Naked Poems (ePub)
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This slim volume is an innovative, thought-provoking, encouragement of the art and joy of reading poems. Its author is an internationally well-known psychopharmacologist who, at age eighty-two, revisits seventy-six poems derived from his personal and...
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This slim volume is an innovative, thought-provoking, encouragement of the art and joy of reading poems. Its author is an internationally well-known psychopharmacologist who, at age eighty-two, revisits seventy-six poems derived from his personal and professional life, beginning at age fifty.
The book opens by exploring the metaphor behind the title, the way in which words in poems mirror clothes in coutureeach covering yet enhancing and revealing what lies beneath. In a preparatory exercise, this metaphor is expressed in four poetic formshaiku, sonnet, classical, and free formeach examined to establish the sources of impact on the aesthetics, emotion, and intellect of the reader.
The principles established are then applied by the reader, with the guidance of the author, to explore each of several poems in eight areas of life: introspection, humor and satire, travel and places, life and leisure, mental health matters, spiritual dimensions, age, and infirmity.
The reader explores each poem with regard to form, posture on the page, imagery, metaphor, aesthetics, and structure, including syntax, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and repetition. In total, this emphasizes the pithy way in which poetry can best prose in elegance, beauty, and brevity.
In addition to sharing and enhancing the joy of reading poems, this includes an amateurs effort to reverse the well-documented dwindling interest of people in the genre, perhaps contributed to by the increasingly esoteric, abstract, and obscure nature of contemporary poems.
The book opens by exploring the metaphor behind the title, the way in which words in poems mirror clothes in coutureeach covering yet enhancing and revealing what lies beneath. In a preparatory exercise, this metaphor is expressed in four poetic formshaiku, sonnet, classical, and free formeach examined to establish the sources of impact on the aesthetics, emotion, and intellect of the reader.
The principles established are then applied by the reader, with the guidance of the author, to explore each of several poems in eight areas of life: introspection, humor and satire, travel and places, life and leisure, mental health matters, spiritual dimensions, age, and infirmity.
The reader explores each poem with regard to form, posture on the page, imagery, metaphor, aesthetics, and structure, including syntax, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and repetition. In total, this emphasizes the pithy way in which poetry can best prose in elegance, beauty, and brevity.
In addition to sharing and enhancing the joy of reading poems, this includes an amateurs effort to reverse the well-documented dwindling interest of people in the genre, perhaps contributed to by the increasingly esoteric, abstract, and obscure nature of contemporary poems.
Autoren-Porträt von Barry Blackwell M.D.
Barry Blackwell was born in England in 1934, spent his early childhood in India, and returned home in 1943 during the Second World War to complete his education at boarding school, Cambridge University, Guy’s Hospital, the Maudsley Hospital, and the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He immigrated to America in 1968 at age thirty-four and became chairman of psychiatry at two medical schools with the rank of professor in psychiatry, pharmacology, and behavioral medicine.Dr. Blackwell is an internationally known neuropsychopharmacologist with a doctoral degree in medicine and pharmacology from Cambridge University, an MPhil degree from London University, and is a founding fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is the author of over 250 scientific articles, book chapters, and reviews as well as author or editor of four books covering a fifty-year career with particular interests in psychosomatic medicine, psychopharmacology, medical education, and homelessness.
At age eighty-two, he is a regular contributor of historical, biographical, and controversial topics posted on the International Neuropsychopharmacology History Network website (INHN.org).
Barry’s recent memoir (2012), Bits and Pieces of a Psychiatrist’s Life includes essays on medical and sociopolitical topics, short stories, poems, and anecdotes that portray his personal and professional life with humor and insight.
He is married to Kathie Eilers, a talented nurse administrator during her own successful career. Parents of four children and four grandchildren, they have lived in Milwaukee since 1980, currently at an elegant retirement community on Lake Michigan of which Kathie was previously president.
Barry began writing poetry midcareer at the age of fifty after auditing classes at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He considers Naked Poems to be an amateur’s attempt at encouraging others to read, enjoy, and create poetry.
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- Autor: Barry Blackwell M.D.
- 2016, 106 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Xlibris US
- ISBN-10: 1524547123
- ISBN-13: 9781524547127
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2016
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