{"title":"Memórias Literárias","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hunting-men","title":"Hunting Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This overview of poetry in America, written by a major contemporary poet who has served in the front lines of the poetry wars for over four decades, brings the story into the present in a manner only possible for a practitioner of the art who is also a powerful critic.\"-James Applewhite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This wonderful collection of essays and interviews ranges from literary criticism to memoir and back again, probing but leaving mercifully unsolved the mystery of how a young man becomes a poet. Along the way we discover many ways in which discouragements may be converted to encouragements, and behold what wing shots may be got off with the aid of a stout heart, a clear eye, and a steady hand.\"-Henry Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hunting Men, poet Dave Smith reasserts the validity of poetry in our times. With eloquence, grace, and a searching intelligence, Smith illuminates both poems and poets. Believing that \"great poetry cannot be divorced from an intimate, organic link to place,\" he builds a compelling case for the importance of southern poets. Like the hunters who taught Smith as a young man patience, observation, and willingness to rely on his senses, he leads readers on an expedition through a specific poetic place with a sure sense of direction and destination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a discussion of southern poetry that seeks to define the form and its value for a global readership, the first of the book's three sections also includes reflections on Edgar Allan Poe, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and James Dickey. In the second part, Smith focuses on contemporary poets Richard Hugo, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, and Larry Levis, among others. In the final chapters, he examines how he came to be a poet and reflects on the nature and practice of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmith describes himself as a poet born and raised in the South \"but never entirely comfortable with the neighborhood or many of the public assumptions about southernness.\" By describing why southern poetry is important to him, he reveals why\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52640845594991,"sku":"9780807131824","price":206.06,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0807131822.jpg?v=1770401338"},{"product_id":"coming-to-rest","title":"Coming to Rest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is about [Byer's] lines something of the art of the woodcut, a starkness made the more powerful by modesty of presentation, a certain wintriness of aspect that cloaks a smoldering sensibility. This is a mode, we might think, that she does not choose but is chosen by.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Fred Chappell, Shenandoah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking as her touchstone poet Seamus Heaney's verse \"We come back emptied, \/ to nourish and resist \/ the words of coming to rest,\" Kathryn Stripling Byer in these poems engages the contradictions inherent in the act of coming home. She explores the step-by-step leaving and returning-and finding \"home\" transformed because of the journey. Seamless lines of poetry weave together experiences as a daughter and a mother, the challenges of aging, the innate dignity of domestic life, and learning to let go while holding fast to what matters all the while. Byer gathers the trivial things that make up our lives and shows their meaningful connections, our movement toward discovery. In Coming to Rest, she expands upon the great themes of the poetic tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Stripling Byer has published four previous books of poetry, including Catching Light, winner of the Southeast Booksellers Association Award for Poetry. Among her other accolades are the Lamont Poetry Selection for Wildwood Flower, the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize and the Brockman-Campbell Award for Black Shawl, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and appointment as Poet Laureate of North Carolina. She lives in Cullowhee, located in the western mountains of the state.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52665774768495,"sku":"9780807131350","price":115.95,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0807131350.jpg?v=1770911750"}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/collections\/memorias-literarias.oembed","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}