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Full ForegroundPoet Roberto Tejada uses lyrical poems to explore and give a voice to the troubles of global citizenship, US-Mexico relations, Latino identity, and the political emotion of queer sexualities. His collection provides a holistic ground-level view of pivotal world events from the mid 1990s...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical EditionEdward FitzGerald's translation of the Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed...
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Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter PoemsEdited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon Derived from the Modern Library's esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this new volume, extensively revised and updated by its editors, contains Milton's two late masterpieces, the brief epic Paradise...
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The Complete Old English PoemsFrom the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was...
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Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected PoemsYoshimasu Gozo's groundbreaking poetry has spanned over half a century since the publication of his first book, Departure, in 1964. Much of his work is highly unorthodox: it challenges the print medium and language itself, and consequently Alice Iris Red Horse is as much...
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The Albertine WorkoutThe Albertine Workout contains fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson's research on Albertine, the principal love interest of Marcel in Proust's Á la recherche du temps perdu.Author: Anne CarsonPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 06/25/2014Pages: 38Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.20dISBN:...
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A Tomb for Anatole: PoetryOne of the most moving accounts of a man trying to come to grips with modern death that is to say, death without God, death without hope of salvation and it reveals the secret meaning of Mallarme's whole aesthetic: the elevation of art to...
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Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about TerrorA devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics, Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played by the CIA, banks, and oil companies in the 1965 slaughter of more than half a million Indonesians. A former Canadian diplomat and now a...
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Evening Train: PoetryAt her most moving and meditative, impressive and musical, Denise Levertov addresses in her poetry collection, Evening Train, the nature of faith and love, the imperiled beauty of the natural world, and the horrors of the Gulf War.Author: Denise LevertovPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished:...
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Eagle or Sun?: PoemsThe first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, Eagle or Sun? (Aguila o Sol?) exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing. Written in 1949-50 by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, Eagle or Sun? has as its mythopoeic place Mexico--a country caught...
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Deep Song and Other ProseA collection of prose writing and lectures from the great Spanish poet.Author: Federico Garcia LorcaPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 09/17/1980Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37dISBN: 9780811207683About the AuthorGarcia Lorca, Federico: - Federico García Lorca (1898-1937) was born in Granada, Spain....
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Once AgainConcrete Poetry has been growing in many countries, from Brazil to Japan, and especially in England and Europe. Its ancestry goes back to pre-historic picture writing and the anagrams of early Christian monks; it has affinities with the oriental ideogram, and, in our century,...
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Unearth"What if the end were as colorless as real / estate?" the speaker asks in Unearth. Poet Chad Davidson's latest collection takes a hard look at our world as it collapses under numerous trials and tribulations. Fashioned mostly of elegiac poems, Unearth charts the...
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Approaching the Fields: PoemsElegiac and fierce, solemn and celebratory, the poems in Chanda Feldman's Approaching the Fields consider family and history. From black sharecroppers and subsistence farmers along the Mississippi River to contemporary life in the suburbs, the rituals of home and work link racial experience, social...
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Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer: PoemsSometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing,...
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Blue Iris: Poems and EssaysFor poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are the simple garments of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earth's changes and...
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Poems from the Río Grande: Volume 14Readers of Rudolfo Anaya's fiction know the lyricism of his prose, but most do not know him as a poet. In this, his first collection of poetry, Anaya presents twenty-eight of his best poems, most of which have never before been published. Featuring works...
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The OdysseyOne of the two major ancient Greek epics, Homer's Odyssey, has been a classic of Western Literature for centuries. This new translation into spare, elegant blank verse is certain to attract the same praise and admiration as Herbert Jordan's translation of Homer's Iliad.In keeping...
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Poem of the Cid: A Modern Translation with Notes by Paul BlackburnFew works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the eleventh-century military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called El Cid (from the Arabic Sayyidi, My Lord), this medieval...
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After the Ceremonies: New and Selected PoemsAma Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged...
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