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Why the House Is Made of GingerbreadIn Ava Leavell Haymon's third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gretel finds herself at midlife overtaken by the Grimms' household tale "Hansel and Gretel." The violence and terror in that story supplant the memory of her own childhood, and the fairy tale...
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Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected PoemsPoet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and brother. Selections from four previous books...
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The Afflicted GirlsTwenty individuals were executed and more than 150 imprisoned. The historical body of evidence that remains from the Salem witch trials of 1692 touched the hands, mind, and imagination of poet Nicole Cooley, compelling her to seek entry to an inaccessible past of lies....
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Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern WritersThe Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 under the inspiration of Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging excellence and recognizing distinction in southern letters. Membership is by invitation only, and the group meets biennially and bestows prizes in fiction, poetry, drama,...
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Passing Through Customs: New & Selected PoemsAuthor: Gibbons RuarkPublisher: LSU PressPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.02w x 0.32dISBN: 9780807123621About the AuthorGibbons Ruark 's poems have been previously collected in Rescue the Perishing, Keeping Company, Reeds, and A Program for Survival. A member of the English faculty at...
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Black ShawlBlack Shawl emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in southern Appalachia, whose voices haunt the mountains still, and from the image of a black net or shawl being dragged over the ground, plumbing the depths, collecting bits and fragments of...
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Poems of Lady Mary Wroth (Revised)Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the leading authors of her time, including Ben Johnson, who praised her work for its...
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Wildwood Flower: PoemsIn Wildflower Flower, whose title derives from a traditional country song, Byer speaks through the fictional voice of a mountain woman named Alma, who lived in the Blue Ridge wilderness around the turn of the century. In narrative and lyric, Byer's poems sing a...
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EvidenceNever afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural...
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A Mind of Winter: Poems for a Snowy SeasonThere is no better time to curl up in a comfortable chair and read than in wintertime. And winter has been a powerful muse for many of America's best loved poets. The elegant patterns of frost on a windowpane, a child on a sled,...
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Poems to Live By in Troubling TimesIn this allnew sequel to the Beacon bestseller Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times, editor Joan Murray has once again gathered an astonishing group of poems that speak to our personal and shared concerns in a troubled time. Poems to Live By in...
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Song for AnnihoThis exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid the flight and reenslavement of its inhabitants emerges the love story of Anninho and Almeyda, former African slaves....
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RenaissanceRenaissance, Ruth Forman's second collection, speaks of the timeless themes of family, death, love, and rebirth in the inimitable voice Booklist called 'sexy, bittersweet, funny, feisty, and real.' With poetry that conveys a defiant, enlivened spirit and has won her acclaim, Ruth Forman measures...
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When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's QuestPoet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother...
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It's Not MagicSnapshots of youth, displayed with verve and sparkling clarity, in a new collection of poems that "dazzles with its linguistic sleight of hand" (Richard Blanco). From jaunts through New York subways, to a Cincinnati Waffle House, to a chance encounter with one's future life...
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The Arena of Satire, 52: Juvenal's Search for RomeIn this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal's satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist's art. The enduring attraction...
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Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo, A Bilingual EditionVolume 8 in the Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas Series A welcome bilingual anthology of a much-honored Venezuelan poet and essayist Eugenio Montejo was one of the most significant Latin American poets and essayists of the past half century. Montejo (who died...
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The Erotics of Domination, 37: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love PoetryA groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman elegy In recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac poetry. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene re-examines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the...
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The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment"The Nature of Roman Comedy remains the single most comprehensive guide to Roman comedy, and I do not see a rival work on the horizon. It places the genre in both a literary and a scholarly context. It provides a reliable introduction to the...
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Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965A groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing, Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental language poets and Asian American poets--concerned...
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