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Report copyright infringementby Ava Leavell Haymon (Author)In Eldest Daughter, Ava Leavell Haymon displays her mastery of the craft and engages us with the poetic gifts we have come to expect from her. As in previous collections, she combines the sensory and the spiritual in wild verbal fireworks. Concrete descriptions of a woman's life in the mid-twentieth-century American South mix with wider concerns about family lies and truths, and a culture that supports or forbids clear speech. In a pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Bond (Author)For the Lost Cathedral delves deeply into the human relationship with the divine and its capacity for empathy, transformation, and the tolerance of difference and doubt. Bruce Bond seeks neither to praise nor to attack institutional religions, instead choosing to explore their interactions with the inner lives of those who hold them sacred. Faith can offer comfort and security in difficult times, yet it may also create the temptation to hold ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Sanghee Park (Author)Deceptively straightforward and subtly pyrotechnic, the poems in Hannah Sanghee Park's debut collection captivate with their wordplay at first glance, then give rise to opportunities for extended reflection. "If / truth be told, I can't be true," she writes, but her startling juxtapositions of sound and meaning belie that claim, necessitating a search for the truth behind her semantic games. Here are dozens of brief sentences that ca...

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Report copyright infringementby David Huddle (Author)An account of spiritual survival through the practice of literary art, the poems in David Huddle's eighth collection, Dream Sender, move among a variety of poetic forms and voices. Here, a bear wonders why he could not have been a raccoon, a bird, or a meadow; and a five-year-old thrills to the forbidden taste of whiskey as he eavesdrops on his parents' after-dinner conversation. By turns outrageous and pragmatic, Huddle's poems acknowledge...

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Bickham (Author)Katie Bickham's poems, set on a Louisiana plantation from 1811 through 2005, speak through the imagined voices of slaves, masters, mistresses, servants, and children. Focused on events that take place in a single room within the plantation home, Belle Mar, she offers an unflinching portrayal of the atrocities that form an undeniable part of Louisiana's history. The fully rounded characters she evokes allow readers to contemplate the social...

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Report copyright infringementby Tara Bray (Author)In Small Mothers of Fright, Tara Bray draws on her experiences as a mother struggling to strike a balance between protecting her daughter from the world's perils and dazzling her with its many wonders. The birds that fill these pages convey a sense of fragility and uncertainty, while the rhythm of the seasons provides a comfort that promises the old will be made new again.In a precise yet accessible style, Bray writes about fleeting actions an...

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Report copyright infringementby Nance Van Winckel (Author)"As usual, it starts with love. I had my heart set on the door-to-door encyclopedia salesboy." So begins Nance Van Winckel's latest collection of poetically altered encyclopedia entries that feature a mixture of quirky social satire and absurdist wit. Entries like "The Importance of Mood to Man" use an encyclopedic tone to insist: "Your body is two-thirds water. Mood is one-third body" and "Life and health depend on the mood taken in...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Cooley (Author)The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation. Through an acknowledgment of mothers' unconditional love, the memories evoked by physical objects, and the stories mothers pass down, these poems explore the common thread that stretches backward and forward, running through the lives of women and binding them together in an unbroken chain of years.Author Biography...

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Report copyright infringementby Anya Krugovoy Silver (Author)Anya Krugovoy Silver's debut collection considers the flawed and gaudy flesh as it turns toward a beloved's embrace, toward the surgeon's knife. Her poems both celebrate the sensual world and seek to transcend the body's limitations through encounters with art, memory, and the divine. At once imagistic, lyrical, and meditative, Silver's verse begins in the personal sphere and then looks outward toward the wider human experiences of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Meng (Author)In this debut collection, Amy Meng meticulously strips a collapsing relationship for its parts. By dissecting the performativity and vulnerability of a person in love, with a singular precision, Meng's poems are marked by an unflinching drive to confront the most troubling parts of love. Yet rather than being propelled by the broken heart, Bridled is triumphantly lit from the inside by the unexpected, miraculous growth of self.Author BiographyA...

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Report copyright infringementby Catherynne M. Valente (Author)Apocrypha: Catherynne M. Valente's first full-length poetry collection, where freaks, emperors, bodhisattvas, beasts, witches, wicked stepmothers, Greek heroes, told seductively and wickedly in poem and prose, jostle and vie for supremacy . . Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 18, 2005

How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Jessy Randall (Author)With an entirely new approach to poetry and the art of collage, Jessy Randall transforms diagrams, schematics, charts, graphs, and other visual documents from very old books into poems that speak to the absurdities, anxieties, and joys of life in this modern age.Author BiographyJessy Randall, author of the poetry collections Suicide Hotline Hold Music, There Was an Old Woman, Injecting Dreams into Cows, and A Day in Boyland, was a finalis...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael McClure (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.4 x 7.99 x 5.23 IN Publication Date: February 09, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Hazard Adams (Author)"The best book on Yeats and the best book of American literary criticism informed by critical theory to appear since Harold Bloom's Years."--Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University"An important study of a major aspect of Yeats's poetry, in some ways the fruit of a lifetime's thinking by one of our most distinguished Yeatsians."--Richard J. Finneran, University of TennesseeIn this most ambitious work on Yeats in two decades, Hazard Adams underta...

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Report copyright infringementby Mohja Kahf (Author)Mohja Kahf blends the experiences of recent Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. In her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, and the legendary Scheherazad of the Thousand and One Nights shows up in New Jersey, recast as a sophisticated postcolonial feminist.Kahf's carefully crafted poems do not speak only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religio...

Only Mystery: Federico Garcia Lorca's Poetry in Word and Image

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Forman (Author), Allen Josephs (Author)Weaving together twenty-one drawings and new translations of prose pieces and poems, Only Mystery presents a textured life of Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright. The guiding principles for selecting poems, prose, and paintings were dramatic effect and narrative cohesion. Originally designed for performance in Readers Theatre, Only Mystery may be appreciated as both a dramatic text for performance and an ill...

Toward Octavio Paz: A Reading of His Major Poems, 1957-1976

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Fein (Author)The undisputed intellectual leadership of Octavio Paz, not only in Mexico but throughout Spanish America, rests on achievements in the essay and in poetry. In the field of the essay, he is the author of more than twenty-five books on subjects whose diversity--esthetics, politics, surrealist art, the Mexican character, cultural anthropology, and Eastern philosophy, to cite only a few--is dazzling. In poetry, his creativity has increased in v...

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Bowers (Author)In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works. In addition to his succinct introductions and plot summaries, Bowers skillfully details the cultural, historical, political, and religious contexts for these works, synthesizing them with close reading of...

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine M. Jones (Author), R. Barton Palmer (Foreword by), Tison Pugh (Foreword by)"Intelligent, insightful, and superbly researched. Jones has succeeded especially well in presenting so many texts and recounting their stories with clarity, brevity, and a light hand."--William Calin, author of The French Tradition and Literature of Medieval England "An essential introduction to the Old French chanson de geste tradition, from basic texts to critical considerat...

Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader

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Report copyright infringementby Morris Allen Grubbs (Editor), Mary Ellen Miller (Editor), Silas House (Afterword by)Jim Wayne Miller (1936-1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by presenting the work of others as often as he did h...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter L. Allen (Author)Two major French medieval literary works that claim to teach their readers the art of love are virtually torn apart by the contradictions and conflicts they contain. In Andreas Capellanus's late twelfth-century Latin De amore, the author instructs his friend Walter in the amatory art in the first two books, but then harshly repudiates his own teachings and love itself in a third and final book. In Jean de Meun's encyclopedic continuation ...

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Report copyright infringementby Giraldi Cinthio (Author), Henry L. Snuggs (Translator)Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance. Written as a defense of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giraldi's discourse is an inquiry both into the nature of poetry and into the characteristics of the "heroic" or epic genre, in which some of the world's richest poems fall.Henry L. Snug...

The Mystery of Iniquity: Melville as Poet, 1857-1891

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Report copyright infringementby William H. Shurr (Author)This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life and reading during those years and of the intellectual and artistic ambience of the later nineteenth century. With the exception of Billy Budd, almost all of the writing Melville produced between 1857 and 1891 is poetry. Until now little attention has been given to the poetry and it has been customary to view Melville's fina...

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Report copyright infringementby Tison Pugh (Author)"Offers a welcome vade mecum to the Chaucer reader, whether a student or teacher. Impressively interweaving a lifetime of teaching Chaucer with a deep knowledge of his texts, Pugh compresses into one elegantly written, slim handbook the essential Chaucer. A college course in a book! And not a dull moment in it."--Jane Chance, author of The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women"Focusing on genre theory and contemporary cultural connections, P...

Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Cavanagh (Author) Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics--his concept of what poetry should be and what its uses are--and relating them to his practice as a poet. The first full-length study of Heaney's poetics, Professing Poetry explores Heaney's unusu...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Crunk (Author)"Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help."Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her homeland on the Tennessee River in the 1930s, she recounts the memory of upheaval and destruction caused by the Tennessee Valley Authority.The Western Kentucky area that now boasts beautiful, expansive bodies of water was once home to so...

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Report copyright infringementby Thylias Moss (Author)Although many of Moss's poems discuss race and gender, these subjects are, explains scholar Langdon Hammer, simply "starting points for her work...her poetry makes such facts of identity seem unfamiliar, their meanings not to be predicted, unavailable to the naked eye." Known for startling metaphors and vivid imagery, Moss's work demonstrates an expansive imagination that seeks to connect at times wildly disparate subjects.Author BiographyT...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Hazelton (Author)Fair Copy, byRebecca Hazelton, is a meditation on the difficulties of distinguishing the real from the false, the copy from the original. It is in part an exploration of the disparity between our conception of love as either true or false and the messy reality that it can sometimes be both. If "true" love is not to be found, is an approximation a "fair" substitute? These poems repeatedly question the veracity of memory-sometimes toying...

Life Is Like a Chicken COOP Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Dundes (Author)Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character, citing numerous examples of scatological data from authentic compilations of German folklore. The examination of this single trait of German character is used to demonstrate that national char...

My Self, My Muse: Irish Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Haberstroh (Editor)A unique look into the minds and creative processes of contemporary Irish women poets, this book focuses on the transformation of their life experiences into poetry that blends personal identity with national identiry. It assembles many voices around common themes that are emerging to change Irish poetry permanently. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, whose book Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets was a Choice Outstanding Ac...

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Report copyright infringementby D. H. Melhem (Author)New York Poems is dedicated to "The City of New York: embattled, gallant, enduring" by celebrated poet D. H. Melhem, who calls the Upper West Side her "muse." D. H. Melhem's sharp eye looks at neighborhood struggles with blight and urban renewal (chastised as "Negro Removal"). She examines her city from the World Trade Center disaster to the present to the city's future. New York Poems combines her seminal book of poetry, Notes on 94th Stre...

A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Talat S. Halman (Editor), Jayne Warner (Editor), Talat S. Halman (Translator)A Brave New Quest contains stirring examples of the revolutionary romanticism of Nazi m Hikmet; the passionate wisdom of Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca; the wry and captivating humor of Orhan Veli Kanik; the intellectual complexity of Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet Anday; the modern mythology of Ilhan Berk; the subtle brilliance of Behçet Necatigil; the rebellious spirit of the socialist realists;...