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Harold PinterAn essential collection for any admirer of Harold Pinter, this brand-new, updated edition of his own selection of his poems and prose includes three never-before-published pieces, the most recent of which he wrote in January 1995. Included are love poems, political diatribes, short stories,...
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Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze EnterThis anthology, jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Their collaboration has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selection, which span 1,500 years, from the...
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Manual of Piety: Die HauspotilleBook jacket: Known primarily as a dramatist, Bertolt Brecht was also a gifted poet. These fifty poems--among them many ballads that later became part of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, and Baal--reveal the tremendous range and versatility of Brecht's expression. His first and best book...
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Late and Posthumous Poems, 1968-1974: Bilingual EditionThis superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as...
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House of GamesPlaywright David Mamet's brilliant debut as a film director, House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients, who entraps her--with her own subconscious connivance--in a...
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Erratic FactsKay Ryan--a classic American poet (John Freeman)--is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style. At once witty...
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Xenophanes of Colophon: FragmentsXenophanes of Colophon was a philosophical poet who lived in various cities of the ancient Greek world during the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC. In this book, James Lesher presents the Greek texts of all the surviving fragments of Xenophanes' teachings, with...
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E.J. Pratt: Selected PoemsThis volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen on the joint basis...
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Ariosto Today: Contemporary PerspectivesLudovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso is one of the masterpieces of the Renaissance, a work which, many argue, signalled the apogee of Renaissance fancy on the precipice of irony and decline. This collection of essays brings together twelve noted Italian and American scholars to provide...
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The Metamorphoses of OvidWritten between A.D. 2 and 8, Ovid's long poem the Metamorphoses gave to a great number of Greek and Roman myths the form in which they are known today. Now David Slavitt, translator of the widely acclaimed Ovid's Poetry of Exile, has fashioned a...
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Epic Singers and Oral TraditionAlbert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past,...
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic PoetryThis is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive interpretations...
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Modernist AlchemyModernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and modes of thought: Yeats and Plath try to dismiss conventional religion, Hughes captures a sense of adventure, H.D. seeks to...
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Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric PoetryAuthor: John L. FosterPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.38w x 0.54dISBN: 9780788501579This title is not returnable
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Life 10 Verses At A TimeA book of poems all of which are 10 verses or so and all about life Author: Ln ClarkPublisher: BlurbPublished: 09/15/2022Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07dISBN: 9781006450860
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Dangerous Creations: Papers from a Roundtable DiscussionThe 'samizdat' ('self-publication') sphere that flourished between c.1980-1990 in former East Germany produced an extraordinary flowering of hundreds of tiny magazines and graphic/poetry journals that evaded the strict censorship of the state. The artists, musicians and writers who produced them lived mostly illegally in...
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On Human Flourishing: A Poetry AnthologyGreat literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of happiness and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense. Presented in 14...
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Experimental Poetry of Jose Juan Tablada: A Collection in Spanish and EnglishJose Juan Tablada (1871-1945) wrote more than 20 books on a range of subjects in several genres but is best known as an avant-garde poet of the Modernista movement. Now all three volumes of his experimental poetry--Un dia...poemas sinteticos, El jarro de flores (disociaciones...
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New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century AnthologyThis anthology of poetry collects 21st century American works by both established and emerging poets that deal with the public events, government policies, ecological and political threats, economic uncertainties, and large-scale violence that have largely defined the century to date. But these 138 poems...
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Elias Nandino: Selected Poems, in Spanish and EnglishThough Latin America has a strong tradition of poetry, many of its best poets remain untranslated in the United States. Elias Nandino (1900-1993) was a Mexican poet who made his living as a surgeon and physician. He published twenty volumes of poetry in his...
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