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Prussian Nights: Bilingual EditionThe pictorial quality of the whole poem is an eye-opener. There is always a tendency, on the part of his detractors, to make of Solzhenitsyn something less than he is, but here is further evidence that he is something more than even his admirers...
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The Collected Works of Phillis WheatleyThe past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have come to dominate the larger Afro-American literary landscape. Yet the works of the writers who founded and nurtured the...
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ParadisoThe last great literary work of the Middle Ages and the first important book of the Renaissance, Dante's Divine Comedy culminates in this third and final section, Paradiso. The 14th-century allegory portrays a medieval perspective on the afterlife, tracing the poet's voyage across three...
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Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by IndiansThe authorative anthology of contemporary Indian poetry in English, Converse has been especially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of Indian independence in 2022. Edited by Sudeep Sen the collection includes 90 poets including established writers such as Vikram Seth, Jayanta Mahapatra, and Adil Jussawalla,...
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Canto General: Volume 7The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.Author: Pablo NerudaPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 05/17/2011Pages: 424Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9780520269972About...
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Old Toffer's Book of Consequential DogsT. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections ever. At last, in the 80th year of Old Possum's Cats, we have the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master poet and Costa-winner,...
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Spanish-American Poetry (Dual-Language): Poesia Hispano-AmericanaStudents of Spanish and lovers of poetry will find here an inspiring treasury of forty poems ranging from the time of the Conquest to the first half of the twentieth century. Included are works by Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, Jos Mart...
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La Casa de las Maletas: Todos llevamos un equipaje por dentroRoxana Calder n nos muestra, como disuelve sus sentimientos a tinta para luego trasarlos a una hoja en blanco y ense arnos que para sentir no hace falta tocar y que para decir lo que sientes hablar no es necesario.En su primer libro de...
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ParadisoRobert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of...
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Bouncy BouncePoems of human interiors, resonating with the world at large, and with the wider human heart.Author: Brendan ConstantinePublisher: Blue Horse PressPublished: 10/20/2018Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10dISBN: 9780692820964This title is not returnable
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Local FarePoems inspired by the people, the neighborhoods and the natural world of midcoast Maine.Author: Janet N. GoldPublisher: Groveland BooksPublished: 03/26/2017Pages: 62Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.15dISBN: 9780692840931This title is not returnable
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The SonnetsOriginally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship and...
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The Enormous RoomOne of the most important and popular American poets of the 20th century, e. e. cummings is best known for his brilliant and innovative verse and its distinctive lack of uppercase letters and conventional grammar. He was also a Cubist painter and a World...
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The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language EditionOne of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo D az de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction...
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Troilus and CressidaOften called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer's masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend...
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected PoemsMichael Ondaatje's new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and...
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EpigramsMartial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above...
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Jorie Graham: Essays on the PoetryJorie Graham is one of the most important American poets now writing. This first book-length study brings together thirteen previously published essays and review essays by many of the major critics currently interested in her work and five new essays commissioned for this volume....
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Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected LettersJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, at the young age of 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works, is...
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Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (Revised)In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological...
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