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Algerian Suns: A Contemporary American Literary & Artistic Analysis of the Algerian Colonialist History (B & W Version)

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Woolrich (Author)Pictoral history of Colonial Algeria featuring never before seen albumen photographs of several Algerian cities, Constantine, Oran, Algiers, Kabilya, Blida, and Timgaad Algeria Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 30, 2006

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Report copyright infringementby Vladimír Holan (Author), Josef and Tomás Katarina Tomás (Translator), Jaroslav Serých (Illustrator)This collection of Holan's narrative poems, Narrative Poems II, was published in 1963, but the poems were written between 1948 and 1953, during some of the cruellest years following the establishment of a totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. Writing in "a delirious seclusion" in what today is regarded a legendary house on the island of Kampa in Prague, the poet ...

Stanzas on the Death of His Father: Coplas a la muerte de su padre

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Manrique (Author), Patrick McGuinness (Translator), Geraldine Hazbun (Introduction by)Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique (c.1440-79) is one of the most celebrated poems in the Spanish language. Written shortly before the poet's death, it is a dignified elegy that speaks not just of a personal loss, that of the poet's father Rodrigo Manrique (d.1476), but of the evanescence of all things sub specie aeternitatis. Its popularity is aided by m...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenny Knight (Author)Conoisseurs of the arcane will no doubt wonder what it is about Plymouth and Buddhism: first Lobsang Rampa, a.k.a. Cyril Henry Hoskins - erstwhile plumber's son and host to the transmigrated soul of a Tibetan lama - and now Kenny Knight's repeated invocations of the Dalai Lama - occasionally accompanied by Ruth Padel - in a new Book of the Dead. While Nirvana might be hard to reach in this suburban district of Plymouth, the highlight of whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Wyatt (Author)The complete poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, as well as biographical material. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 22, 2011

The Ground Aslant - Radical Landscape Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Harriet Tarlo (Editor)Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to a realisation that "landscape writing" need not be confined to literary tourism, or the verbal equivalent of chocolate-box imagery, and to the injection of radical poetic styles. The Ground Aslant is the first volume to engage with this new wave of writing, and presents the work of Tony Baker...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Tottel (Editor)1557 saw the publication of this ground-breaking volume: the first printed anthology of contemporary poetry in English. The book is built on a foundation of two recently-deceased aristocratic poets, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who had by their example given English poetry a new direction, above all with the introduction of the Petrarchan sonnet, but also with the invention of blank verse. The anthology was to have a...

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (R S. of the Inner Temple) (Editor)Following the publication of Tottel's Miscellany in 1557, a number of other such miscellanies appeared, few of them important from an artistic point of view. In 1593, however, a still-unidentified gentleman known only by his initials (R.S.) published this relatively slim, well-printed and well-designed compilation, which included works by a number of significant poets of the day-those identified are Sir Walter Raleig...

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Report copyright infringementby John Bodenham (Editor), Nicholas Ling? (Editor)Following the publication in 1557 of Tottel's Miscellany, a number of other anthologies or miscellanies appeared. Englands Helicon differs from its predecessors in representing a particular style of writing-the newly fashionable pastoral style, with its origins in the classics, and above all Virgil, but actually adopted from Spanish, French and Italian models. Indeed, the largest selection of any one author in this...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Leader (Author)The work in Mary Leader's third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own territory and its own terms. Some poems are straightforward narratives, while others repeat spells and castings. Many are figural; some are classical; some even aspire to anonymity. The book is designed to range the globe and fathom the centuries, albei...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Vas Dias (Author)In this generous assembling of work fromthe past ten years, the Anglo-American poet Robert Vas Dias explores meanings and resonances inherent in art and the suggestive implications of objects which both make up the quotidian and help to define us. This is a poetry of 'domestic tranquillity' as well as chaos, of the absurd and the numinous, of the serious and comedic. Vas Dias is the author of eight poetry collections in the USA and UK, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Coleridge (Author), Simon Avery (Editor)The poetry of late-Victorian writer Mary Coleridge (1861-1907) is often startling and idiosyncratic, challenging and disturbing. Over the course of a quarter of a century, Coleridge wrote nearly 250 poems-lyrics, ballads, dramatic monologues, sonnets, elegies and occasional verse - which engage with issues as wide ranging as the politics of relationships and the position of women, religious doubt and spiritual experi...

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Report copyright infringementby D. H. Lawrence (Author), Jeremy Hooker (Introduction by)Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile-in Italy, France, Germany and the United States-this long collection occupies a crucial place in the development of his poetry and is that most unusual of creations: a masterpiece of modernist nature writing. This version offers the full text of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Samuels (Author)Gender City is in our skins, in the law, in our names (like Trudi and Terra), in places like the Barbie Doll Museum, in events like falling on the sidewalk, being in prison in a city with buildings made of skin, rupturing murder in language (pure meaning's urge), considering language as tattoo in a city with mouths that manifest like a disgorgement in your gender, in the city that has no center as the tattoo of poetry (the skin under your d...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandeep Parmar (Author)Sandeep Parmar's powerful debut collection, The Marble Orchard, steps boldly through the personal archive of family histories to art, literature and the imagined lives of modern and ancient heroines, from Mina Loy to Ovid's Heroides. Her experiments are set apart by their pure charge of language and textual silences, inherited from the distance between home, identity and memory."The Marble Orchard is a powerful debut collection. Sandeep ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shira Dentz (Author)"Veering - often within a single poem, often within a single line - from self-lacerating anger to desperation, from mordant satire of the confessional mode to stunned (and stunning) autobiography, from irreverence to a state of fearful silence, Leaf Weather is a 'chapbook' in no diminutive sense of the term. In 'peeling/away the sun, ' Shira Dentz unlooses equal parts verbal anxiety, formal adventure, and emotional reckoning. It's one thing ...

Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Heller (Author)This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and Oppen and of more contemporary poets and poetry in the modernist and post-modernist lineage of Pound and Williams, the essays explore the work of these poets to see how it embodies our contemporary skepticism concerning language, representation a...

Cusp: Recollections of Poetry in Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Geraldine Monk (Editor)"This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influences and how they became involved in poetry. My main objective is to present the spirit of a brief era which, in retrospect, was exceptional in its momentum towards the democratisation and dissemination of poetry. The era or "cusp" I'm concentrating on is between World War II and the advent of...

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Report copyright infringementby Fani Papageorgiou (Author)"Fani Papageorgiou gives us a poetry in which "almost everything happens in language" yet what is crucial is precisely what's covered by that harsh little word "almost," and in which "empty space is affected by gravity" the empty space is that of the human heart. This kaleidoscopic sequence of searing fragments marks the arrival of an outstanding poet." -Barry Schwabsky Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8...

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Report copyright infringementby John Matthias (Author)Chronologically the first, Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 is editorially the third of John Matthias's three-volume Shearsman Collected Poems. It includes the poems that first made Matthias's reputation-experimental work like 'Turns: Toward a Provisional Poetics and a Discipline'; politically activist poems from the 1960s and '70s such as his elegy for the Kent State University students killed by the Ohio National Guard; poems written from...

The Hoplite Journals (Complete in One Volume)

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Anderson (Author)This compendium edition of all three volumes of Martin Anderson's The Hoplite Journals evokes events and places largely in South East and South Asia as well as the West, exploring allegiances and identities within the troubled context of mostly colonial and ex-colonial possessions.Comments on the first two parts of this work- "Anderson ... (a Hoplite, mercenary of the dominant culture) ... has the ability to write prose rich in meaning ....

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Report copyright infringementby Yang Lian (Editor), W. N. Herbert (Editor)Walter Benjamin called translation "The Third Language", because a translation is neither the same as the original, nor the same as the normal foreign-language of other texts, for it is something unique, something set apart from either, just as bronze forged from copper and tin overcomes the brittleness of copper and the softness of tin to become both hard and pliable, as if it has become a new element. In this volume, ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Wevill (Author)This 150-page collection covers the entire poetic career of David Wevill, who has faded from view as a poet in the UK since his departure for the United States in the early 1970s. His first four collections won many prizes and gained him a reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation, as well as a place in all the major anthologies of the period and in the seminal Penguin Modern Poets series. His subsequent collections, with the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Mellors (Author)Anthony Mellors' first collection in some years brings together a number of sequences, including the remarkable 'bent out of shape' and 'The Gordon Brown Sonnets, the latter extensively and puckishly annotated. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 16, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Tin Ujevic (Author), Richard Berengarten (Translator)The Croatian poet Augustin (Tin) Ujevic (1891-1955) is one of the finest Southern Slav lyric poets and one of the great poets of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. While Tin Ujevic's poems are hardly known in English, they are loved in his native Croatia and throughout former Yugoslavia. At least until the break-up of the Yugoslav Federation, many of Tin's lyrics were known by heart and quoted...

The Glamour Poet vs. Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Reed (Author)The first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the present day, a major long poem written in the shop, while managing Red Snapper Books in the period 2007-2008, takes in an acutely personalised retrieval of the Piccadilly Circus ethos in the eighties, including meetings with the artist Francis Bacon, bohemian Soho, an index of personal obsessions inclu...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Simms (Author)Hen Harrier Poems is Colin Simms' fifth collection with Shearsman, and his third devoted to poems on a specific species, following Otters and Martens (2004) and Gyrfalcon Poems (2007). Future plans include volumes devoted to poems on merlins and on goshawks. Simms is a naturalist who has observed the harrier and its North American cousin, the marsh hawk, for decades; his poems fuse a rich Bunting-esque diction and sonority with a focused eye...

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Report copyright infringementby Geraldine Mills (Author), Lisa C. Taylor (Author)In summer 2009, two award-winning poets, Lisa C. Taylor from Connecticut, and Geraldine Mills from Galway, came to a little cottage in Carna on the west coast of Ireland to forge a link between their lives. The Other Side of Longing celebrates this collaboration. With the Atlantic Ocean as the central metaphor, they explore themes of culture, folklore, flora and fauna through a series of poems of call and respons...

Complayntes for Doctor Neuro & other poems

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Report copyright infringementby John Matthias (Author)Complayntes for Dr. Neuro is John Matthias's first volume of poetry since Shearsman's publication of his three volumes of collected poems in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The present book, ending with the title sequence about being forced to confront some of the very neurological problems in fact which have in many earlier poems been something of a theoretical pre-occupation, also represents the more experimental side of his work that has tended t...

The Work of a Winter: 2nd Expanded Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Maureen Boyle (Author)Boyle's luminous poems are intimate portraits of confined and unsung lives, furnished with a sensuous exactness. The outcast Hermione, mourning her lost children, is cheered by the "blushing crimson tips" appearing in her winter garden. Birds are significant reminders of life, color, and wry defiance in these self-assured poems of hard-won sustenance.Author BiographyMaureen Boyle's poems have been published in Fortnight Magazine, The Yello...

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Report copyright infringementby Brendan Kennelly (Author)Buffún is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This Cromwell is a cocky tyrant who wants to run a football team, or start a taxi business. Enter the Belly, the IRA, an Irish giant, and Billy of the Boyne: 'William of Orange is polishing pianos / In convents and other delicate territories, / H...

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Report copyright infringementby David Kelley (Editor), Jean Khalfa (Editor)This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an inﬂuential strand in recent French literature. It is a rigorously ontological poetry concerned with the very being of things, and with the nature of poetic language itself. This is not the only kind of poetry being written in France today, but it is an extrem...