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Everything Is Burning: PoemsGerald Stern calls upon his own life as a ground for his poems. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, and war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech.Author: Gerald SternPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 12/01/2006Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.22h x...
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Duino ElegiesWe have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where...
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Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower MidwestB. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers--failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the last remaining cast members of The Wizard of Oz. Looming over all is the fact and...
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Collected Poems, 1951-1971: On Metaphor and MortalityIt will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume--the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems in 1955--marks the permanent establishment of a major visionary poet.--Harold Bloom No mere gathering of poems,...
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Object Lessons (Revised)In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood...
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Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (Revised)This is a reissue in a new format of a book of verse by Adrienne Rich, whose Collected Early Poems 1950-1970 was chosen as one of the Top Twenty titles for the Feminist Book Festival, Britain's annual celebration of the best of women's writing.Author:...
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An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of The Dream of a Common Language and Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.Author: Adrienne Cecile RichPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 12/01/1991Pages:...
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Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990"[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention."...
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Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law: Poems, 1954-1962First published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem.Author: Adrienne Cecile Rich, Adrinne RichPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 11/17/1967Pages: 66Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.16dISBN: 9780393041460
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The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, the Full 3000-Year TraditionUnmatched in scope and literary quality, this landmark anthology spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations-many new and exclusive to the book-by an array of distinguished translators. Here is the grand...
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Selected Poetry of William WordsworthSelected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech,...
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After NatureAfter Nature, W. G. Sebald's first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind's place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, "an order arises, in places beautiful...
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One Secret ThingA powerful collection of poems about family and grief--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in...
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The Folding Cliffs: A NarrativeFrom a major American poet -- a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. The story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of...
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Blizzard of One: PoemsStrand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but...
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A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery RhymesThis charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of...
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Poems of the American WestIn this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like "The Streets of Laredo," from country-western lyrics to the work of...
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The Poetry of Yehuda AmichaiThe largest English-language collection to date from Israel's finest poet Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably accessible poems, vivid in their evocation of the Israeli landscape...
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SestetsSestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the...
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WarhorsesWarhorses is the haunting, electric work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and...
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