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Deep CodeCombining a bent lyric perception with a fragmentation redolent of French cubism, Coletti portrays contemporary urban experience, from power relations and personal loss to nights among city dwellers recording their convivial distress, glad and dissolute at once. Part teddy bear fleeing the cultish outlines...
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Trance Archive: New and Selected PoemsSince his post-9/11 essay "The Emergency," Andrew Joron has been regarded as one of American poetry's most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws on over twenty years of Joron's work, from his early science fiction poetry to his later fusion of surrealist romanticism and avant-garde...
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Front Lines: Selected PoemsIn the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a...
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Twenty Prose PoemsFrom the introduction by Michael Hamburger: "Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The prose poem was a medium much suited to his habits and character. Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a...
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Poems of Arab AndalusiaThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face. Spanish readers have...
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Poem of the Deep SongThe magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares and siguiriyas,...
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White BuildingsThis first book of poems by hart Crane, one of his three major collections, was originally published in 1926. The themes in White Buildings are abstract and metaphysical, but Crane's associations and images spring from the American scene. Eugene O'Neill wrote: Hart Crane's poems...
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If I Could Sleep Deeply Enough: PoemsIf I Could Sleep Deeply Enough is the author's fifth book of poetry, a previous volume having been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. There are four parts, the first being a kind of sequence or series of meditations on the experience and symbolism of...
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American Journal: PoemsAuthor: Robert HaydenPublisher: Liveright Publishing CorporationPublished: 01/01/1982Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.13h x 5.32w x 0.27dISBN: 9780871401274About the AuthorHayden, Robert: - Robert Hayden received numerous awards including a Hopwood Award, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, and...
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Angle of Ascent: New and Selected PoemsIn his new poems, as before, but with a new mixture of modes, Hayden takes up, celebrates, and contends with the history of his people. He is involved with his Black Americanness, without being confined by it. The famous story elements can be found...
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Frost: A Literary Life ReconsideredThis study demonstrates the complex interaction between Frost's life and work. Based not only on the poetry, but on letters, notebooks, recorded interviews and public appearances as well, it treats the most significant aspects of Frost's life and poetry.Author: William H. PritchardPublisher: University of...
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Beso the DonkeyBeso the Donkey is a poetry cycle about a wounded, neglected, and abandoned jackass. In sparklingly clear and luminous poems, Richard Jarrette tells the story of Beso and of his caregiver's attempts to understand and heal him--an endeavor that teaches the man much about...
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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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Bygone Days of the Old West, RevisitedThis unique collection of poetry and pen and ink drawings recall the lore, traditions and romance of the Old West. Originating from recollections of Fred Lambert's childhood in New Mexico, as well as carefully chronicled stories gleaned from legends and traditions picked up during...
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Speaking with Magpies"Male magpies build nests as a courtship ritual," James McGrath says. "They risk the future, like poets who risk breathing light and darkness, hoping someone will hear them, yet knowing it does not matter. It is the pilgrimage, the chattering, the nesting of words...
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Shine on You Crazy DiamondThese poems were written by New Mexico high school students and those poets who mentor them as part of New Mexico CultureNet's educational programs. These programs include WebSlam, an Internet-based poetry contest for teens; Poetry Jam, an annual poetry festival for New Mexico high...
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Foretaste, Poems"Here are pages with delicately-carved poems, fragrant with the sage of high mesas, light as a cirrus cloud, warm as red blood, vibrant as the strings of a violin. The reader catches glimpses, feels touches of the sensitive character of the poet, sensitive not...
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An Introduction to Arab PoeticsPoetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. Adonis, a leading Arab poet and scholar re-interprets this rich and ancient heritage.Author: AdonisPublisher: Saqi BooksPublished: 02/01/2003Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9780863563317
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Kalakuta RepublicThis powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s.Author: Chris AbaniPublisher: Saqi BooksPublished: 09/01/2000Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 7.93h x 5.06w x 0.40dISBN: 9780863563225
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Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual AnthologyThis indispensable anthology contains selections of the best work by Scotland's most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets: Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Iain Crichton Smith, Derick Thomson and Donald MacAulay. Designed as much for English readers of Gaelic, the poems are presented in parallel texts...
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