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Winter Numbers: PoemsNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon.Author: Marilyn HackerPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 96Binding Type:...
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A Muriel Rukeyser ReaderBringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named Muriel, mother of everyone.Author: Jan Heller LeviPublisher: W. W. Norton &...
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Sphere: The Form of a MotionSphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems--following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage--that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams globally,...
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Stained GlassRosanna Warren's first collection of poetry, Each Leaf Shines Separate, announced the emergence of a fresh voice in contemporary American poetry and earned praise from John Hollander, Richard Eberhart, and Mark Strand. Now, in her second book, Rosanna Warren has fulfilled her promise. In...
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke's work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation...
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Bread Without Sugar: Poems (Revised)Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Author: Gerald SternPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 04/17/1993Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.21h x 5.53w x 0.39dISBN: 9780393310108Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/07/1993About the AuthorStern, Gerald: - Gerald Stern is the author of nineteen volumes of poetry....
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The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Early PoemsA collection of poems which deals with old age, with absence and with the death of beloved animals and human friends. Included in this collection are some of the author's earlier poems which have never been published, including 11 sonnets examining love and the...
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English Sixteenth Century Verse: An AnthologyThis comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century.Author: Richard S. SylvesterPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 09/01/1984Pages: 658Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.28w x 1.27dISBN: 9780393302066About the AuthorSylvester, Richard S.: - Richard S. Sylvester was the...
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Collected Poems: 1974-2004Rita Dove's Collected Poems 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's fresh reflections on...
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Mayakovsky's RevolverAt the center of Mayakovsky's Revolver is the suicide of Matthew Dickman's older brother. "Known for poems of universality of feeling, expressive lyricism of reflection, and heartrending allure" (Major Jackson), Dickman is a powerful poet whose new collection explores how to persevere in the...
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What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American: PoemsHugo's most important subject is the American West. In the present volume, people, places, dreams, and memories are explored again--always in search of the poet's self.Author: Richard HugoPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 05/01/1975Pages: 84Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20dISBN: 9780393044171About...
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Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected LettersEven before establishing New Directions, James Laughlin had met and studied with Ezra Pound. These selected letters capture the spirit of their growing relationship from pupil and teacher to publisher and author. Pound's correspondence summons up the inner man and the literary figure. Literature,...
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Collected Poems, 1930-1993Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these poems reveal...
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Leaving Yuba City: PoemsLike Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the...
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History: The Home MovieA thoughtful and masterful novel in verse by an innovative 20th-century poet. One of England's foremost poets, Craig Raine offers a "bold, ambitious chronicle of life" (New York Times Review) told through the stories of two families, the Pasternaks and the Raines, who touch...
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Love Poems & Sonnets of William ShakespeareThe greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English languageAuthor: William ShakespearePublisher: Doubleday BooksPublished: 09/03/1957Pages: 160Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.39h x 6.41w x 0.65dISBN: 9780385017336About the AuthorWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded...
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Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems" Virginia Adair speaks directly and unaffectedly, in an accent stripped of mannerism and allusion. Ants on the Melon exhibits enough formal variety, freshness, and intelligence to confirm, at one stroke, that Ms. Adair is a poet of accomplishment and originality."--Brad Leithauser, The New...
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Peaches Goes It AloneA stunning new collection from a "beguiling and magisterial" poet (The New York Times Book Review) This is the End of Days.This is what we've been waiting for always.I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.Each poem of mine is a suicide...
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Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016Sixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist "Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about...
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Some Say: PoemsA dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our moment Maureen N. McLane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling "old sun." Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the "bankrupt idea / of nature." Some Say offers an...
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