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Report copyright infringementby David Antin (Author)-- Talking bridges the stylistic gap between David Antin's early experimental poems and the talk pieces for which he is most well-known. Combining one poem with two improvisations and his first published talk-poem, Talking is a unique book that cannot be classified as solely poetry, fiction or criticism. Infusing the lyricism of poetry with the compelling pull of the spoken voice, this collection is a testament to David Antin's reputation as...

Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Ruhl (Author), Max Ritvo (Author)A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer.Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two e...

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Report copyright infringementby Luci Shaw (Author)"Writing the River traces the steps of a writer who cocks her ear to listen for spiritual reality. The book is a record of her search into everything - rivers and bread and closets - and sometimes, as if by miracle, she finds what she is looking for. And whether she tells about the search or the finding, she writes with utter clarity." -Jeanne Murray Walker, poet, author of Coming Into History "In Writing the River and elsewhere, Luci Shaw's p...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Lemon (Author)Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Writers' League of Texas Book AwardOver the course of four collections of poems, Alex Lemon has become known for his kinetic voice and sense of the dark absurd. Now this electrifying poet moves in a new direction--with a book-length sequence at once intensely vulnerable and thoroughly of our moment.Populated by visions and ghosts, Another Last Day follows its speaker on a search through a natural landscape turned ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Lemon (Author)"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky." --BOB HICOKIn his follow-up to Fancy Beasts, a book that "slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter" (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs the nebulous line between the personal and the...

Rainer Maria Rilke's the Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Susan Ranson (Translator), Ben Hutchinson (Editor)Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinc...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Bogen (Author)From one of our finest poets comes a collection about time--about memory, remembrance, and how the past makes itself manifest in the world.Called "the poet of things" by Richard Howard, Don Bogen understands the ways objects hold history, even if they've grown obsolescent, even when they've been forgotten. So objects--rendered in cinematic detail--fill these poems. A desk, a mailbox, a house delivering its own autobiography. Hospitals: the pat...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Laidlaw (Author)In The Mirrormaker, songwriter and poet Brian Laidlaw melds myths ancient and contemporary among the raspberries, wolves, and taconite mines of Minnesota's Iron Range.A companion volume to Laidlaw's 2015 project, The Stuntman, this collection fuses the stories of two fabled couples: the mythical Narcissus and Echo, and Bob Dylan and Echo Star Helstrom, subject of the song "Girl from the North Country." But where The Stuntman focused on Nar...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Kirkpatrick (Author)"Why would I expect to feel blameless?"Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one woman's life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even if--with the onset of physical infirmity--they sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together moral and mortal peril as Patricia Kirkpatrick's speaker ages. From a child, vulnerable to "words / we learned / outside and in...

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Johnson (Author)Winner of a Wisconsin Library Association "Outstanding Achievement Award"What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson's Gatekeeper--selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry--it is the place where connection is darkly transfigured by distance and power.So we learn as Johnson's speaker descends into hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy M. Clark (Author)Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2009 With poems that combine the self-scrutiny of Philip Larkin with the measure of Elizabeth Bishop, Amy M. Clark burnishes her first collection, Stray Home, with exquisite understatement and formal control. Sweeter than Larkin and more intimate than Bishop, these poems address the suppressed pain and shame of living as a childless woman in a world of mothers, the dissociation attendant on depres...

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Report copyright infringementby Aleister Crowley (Author)This is Volume One of a three-volume set, comprising much of Crowley's early material, written mostly between 1898-1902. His earliest works, written between 1887-1897, were almost entirely destroyed by authorities due to their offensive nature. In writing the material that appears in this volume, Crowley toned things down a notch and moved away from the more lurid and graphic sexual themes he had been primarily focused on. He concentrat...

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Report copyright infringementby D. H. Lawrence (Author) Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.08 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: March 04, 2002

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Report copyright infringementby Annette G. Cash (Editor), James Murray (Editor) Number of Pages: 468 Dimensions: 1.04 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 05, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby James Whitcomb Riley (Author)A collection of the author's popular poems of childhood, illustrated with Hoosier pictures by Will Vawter. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American poet whose most famous works, Little Orphant Annie (1885) and The Raggedy Man (1890), were written in an Indiana dialect. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.48 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 18, 2003

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Underwood Rhodes (Author)From the foreword: "It is an ongoing wonder when a writer is able to infuse her prose with such poetic quality and tenderness that each piece becomes a poem in itself. Suzanne Rhodes has this magical facility of seeing to the heart of things . . . To retain the precision of the moment, one has to be there to experience it. Suzanne is a friend who takes my hand and says "Look!" or "Listen!" or just "Stay here with me while the me...

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Report copyright infringementby Rabindranath Tagore (Author)"Stray Birds" contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These short, sometimes merely one-line poems are often just an image or the distillation of a thought, but they stay in the mind and do not fly away as easily as the birds. The author, Rabindranath Tagore, was a Nobel laureate for literature (1913) as well as one of Ind...

AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author)READER!-You have been bred in a land abounding with men, able in arts, learning, and knowledges manifold... But there is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of REFLECTION. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? -from "The Author's Preface" Here in one compact volume are two important works on religion and spirituality from one the finest poets in the English language. In Aids to Ref...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Koertge (Author)Imagine a heaven populated by familiar Greek gods. Sexy Aphrodite, gorgeous Adonis, Ares the warmonger, Artemis the huntress, wise Athena, bitter Demeter, and the like. But imagine also each of these denizens of Olympus stepping forward and revealing qualities that any reader can recognize: Hades, ruler of the underworld, lovesick for Persephone. Baffled Hephaestus, god of fire, husband of Aphrodite who can't keep her clothes on. Add a defia...

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (Author)Winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise emerges at a time when science is discovering more and more about the mystical particles that make up our universe and our bodies. From tidal forces and prairie burns to ruminations on racial identity while standing at the foot of Mount Rushmore, these poems chart a travelogue through mental and physical landscapes and suggest that place, time, love,...

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Report copyright infringementby Eva Saulitis (Author)After a devastating diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, biologist and poet Eva Saulitis found herself gripped by a long-buried childhood urge to pray. Finding little solace in the rote "from the fox-hole please Gods" arising unbidden in her head, she set herself the task of examining the impulse itself, waking every morning in darkness to write poems, driven on by the questions: What is prayer? What am I praying to? What am I praying for...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Soto (Author)Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On is a collection of witty and digestible aphorisms for our times. Number of Pages: 158 Dimensions: 0.3 x 6 x 4.1 IN Publication Date: October 10, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Allen J. Bryson (Author), Lynda Bruce (Editor)"Ministry of Motivation is a powerful, inspirational work of cultural and spiritual elevation. His words are candid; his motive is encouraging, his mission is clear. The fifteen fabulous keys are a must for anyone seeking to enhance their quality of life." Dr. Louis R. Hilton III, Educational Consultant, and Cultural Historian "Allen Bryson is a brilliant motivator and any reader can sense his dedication and passion...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Rozema (Author)Road Trip is a collection of autobiographical essays that honor the places, people and other living creatures that have given shape and meaning to one man's life. Framed by essays about the life and death of loved ones, the book explores the importance of family, friendship and what it means to care for another human being. Above all, Road Trip is about transformations that happen in ways we may not always understand or welcome--it's about t...

The Religious Poetry of Vladimir Solovyov

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Report copyright infringementby Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (Author), Boris Jakim (Translator), Sergius Bulgakov (Afterword by)Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) was one of the most remarkable figures of the 19th century. He was the most important Russian speculative thinker of that century, publishing major works on theoretical philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and ethics. He also wrote profound religious verse, much of which is translated into English here for the first time. Included ar...

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Report copyright infringementby George William Russell (Author), Ae (Author)George William Russell, better known as (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (translator of the Enneads of Plotinus), James...

A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book Three (Yesterday's Classics)

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Report copyright infringementby Ada M. Skinner (Author), Frances Gillespy Wickes (Author), Maud And Miska Petersham (Illustrator)Third volume of A Child's Own Book of Verse, a three-volume set planned for use during the four primary years. This unusually fine collection of poetry was selected with the child's interests in mind. Includes sound rhymes and jingles to appeal to the ear, descriptive poems to create images in the mind's eye, lullabies and lyrics to warm the heart, and story-telling...

Paradise Regained by John Milton, Poetry, Classics, Literary Collections

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author)In purely poetic value, Paradise Regained is little inferior to its predecessor. There may be nothing in the poem that can quite touch the first two books of Paradise Lost for magnificence; but there are several things that may fairly be set beside almost anything in the last ten. The splendid "stand at bay" of the discovered tempter -- "'Tis true I am that spirit unfortunate" -- in the first book; his rebuke of Belial in the second and the ...

Poems by Oscar Wilde, Poetry, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author)Ah, leave the hills of Arcady, Thy satyrs and their wanton play, This modern world hath need of thee.This is the land where libertyLit grave-browed Milton on his way, This modern world hath need of thee!A land of ancient chivalryWhere gentle Sidney saw the day, Ah, leave the hills of Arcady!Then blow some trumpet loud and free, And give thine oaten pipe away, Ah, leave the hills of Arcady!This modern world hath need of thee! Num...

Truth Made Simple: Sermons on the Attributes of God for Children

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Report copyright infringementby John Todd (Author)In this remarkable book JOHN TODD (1800-1873) begins what he hoped to be a Systematic Theology for Children. He begins with Theology Proper, the Doctrine of God, and he covers the following: IS THERE ANY GOD? GOD IS A SPIRIT GOD ETERNAL GOD IS EVERY WHERE GOD ALL-WISE GOD KNOWS EVERY THING GOD'S POWER TRUTH OF GOD GOD DOES AS HE PLEASES GOD IS HOLY GOD IS GOOD Richard Newton, who was called by Spurgeon "The Prince of Preachers to Children", sa...

Paradise Lost by John Milton, Poetry, Classics, Literary Collections

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author)Paradise Lost has been justifiably called the greatest English epic poem. Milton takes us immediately into the action of the tale, gliding over what we all know from the Bible, developing the story's background as he goes. We learn how Satan came to be in Hell after the war in heaven, see warfare and the ambitions of the angels -- come to know God's wisdom, power and His wrath. Milton gives us characters who personify Death, Chaos, Mammon an...

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Report copyright infringementby Torquato Tasso (Author), Max Wickert (Editor)"In this book, Love emerges from confusion even as, in the description of the ancient poets, he sprang from the womb of Chaos. And although it is many years old, and of an earlier date than all my others, it is eminently youthful in appearance and hopes to please like a thing newmade."  - Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso (1544-95), the renowned author of the epic, "Gerusalemme liberata," and of the pastoral drama, "Amin...