923), as well as selected short essays, manifestos, and aphorisms. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. I am the jealous store-house of candle-ends That lit your adolescent learning --------- Behind God's eyes There might be Other lights Loy (1882-1966) was born in London to wealthy parents. While her father did not believe in formal education for women, Loy convinced him to let her study at Künstlerinnenverein, a women's arts college in Munich, and the Académie Colarossi, in Paris. Out of the severing Of hill from hill The interim Of star from star The nascent Static Of night She became close with Gertrude Stein while living in Paris, and then moved to Florence in 1906. Loy began publishing 'free verse' in 1914, dabbled in Futurism, and then in 1916 moved to New York to join the avant-garde arts and literary scene, alongside Dadaists like Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, and publishers Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson (et al.). The prig of passion--- To your professorial paucity Proto-plasm was mad Evolving us--- Loy would go on to be a leading poet of the post-1913 'new verse' movement - culminating in her 1923 book, Lunar Baedeker - and her poetic innovations were praised by numerous contemporaries, including William Carlos Williams, Alfred Kreymborg, Walter Arensberg, and T.S. Elliot. Though it would be 25 years until Loy would publish a 2nd book of poetry, she continued to write and make assemblages until her death in 1966. Gertrude Stein Curie Of the laboratory of vocabulary she crushed the tonnage of consciousness congealed to phrases to extract a radium of the word Public Domain Press is dedicated to producing contemporary editions of out-of-print poets and poetry collections, particularly with regard to compressed and fragmented "free" verse from the late-1800s and early-1900s. All poems start as facsimiles - to preserve the original fonts - which are then cleaned up, edited for consistency, and spaciously laid-out, adorned with borders, illustrations, and ornaments from the books and magazines they originally appeared in. These are not "reprints" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collection, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.

Mina Loy - Songs to Joannes & Other Verses

Loy, Mina

Lewis G. Alexander - Hokku & Other Poems Public Domain Poets #14 Publicdomainpoets.com Containing all of Alexander's poetry, originally published between 1923-1927 in various journals and anthologies, including 52 hokku and tanka, a short essay on hokku, a handful of other poems (both rhymed and unrhymed). New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. Like cherry blossoms Dancing with the passing wind- My shattered hopes. Lewis G. Alexander (1898-1945) was born in Washington D.C. and attended Howard University, and later the University of Pennsylvania, both known for their support of African American students. Alexander started writing poetry at the age of 19, and was one of the earliest non-Japanese poets to specialise in English-language tanka and haiku, studying with John Gould Fletcher, and drawing on the work of Yone Noguchi, alongside translators like W.G. Aston and Basil Hall Chamberlain, for inspiration. Cold against the sky The blue jays cried at dawning. The larks where are they? Heavily upon the air My ears tuned in to listen. Alexander would go on to publish in numerous well-known arts and poetry magazines throughout the 1920s, including 'The Crisis', 'Opportunity', and 'Fire!!' (etc.), Alexander was also a playwright, director, actor, and costume designer, appearing in the Ethiopian Art Theatre group's productions of Oscar Wilde's 'Salome', and Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors', among other things. The moonlight: Juice flowing from an over-ripe pomegranate bursting The cossack-crested palm trees: motionless The leopard-spotted shade: inciting fear silence seeds sewn . . . Public Domain Press is dedicated to producing new editions of out-of-print poetry, particularly with regard to compressed & fragmented 'free verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s. All poems start as facsimiles - to preserve original fonts - which are cleaned up, edited, and spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations, and ornaments from the books and magazines they originally appeared in. These are not simply "reprints" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collections, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.

Lewis G. Alexander - Hokku & Other Poems

Lewis, Alexander

H.D. - Wind Sleepers & Other Verse

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Hildegarde Flanner - This Morning & Other Verses

Hildegarde Flanner

Three Women Poets of Modern Japan: Akiko Yosano, Akiko Yanagiwara, Takeko Kujō

YOSANO, AKIKO

Kujō, Takeko

Yanagiwara, Akiko

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