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Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry AnthologyGhost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many...
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VersedWinner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences...
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The Route 9 Anthology: A Collection of Writing from Wesleyan Students, Faculty, Staff & Middlesex County ResidentsA collection of writing from across Wesleyan University and its surrounding townsThe Route Nine Anthology is a collection of poetry and prose from Wesleyan students, faculty, staff, and Middlesex County residents. It is the first collection of prose dedicated specifically to bridging the literary...
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A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem AnalysisGeorge Williamson treats his subject with great precision. Documenting his analyses with ample quotes from the poems and essays, he elucidates the structure and meaning of Eliot's masterpieces. To make this guide more accessible, the poems are arranged in chronological order, as they appeared...
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Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets...
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Many-Storied HouseBorn in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart...
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The Selected Poems of Denise LevertovCulled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view...
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Selected PoemsDuncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetry's role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a useful and portable compilation, says critic Tom Clark, that provides the most comprehensive...
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Black + BluesKamau Brathwaite, who won the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has revised his celebrated 1979 Casa de las Americas collection, Black + Blues, for its first edition by a U.S. publisher. A rich, arid, beautiful collection, Black + Blues is cast in three...
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The Nonconformist's Memorial: PoemsThe Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. How is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth-century Metaphysicals...
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The Complete PoemsThe Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books--Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds--as well as the additional poems that appeared in the three editions of his Selected Poems. The volume also collects...
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Morning HaikuPoems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner. Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered...
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My Name Is Child of God ... Not Those PeopleThis personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... Not Those People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholic...
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Summer in the Spring, 6: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and StoriesThe Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed here...
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Poet in New York/Poeta En Nueva York"The definitive version of Lorca's masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original."--John Ashbery Newly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico Garc a Lorca's Poet in New York is an astonishing depiction of a tumultuous...
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Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & PoemsIn Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems, fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia, and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and...
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The DyzgraphxstWindham-Campbell Prize, WinnerOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, WinnerOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Poetry, WinnerGriffin Poetry Prize, WinnerDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Winner Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers' Awards, FinalistGovernor General's Literary Award for Poetry, FinalistTrillium Book Award for Poetry, FinalistRaymond Souster Award,...
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In the WoodsA New York Times best-selling author shares his love for woodland animals in a revealing, beautifully illustrated collection of verse for poetry lovers and budding naturalists. The animals in the dark woods are secretive, their inner lives a mystery. The stealthy bobcat, the inquisitive...
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Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground UpRocks, fossils, earthquakes.Seventeen short syllables?Earth Science haiku In a stunning combination of haiku and impressionistic (but accurate) art, this one-of-a-kind book encourages readers to think playfully about our planet and its wondrous processes. Sibert Medal-winning author Sally M. Walker covers Earth's many marvels --...
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Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the PresentA prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated...
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