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I Pray in Poems: Meditations on Poetry and FaithI pray in poems explores the intersection of great works of poetry and Christian faith, offering meditations on what these works illustrate about Christian living. Readers will encounter authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Anna Kamienska. Each poem...
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The AlphabetThe Alphabet is a remarkable and notorious literary achievement, decades in the making, one continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that...
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Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and LaborThis collection is a beautifully crafted exploration of life in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Written by Norma Elia Cant , the award-winning author of Can cula, this collection carries the perspective of a powerful force in Chicana literature--and literature worldwide. The poems are a celebration...
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Instruments of the True Measure: Poems Volume 83Instruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da's fascination...
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Where Clouds Are Formed: Volume 63Ofelia Zepeda is a Native American poet who possesses a kind of double vision. She sees the contemporary world through her own highly observant eyes and, at the same time, through the eyes of her Tohono O'odham ancestors. Seeing this way infuses her poetry...
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The Wind Shifts: New Latino PoetryThe Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi Ayala, Richard Blanco, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Sheryl Luna, and Urayo n Noel. All...
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Directions to the Beach of the DeadIn his second book of narrative, lyric poetry, Richard Blanco explores the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives: "Should I live here? Could I live here?" Whether the exotic ("I'm struck with Maltese fever ...I dream of...
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Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social JusticeOn April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona State Capitol in an act of civil disobedience to protest Arizona's SB 1070. Moved by the students' actions, that same day Francisco X. Alarc n responded by writing...
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Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetryvolume 14Winner of the American Folklore Society's Chicago Folklore Prize Yaqui regard song as a kind of lingua franca of the intelligent universe. It is through song that experience with other living things is made intelligible and accessible to the human community. Deer songs often...
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Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and WorkThis is an encyclopaedic guide to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century.Author: Sharon LeiterPublisher: Facts on FilePublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 448Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 9.42h x 7.58w x 1.32dISBN: 9780816054480Review Citation(s):...
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A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler YeatsThis is the first dictionary to identify, chart, and explain in context the many proper names and place names that so famously enrich the poetry of William Butler Yeats and, just as famously, anchor that poetry to Ireland. In compiling this work, Lester I....
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At Midnight 31st of MarchAt midnight on the thirty-first of March, in the village of Saugersville, in upstate New York, young John Herbert is left in darkness when the electric power goes off. The net morning George, who drives the milk truck, turns a bewildered face to the...
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They Rule the WorldFor over fifty years, Hazo's poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In this new collection, he offers his most candid reflections on the passage of time...
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A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish PoemsThis anthology features a wide variety of poems about social justice, love, evocations of history, humanitarian concerns, and other themes. It contains stirring examples of the revolutionary romanticism of Nazi m Hikmet; the passionate wisdom of Fazil H sn Daglarca; the wry and captivating...
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Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman BialikHayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel's national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children's verse, were set to music and proved to be among the most popular twentieth-century Hebrew songs....
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The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the HolocaustA collection of poems written in Jewish ghettos, way stations, death camps and forests under the nightmarish circumstances of the Holocaust.Author: Aaron KramerPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 03/01/1999Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.04w x 0.58dISBN: 9780815605799Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/31/1999 pg. 67
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Broken Land: Poems of BrooklynBrooklyn, crouching forever in the shadow of Manhattan, is perhaps best known for a certain bridge or for the world-renowned tackiness of Coney Island. When it comes to literary history, Brooklyn can also seem dwarfed by its sister borough--until you take a closer look....
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The Clay Sanskrit Library: Ramayana: 5-Volume SetThe Ram yana epic centers around Rama, the crown prince of the city of Ay dhya, providing a profound meditation on the paradox of the hero as both human and divine. After rescuing a sage from persecution by demons. Rama attends a tournament in...
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Saint Peter and the GoldfinchJack Ridl returns with a collection of poems that mix deft artistic skill with intimate meditations on everyday life, whether that be curiosity, loss, discovery, joy, or the passing of the seasons. An early reader of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch said it best:...
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Earth AgainThe second full-length collection from award-winning poet Chris Dombrowski, Earth Again transports readers to an imaginative world where identity is explored and expanded. With a mixture of long poems and shorter pieces, Dombrowski probes birth, death, sex, memory, and our blessed but treacherous engagement...
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