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Explore the best poetry books, including popular collections, English poems about love, war, flowers, and twilight. Discover top-selling poetry titles and the best books to read
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Songs of Bloody HarlanIn the 1960's, after graduation from Berea, Lee Pennington went to Harlan County to teach poetry to Kentucky Community College students. Under his tutelage, they published four books of poetry, Spirit Hollow, Thirteen, The Long Way Home and Tomorrow's People. It was this last...
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imagine the small bonesIn poems inspired by artwork, D. Walsh Gilbert takes the reader on a journey that winds its way through life's obstacles toward freedom and empowerment. Fish and birds, creatures that move through elements that aren't completely hospitable to humans, are represented in stunning artwork...
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81 Famous Poems: Unabridged Classic Short StoriesListen to the sound of English as it was meant to be heard. The only authorized audio companion to the widely respected Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, this audio collection includes the greatest poems of the English language, ranging from the writings of...
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Ways of PowerA savoury new collection nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. An impressive sequel to his previous work which was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A reviewer once described Red Hawk's poetry as "having that rarest of all virtues: a sense of...
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Here There Was Once a CountryLebanese writer V nus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences. Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking...
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Married Into ItThis poetry book provides a revealing glimpse into the life of a female rancher, in Wyoming. It shows the hardships and joys involved into the demanding occupation. The book provides poetic views on family, community and the land itself.Author: Patricia FrolanderPublisher: High Plains PressPublished:...
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Forgiveness ParadeIn Jeffrey McDaniel's second book, it is hard to separate the humor from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent whether he's tackling dysfunctional family memories in 'The Most Awful Lullaby', or broken-hearted romance in poems like 'Another Long Day in the Office of Dreams'.Author:...
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Breakfast in Fur"Aristotle claimed in the Poetics that learning gives the human animal the liveliest pleasure. Breakfast in Fur celebrates this strange gift. The pleasures of this book surprise and delight as they defy the conventions of self-searching and introspection. Jessica Murray plumbs discordant sources in...
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Trip TrapOn a rainy night in San Francisco, just before Thanksgiving in 1959, Jack Keroauc, Lew Welch, and Albert Saijo piled into Welch's car and set off on a cross-country trip, headed for New York City and then on to Keroauc's mother's home on Long...
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The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 6, English TextMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya....
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Open Twenty-Four Hours: PoemsAuthor: Suzanne LummisPublisher: Lynx House PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.09w x 0.34dISBN: 9780899241388About the AuthorSuzanne Lummis' poetry can be found in the anthologies California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present, New California Writers 2012, Poems of the American...
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Born to This LandJourneying into West Texas ranch country, Steagall and Hagler prove unequivocally that verse and image are kindred spirits. Born to This Land examines traditions passed from generation to generation and explores the impact of cowboying on those who choose it as a way of...
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Waiting for SaskatchewanWah interprets memorya journey to China and Japan, his fathers experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhoodto locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wahs own attempts to find the relief of exotic identity.Fred Wah searches...
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MuseumA reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.Author: Rita DovePublisher: Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublished: 04/01/1992Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.24h x 5.52w x 0.24dISBN: 9780887481475About the AuthorRITA DOVE was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for her third book...
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Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems: 1966-2009Spanning a long career, these poems helped define and sustain a movement that added music and brash street language to traditional poetics. Like Amiri Barka (aka LeRoi Jones), this poet and social activist has long combined the perAuthor: Haki R. MadhubutiPublisher: Third World PressPublished:...
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Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17Cruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp-witted, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet, in a country on the precipice of profound change...
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Pedro Pietri: Selected PoetryPedro Pietri's often playfully absurd poems chronicle the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans--urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan--and define the Latino experience in urban America. By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a...
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Riverbed of MemoryThese are poems written mostly in a time of war, and rooted in the land and people of Nicaragua. Zamora draws deep portraits of women of all classes, often using her own body as a metaphor and starting point. Recalling the years of revolution...
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Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John MiltonJohn Milton published several revolutionary manifestos, two works defending regicide, and of course the famous Areopagitica, or defense of freedom of expression and the press against censorship. John Alvis has collected into a superb one-volume edition all of Milton's political writings of enduring importance....
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Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Younger ReadersThe story of the Aeneas and the founding of Rome has excitement and adventure, romance and magic, humour and sadness. Emily Frenkel's retelling is fresh and direct. Simon Weller's illustrations are fabulous.Author: VirgilPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublished: 06/01/1991Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.26h x 5.96w...
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