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Impossible Bottle: PoemsThis posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers -- what she calls the "impossible bottle." With a strong will and a self-deprecating awareness of the instinct to seek meaning...
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Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It"We need poetry as we need love and company," according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first poem, those who have published volumes of poetry, and anyone who cares how the world...
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Poetry Comics from the Book of HoursBeautiful mutants, vagabond scuba divers, lovers with disordered gorilla hearts: These poetry comics place the lyric and the grotesque, the elegant and the despondent, side by side in one emotionally intense panel after another. At the vanguard of a movement that embraces our increasingly...
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All Saints: New and Selected PoemsLike the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New Orleans forebears--both blood ancestors and spiritual predecessors--weaving in hypnotic cadence a spell as potent as the religious...
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Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and VoicesThe significantly revised version of Brother to Dragons appeared in 1979, twenty-six years after the original. It is, Warren wrote, "in some important senses, a new work." Told in the distinct voices of characters long dead and now gathered at an unspecified place and...
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Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of FormsMiller Williams' Patterns of Poetry is an encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl, from the clerihew to the sonnet. Each form is introduced with a...
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Does Your House Have Lions?From the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner, this is an epic poem on kin estranged, the death of a brother from AIDS, and the possibility of reconciliation and love in the face of loss.Author: Sonia SanchezPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 01/28/1998Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Seasons of Grief and Healing: A Guide for Those Who MournDrawn from Jim Miller's best-selling Winter Grief, Summer Grace, this book includes all the helpful features of the original -- a compassionate exploration of feelings; inspiring passages from the Bible; poetry and great literature; and simple renewal activities that help readers move through stages...
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Some of the Light: New and Selected Poems25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry Some of the Light gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's...
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You Will Hear ThunderAnna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that could grab a reader by the throat at a moment's notice. Defined by tragedy and beauty in equal measure, her poems take on romantic frustration...
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The Book of What StaysFor any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home...
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Mexican Poetry: An AnthologyThe renowned Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz assembled this important anthology--the first of its kind in English translation--with a keen sense of what is both representative and universal in Mexican poetry. His informative introduction places the thirty-five selected poets within a literary and...
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Synthesizing Gravity: Selected ProseThe first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and...
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Rain on the River: Selected Poems and Short ProseWhile Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously and reading only to local crowds in the Pacific Northwest, he began to issue occasional limited-edition letterpress chapbooks with a small press,...
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OrphansNow a Broadway production directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, and Tom Sturridge "I have dreamed, for a long time, of doing this play with this director."--Alec Baldwin In a run-down house in North Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the...
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The Lover's Guide to TrappingWyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud expectation is...
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BreathturnA German-English Bilingual Edition.Breathturn (German: Atemwende) is the first of Paul Celan's three major poetry books before his death by suicide in 1970. This book brilliantly reveals the "Wende" or turning point of his writing.Translator Pierre Joris won the 2004 PEN Translation Award for...
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A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of WordsDwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations. One reviewer described his work this way: Yoakam's lyrics--Leonard...
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Classic Poetry: Candlewick Illustrated ClassicFew anthologies for this age group include such a fine selection of works, introduce the poets so vividly, or provide such a rich collection of haunting illustrations. -- BooklistPoetry provides the best introduction to the marvels of the English language. This volume, collected by...
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Homesick Angels & Second-hand Roses: Reflections of a Dead Society PoetHomesick Angels & Second-hand Roses is the latest poetry collection from JR Hataway (Dead Society Poet). Pain, heartbreak, and regret might seem to rule the day but in the end it's love that keeps poetry's fire burning. Author: Jr. HatawayPublisher: Jr HatawayPublished: 09/20/2022Pages: 112Binding...
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