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Surge: Drafts 96-114A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics, a book of passionate poetic energies and odic verve, "Surge" is the provocative, open-ended ending to DuPlessis's twenty-six year long poem project, Drafts. This work exemplifies a tertium quid, transcending poetic schools and critical binaries with...
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Where You LiveJill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better...
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Troubadour Poems from the South of FranceModern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the difficulty and diversity of the original languages have been obstacles to its appreciation by a wider audience. This collection aims to...
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The WallaceThis extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries...
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Untamed DreamsA collection of erotic poetry, prose and a compelling storyline. Go on an exciting journey with a very passionate couple who lose themselves in lust. There is such intensity between these lovers, they have no boundaries when it comes to sex. This book keeps...
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Robert Browning - Paracelsus: "a Minute's Success Pays the Failure of Years"Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry.Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at ColonusThe three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences transfixed.Author: SophoclesPublisher: Benediction ClassicsPublished: 05/22/2017Pages: 194Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9781781398289This title is not returnable
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Stray Birds"Stray Birds," by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These very short poems are often just an...
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Beloved: 81 Poems from HafezHafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets, thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi. Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential in the West. Interpreted variously as ardent mystic and lover, he fuses earthly and divine love...
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ThouFollowing the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU -- a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states...
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Book of KnotsAs Auden famously said, poetry does nothing. It is a genre of failure, and as such poetry is rich with failure. Book of Knots, a new book-length long poem by Canadian poet and academic Jay Gamble, seeks to engage with life's failure, by building...
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Secession/InsecessionSecession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession - translated by Er 1/2n Moure - joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics, Insecession. To Pato, the poem is...
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New and Selected Poems of Anna WickhamAnna Wickham (1883-1947) was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of Modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend of many significant writers, including D.H. Lawrence,...
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A Public Space No. 30An issue exploring the metropolis through fiction, essays, art, and interviews spanning generations, continents, and languages. For over a decade, A Public Space has published an award-winning literary and arts magazine that seeks out and supports writers working apart from the mainstream--culturally, aesthetically, economically....
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Leaves of GrassAbraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855,...
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Leather & Glass: Poetry & ProseIn his debut literary work, Trevor Stines gives voice to the softest parts of our hearts, allowing us to find connection through all of our broken little pieces. Through vivid description and evocative prose, "Leather & Glass" shows us the potential of what it...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamEdward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains - verses of four lines. These works by Fitzgerald are the best known...
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Naibedya ( Bengali Edition )Naibedya or Neivedya (Offerings) is a collection of famous bengali Poems written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1901.Author: Rabindranath TagorePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/01/2018Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9781717558992Language: BengaliAbout the AuthorRabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August...
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Harmonium2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. His first book at the age of forty-four, Harmonium was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging...
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Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude Mckay2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. "Here is a young man, born in the British West Indies, who is without doubt the most talented and versatile of the new school of imaginative, emotional...
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