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    In Search of Poetry
    In Search of Poetry
    In Search of Poetry
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    In Search of Poetry

    By James L. Marshall

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    The reader is invited to regard poetry as a distillation of life's experience. In Search of Poetry offers poems sequenced somewhat to reflect increasing maturity. The first group, "Whimsy," is followed by another that demonstrates some elements of poetic Form. These groups, together with following ones on Music, Nature, Philosophy and Feelings, contain about two-thirds of the book's poems. The final and largest group, Narratives, has broad scope and generally longer poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 14, 2010
    ISBN9781465315434
    In Search of Poetry
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    James L. Marshall

    The title In Search of Poetry is a metaphor for gradual emergence of the author's devotion to expressive arts. Towards the end of high school, interests were divided between music and science. His family's orientation toward the latter prompted technical studies at M.I.T., culminating in a master's degree in engineering. A career in teaching, research and consulting followed: briefly in New York, then in the Philadelphia region, where he married and settled in Swarthmore with his growing family while teaching at Villanova University. Parallel to this, however, was continuation of early activity in jazz and classical music, on piano and later cello. Then study at the University of Pennsylvania led to a 1964 M.A. in theory and composition, and much chamber music performed and written since. Poetic effort, occasional during early years, gained momentum through setting poems to music in song and choral works. He eventually joined Poets Walk In, a group meeting to read their own poems aloud.

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      In Search of Poetry - James L. Marshall

      Copyright © 2010 by James L. Marshall.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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      Contents

      Preface 

      WHIMSY 

      FORM AND SHAPE 

      MUSIC 

      NATURE AND PHILOSOPHY 

      FEELINGS 

      NARRATIVES 

      To Bunty with love

      Preface 

      I invite you to think of poetry as a distillation of life’s experiences. In Search of Poetry, then, includes poems I have written, grouped according to different aspects of my life. Rather than following strict chronology, I’ve sequenced the groups somewhat by increasing maturity. The first group, Whimsy, begins with childish results produced in first social encounters with poetry as a distinct genre and goes on to include poems from much later. Form and Shape gives a naive introduction to those two topics. I began to devote poems to fuller emotional expression from midlife on; some of these appear under Feelings. Other groups include examples touching on music, nature, philosophy, and narrative. A few remarks before each group orient the reader to its part in the Search.

      Where appropriate, a few poems (or parts) by other authors are included, with each poet identified. Three acknowledgements are given for material used in the section Narratives: E. E. Cummings’s poem pity this busy monster,manunkind was the source of material paraphrased and quoted in the poem in homage e.e. cummings. A lecture, Science/Technology and Poetry, delivered by

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