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Collected Poems of Mark StrandLonglisted for the 2014 National Book Award Gathered here is a half century's magnificent work by the former poet laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner whose haunting and exemplary style has influenced an entire generation of American poets. Beginning with the...
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House and HomeHouse and Home by Sheri Flowers Anderson is an intense mining of the beauty and wisdom to be found in what we commonly call "everyday" encounters, relationships, occurrences, and spaces. Through metaphors derived from scenes from home, neighborhood, and the intimacies of family life,...
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Up, Up and Away: A Book about AdverbsLively...The playfully rhymed text flows effortlessly as it discusses superlatives, irregular adverbs, and double negatives....Informative and fun.-- School Library JournalUsing expansive color drawings and catchy rhymes, Heller writes about words frequently and vividly and with an unmistakable flourish....A clever introduction.-- BooklistThis eye-catching book explains...
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Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play.... Since 1888 Casey at the Bat has been read and loved by baseball fans around the world. Now Mighty Casey has...
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The Poems of John Keats: Introduction by David BromwichIntroduction by David BromwichJohn Keats is regarded as the quintessential English Romantic poet: lyrical, passionate, tender, dreamy, sensuous. The only thing more miraculous than his brief career--in which, from the age of eighteen until his death a mere seven years later, he produced a...
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Normalität: Eine ehrliche SichtweiseNachdem der Autor im Spätherbst seines Lebens angelangt ist, versucht dieser sein Leben, dessen Verlauf, mit seinen Höhen und Tiefen zu analysieren. Das Ergebnis, dieser Sammelband, gibt einen ehrlichen Einblick in die Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt seines Selbst.Gedichte, Prosa und Zeichnungen eines Mannes, der das...
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All of It Is You.: PoetryA debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring "all of it," from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe. Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate,...
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Favorite American PoemsThis carefully compiled large print edition.offers a broad cross-section of beloved American verse, ranging from the earliest works in the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include The Children's Hour and...
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Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language BookWhen Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was...
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Gold CellA dazzling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).A collection by the much praised poet whose second book The Dead...
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The OdysseyThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are...
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Chosen Poems: Old and NewChosen Poems is also, Lorde says, "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited." Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People Live,...
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The Changing Light at SandoverA welcome return to paperback: James Merrill's most famous and celebrated work.Author: James MerrillPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 08/02/2011Pages: 640Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.40dISBN: 9780375711749About the AuthorJames Merrill was the author of thirteen books of poems as well as plays, novels,...
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Poems of the American SouthThis one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling...
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The Collected Poems of Kenneth KochKenneth Koch has been called "one of our greatest poets" by John Ashbery, and "a national treasure" in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation. Now, for the first time, all of the poems in his ten collections-from Sun Out, poems of the 1950s,...
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On Wings of Song: Poems about BirdsFrom backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume. Some of...
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War Music: An Account of Homer's IliadA remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. "Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who...
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Collected PoemsThis collection of poetry showcases the unique talent of James Schuyler and highlights the writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize."Schuyler's subject is his life, and his poems often read like elegant journal entries." - Publishers WeeklyAuthor: James SchuylerPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 10/01/1995Pages:...
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Collected Poems 1937-1971This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America's most distinguished poets.Author: John...
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar: An African American Poet, Novelist and Playwright in the Late 19th CenturyThis collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for literature in the United States. A poet of unquestionable skill and ability, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the son of two former...
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