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In the Garden: A Collection of PoemsWhen I Was Little is a playful, joyous and mindful collection of poems by Antonia May Vandenberg Dunshie, 20th century self taught poet, that was commissioned by her surviving female descendants. As an observant child, Antonia began penning this collection of poems based on...
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I Didn't Do ItWhat makes a puppy's day complete?Swimming and then shaking water all over you. Catching "presents" for you and then bringing them inside the house. Rolling in your nice wool sweater. Snuggling in your lap.In their second ode to canine companions, Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan...
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New and Collected Poems: 1952-1992This volume brings together poems from four decades of Geoffrey Hill's work.Author: Geoffrey HillPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 01/12/2000Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9780618001880About the AuthorHill, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey Hill was born in 1932, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He was the author...
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Collected Poems 1917 to 1982This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher,...
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Collected Poems for ChildrenThis collection brings together the more than 250 children's poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progressing to more complex and sophisticated poems that he felt were written within hearing of...
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The Portable Poetry WorkshopThis book explores the art of poetry writing from a practice-based perspective, showing how form, trope and theory inform the practical craft of writing poems. It is divided into three key sections: - Form and structure, covering sonnets, ballads, blank verse and more- Trope...
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Source: PoemsThis bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.The poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the...
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Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992The poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg, whom William Logan once called the most talented American poet under the age of forty, published her first book of poems in 1982. She has since become one of our most respected authors of verse. Schnackenberg's first three books, collected...
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The Complete English Poems of John Donne: Introduction by C. A. PatridesThe magnificent Seventeenth-Century metaphysical poet John Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, erotic poems, and religious verse that left poetry in English forever changed. From his famously sensual love poems to his equally passionate and powerful Holy Sonnets, Donne's forceful language and ingenious...
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The DoorThe Door, Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. Here in paperback for the first time, these fifty lucid, urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to mediative to prophetic, and in subject...
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I--Six NonlecturesThe author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following: 1. i & my parents2. i & their son3. i & selfdiscovery4. i & you & is5....
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Memorandum in a CruetTake a jouney through this poetic novel. This literachure adventure will take you to castles, ghosts, and such. Take a jouney through this poetic novel. This literachure adventure will take you to castles, ghosts, and such.Author: 3ichael 7ambert, Michael Andrew Lambert Jr.Publisher: 3ichael 7ambertPublished:...
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stardust & skin: poetry of an old soulstardust and skin is a poetic memoir based on a singular perspective. lessons learned through abandonment. heartbreak. childhood trauma and abuse. motherhood. cancer. catalytic lovers. co-dependence. spiritual awakening. and the infinite possibilities of manifesting through your healing. this poetic memoir is based upon inner...
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Sins and CigarettesSins and Cigarettes is collection of poetry that transports any reader to a place where they are no longer alone. Misuraco writes of love, heartbreak, sexuality and mental health. She explores the avenues and pit stops that come along with growing up and figuring...
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Signature Sound: What do you sound like when you speak?Seeds.Long buried beneath the earth, origins never forgotten.Here is a collection of words carefully plucked from amidst a jungle of weeds.Fruit that is perfectly ripe, alluringly inviting, yet easily overlooked.It is a subtle matter of giving our senses.Signature Sound is deep reverence to a...
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PoetryRose writes poems and we just wanted to share her work of art with the world to see. She is still in high school and wants to become a great writer with her books and words. she is in the 9th gradeAuthor: Rose ParcherPublisher:...
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Great SonnetsOne of the most powerfully moving and evocative forms of poetry, the sonnet has been popular for more than 450 years. Unlike many other poetic genres, the sonnet has never gone out of fashion and its popularity today remains unabated.This collection contains a rich...
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ImitationsNot quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowell's conceptual, historical, literary, and aesthetic engagements with a diverse range of voices from the Western canon. Moving chronologically from Homer to Pasternak--and including such...
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Open WorkMore than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of openness--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two...
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The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected VersesIntended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index correlating the verses...
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