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The Dance of DeathAn invaluable new reproduction of Holbein's woodcuts of The Dance of Death One of Hans Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride. Each image is packed with drama,...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected PoemsAuthor: Alfred TennysonPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 7.74h x 5.14w x 1.03dISBN: 9780140424430Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorAlfred Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. His first important book, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical,...
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Nervous System: PoemsA moving and kinetic collection of poetry from the 2018 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Monica YounUnexpected, unusual, and stirring, the poetry of Rosalie Moffett "takes us to the brink of a world continually unmaking itself," (Georgia Review). From diving-bell spiders...
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Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American PoetryThis formidable anthology includes writing from 36 Native American poets: Frank Prewett, Louis (Little Coon) Oliver, George Clutesi, Mary Tallmountain, Nora Dauenhauer, Maurice Kenny, Carter Revard, Jim Barnes, James Welch, Ray A. Young Bear, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen,...
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On Love"A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us,"--Amazon.com.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 02/02/2016Pages:...
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Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent MillayThese unique and beautiful lyrics -- over two hundred of them -- were selected by Edna St. Vincent Millay herself and represent the major portion of her lifework. Their musical perfection, emotional power, and superb, delicate workmanship have made Edna St. Vincent Millay one...
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The Night Before Christmas: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . .The familiar words of Clement C. Moore's classic Christmas poem have never before been illustrated with such style. Richard Jesse Watson's magnificent paintings infuse traditional holiday images with pizzazz and flair. Spilling...
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems"Fire to Fire should solidify Doty's position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence." -- Publishers WeeklyA landmark collection of...
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Second Space: New PoemsNobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both...
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Return to the City of White Donkeys: PoemsIn his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick...
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical AthensA brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex.Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights -...
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A Windswept Path'Kathleen brings to her poetry a short story writer's ability to create character. She has an eye for gesture and movement, as well as an ear for the nuances of speech. Her poems are often portraits of interesting people, brought to life through precise...
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Chaos of the Pendulum SwingChaos of the Pendulum SwingBy: Nikita MariaIn her very first book, Nikita Maria explores the pain of learning one's own limitations, the battle of expectations, and the raging storm that is dealing with betrayal. Chaos of the Pendulum Swing's raw vulnerability truly serves Nikita's...
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Semantics of the World: Selected PoemsA poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century--humankind's relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the...
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Passionate Insights in RhymeAmalia Jusayan's debut poetry collection speaks to the universal need for guidance through a resolute dedication to a higher power. Passionate Insights in Rhyme transports us to a world of questions about wisdom, love, and free will, allowing us to join in a pursuit...
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Along the WayAlong Pariseau's Way on prairie and at sea's edge, birds fly overhead. Nature, spirit, beauty, and memories of family break forth. They enter into mind and heart. The interventions are quiet and gentle, unexpected, disruptive, and as mysterious as two feathers falling from sky...
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Royal Blue ShuttersThe collected poems in Royal Blue Shutters explore the pull and tug of language, the tin-like sounds, the careful alignment, and robust admiration of words. Stanzas are bulked up with their own musicality-songs that can't be sung but only released from the lips in...
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Rise Up!: Poems of Protest, Poems of PraiseRISE UP! Poems of Protest, Poems of Praise Is a poetry collection of powerful imagery braided together from the poems of a grandfather born to parents who were slaves and his granddaughter, who have linked the travesties of racism and slavery, and the devastation...
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Fourteen Hills Vol. 28The San Francisco State University ReviewFOURTEEN HILLS VOL. 28 features contributions from Sean Cho A., Ashleigh A. Allen, Valeria Amirkhanyan, Guilherme Bergamini, John Blair, Ciaran Cooper, Angie Cruz, A. A. deFreese, Jacques Denault, Art Por Díaz, Megan Erickson, Kate Gardiner, Mary Henn, Saúl Hernández,...
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The Voronezh WorkbooksOsip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south-western Russia, after someone in his circle of acquaintances had informed the Soviet authorities of his "Stalin Epigram" in 1934. The ninety-odd poems he wrote there are the pinnacle of...
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