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Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John MiltonJohn Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author's genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that...
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Friendship PoemsAuthor: Peter WashingtonPublisher: Everyman's LibraryPublished: 05/10/1995Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 6.50h x 4.42w x 0.75dISBN: 9780679443704About the AuthorPeter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of...
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Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of FaithMexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and...
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The Art of the SonnetFew poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante...
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To Be the Poet"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good...
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Kneeling in BethlehemIn a style that is reverent and faith-filled, Anne Weems reflects on the mystery of the Christmas season. Included in this collection are twenty-six new poems as well as popular selections from her earlier works, especially Reaching for Rainbows and Family Faith Stories. Capturing...
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The Rime of the Ancient MarinerA sailor dooms his ship's crew by murdering an albatross and is lost at sea, alone with the burden of his guilt, until a meeting with divine messengers brings him the opportunity to do penance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's (1772-1834) haunting parable of sin and...
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Noir Erasure Poetry AnthologyCover art by Guy Budziak, www.filmnoirwoodcuts.com Edited by Melanie Villines Contributing Editors: Jenni B. Baker, Catfish McDaris, james w. moore, Gerald So A collection of poems based on the writings of a range of noir authors, including James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett,...
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A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows & RavensIn this diverse anthology, over 80 of the Golden State's finest poets hold forth on the theme of crows and ravens -- offering passionate, vivid, sometimes humorous, and ever-surprising views of these common yet mysterious birds, called "black as the sun" by Gary Snyder....
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P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!James KirkwoodFull Length, ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 1 female Interior SetIn the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired from a...
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The Book of NightmaresGalway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art.Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/18/1973Pages: 88Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...
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Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and OceaniaHailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has...
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Great German Poems of the Romantic Era: A Dual-Language BookLyric poetry blossomed in 19th-century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and nostalgia and preoccupation with thoughts of night and death. Although strictly defined as flourishing from 1798...
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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their ArtAt once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza,...
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Sur's Ocean: Classic Hindi Poetry in Translation"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us--with subtle occasional rhyme--to a vividly particularized world of prayers and crocodile earrings, spiritual longing and love-struck bees."--Forrest Gander, winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
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Love Poems by Women: An Anthology of Poetry from Around the World and Through the AgesDo men and women say "I love you" in the same way? Love Poems By Women proves they don't--and never have. Women across the centuries and cultures celebrate love in this rich collection of verse that defines the female experience of love. Includes poems...
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Leaves of GrassFollowing the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide leading commentary on...
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon MartinIncluded in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael...
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Traveling LightLinda Pastan's thirteenth collection of poetry chronicles her journey through life's pleasures and problems, its unexpected detours. The concerns of these poems are many: the ambivalences of love and family; the surprises--indeed the shocks--that come with aging; art, and how it can change us....
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A Nostalgist's Map of America: PoemsMapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled, intricate poems, like the multilayered In Search of Evanescence, locate and reflect...
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