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Hip-Hop Poetry and the ClassicsFans of Hip-Hop can gain a deeper understanding of the bridges that link the great poets of the past to contemporary poets of today through a comparison of the writings of classic authors such as Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allen Poe and...
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Heliand: Text and CommentaryThis work presents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific and the poetic and treats them both with equal felicity.Author: James E. CatheyPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublished: 06/20/2002Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 8.82h x 6.03w x 0.91dISBN: 9780937058640About the AuthorJames E....
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Orphic Songs, 9This vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright's translation, Jonathan Galassi's introduction, and, as afterword, Montale's thoughtful essay on Campana, identify the heart of this poet's achievement.Author: Dino...
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Words We Might One Day SayThe poems in this volume explore the experiences of love and loss; of motherhood and childhood; and of living between the two cultures of America and Bulgaria.Author: Holly KarapetkovaPublisher: Washington Writers' Publishing HousePublished: 10/15/2010Pages: 84Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9780931846953
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Saturday Night at the Pahala TheatreThis is a work of fiction during which the characters interact in the form of poetic novellas. Born on the island of Molokai and presently living in Kahalu'u, Yamanaka's poems have appeared in such journals as BAMBOO RIDGE: THE HAWAII WRITER'S QUARTERLY, Michigan Quarterly...
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The Writings of Christine de PizanChristine de Pizan, France's first woman of letters, is widely known for her classic Book of the City of Ladies (Persea, 1982), but very few of her many other distinguished works have been translated into English. The Writings of Christine de Pizan offers lengthy...
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Questions I Asked My Motherquestions I asked my mother is a seminal work of both Canadian and Mennonite literature.Included in this new edition, poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald reflects on the the impact of Di Brandt's poetry undercuts centuries of patriarchal culture. Powerful and lyrical, filled with humour...
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A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected WritingsThis collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peretas writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal "Radical America," introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded and illustrated edition includes a selection of Peretas incomparable poetry and stories, a wide...
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Screams from the BalconyScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/30/2002Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.93h x 5.93w x 0.98dISBN:...
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Pieces of a Song: Selected PoemsFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen...
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The Scripture of the Golden EternityThese classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe."The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nature of impermanence & consciousness, subtle like the...
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Bridge: A Poem (Revised)Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of...
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Against the Woods' Dark Trunks: PoemsAuthor: Jack B. BedellPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.10w x 0.26dISBN: 9780881468564
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A Child's CalendarNewly available in hardcover, this 20th anniversary edition of a Caldecott Honor classic combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman. Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family...
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Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert ReeceCollected here are poems by one of Georgia's most intriguing and talented poets of the twentieth century. Byron Herbert Reece was born in Union County, Georgia, in 1917 and authored four volumes of poems and two novels during his short lifetime. Until now, many...
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Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry AnthologyGhost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many...
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VersedWinner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences...
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The Route 9 Anthology: A Collection of Writing from Wesleyan Students, Faculty, Staff & Middlesex County ResidentsA collection of writing from across Wesleyan University and its surrounding townsThe Route Nine Anthology is a collection of poetry and prose from Wesleyan students, faculty, staff, and Middlesex County residents. It is the first collection of prose dedicated specifically to bridging the literary...
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A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem AnalysisGeorge Williamson treats his subject with great precision. Documenting his analyses with ample quotes from the poems and essays, he elucidates the structure and meaning of Eliot's masterpieces. To make this guide more accessible, the poems are arranged in chronological order, as they appeared...
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Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets...
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