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Wild Grass on the RiverbankPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive, Hiromi It 's WILD GRASS ON THE...
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TwerkPoetry. African American Studies. Peformance Studies. TWERK unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching and cultural inclusivity. The poems, songs, and myths in this long-awaited first book are as rooted in lyric as in innovation, in Black music as in...
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Moon Full of Moons: Poetry of TransformationA journey into darkness and back to the light. The Moon makes it look so easy.Winner of the 2016 Royal Dragonfly Book Award, Moon Full of Moons is a collection of poetry about resilience, renewal, and creating a deep happiness in the midst of...
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State of Grace: The Joshua ElegiesWritten over an eight-year period, the poems in State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies chronicle the death of Alexis Rhone Fancher's only child, Joshua Dorian Rhone, at the age of 26, and its aftermath of devastation, grief, and reflection. Because she was a divorced...
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Intimations: Selected PoemsDistributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no choice of her own, became a witness to mass violence, a widely recognized exemplar of endurance and moral strength, and finally...
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Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce MansourJoyce Mansour (1928-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important of the woman Surrealists. Her work has gained more recognition every year since her death. Following the release in France of a 700 page critically acclaimed anthology (in French), this anthology...
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Seeking the Other SideThis collection is called "seeking the other side" as a way to reinvigorate what acquisitiveness and obsessive work habits deaden-the capacity to connect in some way with the Other, even when that turns out to be a part of ourselves. These poems attempt to...
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Indian TrainsIndian Trains is about small town Indians, about community and family, about thieves, prostitutes, train stealers, drug dealers, loners, jerks, dreaming alcoholics, and the ones who did everything but all of that. It is about an entirely new tribe: urban mixed-bloods of multiple tribes...
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The BabiesFunny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Mark, is the premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These...
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Happy You Are HereGlobal yet intimate, this poetry collection takes the reader on journeys of the soul and the mind - as well as from one continent to another and back again. Born in Tanzania, Ayaz Pirani weaves of loss a beautiful cloth, conjuring lands and loves...
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Alfonsina Storni: Selected PoemsThis collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable death, but not before freeing the poet to leave everything...
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New and Selected Poems of Cecilia VicuñaPoetry. Latinx Studies. Art. Edited by Rosa Alcal . NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF CECILIA VICU A is a telling of old cultures, modern nation states and lives in exile. Rodrigo Toscano calls Vicu a's poetry the outer out, beyond nation states, passed 'inter...
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The Babylonian CaptivityAmong the last of her poetic career, The Babylonian Captivity is an allegory describing the conditions of the Ukrainians under Russian influence at the end of the Nineteenth Century-which is not unlike the pressures Ukraine is under in 2014. This text is modernized from...
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John Brown's BodyOne of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Ben t's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war,...
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Tales of Wonder, Volume IINever reprinted in its original form since 1805, and never before presented in a complete annotated, scholarly edition, Tales of Wonder is a landmark in the study of Gothic literature and Romantic poetry. In Volume II we find Ben Jonson's song for 13 witches,...
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Quilting: Poems 1987-1990Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.Author: Lucille CliftonPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 09/01/2000Pages:...
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Cord BloodBonnie Johnson-Bartee is a poet whose primary subjects are motherhood and daughterhood in all their various manifestations. She casts a tender yet searing eye upon family histories, dynamics, and the very notion of "women's work," and each poem in this collection takes the reader...
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The Lord of EverywhereThe poems in The Lord of Everywhere are about strength and courage and the will to hold on, about home and homelessness, and the tension that floats like Emily's feather between knowing what home means and finding our true home. These poems praise those...
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Four SwansThese are mature poems, meditative, curious about the world of wild mountains and streams, about death and blessing, about the resonant past that is with us yet. And they are about a kind of stillness that has become rare in modern life, the stillness...
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Rime of the Ancient MarinerAuthor: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher: Perfection LearningPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 51Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9780895986726Audience: 07 - 14
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