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Listening to the BeesListening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world? Through the distinct but complementary lenses of science and poetry, Mark Winston and Ren...
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The Man Among the Seals & Inner WeatherJohnson's work transforms the stuff of everyday life into something vibrant, wonderful, and strange. These are poems of grief and regret, of nightmare and acceptance, of redemption and the possibility of grace. They present a vision of the American landscape at once unique and...
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MemoryA reissuing of Memory, poems by Laura Jensen, with a foreword by Kevin Prufer.Author: Laura JensenPublisher: Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.50w x 0.22dISBN: 9780887484568About the AuthorLAURA JENSEN was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1948. She received degrees from...
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The Gospel of Barbecue"Honoree Jeffers is an exciting and original new poet, and the Gospel of Barbecue is her aptly titled debut work. These poems are sweet and sassy, hot and biting, flavored in an exciting blend of precise language and sharp and surprising imagery that delights....
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the PoetsSan Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead...
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GasolineGasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and...
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No ThanksE. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most...
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Here Be Monsters: PoemsIn his debut collection, Colin Cheney maps an American landscape of New York rooftop gardens, occupied Iraq, and crumbling New England farms. In poems inhabited by Charles Darwin and climate scientists, Beethoven and Elliott Smith, the reader finds a way to navigate the beauty...
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Seasonal Works with Letters on FireThe final volume in the poet's extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fireWinner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014)Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014)Fire-- its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms--is the fourth and...
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The Work-ShyA poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettledThe Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic "colonies" and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages...
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Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. the Joy of Cooking: [Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape]A modular, easy-to-read relaxation deviceWinner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry (2012)How do we read a book as an object in a network, in a post-book, post-reading, meta-data environment? Seven Controlled Vocabularies models a generic book, a kind of...
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The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her...
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Of Cartography: Poemsvolume 81One of our generation's most important literary voices, Esther G. Belin was raised in the Los Angeles area as part of the legacy following the federally run Indian relocation policy. Her parents completed the Special Navajo Five-Year Program that operated from 1946 to 1961...
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Selections from the Art of Party Crashing in Medieval IraqHe's fond of anyone who throws a party;he's always at a party in his dreams, for party-crashing's blazoned on his heart . . .a prisoner to the path of fi ne cuisine. With this statement, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, a Muslim preacher and scholar, introduces The...
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A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and PaintingsEchoing the muscular rhythms of the heart beat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring, physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee tribe, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of...
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The Lake Michigan Mermaid: A Tale in PoemsThe Lake Michigan Mermaid is a new tale that feels familiar. The breeze off the lake, the sand underfoot, the supreme sadness of being young and not in control-these sensations come rushing back page by page, bringing to life an ancient myth of coming...
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Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman--A Narrative PoemNarrates the life of a woman shipwrecked in the 1640s on the shores of modern-day New Jersey, axed in the belly, half-scalped and left for dead by the Lenape Indians, then nursed back to health by them and taken into the tribe. And that's...
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The Song of Songs: The World's First Great Love Poem"Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs."-The New York Review of Books One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of...
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InfernoIn 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage...
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Spain in Our Hearts: Espana En El CorazonIn 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by the civil war and the murder of his friend, Federico Garcia Lorca, that he started writing what became his most politically passionate series of poems, Spain in Our Hearts. The collection...
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