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OnceThese poems are shadowed by illness, both civic and personal, and by the mysterious currents of grief. What emerges over the course of the volume is a meditation not only on a daughter's relationship with her mother but also on a citizen's to her...
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On PurposeOn Purpose examines the often brutal arena of human relations. Informed by both wit and a melancholic undercurrent, the book thoughtfully provokes concepts of happiness and sadness, of warring and reparation. The volume concludes with an affecting sequence about a marriage, inspired by that...
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Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poetry of May SartonHer works ranges from passionately honest diaries like Journal of a Solitude and novels with memorable characters like As We Are Now to superbly crafted lyrical poems and evocative descriptions of nature in poetry and prose.Here for the first time in an anthology of...
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Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006This title is a new volume from Adrienne Rich and is one of her more unpredictable and evocative collections. Titles include: 'rhyme'' Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send', and 'Draft 2006'.Author: Adrienne RichPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 05/01/2009Pages:...
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Still to Mow: PoemsHere Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. Both "delicate and powerful" (Library Journal), she faces with equanimity the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us...
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Ommateum: With Doxology: PoemsThis reissue of A. R. Ammons's debut, published five decades ago in a rare edition, with its penetrating "Whitmanian chants . . . holds in it the mystery of his gradual development into a major American poet, who will be read by the most...
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Turning to Fiction: PoemsThink about sex, this book begins, then moves through the places into which our longings lead us. Here are confessions whispered over the phone in Phone Sex, sins recounted to priests, pretend confessions told to a sister. Here are poems about a mother teaching...
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Cascade Experiment: Selected PoemsOver the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive, compassionate, and necessary. Cascade Experiment charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits...
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Local Visitations: PoemsIn his twelfth collection, his first since winning the Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Dunn turns his keen gaze on Sisyphus, our contemporary Everyman. Free, for the time being, from the power of the gods and the ceaseless weight of the rock, he struggles to navigate...
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Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems (Revised)Opening with a powerful sequence of poems about her mother's death, Elizabeth Spires writes about the life-and-death matters of midlife: the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest friendships. These poems find hope in...
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The Long Marriage: PoemsThemes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to, Kumin says.Author: Maxine KuminPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished:...
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Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday LettersWhen Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his...
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RimbaudUnknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than...
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Local Knowledge: PoemsAlthough many of the poems here unfold among the small towns, abandoned farms, and slate skies of the rural Midwest, their larger landscape is the sheer fact; geographical, psychological, metaphysical; of absences like so many lighted windows as you walk through a strange city,...
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Felt: PoemsIn this groundbreaking collection, Alice Fulton weds her celebrated linguistic freshness to a fierce emotional depth. Felt a fabric made of tangled fibers becomes a metaphor for the interweavings of humans, animals, and planet. But Felt is also the past tense of "feel." This...
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Mosquito & AntMosquito and Ant refers to the style in which nu shu--a nearly extinct script used by Chinese women to correspond with one another--is written. Here in this exciting and totally original book of poems the narrator corresponds with L. about her hidden passions, her...
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Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998Look: with all my fear I'm here with you, trying what it means, to stand fast; what it means to move. In these astonishing new poems, Adrienne Rich dares to look and to extend her poetic language as witness to the treasures--the midnight salvage--we...
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Loosestrife: PoemsIn this tenth collection, Stephen Dunn turns his wise, well-practiced eye (Library Journal) on an America growing ever more stringent with its daily mercies. Not content merely to observe the world, Dunn's stance is always dual, complicit. And as he navigates through each paradox...
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A Hummock in the Malookas: PoemsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; winner of the 1994 National Poetry Series. In the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems, the weather, the food, even the household appliances come to life. A few pages into this book, says...
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Odd Mercy: PoemsThe centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled Hot Dog, named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a...
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