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TestifyA brave, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race, masculinity, religion, and class, Testify in a very personal way confronts some of the most critical issues in today's society. A book of elegiac ambivalence, Testify's speaker often...
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Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006)love belongs to those who do the feeling--an exciting collection of new and selected poetry by Judy Grahn. The book contains selections from Judy's entire body of poetic work from The Work of a Common Woman, The Queen of Wands and The Queen of...
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Written in Blood: Post-Modern Penitentiary Poetry"Written in Blood: Post-Modern Penitentiary Poetry" is essential reading to understand how and why so many people are physically incarcerated or in mental prisons of poverty and spiritual debt. The poems can each stand alone, yet together, they tell a story of the problems...
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The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of MythCompelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean - Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece - Identifies the true geographic sites of...
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Song of Trusting the Heart: A Classic Zen Poem for Daily MeditationZen masters say only one thing matters in life - a peaceful heart. The way to achieve both is vibrantly expressed in the poem 'Song of Trusting the Heart', an ancient Chinese scripture beloved by sages and considered a cornerstone of Zen Buddhism.Author: Tamarack...
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Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance Containing 365 Selections From the Wisdom of RumiJalaluddin Rumi has become one of the most widely read poets in our time. This collection of verse is drawn from Rumi's masterwork the Mathnawi, often referred to as the Qur'an in the Persian tongue. The Mathnawi comprises six volumes of rhymed verse drawing...
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Anthology of Medieval Spanish PoetryAuthor: Annette G. CashPublisher: European MasterpiecesPublished: 01/05/2010Pages: 468Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04dISBN: 9781589770652Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and KoryoKorea's history is divided into four periods: the Three Kingdoms of Koguryo (37 bc-ad 668), Shilla (57 bc-ad 668), and Paekche (18 bc-ad 660); Unified Shilla (668-935); Koryo (935-1392); and Choson (1392-1910). Kevin O'Rourke's The Book of Korean Poetry traces Korean poetry from the...
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R Is for Rhyme: A Poetry AlphabetMost primary schools mandate daily reading time. Is your classroom or media center equipped to handle the varied and growing needs of students from kindergarten through fifth grade?Sleeping Bear Press titles deliver a variety of two-tiered text and grade-appropriate titles covering a wide array...
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The Poet's HandbookThis handbook teaches the basics of the modern poet's craft: diction, imagery, metrics, verse forms, symbolism.Author: Judson JeromePublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.53w x 0.57dISBN: 9781582971360
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Corona: The Selected Poems of Paul CelanPaul Celan, arguably the mid-20th century's most important German-language poet, is commonly pigeonholed as a poet of the Holocaust-a term, however, he never used. Undoing facile assumptions about Celan, Corona charts a more idiosyncratic and personal path through Celan's large oeuvre, choosing 103 poems...
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I Love Our Earth / Amo Nuestra TierraCelebrate our beautiful home in this joyous, poetic bilingual tribute to the Earth's colors, climates, and seasons. Panoramic photographs capture the majesty of nature from swirling deserts to curling ocean waves. Close-ups reveal quieter treasures like springy moss and sunlit leaves. Tying all these...
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Our Food: A Healthy Serving of Science and PoemsAward-winning author Grace Lin joins science writer Ranida T. McKneally to get kids talking about the science of food, the five food groups, and what a healthy meal looks like. Answering questions like why are so many vegetables green?, What's the difference between brown...
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HolocaustIn Holocaust poet Charles Reznikoff's subject is people's suffering at the hand of another. His source materials are the U.S. government's record of the trials of the Nazi criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the transcripts of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Except...
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Bone Palace BalletThis is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate...
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Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: PoemsAn exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates...
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Virgin: PoemsSelected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes...
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ThresholesThresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family's past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there. What...
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The Mountain in the SeaRenowned for his pioneering mixture of both Spanish and English in poetry and prose, Victor Hern ndez Cruz has now incorporated Arabic language and North African culture into his unique poetic idiom. As Cruz builds poetic bridges between Arab-influenced Spain, Spanish-influenced North Africa, African--influenced...
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Coal Mountain ElementaryA singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color...
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