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The Pre-Raphaelites: An Anthology of Poetry by Dante Gabriel Rosetti and OthersThis standard anthology presents major Pre-Raphaelite poets: Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Swinburne and George Meredith. Minor Pre-Raphaelite poets: William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, William Allingham, Richard Watson Dixon, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Philip Bourke Marston, Theodore WattsDunton. Polemic, Parody, and Criticism:...
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Delivered: PoemsElectric new verse from the winner of the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry. Both surrealistic and urgently on-point, these boisterous poems comprise an identity crisis in the age of New Media. Sarah Gambito writes with verve on the complicated collision of ethnicity,...
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Witness, I AmWitness, I Am is divided into three gripping sections of new poetry from one of Canada's most recognized poets. The first part of the book, Dangerous Sound, contains contemporary themed poems about identity and belonging, undone and rendered into modern sound poetry. Muskrat Woman,...
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StarlandA star shines bright, fades and even dies. When it is gone we have the memory of the warmth and light it bathed us in. Williams, Cash, Cohen, Bowie, Marx, Kong and more weave their way throughout Brenda Sciberras' new collection of poems, Starland....
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Bitter AngelA reissuing of Bitter Angel, poems by Amy Gerstler.Author: Amy GerstlerPublisher: Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublished: 10/01/1997Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.24h x 5.50w x 0.28dISBN: 9780887482311Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/1998 pg. 98About the AuthorAMY GERSTLER lives in Los...
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Facing the RiverCzeslaw Milosz did not believe he would ever return to the river valley in which he grew up. But in the spring of 1989, exactly fifty years after he left, the new government of independent Lithuania welcomed him back to that magical region of...
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Selected PoemsTomas Transtr mer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a...
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Ecopoetry: Critical IntroductionThe burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions...
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic PoetryA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty yearsAuthor: Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih Al-QasimPublisher: Saqi Books - Saqi BooksPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 165Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.37dISBN: 9780863565243
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O'Keeffe: Days in a Life"Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."--Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses"When I...
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MiddenWINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019 In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community...
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Jackknife: New and Selected PoemsIn Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives to poems that straddle the page in fragments, to lines that sprawl with long lines of train tracks. Always landing in...
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Exit, Civilian: PoemsIn her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she...
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Perceval or the Story of the GrailIn this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail. Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately...
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Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy HarjoIntimate and illuminating conversations with one of America's foremost Native artistsJoy Harjo is a "poet-healer-philosopher-saxophonist," and one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. She has spent the past two decades exploring her place in poetry, music, dance/performance, and art. Soul...
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Bright Raft in the Afterweather: Poems Volume 82In her dazzling new book, Jennifer Elise Foerster announces a frightening new truth: "the continent is dismantling." Bright Raft in the Afterweather travels the spheres of the past, present, future, and eternal time, exploring the fault lines that signal the break of humanity's consciousness...
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A Cup of Sin: Selected PoemsAs a Muslim woman writing in Iran, Simin Behbahani's collections contain some of the seminal work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her work reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped recent Iranian history: revolution and war. In a...
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Mend: PoemsThe inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology," and a memorial at his birthplace honors "his service to suffering women, empress and slave alike." These tributes whitewash the fact that Sims achieved his surgical breakthroughs by...
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Christmas PoemsChristmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert, Longfellow, Dickinson, Paul Dunbar, Rilke, Yeats, William Carlos Williams,...
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Ezra Pound, Father & Teacher: DiscretionsMary de Rachewiltz's autobiographical account, Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher, which first appeared as a New Directions Paperbook in 1975, is now reissued with a new afterword by the author. Set against the background of Fascist Italy and the Tyrolean Alps where she spent...
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