Sentences with phrase «poetic voices»

This collection features 35 of the world's most powerful poetic voices — Chris Abani, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa — responding to the Bearden's series and includes a foreword by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and illustrations of the artist's works.

YA / Mature Readers: Straight, honest, often poetic voices about the diaspora and interracial relationships for older teens from all backgrounds; some graphic sex.

I know we all have a lot to do, but here are a few easy options to help our English teacher tribe add more poetic voices to our curriculum.

Helping students to (re) discover their poetic voices is powerful, vital and invigorating.

There is little question that the most distinguished poetic voice of our time...

I used to do it all of the time, I've lost that poetic voice... use it or loose it.

«My colleagues at Symbolic Exchange and our partners at Meridian are thrilled to be part of the team helping introduce Amman Abbasi's powerful and poetic voice to filmgoers,» said exec producer Schamus.

But Rees put it to work masterfully here to build atmosphere and to give a poetic voice to an ensemble of characters, who in post-War Mississippi wouldn't have had much to say, not out loud anyhow.

The statuettes» odd eloquence and the poetic voice - over narration fix the people fluidly in your mind.

Not every student in our nation will need to express him - or herself through poetry, but for those who do, learning about the poets who came before them and learning to find their own poetic voice will stand out as a beacon of self - expression in a sea of core subjects.

I knew exactly where I wanted my poetic voice to be.»

After his beloved Catholic wife of 30 years kicks him out and destroys all of his poetry, Harry Quirk struggles to recapture his poetic voice and reconnect with his family, particularly his son Hector, who has somehow become the leader of a cult.

Weigl grew up in a family of nonreaders, and it wasn't until he began dealing with the demons of childhood sexual abuse and post-Vietnam substance abuse that he «woke up among words» to give poetic voice to the Vietnam experience, becoming a one - man cultural bridge between the U.S. and Vietnam.

Finally, literature developed narrative and started to allow art to explicitly tell a story outside of the implication and metaphor of lyrical or poetic voice.

Although linked with his London predecessors of the YBA generation, Montgomery stands out by drawing from examples of public interventionist strategies and brings a poetic voice to the discourse of text art.

His poetic voice seeks to connect the audience directly to political, social and ecological priorities as a result of their interaction with his work.

Gathering for the first time, poems, performance scripts, and essays, this startling new book expands Huxtable's critique of gender, sexuality, politics, whiteness, and history while establishing her as a singular poetic voice.

She seems the most poetic voice here, with her diaristic recent films and stories.

Known for his rhythmic texts pasted across posters on billboards and hoardings around East London, and for his dramatic light pieces and fire poems displayed throughout the world, Scottish artist Robert Montgomery brings a poetic voice to the discourse on Text Art.

Bakowski works in diverse media unleashing his idiosyncratic and poetic voice through drawing, sculpture, audio and animated video.

Not exact matches

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today's church to move beyond man - made restrictions and fully welcome women's diverse voices and experiences.

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.

Giving them a space to voice their own articulation of the faith is one of the greatest ways to explore the rich poetic heritage of the Christian tradition.

I call it an unspoken event because, in one of those resounding gaps that (as Meir Sternberg has shown in his Poetics of Biblical Narrative) are characteristic of the artistry of biblical narrative, we learn that the man listened to the voice of his wife, but we are not told what she said (Gen. 3:17).

Instead, it is the voice whose analytical speech draws fire from the visionary energies of depth language and (like the biblical prophets) shakes the foundations of the state with poetic thunder.

There might just be something poetic to this situation, though: a campaign that seems to be calling out for an independent voice, on the grounds of a mission against Trump and the system rather than the usual political stepping stone, contrasted with the disgust at Schneiderman's behavior.

In Dancing in Odessa, he seeks «to honor and give voice to the Russian poetic past.»

At its best, this full moon can be enchanted and poetic, helping us voice our dreams and deeply held desires.

Bio: A native of Austin TX, Suzanna Choffel combines her poetic lyrics and sweet smoky voice with funky urban rhythms to create a fresh and unique sound.

The lyrics are poetic yet not obtuse like some of her other stuff (Pele, for example), and her voice has never sounded sweeter.

Theron also does a lot of voice - overs, offering poetic or poignant observations that sound straight out of Terrence Malick's cutting - room floor.

It is a subtle and poetic rites - of - passage story set in rural Turkey, the film where Erdem found his distinctive voice.

In the post-Chungking Express landscape Wong Kar - wai became an immediately acknowledged style signifying a relaxed narrative with a poetic structure, splashes of bright color, erratic and funny voice - overs, energizing camerawork ---- often handheld ---- and awesomely unusual framing.

In quite a short time, Nicholas Britell has quickly established his voice as a film composer, breaking out with the score to the 2012 South by Southwest and Cannes film festival premiere Gim me the Loot, and landing his first Oscar nomination earlier this year for the emotionally affecting, poetic music heard in Barry Jenkins» Moonlight.

Sometimes the voice - over is dreamy (Sissy Spacek's in Badlands), sometimes it's disarmingly concrete (Linda Manz's in Days of Heaven), sometimes it comprises audacious, poetic philosophical musings (that of all the soldiers in The Thin Red Line)-- but it's always there, a character in its own right.

The film introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative and character, the unusual use of voice - over, the juxtaposition of human violence with natural beauty, the poetic investigation of American dreams and nightmares.

The rest of his performance is contained in the nasally croak of his voice, a quietly charismatic sound that contains deep characterization in the various utterances of words both dramatically poetic and smarmily comedic.

A totally engrossing film, marred only by the voice - over: at best it's a poetic flow that needlessly enforces the visuals; at worst, it's a pretentious monologue.

Voiced by Pierfrancesco Favino, the 19th century general functions as a kind of poetic, philosophizing narrator, commenting on what he observes from his high vantage point atop Janiculum Hill.

As debut features go, this one rubs shoulders with the likes of Terrence Malick's «Badlands», Charles Burnett's «Killer of Sheep» and Terence Davies's «Distant Voices, Still Lives» for the sublime fluency of its technique and conviction in the belief that a film doesn't need a beginning, middle and end to be meaningful, dramatic and poetic.

In the Classroom: Voices from the March on Washington provides students with an opportunity to follow up references to poetic works with other poems that also address justice issues.

In the bestselling tradition of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Marlon James, this urgent, poetic, and essential work announces the arrival of a fresh and talented voice in international fiction.

«The sound of your voice, the lyrical quality of the younger [books] are poetic... It's magical, even at 8 weeks old they focus momentarily, they're closer to your heart.»

Now, in this poetic picture book for middle - grade readers, Myers assumes the voice of one young soldier in combat.

Chuck Wendig's voice, on the other hand, is loud, sonorous, poetic, startling.

If your writing is infused with deep emotion and poetic turns of phrase, a reader who doesn't care for those things may rob you of your voice if you let him / her.

With a poetic, subtle voice, her work investigates women's roles and identities, emotions and histories.

Over two decades of research and revision, the artists» voices — poetic, humorous, metaphorical — coalesced into «a visual common sense,» Dickey recalls.

His poetry has also been included in the anthologies Best American Poetry, New Voices, and 12x12: Conversations in Poetry and Poetics.

The latter is hence exposed to the edges of morality and permissibility, but also to the formal and poetic articulation of the voices of those who are ordinarily invisible or unheard.