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Report copyright infringementby White (Author)Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by "lyric shame"--an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. Favored particularly by modern American poets, lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writer's innermost thoughts...

Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Tiffany (Author)About the origins of Anglo-American poetic modernism, one thing is certain: it started with a notion of the image, described variously by Ezra Pound as an ideogram and a vortex. We have reason to be less confident, however, about the relation between these puzzling conceptions of the image and the doctrine of literary positivism that is generally held to be the most important legacy of Imagism. No satisfactory account exists, moreover, of...

Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Nealon (Author)In this highly original reexamination of North American poetry in English from Ezra Pound to the present day, Christopher Nealon demonstrates that the most vital writing of the period is deeply concerned with capitalism. This focus is not exclusive to the work of left-wing poets: the problem of capitalism's effect on individuals, communities, and cultures is central to a wide variety of poetry, across a range of political and aestheti...

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Report copyright infringementby Francesco Petrarch (Author), David R. Slavitt (Translator)In this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to Il Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch, the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one's own heart and mind. Slavitt rende...

The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight

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Report copyright infringementby Elisa New (Author)Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests this claim. A new reading of how poetry "sees," her work is a passionate defense of the power of the poem, the ethics of perception, and the broader possibilities of American sight. American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as a...

Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Darnton (Author), Hélène Delavault (Performed by), Claude Pavy (Performed by)"We are given a vivid sense of how songs were circulated and performed on the streets of Paris...Darnton has opened up another rich vein of research in the eighteenth century." --Times Literary Supplement In spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began...

The Poet's Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz

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Report copyright infringementby Leonard Nathan (Author), Arthur Quinn (Author), Stanislaw Baranczak (Foreword by)Born eighty years ago in Lithuania, Czeslaw Milosz has been acclaimed "one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest" (Joseph Brodsky). This self-described "connoisseur of heavens and abysses" has produced a corpus of poems, essays, memoirs, and fiction of such depth and range that the reader's imagination is moved far beyond ordinary limits of consciousness. In The P...

Salamander: Selected Poems of Robert Marteau

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Marteau (Author), Anne Winters (Translator)These translations are a book length selection in English of the poetry of Robert Marteau, a distinguished contemporary French poet, novelist, and art critic. His poems have been admired in France for their richness of language and imagery, and for their densely particular rendering of the actual world. Reflecting M. Marteau's deep preoccupation with the French countryside, the poems often touch on his native Po...

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Report copyright infringementby C. P. Cavafy (Author), Edmund Keeley (Translator), Philip Sherrard (Translator)C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and colloquialisms; his use of epigrammatic and dramatic modes; his aesthetic perfectionis...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucio Piccolo (Author), Brian Swann (Editor), Ruth Feldman (Translator)"In Piccolo's poems we meet a Sicily latent in the country of the tourist guides and the history books, but it was Piccolo far more than, say, his cousin Lampedusa, who was destined to draw out the latencies, read the signatures, crack the code....These brilliant translations will serve to introduce a whole new sensibility to Anglo-American readers."--Anthony Burgess "Faithfulness, a loving...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Herbert Johnson (Editor)From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regarded by Mark Van Doren as the writer of "the most interesting American verse before the 19th century." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlis...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Meriam (Author)* Selected for the 2016 American Library Association Over the Rainbow List Song is mysterious. It seems to arise when the separation between sophistication and simplicity has been submerged in deep water. Song is that ringing-out of the wrung heart whereby what is personal becomes what is universal-and so it is fitting that all the archetypal seasons in Mary Meriam's Girlie Calendar have their own specific songs to share, their own ardent de...

A Boy Asleep Under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Valente (Author)Peter Valente's first encounter with Sandro Penna's poetry was while translating Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the time, Valente was reading a biography on Pasolini and learned of his close friendship with Penna. Pasolini insisted that among serious readers of poetry, Penna could not be ignored. Born in Perugia on June 12, 1906, Sandro Penna lived most of his life in Rome (he died there on January 21, 1977), except for a brief period in Milan wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna J. Snyder (Author)The poetry of Donna Snyder is mature and vivid. In this, re-issue of Snyder's first publication, I Am South, the poet shares works that are both full of imagery and poignant with clarity. Donna Snyder's first release, I am South was originally published as a chapbook in 2010.Author BiographySnyder is the author of "Poemas ante el Catafalco: Grief and Renewal," released by Chimbarazu Press in 2014. Her chapbook, "I Am South," was publishe...

Poetry Is Not Just Rhyming, Volume 2: Learn Poetry with Ms. Kim and her Rec. Room Kids!!

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly D. Worthy (Author)"Poetry Is Not Just Rhyming, Volume 2," introduces Ms. Kim and her Rec. Room Kids. It offers young readers practical examples of how to use some of the poetry concepts learned in the first volume of "Poetry Is Not Just Rhyming." Loosely based on the children's television show "Poetry & Life," "Poetry Is Not Just Rhyming, Volume 2," encourages children to express themselves and build their self-esteem using poetry. Get ready to joi...

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Silano (Author)Martha Silano's new book What The Truth Tastes Like, (Two Sylvias Press, 2015) is a second edition of her original, award-winning collection published in 1999. This revised book includes twenty new poems, a Foreword by David Kirby, and an Afterword by Martha Silano. Praise for What The Truth Tastes Like: From clear-eyed attention to the ordinary world, Martha Silano makes poems that instruct, startle, and give pleasure as only a great po...

Frogs, Hogs, Puppy Dogs: Funny Children's Poems About Animal Friends

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Report copyright infringementby Oral Nussbaum (Illustrator), Leslie C. Halpern (Author)The third in Leslie C. Halpern's "Funny Children's Poems" series, "Frogs, Hogs, Puppy Dogs: Funny Children's Poems About Animal Friends" features rhyming poems about pets, zoo animals, wild animals, and our relationship to them. Be sure to read her other books: "Rub, Scrub, Clean the Tub: Funny Children's Poems About Self-Image" and "Shakes, Cakes, Frosted Flakes: Funny Children's Poems About Table Manners....

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Report copyright infringementby Zachry K. Douglas (Author)The Debut Poetry Collection by Zachry K. Douglas. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: February 11, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Flower Conroy (Author)"Flower Conroy's exquisite language is like a fierce storm, a tasty bite of forbidden fruit (which, we learn, and instantly believe, might have been quince...). Seduction, in her skilled hands, is adventure, is danger, sports colorful red lips, fuchsia shoes. To read Flower Conroy is to be taken apart, sliced open, seared with lightning."-Laura Foley, author of Joy Street and The Glass Tree "In The Awful Suicidal Swans, even the weather t...

Biting The Sun: 25 Years of the Boston Haiku Society

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Report copyright infringementby John Ziemba (Author)Biting The Sun is an anthology of haiku by members of the Boston Haiku Society celebrating its 25 years. Included is a short history of the Boston Haiku Society and a meditation on the nature of contemporary English language haiku. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 11, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Dominic R. Daniels (Author)Pop Me a Poem Take a step back in time to the days of yesteryear, where the imagination and heart of a child lives, grows and blossoms into a rare flower from the transition of youth into adulthood. But for every kid and for the young person that never wanted to grow up and would rather live in Neverland, this book is for you. Pop Me a Poem reflects on the days and wanderings in the adventure we take as children through the journey of...

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto Mascaro (Translator), Armando Maldonado (Introduction by), Alejandro Marre (Illustrator)Lundkvist es un poeta visual; su poesía nos carga de imágenes como un caudal enérgico. Estas imágenes son las de un viajero, las de un lector, las de un hombre que sabe construir un mundo poético con cimientos en el mundo real. Una trasfiguración que lleva al lector del surrealismo poético a un realismo visceral en el que vive el lector. Lejos de toda pretensión y de...

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Report copyright infringementby Angelica Warner (Author)Diary of a Mad Woman is my real, raw emotions and the perception of how I saw my world on a day to day basis... Through the process of this book, I have lost Anger, I have lost Hate, I have lost all the negative things that people used to say to me.. I have lost Depression and Sadness, And I fought My inner demons, and Satan, my Friends, is Real, and is a power and principle of the conditioning of the World we live in... Through this boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Gibran Khalil Gibran (Author), Ghassan Maroun Kassab (Translator), Maroun Ghassan Kassab (Author)The first complete and most accurate translation of Gibran Khalil Gibran's Arabic masterpiece: "The Processions." Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 10 x 7.01 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto Mascaro (Translator), Erik Lindegren (Author)La obra poética del sueco Erik Lindegren, abrió brecha en el frío de la nieve nórdica. Fue en esa Suecia donde viven miles de salvadoreños que huyeron de la desigualdad social de nuestro país, donde Erik Lindegren cultivó el modernismo en su poesía así como otras expresiones del arte. En los versos de Lindegren encontramos una clara identificación con modernistas de la talla de nuestros latinoamericanos Pabl...

You Ain't Hungry Until I'm Starving: Nutrition for the Soul

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Report copyright infringementby VID LaMonte Buggs Jr (Author)Simultaneously touching and gritty, "You Ain't Hungry Until I'm Starving" promotes peace and equality by offering unique insight into some of the most complicated issues of our time. "The secret is - there really is no secret!" Growing up an African-American man with some Native American ancestry, Buggs has been gifted with a broad and unbiased view of race relations in America. Never one to shy away from the harsh realities of life...

The Moon and Stars of the Dark Night Sky: Poems of Celeste and Her Sophia

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Report copyright infringementby Bethany Davis (Author)The Moon and Stars of the Dark Night Sky is a series of poems written by author Bethany Davis for her lover. It is a collection of twenty-three love poems with related imagery and language. The poems range from very joyful or erotic to dark and melancholic, running the whole gambit of emotions. They were written over the period from 2010 to 2015 and collected here in one place. These are poems from the author's heart. We hope they move you...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Saper (Introduction by), Bob Brown (Author)Originally published in 1929, Bob Brown's 1450-1950 is a collection of hand-written, "optical" poems." This parodic set of "scratches" extends and challenges the legacy Gutenberg's standardized type set and blurs the boundaries between scribbles, art, and literature. In this new edition, scholar and Brown biographer Craig Saper offers a new introduction to the work with several new contributions from artists, poe...

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Report copyright infringementby Subject A (Author)A collection of the fantastical verses of the suspected serial killer known as Subject A, written during his incarceration in a secure psychiatric facility from 1977 to 1980. The poems, baroque reflections of an alternate eldritch reality referred to as "the Underlands," give seductive and haunting dimension to the poet's undisproven claim that he never murdered but only "transfigured" his victims in locations "not to be found on any map of th...

Rocks in My Head: Poems for Young People About Rocks, Minerals, and Crystals

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Report copyright infringementby Judi a. Rypma (Author)From stalagmites widening into "seven-layer wedding cakes" to a trip through a rock shop that feels "like fingering / all the candies / in a trick-or-treat bag," rocks, minerals, and jewels seldom fail to dazzle and delight young and old alike. Open an abalone shell and you could find a pearl "sleeping on a bed / quilted in rainbows." Crack open the world of geology through a poem, and you'll find all sorts of gems for the mind. The poems ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Marinello (Author)There was a time, early on, that the writer would write something, a poem, once every year or even two. But this volume was written in just one year's time. Sometimes he feels that he has little to do with it, consciously, directly. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: July 27, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Ifeanyi Ogbo (Author)Nigerian poet Ifeanyi Ogbo delivers a short collection of enchanting, ethereal poems about hope, faith and love all the way from Africa.Author BiographyIfeanyi Ogbo is a poet living in Nigeria. This is his first book. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 02, 2015