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Three Hundred Tang PoemsA new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture--a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China's greatest poets. These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)--an age in which poetry and the...
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Splinters Are Children of WoodThe wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, pose an increasingly desperate question about what it means to be a girl, the ways girls are shaped by the...
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The Collected Poems"A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." E. M. Forster's famous description of C. P. Cavafy--the most widely known and best loved modern Greek poet--perfectly captures the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on...
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Poetry of the First World War: An AnthologyThe First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and...
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FailureThis superb Pulitzer Prize-winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country's most engaging and uncompromising poets. In Failure, Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family, marriage, beaches, and dogs; New York City in the 1970s; revolutions...
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Dirty BeastsRoald Dahl's inimitable style and humor shine in this collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals. From Stingaling the scorpion to Crocky-Wock the crocodile, Dahl's animals are nothing short of ridiculous. A clever pig with an unmentionable plan to save his own bacon...
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of HafezOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience. There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that the Persians have for Hafez. Children learn...
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Pets Sound Puzzle [With Battery]Eight favorite pets are waiting to "speak" to your child! Place a puzzle piece into the puzzle board well with the matching picture, and hear the animal meow, woof or tweet! This eye- and ear-catching puzzle enhances matching and listening skills.Author: Melissa & DougPublisher:...
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William Blake: Selected WritingsThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to explore Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose alongside selections from...
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The MuseA scandalous and seductive love story of a young artist thrust into the indulgent world of art, sex, and money. In Georgian London, Elizabeth spends her precious free time painting watercolour flowers at the kitchen table. Art is not only an escape from the...
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My Blue Days Sound Like Blue Jays"My Blue Days Sound Like Blue Jays" is about culture, love, and despair; about self-consciousness, sarcasm, political, spiritual, and intellectual growth. It consists of epic and short poems through which the author reveals his life struggles while living in Boston as a son to...
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Life After Death: PoemsThis new edition offers readers access to Jane Rohrer's iconic debut published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2002, along with a publisher's note. Born in 1928, Rohrer is a strong but late-celebrated voice in American poetry, an unclassifiable original who writes with insight and...
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The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese PoetryAuthor: Eliot WeinbergerPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 10/17/2004Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.88w x 0.78dISBN: 9780811216050About the AuthorWeinberger, Eliot: - Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.
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ContrabandJuan Pablo Mobili's poems are born from living life with eyes that wish to stop seeing but remained open, and bear the record of being a citizen of one family and two countries. In them you will meet the people he loved and deeply...
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The Dream of Every Cell'Encouragement is a round warm form of resistance, ' writes Maricela Guerrero, as if describing her own project. In these powerful and necessary poems, beautifully rendered by Robin Myers, Guerrero reveals a worldwide cellular consciousness that generously offers us rivers of leaves and wolves...
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Bloodred DragonfliesBloodred Dragonflies is Agustin's first book published in South Africa. A selection from three decades of work, it includes new poems and some recently translated versions of poems from the Filipino. His poems, constructed from subtle images, close observations of nature and refracted memories,...
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Cage of LightCage of Light holds together many narrative strands. It traces an environment of familial violence into adulthood. It witnesses the filter of addiction in life and love; it considers what sustains and protects, what constricts and harms, and the fluidity of these things. It...
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A Glimpse of a Promising DayEdward Ibeh is a poet that speaks to the young and young at heart. His poetic ink flows with passion and tenderness. His power of observation, attention to detail, insatiable curiosity, and daily life experiences fuel his creativity. He's endlessly fascinated with the human...
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Soul AcheSometimes you feel numb - numb to whatever it is going on in your life. You're not necessarily sad or mad, but you aren't happy either.You feel that if you slip away and attempt to feel something, it will all get better. But it...
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Like an OliveTirzah Goldenberg's LIKE AN OLIVE opens a space for me interior to the word, moves by some expansive mobility anterior to the letter, at once unfurling and embroidering, at once a hermitage below image and a vessel whose play of absence carries, like an...
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