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The Road in Is Not the Same Road Out: PoemsWinner of the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray: ' . . . He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives'. . ....
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Robert Lowell Collected PoemsFrank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of...
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Art and ArtistsArt and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse--the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others. A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture,...
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Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish TraditionFor millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in accordance with this interpretation....
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Dante's Inferno, the Indiana Critical EditionThis new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece.Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Indiana University PressPublished: 06/22/1995Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.11w x 1.07dISBN: 9780253209306Review Citation(s): Library Journal...
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Satires and EpistlesExuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and his pervasive humanity. Boasting famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse and the grotesque dinner party...
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The Marriage of Heaven and HellThese two collections of Blake's finest and best-loved poems--printed on vellum--offer the text of each poem in letterpress on the page facing a beautiful color reproduction of the design Blake created to illustrate the particular poem.Author: William BlakePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 10/30/1975Pages: 82Binding...
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BucolicsUntitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all. that bare branch...
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The Crazy BunchFrom a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a...
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The Poems of Marianne MooreA Penguin Classic This complete collection of Moore's poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time gathers together all of Moore's poems, including more than a hundred that were previously uncollected and unpublished. This long-awaited volume will reveal to Moore's...
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The Nibelungenlied: Prose TranslationA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the...
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HeroidesIn the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or...
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The Portable Romantic Poets: Romantic Poets: Blake to PoeThis volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe...
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From the New World: Poems 1976-2014Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham "one of the...
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Vita NovaWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Gl ck manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart itSince Ararat in 1990,...
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Conamara Blues: PoemsTranslating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara...
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Out of the Way World Here Comes Humanity!"Up-to-the-minute reportage on our fraught zeitgeist, conveyed with vitality and satirical humour." - Hugh MajorRanging from an individual's birth to the death of the planet, this urgent collection reflects back to us the perilous state of our world. Written by a fed up boomer...
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Inside OutrageInside Outrage captures wild wisdom and abject love, the amity and misguided memories keeping us whole in this precarious viral existence. These points of refuge and resilience both unmask and protect us, using frustrations to confront rooted fears. In the end we must own...
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The Essential Eugene McNamaraIn The Essential Eugene McNamara, poetry pushes the barriers of language and grammar, daring to convey raw emotion with disarming empathy. Author: Eugene McNamaraPublisher: Porcupine's QuillPublished: 11/01/2022Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.02lbsSize: 8.75h x 5.55w x 0.25dISBN: 9780889844605This title is only available via back order
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My Blue HaikuLove is all around and other important lessons conveyed through deeply poignant poems.For those who've loved and lost. For those who've learned painful lessons. For those who've lived.These carefully-crafted Haikus will stir your soul and evoke a deep desire for peace, healing, and love....
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