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The Figured WheelThe Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate. Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as nothing less than the recovery for...
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A Gilded Lapse of Time: PoemsNadine Gordimer once remarked that Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poems move me in a way that I don't really think I have experienced since I first read Rilke at sixteen or seventeen. A Gilded Lapse of Time, Schnackenberg's third volume, is presented in three sections: the...
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Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow: PoemsThis is a book of jazzy, edgy, adventuresome poems from the author of Earthquake Weather and Like Cities, Like Storms. Ever aware, ever vivid, ever focused, Kleinzahler's are some of the finest lyrics being produced in American poetry today. Pieces of ordinary talk are...
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The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990This important book--shot through with reflections on, explorations of, and hymns to both our natural and spiritual realms--features the three poetry collections Charles Wright published during the 1980s: The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), and Zone Journals (1988).Author: Charles...
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Madoc: A MysterySubtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects several poems concerning the so-called Pantisocracy (meaning a state ruled equally by all), a utopian scheme devised and later abandoned by the 18th-century poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. What if they had indeed set up...
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An Age Ago: A Selection of Nineteenth-Century Russian PoetryRepresentative selections from the great Russian poets of the nineteenth century, chosen by the uniquely qualified Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky. Brodsky's commendable selections offer many of the best-loved and oft-memorized poems of the Russian people. - Library JournalAuthor: Alan MyersPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished:...
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Day by DayThe last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century.Author: Robert LowellPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished:...
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Me I Am!I am the only ME I AM who qualifies as me; no ME I AM has been before, and none will ever be. Three very different children reveal their individual personalities in a series of visual mini-adventures. Readers meet a mischievous tomboy who would...
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A Village Life: PoemsWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize-winning poet A Village Life, Louise Gl ck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads...
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New Selected PoemsIn this condensed edition of Selected Poems, Robert Lowell's poems are brought together from all of his books of verse. Chosen and introduced by Katie Peterson on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a perfectly chosen and illuminating...
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Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of DepressionIn 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the Black Dog (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at...
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Faithful and Virtuous NightWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Louise Gl ck is one of...
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The Iliad of HomerThe Iliad ( sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a...
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Soft ApocalypseSoft Apocalypse pirouettes in the "anemic glow" of late capitalism, its prose poems and lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures for going on. Chrome angels, strange beloveds, and cool-eyed speakers cut speculative lines through...
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The Snake Swallower of Cochin and Other Odd OccupationsThe poems I wrote from the time I left the Marines to the early 90's including some I wrote specifically for poetry slams, most just specific observations on the human beings and places I visited, loved, hated, fondled and just thought about. Everything for...
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Poesia EscritaQuem é que não quer desfrutar da vida, lendo um bom livro. Essa é a proposta desse livro de poesias. Confira.Author: Thiago Moraes OliveiraPublisher: BlurbPublished: 01/22/2023Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.05dISBN: 9780368239410Language: PortugueseThis title is not returnable
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Grief HaikuAfter losing her beloved husband of twenty years to cancer, Margaret Stewart turned to words to try and express the powerful force that is grief. Journey with her through her first year without her husband. Author: Margaret M. StewartPublisher: BlurbPublished: 01/20/2019Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter EraRevisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white...
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The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyHow did Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, two of the most iconic and celebrated authors of the Romantic Period, contribute to each other's achievements? This book is the first to dedicate a full-length study to exploring the nature of the Shelleys' literary...
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Forest Runes: Poems on Living and Hunting in the Mighty Natural Wilderness of North America (Hardcover)George Washington Sears tributes the great outdoors with a collection of poems chronicling life among nature in all its rugged glory. A committed outdoorsman, Sears was most at home among the trees and hills of America's wilderness. Each poem in this anthology chronicles a...
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