Sentences with phrase «prose piece»

The performance, based on a prose piece written by Rogoff that engages with and interprets Franz Kafka's short story «The Burrow,» explores our shrinking privacy and how the disruptive quality of sound shapes our personal and social lives.

The community poetry reading is open to anyone wishing to read a few poems or a short prose piece on the theme.

Twelve elegantly crafted poems celebrating the night are accompanied by prose pieces about nocturnal flora and fauna.

I recently finished pulling together a collection of my shorter prose pieces, some fiction, mostly nonfiction, and that will be coming out in the spring of 2008.

Raw material: Author Carolyn CJ Jones had matched short prose pieces describing her own journey with expressive photos of gates at some of the houses and estates in the area.

(I wrote short prose pieces to accompany some of the images in his book, «Within the Stone.»)

Not exact matches

Bits of the prose, like «I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.» from Franny's letter to her boyfriend Lane, rattled about in my adolescent head for weeks, despite the fact that the sentiment in the phrase is revealed to be utterly ingenuous.

Lewis» concluding chapter on charity in The Four Loves, among the most powerful pieces of his generally powerful prose, is a haunting depiction of the way in which this needed transformation is likely to be painful.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

I'm very surprised by the above response to what I thought and felt was an amazing piece of poetic prose.

In Une saison en enfer (A Season in Hell), his signature piece of visionary prose and poetry, he blames his earthly damnation on his baptism and Christian childhood and looses a proto - Nietzschean cry of hatred for the superstition that has made humanity barren, along with a cry of hope for the future that will right the wrong.

S.L. Price's mesmerizing prose has graced the pages of SI since 1994, including pieces on tennis great Pancho Gonzalez and the board game Scrabble.

That there is a piece about Wendell Berry's prose turned song (including sheet music for you to use) AND a piece about Tasha Tudor by her family (including Tasha's art)... um, dream come true duo for me right there... in the very same issue!

But the prose of several of these pieces wobbles uncertainly between the academic and the popular, as if a community of scholars was not quite ready to distil its research into a mainstream account.

Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.

In reality it's a deceptively complex piece of storytelling, one that takes a straightforward and compelling narrative and finds visual ways to translate Northup's irony - laced prose so that we're in the moment with him as he experiences the frontline reality of an institution he's been opposed to, but distanced from, all his life.

Granted, he appears in the film's finest sequence; a muscular interrogation which offers up the single piece of Owen's prose with any anxiety and definition, but he soon vanishes like a flash in the pan.

The middle segment is easily the weakest, since it revolves around a very literary conceit — Gina sneaking cigarettes behind Ryan's back — that flatlines without the interiority of prose, and the way a hammy but affecting Rene Auberjonois overshadows Williams as an elderly neighbour who gives up a piece of his soul for Gina's project doesn't exactly help clarify the movie's title.

As a piece of prose but also as an insight to the human condition.

Incorporating York's pregnancy for an extra layer of character development, the prose of her omniscient narration is actually from York's own children's book In Search of Unicorns, which ends up being a literal «piece of the puzzle» being fervently put together (replete with self - sanctions about cheating when it comes to puzzle assembly).

And now, another Irish person, long shod of any semblance of catholic guilt that might ever have wriggled its way into my consciousness (if any), retreats back to bed, from where I report to you, Zbigniew Preisner scoring my surroundings, the scent of nail polish undercutting any romantic notions that that might inspire, as I'm now lured away from the temptation of over-writing this tardy little piece, filling it with the kind of florid prose I despise almost as much as I employ.

The ability to write a careful piece of business correspondence or an abstract of a scientific report is enhanced by a reservoir of vocabulary and an acquaintance with different styles of prose, and much of the vocabulary and many of the styles will never, ever make it into the letter or abstract.

Students are asked to chant vocabulary words, multiplication tables, poems and prose, and other discrete pieces of information so as to internalize them.

Good writers can pack a universe into a piece of flash fiction and bad ones can write paper - thin characters and hackneyed prose across 200,000 words.

We've fine - tuned the mechanism of the sentence, but murdered it as a piece of flowing prose.

* You get five minutes to write a piece of prose or poetry in any style or genre.

Fred Chappell has remarked on the «inherent fragility and peculiar toughness» of this species of prose, and Martone's piece is a resounding example of that, as are Mary Robison's «Yours» and Jamaica Kincaid's «Girl.»

A flash piece can be a prose poem, a list, a letter, an overheard conversation — as well as a story with a beginning, middle, and end.

Sweet's mixed - media collage and primitive watercolors flow seamlessly with Bryant's prose to reveal the important bits and pieces of Williams» ordinary — yet extraordinary — life as a doctor and poet.

The Heart Goes Last is a masterful piece of prose that's a page - turner to the very end, and a novel that I highly recommend.

It's crystallized, I think, in a piece that Francine Prose wrote with her 8 - year - old granddaughter, Emilia, which addresses how the music speaks to members of different generations.

The prose is taut, the dialogue rapid - fire, and the clues interactive (just try not piecing together some of these codes!).

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

Varying greatly in length — her tribute to legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn is a page long, while a piece on Ingrid Sischy's reinvention of Artforum magazine clocks in at a languorous 75 — these essays bear all of Malcolm's hallmarks: prickly intelligence, astute observations, crisp prose and a guarded confidence.

The luminous clarity of his prose, and the uncanny clear - sightedness of his vision, give these pieces that mysterious shimmer that makes the short story of the latter half of the 20th century such an important literary form — and puts these stories at the foundation of that tradition.

If the piece is not ready structurally or conceptually for a line edit, I will not touch the prose.

Writing a descriptive essay is easy for a very few people, while everyone else is suffering sleepless nights trying to generate a piece of prose that deserves at least «C».

Out of all of the feedback I've received so far on this piece, Caitlin's has been the most helpful and considered, especially for this particular mix of experimental poetry / prose and young adult fiction.

One tiny chunk of narrative prose every day, slowly building an ongoing, real - time story for the audience to piece together.

But the answer lies in the driving force of a piece: prose poetry and vignettes are driven by imagery and emotion whereas flash fiction has an almost desperate need to tell a story before it's too late.

You can also write poetry or short prose specifically tailored for your author website — but keep in mind that these pieces will be considered previously published.

The oldest known piece of prose is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from 4100 years ago.

This can lead to pieces dripping with cliche and full of the kind of fluffy, quaint prose designed to sell places and destinations, rather than report on them.

Now imagine piecing these shreds of prose together to make things happen.

A short piece of prose in the press release introduces the theme around identity - building, cultural construction and social interaction that forms new languages and defines «the crumbling away of old cultural and social model boundaries»:

And in the case of Nauman's, given their inherent complexity — they may incorporate video, audio, lighting, sound, and / or text in addition to architectural structures, as in the prose / floor piece Cones Cojones, 1973 - 75, installed for the exhibition — they seem doubly inaccessible.

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.»

Curated by Myriam Ben Salah, the exhibition features 20 artists and collectives — Dora Budor, Fischli & Weiss, Martine Syms, Mélanie Matranga, Caroline Mesquita and Katja Novitskova among them — and comes accompanied by a piece of prose comparing global celebrity Kim Kardashian's Snapchat to a «Near Death Experience».

He republishes a piece of his own writing, a fascinating kind of prose - poetry called «Elegance Is Refusal.»

Participants will look at how artists work with text, choose their favourite pieces of poetry of prose, and try to combine them with images to create an artwork.