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Totem: AmericaPoetry. Women's Studies. Moving through losses both private and public, the poems in TOTEM: AMERICA, Debra Kang Dean's third full-length collection, sing of a thee who is sometimes a beloved, sometimes a country, and sometimes both.Author: Debra Kang DeanPublisher: Tiger Bark PressPublished: 10/01/2018Pages: 114Binding...
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Snowy Owls, Egrets, and Unexpected GracesSnowy Owls, Egrets and Unexpected Graces is a portal to an interior landscape that mirrors the natural world - the majesty of western red cedar and snowy owls, the murmurations of songbirds and the incantations of astral showers. The poet simultaneously reflects on the...
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Fort NotPoetry. In her highly anticipated debut collection, FORT NOT, Emily Skillings creates an atmosphere for encounter, akin to searching for meaning through lip-reading. We soon realize that these poems are speaking to us in tones that appear elegantly improvisational. And while the poems may...
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Poetry Teatime Companion: A Brave Writer Sampler of British and American PoemsPoetry Teatime pairs tea and treats with poetry reading-anywhere from the kitchen table to a picnic table, by the seaside or on top of a mountain. Families around the world are indulging in this pleasurable, meaningful shared experience. The Poetry Teatime Companion is an...
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Hanging on Our Own BonesThrough these seven narrative poems, Grahn weaves real-life conditions with goddess mythology to construct modern interpretations of lamentation in nine parts. Song and poem lamentations have a widespread history from all over the globe and carry a wealth of forms and a few requirements--they...
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In CanaanPoetry. African American Studies. In Shane McCrae's IN CANAAN, he inhabits the personae of the escaped slave Margaret Garner, who, in the mid-1800s, murdered one of her daughters in order to keep her from returning to slavery. I couldn't stop/Hurting her because it hurt,...
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Horse Tracks: PoemsThe inner heart commotion of Henry Real Bird is poised in a physical and metaphysical terrain marked by the history, culture, language and identity of his Apsaalooke nation. At the same time, no one else contemplates broncs, Chinook winds, the Wolf Teeth Mountains and...
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Complicated GriefPoetry. From the internet, I learn that 'complicated grief' designates a bereavement disorder in which, instead of fading with time, the pain of loss remains as acute as it was in the beginning. But from Laura Mullen's book I learn that complicated grief also...
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Old and Lost RiversWinner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry in 2011. Old and Lost Rivers is a vivid and moving collection of poems about people who have been beaten down by bad weather, poor crops, and little love save what their memories have put away. John...
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Tao of Yoda: Based Upon the Tao Te Ching, by Lao TzuThis book is a new version of the classic ancient text, the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu. It is based upon a new and revised translation, originally published in the book, The Secret Tao: Unearthing the Hidden History and Meaning of Lao Tzu,...
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No Object"It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads, /what one writes," writes Natalie Shapero in her mischievous debut collection. With sharp wit and relentless questioning, Shapero crafts poems a reader can, if not believe in, then trust--to level with us,...
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The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover: AphorismsA collection of aphorisms and collages by the Southern Buddha of Twitter. Each page of this book has caught me for hours and hours. Read it and be welcomed to the family reunion of Mark's relentlessly beautiful--and lucid, and funny, and fucked up--wisdoms.Author: Mark...
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27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Prose & PoetryWinner of the Gold IPPY Award fore Best Anthology and the Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book about Culture Award-winning 27 Views of Hillsborough is an anthology about life in a small Southern town. Something other than history has drawn dozens of writers to...
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Little OceansIn LITTLE OCEANS we enter the wild range of Tony Hoagland's universe as he charts the manners and morals of our contemporary world with his incisive eye and lyric heart.Author: Tony HoaglandPublisher: Hollyridge PressPublished: 07/01/2009Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12dISBN:...
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My UrohsThe first collection of poetry by a Pohnpeian poet, Emelihter Kihleng's My Urohs is described by distinguished Samoan writer and artist Albert Wendt as "refreshingly innovative and compelling, a new way of seeing ourselves in our islands, an important and influential addition to our...
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When We Say "Hiroshima": Selected Poems Volume 23Kurihara Sadako is one of the poetic giants of the nuclear age. Born in Hiroshima in 1913, she was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From then till now she has addressed her poetry primarily to issues of nuclear destruction, nuclear weapons, and nuclear...
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Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-19881991 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year--Choice. Friar and Mysiades deserve much credit for providing, in one volume, the first full-range sampling of this fecund, variegated, and highly original poet in English.--The New RepublicAuthor: Yannis RitsosPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 12/01/1989Pages: 486Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 8.99h...
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Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the CommunityThe dazzling new edition of this "tremendously valuable resource" (Kliatt) contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing...
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Muslim American Writers at Home: Stories, Essays and Poems of Identity, Diversity and BelongingThis timely collection allows us to hear firsthand the amazingly diverse voices of North American Muslim writers speaking for themselves. Stereotypes are overturned on every page. Shaped by an impressive interweaving of cultures, languages and ethnicities, these writers reflect on what it means to...
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Theogony/Works and DaysC.S. Morrissey's brilliant translations bring a modern, lyrical sensibility to Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod's two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements in Greek philosophy. Theogony tells of the first generations of the gods and recollects how Zeus established his...
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