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GrantedUsing natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these...
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Dirt Road HomeCheryl Savageau writes of poverty, mixed ancestry, nature, and family in poems that are simultaneously tough and tender, and salted with a rich folk humor from her Abenaki and French Canadian ancestry.Author: Cheryl SavageauPublisher: Curbstone PressPublished: 07/01/1995Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.51w...
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History and Chronicle of the SongbookEssays. Criticism. Memoir. Translated from the Italian with a translator's foreword and notes by Stephen Sartarelli. This odd and engaging volume consists primarily of essays written between 1900 and 1944, in which the Italian poet Umberto Saba writes of himself in the third person,...
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The Collected Poems of Thomas HardyWith an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats...
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The Prophet: A New Annotated EditionOne of the greatest poetic masterpieces now with revised and updated annotations from world-renowned Gibran expert, Professor Suheil Bushrui Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Writing with insight, hope, and...
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Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry"More tragic and irremediable than his enemy Pablo Neruda's, more vast than Ezra Pound's, more profound than Rilke's, the great poetry of Pablo de Rokha reveals to us the desperate landscapes of hope. De Rokha committed suicide on December 10, 1968. He was perhaps...
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Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st CenturyThe poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido García Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorría, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Esther Ramón. This anthology charts some of my own enthusiasms; it isn't a comprehensive list....
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A Revolutionary CalendarThe French Republican Calendar, in use from1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871, was an effort to secularise time and return symbolic power to the rural worker. The poet Fabre d' glantine renamed the months after seasons, while each...
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Poems from the Moor"Though Earth and moon were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every Existence would exist in Thee." From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily Bront...
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The Miraculous Parish / An Paroiste Mioruilteach Selected Poems / Rogha DantaMaire Mhac an tSaoi is one of the greatest living Irish language poet. The first ever translations of her work into English, overseen by Louis de Paor, who has also written a comprehensive introduction, make this book an unmissable event for all lovers of...
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Robert Burns: The Patriot BardPlacing the greatest of Scotland s poets within the true context of his times, this biographyreveals him as a Scottish patriot of the heart, but also a man who was pragmatically a British patriotand risked his life for democratic reform. He was a son...
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Surge: Drafts 96-114A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics, a book of passionate poetic energies and odic verve, "Surge" is the provocative, open-ended ending to DuPlessis's twenty-six year long poem project, Drafts. This work exemplifies a tertium quid, transcending poetic schools and critical binaries with...
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Where You LiveJill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better...
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Troubadour Poems from the South of FranceModern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the difficulty and diversity of the original languages have been obstacles to its appreciation by a wider audience. This collection aims to...
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The WallaceThis extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries...
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Untamed DreamsA collection of erotic poetry, prose and a compelling storyline. Go on an exciting journey with a very passionate couple who lose themselves in lust. There is such intensity between these lovers, they have no boundaries when it comes to sex. This book keeps...
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Robert Browning - Paracelsus: "a Minute's Success Pays the Failure of Years"Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry.Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at ColonusThe three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences transfixed.Author: SophoclesPublisher: Benediction ClassicsPublished: 05/22/2017Pages: 194Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9781781398289This title is not returnable
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Stray Birds"Stray Birds," by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These very short poems are often just an...
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Beloved: 81 Poems from HafezHafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets, thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi. Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential in the West. Interpreted variously as ardent mystic and lover, he fuses earthly and divine love...
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