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A Peace of My Mind (2nd Edition)A "70s" Child, Vickie Brent-Touray was born and raised about 25 miles north of Detroit in the City of Pontiac, Michigan in the wake of 'great industry, greater music, the best food and even better times." The entire Midwest was thriving and pulsing in...
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VantageVantage is a fictionalized account of the poet's real experiences working as the only woman on a six-person garbage crew around the reservoirs of two massive dams. Bambrick began writing poems in order to document the forms of violence she witnessed towards the people...
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You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I AmPoetry. Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2005 December Prize. Reading Tao Lin is like looking the wrong way down Frank O'Hara's ear trumpet at a 21st century Mayakovski IM-ing Lili Brik. This book is fun, smart, manic and ecstatic; it puts on a...
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The CaveThe Cave is a collaboration of prose, poetry, dialogue, and song alternately written by Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer in their early thirties. Assembled between 1972 and 1978, The Cave explores the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the nature of language, and the connections between the...
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OceanessOceaness is a provocative book of poetry, short stories, philosophy and short essays about water, climate change, human ecology, love and life. An Indigenous perspective on these topics gives modern insights to our environment. The book explores a new theory developed by the author,...
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Hip-Hop Poetry and the ClassicsFans of Hip-Hop can gain a deeper understanding of the bridges that link the great poets of the past to contemporary poets of today through a comparison of the writings of classic authors such as Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allen Poe and...
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Heliand: Text and CommentaryThis work presents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific and the poetic and treats them both with equal felicity.Author: James E. CatheyPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublished: 06/20/2002Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 8.82h x 6.03w x 0.91dISBN: 9780937058640About the AuthorJames E....
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Orphic Songs, 9This vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright's translation, Jonathan Galassi's introduction, and, as afterword, Montale's thoughtful essay on Campana, identify the heart of this poet's achievement.Author: Dino...
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Words We Might One Day SayThe poems in this volume explore the experiences of love and loss; of motherhood and childhood; and of living between the two cultures of America and Bulgaria.Author: Holly KarapetkovaPublisher: Washington Writers' Publishing HousePublished: 10/15/2010Pages: 84Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9780931846953
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Saturday Night at the Pahala TheatreThis is a work of fiction during which the characters interact in the form of poetic novellas. Born on the island of Molokai and presently living in Kahalu'u, Yamanaka's poems have appeared in such journals as BAMBOO RIDGE: THE HAWAII WRITER'S QUARTERLY, Michigan Quarterly...
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The Writings of Christine de PizanChristine de Pizan, France's first woman of letters, is widely known for her classic Book of the City of Ladies (Persea, 1982), but very few of her many other distinguished works have been translated into English. The Writings of Christine de Pizan offers lengthy...
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Questions I Asked My Motherquestions I asked my mother is a seminal work of both Canadian and Mennonite literature.Included in this new edition, poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald reflects on the the impact of Di Brandt's poetry undercuts centuries of patriarchal culture. Powerful and lyrical, filled with humour...
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A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected WritingsThis collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peretas writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal "Radical America," introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded and illustrated edition includes a selection of Peretas incomparable poetry and stories, a wide...
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Screams from the BalconyScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/30/2002Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.93h x 5.93w x 0.98dISBN:...
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Pieces of a Song: Selected PoemsFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen...
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The Scripture of the Golden EternityThese classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe."The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nature of impermanence & consciousness, subtle like the...
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Bridge: A Poem (Revised)Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of...
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Against the Woods' Dark Trunks: PoemsAuthor: Jack B. BedellPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.10w x 0.26dISBN: 9780881468564
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A Child's CalendarNewly available in hardcover, this 20th anniversary edition of a Caldecott Honor classic combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman. Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family...
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Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert ReeceCollected here are poems by one of Georgia's most intriguing and talented poets of the twentieth century. Byron Herbert Reece was born in Union County, Georgia, in 1917 and authored four volumes of poems and two novels during his short lifetime. Until now, many...
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