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Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems (Contemporary American Poetry, Poetry Books for Teens and Adults)For over two decades, the award-winning poet and author Gary Soto has been offering his readers a vision that transcends the ordinary, making him one of today's most celebrated Chicano writers. New and Selected Poems includes the best of his seven full-length collections, plus...
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Songs of Mihyar the DamasceneWritten in the early 1960s, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had dominated Arabic poetry until the 1950s. Drawing not...
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Al Que Quiere!Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press, Al Que Quiere! was William Carlos Williams's breakthrough book and contains some of his best-loved poems ("Tract," "Apology," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "January Morning," and "Smell!"), as well as a Whitmanesque concluding long poem, "The Wanderer,"...
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In Her Feminine SignIn Her Feminine Sign follows on the heels of Dunya Mikhail's devastating account of Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, The Beekeeper. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, a process she talks about in...
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The Iraqi NightsThe Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as...
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Blue FasaNathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from...
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Gap Gardening: Selected PoemsRosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the...
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A Musical HellAn aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik, writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the...
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Blasts Cries LaughterLawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound in 1914-15 that helped create the modernist movement in literature and the visual arts. In...
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Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems"In the crevices of history, mosquitoes are everywhere," Xi Chuan writes. Notes on the Mosquito introduces English readers to one of the most revered poets of contemporary China. Gaining recognition as a post-Misty poet in the late '80s, Xi Chuan was famous for his...
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Two American ScenesPart of our revived Poetry Pamphlet series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing found material.Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrows that are...
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Child of NatureIn my house praying was considered a weakness, like making love. And like making love it was followed by a long night of fear, so alone with the body. --Luljeta Lleshanaku Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. Child of Nature...
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Pluriverse: New and Selected PoemsPluriverse: New and Selected Poems charts the life-work of the celebrated poet Ernesto Cardenal--"one of the world's major poets" (Choice) and "the preeminent poet of Central America today" (Library Journal). Follow Cardenal's poetic development across six decades, from the early exteriorismo poems and romantic...
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Robert Creeley & the Genius of the American Common PlaceAn interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between Robert Creeley and poet Tom Clark.Author: Tom Clark, Robert CreeleyPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 11/17/1993Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9780811217675
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Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning BabeFor the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) as Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of...
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Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected PoemsBorn in 1951 in Mexico City, Coral Bracho has published half a dozen books of poems including the groundbreaking El ser que va a morir (1982) which changed the course of Mexican poetry. Her exquisite long-lined poems evoke the sensual realm where logic is...
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Shadow Lands: Selected PoemsJohannes Bobrowski is widely regarded as the most important German poet of this century. He began to write poetry on the Eastern Front in 1941 where, as a 24-year-old German soldier in Kaunas, he saw the "slavering wolves" of the SS drive the "grey...
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Rebel LionsRebel Lions, Michael McClure's first book of poetry since the retrospective Selected Poems (1985), spans a decade of profound personal change and poetic evolution for the author. In an introductory note, he provides a backdrop for the collection, which moves from old life to...
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The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected 1979-1991In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of...
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Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English PoetryIn An Essay on French Verse-For Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling English prejudice against French poetry. Barzun's many-faceted and entertaining study muses on six hundred years of French verse, its rules and forms and how they evolved. It also has...
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