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Elegy On Toy PianoIn Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No...
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What It Doesn't Have to Do with: PoemsLindsay Bernal's What It Doesn't Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban...
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Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways AllianceYes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and...
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Meteoric FlowersA bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the...
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The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943A unique study of the WW2 culture of Germany.The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party....
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The Collected Poems of Édouard GlissantThe complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time This volume collects and translates--most for the first time--the nine volumes of poetry published by douard Glissant, a poet, novelist, and critic increasingly recognized...
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Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas Volume 68Editor and poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke assembles this multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from...
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Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing: Poems and Storiesvolume 23In this cycle of poetry and stories, Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock, New Mexico, and of the places and people there. Through these celebrations of birth, partings, and reunions, this gifted writer displays both her love of the...
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Token for My SanityToken for My Sanity is a collection of poetry and prose that takes the reader on a journey of themes that shift from racism, pain, loss, and social stigmas to an appreciation of relationships, mental wellbeing, hope, and societal growth. Young showcases his desire...
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What I Carry with MeIf you have ever wondered what the world looks like through the eyes of a poet, What I Carry with Me offers a glimpse. Only a hint because, as poet Carol A. Stephen illuminates, the world contains endless moments for pause, awe, and reflection....
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A Walking Tour In Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the TroubadoursRummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval...
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I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a PoetSubtitled The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet, this unique volume was the result of a series of informal conversations in the mid-1950s between Dr. Williams, his wife, and Edith Heal, then a student at Columbia University. In the relaxed atmosphere of the...
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Arthur Rimbaud: A BiographyRimbaud--a mythic name--his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call "modern" literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of...
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Collected Poems of Kenneth PatchenPatchen, Collected Poems. The great poet's complete poetry.Author: Kenneth PatchenPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 10/01/1969Pages: 516Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 7.88h x 5.23w x 1.34dISBN: 9780811201407About the AuthorPatchen, Kenneth: - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was one of the most prolific American poets of his time. He...
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Hapax: PoemsRecipient of the 2008 Poet's Prize Recipient of the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award Hapax is ancient Greek for once, once only, once and for all, and onceness pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the...
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The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly GodThis is the first complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch) in more than forty years. This bilingual edition provides English-speaking readers with access to a critical work in the development of the most significant figure in twentieth-century German...
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Blood of the Air: PoemsBlood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem--one of...
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Information for Foreigners: Three PlaysOne of Latin America's most important and prolific writers, Griselda Gambaro has focused on the dynamics of repression, complicity, and violence--specifically, the terror of violent regimes and their devastating effects on the moral framework of society. Information for Foreigners is a drama of disappearance,...
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Into Each Room We Enter Without KnowingFinalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the...
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The Poems of HesiodBesides Homer, there is Hesiod. These words still contain much truth today. Hesiod is a very important poet, and for this reason his two surviving poems, Theogony and Works and Days, deserve to be presented as accurately and attractively as possible. R. M. Frazer...
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