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Report copyright infringementby Timothy J. Casey (Author)Writing with a clarity and fluency of style, Timothy J. Casey presents his second book on Rainer Maria Rilke, in a bilingual reader's guide to Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. The guide begin, with an account of Rilke's life and work as the context out of which the Sonnets to Orpheus have been given to literature. It goes on to give a detailed analysis of the long poem Orpheus. This is followed by a short chapter on the Duino Elegies with pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Calvert (Author)Robert Newton Calvert: Born 9 March 1945, Died 14 August 1988 after suffering a heart attack. Contributed poetry, lyrics and vocals to legendary space rock band Hawkwind intermittently on five of their most critically acclaimed albums, including Space Ritual (1973), Quark, Strangeness & Charm (1977) and Hawklords (1978). He also recorded a number of solo albums in the mid 1970s. CENTIGRADE 232 was Robert Calvert's first collection of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodora Goss (Author)Theodora Goss has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Locus, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, and on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her prose-poem "Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks" (2003) won the Rhysling Award and her short story "Singing of Mount Abora" (2007) won the World Fantasy Award. SONGS FOR OPHELIA gathers together eighty of Theodora's otherworldly poems which lead the reader, as though under a spell, through the unfolding...

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Report copyright infringementby Pere Ballart (Editor), Anna Crowe (Translator)History shows how Catalan culture has overcome critical situations far more adverse than the present. The Catalan language has not been replaced and this anthology contains four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan, who, although they lived through the tail end of the dictatorship, grew up under a democratic regime. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Pu...

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Report copyright infringementby Jackie Wills (Author)These poems have a touch as deft as the seamstresses and other craftspeople who populate the book. This collection the result of a collaboration between poet and artist, and has the focused detail of pen and ink sketches yet pulls into its parameters the wide world of mythologies, folklore and personal narratives. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2013 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Warwick Gould (Editor)Yeats Annual No. 18 is another special issue in this renowned research-level series offering a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares's work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer...

Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Perry (Author), Siobhan Campbell (Introduction by)Gunpowder Valentine is the much anticipated New and Selected Poems from one of Ireland's most distinctive and singular poetic voices, a poet whose work is at once precise and open-ended, true to the world of experience and, simultaneously, engaged with the mysteries of existence. In the words of Dermot Bolger, "His is an imagination without borders, a probing and unsettling intelligence lightly worn." Gunpo...

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Report copyright infringementby Rikki Ducornet (Author)The Cult of Seizure is a work of lyrical mesmerism and animal magnetism from acclaimed novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, which displays a lush poesis and visionary soul. Jane Urquhart describes it as a "combination of the bestial and the bestiary; of terror and of tenderness." Although an earlier work it contains all the evocative tapestries of her finest novels. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Hulse (Author)Lucid narratives of family dramas, global warming, and conversations with Death make a riveting new collection from this prize-winning poet. The poems swing between Mexico City, New York, the Peloponnese, a Staffordshire village and home - their engagement with the church, art and natural beauty provide sure-footed travelling companions. In an extended sequence, Death relates stories of her encounters with people and culture. This is not t...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation of the Persian Sufi (Aziloth Books)

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Report copyright infringementby Omar Khayyam (Author), Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)In July 1856, Professor Edward Cowell sent his friend Edward Fitzgerald a Persian-language copy of poems by Omar Khayyam, the 12th century Persian poet, astronomer, and mathematician. Fitzgerald strove for three years to turn the 'essence' of these poems into English, and in 1859 published his classic free translation of the Persian Master's verse. The book was not an instant success; but the beautiful quatra...

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Report copyright infringementby Yevgeny Baratynsky (Author), Peter France (Translator)Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and literary struggles of Russia under Tsar Nicholas I are brought to vivid life in dazzling, often fantastical fashion. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5...

Leaves of Grass - 1855 edition (Aziloth Books)

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author)Walt Whitman was born in 1819, and from an early age evinced an intense curiosity and wonder in the miracle of Existence, and its ultimate meaning. In his collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, Whitman brings a new voice to America Literature - a voice that flouted many poetic conventions and covered a wide range of subjects, from freedom to slavery, war to peace, and (most controversial of all for its time) love and sexuality. According to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Joris (Author)Breccia is an inspired grouping of poems from celebrated poet, translator, anthologist and essayist, Pierre Joris. "[Breccia] is a showcase for poems from roughly twenty, sometimes rather fugitive, volumes, written and published during a time when Joris was living as a kind of postmodern nomad. One of the virtues of this in-gathering of work is that it makes clear the extent to which a sense of 'nomadism' - of being intensely in a place bec...

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Report copyright infringementby Gabi Grubb (Author), Jolanta Dziok (Illustrator), John F. Connor (Author)John Connor has been writing poetry for most of his adult life and over the past 35 years has built up an enormous collection of inspirational poems. When his parents passed away, he noticed that something about his poetry had changed. This change led to John's poetry helping to heal and console hundreds of thousands of broken hearts and grieving families all over the world. This, John's s...

Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Jaime Luis Huenún Villa (Author), Víctor Cifuentes Palacios (Translator), Juan Garrido Salgado (Translator)Mapuche poetry has flourished in recent decades and is now one of the most compelling neighbourhoods of contemporary Latin American literature. Incredibly, however, much of it remains untranslated into English. Not only does this anthology correct the situation, it goes far beyond the scale of anything published before. Some of the most important and excit...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Owen (Author)Originally published to great acclaim by Yale University Press as "The Poetry of the Early T'ang" in 1977, this Quirin Press Revised Edition offers the full original text with the following features: Older Wade-Giles transliteration fully updated and revised to the current Pinyin standard. Fully re-typeset and proofed for typographical errors and inconsistencies. New expanded index. In "The Poetry of the Early Tang" Owen deftly traces the s...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Zajkowski (Author)'Zajkowski's writing has that kind of imaginative rightness that tells us something essential about ourselves and reads like something no one has ever said before. Imbued with human vulnerability, mystery, wonder and awe, the poems testify to a largeness of vision about what poetry can be and what a poet can accomplish. If it is possible that sometimes the soul just 'appears' then it has done so in this fine collection.' - MTC Cronin and...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Barenblat (Author)In poems written during the first year of mourning after her mother's death, Rabbi Rachel Barenblat traces the unpredictable mourner's path while examining a complicated relationship with poignancy and honesty, allowing us to look at our own griefs and loves with new eyes. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Harrison (Author)Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection, Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works. Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.7 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 12, 2014 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg Shapiro (Author)Gay poetry: ""Gregg Shapiro's stunning debut marks the arrival of a new master poet on the scene. His work blows me away."" -Greg Herren Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.23 x 7.91 x 5.33 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 01, 2014

Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms

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Report copyright infringementby James Richardson (Author)This book gathers under one roof poems from all of Richardson's earlier collections, a number of which are out of print: Reservations (1977), Second Guesses (1984), As If(1992), A Suite for Lucretians (1999), How Things Are (2000), and Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays (2001), as well as a large selection of new poems and aphorisms.A distillation of three decades of work, Interglacial will introduce this poet to a new generatio...

Wyoming's Cowboy Poets: And Their Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Henry Mead (Author)A wealth of cowboy poetry from some of Wyoming's best cowboy poets are included in this book along with their biographies. Among them: Robert Roripaugh, a state poet laureate; John Nesbitt, Sue Wallis, Andy Nelson, Chuck Larsen, Georgie Sicking, Charlie Firnekas, Rhonda Sedgewick Stearns, Mick Kaser, Jean Mathisen Haugen, Dr. Kent Stockton, Echo Roy-Klaproth, Ada McDonell, Ron Bailey, Gene Shea, Leslie Keltner, Verlin Pitt, Ritt Pitt, Te...

The Crane in the Clouds: Shijo: Korean Classical Poems in the Vernacular

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Report copyright infringementby Sung-Il Lee (Author)This anthology presents well over a hundred Korean classical poems known as shijo, in English translation. Shijo, a form of poetic composition still very much alive, has a tradition spanning a thousand years. One of the first historical anthologies of shijo in English, this book offers an overview of that uniquely Korean poetic legacy. Composed in the vernacular and written down in hangǔl, the Korean phonograms, shijo asserts its national id...

The Dark Gnu and Other Poems: Deluxe Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Videlock (Author)This Deluxe Edition of The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy Videlock, in addition to the hardcover and dustjacket, uses premium glossy stock and special ink, resulting in vibrant color images and print, and overall luxurious feel. The difference is clearly noticeable when compared to the standard, paperback edition of this book. Wendy Videlock's The Dark Gnu and Other Poems plays, jokes, teaches, admonishes, yields to the ecstatic, and s...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Osen (Author)Virtue, Big as Sin is impressively wide-ranging in theme and style. It illuminates everyday vignettes with solicitous spotlights such as the bereaved son sorting the contents of his father's medicine cabinet, or the father whose son's driver's education recalls the time his own "unharnessed" Mustang went "bungeeing" around a bend; it celebrates the artist's creative highs, or reflects on the misfortunate who is forever nearing the threshold o...

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Report copyright infringementby John Philip Drury (Author)Sea Level Rising, John Philip Drury's fourth collection, revels in water-flowing through rivers, splashing on quays and docked vessels, the wake of speeding boats, the elusive tang of sea salt in the heart of the prairie, even the water of baptism that rebirths the believer. The uplifting lure of water, as with a pair of honeymooners in Venice, may inspire a love "eager to divorce/ anything impeding its energy." Our state of being mig...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeredith Merrin (Author)Jeredith Merrin's third collection, Cup, deftly muses on art, travel to exotic locations, nature's gains and losses, the resiliency of spirit juxtaposed against the body's frailty, the joys and discords of the familial unit, and aging without bitterness and giving "Praise/ to her or him who keeps, past sixty/ and in all weathers, an open heart." This collection of abundant wit, insight, longing and passion is deservedly a special honore...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail White (Author)Asperity Street, Gail White's most balanced poetry collection, explores the breadth of human existence with cutting wit, irreverence, keen intelligence, and an uncommon mix of empathy and asperity. Besides the cynical or the lighthearted, which are hallmarks of White's work, there is a newfound earnestness and gravity in these poems in their survey and interrogation of the human condition. White journeys the span from nursery to hospice--in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles North (Author)What It Is Like, Charles North's tenth book of poems, contains new work as well as a generous selection from his previous books. North's poetry has received high praise from a wide variety of aesthetic camps. Among his awards are a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, four Fund for Poetry Awards and a Poets Foundation Award. Additionally, this book of poems was named one of the year's...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Oppenheimer (Author)Praise for Paul Oppenheimer's In Times of Danger Paul Oppenheimer's fourth collection of poems presents a love story told almost entirely in brisk, often racy modern sonnets and set against a background of the rural Hudson Valley and New York City-before, during and after the catastrophe of 9/11. "I need a form that I did not invent," he writes, "tuned by ancient anguish to impart/the strain of modern doubt: an instrument/just right, j...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia O'Donnell (Author)In the opening scene of Waiting to Begin Patricia O'Donnell speaks to incoming students at a university, telling of her transformation from a rebellious young woman to the writer and professor standing before them. Pat feels the story is not wholly true however, that some of the professor was in the younger woman, and that there is "something of that young woman--lawless, braless, rude and exuberant--in me now." Here's the real story,...

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Report copyright infringementby Shari Wagner (Author)The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2013