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Amorous Discourse in Suburbs of HellShe is a shimmering, tattooed, and acerbic angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He, an accountant worn down by the day-to-day struggles of the nine to five, is dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone...
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Emergency WindowWelcome to a science fiction reality of mirrors, windows and menacing simulacra - where nothing is as it seems. In this ambitious and long-awaited second full collection, Sutherland interrogates the language of authenticity, presenting the poet as an anxious, disorientated collaborator trapped in a...
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Free Sex Chocolate: Poems & SongsFree Sex Chocolate is a witty, irreverent, provocative, and highly original collection of poems and songs written by Julian Gough from the 1980s to the present. An acclaimed novelist, this is his first collection of poetry. He also wrote the first short story ever...
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City Terrace Field ManualBrawling, street-wise prose poems push the boundaries of narrative form, taking the reader through the physical and psychological landscapes of East Los Angeles.Author: Sesshu FosterPublisher: Kaya/MuaePublished: 07/02/1996Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.03w x 0.51dISBN: 9781885030191
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Life Supports: New and Collected PoemsPoetry. William Bronk was born in 1918 and lives now in Hudson Falls, New York. Acclaimed by The Nation as our most significant poet, he is the author of nearly two dozen celebrated books of poetry. Winner of the American Book Award for his...
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Destruction MythPoetry. Expanding the palette of contemporary surrealism while harkening back to the stories and prayers at the origin of poetry, DESTRUCTION MYTH is a series of absurdist myths of creation and destruction that are at times both inventively silly and surprisingly emotionally direct. This...
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The Book of Repulsive Women: And Other PoemsPublished together for the first time, this collection features work from 1914 to the 1970s-many pieces first appearing in pamphlets and literary journals in New York and Paris-including illustrations by the author.Author: Djuna BarnesPublisher: Carcanet PressPublished: 05/01/2006Pages: 83Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.36w...
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The InfernoTranslated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence,...
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At the Time of PartitionThis book-length poem is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 when thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced, with families later split between the two countries. Inspired by family history, Moniza Alvi weaves...
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Where I Live: New & Selected Poems"Where I Live" combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, "On Cleaning Bookshelves" and "Where I Live", with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World...
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Make Us All IslandsA history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges. These poems craft narratives of long forgotten migrations, shipwrecks, and the personal with a vivid and sensual aesthetic that is located in the contested spaces between...
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Selected Poetry: [including Hölderlin's Sophocles]Friedrich H lderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised H lderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996), containing many...
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Primates from an Archipelago: PoemsIn this cinematic collection of poetry, Irene Suico Soriano unravels threads of silence and oppression. Primates from an Archipelago traces lineages on geographic and personal islands where memories and dreams are synonymous. Balanced with official documentation such as passports, birth and death certificates, and...
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Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe"I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time" -- "The Crooked Good" Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe's work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the...
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KapustaIn Kapusta, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing "gesture" and "voice" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of performance that starts...
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Limerick ComicsLimerick Comics is a unique blend of amusing limerick poetry and nonfiction. The 32-page collection offers lighthearted original limericks on a diverse range of history and science topics, accompanied by intriguing facts, presented in entertaining comics. Each page contains a five-panel fully illustrated mini-comic,...
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Bang-E-Dara ( Urdu Edition )Bang-e-Dara (The Call of the Marching Bell) published in Urdu in 1924, was the first Urdu philosophical poetry book by Allama Iqbal, one of the great poet-philosophers of the Indian subcontinentAuthor: Muhammad IqbalPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 06/04/2018Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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Diwan-E-Ghalib (Urdu Edition)Diwan-e-Ghalib is a famous poetry book written by the famous Persian and Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. It is a collection of the Ghazals of Ghalib. Though it does not include all his Ghazals as he was too choosy to include all of...
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Inspired Thoughts of Sally Bet Sam: Thought-Provoking, Soul-Searching Words of PoetryThe words contained in this book are inspired by nature, hearing a single word, and living life, or knowing someone who has, but mostly from beginning a conversation with God, of praise and thanksgiving, or asking questions about life. He always answers, "When I...
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The Island Girl Speaks...At Last!The Island Girl Speaks . . . At Last is a compilation of poetry and other compositions, most of which the author retrieved from her archives and dusted off to present to the world. Her voice, no longer muted, now declares with boldness things...
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