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Psalms of the Dining RoomEndorsements: ""In Psalms of the Dining Room, Lauren Schmidt lays down riffs like a fierce blues guitarist, one who knows the power of each carefully chosen note. These poems explode with tough compassion. They sting a little bit--they make us flinch in recognition. Schmidt's...
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My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking Your TruthThe ultimate writing guide that is a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page." --Ellen Bass, author of Indigo [This book] gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape...
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A Broken Thing: Poets on the LineIn the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is...
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PsalmsDescription: These psalms grow out of a decades-long fascination with the biblical psalms, particularly the Davidic psalms, which portray the tempestuous, sometimes awful intimacy of the Divine-human relationship. In the lightning-shot Psalm-space where Divine meets human, time shatters, splits, leaps like a river, and...
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CommandoE'mon Lauren's poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago's Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago's first Youth Poet Laureate grapple with sexism, racism, love, and class with a style that announces Lauren...
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The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent"[A] superb tribute . . . [an] essential collection" of essays analyzing the works of the preeminent twentieth-century poet and voice of social justice (Booklist).Winner of the Central New York Book Award for NonfictionFinalist for the Chicago Review of Books AwardPoet, educator, and social...
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Raising the DeadRaising the Dead by Ron Rash is a collection of poetry.Many of the poems are set in the Southern Appalachian mountains.Author: Ron RashPublisher: Iris PressPublished: 02/14/2013Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781604542219This title is not returnable
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Among the BelieversAmong the Believers by Ron Rash is a book of poetry set in the mountains of the western Carolinas. The book also has an introduction by Anthony Hecht.Author: Ron RashPublisher: Iris PressPublished: 11/08/2013Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781604542240This title...
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So You Wanna Be a Foreman: An Electrical Construction Foreman's Guide to Efficient Labor ManagementLabor efficiency tactics of the top-notch foreman Regardless of the business you're in, efficient labor management is the key to its success. On the construction site, it's the difference between the profit or loss of a project and ultimately, the success or failure of...
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TestifyA brave, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race, masculinity, religion, and class, Testify in a very personal way confronts some of the most critical issues in today's society. A book of elegiac ambivalence, Testify's speaker often...
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Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006)love belongs to those who do the feeling--an exciting collection of new and selected poetry by Judy Grahn. The book contains selections from Judy's entire body of poetic work from The Work of a Common Woman, The Queen of Wands and The Queen of...
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Written in Blood: Post-Modern Penitentiary Poetry"Written in Blood: Post-Modern Penitentiary Poetry" is essential reading to understand how and why so many people are physically incarcerated or in mental prisons of poverty and spiritual debt. The poems can each stand alone, yet together, they tell a story of the problems...
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The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of MythCompelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean - Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece - Identifies the true geographic sites of...
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Song of Trusting the Heart: A Classic Zen Poem for Daily MeditationZen masters say only one thing matters in life - a peaceful heart. The way to achieve both is vibrantly expressed in the poem 'Song of Trusting the Heart', an ancient Chinese scripture beloved by sages and considered a cornerstone of Zen Buddhism.Author: Tamarack...
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Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance Containing 365 Selections From the Wisdom of RumiJalaluddin Rumi has become one of the most widely read poets in our time. This collection of verse is drawn from Rumi's masterwork the Mathnawi, often referred to as the Qur'an in the Persian tongue. The Mathnawi comprises six volumes of rhymed verse drawing...
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Anthology of Medieval Spanish PoetryAuthor: Annette G. CashPublisher: European MasterpiecesPublished: 01/05/2010Pages: 468Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04dISBN: 9781589770652Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and KoryoKorea's history is divided into four periods: the Three Kingdoms of Koguryo (37 bc-ad 668), Shilla (57 bc-ad 668), and Paekche (18 bc-ad 660); Unified Shilla (668-935); Koryo (935-1392); and Choson (1392-1910). Kevin O'Rourke's The Book of Korean Poetry traces Korean poetry from the...
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R Is for Rhyme: A Poetry AlphabetMost primary schools mandate daily reading time. Is your classroom or media center equipped to handle the varied and growing needs of students from kindergarten through fifth grade?Sleeping Bear Press titles deliver a variety of two-tiered text and grade-appropriate titles covering a wide array...
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The Poet's HandbookThis handbook teaches the basics of the modern poet's craft: diction, imagery, metrics, verse forms, symbolism.Author: Judson JeromePublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.53w x 0.57dISBN: 9781582971360
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Corona: The Selected Poems of Paul CelanPaul Celan, arguably the mid-20th century's most important German-language poet, is commonly pigeonholed as a poet of the Holocaust-a term, however, he never used. Undoing facile assumptions about Celan, Corona charts a more idiosyncratic and personal path through Celan's large oeuvre, choosing 103 poems...
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