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Report copyright infringementby Hilmi Yavuz (Author), Walter G. Andrews (Translator), Barry Tharaud (Afterword by)Hilmi Yavuz is among Turkey's most celebrated poets. His poetry, at once cerebral and intensely emotional, has been translated into several languages but never, until now, into English. Walter G. Andrews's translations bring to the English-speaking world a glimpse into the complex and expressive poetry of Yavuz, introducing traditional Ottoman forms and themes into a familiar poet...

Richard Eberhart - American Writers 55: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph J. Jr. Mills (Author)Richard Eberhart - American Writers 55 was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Back JacketMinnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich wit...

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Genser (Author)Erotic, calculated, witty poems in this first book.Cynthia Genser's landscapes, like those of D.H. Lawrence, are analogues of human emotions; her men and women exist in their effects-prototypes one minute, passionate and distinctly visible individuals the next. Person and place invite the reader into an adventure that begins and ends everywhere.The language employed throughout is voluptuous, sensuous, yet precise. The appeal is to all the...

Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems: Bilingual Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Ghareeb Iskander (Author), John Glenday (Translator), Ghareeb Iskander (Translator)The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago, those events echo many of the social and cultural concerns of Iraq today. In this luminous ...

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Report copyright infringementby Loren Graham (Author)A book-length narrative poem exploring one man's experience of crime and imprisonment.A striking interplay of content and style makes this book-length narrative poem a wrenching, compelling tale. Mose is incarcerated in a Texas prison for a crime whose circumstances slowly unfold as he numbers the days of his sentence and fantasizes about a woman inexorably tied to his fate. As the harshness of prison life begins to close in and distort Mos...

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Joris (Author)Poasis, Joris's first major publication in the United States, highlights his work since the mid-1980s.Pierre Joris's poems are characterized by an arresting mix of passion and intellect, by what Pound called "language charged with meaning." For Joris, a language is always a second language, and his poetry takes as its main concern the question of marginality and exile. He is unique in being an American poet comfortable in three languages, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Cheney (Author)In his debut collection, Colin Cheney maps an American landscape of New York rooftop gardens, occupied Iraq, and crumbling New England farms. In poems inhabited by Charles Darwin and climate scientists, Beethoven and Elliott Smith, the reader finds a way to navigate the beauty and fears native to modern life. One sees in Cheney's poetry the convergence of the urban and the natural and the ways in which the two inhabit each other--an uneasy ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Butscher (Author)The first of a planned two-volume biography, Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale follows Aiken's early life from his birth in 1889 to 1925 when he stood on the threshold of both nervous breakdown and poetic success. It was then that Aiken began to face his paradoxically idyllic and tragic Savannah childhood and to confront the events of February 27, 1901. On that day, the eleven-year-old Aiken heard gunshots punctuate a nightlong argu...

Luster: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium

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Report copyright infringementby Don Bogen (Author)Vivid exploration of what the world of objects reveals about our lives.Don Bogen's latest volume, Luster, takes on everything from bullhorns to the cultivation of olive trees in poems that are sharp-edged and open to surprise. They capture not just things themselves but the essential contexts--history, power, the personal and the social--that give them meaning. The stylistic dexterity and range of approaches here make the book as rich as the w...

Fable in the Blood: Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece

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Report copyright infringementby Byron Herbert Reece (Author), Jim Clark (Editor)Collected here are poems by one of Georgia's most intriguing and talented poets of the twentieth century. Byron Herbert Reece was born in Union County, Georgia, in 1917 and authored four volumes of poems and two novels during his short lifetime. Until now, many of his poems, originally published in the 1940s and 1950s, have been out of print. Reece, who faithfully assumed responsibility for his family's farm when ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gemma Hooper (Author)Telling tales is a collection of poems based on real events, stories and characters that have inspired me to capture these unforgettable memories into poems. Each poem has a true story at its heart. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2023

A Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Lawler (Author)This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters. Patrick Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation. From the artful surface of a Russian novel, rich with symbolism and white bears, to a survivor's unwillingness to immerse himself in life or leave it, th...

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Report copyright infringementby Chelsea Dingman (Author)This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned with how both parents deal with this trauma without letting it tear them or their relationship apart. There are threads beneath the surface of the poems that speak to the inequality in these relationships and in the male-female dynamic, whether this inequality is perceived or real. Dingman also...

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Report copyright infringementby Kyle Dargan (Author)In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan chooses to present not color-negative elegies but self-portraits that capture what of these departed figures remains within him. Amid this processing of mortality, it becomes clear that he has arrived at a turning point as a writer and a man. As ...

Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Esthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in the Parisian Prowler

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Report copyright infringementby Edward K. Kaplan (Author)Baudelaire's Prose Poems is the first full-length, integral study of the fifty prose poems Baudelaire wrote between 1857 and his death in 1867, collected posthumously under the title Le Spleen de Paris. Edward Kaplan resurrects this neglected masterpiece by defining the structure and meaning of the entire collection, which Kaplan himself has translated as The Parisian Prowler. Engaging in a dialogue with deconstructionists whose critica...

Only the Road / Solo El Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Randall (Editor), Margaret Randall (Translator)Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and...

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Choffel (Author), Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (Afterword by)The Hello Delay asks what happens around the saying of a thing and the receiving. Inside and outside of our daily communications, there are events, there are silences, déjà-vus, and intentions. These poems question the determined nature of our relationships to one another: What if this territory isn't familiar after all? I Will Whisperit to you so that someone else may hear it. whether or not it's hear...

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Report copyright infringementby Ulick O'Connor (Author)Oliver St John Gogarty was called by Yeats 'one of the great lyric poets of the age'. He was the garrulous and flamboyant drinking companion of James Joyce, providing the character of Buck Mulligan for Ulysses, the exuberant and mocking wit who delighted George Moore, and a friend and inspiration to the man who was high priest of the Irish literary renaissance, William Butler Yeats. From his boisterous student days, through the time of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaius Valerius Catullus (Author), G. A. Williamson (Volume Editor)There is no Latin author more suitable for Sixth Form study than Catullus. The variety of his subject-matter, the range of his emotions, the originality of his ideas, and the superb quality of his verse combine to make the reading of his poems a delight to both teacher and student. This standard edition presents a considerable collection of Catullus' oeuvre in a variety of metres and genres. It w...

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Report copyright infringementby Peggy Pond Church (Author)"Here are pages with delicately-carved poems, fragrant with the sage of high mesas, light as a cirrus cloud, warm as red blood, vibrant as the strings of a violin. The reader catches glimpses, feels touches of the sensitive character of the poet, sensitive not so much to darkness as to light in all its nuances of color, movement, and design. Of acid there is not a trace. There are cloud-shadows, the flight of a fairy, altars, the turn ...

The Constitution of Shelley's Poetry: The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound

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Report copyright infringementby Edward T. Duffy (Author)'The Constitution of Shelley's Poetry' is a close philosophical reading of 'Prometheus Unbound' from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.Author BiographyEdward T. Duffy is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Berkenfield (Author)"I cannot remember a time when I was not writing," says Barbara Berkenfield. "After many years as a free-lance writer, I am very comfortable in my craft and write articles for a public audience with confidence. Throughout my life poetry has been my very personal place, where I can release and organize the words that define 'me.' I have seldom shared my poems with an audience beyond my immediate family, and only five have been previou...

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Report copyright infringementby Enni Harlan (Author)A tiny, overgrown garden. An empty parking lot. A white IKEA chair. The frozen food aisle in the supermarket. In this collection of narrative poems that span early childhood to the pandemic, Enni Harlan turns the landscapes and objects of everyday life into extraordinary ones-the overgrown garden becomes her own secret garden; the parking lot, a handball court; the IKEA chair, a steam train.With her sharp, sometimes darkly comic eye, Harlan ...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Rockman (Author)Barbara Rockman grew up in western Massachusetts. She is co-editor of the anthology "Women Becoming Poems." Her poems have been recognized with the Baskerville Publishers' Award, the New Mexico Discovery Award, the Southwest Writers Poetry Prize, and "The MacGuffin" National Poet Hunt. She received her M.Ed. from Antioch New England, and her M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Barbara teaches poetry at Santa Fe Community...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Dezember (Author)With a voice both sensual and spiritual, the poetry of "Earth-Marked Like You" presents the body as a temporal and spatial expression of the soul. These poems suggest that our passion as human beings is to transcend our ordinary lives so we can feel the excitement of the life force and that we use our bodies in our attempts to do this. A quest for the integration of human intellect, physicality and spirituality, this collection explores lo...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Banks (Author)Life goes on, dancing to a rhythm, a beat all its own. And the beat the author hears is much like Jazz Music-free-wheeling, going this way for a while, and then suddenly, without warning, the other way. All seemingly random, and yet strangely holding-together, forming moods. The poems in this collection are those beats, those moods, that rhythm, rendered into language-Jazz Language. TOM BANKS is a graduate of Indiana University with an English...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Jones (Author)Back JacketJones challenges traditional images of Percy Bysshe Shelley in this first book-length analysis of his major satiric works. Bringing to bear genre theory and a New Historical frame of reference, Jones places Shelley's satires in their broad context of popular, political, and material culture. Jones argues that Shelley's satiric poems express an important countervoice within Shelley's work as well as within Romanticism as a whole. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucien Stryk (Editor)Regional poems representing seventy-nine writers reveal the beginnings of a Midwest renaissance in American poetry. Number of Pages: 293 Dimensions: 0.86 x 8.62 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1975

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Report copyright infringementby Byron Herbert Reece (Author) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Hazel Durnell (Author)The America of Carl Sandburg tells of the effect of the American tradition on the poet and of his impact upon America. It is a study in depth, showing the unconscious Scandinavian influences, the conscious French influences, and the effect on Sandburg's writings, both poetry and prose, of Lincoln, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and, of course, Whitman. The author develops a clear picture of Sandburg's place in American literature by comparison ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Dandurand (Author)the tales are of loss and forgivenessand they fill the roomThe Punishment is the latest addition to the oeuvre of prolific Kwantlen writer Joseph Dandurand, whose stunning previous collection, The East Side of It All, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.In The Punishment, Joseph Dandurand's now-familiar storyteller's voice wrangles trauma, grief, forgiveness and love. His poems illustrate the poet's solitary existence. With sce...

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Report copyright infringementby William Butts (Editor), Richard Wilbur (Author)With wit, charm, and grace the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U.S. poet laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in extemporaneous speech than he is in verse and prose.Wilbur proves as enlightening and thought-provoking with student reporters from Amherst College, his alma mater, as with journalists for THE PARIS REVIEW, displaying t...