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Sombra: (Dis)LocateIn this book, the poet converses with spirits of the living and the dead, spirits tied to location and dissembled by dislocation. The book offers a scrying cartography, exploring liminality with poems that exist at threshold. They are situated very much in the vibrant...
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Peter Scupham Collected PoemsThis collection of poems covers some 30 years from 1972 until 2001. Peter Scupham's individual collections have usually taken as their subject one predominant theme - the enigmas of prehistory, his wartime childhood, the passing of the Edwardian generation his parents belonged to. He...
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The Hare That Hides Within: Poems about St. MelangellIn this compelling collection, 10 Welsh poets write about a spiritual homecoming. The poets include Greg Cullen, Lewis Davies, and Sharon Morgan, among others.Author: Anne CluysenaarPublisher: ParthianPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 34Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.78h x 5.20w x 0.18dISBN: 9781902638386About the AuthorNorman Schwenk is a writer,...
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A Zen Forest: Zen SayingsThe essence of Zen is contained here. First compiled in 16th and 17th century Japan, the sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical. A Zen Forest is, according to poet Gary Snyder, "the meeting place of the highest and the most humble: the...
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Anatomy of KeysA tour de force, a book-length poem, embracing a wide variety of poetic and prose forms, to tell the story of Harry Houdini. Steven Price's Houdini knows better than most the limitations of life, having bent the efforts of a lifetime to transcending them,...
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The Pushcart Prize XLLV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 EditionAs Booklist's Donna Seaman commented on edition #43, "a harvesting of the year's finest stories, poems and essays...a deeply provocative and artistically resplendent anthology." This current edition is further proof that important and exciting writing is found in small presses scattered around the country...
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The Pushcart Prize XLLV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 EditionAs Booklist's Donna Seaman commented on edition #43, "a harvesting of the year's finest stories, poems and essays...a deeply provocative and artistically resplendent anthology." This current edition is further proof that important and exciting writing is found in small presses scattered around the country...
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Carver: A Life in PoemsNewbery Honor BookNational Book Award finalistCoretta Scott King Author Honor BookBoston Globe-Horn Book AwardFlora Stieglitz Straus Award Beautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his unsung gifts as a painter,...
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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (Loa #96)"Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." -- Library Journal Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an...
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GrantedUsing natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these...
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Dirt Road HomeCheryl Savageau writes of poverty, mixed ancestry, nature, and family in poems that are simultaneously tough and tender, and salted with a rich folk humor from her Abenaki and French Canadian ancestry.Author: Cheryl SavageauPublisher: Curbstone PressPublished: 07/01/1995Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.51w...
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History and Chronicle of the SongbookEssays. Criticism. Memoir. Translated from the Italian with a translator's foreword and notes by Stephen Sartarelli. This odd and engaging volume consists primarily of essays written between 1900 and 1944, in which the Italian poet Umberto Saba writes of himself in the third person,...
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The Collected Poems of Thomas HardyWith an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats...
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The Prophet: A New Annotated EditionOne of the greatest poetic masterpieces now with revised and updated annotations from world-renowned Gibran expert, Professor Suheil Bushrui Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Writing with insight, hope, and...
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Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry"More tragic and irremediable than his enemy Pablo Neruda's, more vast than Ezra Pound's, more profound than Rilke's, the great poetry of Pablo de Rokha reveals to us the desperate landscapes of hope. De Rokha committed suicide on December 10, 1968. He was perhaps...
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Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st CenturyThe poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido García Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorría, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Esther Ramón. This anthology charts some of my own enthusiasms; it isn't a comprehensive list....
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A Revolutionary CalendarThe French Republican Calendar, in use from1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871, was an effort to secularise time and return symbolic power to the rural worker. The poet Fabre d' glantine renamed the months after seasons, while each...
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Poems from the Moor"Though Earth and moon were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every Existence would exist in Thee." From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily Bront...
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The Miraculous Parish / An Paroiste Mioruilteach Selected Poems / Rogha DantaMaire Mhac an tSaoi is one of the greatest living Irish language poet. The first ever translations of her work into English, overseen by Louis de Paor, who has also written a comprehensive introduction, make this book an unmissable event for all lovers of...
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Robert Burns: The Patriot BardPlacing the greatest of Scotland s poets within the true context of his times, this biographyreveals him as a Scottish patriot of the heart, but also a man who was pragmatically a British patriotand risked his life for democratic reform. He was a son...
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