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Book of SketchesIn 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or sketches as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels--New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac's birthplace),...
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Faust: The Second Part of the TragedyIn this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing...
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Selected PoemsRobert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic...
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Metaphysical PoetryA key anthology for students of English literature, featuring some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty....
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The Penguin Book of English VerseSpanning seven centuries, this ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
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Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical EssaysA truly useful collection of literary criticism on a widely studied author, this collection of essays, selected and introduced by a distinguished scholar, makes the most informative and provocative critical work easily available to the general public. KEY TOPICS: Offers volumes of the same...
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The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 - 2010"Tate's poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted." --New York Times The Eternal Ones of the Dream is a breathtaking collection of poems from the last two decades of work of one of modern American poetry's major artists,...
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I've Lost My HippopotamusIn the tradition of Jack Prelutsky's classic poetry collections The New Kid on the Block, It's Raining Pigs & Noodles, and A Pizza the Size of the Sun, here is a book packed with more than 100 funny poems and silly pictures. Most of...
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The Ghost SoldiersIn this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American...
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My Index of Slightly Horrifying KnowledgeMy Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is a fierce and original collection--its generosity of voice and emotional range announce the arrival of a major new poet.At the age of twelve, Paul Guest suffered a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed for life. But out...
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Essential WordsworthFrom the introduction by Seamus Heaney: Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed, it is not until Yeats that we encounter another poet in whom emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological...
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A Maze Me: Poems for GirlsA collection of seventy-two poems written especially for girls ages twelve and up by the much-honored and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye. "A lovely, rich collection that promises to be a lasting companion for young writers."--School Library Journal (starred review)First love, friendship, school, family,...
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YellowThis door is open for you, calling you into a realm of words, welcoming you to a familiar place, a place that is far away from here, a place that speaks on your behalf, a place that explores the depth and surface of your...
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No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New ZealandNinety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet.Author: Essa RanapiriPublisher: Auckland University PressPublished: 12/08/2022Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.74h x 6.38w x 0.79dISBN: 9781869409555
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PN Review 264The March-April 2022 issue. Major interview with American poet Carl Philips. Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation. Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein. Isobel Williams adds to her Shibari Catullus. John Clegg discovers Mrs Bleaney. New to PN Review this issue: Wendelin Wai...
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Modern Iraqi Poetry: Abdulwahhab Al-Bayyati: Poet of Diaspora'Abdulwahhāb Al-Bayyāti was one of the triumvirate of poets who dominated modern Iraqi and Arabic poetry of the mid-1950s. Following the pioneer female poet Nazik Al-Mala'ika, he moved away from the tail-end of the romantic period of Arabic poetry, with its reliance on classical...
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All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark CoolidgeAll This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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Friendship, Love, and Happiness"It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected."Prof. Robert J Waldinger - Harvard UniversityFriendship, Love, and Happiness is a celebration...
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A Compilation of ThoughtsNo child ever imagines themselves being put in a grown man's place with only the grimy walls of a prison cell to love them for the next forty years. But for one young teen, the nightmare of the cell became his bitter reality. In...
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Wheel with a Single Spoke: And Other PoemsA selection of the best known poems by the Nobel nominated, Herder Prize-winning poet.Author: Nichita StanescuPublisher: Archipelago BooksPublished: 07/13/2012Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781935744153Award: Best Translated Book Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorNichita Stanescu (1933-1983) was the most beloved and...
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