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Normalität: Eine ehrliche SichtweiseNachdem der Autor im Spätherbst seines Lebens angelangt ist, versucht dieser sein Leben, dessen Verlauf, mit seinen Höhen und Tiefen zu analysieren. Das Ergebnis, dieser Sammelband, gibt einen ehrlichen Einblick in die Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt seines Selbst.Gedichte, Prosa und Zeichnungen eines Mannes, der das...
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All of It Is You.: PoetryA debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring "all of it," from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe. Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate,...
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Favorite American PoemsThis carefully compiled large print edition.offers a broad cross-section of beloved American verse, ranging from the earliest works in the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include The Children's Hour and...
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Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language BookWhen Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was...
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Gold CellA dazzling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).A collection by the much praised poet whose second book The Dead...
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The OdysseyThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are...
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Chosen Poems: Old and NewChosen Poems is also, Lorde says, "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited." Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People Live,...
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The Changing Light at SandoverA welcome return to paperback: James Merrill's most famous and celebrated work.Author: James MerrillPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 08/02/2011Pages: 640Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.40dISBN: 9780375711749About the AuthorJames Merrill was the author of thirteen books of poems as well as plays, novels,...
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Poems of the American SouthThis one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling...
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The Collected Poems of Kenneth KochKenneth Koch has been called "one of our greatest poets" by John Ashbery, and "a national treasure" in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation. Now, for the first time, all of the poems in his ten collections-from Sun Out, poems of the 1950s,...
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On Wings of Song: Poems about BirdsFrom backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume. Some of...
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War Music: An Account of Homer's IliadA remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. "Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who...
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Collected PoemsThis collection of poetry showcases the unique talent of James Schuyler and highlights the writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize."Schuyler's subject is his life, and his poems often read like elegant journal entries." - Publishers WeeklyAuthor: James SchuylerPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 10/01/1995Pages:...
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Collected Poems 1937-1971This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America's most distinguished poets.Author: John...
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar: An African American Poet, Novelist and Playwright in the Late 19th CenturyThis collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for literature in the United States. A poet of unquestionable skill and ability, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the son of two former...
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Thomas Hardy: The Complete PoemsThomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the final...
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To the Place of the TrumpetsThe winning volume in the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is To the Place of Trumpets. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems suggest a kind of folk art-their clay washed of narrative...
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Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at upholding the exclusion laws that...
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Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive VerseAn anthology of poems from women who proudly celebrate their own nastiness and that of other women who have served as nasty role models; poems by and about women defying limitations and lady-like expectations; women refusing to be "nice girls;" women embracing their inner...
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The Inheritance of HauntingWinner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war,...
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