Sentences with phrase «in poetic prose»

In poetic prose, Woodson not only shows us backward - glancing August attempting to stave off growing up but also wondering how we dream of a life parallel to the one we're living.

Not exact matches

In that sense his prose style was as closely matched to his critical goals as his poetic style to his poetic mission.

Some readers in the comments section responded by charging that the poetry was instead «slovenly» and «shapeless,» and little more than prose affecting poetic lineation.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

But whereas in translating scientific prose the aim is simply to reproduce with complete accuracy the author's statements, in translating «poetic» language the primary aim is not just to reproduce statements about reality but, as far as may be, to make the same communication of reality — which will mean trying to reproduce something of the author's «tone of voice», something of the mood and colour of tie original.

In the New Testament, the poetic prose of the Greeks and the parallelism and accentuated rhythms of the Jews are apparent.

Another is lodged in the forehead of the calm Zen cyborg named Vision (Paul Bettany), one of the few poetic touches in a work of pounding Marvel - ized prose.

But dissected in the narrative lab of Patricia Highsmith's prose and processed by the poetic eye of filmmaker Todd Haynes, lesbian melodrama never looked so classy, or so emotionally accurate.

While the self - loathing artiste Charlie (Nicolas Cage) struggles to capture the essence of Orlean's poetic but decidedly uncinematic prose about orchid enthusiast John Laroche, brother Donald (also played by Cage) is having a far easier time with his own creative (in name only) writing endeavors, slavishly adhering to the structure guidelines set forth by screenwriting guru Robert McKee (played onscreen by Brian Cox) to come up with a thoroughly formulaic Tinseltown - ready thriller.

Uncompromising literary fiction often contains prose that are more concerned with being stylish and flowery, thereby torturing the narrative and losing the reader in the poetics.

In prose as knowing as it is poetic, Pearlman shines a light on small, devastatingly precise moments to reflect the beauty and grace found in everyday lifIn prose as knowing as it is poetic, Pearlman shines a light on small, devastatingly precise moments to reflect the beauty and grace found in everyday lifin everyday life.

Bullough's prose delights in poetic observations of the landscape, and he makes keen observations of the modern world's insistent destruction of that which he loves.

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

In the Classroom: Talk with students about how a novel in verse is different from a prose novel (e.g., the use of white space, line breaks, poetic forms) and why an author might choose this verse formaIn the Classroom: Talk with students about how a novel in verse is different from a prose novel (e.g., the use of white space, line breaks, poetic forms) and why an author might choose this verse formain verse is different from a prose novel (e.g., the use of white space, line breaks, poetic forms) and why an author might choose this verse format.

Sensitive prose poems depict a young girl's experience in a divided family through a scrapbook of photos and poetic vignettes in this moving offering from the author of several award - winning titles, including the Newbery Honor Book The Underneath (2008).

Thien explores the complexities of her characters and the intensity of their pain in prose that is both poetic and succinct.

Clement relays Pearl's trouble - strewn story in the kind of prose that gets called «poetic»; it's taut, spare, musical, metaphor - laden, haunting, and every so often it hits you so hard in the gut that you gasp.

Scheidt's spare and poetic debut offers up pretty images for some decidedly unpretty situations («the unmade bed is peaked and stormy»); at times, her prose feels as tightly wrought as a novel in verse.

In the midst I always took the time to step back to appreciate her incredible, poetic descriptive prose.

In prose poems and poetic essays as sharp and stinging as a surprise slap to the face, Rankine matter - of - factly chronicles ordinary encounters poisoned by racism.

- Library Journal «In poetic, occasionally rapturous prose, the novel extends beyond the Holocaust in its attempt to encompass the human condition.&raquIn poetic, occasionally rapturous prose, the novel extends beyond the Holocaust in its attempt to encompass the human condition.&raquin its attempt to encompass the human condition.»

Well worth the wait, works from 2003 to 2013 are gathered here in full - color plates, along with poetic prose by the artist, essays by Donatien Grau and Jennifer Higgie, and an interview conducted by Naomi Beckwith, who curated Yiadom - Boakye's 2010 show at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

In his recent exhibition Blind Spot and Black Paper and the related book, he links images of public and private spaces with insightful prose in a glancing, poetic manneIn his recent exhibition Blind Spot and Black Paper and the related book, he links images of public and private spaces with insightful prose in a glancing, poetic mannein a glancing, poetic manner.

Meanwhile, this solo show comes accompanied by a piece of poetic prose that references writing by the likes of artists Matt Welch and Jenny Holzer and questions ideas of ownership, equality and identity in the midst of an impossible Return to Eden sentiment: «There is no natural world.»