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Conversations with Joseph BrodskyBiography -- Literary CriticismJoseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century.After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared emigre into,...
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Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual LoveCompiled by renowned sex therapist and author Wendy Maltz, Passionate Hearts is a remarkable anthology of intimate, emotionally explicit, yet accessible poetry, representing new voices as well as the most revered contemporary poets. Culled from classic works of poetry, unpublished work solicited especially for...
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The Galleons: PoemsLonglisted for the National Book Award for PoetryFinalist for the Pacific Northwest Book AwardA New York Public Library Best Book of 2020For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful, Rilkean attention...
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Bone Map: Poems"These poems, like light, clarify even as they pierce." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSelected for the National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse.Here violence and terror infuse the...
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The Malevolent VolumeSubverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these...
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Big CabinWritten over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in new, crystal-clear light.Author: Ron PadgettPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 07/02/2019Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781566895491About the AuthorRon Padgett...
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Without ProtectionIn poems rich with sensuality and discord, Mukomolova explores her complex identity--Russian, Jewish, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian-- through the Russian tale of Vasilyssa, a young girl left to fend for herself against the witch Baba Yaga. Heavy with family and fable, these poems are...
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Almond Blossoms and BeyondThe first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the...
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Poems of Abraham LincolnOur 16th president was a great lover of poetry. A little-known fact is that he wrote a small body of poetry, mostly about returning to the home of his childhood. In The Poems of Abraham Lincoln, his work is collected for the first time...
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Vagabond's HouseAn extraordinarily popular collection of poems written in and about Hawaii. First published in 1928, the book went through two printings a year for many years, and Blanding became the most popular American poet of the period. ""Vagabond's House"" is an ideal expression of...
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Flower Children: The Little Cousins of the Field and GardenPublished originally in 1910, this charming collection of flower poems and full-color illustrations animates the 82 flowers included in the book. From Crocus to Holly, the flowers are ordered in the book as each would appear throughout the year in a garden. Each illustration...
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Not Go Away Is My NameResistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios's sixteenth book, Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting go and holding on. The borderline between Mexico and the U.S. looms large, and R os sheds light on...
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On Poetry and Craft: Selected ProseOne of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre.Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to...
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Songs of Unreason#1 on the Poetry Foundation Bestseller List; a Michigan Notable Book; a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.A beautifully mysterious inquiry.--BooklistSongs of Unreason, Harrison's latest collection of poetry, is a wonderful defense of the possibilities of living.--The Industrial Worker Book ReviewAs in all good...
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Dead Man's Float"Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit." --Booklist" Jim Harrison] is still close to the source. . . . Dead Man's Float is, as its title would suggest, a flinty and psalmist look at mortality and...
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East Window: Poems from AsiaPoetry. Asian Studies. This collection furthers Copper Canyon's project of reintroducing Pulitzer Prize winner W.S. Merwin's out-of-print works, drawing together poems from his classic collections Asian Figures, Sun at Midnight, and his two volumes of Selected Translations. Gathered here are translations and versions of...
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Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of DesireNostalgia for Death is the sole book of Villaurrutia, who was one of the few openly homosexual Latin American writers and one of Mexico's most important authors of the early twentieth century. The latest of Eliot Weinberger's brilliant translations of Latin American poets brings...
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Budget Travel Through Space and Time: PoemsA new kaleidoscopic itinerary of poems by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardThe glass eye = a prosthetic eye.And a telescope lens?--the dream lifeof the glass eye when it's closed.--from "About the Dead"Albert Goldbarth's trusty travel guide, Budget Travel...
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Dhaka DustWinner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Poetry, the debut collection by Dilruba Ahmed Can't occupy the same space at the same time unless, of course, you land in Dhaka --from "Dhaka Dust" Ranging across Europe and America to the streets of Bangladesh, the...
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Émile Nelligan: Selected PoemsThis dazzling collection of poetry is the first-ever translation into English of the work of a writer now considered the father of modern French Canadian literature. Émile Nelligan's work spanned only two years, from 1897 to 1899, when he suffered a nervous disorder later...
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