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Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch" Bottoms] makes astounding leaps of both faith and doubt, and does so with insight, honesty, and flashes of anger--all characteristic elements of his work." --The Southern Review"One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . ....
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What Love Comes to: New & Selected PoemsA collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.--Pulitzer Prize finalist citationThere is a broad, powerful streak of independence--even disobedience--that runs through Stone's writing and has inspired a great number of women...
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Sun at Midnight: Poems and LettersAn undisputed master.--The New York TimesLong out of print, this reissue is the first translation into English of the work of Muso Soseki, the thirteenth-century Zen roshi and founder of the rock garden. A gorgeous introduction by co-translator W.S. Merwin sets the stage for...
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Further Adventures in MonochromeYau tweaks and twists language to express a painful comic vision in which sensual vividness combines with fierce despair.--BooklistJohn Yau engages art criticism, social theory, and syntactical dexterity to confront the problems of aging, meaning, and identity. Insisting that True poets and artists know...
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Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain RecluseAlternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit-scholar. Remarkable for their generous spirit, accessibility and biting criticism, these poems present a poet...
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Flood SongSherwin Bitsui's new poetry collection, Flood Song--a sprawling, panoramic journey through landscape, time, and cultures--is well worth the ride.--Poets & Writers"Bitsui's poetry is elegant, probative, and original. His vision connects worlds."--New Mexico Magazine"His images can tilt on the side of surrealism, yet his work...
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Letters to Yesenin"The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars of two poetic lives, his own and Yesenin's, is what makes the poem not only his best but one of the best in the past twenty-five years of American...
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Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected & Last PoemsA comprehensive collection of poetry by the Greek Nobel Prize-winnerAuthor: Odysseas ElytisPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 02/01/1997Pages: 275Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9781556590832
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Feeling as a Foreign LanguageIn Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. How does poetry create feeling? What are fractal poetics?In a series of provocative, beautifully written essays concerning "the...
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The Works of Gwerful Mechain: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature EditionAll of Gwerful Mechain's known work is included here-as are several poems of uncertain authorship, and a selection of other works that help to fill in the historical and literary context.Each medieval Welsh poem is provided in the original language and in two different...
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My Art Is Killing Me and Other PoemsIn her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life. In...
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The Elders Are WatchingAs Native elders have advised from time immemorial, this is a gentle plea to respect the natural environment.When the award-winning poet David Bouchard first saw the artwork of First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers, he was struck by Vickers' reverence for nature, the vibrancy...
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Narrow Cradle**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 'THE VERY BEST ' POETRY AWARD** In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat, and even bargain with it. Grounded in both traditional and modern poetic forms,...
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Rumi Poetry: 100 Rumi Quotes on Love and Life6.My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases...
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Dark JourneyPoetry by Jim Morrison (of the Doors) and Craig Strete. "I have seen the future and I won't go," says Morrison, staring at the sky as if he saw the words up there somewhere. And the day explodes, rocketting into a long shamanistic shared...
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Yearnings of a TravelerWe all have a yearning for something. For Lekpele, his has been a message of self worth, as we see in his signature piece, My Body is Gold; one of patriotism, as in Scars of A Tired Nation; one of Pan Africanism as in...
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New Hampshire: Poem with Notes and Grace NotesNew Hampshire is Robert Frost's poetic tour de force. It won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in poetry. While Frost had been a respected poet before New Hampshire's release New Hampshire forever cemented Frost's standing as the greatest American Poet. If you've never read...
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Poemas de Gabriela MistralEl 12 de diciembre de 1914 obtuvo el primer premio en el concurso de literatura de los Juegos Florales organizados por la FECh en Santiago, por sus Sonetos de la muerte. Desde entonces utiliz el seud nimo literario Gabriela Mistral en casi todos sus...
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100 Greatest Children's Poems and Nursery Rhymes: Classic Poems for Children from the World's Best-Loved AuthorsThe classics are classics for a reason - no one has written better-loved poems in the years since they were first published. So here is a vintage selection of the best of the very best poems from the greatest writers in history, especially for...
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Four of Us: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva"....The fact of the matter is that everything that happens in culture ultimately comes down to this, to the four famous temperaments: melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic, and choleric. That's what I think. It seems to me that our Big Four can also be divided by...
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