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The Rape of the Lock and Other PoemsPresented here are many of Pope's principal works, including the delightful mock-epic, The Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest, Essay on Man, Elo sa to Abelard, Essay on Criticism, and his satirical masterpiece, The Dunciad. Together, they represent the writings of one of the...
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Conversion TheoryConversion Theory is the first-ever published poetry collection of Darius Simpson, award-winning spoken word artist, writer, and social justice activist. This book is a reflection of how Darius has come to experience the United States and its relation to direct action, culture, community, and...
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Gitanjali ( Bengali Edition )Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the book. And is part of the Collection from the UNESCO of Representative Works. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published...
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When Rap Spoke Straight to GodWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God isn't sacred or profane, but a chorus joined in a single soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There's Wu-Tang and Mary Magdelene with a foot fetish, Lil' Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls, verses, erasures--Dawson asks readers, "Just...
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Sack Nasty: Prison PoetrySack Nasty is a compilation of poetry about prison. Unlike her blog, the stories told here don't always fall sunny-side up. They are an outpouring of the uglier edges of prison life. They are about the illusion of dignity, the malleability of justice, and...
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Mr. &These poems grapple with how romantic relationships, both gay and straight, are defined--and what we gain or lose from these definitions. The poems reflect on the experience not only of the poet, but also of wives throughout history, particularly as represented in classic literary...
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The Lives and Stories of Early Asian Americans: An Anthology of Asian American Literature from 1887 to 1923It would be incorrect to say that Asian American literature began during the Civil Rights Movement. Since the late nineteenth century, Chinese American immigrants such as Yan Phou Lee and Yung Wing wrote autobiographies about their lives in China and the United States. In...
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The Way of the Wise WomanIn this compilation of 58 short (10-line) poems, the poet skillfully describes those qualities of heart, mind and action that characterize the awakening of "the Feminine" within the human person. As the Feminine is awakened in both man and woman, the "Mother Spirit" emerges...
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HothouseKaryna MyGlynn takes readers on tour through the half-haunted house of the contemporary American psyche with wit, whimsy, and candid confession. Disappointing lovers surface in the bedroom; in the bathroom, the drained tub ticks with mollusks & lobsters; revenge fantasies and death lurk in...
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Haint: poemsInaugural Publication in the Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature / "Teri Cross Davis has the courage to make this complex experience come to life, to address it, to let her readers know what it feels like, and to tell them she will...
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ArabilisArabilis integrates the ordeal of othering into the fundamental uncertainty of life to produce a collection that is honest in its pain, confusion, and joy. Beautiful and desolate as a rural upbringing, these poems delve into the complex relationship between the self and the...
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Citizens of the MausoleumAuthor: Rodney GomezPublisher: Sundress PublicationsPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 7.99h x 7.99w x 0.22dISBN: 9781939675675
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Dwelling: PoemsPraise for Aliki Barnstone "All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstone's poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most--shall we call her master--that Emily Dickinson Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music,...
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Invasive SpeciesIn Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent themes in our cultural landscape, creating space for unseen victims of discriminatory foreign (read: immigration)...
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Crosslight for YoungbirdFINALIST FOR THE 2019 HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARD An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises Crosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders' tentacles: mother tongue,...
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After the Witch HuntAs if she discovered a small army of silenced women captive in her pen, Megan Falley releases them in the spilled ink that is her most brilliant collection of poems, After the Witch Hunt. The talent of this powerful fresh voice to make the...
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Imago"...Legaspi, like William Carlos Williams, can find poetry anywhere. And like his mentor Pablo Neruda he seems able to locate the mysterious and the magical in the most common and overlooked objects. It is difficult to overestimate the daring and resourcefulness required to complete...
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A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary WomenA started Library Journal review: "This wonderful collection celebrates the New Formalism being practiced by many highly regarded contemporary women poets ... Highly recommended". This unique and ground-breaking anthology also includes statements by the poets explaining why they write formal verse. Adopted by universities...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Selected PoemsPraised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay's bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus...
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LiesWhen does a poem tell the truth? When is it a lie? Intimate moments carefully re-appraised (first dates, break ups, young parenthood, etc.) are the raw material of these vivid and wholly engaging poems, written in Irish, and translated here by the author -...
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