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The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 6, English TextMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya....
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Open Twenty-Four Hours: PoemsAuthor: Suzanne LummisPublisher: Lynx House PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.09w x 0.34dISBN: 9780899241388About the AuthorSuzanne Lummis' poetry can be found in the anthologies California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present, New California Writers 2012, Poems of the American...
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Born to This LandJourneying into West Texas ranch country, Steagall and Hagler prove unequivocally that verse and image are kindred spirits. Born to This Land examines traditions passed from generation to generation and explores the impact of cowboying on those who choose it as a way of...
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Waiting for SaskatchewanWah interprets memorya journey to China and Japan, his fathers experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhoodto locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wahs own attempts to find the relief of exotic identity.Fred Wah searches...
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MuseumA reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.Author: Rita DovePublisher: Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublished: 04/01/1992Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.24h x 5.52w x 0.24dISBN: 9780887481475About the AuthorRITA DOVE was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for her third book...
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Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems: 1966-2009Spanning a long career, these poems helped define and sustain a movement that added music and brash street language to traditional poetics. Like Amiri Barka (aka LeRoi Jones), this poet and social activist has long combined the perAuthor: Haki R. MadhubutiPublisher: Third World PressPublished:...
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Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17Cruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp-witted, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet, in a country on the precipice of profound change...
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Pedro Pietri: Selected PoetryPedro Pietri's often playfully absurd poems chronicle the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans--urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan--and define the Latino experience in urban America. By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a...
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Riverbed of MemoryThese are poems written mostly in a time of war, and rooted in the land and people of Nicaragua. Zamora draws deep portraits of women of all classes, often using her own body as a metaphor and starting point. Recalling the years of revolution...
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Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John MiltonJohn Milton published several revolutionary manifestos, two works defending regicide, and of course the famous Areopagitica, or defense of freedom of expression and the press against censorship. John Alvis has collected into a superb one-volume edition all of Milton's political writings of enduring importance....
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Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Younger ReadersThe story of the Aeneas and the founding of Rome has excitement and adventure, romance and magic, humour and sadness. Emily Frenkel's retelling is fresh and direct. Simon Weller's illustrations are fabulous.Author: VirgilPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublished: 06/01/1991Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.26h x 5.96w...
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Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of BodhicittaRevered by many--especially His Holiness the Dalai Lama--as the very embodiment of altruism, the late Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen devoted his life to the development of bodhicitta--the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. Presented in both English and the...
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The Handyman's Guide to End Times: PoemsFirst Place Winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award for Poetry, One Author, in EnglishIn Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative. From zombie dating to the sin of popcorn ceilings, these poems investigate the nature of impermanence while...
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The Switching/YardIn Jan Beatty's fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey-now becomes as...
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Open IntervalDrawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the interval between body and name.Author: Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublished: 04/10/2009Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN:...
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Animal EyeVoted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly, Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and love, as Coal Hill Review states "It is as if a scientist is at work in the basement of...
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Sleeping PreacherWinner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being...
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Salvinia MolestaVictoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call "the worst weed in the world," a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that it is illegal to sell or possess in the United States. Chang explores this image of vitality and evil in...
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HeliopauseBeauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poetHeather Christle's stunning fourth collection blends disarming honesty with keen leaps of the imagination. Like the boundary between our sun's sphere of influence and interstellar space, from which the book takes its name, the...
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Bright Felon: Autobiography and CitiesEloquent intercultural coming-of-age storyThis groundbreaking, transgenre work--part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past--is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures,...
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