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The Collected Poems of Édouard GlissantThe complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time This volume collects and translates--most for the first time--the nine volumes of poetry published by douard Glissant, a poet, novelist, and critic increasingly recognized...
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Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas Volume 68Editor and poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke assembles this multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from...
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Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing: Poems and Storiesvolume 23In this cycle of poetry and stories, Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock, New Mexico, and of the places and people there. Through these celebrations of birth, partings, and reunions, this gifted writer displays both her love of the...
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What I Carry with MeIf you have ever wondered what the world looks like through the eyes of a poet, What I Carry with Me offers a glimpse. Only a hint because, as poet Carol A. Stephen illuminates, the world contains endless moments for pause, awe, and reflection....
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A Walking Tour In Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the TroubadoursRummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval...
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I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a PoetSubtitled The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet, this unique volume was the result of a series of informal conversations in the mid-1950s between Dr. Williams, his wife, and Edith Heal, then a student at Columbia University. In the relaxed atmosphere of the...
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Arthur Rimbaud: A BiographyRimbaud--a mythic name--his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call "modern" literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of...
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Collected Poems of Kenneth PatchenPatchen, Collected Poems. The great poet's complete poetry.Author: Kenneth PatchenPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 10/01/1969Pages: 516Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 7.88h x 5.23w x 1.34dISBN: 9780811201407About the AuthorPatchen, Kenneth: - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was one of the most prolific American poets of his time. He...
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Hapax: PoemsRecipient of the 2008 Poet's Prize Recipient of the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award Hapax is ancient Greek for once, once only, once and for all, and onceness pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the...
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The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly GodThis is the first complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch) in more than forty years. This bilingual edition provides English-speaking readers with access to a critical work in the development of the most significant figure in twentieth-century German...
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Blood of the Air: PoemsBlood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem--one of...
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Information for Foreigners: Three PlaysOne of Latin America's most important and prolific writers, Griselda Gambaro has focused on the dynamics of repression, complicity, and violence--specifically, the terror of violent regimes and their devastating effects on the moral framework of society. Information for Foreigners is a drama of disappearance,...
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Into Each Room We Enter Without KnowingFinalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the...
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The Poems of HesiodBesides Homer, there is Hesiod. These words still contain much truth today. Hesiod is a very important poet, and for this reason his two surviving poems, Theogony and Works and Days, deserve to be presented as accurately and attractively as possible. R. M. Frazer...
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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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