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Report copyright infringementby Marie A. Reilly (Author) Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 06, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Cavalieri (Author)Poetry. From TOMATO PIES, 25 CENTS: [A]t my Grandmother's restaurant in Trenton New Jersey. My grandfather is rolling meatballs in the back. He studied to be a priest in Sicily but saved his sister Maggie from marrying a bad guy by coming to America. Uncle Joey is rolling dough and spooning sauce. Uncle Joey is always scrubbed clean, sobered up, in a white starched shirt, after cops delivered him home just hours before. Numb...

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Report copyright infringementby Marisa Frasca (Author)In poems haunted by the dead "Photographer God" Marisa Frasca takes up the now almost forgotten voice of a gifted storyteller-part spell, alive with detail, she transports Sicily to the NewWorld. Poems, like some passions, can be dangerous-eating anartichoke delicately "so needles won't stick in my throat." Loss iscountered by the pulse of all that is wild-an ocean, a volcano, agull feather, blood oranges, mandolins. These are layered poem...

An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975

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Report copyright infringementby Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (Author), Mark Terrill (Translator)ROLF DIETER BRINKMANN was born in Vechta, Germany, in 1940, in the midst of World War II, and died in 1975, in London, England, after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. During his lifetime, Brinkmann published nine poetry collections, four short story collections, several radio plays, and a highly acclaimed novel. He also edited and translated two important German-language anthologies of contemporary A...

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Report copyright infringementby Ethel Rackin (Author)Free Verse Editions Series Editor: Jon Thompson The poems of THE FOREVER NOTES are canny and lyrical and never a word too long. Many are song-like, repeating the things that are most important to them over and over to make them stay: "You and the trees/ Trees and the night around you." Others tell small stories, utterly clear line by line but elusive, almost elegiac, in their slides of feeling and shifts of thought. They feel like a life yo...

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Report copyright infringementby D. Gilson (Editor)Description Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed brings together 154 remixes of William Shakespeare's 1609 sonnet sequence. If Shakespeare the auteur and his sonnets have influenced so much of how we think (and act) as humans, this collection asks how might we be un- (and re-) done by the conscious act of responding to (or through) these seventeenth-century verses. Here you will find a wide variety of remixes: entries various by their form -- ...

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Report copyright infringementby Valerio Magrelli (Author), Clarissa Botsford (Translator)FREE VERSE EDITIONS SERIES, edited by Jon Thompson TRANSLATED BY CLARISSA BOTSFORD A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli's The Condominium of the Flesh, a personal chronicle of his clinical experience, catalogues a life history of ailments without ever being pathological. Every sensation and malfunction is placed under the subjective mi...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Atkinson (Author)FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by JON THOMPSON JENNIFER ATKINSON'S THE THINKING EYE, her fifth collection, looks at the syntax of our living, evolving world, paying close attention to the actual quartz and gnats, the goats and iced-over, onrushing rivers. The poems also look at the looking itself-how places and lives become "landscapes" and the ways the lenses of language, art, ecology, myth, and memory-enlarge and focus our seeing. If it...

Peacock Pie by Walter da la Mare, Fiction, Literary, Poetry, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Classics

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Report copyright infringementby Walter De La Mare (Author)The Truants Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly To remember sad things, yet be gay, I would sing a brief song of the world's little children Magic hath stolen away. The primroses scattered by April, The stars of the wide Milky Way, Cannot outnumber the hosts of the children Magic hath stolen away. The buttercup green of the meadows, The snow of the blossoming may, Lovelier are not than the legions of children Magic hath stolen aw...

Lives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift)

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Johnson (Author), Henry Morley (Introduction by)Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other authors. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Dworski Nusbaum (Author)Through the prisms of love and loss, memory, individual narratives, and the natural world, this collection of poems celebrates the bounty of life-ordinary human experience as an act of discovery. Our daily encounters with the world, universal and particular, are what breathe life into us-what we take with us and ultimately leave behind. The poems examine the common landmarks of our lives, "the careful threads that hold us together,...

De Profundis & The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author)Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brillilant and controversial social and literary figures of all time. Wilde's prison writings include his most celebrated essay DE PROFUNDIS, written to Lord Alfred Douglas, and his legendary epic poem THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 27, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby W. Longfellow Henry W. Longfellow (Author), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author), Henry W. Longfellow (Author)The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 t...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Parsons Marion (Author)Mother Land is a story told in poetry -- the story of a mother with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, of a grandmother who tried to hold things together, and of a stepmother who took in the young girl and tended her wounded spirit. Interwoven with this story are poems about gardening, one of Marion s great passions. Through gardening, she joins the inner and outer landscapes of her life to bring about healing, forgiveness, and reconcili...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Reevy (Author)Old North by Tony Reevy is a book of poems about the places, history and culture of North Carolina. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 15, 2013

Paradise Regained: A Poetic Reflection on Temptation, Faith, and Redemption

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author)John Milton's Paradise Regained presents a restrained and deliberate continuation of the themes explored in his earlier epic, focusing on spiritual endurance, temptation, and moral victory. Centered on the temptation of Christ in the wilderness, the poem offers a quiet counterpoint to the cosmic scale of Paradise Lost, emphasizing inward strength over outward spectacle.Milton's language is controlled and measured, reflecting the poem's empha...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles P. Baudelaire (Author), Frank Pearce Sturm (Translator), W. J. Robertson (Translator)The Flowers of Evil is translated by F. P. Sturm and W. J. Robertson, to include Three Additional Poems (A Carcass - Weeping and Wandering - Lesbos). This Edition Contains: The Dance Of Death - The Beacons - The Sadness Of The Moon - The Balcony - The Sick Muse - The Venal Muse - The Evil Monk - The Temptation - The Irreparable - The Former Life - Don Juan In Hades - Th...

A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. XIX (Forty-Five Volumes); Holinshed-Ibn Sina

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Dudley Warner (Author)Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to sugges...

A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. III (Forty-Five Volumes); Auerbach - Bancroft

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Report copyright infringementby William Baer (Author), William Baer (Editor)Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets by William Baer. Interviews with Willis Barnstone, Robert Conquest, Wendy Cope, Douglas Dunn, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Donald Justice, X. J. Kennedy, Maxine Kumin, Frederick Morgan, John Frederick Nims, W. D. Snodgrass, Derek Walcott, and Richard Wilbur. When free verse and its many movements seemed to dominate poetry, other writers worked steadfastly, insistently, and ...

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. III (in Ten Volumes): Tales

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Allan Poe (Author)American poet, fiction writer, and literary critic EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) pioneered the short story, popularized romantic Gothic fiction in the United States in the 19th century, and almost single-handedly invented the genre of detective fiction. Appreciating Poe's work is essential to any understanding of American literature. Here, in 10 volumes, is the complete oeuvre of this American original. Available again in Cosimo's beautifu...

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Report copyright infringementby Yusef Komunyakaa (Author), Shirley A. James Hanshaw (Editor)Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) describes his work alternately as "word paintings" and as "music," and his affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations. The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude ...

Contemporary Literature of Africa: Tijan M. Sallah and Literary Works of the Gambia

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Report copyright infringementby Wumi Raji (Editor)This book focuses on a relatively neglected aspect of African literature. Tijan M. Sallah is a Gambian, and arguably the best known of the second generation of writers from that country. To date, he has published ten books: five collections of poetry, a volume of short stories, two edited anthology of poetry (the second one with Tanure Ojaide, the Nigerian poet), a literary biography of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist (coauthored with Ngo...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author)The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.42 x ...

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

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Report copyright infringementby William Blake (Author) Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: May 08, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Scott (Author)...When I first saw Mr. Osgood's beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result... Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: May 08, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Chad Helder (Author)The Pop-Up Book of Death is a collection of vivid and startling poems from Chad Helder. These poems navigate a humorous and unsettling landscape where horror movies transgress the boundaries of the screen, sinister words strike out from books like trapdoor spiders, and true love extinguishes every apocalyptic flare-up. In this bizarre terrain haunted by the white dog, Helder offers a pastiche of childhood memory, dream journal, and surrealis...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Y. Williams (Author)Tangible Thoughts Vol. 1: Inner City Blues is the first installment of a collection of poems influenced by the experiences of Nicole Williams. She has catalogued in each poem an element of the environment in which she grew up. The title "Inner City Blues" was inspired by the Marvin Gaye song "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)". Upon hearing this song Nicole realized that it perfectly described the tone of her poems. The song gav...

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Report copyright infringementby Aristotle (Author), S. H. Butcher (Author)This is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. Aristotle was a great Greek philosopher whose important treaties and writings are still important today after about 2500 years. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Eber &. Wein (Compiled by) Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 31, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Eber &. Wein (Compiled by) Number of Pages: 488 Dimensions: 1.09 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 11, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline C. Maun (Author)Mosaic of Fire examines the personal and artistic interactions of four innovative American modernist women writers-Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle-all active in the Greenwich Village cultural milieu of the first half of the twentieth century. Caroline Maun traces the mutually constructive, mentoring relationships through which these writers fostered each other's artistic endeavors and highlights the ways in whi...