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The NightfieldsA WASHINGTON POST BEST POETRY COLLECTION OF 2020 A new collection from a poet whose books are an amazing experience: harrowing, ravishing, essential, unstoppable (Louise Gl ck) Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with poems of personal loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a...
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Rinkeldekinkel: An Anthology of Dutch PoetryWhat shape does Dutch art take in the American imagination? Austere, perhaps. Insular. Fixated on nature, every writer's "traditional source of consolation." And all of these qualities may indeed be true of the Netherlands' early literature. But in Rinkeldekinkel, readers will encounter a radically...
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Very Much a Woman's BookA note from Peggy ... I was looking for a special book in the bookstore - a sharing experience I could give my friend."The book you're looking for is not on our shelves, it's in your heart," the sales girl smiled. Her insightful comment...
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Tales of the WriterIn as much as we can learn and experience various aspects of life as we live, we can only know what our minds will know. Our opinions comes from the depth of our experiences in life-the life we see others live, the mistakes they...
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The Fold - A Collection of PoetryThis collection of poetry speaks to a very common theme of real human experiences, and they are just a small part of mine. I expressed how I felt like an outsider, then realized, it's not always bad to be unusual. Me and my children...
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Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktalesWain is a collection of LGBT themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths. The collection contains stories about kelpies, selkies, and the Loch Ness Monster, alongside perhaps lesser-known mythical people and creatures, such as wulvers, Ghillie Dhu, and the Cat S...
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Robert Fergusson: Selected PoemsOriginally published in 2000 by Polygon to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's birth, this new edition contains all Fergusson's finest poems in both Scots and English, and features a new introductory essay, revised orthography, a substantial section of notes and a glossary. Acknowledged...
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Anthology of British Literature: From the Restoration to ModernismThe Anthology of British Literature is a collection intent on sharing some of the works that have entertained and impacted readers for generations. Spanning from the Restoration of King Charles in 1660 to the early 20th century, this anthology includes pieces from the Restoration...
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New Selected PoemsElizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century's best-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almost fifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, she received numerous awards, including the W.H. Smith Prize for her 1986 Collected Poems. This New Selected...
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The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own LinearityDanielle Vogel's newest collection creates a latticework for repair--the repairing of past trauma, the calling-into-presence of a dissociated self--but does so while keeping the material of this net of thinking in a fragmented, diaphanous state, glowing in the space between the poem and essay....
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Rift ZoneRIFT ZONE, Taylor's much-anticipated fourth book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines--rifts between past and present, childhood and adulthood, what is and what was. Circling Taylor's hometown--an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault--these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant,...
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Printing Virgil: The Transformation of the Classics in the RenaissanceIn this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.Author: KallendorfPublisher: BrillPublished: 12/05/2019Pages: 204Binding Type:...
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SpawnSpawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by...
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Beloved Revolutionary SweetheartJuxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music--punk and new wave--the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects of Eros.From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems are inspired by the troubadour poets of Provence and Italy, and...
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I Am a Rohingya: Poetry from the Camps and Beyond"The Rohingya poets gathered here for the first time in English hold a mirror to the light for the rest of humanity, flashing their poems of misery and warning from the genocidal zone and refugee camp of Cox's Bazaar. Their songs are more accurate...
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Eighteen YearsAuthored by Madisen Kuhn // Illustrated by Laura SupnikEighteen Years is a collection of 220+ poems. Madisen Kuhn, popularly known as m.k., writes honestly and personally about the thoughts and feelings that come with finding your way. Eighteen Years is here to tell you...
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Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry: Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase KiyokoThis bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese poetry. A general introduction provides the literary and historical context for their achievement, while each poet's work is prefaced with...
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Witch Doctrine: PoemsAnnah Browning's poetry collection Witch Doctrine is a gothic instruction manual for how to exist in a heartbreaking world. Through a series of spell poems and a cast of haunting personas--including a sentient house, a mentoring witch, and a housekeeping ghost--Browning leads the reader...
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In the Field Between Us: PoemsIn the Field Between Us is a friendship in poems, an epistolary project by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison that ponders disability and the possibility of belonging in the aftermath of lifelong medical intervention. In the beginning, the poem-letters express, in gorgeous harmony,...
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Letters to My LoveTHE AUTHOR of this book (1907-1944) was perhaps the greatest poet of the Holocaust, a Jewish Catholic convert who fell victim to a mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the regular Hungarian Army under stan-dard orders. The crime took place towards the end of...
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