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An Introduction to the Life and Work by Sandra Cisneros (444 words, 2 pages)

Jane JufferSandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and a Chicana mothershe has six brothers and is the only daughter in the family. She moved frequently duringher childhood and visited Mexico often, to visit her paternal grandmother. Like Esperanza,the main character in The House on ... Read More

Life and Works of Louis Zukofsky (8644 words, 33 pages)

Mark ScrogginsLouis Zukofsky was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1904.Zukofsky's parents, Pinchos (ca. 1860-1950) and Chana Pruss Zukofsky (ca. 1862-1927), wereOrthodox Jews from the part of Russia which is now Lithuania Pinchos immigrated to theUnited States in 1898, working as a pants-presser and night watchman in New Yorksgarment ... Read More

Life and Works of Kay Boyle (1555 words, 7 pages)

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Boyle grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Shestudied architecture at Parson's School of Fine and Applied Arts in New York andelsewhere, took courses at Columbia, and studied violin briefly at the CincinnatiConservatory of Music. She married French-born engineer Richard Brault in 1922 whilehelping to edit the ... Read More

Life of Walt Whitman as One of America’s Most Influential Poet (10227 words, 39 pages)

Note This biographical essay is excerpted from a longer essay included in The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive at httpjefferson.village.virginia.eduwhitman It is copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 by Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom.Family OriginsWalt Whitman, arguably Americas most influential and innovativepoet, was born into a working class family in West ... Read More

Life and Works of Margaret Abigail Walker (2785 words, 12 pages)

Donna AllegoMargaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Herparents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, andMarion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy froman early age.Walker completed her high school education at GilbertAcademy in New ... Read More

Life and Works of Paul Violi (238 words, 1 pages)

Cary NelsonPaul Violi was born on July 20, 1944, the son of Joseph T. and Irma (Francesconi)Violi. He grew up on Long Island. Violi earned a B.A. from Boston University in 1966 andmarried Carol Ann Boylston (a teacher) three years later. They have two children, Helenand Alexander. Violi was managing ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of William Bronk (590 words, 3 pages)

Descended from Jonas Bronck, for whom the Bronx is named, WilliamBronk was born 17 February 1918, in Fort Edward, New York, the youngest of four childrenof the late William M. and Ethel (Funston) Bronk. A year later, the family moved into thespacious Victorian house that would be the poets home ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Litareture by Daniel Stein (1315 words, 6 pages)

Linda Wagner-MartinOne of the most innovative modern writers, Stein was the youngestchild of Daniel and Amelia Keyser Stein, German Jews whose parents had emigrated toBaltimore. Leaving their clothing business in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the Daniel Steinsmoved to Austria soon after Gertrude's birth and lived there and in Paris until returningto Oakland, ... Read More

Life and Works of Theodore Huebner Roethke (2178 words, 9 pages)

Walter KalaidjianHe was born Theodore Huebner Roethke in Saginaw, Michigan, theson of Otto Roethke and Helen Huebner, owners of a local greenhouse. As a student atSaginaw's Arthur Hill High School, Roethke demonstrated early promise in a speech on theJunior Red Cross that was subsequently published in twenty-six languages. The poet'sadolescent ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Poetry by Adrienne Rich a Poet and Theorist (1382 words, 6 pages)

Deborah PopeThere is no writer of comparable influence and achievement in somany areas of the contemporary women's movement as the poet and theorist Adrienne Rich.Over the years, hers has become one of the most eloquent, provocative voices on thepolitics of sexuality, race, language, power, and women's culture. There is scarcely ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Lola Ridge (1906 words, 9 pages)

AlthoughLola Ridge is relatively unknown to contemporary readers, she was a well-known poet andadvocate of immigrants and the working class during the first half of the twentiethcentury. She wrote five books of poetry,edited for avant-garde magazines Others and Broom, and from 1908 through1937 published at least sixty-one poems in magazines ... Read More

Early Life of Charles Reznikoff (6394 words, 26 pages)

Reznikoff was born on August 30, 1894, in Brooklyn., New York,and more particularly in what he describes in his Early History of a Writer (1969)as the Jewish Ghetto of Brownsville. His parents, who are depicted in his FamilyChronicle (1963) were Sarah Yetta (Wolwovsky) Reznikoff and Nathan Reznikoff,immigrant Jews who had ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Biography of John Henry Newman Beecher (2887 words, 11 pages)

A biographical essay provided by the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke Unviersity, the home of the major repository of Beecher's papers.John Henry Newman Beecher, son of Leonard Thurlow andIsabel Garghill Beecher, was born in New York City on January 22, 1904. His father at thattime was ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Robert Hass (2138 words, 9 pages)

by Douglas HaynesRobert Hass is a native Californian whose poetry iswell-known for its West Coast subjects and attitude. Born in San Francisco on March 1,1941, Hass grew up in the Marin County suburb of San Rafael, where he attended a privateCatholic school. His family included two figures who obviously affected ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Emily Dickinson (4069 words, 17 pages)

Paul CrumblyDickinson'spoetic accomplishment was recognized from the moment her first volume appeared in 1890,but never has she enjoyed more acclaim than she does today. Once Thomas H. Johnson madeher complete body of 1,775 poems available in his 1955 variorum edition, The Poems ofEmily Dickinson, interest from all quarters soared. Readers ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Otto Plath (5966 words, 26 pages)

Sandra Gilbert. . . . if having babies (and writing poems) was a way of escaping from the dark houseof daddy's shoe, it was also, paradoxically, a frightening re-encounter with daddy daddyalive, and daddy dead.Nowhere is that re-vision of daddy more strikingly expressed than in the bee-keepingsequence in Ariel. Otto ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Spanish-American War (1467 words, 6 pages)

THESIS The United States didnt want to get involved in the Spanish-American War, but was draggedinto it due to yellow journalism, they wanted to control the seas, and wanted complete control over Cuba.The Spanish-American War -The Splendid Little WarPia DeAngelisMr. FishmanPeriod 7For 113 days during the summer of 1898, the ... Read More

Filipinos Attempts to Gain Independence That Led to War (1247 words, 2 pages)

Most may think that the Spanish-American War was a war between the Americans and the Spanish. Most are right, but only to a point, because the Spanish-American War also included wars between the Americans and the Filipinos, as well as between the Americans and Puerto-Ricans. Reasons for these wars occurring ... Read More

Merwin’s Most Explicit Anti-Vietnam War Poem (1502 words, 7 pages)

William Rueckart"The Asians Dying" is Merwin's mostexplicit anti-Vietnam War poem. Though the poem is neither overtly political notanti-American, no American reader who lived through that time would need to have thepoem's powerful self-accusing political thrust explained. Though the poem mostlyconcentrates on effects rather than causes, those responsible are everywhere present ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of African Americans in the Vietnam War (1208 words, 6 pages)

John Sibley ButlerThe Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever toserve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, whoformed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers inVietnam. The majority of these were in the infantry, and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem After the Winter (1390 words, 10 pages)

After the WinterSome day, when trees have shed their leavesAnd against the morning's whiteThe shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love,Toward the summer isleWhere bamboos spire to shafted groveAnd wide-mouthed orchids smile.And we will seek the quiet hillWhere towers the cotton tree,And ... Read More

A Look into Life of John Beecher (2652 words, 13 pages)

Frank AdamsReprinted from Southern Exposure (1981)His name was suggestive even so a superficial reading of hispoetry proves conclusive John Beecher was a radical poet, perhaps America's mostpersistent for 50 years, the heir of an Abolitionist tradition and proponent of thedispossessed seizing power. His most enduring lyrics are about the downtrodden's ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of the Causes for the Civil War in the United States (1112 words, 2 pages)

The newly established republic in the years before the war was a system where a so called old spain lost its power to new spain. The Civil War was an effect of the unwillingness of old Spain to recede from the political scene. A main cause of the Civil War, ... Read More

The Life and Achievements of Julius Robert Oppenheimer (2991 words, 12 pages)

Mark C. CarnesJ. Robert Oppenheimer (22 Apr. 1904--18 Feb. 1967), theoretical physicist and directorof the Los Alamos Laboratory (Manhattan Project), was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer inNew York City, the son of Julius Oppenheimer, a wealthy textile importer, and EllaFriedman, a painter. Although the family was of Jewish descent, they had ... Read More

A Look into Life and Writings of Ana Castillo (1520 words, 7 pages)

Jane JufferChicago native Ana Castillo began to write as a young activist in the 1970s, using herpoetry as a form of a social protest as she says, "Being of Mexican background,being Indian-looking, being a female, coming from a working-class background, and thenbecoming politicized in high school, that was my direction ... Read More

The Life and Death of Paul Blackburn (3495 words, 15 pages)

Robert Creeley Preface to Against the Silences, by Paul BlackburnI'd like to speak personally of this extraordinary poet, and takethat license insofar as these poems are personal, often bitterly so. I wonder if any of ushave escaped the painful, self-pitying and meager defenses of person so many of theminvoke. What ... Read More

The Life and Times of Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards (870 words, 5 pages)

David PerronWendyRose was born Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards on May 7, 1948, in Oakland, California. She camefrom a mixed-blood family (her father was Hopi her mother could trace her lineage fromboth Miwok and European descent). As a teenager, she dropped out of high school and becameconnected with the bohemian scene in ... Read More

The Life and Times of Ishmael Reed (2039 words, 8 pages)

Robert Elliot FoxIshmael Reed is one of the most original and controversialfigures in the field of African American letters.Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on 22 February 1938, but he grew up inBuffalo, New York. After graduating from high school in 1956, he enrolled as a nightstudent at Millard Fillmore ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Work by St. Vincent Millay (924 words, 4 pages)

EdnaSt. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Lounella, anurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher, divorced when she was about eight"Vincent" stayed with her mother. In 1917 she graduated from Vassar, published Renascenceand Other Poems (the title piece had won her recognition in 1912), and ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Thylias Moss a Poet of Many Voices and a Spellbinding (1710 words, 7 pages)

Thylias Moss A Poet of Many Voices and A SpellbindingDeliveryby Eve Silberman Her hands clasped, her head lowered, Thylias Mosssits in a chair in a small room at Ann Arbors Concordia College and waits for whatshe calls her "poetry experience" (she dislikes the term "poetryreading") to begin. The 410" associate ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013