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EntanglementsA chapbook of poems about physics from Rae ArmantroutEntanglements is the product of a years-long interest in science, particularly physics, by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout. The collection includes poems from her previous books, as well as four new poems. Armantrout delved into...
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ElegguasDeeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poetKamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas--a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold,...
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Pleasure Dome: New and Collected PoemsYusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for...
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Tickets for a Prayer WheelCelebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book.Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist...
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Zither & AutobiographyA reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of...
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The Public World/Syntactically ImpermanenceA new collection of essays and poetry from the poet Library Journal called "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities...
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From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabès ReaderThe first anthology to span the oeuvre of the late writer Edmond Jabès, including pieces previously unpublished in English."To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms,...
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AfterrimagesRetallack's book draws readers into a meditative experience of time, space and language.Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design,...
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Silence in the Snowy Fields: PoemsStriking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earthThe poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are...
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Work Done RightMy red pickup choked on burnt oil as I drove down Highway 99. . . . Abraham Tovar is a young man who works in a sausage factory and desperately longs to create a history of his own. As Abraham's life becomes absorbed into...
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Mystical Prayer: The Poetic Example of Emily DickinsonIn this book, Charles Murphy explores the still unfolding rediscovery of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), our foremost American poet, as a mystic of profound depth and ambition. She declined publication of almost all of her hundreds of poems during her lifetime, describing them as a...
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Token for My SanityToken for My Sanity is a collection of poetry and prose that takes the reader on a journey of themes that shift from racism, pain, loss, and social stigmas to an appreciation of relationships, mental wellbeing, hope, and societal growth. Young showcases his desire...
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BallisticsIn this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects--love, death, solitude, youth, and aging--delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.Author: Billy CollinsPublisher: Random House TradePublished: 02/16/2010Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.54w x 0.35dISBN:...
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The Sonnets and Other PoemsShakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to...
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Breathing the WaterArranged in seven parts and culminating in the superb The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, Breathing the Water draws the readers deep into spiritual domains--not in order to leave the world behind, but to reanimate our sometimes dormant love for it.Author: Denise LevertovPublisher: New...
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The Selected Letters of William Carlos WilliamsSpanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.Author: William Carlos WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 02/17/1985Pages: 346Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.20w x 0.95dISBN: 9780811209342About the AuthorWilliams, William Carlos: - Besides...
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Collected Early Poems of Ezra PoundThe Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound contains the complete text, the poet's first six books, their title pages in facsimile (A Lume Spento, 1908; A Quinzaine for This Yule, 1908; Personae, 1909; Exultations, 1909; Canzoni, 1911; Ripostes, 1912), and the long poem Redondillas...
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Where Silence ReignsWhere Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of solitude and inwardness, seeking to reconcile his personal conflict between the claims of life and the claims of art. His subjects are commonplace,...
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Sun Rock ManCid Corman writes, For the vast majority of Italians and others to whom the name means anything, Matera is synonymous with abject poverty and backwardness. In fact, being the capital of its province, which occupies the lower and Eastern half of the region known...
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Salvage: PoemsHow do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Oka's evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poet's life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that...
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