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Report copyright infringementby Eric Reese (Author)They said it wouldn't last, but hip hop changed the world. Hear the story straight from the mouths of the movers and shakers.The 1990s represent hip hop's coming of age - when rap burst from urban undergrounds to captivate mainstream audiences globally. "The History of Hip Hop: Volume 3" chronicles this pivotal decade.Perfect for both newcomers and lifelong hip hop heads, you'll unearth: The East vs West coast rivalry between NYC and LA rapp...

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Report copyright infringementby Unnati Sarda (Author)"From the void to fullness, the moon travels a transformational path. This course of the moon is symbolic of our imperfect journey, which may or may not always be beautiful but remains enriching in many ways. Transformation is a difficult path because it occurs entwined with life as it is. The soul evolves despite life as well as because of it. Only a few reach complete illumination, but those who reach the gibbous, the 'almost there' stage...

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Report copyright infringementby Brianna Gaffney (Author)You name it and I have been curious about it. Confessions of toeing the line. Honest. Raw. Vulnerable. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 21, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Campbell (Author)""The path to parenthood is a long and ever winding road. In Moments of Matrescence, Hannah explores love, loss as well as the experience of discovering power and purpose in the every day of motherhood."" Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Devon Grasley (Author)Here I stand is a collection of poems that tell the story of failure, heartbreak and perseverance. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Mark O. Decker (Author)This is the third book in the "Watershed Years" series that contains poems the author wrote in years 1992 -1997. His thrid, and last, child - Kelly McEwan Decker - was born in 1990. This joy and starting a new career as an investment banker were the major new themes of his life. Number of Pages: 358 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 14, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice Bloomfield (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Haskell Dole (Author), Rudyard Kipling (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we conc...

Runic and Heroic Poems of the old Teutonic Peoples

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Report copyright infringementby Dickins Bruce (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hector Berlioz (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

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Report copyright infringementby Duncan Cameron (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath

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Report copyright infringementby Dilek Bulut Sarikaya (Author)Dilek Bulut Sarikaya scrutinizes human-plant entanglement in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath from the perspective of critical plant studies, which is committed to restoring the lost connection between humans and plants. The author offers a theoretical reading of Hardy and Plath's poetry, focusing specifically on how plants are depicted by these two poets as self-conscious and emotional individuals who are turned into vul...

Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again

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Report copyright infringementby Wallis C. Baxter III (Author)In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley's poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley's poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her...

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Report copyright infringementby Ce Rosenow (Author)Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore's haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku...

Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again - Hardcover

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by Wallis C. Baxter III (Author)In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley's poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley's poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her heart. The author sets up t...

Dante Satiro: Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works - Paperback

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by Fabian Alfie (Editor), Nicolino Applauso (Editor)This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante's Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante's satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.Author BiographyFabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona. Nicolino Applauso is visiting assista...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel J. Nappo (Author)The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is a thoroughly researched exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the celebrated Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. Often called "the Spanish Dylan," Sabina has established his own highly poetic space over the course of his forty-plus years as a recording artist. Using selected song lyrics from his fifteen studio and three major live albums, Daniel J. Na...

Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis Wilson Wise (Editor)If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative poetics akin to what once happened in the mid-fourteenth century. Altogether, this anthology...

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Report copyright infringementby E. D. Blodgett (Author), Yukiko Onley (Photographer), Susan McCaslin (Introduction by)"What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that's the only heaven we are given to know in life." -- Edward Dickinson (Ted) Blodgett E.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of the poet's lifelong devotion to...

Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric: Disquietude, Rumination, Interruption, Inspiration, Constellation - Hardcover

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by Irene Ramalho-Santos (Author)Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoa's poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.Author BiographyIrene Ramalho-Santos is Professor Emerita of English and Feminist Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Sen...

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Report copyright infringementby Antjie Krog (Author)This is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history--the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Antjie Krog powerfully brings together the historical and the poetic in a turbulent South Africa.Author BiographyAntjie Krog is professor at the University of the Western Cape. Number...

Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Ziolkowski (Author)Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed in Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny ("new songs"), which took their formal inspiration largely from traditional Russian epic songs, byliny ("songs ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jody Allen Randolph (Author)In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Y...

Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Kennedy (Author)In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones. Richly illustrated and elegantly written, this book brings the eighteenth century to life, presenting a diverse range of material from serious religious poems to amusing verses on dom...

The Poetry Anthology: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Parisi (Author), Stephen Young (Author)Publishing monthly without interruption since 1912, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record. Decade by decade, this ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents, along with several lesser known. Poetry is an American institution. -T....

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Brock (Author)The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Geoffrey Brock's Weighing Light. From the glinting scales in a painting by Vermeer to the white lines that disappear beneath a headlight's beam, Mr. Brock's poems measure out the often elusive weights and distances of the known world, confronting the unruly powers that threaten his burnished surfaces. His acute observations of landscape and of the smallest gestures that pass bet...

Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger's Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Heidegger (Author), Richard Polt (Editor), Eoghan Walls (Translator)Heidegger's turn to poetry in the latter half of his career is well known, but his own verse has to date received relatively little attention. How can we understand Heideggerian poetics without a thorough reading of the poet's own verse? Thought-Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heidegger's collected works, where the reader can read the German version alongside the English text. Musi...

Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Dale Scott (Author)Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is part literary criticism and part memoir. This biography/memoir of Czeslaw Milosz is a first hand account of the poet's life a...

The Lived International: A Life in International Relations - Paperback

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by Obe Stephen Chan (Author)The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan's personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author's academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that language, spoken...

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy: Countless Lives Inhabit Us

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Report copyright infringementby Bartholomew Ryan (Editor), Giovanbattista Tusa (Editor), Antonio Cardiello (Editor)This pioneering volume explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) and his relationship to philosophy. On the one hand, this book reveals Pessoa's serious knowledge of philosophy and playful philosophical explorations and how he has the gift of synthesizing, appropriating, and subverting complex ideas into his art; and, on the other hand, the chapters s...

Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit Through Haiku

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Report copyright infringementby Michio Arimitsu (Contribution by), Tiffany Austin (Contribution by), John J. Han (Contribution by)This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez, who has exemplified herself for six decades as a major figure in the Black Arts Movement, a central activist in civil rights and women's movements, and an internationally-known writer in American literature. Sanchez's haiku, as an integral and prominent part of contem...

The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A New Verse Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Valerie Krishna (Author)One of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages translated in its entirety by a recognized authority on the poem. This volume represents an important chapter in the evolution of the Arthurian legend. It is marked as an epic poem by its celebration of battle and conquest and its unsentimental depiction of combat and death.Author BiographyValerie Krishna is Professor of English at City College in New York. She is the author of The All...