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Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and CulturePoetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life...
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On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose LiteratureA classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.Author: Alfred KazinPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 04/15/1995Pages: 564Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 8.74h x 5.58w x 1.38dISBN: 9780156687508Review Citation(s): Library Journal...
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The Book for My BrotherThis newest collection of poems from Tomaz Salamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood- I see the devil's head, people, I see his whole body . . . he longs for innocence, as we do. Here...
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SwitheringTo swither means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems; any uncertainty is not in the lines or the sounds or the images, but only in the themes of flux and change and transformation that thread their way...
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Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios. "Perhaps the most significant event in Eliot scholarship in the past twenty-five years" (New...
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Declaro el estado de poesía permanente - Jacques PierreQué es Acción Poética? Quizás esa poética rebelión en unas calles que se llenan cada día más de mensajes vacíos, repetidos hasta el hartazgo, precisamente no busquen más que despertar lo humano de quienes se topen con esas paredes en su camino. Breves frases,...
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Fold Me a PoemJoin a young boy as he creates a world filled with origami creatures of all shapes and sizes out of an array of brightly colored paper. From roosters waking up and buffalo pawing the tablecloth to cheetahs racing lions and moths that yearn for...
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Museum of the AmericasLonglisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking --The New York Times Book Review The poems in...
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It Shouldn't Have Been BeautifulA powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura Lia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in this, her fourth collection, reach back to an early affinity for proverbs...
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When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy TalesBeautiful early writings by one of the 20th century's greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth A Penguin Classic The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning writer as a younger...
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Giant ChildrenGoblins. Boogers. Stinky boys. These are the things of childhood, and they're all here in this outrageous collection of poems that look at the world through a child's eyes. Featuring everything from the Giant Children of the title-who flip pages with amazing speed-to a...
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Viper RumIn her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds are birthed and buried in these touching lyrics, some of which, as the title suggests, deal with drink: I cast back to those last yearsI drank, alone...
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The Tales of IseOne of the three seminal works of Japanese literature--a beautiful collection of poems and tales that offers an unparalleled insight into ancient JapanAlong with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, the Tales of Ise is considered one of the...
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Three Poets of the First World WarAn essential new collection of poetry from the First World WarThis indispensable anthology brings together the works of three major poets from the First World War. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a classical music composer and poet who published two volumes of poems, Severn and...
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The PoemsOne of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics...
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other PoemsTwenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems--including...
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The Canterbury Tales: A SelectionA selection of the best-loved and most frequently studied of The Canterbury Tales, presented in both Middle English and modern prose translation This collection is the perfect introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. The General Prologue provides picturesque character sketches of...
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The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, CleannessA comprehensive and accessible volume of some of the best-loved medieval literature in its original Middle English This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English....
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Song of MyselfTo mark 160 years since its first publication, a new edition of the great American poet's most famous work Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself.(I am large, I contain multitudes.) Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous--this is the first American epic poem, a...
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Neruda: The Biography of a PoetA Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo...
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