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Horace's Satires and EpistlesEarly in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace adopts one persona after another, each of which reduces...
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Selected Poems & Letters of Emily DickinsonIncludes both poems and letters of Dickenson, as well as a contemporary description of the poet in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst.Author: Emily DickinsonPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 08/03/1959Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 7.84h...
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Cavafy: Poems: Edited and Translated with Notes by Daniel MendelsohnThe Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the taboos of his time surrounding homoerotic...
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Selected Poems of Wallace StevensThe first new selection of this acclaimed poet's work in nearly twenty years--now in paperback--is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.Author: Wallace StevensPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 02/08/2011Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Trouble in MindWith Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known....
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Phenomenal WomanPhenomenal Woman is a phenomenal poem that speaks to us of where we are as women at the dawn of a new century. In a clear voice, Maya Angelou vividly reminds us of our towering strength and beauty. Here is a poem that radiates...
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TouchHenri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics--a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war--with a startling clarity. Cole's new poems are...
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My Poems Won't Change the World: Selected PoemsAt last, an ample English-language selection of one of contemporary poetry's most vibrant voices Any hall she has ever read her poetry in is invariably filled to the gills. Women like her, girls like her, and men like her, too. In Italy, Patrizia Cavalli...
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The Rest of LoveStriking new poems from a writer whose lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers. (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review) The light, for as far asI can see, is that of any number of late afternoons I remember still: how the lightseemed a...
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Eternal EnemiesThe highway became the Red Sea.We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.You drove; I looked at you with love.--from Storm One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic. Few writers...
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Selected PoemsThe first selected poems of a major poet who wrote with more heart than any other North American poet of the twentieth century (Rodney Jones, Parnassus) More than any other poet of his generation, James Wright spoke to the great sadness and hope that...
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District and CircleSeamus Heaney's new collection starts In an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as The automatic lock / clunks shut in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight...
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Collected PoemsThis collection covers the span of Thom Gunn's remarkable poetic career over almost forty years. Gunn has made a speciality of playing style against subject as he deals with the out-of-control through tightly controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms.Author: Thom GunnPublisher:...
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The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill ScottJill Scott's first-ever poetry collection delivers the same earthy, personal, and tell-it-like-it-is voice that fans have grown to know and love. Writing poems and keeping journals since 1991, she shares her personal poetry collection in The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours. Praised for her...
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The Berenstain Bears My Bedtime Book of Poems and PrayersThis padded board book collection includes fifteen original poems and prayers written especially for young children. It brings the kind of warmth and love to storytime that only the beloved Berenstain Bears can deliver.Focusing on character traits and simple lessons and truths such as...
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Scottish PoemsIn time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns)--a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, the only single-volume collection of Scottish poetry currently available. Scottish...
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The Blue HourFairy tales both familiar and obscure create a threshold, and the The Blue Hour pulls us over it. With precise language and rich detail, these poems unflinchingly create an eerie world marked by abuse, asking readers not just to bear witness but to try...
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Selected EpigramsThis lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of patrons and...
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Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual AnthologyLatin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz attest. Yet this rich literary production has never been gathered into a single volume that attempts to...
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The Saga of the JomsvikingsIn A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old...
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