In Quick, Said the Bird, Richard Swigg makes the case for acoustics as the basis of the linkages, kinships, and inter-illuminations of a major twentieth-century literary relationship. Outsiders in their home terrain who nevertheless continued to reach back to their own American vocal identities, Williams, Eliot, and Moore embody a unique lineage that can be traced from their first significant works (1909-1918) to the 1960s.
George Oppen's standing in American poetry has never been greater. Yet despite the mass of critical writing since his death in 1984, the essential basis of the verse—the words on the page and their acoustics—has rarely been the subject of discussion. In this book therefore Richard Swigg breaks away from the general trend of Oppen studies studies and offers the reader a direct way into the visual and auditory dimension of the poems. Ranging across the entire span of the work, from the 1930s to the 1970s, he traces for the first time the full extent of Oppen's engagement with the concrete world and his important poetic relationships with Charles Reznikoff, Denise Levertov, Charles Tomlinson and others.
The poetry of Charles Tomlinson is distinguished by its respect for the world as objective fact - as set apart from human mythmaking, symbolizing, and egotistic projection. In Charles Tomlinson and the Objective Tradition, Richard Swigg examines the amazingly versatile speech and relationship that Tomlinson has brought to the concreteness of nature and city from the early poems of the 1940s up to the late 1980s by assessing the achievement within an Anglo-American tradition of factuality from which Tomlinson has drawn strength and which his work now illuminates." "Blake's gleaming particularities, Constable's "science" of painting, Ruskin's visual energy, Emerson's and Wordsworth's delight in humble solidities, Whitman's celebration of American facts - all belong to the lineage that, as Tomlinson's poetry reveals, takes on new expression in the modernism of Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore. This book traces Tomlinson's debt to Stevens and Moore in his poetry of the 1950s, but gives special attention to the larger influence and widening of range that the art of William Carlos Williams exerted on the poetry of the 1960s and after. Williams's sense of the local as a way into the universal touches a theme that has special significance for Tomlinson's Englishness and internationalism, particularly in the way that this double quality gives us new insight into the poetry of other Englishmen (Ivor Gurney and D. H. Lawrence in relation to Whitman; Edward Thomas in relation to Robert Frost) who also sought New World precisions to speak their nativeness." "The volume's close attention to the vocal grain and texture of many individual poems is especially marked in a chapter devoted to Tomlinson's politico-historical poems on Danton, Charlotte Corday, and Machiavelli. The poet not only provides a perspective on T. S. Eliot and Octavio Paz, but - in a poem about Trotsky's assassination - draws on the singular American quality of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane." "Swigg assesses Tomlinson's stature in post-war British poetry by contrasting his work with that of Philip Larkin and W. H. Auden and by demonstrating how much he shares with David Jones and Basil Bunting. The latter two, English internationalists of The Anathemata and Briggflatts, have, like Tomlinson, won their way home to a Britain of spiritual density and concreteness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Faldo explains how to set in motion a chain reaction that inspires a flowing, repeating swing, a technique that can be applied to every club in the bag.
Alan Desland, who feels himself to be an ordinary and unremarkable man, falls passionately in love with the beautiful but mysterious German stenographer, Karin, who is sent to assist him during a business trip to Denmark. To his astounded joy, she returns his love - but their courtship and marriage will shake his life to its very foundations and test him to the limits of sanity.
Whether you struggle to break 100 or consistently break par, you've already discovered that golf is the most mentally demanding of all sports. Dr. Richard Coop, one of the foremost sports psychologists in the country, has developed a unique mental approach to the game, helping both skilled pros and beginning amateurs alike to play better. Mind Over Golf examines all the demanding psychological challenges of golf and explains in detail how to conquer them. Golfers have discovered that there are ways to lower their scores that go beyond getting tips on their swing and stance. In order to play better, you have to find the key that allows your natural athletic ability to come to the fore, without being impeded by anxiety about making a poor shot. By following Dr. Coop's principles and ideas you'll be in the strongest possible position, both physically and mentally, to put your best swing on each shot. As Payne Stewart says in his foreword to Mind Over Golf, "Not everyone can swing like a tour pro, but most everyone has it within himself or herself to think like one, and Dr. Coop lays the foundation for that within these pages.
While Nashville has long been considered the epicenter of country music, 'Southwest shuffle' documents the important influence of country music styles of the region stretching from Texas to California. In this book, you'll read about: Spade Cooley, the western swing fiddler and bandleader whose career was cut short by his imprisonment for murdering his wife in 1961 ; Hank Thompson, a Texan whose durable meld of barroom music and western swing anticipated George Strait ; Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West, legendary pickers whose incendiary instrumental records earned them the nickname "The Flaming Guitars" ; Tennessee Ernie Ford, who went from local L.A. TV star to household word in the 50s ; and Willie Nelson, who struggled for years in the Nashville wilderness convinced that someday his Texan-style eclecticism would prevail." - back cover.
An entertaining, instructive guide to a better golf swing covers every aspect of the game, offers insights into the psychology of golf, and includes more than two hundred magnificent color photographs. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
In the fast moving world of information technology, Java is now the number 1 programming language. Programmers and developers everywhere need to know Java to keep pace with traditional and web-based application development. COBOL Programmers Swing with Java provides COBOL programmers a clear, easy transition to Java programming by drawing on the numerous similarities between COBOL and Java. The authors introduce the COBOL programmer to the history of Java and object-oriented programming and then dive into the details of the Java syntax, always contrasting them with their parallels in COBOL. A running case study gives the reader an overall view of application development with Java, with increased functionality as new material is presented. This new edition features the development of graphical user interfaces (GUI's) using the latest in Java Swing components. The clear writing style and excellent examples make the book suitable for anyone wanting to learn Java and OO programming, whether they have a background in COBOL or not.
Microdensitometry is the measurement of optical density in a vanishingly small portion of a specimen. This primer on microdensitometry offers knowledge developed over 40 years. It concentrates on the basic aspects in terms of modern optical theory while providing practical details for users.
Drawing on a lifetime of playing and teaching the game of golf, David Leadbetter has developed the unique ability to translate very difficult swing concepts and golf fundamentals into easy-to-understand language that will help you to become a more consistent player. David Leadbetter 100% Golf is the defining point of a lifetime's theories, teachings, tips, and drills from the game's greatest and most successful golf coach. This book will help you develop the skills you need to get started or take your game to the next level. From alignment, ball position, and driving to fitness, mental toughness, and problem lies, the lessons in David Leadbetter 100% Golf will improve every aspect of your swing and game.
Are you tired of the rookie steps to trading? Do you want to be a swing trader and start making money riding the markets waves? If so then keep reading... Whether you're finding difficulty protecting your investments and funds, or analysing the markets for the best entries, or maybe struggling with reading charts for picking the next hot stocks, this excellent guide holds the best trading mindset top leaders in the field have obtained, and shared their knowledge on how to overcome these problems and more. This book will give you the insights on the author's approach to swing trading, rules to follow and the best strategies that I have used over the years to make huge profits from short-term trading opportunities. When done correctly, swing trading allows you to earn solid profits on stocks, bonds, options, crypto, futures, commodities and FOREX. Swing trading can be profitable but can also be risky if you don't know what you're doing. This book will help you learn the ins and outs of swing trading so that you don't go in blindfolded. In this book you will; Learn what swing trading is and what the requirements are to get started. Find out the secrets expert traders use to make fast profits. Learn to spot buy and sell signals like a pro! Understand how Swing trading can be used with stocks, options, crypto and with Forex. Use options to score big profits, no matter which direction the stock market goes. Apply swing trading techniques to index funds to take advantages of swings in the overall markets. Learn about the exciting new world of crypto. Become familiar with buy and sell signals developed especially for Forex. And much much more!! Even if you've never tried swing trading before, you will still be able to get to a high level of success with these proven methods and pieces of knowledge which are easy to follow even for a beginner. So, what are you waiting for? Stop beating about the bush and start working on revolutionizing your life! CLICK THE BUY BUTTON NOW!!
Simply Rodgers and Hart is a collection of the most famous songs by Richard Rodgers (1902--1979) and Lorenz Hart (1895--1943). These have been carefully selected and arranged by Matt Hyzer for Easy Piano, making many of Rodgers and Hart’s most enduring melodies accessible to pianists of all ages. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering, pedaling and dynamics have been included to aid with interpretation, and a large print size makes the notation easy to read. Titles: * Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered * Blue Moon * The Blue Room * Dancing on the Ceiling * Falling in Love with Love * Have You Met Miss Jones? * He Was Too Good to Me * I Could Write a Book * I Didn’t Know What Time It Was * I Wish I Were in Love Again * It Never Entered My Mind * Johnny One Note * The Lady Is a Tramp * Mountain Greenery * My Funny Valentine * My Heart Stood Still * There’s a Small Hotel * Where or When * With a Song in My Heart * You Are Too Beautiful * You Took Advantage of Me. 80 pages.
A tool for Python programmers to incorporate the Java class libraries in their programs, so they don't have to create their own each time. It contains fast track sections at the end of each chapter, review questions and activities to provide extra practice for newcomers.
Like most moments of spiritual revelation, this one took place on a landfill in New Jersey. A young man is standing at an unprepossessing driving range, hitting balls toward a distant fence, when something unusual takes place. As he begins his swing, he has the sensation that his club is drawing itself back on its own; when it is ready, it starts downward, makes perfect contact, and the ball soars off in the right-to-left arc he'd imagined, hitting the exact fencepost he'd been aiming at from 250 yards away. He steps back and wonders if he can do it again. He feels like an observer as the swing begins itself and resolves itself after perfect contact with the waiting ball, which again smacks against the distant post. He has, for however brief a time, entered “the zone.” Everyone who plays a sport knows that fleeting, ineffable sensation of everything falling into place: The pitched baseball looks as big as a grapefruit, the basket looks as wide as a trash can, the players around you are moving in slow motion. But as Richard Keefe, the director of the sport psychology program at Duke University, looked deeper into the nature of his experience, he found profound links to the spirit, the brain, perhaps even the soul. Keefe recognized that the feeling golfers and other athletes have of “being in the zone” is basically the same as a meditative state. And as a researcher with experience in brain chemistry, he went one step further: If we can figure out what's happening in the brain at such times, he reasons, we can learn how to get into that “zone” instead of just waiting for it to happen. This is the Holy Grail of sport psychology—teaching the mind to get out of the way so the body can do the things it's capable of doing. Keefe calls it the “effortless present,” when the body is acting of its own accord while the brain has little to do but watch. All religions describe some kind of heightened awareness in their disciplines; Keefe explores whether such mystical experience is a fundamental aspect of our evolution, an integral part of what makes us human and keeps us from despair. And he brings the discussion back to the applications of such knowledge, reflecting on our ability to use these alternate planes to achieve better relationships, better lives, better moments. Keefe's true subject is extraordinary experience—being in the zone, in the realm of effortless action. On the Sweet Spotbuilds from the physical and neurological to the mystical and philosophical, then adds a crucial layer of the practical (how we can capture or recapture these wondrous states). It is a work in the proud tradition of The Sweet Spot in Time, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and How the Mind Works.
Shows how to develop an effective golf swing, explains how to identify and correct errors in form, and illustrates typical swings of successful professional golfers
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