Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Stoddard (Author)Hive is a remarkable debut collection of poems about brutality, exaltation, rebellion, and allegiance. Written in the voice of a teenage Mormon girl, these poems chronicle an inheritance of daily violence and closely guarded secrets. A conflicting cast of recurring characters-best friends, sisters, serial killers, and the ominous Elders-move through these poems as the speaker begins to struggle with the widening gulf between her impul...

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Report copyright infringementby R. O. Lyne (Author)This fascinating study of one of the greatest poets of the Augustan Age sheds new light on Horace's works, combining literary analysis with investigation into the poet's social and political circumstances.Lyne's personal and historical approach focuses on the poet's relations with his patron Maecenas, with the Emperor Augustus, and with other grandees. Closely analyzing poems from Satires, Odes, and Epistles, Lyne reveals not only the magnifi...

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Report copyright infringementby Lyle Kilbane (Author)A collection of things I thought when I was 34, some good, some bad, all irrelevant to anything else. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Silvia Scheibli (Author)Athena confronts relationships between mother and daughter, a strong woman's place in a hyper-masculine society, Athena's relationship with the poet, Sapho, and Athena's way of dealing with her father, Zeus. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 26, 2022

Mary Carolyn Davies - Songs of a Girl & Other Verses

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Carolyn Davies (Author), Dick Whyte (Editor)Mary Caroline Davies - Songs of a Girl & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #4 Publicdomainpoets.com 'Songs of a Girl & Other Verses' brings together over 100 of Mary Carolyn Davies' unrhymed verses, including the 29 song sequence 'Songs of a Girl' (first published 1919), the 24 song sequence 'Songs' (1917), and a generous selection of other song sequences, verses, and variants (originally published from 19...

The Snake Swallower of Cochin and Other Odd Occupations

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Report copyright infringementby Angus Vieira (Author)The poems I wrote from the time I left the Marines to the early 90's including some I wrote specifically for poetry slams, most just specific observations on the human beings and places I visited, loved, hated, fondled and just thought about. Everything for fortune telling with a deck of Tarot cards, sex with a street gurl on a Christmas morning, bar owners, brothel girls, taxi drivers, merchant seamen and one very memorable snake spitting ...

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Report copyright infringementby W. S. Merwin (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii.Here is 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 the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Sheck (Author)In her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. "I can almost taste the glassy air," she writes. "Where are the birds in it, / wings lifting as currents buffet them like echoes, bright / chaos of atomi...

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Collins (Author)In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America s Poet Laureate for 2001 2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz on the radio are the seemingly ordinary activities whose hidden textures are revealed by Collins s poetic eye. With ...

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), M. D. Herter Norton (Translator) Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.24 x 7.74 x 5.12 IN Publication Date: October 22, 2007

The Works of Thomas Campion: Complete Songs, Masques, and Treatises, with a Selection of the Latin Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Campion (Author), Walter R. Davis (Editor)This volume is the first edition of the works of Thomas Campion since Percival Vivian's edition of 1909. In addition to a new and improved text of Campion's English works--songs, masques, and treatises--it contains prose translations of selected Latin panegyrics, elegies, and epigrams, accompanied by the Latin text, and musical settings for some of Campion's best-known songs.Back JacketThis volume is the first ed...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Ammons (Author)Presenting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1981 to Ammons's A Coast of Trees Richard Locke, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, said, in part: "In the thirty years since A. R. Ammons published his first poems, he has fashioned a body of work that achieves a rare amplitude, specific gravity, and high seriousness. He is a poet of the American Sublime--a nature poet, as we say--standing in the tradition of Wordsworth, Emerson,...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Pastan (Author)A Fraction of Darkness is the first book to follow PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, a nominee for the 1982 American Book Award. In this new collection, Linda Pastan continues to fulfill the promise of her five earlier books. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 16, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Rosanna Warren (Author)In elegies of love and death, we learn the legacy of poet Max Jacob, and "the clarity of being alone," but also that we still have to touch to believe, and that love, to believe in itself, must dress up in death. Yet sources of the future are also brought tenderly to us through the image of an unborn daughter, a child's room in autumn, and the knowledge that "gene by gene, the tiny transcriptions continue." Number of Pages: 1...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Drew (Author)The whole of this book is an effort to try and discover in what poetic genius consists, and in what ways we may best rain ourselves to recognize and to enjoy it. But in any such enquiry, we are immediately challenged at the outset by a pertinent and disquieting question. Why write about poetry, when the poets themselves are there to speak? Everything they have to say, they can very well say for themselves: do we not 'murder to dissect'? F...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ciardi (Author)John Ciardi published his first poem in Poetry magazine in 1939. The forty year since have been fruitful ones. His translation ofThe Divine Comedy is the definitive American rendering. His How Does a Poem Mean?, now in a new edition with revisions by Miller Williams, has introduced hundreds of thousands of students to the liveliness of poetry. Above all, John Ciardi is a poet and one of the voices of our literature. This is his fourteenth vo...

Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law: Poems, 1954-1962

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Report copyright infringementby Adrienne Cecile Rich (Author), Adrinne Rich (Author)First published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2013

Poetry: A Modern Guide to Its Understanding and Enjoyment

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Drew (Author)Analyzes and discusses the craftsmanship of the poet and the elements of poetry. With the use of many examples the author reveals the poet's interpretation of human existence. Number of Pages: 292 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 27, 2008

In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis: & Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Mario Luzi (Author), I. L. Salomon (Translator)Back JacketThe Italian Mario Luzi is one of today's leading poets. In a career spanning forty years, he has produced a body of work comparable to Auden's in its philosophical depth and mastery of the craft. Recently some of his poems have appeared in leading literary periodicals. Now for the first time, in sensitive and sharply realized translations by I.L. Salomon, a substantial selection of Luxi's poetry is made ...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Ammons (Author) Ommateum, his first book, was published in 1955, and was followed in 1964 by Expressions of Sea Level.Corsons Inlet and Tape for the Turn of the Year were published in 1965 by Cornell University Press. In 1966, Mr. Ammons received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for creative writing in poetry. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 04, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Asimov (Author), John Ciardi (With)Isaac Asimov, one of the world's best-selling authors, a scientist, academic, romantic, and original thinker, here jousts and jests with his old opponent in the war of the words, John Ciardi. Ciardi, of course, is a poet, world authority on and premier translator of Dante, teacher, critic, and formidable manufacturer and wielder of the word-weapon. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.01 x ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Morgan (Author)Robin Morgan's work, celebrated for its vindication of female experience and its evocation of the zeitgeist, is here intensely personal and powerful in new ways. In her sixth book of poems, prize-winning poet Robin Morgan undertakes a radical departure from her previous work, as she locates the landscape of her vision in the stark isolation of a self confronting love's aftermath, its losses, and its undeniable betrayals. In poems documentin...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimiko Hahn (Author)Kimiko Hahn's poetry explores the interplay--and tensions--among her various identities: mother, lover, wife, poet, and daughter of both the Midwest and Asia. However astonishing her subjects--from sideshow freaks to sadomasochistic fantasy--they ultimately emerge in this startling collection as moving images of the deepest levels of our shared humanity. Number of Pages: 91 Dimensions: 0.37 x 8.33 x 5.63 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby April Bernard (Author)Romanticism explores and challenges the central ideas of high Romanticism: the tragedy and gallantry of the individual's life journey, the appeal of revolution and violence, the beckoning forces of Nature, and the estrangement from but constant longing for God. Here is a powerful argument for the primacy of strong emotion. "Ungeliebt" So I offered a bargain: All of it, the books, the papers, and whatever is still brewing in my teapot he...

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Report copyright infringementby B. H. Fairchild (Author)From Manhattan to the rural Midwest--one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America. Employing dramatic monologues, among other forms, Usher embraces a range of subject matter and modes, from the elegiac to the comic. At its heart, however, is the long poem "Trilogy," consisting of three interrelated dramatic monologues spoken by a circus performer, a theological student and part-time usher, and Hart Crane. A Los A...

The Wounded Surgeon: Confessions and Transformations in Six American Poets

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Kirsch (Author), Adam Kirsch (Editor)Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Delmore Schwartz formed one of the great constellations of talent in American literature. In the decades after World War II, they changed American poetry forever by putting themselves at risk in their poems in a new and provocative way. Their daring work helped to inspire the popular style of poetry now known as "confessional." But partly...

Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Bryant Voigt (Author)To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9.16 x 6.24 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Beth Ann Fennelly (Author)Hailed as a brilliant blueprint of the imagination (David Baker), Open House established Beth Ann Fennelly as an ambitious and spacious young talent (Paul Zimmer) and introduced us to her passion, compassion, inventiveness, and intelligence (Alison Hawthorne Deming)." Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8 x 5.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 01, 2009

Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis Walder (Author)This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition - nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, tracing the hidden connections underlying their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover their histories. T...

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Report copyright infringementby A. C. Hamilton (Editor)'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own* understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems* easy to find entries arranged by subject. ...

Matthew Arnold: The Critical Heritage Volume 2 The Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Carl Dawson (Editor)The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. Number of Pages: 480 Dimensions: 0.98 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2014

Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage

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Report copyright infringementby Clyde K. Hyder (Editor)The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves. Number of Pages: 308 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2014