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Ultima ThuleThe 1999 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as "a book of exploration, of searching regard.... a grave, attentive holding of a light" by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin....
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ShellsWinner of the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Craig Arnold's Shells was acclaimed as "a gifted collection of daring writing" by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The book is an intriguing set of variations on the theme of...
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ReactorReactor gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.Author: Judith VollmerPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished: 04/15/1994Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.10h x 6.42w x 0.30dISBN: 9780299199449About the AuthorJudith Vollmer is professor of English and director of...
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Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her...
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The Atom To Be Split: New and Selected Essays on Robinson JeffersThe Atom To Be Split collects new and selected essays by Robert Zaller on the work and career of Robinson Jeffers, whose prophetic verse, more than fifty years after his death, speaks increasingly to students of literature, history, science, and theology, as well as...
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Atlas of Poetic ZoologyA catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees.This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come back from the dead, and...
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The Song of Kieu: A New LamentAn essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic...and its perennial place in our species' efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allen's new translation offers clean fluidity while honouring the original's varied rhythms and jagged lyricism....
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When I was Touched by LoveWhen I Was Touched By Love is a book of poems divided into six chapters about love, heartache, pain and the beauty of both life and art. It depicts the rise and fall of a man mentally and emotionally heart broken, yet full of...
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The Resistance to PoetryPoems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning-metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more...
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North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, a Bilingual EditionNorth in the World presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize and the Grand Nordic...
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Breakfast at the HibiscusBreakfast at the Hibiscus is the continuation of a series of conversations and experiences reflected through poetry and prose. The Hibiscus presents as a noun and a verb, as it is tangible; however, it goes through a process, providing beauty where it is placed....
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John Keats: The Major WorksThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous selection of Keats's letters -...
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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other WorksThis entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics...
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The SatiresCommonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satires, Professor Rudd combines textual accuracy with colorful poetry, vividly conveying Juvenal's gift...
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Selected PoetryThomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by...
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Collected PoemsThis new edition of Nissim Ezekiel's Collected Poems comes with a critical introduction reevaluating Ezeikiel's place in the modernist canon by John Thieme, and a preface by Leela Gandhi.Author: Nissim EzekielPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 01/06/2006Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x...
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary JudgmentA landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. "Richards is a master of the psychology of criticism" (Saturday Review). Index.Author: I. a. RichardsPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 02/23/1956Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.76h x 6.04w x 0.99dISBN: 9780156736268
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More BeautifulAlice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again "in the sunlight." " This collection] has two...
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A Wedding in HellSimic puts chirping birds, sex, and happiness into a world of broken windows, shivering trees, soldiers, lone dogs, the homeless of the city, and a God still making up his mind. "Provocative...a tantalizing, beautiful fusion of visions" (Bloomsbury Review).Author: Charles SimicPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 11/30/1994Pages:...
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When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy TalesFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type...
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